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Botanist. Bulletin No. 3 was published in March, 1888, and is 

 entitled, " Building Stone in the State of New York," by John C. 

 Smock. Bulletin No. 5 was issued in November, 1888, and is 

 entitled, " The White Grub of the May Beetle," by J. A. Lintner, 

 Ph. D., State Entomologist. Bulletin No. 6 was also issued in 

 November, 1888, and is entitled, " Cut Worms," by J. A. Lintner, 

 Ph. D., State Entomologist. Bulletin No. 1 has not yet been 

 issued. It is to be on the subject of " Spongidse," by James Hall, 

 Director. Bulletin No. 4 is now in the process of printing, and 

 will be issued in a few weeks. It is upon the subject of minerals 

 collected in the State Museum by Mr. Nason, who spent some 

 time upon a careful study and arrangement of the minerals in the 

 Museum, and has compiled this bulletin in consequence of his 

 labors. 



A proposition is now under consideration to transfer the Museum 

 library to the care of the State Library. If there were a building 

 sufficiently large for all the purposes of the Museum, then there 

 would be a propriety in keeping the Museum library in connection 

 with the specimens. But at present this is not the case, and the 

 library is in part kept at the old Museum building on State street, 

 and in part at the State Hall. The staff of the Museum, therefore, 

 are required to go from the one to the other of these buildings 

 very frequently, in order to obtain the advantage of the books in 

 the library. There would be no greater inconvenience in placing 

 the books in the Capitol in connection with the State Library. 

 There the staff of the Museum would find the books ready for their 

 consultation. There are besides in the State Library very many scien- 

 tific books. These, when put with the scientific books of the Museum, 

 would make a much larger and better collection than can be now 

 found in either of the libraries. Very many of the important scien- 

 tific societies who publish valuable scientific serials object very 

 naturally to sending copies of their publications to two libraries 

 situated in the same place. This objection has been actually 

 made within a few months, and it is a very natural and proper 

 one. The Begents practice the same system in distributing the 

 State publications that are committed to them. They do not feel 

 themselves called upon to put these donations from the State in 

 two libraries in the same city. If the Museum library were trans- 

 ferred to the State Library, then, of course, this objection would 

 fall to the ground. The books now in the Museum library should 



