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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  years 
  since 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  bulletins 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  Society 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  Sciences 
  accounts 
  of 
  supposed 
  additional 
  species 
  occurring 
  in 
  

   these 
  rocks 
  at 
  Buffalo. 
  With 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  practically 
  

   all 
  accounts 
  of 
  these 
  fossils 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  

   reports 
  of 
  this 
  institution; 
  some 
  notices 
  in 
  the 
  Palaeontology 
  of 
  New 
  

   York, 
  volume 
  7; 
  Mr 
  Clifton 
  J. 
  Sarle 
  described 
  the 
  remarkably 
  

   interesting 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  Salina 
  beds 
  of 
  Pittsford 
  in 
  Museum 
  

   bulletin 
  69 
  and 
  the 
  writer 
  the 
  extraordinary 
  fauna 
  from 
  the 
  Otis- 
  

   ville 
  shales 
  in 
  bulletin 
  107. 
  The 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  museum 
  

   representing 
  these 
  genera 
  : 
  Eurypterus, 
  Pterygotus, 
  Eusarcus, 
  Hugh- 
  

   milleria, 
  Stylonurus 
  etc. 
  are 
  very 
  extensive. 
  All 
  of 
  the 
  material 
  

   described 
  by 
  Mr 
  Sarle 
  and 
  the 
  writer 
  is 
  here 
  and 
  recent 
  additions 
  

   to 
  the 
  specimens 
  from 
  these 
  localities 
  run 
  up 
  into 
  hundreds 
  of 
  

   examples. 
  Large 
  collections 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  made 
  by 
  us 
  in 
  recent 
  

   years 
  from 
  the 
  localities 
  in 
  Herkimer 
  county. 
  The 
  museum 
  of 
  the 
  

   Buffalo 
  Society 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  is 
  the 
  possessor 
  of 
  most 
  com- 
  

   manding 
  collections 
  of 
  eurypteroids 
  from 
  the 
  Bertie 
  waterlimes 
  in 
  

   that 
  city, 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  greatly 
  enlarged 
  of 
  late 
  by 
  the 
  enthusiastic 
  

   interest 
  of 
  Mr 
  Lewis 
  J. 
  Bennett, 
  president 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  Cement 
  

   Co. 
  from 
  whose 
  quarries 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  specimens 
  of 
  these 
  Bertie 
  

   waterlime 
  crustaceans 
  scattered 
  through 
  the 
  museums 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  

   have 
  come. 
  In 
  later 
  years 
  Mr 
  Bennett 
  has 
  provided 
  that 
  all 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  taken 
  from 
  his 
  quarries 
  go 
  into 
  the 
  museum 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  

   Society 
  with 
  the 
  result 
  that 
  these 
  collections 
  have 
  become 
  fairly 
  

   stupendous 
  and 
  vastly 
  illuminating. 
  The 
  courtesy 
  of 
  a 
  formal 
  vote 
  

   of 
  the 
  trustees 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  Society 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  has 
  

   enabled 
  me 
  to 
  feel 
  confident 
  that 
  this 
  fine 
  material 
  will 
  be 
  subject 
  

   to 
  my 
  use. 
  It 
  is 
  my 
  hope 
  soon 
  to 
  reach 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  these 
  investi- 
  

   gations 
  may 
  be 
  taken 
  up 
  for 
  uninterrupted 
  pursuit. 
  Meanwhile 
  

   progress 
  is 
  made 
  as 
  occasion 
  affords. 
  

  

  Mastodons. 
  In 
  my 
  report 
  for 
  190V 
  I 
  gave 
  a 
  summary 
  of 
  

   records 
  of 
  discoveries 
  of 
  mastodon 
  remains 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  since 
  the 
  

   date 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  finding 
  of 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  Mastodon 
  ameri- 
  

   canus 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  below 
  Albany 
  in 
  1705. 
  The 
  list 
  there 
  

   given 
  afforded 
  evidence 
  of 
  about 
  60 
  distinct 
  occurrences 
  of 
  these 
  

   skeletons. 
  Last 
  year 
  I 
  supplemented 
  this 
  record 
  with 
  four 
  items. 
  

   During 
  the 
  past 
  season 
  another 
  discovery 
  has 
  been 
  made. 
  A 
  brief 
  

   notice 
  of 
  this 
  follows 
  and 
  thereafter 
  some 
  notes 
  of 
  interest 
  on 
  

   other 
  remains. 
  

  

  1907. 
  Perkinsville, 
  Steuben 
  co. 
  This 
  skeleton 
  was 
  found 
  in 
  

   August 
  last 
  by 
  John 
  Morsch 
  on 
  his 
  farm 
  near 
  the 
  west 
  end 
  of 
  

  

  