REPORT. 



TO THE LEGISLATUEE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. 



The Regents of the University Respectfully Report : 



That during the past year, many and various additions have been 

 made to the Cabinet. For the Zoological department, there have been 

 procured a number of specimens of animals native to the State, and 

 which were not previously in the collection. A list of those presented 

 and purchased accompanies this report. 



The engagements of Dr. Fitch, during the last season, have prevent- 

 ed him from increasing the collection of Insects, but the matter is still 

 left in his charge, and he will doubtless, ere long, forward additional 

 specimens. 



The Regents have to state with regret, that some of the preserved 

 animals have recently been found to be injured by the moth. An ex- 

 amination of them is now making by a competent person, who is direct- 

 ed to destroy such as may be too far affected, and also to take every 

 means to prevent future loss through this cause. 



The Botanical Collection continues in excellent order, and is carefully 

 preserved. 



Valuable donations have been received from various persons, for the 

 Mineralogical and Geological Museum. These are particularly speci- 

 fied in the accompanying documents, but the Regents deem it proper to 

 add, that a few months since, Dr. Nathaniel F. Moore, late President of 

 Columbia College, tendered to them a collection of minerals, fossils 

 and shells, made by his deceased nephew, Casimir De Rham, jr. Al- 

 though the State Cabinet is peculiarly appropriated to our native pro- 

 ductions, still the interest attached to these memorials of a young and 



