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General. The Museum is still imperfectly equipped in office 

 facilities and more especially in regard to suitable drawers for the 

 keeping of the excess and duplicate storage collections of its ma- 

 terial. We brought over from Geological Hall and State Hall 

 many thousands of wooden drawers with their standards, for the 

 purpose of affording necessary, even though dangerous, storage, and 

 these are now standing in the corridors. In the basement of the 

 building the machinery plant has been installed and the balance of 

 the room there appropriated for the work of the Museum is given 

 over to the storage of the large amount of material which it has 

 been as yet impossible to open. 



There have been some notable accessions to the collections pur- 

 chased during the past year. These have been principally in the 

 division of archeology which was the most severely injured by the 

 Capitol fire. Of these recent additions those of leading importance 

 are the collections of Indian materials brought together by R. D. 

 Loveland, Watertown ; Charles P. Oatman, Liverpool ; Raymond C. 

 Dann, Fairport ; Alva S. Reed, Livonia; Frederick H. Crofoot, Son- 

 yea; D. F. Thompson, Troy, and Otis M. Bigelow, Baldwinsville. 

 This series of collections of Indian cultural relics constitutes the 

 best of the Iroquois and pre-Iroquois materials now available in 

 the State, and although further additions are always desirable, it 

 is quite likely that they must be of very much less size and sig- 

 nificance. To this list should be added the extensive collection of 

 such materials made by Mr D. D. Luther, a member of the staff, 

 from the Indian village in the town of Naples. 



The Museum has also acquired by purchase the William D. Geb- 

 hard collection of fossils from the classical region of the Schoharie 

 valley. This is the last of the great collections of fossils brought 

 together by the Gebhards, through three generations, and the State 

 Museum is fortunate in getting possession of it. An extensive 

 collection of minerals from Orange county, made by the late Silas 

 A. Young of Edenville, has also come into the possession of the 

 Museum and makes an essential addition to the representation of 

 New York minerals. 



Full inventory of these collections will be given in the accession 

 lists and made a part of this report, together with memoranda 

 regarding smaller collections of various kinds and varying interest. 



Orders have been given for the construction of a large relief 

 map of the Finger Lakes region on the topographic scale of one 

 mile to one inch. This is constructed for the purpose of showing 



