﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR, 
  

  

  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  Sept. 
  30, 
  1896. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Honorable 
  the 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York: 
  

  

  Gentlemen. 
  — 
  I 
  submit 
  herewith 
  my 
  report 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  just 
  

   ended. 
  

  

  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  reduced 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  appropriation 
  for 
  the 
  

   State 
  Museum, 
  the 
  year 
  has 
  been 
  to 
  some 
  extent 
  one 
  of 
  disappoint- 
  

   ment, 
  inasmuch 
  as 
  the 
  work 
  originally 
  planned 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  carried 
  

   out 
  ; 
  but 
  a 
  marked 
  improvement 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  

   several 
  of 
  the 
  collections, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  promise 
  of 
  additional 
  funds 
  

   for 
  our 
  work, 
  the 
  outlook 
  is 
  more 
  encouraging. 
  The 
  personal 
  work 
  

   of 
  the 
  Director 
  during 
  the 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  

   completion 
  of 
  the 
  Bulletin 
  on 
  the 
  Mineral 
  Resources 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  

   which 
  was 
  distributed 
  last 
  April, 
  and 
  which 
  also 
  appears 
  as 
  an 
  

   appendix 
  to 
  the 
  Forty-eighth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  

   now 
  in 
  press. 
  The 
  remainder 
  of 
  the 
  winter 
  months 
  were 
  occupied 
  

   in 
  supervising 
  the 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  mineralogical 
  and 
  palaeontological 
  

   collections 
  and 
  in 
  gathering 
  material 
  for 
  the 
  publications 
  in 
  prepa- 
  

   ration. 
  These 
  are, 
  a 
  bulletin 
  on 
  " 
  Road 
  Materials 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  '* 
  

   and 
  a 
  guide 
  to 
  the 
  geological 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  On 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  lack 
  of 
  funds 
  for 
  obtaining 
  new 
  informa- 
  

   tion, 
  these 
  publications 
  have 
  progressed 
  but 
  slowly, 
  but 
  they 
  will 
  

   be 
  finished 
  during 
  the 
  coming 
  year. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  past 
  summer, 
  the 
  Director 
  made 
  an 
  examination 
  ot 
  

   the 
  gypsum 
  quarries 
  near 
  Mumford, 
  New 
  York, 
  the 
  sandstone 
  quar- 
  

   ries 
  at 
  Medina 
  and 
  the 
  salt 
  works 
  at 
  Syracuse; 
  he 
  also 
  attended 
  at 
  

   Buffalo, 
  the 
  meetings 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Education 
  Association 
  and 
  the 
  

   American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  Science. 
  At 
  the 
  

   request 
  of 
  the 
  Chairman 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  Committee, 
  the 
  prepa- 
  

   ration 
  of 
  a 
  catalogue 
  of 
  geological 
  museums 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   and 
  Canada 
  has 
  been 
  undertaken, 
  and 
  the 
  first 
  draft 
  is 
  herewith 
  

   communicated. 
  

  

  