C NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



be displayed. Additional specimens pertaining to this collection 

 are displayed in the State Library and many others are packed away 

 for future exhibition. 



D Storage house (McCredie malthouse). In this building are 

 stored many hundreds of boxes and cases of scientific specimens of 

 various kinds, some of which have not been opened in a half century, 

 others containing the materials recently acquired which after being 

 studied have had to be put away. 



E Flint Granite Co., Cemetery station. Here are stored some 

 very large slabs of fossils having a total weight of upwards of 20 

 tons. 



F Property of Joseph L. Verstrepen, north side of Delaware 

 street between Swan and Dove streets, Albany. Here are stored 

 about 2 tons of slabs bearing fossil sponges from the Che- 

 mung group at Bath, N. Y. 



It will be entirely evident from the foregoing statements that 

 access to the scientific collections is now practically inhibited. Con- 

 ditions permit little else than the opening of the material as it comes 

 into the office from the field, unpacking, studying and repacking for 

 storage, to the disadvantage of any one, student or visitor, who may 

 desire to examine such collections. 



This situation it is the hope of the present and the realization of 

 the future to remedy. 



These existing- circumstances have entirely failed to impair the 

 zeal for acquisition or the quality and quantity of accessions to the 

 collections. The annual additions to the State Museum are very 

 large. This year they have been exceptional in quality and volume. 

 For the most part these, irrespective of quality, are for the time 

 being under eclipse in the vaults of the storage house. 



II 



REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, INCLUDING 



THE WORK OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST AND 



PALEONTOLOGIST, OF THE MINERALOGIST 



AND THAT ON INDUSTRIAL GEOLOGY 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



Areal geology 



The plotting of the rock geology by quadrangles has proceeded 

 as in the previous few years with reasonable celerity and substantial 

 progress. 



