REPORT OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST 1901 445 



Total number of type specimens of paleozoic organisms, 5044.. 

 These are divided as follows: 



Plantae 43 



Sponges 141 



Coelenterata 348 



Echinodermata 115 



Bryozoa 484 



Brachiopoda 1132 



Lamellibranchiata 1022 



Pteropoda 56 



Gastropoda 374 



• Cephalopoda 571 



Vermes 102 



Crustacea 643 



Pisces 13 



It is well known that 25 years ago the late Prof. Hall sold his 

 large collection of fossils, on which in very considerable measure 

 the studies in the early volumes of the Paleontology of New York 

 were based, to the American museum of natural history in New 

 York city; and from this fact the impression has in some 

 measure gone abroad that the greater number of types of the 

 Paleontology of New York are not in Albany but in the museum 

 at New York. It is therefore perhaps appropriate that atten- 

 tion be here directed to the following statement with reference 

 to what may be termed types of the New York paleontology in 

 the possession of these two museums, lest misapprehension 

 continue in regard to the location of such specimens. The cura- 

 tors of the collections of Paleozoic fossils in the American 

 museum of natural history have recently published a detailed 

 catalogue of their type specimens from which we draw the 

 following: 



Total number of type specimens, Cambric to Devonic inclusive, 

 4067. Of these the types figured in official New York state 

 publications are 3626; types from the Paleozoic rocks of New 

 York state figured in official state publications, 2696. 



