REPORT 



Office of the State Geolog-ist, ] 

 Room 32, State Hall, > 



Albany, K Y., March 5, 1895. ) 

 To His Excellency Levi P. MoRTOiir, Governor of the State of 

 New York : 

 Sir. — I have the honor to submit the annual report of the 

 State Geologist, embracing an account of the work done by him- 

 self and assistants both in the field and office, including the 

 work upon the geologic map and the Palaeontology of I^ew York. 

 In the absence of any appropriation from the Legislature very 

 little work has been accomplished during the past year toward 

 the completion of the geologic map. A small area in Oswego 

 and Lewis counties has been surveyed and the results incorporated 

 with the general geology upon the map of the State. 



Preliminary Geologic Map of the State of New York. 



Through the generosity of Major Powell in the outset, and the 

 continuation of the same disposition on the part of his successor, 

 Mr. Walcott, present Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 copies of the geologic map will be distributed to all the 

 colleges and normal schools and to schools of higher education in 

 the State, without cost to the State of ^N'ew York. Although the 

 map is incomplete in the representation of the geologic forma- 

 tions in some portions of the State, it is yet sufficiently perfect to 

 serve the purpose of a student's map for general reference as to 

 the limits and distributions of the geologic formations within its 

 area. The map is designated as a " Preliminary Geologic Map of 

 the State of New York," and it will require the labor of many 

 years in the field, before the word " preliminakt," now standing 

 at the head of the title, can with propriety be erased and the 

 map appear as a completed geologic map of the State of ISTew 

 York. I would most earnestly recommend that some law be 

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