REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1902 rl27 



ADMINISTRATION 



The work of the State Museum for the fiscal year ending Sep. 

 30, 1902, has been productive of varied and valuable results. 



Since the opening of the remodeled building Oct. 7, 1901, the 

 attendance has been greatly increased and, in the 12 months from 

 that date, has surpassed any previous record since September 

 1893, when the turnstile was first put in, the total number of 

 visitors aggregating over 75,000. This may be safely taken as 

 an expression of the fact that, if the museum collections were in a 

 proper building with sufficient room for their exhibition, the 

 number of people benefited would be very great. Under the 

 present circumstances, there being little opportunity for the 

 amplification of the exhibition collections, a large part of the 

 energy of the museum staff is directed to work of research and 

 publication. The aggregate of this publication work is evidenced 

 in the reports and bulletins issued, for the fiscal year the bulletins 

 distributed numbering 12 and aggregating 1595 pages. 



PALEONTOLOGY 



During the past year the state paleontologist and his staff 

 have been largely occupied with special problems arising from 

 recent field operations. These have required work both in field 



and office and may be briefly stated. The discovery of a quite 

 remarkable and heretofore unknown development of the Guelph 

 fauna in New York has led to its careful exploitation as an im- 

 portant addition to the ancient fauna of the State. A memoir on 

 this fauna and its distribution in the State is now printing. 



Interesting additions to the Portage fauna and to evidence 

 bearing on its origin and migrations have been made by opera- 

 tions in Chautauqua county, and an account of this fauna, 

 bringing together the results of several years investigations, is 

 likewise in press as a Museum memoir. In connection with this 

 work examinatfon has been made of sections in Erie county, 

 Pennsylvania and at Kettle Point and vicinity, Ontario. 



The region directly south of Syracuse, covered by the Tully 

 topographic quadrangle, has been mapped stratigraphically in 

 detail, and the map is ready for publication. The area covered 



