REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1901 rl4i 



ETHNOLOGY 



Rev. William M. Beauchamp has continued his valuable work 

 of authorship and has prepared two important bulletins, entitled 

 respectively Horn and Bone Implements of the New York 

 Indians and Metallic Implements of the New York Indians. 



In September 1901 he made a trip of four days to Perch lake, 

 Jefferson co., inspecting and securing descriptions of over 60 

 of the remarkable mounds or hut rings still remaining there. 



Several trips were made elsewhere, viz, one to the Tonawanda 

 reservation; one to Watertown to examine and describe relics 

 and obtain notes of sites; one to Chaumont for similar purposes; 

 one each to Cayuga and Madison counties. The most import- 

 ant of all was an inspection of several days of sites and relics 

 along the Susquehanna from Bingtfamton to Waver ly. In all 

 these Dr Beauchamp had the valuable aid of local archeologists. 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION 



By authority of the board of managers communicated as a 

 result of its official action on Oct. 22, 1900, by which the director 

 of the New York State Museum was made director of the scien- 

 tific exhibit and an appropriation of f 9000 placed at his disposal 

 for the necessary expenses of the work, such an exhibit in its 

 various departments was made and duly installed. Concerning 

 the details of this work, I beg to make the following report. 



The first scientific exhibit made by New York State at any 

 general exposition was a small one made at New Orleans in 

 1886. The first large and comprehensive exhibit was that made 

 at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. When the board 

 of managers of the exhibit of the State of New York at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition decided to call on the New York 

 State Museum to prepare an exhibit of the mineral resources 

 of the State and to contribute collections illustrative of its 

 fauna and flora, the work proved to be one of considerable mag- 

 nitude, (Specially in the matter of the mineral exhibit, as but 

 little material of economic value had previously been accumu- 

 lated by the State Museum. 



