14 

 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



[Under the charge of Prof. A. S. Bickmore.] 



The following are the subjects of the lectures delivered during 

 the past year under the auspices of the State Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction : 



SPRING OF 1889. 

 The Palisades and Highlands. 97. The Mississippi Valley and Gulf 



The Catskills and the Adirondacks. 



The White Mountains. 



The Lakes and Glens of New York. 



The Falls of Niagara. 



The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay 



States. 



98. The Stem and the Leaf. 



99. The Flower and the Fruit. 

 100. The Forests of America. 



AUTUMN OF 1889, 



101. Belgium — Waterloo. 



102. Holland — Amsterdam. 



103. Denmark, Sweden and Southern 



Norway. 



104. The- National Yellowstone Park. 



105. Colorado — Pike's Peak and Monu- 



ment Park. 



106. The Canons of the Rocky Moun- 



tains. 



107. The Great Basin and the Sierras. 



108. California — the Yosemite Valley. 



109. British Columbia. 

 no. Alaska. 



At the closing lecture thirteen hundred were present, and so 

 many were unable to get within the large hall that the lecture 

 was repeated the following week, when seven hundred more were 

 present, making the total number who have listened to this one 

 subject two thousand ; and if we had an auditorium which would 

 seat such a great number we have reason to believe that on every 

 fair day it would be full. 



GEOLOGICAL AND CONCHOLOGICAL 

 DEPARTMENTS. 



[Under the charge of Prof. R. P. Whitfield.] 



Palteontological Collections. — At the end of 1888, label- 

 ing in this collection, had progressed to the end of the Class 

 Bryozoa in the Hudson River Group, from which point the work 

 of the present year (1889) is to be counted. The work has now 

 (January 1st, 1890) progressed to the Echhwdermata of the 

 Lower Helderberg Group. This comprises the remainder of the 

 Hudson River Group from the Bryozoans ; the Medina Sand- 

 stone, the Clinton and Niagara Groups, and the commencement 

 of the Lower Helderberg Group to the point above mentioned. 

 Within this area there have been placed 2324 complete labels, of 

 which 699 are either type or figured specimen labels, containing 

 the citations of volume, page, plate and figure in the work in 

 which they were published. 



