Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under 



the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 453 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



August 15, 1909 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Museum bulletin 133 



FIFTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF 

 THE SCIENCE DIVISION 



INCLUDING THE 



62D REPORT OF THE STATE MUSEUM, THE 2 8th REPORT OF 

 THE STATE GEOLOGIST, AND THE REPORT OF 

 THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST FOR 1908 



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Introduction 5 



I Condition of the scientific 



collections 6 



II Report on the geological 



survey 6 



Geological survey 6 



Seismological station 24 



Mineralogy 26 



Paleontology 27 



III Report of the State Botanist 38 



IV Report of the State Ento- 



mologist 40 



V Report on the zoology sec- 



tion 45 



VI Historical Museum 53 



VII Archeology 54 



Ethnology . 58 



VIII The protection of natural 



monuments 78 



IX Publications 81 



X Staff 86 



XI Accessions 88 



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One Hundred Years of New York 

 State Geologic Maps 1809-1909. 

 Henry Leighton 115 



A Peculiar Landslip in the Hud- 

 son River Clays. D. H. New- 

 land 156 



Some Items Concerning a New 

 and an Old Coast Line of Lake 

 Champlain. George H. Hud- 

 son 159 



Types of Inliers Observed in New 

 York. Rudolf Ruedemann. 164 



Some Marine Algae from the 

 Trenton Limestone of New 

 -York. Rudolf Ruedemann. . 194 



Some Parallel Groupings of Cal- 

 cite Crystals from the New 

 Jersey Trap Region. H. P. 

 Whitlock 217 



The Last of the Iroquois Potters. 

 M. R. Harrington 222 



Index 229 



