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successful student of Natural History, required that the offer should be 

 cheerfully accepted. Any anticipations that were entertained as to 

 their value, have been greatly exceeded on their examination and ar- 

 rangement. The collection includes many rare minerals, and highly 

 prized fossils and shells. The curator has prepared a catalogue of them, 

 which will give some idea of the industry and discrimination of one 

 who was too early lost to science. 



The Historical and Antiquarian collection continues to increase and 

 flourish, beyond the most sanguine hopes of its projectors. Nu- 

 merous and valuable presents have been made, and more are promised. 

 Among these are some precious relics from the battle grounds of 

 Saratoga, and a memorial of the victory of Commodore Perry on Lake 

 Erie. 



Donations also continue to be received of Indian relics, and in the 

 spirit of the views expressed to the Legislature in their last annual re- 

 port, the Regents deemed themselves justified in purchasing from Mr. 

 E. G. Squier a number of aboriginal remains, which he had obtained 

 in western New- York, and elsewhere. 



A few months since, Mr. Lewis H. Morgan, of Rochester, whose 

 liberal gifts have been enumerated in a former report, and who has 

 continued them during the present year, suggested the propriety of en- 

 deavoring to bring together a full exhibition of the manufactures of 

 the Indian tribes still remaining within our State, and thus to show, as 

 it were, their transition condition, in the union of their ancient and rude 

 constructions, with the improvements received through the whites. Mr. 

 Morgan added, that he would with pleasure superintend the disposition 

 of any appropriation that might be resolved upon. The Regents could 

 not hesitate to agree to his offer. So rapid, indeed, is the progress of 

 change, with the ancient lords of the soil, that what is to be done must 

 be done quickly. A sum of money was accordingly placed at the dis- 

 posal of Mr. Morgan, and the result has been the beautiful and inte- 

 resting collection which now adorns the rooms. It is intended shortly 

 to label each article with its English and Indian name, and the whole 

 will be perfectly illustrated by the sketches accompanying the memoir 

 which forms part of this report. 



Dr. Franklin B. Hough, of St. Lawrence county, a contributor to 

 the Mineralogical and the Antiquarian Collection, has also forwarded 

 a " notice of several ancient remains of art in St. Lawrence and Jeffer- 



