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that of the fossil Corals from the several geologic formations, 

 and especially of the Devonian, of which New York affords a 

 remarkable development and an abundance of species in the 

 great limestone formations extending from the Hudson to the 

 JS'iagara rivers. 'Although work upon these fossils has been sus- 

 pended from 1881 to the present time, it is still the hope of the 

 writer that some plan may be adopted by which these interest- 

 ing and important fossils may be published for the benefit of 

 science, for the scientific prestige of the State of E'ew York, and 

 as a contribution toward the completion of the publications of 

 the natural history of the State, which now number 30 quarto 

 volumes. 



Yery respectfully. 



Your obedient servant, 



JAMES HALL, 



State Geologist and Palaeontologist. 

 March U\ 1896. 



