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  During 
  the 
  past 
  season 
  Professors 
  James 
  F. 
  Kemp, 
  of 
  Colum- 
  

   bia 
  university, 
  C. 
  H. 
  Smyth 
  jr, 
  of 
  Hamilton 
  college, 
  and 
  H. 
  P. 
  

   Cushing, 
  of 
  Adelbert 
  college, 
  Cleveland, 
  O., 
  have 
  continued 
  

   their 
  operations 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  region 
  of 
  crystalline 
  rocks 
  

   and 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  gentlemen 
  present 
  herewith 
  reports 
  of 
  their 
  

   work, 
  the 
  former 
  in 
  Essex 
  co. 
  and 
  the 
  latter 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  region. 
  Prof. 
  Cushing's 
  results 
  will 
  be 
  

   incorporated 
  in 
  a 
  future 
  report. 
  

  

  Dr 
  Heinrich 
  Kies, 
  of 
  Columbia 
  university, 
  has 
  been 
  employed 
  

   to 
  make 
  a 
  special 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  limestones 
  of 
  the 
  state 
  with 
  refer- 
  

   ence 
  to 
  their 
  various 
  economic 
  values, 
  and 
  his 
  report 
  is 
  herewith 
  

   submitted. 
  

  

  Mr 
  Clifton 
  J. 
  Sarle, 
  of 
  Rochester, 
  was 
  sent 
  into 
  the 
  field 
  for 
  

   the 
  purpose 
  of 
  collecting 
  specimens 
  of 
  fossil 
  sponges 
  to 
  be 
  used 
  

   in 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  the 
  monograph 
  of 
  the 
  Dictyospongidae, 
  

   the 
  final 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  transmitted 
  with 
  my 
  last 
  report. 
  Mr 
  

   Sarle 
  succeeded 
  in 
  securing 
  a 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  material 
  in 
  Steuben 
  

   co. 
  and 
  visited 
  the 
  southern 
  parts 
  of 
  Tioga 
  and 
  Broome 
  counties 
  

   for 
  rare 
  species 
  of 
  these 
  organisms 
  and 
  from 
  there 
  was 
  de- 
  

   tailed 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  to 
  trace 
  the 
  outcrops 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  layers 
  

   of 
  the 
  Niagara 
  formation 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Rochester. 
  Thereafter 
  

   he 
  was 
  sent 
  into 
  Clinton 
  co. 
  for 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  fossils 
  in 
  the 
  

   Chazy 
  and 
  Calciferous 
  limestones, 
  in 
  which 
  work 
  he 
  was 
  engaged 
  

   for 
  about 
  one 
  month. 
  Later 
  in 
  the 
  season 
  he 
  was 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  

   Chemung 
  rocks 
  near 
  Avoca, 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  crinoids 
  of 
  

   that 
  formation, 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  with 
  satisfactory 
  results. 
  

  

  This 
  report 
  also 
  contains 
  a 
  paper 
  of 
  much 
  interest 
  which 
  has 
  

   been 
  communicated 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Charles 
  S. 
  Prosser, 
  of 
  Union 
  college 
  

   with 
  Mr 
  R. 
  B. 
  Rowe, 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  special 
  students 
  in 
  geology. 
  It 
  is 
  

   entitled: 
  the 
  Stratigraphic 
  geology 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  Helderbergs. 
  

  

  Very 
  respectfully 
  

  

  James 
  Hall 
  

   State 
  geologist 
  and 
  paleontologist 
  

   State 
  Hall, 
  Albany, 
  Mar. 
  24, 
  1898 
  

  

  