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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  party 
  next 
  visited 
  the 
  potholes 
  on 
  Indian 
  Kettles 
  point, 
  2 
  

   miles 
  north 
  of 
  Hague. 
  These 
  interesting 
  relics 
  of 
  the 
  glacial 
  epoch 
  

   are 
  on 
  a 
  rocky 
  point, 
  and 
  15 
  feet 
  or 
  more 
  above 
  the 
  present 
  lake. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  evening 
  a 
  brief 
  exposition 
  of 
  the 
  local 
  geology 
  and 
  phys- 
  

   iography 
  was 
  given 
  by 
  J. 
  F. 
  Kemp, 
  and 
  illustrated 
  by 
  manuscript 
  

   maps. 
  The 
  sediments 
  of 
  the 
  Grenville 
  series 
  are 
  the 
  oldest 
  rocks, 
  

   now 
  greatly 
  metamorphosed. 
  A 
  syenitic 
  series 
  of 
  eruptives, 
  the 
  

   most 
  extensive 
  of 
  the 
  local 
  formations, 
  succeeded 
  the 
  Grenville, 
  and 
  

   these 
  are 
  also 
  greatly 
  metamorphosed. 
  There 
  are 
  also 
  rocks 
  inter- 
  

   mediate 
  between 
  syenite 
  and 
  gabbro; 
  true 
  gabbros 
  and 
  granites. 
  

   Lastly 
  came 
  a 
  few 
  basaltic 
  dikes. 
  There 
  are 
  no 
  late 
  Paleozoics 
  in 
  

   the 
  region, 
  but 
  the 
  Potsdam 
  and 
  Beekmantown 
  are 
  near 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  

   Lake 
  George 
  basin. 
  The 
  physiography 
  was 
  believed 
  by 
  the 
  speaker 
  

   to 
  be 
  chiefly 
  due 
  to 
  block 
  faulting, 
  which 
  was 
  freshened 
  up 
  by 
  the 
  

   ice-sculpturing 
  of 
  the 
  glacial 
  epoch. 
  

  

  The 
  next 
  morning 
  the 
  party 
  proceeded 
  to 
  Huletts, 
  and 
  visited 
  an 
  

   igneous 
  contact 
  on 
  Tafts 
  point. 
  At 
  Huletts 
  dock 
  interesting 
  peg- 
  

   matites 
  and 
  the 
  effects 
  of 
  shearing 
  and 
  faulting 
  were 
  seen. 
  Three, 
  

   sets 
  of 
  displacement 
  could 
  be 
  detected. 
  The 
  party 
  were 
  kindly 
  taken 
  

   about 
  the 
  lake 
  by 
  Dr 
  Smith 
  Ely 
  Jeliffe 
  in 
  his 
  launch, 
  adding 
  greatly 
  

   to 
  their 
  pleasure 
  and 
  profit. 
  After 
  lunch 
  in 
  the 
  charming 
  summer 
  

   home 
  of 
  Professor 
  and 
  Mrs 
  Kemp 
  the 
  members 
  continued 
  south 
  

   through 
  the 
  lake 
  and 
  dispersed. 
  

  

  Ill 
  

  

  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST 
  

  

  The 
  State 
  Botanist 
  reports 
  that 
  the 
  interval 
  between 
  the 
  collecting 
  

   seasons 
  of 
  1906 
  and 
  1907 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  office 
  work 
  which 
  consists 
  

   of 
  the 
  examination 
  and 
  identification 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  possible 
  of 
  unidenti- 
  

   fied 
  collected 
  material 
  and 
  the 
  accumulated 
  contributed 
  material, 
  the 
  

   preparation 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  report 
  and 
  the 
  incorporation 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  

   material 
  in 
  the 
  herbarium. 
  The 
  field 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  principally 
  a 
  

   continuation 
  of 
  the 
  investigation 
  and 
  collection 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  

   Crataegus 
  flora 
  and 
  mycological 
  flora. 
  Of 
  the 
  former, 
  considerable 
  

   collections 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  two 
  specially 
  prolific 
  localities, 
  one 
  

   near 
  Corning, 
  Steuben 
  co., 
  the 
  other 
  near 
  Clayton, 
  Jefferson 
  co. 
  

   Collections 
  here 
  were 
  made 
  both 
  in 
  the 
  flowering 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  fruiting 
  

   period 
  of 
  these 
  plants. 
  The 
  identification 
  of 
  much 
  of 
  this 
  material 
  

   has 
  not 
  vet 
  been 
  made. 
  

  

  