42 FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON THE 



described in the Thirty-ninth Annual Eeport of the State Museum 

 as Dactyloidites bulbosus.* 



The stone is four feet square. It was secured for the Museum 

 by H. A. Ingalslee, Principal of the Middle Granville Academy. 

 A slab of Medina sandstone, covered with Lingula cuneata, quarried 

 for flagging at Medina, Orleans county. It was presented by 

 Patrick Horan of Medina. A third specimen worthy of mention 

 is a block of pyrites from Davis, Mass., the gift of Mr. H. J. Davis 

 of that place. 



The changes on the third floor, which were made last year, left 

 vacant the alcove cases at the front. They have been filled with 

 a part of the palseontological accessions of the year. Among 

 them the following may be mentioned as important additions : A 

 collection of twenty-four specimens of Jurassic fossils from 

 Solenhofen, Bavaria ; 109 specimens of Devonian, Cretaceous and 

 Jurassic fossils from European localities twenty-six specimens 

 from the cretaceous formations of the United States — these are 

 from Yale College Museum, and were obtained by Mr. Beecher. 

 A collection of 109 specimens of fossils from the Spiriferen Sand- 

 stein of the Hartz Mountains, Germany, from the Geological 

 Museum of the University of Gottingen, obtained by exchange 

 through Prof. A. von Koenen. Their identification by such an 

 authority gives them special value for comparative study. Creta- 

 ceous plants from Ellsworth county, Dakota, purchased of Prof. 

 Snow, of the University of Kansas. Two sections (polished) of 

 the large and beautiful Ammonites stellaris, from England, pur- 

 chased from Ward & Howell, of Eochester. Other additions in 

 this room are a finely preserved specimen of the Icthyosaurus 

 communis, from the Liassic beds at Lyme Regis, England. As 

 the representative of the great saurians, it is unique and attracts 

 much attention. It is exhibited in a table case, at the east end of 

 the room. 



The ethnological and antiquarian collection of the museum, 

 formerly in cases on the top floor, has been brought down and 

 arranged temporarily in a wall-case at the front of the room. 

 The pressing need of these cases for the increasing collections of 

 Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils will necessitate its early removal to 

 other quarters. 



* Thirty-ninth Ann. Report N. Y. State Museum, page 160. with plate H. 



