REPORT OP THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1903 13 



A rearrangement of the collections in economic geology was 

 made in the. early part of the year in order better to display 

 them under the improved conditions of lighting in the first floor 

 of the rear wing, to which three new windows have been added. 



Mr H. H. Hindshaw, assistant in geology, has been occupied 

 with the compilation of statistics of the mineral products of the 

 State, in editing and reading proof on bulletin no. 62, entitled 

 Natural History Museums of the United States and Canada, and 

 in completing for the engraver the hypsometric map of New 

 York. 



During the past year the Director has been in correspondence 

 with the New York State Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com- 

 mission in regard to an exhibit of the mineral resources of New 

 York and has attended one of its meetings. It is probable that 

 an extensive exhibit from the State Museum will be installed at 



St Louis. 



Mineralogy 



In the division of mineralogy the principal work of publication 

 consists of a list of the mineral localities of New York State 

 arranged by counties, which has just been completed and will 

 be shortly issued as bulletin 70, mineralogy 3. In this work Mr 

 Whitlock has systematically arranged in tabular form the data 

 collected from various published authorities and embodied such 

 notes and additions furnished by field reconnaissance and study 

 of specimens in available collections as are necessary to make 

 the bulletin a useful work of reference on New York mineralogy, 

 to teachers, students, collectors and curators. 



A bibliography, consisting of 231 references to published 

 articles on New York mineralogy, is embodied in the text. 



The educational work of the division of mineralogy has been 

 advanced by giving two public lectures, in Graduates Hall of St 

 Agnes School, on subjects connected with mineralogy. The lec- 

 tures were illustrated by 57 lantern slides and 23 slides showing 

 artificial crystallizations, which were prepared by the division 

 of mineralogy and are available for future work along this line. 



The curatorial work of this division has progressed along sev- 



