﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR 
  63 
  

  

  New 
  York 
  state 
  museum, 
  Albany 
  

  

  F. 
  J. 
  H. 
  Merrill, 
  Ph. 
  D., 
  director. 
  Collections 
  on 
  exhibition 
  are 
  

   estimated 
  to 
  include: 
  Mineralogical, 
  Kunz, 
  Beck, 
  Gebhard 
  and 
  

   Emmons 
  collections, 
  total 
  8200 
  specimens, 
  300 
  species. 
  Paleon- 
  

   tological, 
  13,100 
  specimens 
  invertebrate 
  fossils 
  from 
  state 
  geo- 
  

   logical 
  survey, 
  3600 
  specimens 
  foreign 
  fossils, 
  an 
  Irish 
  elk, 
  the 
  

   Cohoes 
  mastodon 
  skeleton 
  and 
  Ward's 
  series 
  of 
  casts 
  of 
  fossils. 
  

   Lithological, 
  rocks 
  from 
  state 
  survey 
  2800; 
  Carboniferous, 
  300; 
  

   Rosenbusch 
  collection 
  of 
  massive 
  rocks 
  500, 
  and 
  marbles 
  51 
  

   specimens. 
  Total 
  28,553 
  specimens 
  

  

  Economic 
  collection 
  (in 
  construction), 
  600 
  specimens 
  

  

  Synoptical 
  collection 
  (in 
  construction), 
  425 
  specimens. 
  Large 
  col- 
  

   lections 
  stored 
  

  

  Long 
  Island 
  historical 
  society, 
  Brooklyn 
  

  

  M. 
  E. 
  Ingalls, 
  assistant 
  curator. 
  Collections 
  include 
  600 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  from 
  glacial 
  drift 
  of 
  Long 
  Island. 
  Rocks 
  of 
  Manhattan 
  

   Island, 
  200 
  specimens, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  State 
  minerals 
  and 
  fossils 
  900 
  

   specimens. 
  Charts 
  and 
  specimens 
  from 
  many 
  well 
  borings 
  

  

  State 
  normal 
  college, 
  Buffalo 
  

  

  I. 
  P. 
  Bishop, 
  professor 
  of 
  natural 
  science. 
  Collections 
  include 
  

   300 
  mineral 
  and 
  500 
  fossil 
  species 
  

  

  North 
  Carolina. 
  

   State 
  Museum, 
  Raleigh 
  

  

  H. 
  H. 
  Brimley, 
  curator. 
  Extensive 
  collections 
  from 
  the 
  state 
  

  

  University 
  of 
  North 
  CaroHna, 
  Chapel 
  Hill 
  

  

  Collier 
  Cobb, 
  professor 
  of 
  geology. 
  Collection 
  of 
  2860 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  

  

  Davidson 
  college, 
  Davidson 
  

  

  Henry 
  Louis 
  Smith, 
  professor 
  of 
  geology 
  and 
  mineralogy. 
  Col- 
  

   lections 
  contain 
  10,000 
  or 
  11,000 
  specimens 
  

  

  North 
  Dakota 
  

  

  University 
  of 
  North 
  Dakota, 
  University 
  

  

  E. 
  J. 
  Babcock, 
  professor 
  of 
  chemistry. 
  Collection 
  of 
  1800 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  

  

  