THE NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF NEW TORE. 



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gist and his staff have their offices in State hall in Eagle street, 

 and the entomologist and botanist are in the north east section 

 of the fourth floor of the capitol. The State Museum in addition 

 to its work of collecting material representative of the natural 

 resources of the state, is also the seat of the geologic and nat- 

 ural history survey which has been in progress since 1832, and 

 under the auspices of which numerous reports have been pub- 

 lished on geology, palaeontology, zoology and botany. The mu- 

 seum is open to the public from 9 a. m. till 5 p. m. daily except 

 on Sundays and other holidays. 



Inasmuch as the State Museum -comprises all scientific work 

 intrusted to the regents it is proper to mention the resurvey of 

 the boundary line between New York and the states of New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania. This was done in accordance with res- 

 olutions passed by the legislature in 1867 and in 1875, and by 

 the laws of 1880 the boundary lines resurveyed and monumented 

 under the direction of the regents were accepted as the true 

 boundaries of the state. ; , 



