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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  to 
  the 
  Legislature 
  at 
  the 
  next 
  session, 
  with 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  

   State 
  Geologist. 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  remaining 
  work 
  of 
  great 
  importance 
  and 
  which 
  has 
  

   not 
  been 
  advanced, 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  fossil 
  corals 
  which 
  remains 
  in 
  

   the 
  same 
  condition 
  as 
  heretofore 
  presented 
  ; 
  there 
  being 
  drawings 
  

   already 
  prepared 
  for 
  nearly 
  100 
  ordinary 
  quarto 
  plates. 
  Thus 
  

   far 
  no 
  provision 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  for 
  any 
  publication 
  upon 
  this 
  

   class 
  of 
  fossils. 
  The 
  illustrations 
  already 
  prepared, 
  at 
  a 
  very 
  

   considerable 
  labor 
  and 
  cost, 
  are 
  not 
  available 
  for 
  any 
  educational 
  

   or 
  other 
  useful 
  purposes, 
  unless 
  brought 
  before 
  the 
  public 
  in 
  some 
  

   form, 
  and 
  will 
  otherwise 
  be 
  entirely 
  lost 
  to 
  science. 
  The 
  material 
  

   already 
  illustrated 
  and 
  the 
  large 
  collections 
  remaining 
  in 
  the 
  

   museum 
  will 
  furnish 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  a 
  more 
  complete 
  illustration 
  

   of 
  palaeozoic 
  corals 
  than 
  has 
  yet 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  any 
  country. 
  

   While 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  necessity 
  for 
  the 
  immediate 
  outlay 
  of 
  any 
  

   large 
  sums 
  of 
  money 
  for 
  this 
  object, 
  I 
  would 
  earnestly 
  recom- 
  

   mend 
  the 
  annual 
  appropriation 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  amount, 
  in 
  order 
  that 
  

   the 
  work 
  may 
  progress 
  toward 
  the 
  final 
  publication 
  of 
  a 
  memoir 
  

   upon 
  the 
  "Fossils 
  Corals 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York." 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  also 
  in 
  progress 
  the 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  illustration 
  of 
  the 
  

   handbook 
  of 
  Brachiopoda, 
  the 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist 
  for 
  1891 
  (1893.) 
  

   This 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  handbook 
  contains 
  223 
  pages 
  of 
  text 
  illus- 
  

   trated 
  by 
  286 
  figures 
  ; 
  a 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  showing 
  the 
  geographic 
  

   distribution 
  of 
  the 
  living 
  Brachiopoda; 
  and 
  twenty-two 
  litho- 
  

   graphic 
  plates 
  containing 
  470 
  figures 
  which 
  illustrate 
  the 
  external 
  

   form 
  and 
  internal 
  structure 
  of 
  ninety-eight 
  genera 
  of 
  this 
  class 
  

   of 
  fossils. 
  

  

  The 
  second 
  part 
  of 
  this 
  handbook 
  which 
  is 
  communicated 
  with 
  

   the 
  present 
  report 
  will 
  contain 
  thirty-two 
  lithographic 
  plates 
  

   with 
  accompanying 
  text 
  and 
  illustrations. 
  The 
  work 
  will 
  also 
  

   contain 
  a 
  resume 
  of 
  the 
  results 
  coming 
  from 
  the 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  

   Brachiopoda 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  carried 
  on 
  for 
  many 
  years, 
  together 
  

   with 
  a 
  proposed 
  classification 
  of 
  this 
  class 
  of 
  fossils, 
  based 
  upon 
  

   these 
  results. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  upon 
  the 
  Palaeozoic 
  Bryozoa, 
  containing 
  twenty-four 
  

  

  plates, 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  progress 
  of 
  preparation 
  for 
  several 
  

  

  years, 
  and 
  remains 
  unpublished 
  for 
  want 
  of 
  means 
  to 
  furnish 
  

  

  the 
  proper 
  illustrations, 
  will 
  be 
  communicated 
  with 
  the 
  next 
  

  

  eport 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist. 
  

  

  