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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



gives several extracts from press notices. Catalogues were dis- 

 tributed in connection with the collection. This catalogue gives 

 the more important characteristics of over 80 species of economic 

 importance, and outlines the methods of controlling the injurious 

 forms. It has been reprinted. 



The list of publications of the entomologist gives the title, 

 place and date of appearance, and abstracts of the 95 publications 

 of the entomologist during the year. The report of contributions 

 to the collection includes the scientific and common name of the 

 insect and the names and addresses of the senders. 



Botany 



The report of the state botanist for the year 1890 contains in 

 its introductory part some comments on the meteorologic char- 

 acter of the season and its influence on the growth of fleshy 

 fungi, a list of the names of the species of which specimens have 

 been collected and added to the herbarium, a list of the names 

 of those who have contributed specimens and the names of the 

 species of which they have respectively contributed specimens, 

 remarks concerning species now reported for the first time as a 

 part of our state flora, together with descriptions of such as are 

 deemed new or hitherto undescribed, also remarks and observa- 

 tions on many species previously reported. It contains also a 

 list of the flowering plants and ferns found on the low and exten- 

 sive piece of wooded marshy land known as Bonaparte swamp. 

 Lying in the northern part of Lewis connty and on the east side 

 of Lake Bonaparte. The report closes with descriptions and 

 plates of 11 new species and varieties of fleshy fungi. 



That part of the report relating to the 14 species recently 

 tested and added to our edible species is published, with descrip- 

 tions and illustrations of the 33 species previously reported, as 

 2V. T. state museum memoir Jj. There are 25 plates, 24 devoted to 

 the illustration of edible species and one to an unwholesome 

 species. 



