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of the preparation of good catalogues of the Batrachians, Lizards, 

 Fishes, and many of the Invertebrates. With the exception of the 

 Beecher collection, the mollusca belonging to the Museum have 

 been catalogued at various times in the annual reports. An 

 appendix transmitted herewith, contains a list of these catalogues. 



During the year a large part of my time has been given to the 

 preparation of bulletin No. 10, on building stone in New York. 

 Some field work has been done in the Catskills — collecting notes 

 of the later glacial formations. The usual inquiries asking for 

 information about minerals of economic importance and the gene- 

 ral direction and care of the collections and the work incidental 

 to them have taken the time not given to the work of preparing 

 reports. 



During the year collections of minerals have been sent to the 

 State Normal School at Oneonta, and to the following schools : 



Clyde Union School, Clyde, Wayne county, N. T. 



School No. 2, Elmira, N. Y. 



Olean Academy, Olean, Cattaraugus county, N. Y. 



nion Union School, Uion, N. Y. 



New York Institution for the Blind, Batavia, N. Y. 



Belmont School, Belmont, N. Y. 



Following the recommendations made to the Board of Regents 

 and concurring in their order, the Potsdam sandstone slabs with 

 trails of trilobites, '^Glimaticlinites Wilsoni, found near Port Heniy, 

 last year, have been distributed to the following museums : 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York ; Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; Peabody Museum, Yale 

 University, New Haven, Conn.; Cornell University, Ithaca; U. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C; and to the Canadian Geo- 

 logical Survey Museum, at Ottawa. A specimen was sent to 

 Columbia College,* New York city, as an exchange. A large 

 amount of material, in smaller slabs and fragments remains, which 

 can go into school collections. The museum retains on exhibition 

 two of the largest and best specimens. 



The interest of the public as manifested by the number of vis- 

 itors, has not diminished, and, although no record is kept, it seems 

 to be on the increase. The inquiries, referring to the geological 

 formations of the state and their minerals of value in the arts, 

 which come to the museum, are increasing and attest the value of 

 the institution in the dissemination of valuable information. 



