REPORT OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST 1899 667 



allowed to the Primordial, 150 to the Upper Silurian, 150 to the 

 Lower Devonian (to Hamilton group) 200 to the Middle Devonian 

 (Hamilton group), 200 to the Chemung group and 50 to the Cats- 

 kill group. These apportionments provided for consecutive num- 

 bering up to the number of 2000. This provision has not proved 

 sufficiently elastic. Some of the apportionments of numbers have 

 long been entirely filled, and a duplication of the localities by the 

 addition of letters (a, b, c, etc.) has been necessary. In continu- 

 ing this record, it is purposed to add localities irrespective of 

 stratigraphic sequence and to assign to new T localities of whatever 

 stratigraphic age numbers above 2000. In order to bring together 

 in one place all numbers pertaining to a given formation, a cata- 

 logue of such formations has been here prepared. This with the 

 completed catalogue of localities alphabetically arranged precedes 

 the record proper. 



In 187S Prof. Hall instituted a separate record of American 

 localities of fossils outside the state of New York, using to desig- 

 nate such specimens a circular orange ticket. Only about 20 

 such entries were made, and, as many of such extralimital local- 

 ities had already been entered on both earlier and later records, 

 I have abandoned this record by assigning to each entry a num- 

 ber in the general record and have appended a list of these old 

 numbers with their new T equivalents. The actual number on the 

 tickets has not been changed. This list also precedes the general 

 record. 



All previous locality records had been carried in various 

 books, 'and they have now been transcribed to one volume with 

 the changes above suggested, and the list indexed both for 

 the localities and formations. This work has been very care- 

 fully executed by Mr Van Deloo. it has been also necessary in 

 transcribing this record to revise it, as many changes have been 

 found necessary both in the sames of localities and characteriza- 

 tion of formations. Every entry has therefore been carefully con- 

 sidered and corrected or verified as far as possible. Taken as a 

 whole, this catalogue affords the most complete list extant of the 

 fossiliferous localities in the state of New York and with its 



