CONTENTS 



Letter of transmittal 3 



Table of contents 5 



List of regents * 7 



Report of director 9 



Administrative report 11 



List of accessions 13 



List of awards to the mineral exhibit of New York at the World's 



Columbian Exposition 14 



Catalogue of the collection of New York woods in the New York state 

 museum exclusive of the collection exhibited at the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition 16 



Catalogue of the collection of building stones in the New York state 



museum 21 



Catalogue of specimens collected by James Furman Kemp, E. M., for the 

 report on the Geology of Moriah and Westport townships, Essex co. . . 32 



Report of state geologist 41 



Geologic map 43 



Paleontology 44 



Geographic distribution of New York Unionidae . . 45 



Report of state botanist 101 



Additions to herbarium 106 



Contributors and their contributions 107 



Species not before reported 109 



Remarks and observations 115 



New York species of carex 118 



Edible and poisonous fungi of New York 203 



List of plates and species 317 



Index 335 



Report of state entomologist (For contents see p. 341) 339 



Report of assistant zoologist 637 



Shells of vicinity of Albany and Troy 641 



Index 648 



Appendix : Museum bulletins 12-15 



The appendix begins with p. 93 because bulletin It, which is the first in vol. 3 of museum 

 bulletins, is not included in this report. 



Bulletin 12, Clay industries of New York (For contents see p. 95) 93 



Bulletin 13, Some destructive insects of New York state (For contents see 



P. 265) 263 



Bulletin 14, Geology of Moriah and Westport townships 323 



Bulletin 15, Mineral resources of New York state (For contents see p. 361) 859 



