University oi the State ol New York Bulletin 



Entered as second-class matter August 2, 1013, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under 

 the act of August 24, 19 12 



Published fortnightly 



No. 601 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



October 15, 1915 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Museum Bulletin 177 



ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 

 STATE MUSEUM AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENT 



INCLUDING THE SIXTY-EIGHTH REPORT OF THE STATE MUSEUM, THE THIRTY- 

 FOURTH REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, AND THE REPORT 

 OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST FOR I914 



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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 



Area! 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 



