CONTENTS 



Report of the Director 1914 



Museum Bulletin 177 



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Introduction 3 



I Condition of the scientific 



Museum 5 



Special designs for the 



Museum collections ... 6 

 General Museum matters 8 

 II Miscellaneous Museum af- 

 fairs 9 



Functions of the State Mu- 

 seum and the codifica- 

 tion of the Museum law 9 



Birds of New York 11 



State mining exhibit at 

 the Panama-Pacific Ex- 

 position 12 



III Preservation of natural 



monuments 16 



Lester Park or the " Cryp- 



tozoon ledge " . 18 



Stark's Knob 20 



The Clark Reservation ... 21 



Logan Park 23 



The Hugh Miller Cliffs . . 25 

 Bird nesting-places on 

 Perce rock, Bonaven- 

 ture island and the 

 Bird Rocks of the Mag- 

 dalen islands 26 



Board of Geographic Names 35 

 IV Report on the Geological 



Survey 38 



Areal geology 38 



Industrial geology 41 



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V Report of the State Bot- 

 anist 50 



VI Report of the State Ento- 

 mologist 53 



VII Report on the Division of 



Zoology 61 



VIII Report on the Division of 

 Archeology and Ethnol- 

 ogy 63 



IX Publications 74 



X Staff of the Department of 



Science 77 



XI Accessions to the collec- 

 tions 79 



Conceptions regarding the Am- 

 erican Devonic. J. M. Clarke 115 

 Notes on the Intraformational 

 Contorted Strata at Trenton 



Falls. W.J.Miller 135 



The Great Rift on Chimney 



Mountain. W. J. Miller . . .'. 143 

 The Oriskany — Pic D' Aurore 

 Episode of the Appalachian 



Devonic. J. M. Clarke 147 



The Rifted Relict- Mountain, a 

 Type of "Old Red " Orogeny. 



J. M. Clarke 155 



Some Fundamental Types of 



• Hydrospires, with Notes on 



Porocrinus smithi Grant. 



G. H. Hudson 163 



Index 171 



Appendixes 1-3 



Museum Bulletin 178 



1 Economic geology 



178 Mining and Quarry Industry of Now York State 1914. D. H. 



Newland 



2 Entomology 



180 30th Report of the State Entomologist 1914. E. P. Fi«:lt 



3 Botany 



179 Report of the State Botanist 1914. H. D. House 



