University of the State of New York 



New York State Museum 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1899 



To the Regents of the University of the State of New York 



I have the honor to submit herewith ray official reports, as 

 director of the state museum and as state geologist, for the 

 fiscal year ending Sep. 30, 1899. The results accomplished in 

 fulfilment of the duties of these two offices are discussed in the 

 following pages. 



The work of the state museum in its various branches has 

 steadily developed with the increase of appropriations, so that 

 the director is enabled to communicate more extensive and valu- 

 able results for the past fiscal year. These results are discussed 

 under the heads of geology, paleontology, mineralogy, ethnology, 

 general zoology, entomology and botany. 



Under the statutory requirements providing for a separate 

 edition of the report of the state geologist, that part of my 

 communication is made distinct in order that it may, so far as 

 necessary, be distributed in a separate binding. 



In order to permit of the wide distribution of separate papers, 

 the reports are chiefly administrative. All communicated papers 

 giving the results of completed investigation are, so far as 

 possible, issued as bulletins which can be distributed without 

 expense to the museum. A list of the bulletins accompanying 

 this report will be found in the table of contents. Succeeding 

 the administrative report is a list of accessions to the collections 

 of the museum for the year ending Sep. 30, 1899. 



Respectfully yours 



Frederick J. H. Merrill 



