﻿12 
  Forty- 
  seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  It 
  should 
  be 
  understood 
  that 
  a 
  report 
  made 
  at 
  this 
  season 
  of 
  

   the 
  year 
  can 
  cover 
  only 
  laboratory 
  work, 
  since 
  field 
  work 
  is 
  in 
  

   such 
  an 
  unfinished 
  condition 
  that 
  no 
  results 
  have 
  been 
  obtained 
  

   which 
  can 
  be 
  satisfactorily 
  communicated 
  in 
  a 
  report 
  for 
  

   publication. 
  

  

  The 
  annual 
  report 
  upon 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  made 
  in 
  December, 
  

   1892, 
  contains 
  the 
  communications 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Merrill, 
  Assistant 
  

   Geologist, 
  Mr. 
  Marshall, 
  Assistant 
  Zoologist 
  ; 
  a 
  general 
  inventory 
  

   of 
  the 
  duplicate 
  collections 
  of 
  fossils 
  originally 
  made 
  for 
  the 
  

   Palaeontology 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  ; 
  a 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  collections 
  during 
  1892 
  ; 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  Director 
  upon 
  

   the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  Palseontological 
  department, 
  and 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  

   type 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  collections 
  at 
  the 
  State 
  Hall 
  ; 
  together 
  

   •with 
  a 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  Palaeon- 
  

   tology 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  This 
  report 
  was 
  intended 
  to 
  bring 
  up 
  the 
  

   record 
  of 
  work 
  done 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  1892. 
  

  

  Since 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  that 
  report 
  the 
  laboratory 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  con- 
  

   tinued 
  as^before. 
  Mr. 
  Martin 
  Sheehy 
  and 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  Emmons 
  have 
  

   been 
  at^work 
  upon 
  the 
  duplicate 
  collections 
  of 
  fossils, 
  assorting 
  

   and 
  selecting 
  the 
  better 
  specimens 
  to 
  be 
  preserved 
  in 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  collections 
  ; 
  arranging 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  twenty 
  school 
  col- 
  

   lections, 
  and 
  packing 
  in 
  boxes 
  the 
  superfluous 
  material 
  after 
  

   making^ 
  the 
  selection 
  of 
  these 
  twenty 
  school 
  sets. 
  When 
  com- 
  

   pleted 
  these 
  sets 
  will 
  each 
  contain 
  several 
  hundred 
  specimens. 
  

   It 
  is 
  impossible 
  just 
  now 
  to 
  state 
  how 
  many 
  specimens 
  because 
  

   the 
  work 
  is 
  in 
  progress. 
  The 
  duplicate 
  material 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  collection 
  and 
  the 
  school 
  sets 
  has 
  been 
  packed 
  in 
  boxes 
  

   in 
  systematic 
  order[; 
  these 
  boxes, 
  numbering 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  

   over 
  one^ 
  hundred, 
  are 
  piled 
  in 
  the 
  rotunda 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Hall, 
  

   each 
  one 
  being 
  marked 
  with 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  class 
  of 
  fossils 
  

   which 
  it 
  contains. 
  

  

  Besides 
  this 
  work 
  Mr. 
  Sheehy, 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  machinery, 
  has 
  

   been 
  cutting 
  and 
  shaping 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  rough 
  

   specimens! 
  from 
  the 
  Livonia 
  salt 
  shaft, 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  preserve 
  the 
  

   fossils 
  and 
  to] 
  adapt 
  them 
  to 
  convenient 
  arrangement 
  in 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  collections. 
  He 
  has 
  also, 
  besides 
  this 
  work 
  and 
  the 
  dis- 
  

   tribution 
  of 
  collections, 
  made 
  thirty-three 
  sections 
  of 
  crystalline 
  

   rocks 
  for 
  Mr. 
  Merrill. 
  In 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  specimens 
  more 
  

   than 
  two 
  hundred 
  boxes 
  have 
  been 
  opened 
  and 
  assorted, 
  and 
  the 
  

  

  