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  8 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  • 
  ' 
  

  

  Shells 
  in 
  mud, 
  Hudson 
  River, 
  Albany 
  

  

  Leaves 
  in 
  mud, 
  Hudson 
  River, 
  Albany 
  ; 
  

  

  Diabase 
  concretion. 
  Upper 
  Montclair, 
  N. 
  J. 
  

  

  Hudson 
  River 
  shale 
  (decomposing), 
  and 
  soil 
  formed 
  from 
  its 
  disin- 
  

   tegration, 
  Watervliet, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  Alluvium, 
  Hudson 
  River, 
  Castleton, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  Residual 
  soil 
  formed 
  by 
  disintegration 
  of 
  a 
  quartz 
  magnetite 
  rock, 
  

   Charlemont, 
  Mass. 
  

  

  Marble, 
  South 
  Wallingford, 
  Vt. 
  (A 
  fresh 
  specimen, 
  one 
  undergoing 
  

   disintegration, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  soil 
  resulting 
  from 
  its 
  decom- 
  

   position.) 
  

  

  Donated 
  by 
  F. 
  W. 
  Westerman. 
  

  

  Clay 
  (4), 
  from 
  Elm 
  Point, 
  Great 
  Neck, 
  L. 
  I. 
  

  

  Lignite 
  & 
  Pyrite, 
  from 
  Far 
  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  I., 
  409 
  feet 
  below 
  the 
  

   surface. 
  

  

  By 
  Purchase 
  from 
  J. 
  A. 
  Singley. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  set 
  of 
  duplicates 
  of 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  Upper 
  Miocene 
  

   fossils 
  from 
  the 
  Galveston 
  Deep 
  Well, 
  Galveston, 
  Texas. 
  "^ 
  These 
  are 
  

   unique 
  as 
  being 
  the 
  only 
  marine 
  Miocene 
  fossils 
  known 
  from 
  the 
  

   Gulf 
  slope 
  west 
  of 
  Mississippi. 
  

  

  * 
  See 
  Am. 
  Jour. 
  Sci 
  III 
  Vol 
  46 
  pp 
  39-42. 
  4th 
  Ann. 
  Rept. 
  Gcol 
  Suryey 
  of 
  Texas 
  pp 
  87-95. 
  

  

  