20 REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



From Mr. KNAPP, . 



Two specimens of Eoofing Slate, from the U. S. Koofiug Slate quarries, Wash- 



inojtou county. 



From H. R. and Z. J. BROWN, Schoharie. 

 A polished specimen of Black Marble two feet four inches long, with a base 



of the same stone dressed as an ordinary building stone, with one face 



showing rock fractui-e; from Schoharie. 



From SHERMAN, WETHERBBE & CO., Port Henry. 



A large block of Magnetic Iron Ore from the new bed in Moriah, and two 

 large and several small specimens of Iron Ore from the old bed in Moriah, 

 Essex counter. 



From JACOB GOEWAY, Albany. 



A Piece of Wood found with the remains of the Mastodon at Cohoes. 



From the HARMONY MILLS COMPANY, Cohoes (through Alfred Wild, Albany). 

 Bones op a Mastodon, found at Cohoes in September and November, 1866. 



IV. To the Antiquarian Department. 



From Dr. J. H. ARMSBY, Albany. 

 A part of a Stone Mortar Pestle (aboriginal); localitj^ not given. 



V. To the Library. 



From the ROYAL NORSK UNIVERSITY OF CHRISTIANIA, Sweden. 



An Account of the Fossils of the Quaternary Period; by Dr. Michael Sars, 

 Professor in the University of Christiania. Quarto, 134 pp. and four plates. 



A Paper on the Brachiopoda; by George Ossian Sars. Quarto, 71 pp. and four 

 plates. (This paper received the prize of the Roj^al Gold Medal.) 



A Paper on the SneebiEeeu Folgefon; by S. A. Sexe. Quarto, 36 pp. and chart. 



Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 The Isis for 1864, complete; 1865, February to December; 1866, January to 

 June. 



11. BY PURCHASE. 



I. To the Botanical Department. 

 Lesquereux's "Musci Americana Exsiccati." 



