REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST rlGo 



of Pennsylvania, chiefly from Uniontown and Chestnut Ridge, 

 Fayel te county, Pa. 



Collections 



Edwin C. Eckel: L50 specimens gneiss, quartzite, limestone 

 and mica schist, New York and Westchester counties, N. V. 



Benjamin F. Hill: L93 specimens gneiss, quartzite, limestone 

 and mica schist, Putnam county, N. Y. 



Mineralogy 

 Donations 



Dudley Avery, Avery island, New Iberia La.; 1 crystalline ag- 

 gregate and 4 crystals (1 very large) of rock salt. The deposit is 

 said, by Mr Avery, to be several hundred feet thick and very uni- 

 form in quality. The mine supplied the Confederacy during the 

 civil war. 



St Patrick's academy, Troy N. Y.: 1 specimen niccolite and 

 franklinite in crystalline limestone, Sangre de Cristo mountains 

 near Silver Cliff, Custer co. Col. 



Frank S. Becker, Kinderhook N. Y.: Several specimens graphite, 

 Splitrock, Essex county, N. Y. 



Fred H. Bell: 1 specimen petrified wood, Hamilton, Bermudas. 



Purcha&es 



Clarence C. Miller: 2 calcite crystals clusters from Howe's cave, 

 Schoharie county, N. Y. 



Ethnology 



Donations 



C. A. Cox : 1 fishing sinker, D. L. Mead's farm, Bethlehem Cen- 

 ter, Albany co. N. Y. 



Purchases 



John W. Sanborn, Franklinville N. Y.: Model of an Iroquois 

 Indian village. 



