CONTENTS. 



PA6E. 



Report of the Director's 11 



Report of the Assistant Director 14 



Report of the Assistant Zoologist 15 



Additions to the museum collections 20 



Catalogue of Muricidse in the collection of the State Museum 30 



Report on a deposit of marl and peat in the town of New Baltimore; 



by Wm. B. Marshall 46 



Report on the development of the salt industry of central New York for 



the year 1891 ; by Irving P. Bishop 53 



Report of the State Botanist 65 



A. Plants added to the Herbarium 70 



B. Contributors and their contributions 72 



C. Plants not before reported 77 



D. Remarks and observations 85 



E. New York species of Omphalia 92 



Report of the State Entomologist 105 



Report of the State Geologist 323 



Livonia salt shaft 326 



Palaeontology of New York • 328 



List of preparations of spirals, loops and hinged plates 330 



List of the genera of the Palaeozoic Brachiopoda 331 



Additions to the Palaeontological collections 338 



Catalogue of the collection of Geological and Palaeontological speci- 

 mens donated by the Albany Institute to the State Museum 349 



Report of the Assistant Palaeontologist 370 



List of the original and illustrated specimens in the Palaeontological 



collections 377 



Hand book of the Brachiopoda 455 



