18 Forty-fourth Annual Report on the 



ethnological material, collected in Egypt, India, China, Japan 

 and Alaska. It is not labeled nor arranged for exhibition. The 

 collection of insects belonging to the Museum, and on exhibition, 

 are also in this top gallery. 



The space thus placed at the disposal of the Museum for its 

 increased collections affords relief and the new arrangement adds 

 to the attractiveness of the whole building. More floor space is 

 wanted for the proper placing of cases and for an exhibition 

 which is both instructive and neat. The crowding inevitable 

 where the amount of material is large and is accumulating 

 from year to year, offends the eye and prevents any scientific 

 arrangement. 



The additions during the year are enumerated in the appendices 

 to this report. They have been important and valuable. In the 

 mineralogical department the largest addition is that made by 

 Mr. F. L. Nason, who was employed for one month to collect in the 

 Adirondack region and in Putnam and Westchester counties. 

 He obtained about 800 specimens of the more characteristic and 

 showy minerals of these portions of the state. The best of them 

 have been placed on exhibition; the remainder is of value for 

 exchanges and for distribution to schools. Among the notable 

 species thus obtained, the phlogopites and blue calcite from 

 Natural Bridge ; the hexagonite from Edwards ; the Antwerp 

 chalcodites, hematites and millerite; and the striated feldspar 

 and magnetites from Mineville, may be here mentioned. 



In the palseontological department the Rust collection of fossils, 

 from the Trenton and Hudson river groups, near Trenton Falls, is 

 preeminent. It fills a much needed gap, particularly in its magnifi- 

 cent specimens of trilobites of the Trenton epoch. This collec- 

 tion was purchased by the Museum. 



The collection of woods from the state, ordered made last year 

 by the Regents, is in progress. The collector, Mr. R. B. Hough, of 

 Lowville, author of "American Woods," has sent forty-three (43) 

 specimens, representing as many species, to the Museum and they 

 have been put in the cases. It is expected that the remainder, 

 thirty-one (31) specimens, will be obtained during the coming 

 autumn and winter. As soon as seasoned the logs are to have 

 their longitudinal, transverse and oblique sections, dressed and 

 polished. This work is to be done by the collector and at 

 the Museum. The specimens are large and the space needed for 



