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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
In the Forty-first Report an index of the genera and species men¬ 
tioned in reports twenty-two to thirty-eight inclusive, was published. 
A similar index has been prepared for the ten succeeding reports, 
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thirty-nine to forty-eight, and is herein included. It is marked F. 
In the prosecution of my investigations of the edible qualities of 
our more promising species of mushrooms, a considerable number 
have been tried and of these, eight species additional to those already 
reported seem to me worthy of being placed in the list of edible ones. 
But the room now occupied in part by me is poorly lighted and not 
a very suitable place in which to do work requiring a good light. It 
has, therefore, seemed to me best to omit for the present the attempt 
to make proper illustrations of these and to report on them, hoping 
that soon better facilities for such work will be available. 
By reason of the requirements of the State Engineer, the room pre¬ 
viously occupied in the State Hall as an office for the Botanist and 
a place for the State Herbarium was vacated in January and the 
Herbarium cases, containing the mounted specimens and a part of 
the duplicates, were transferred to the fourth floor of the Capitol and 
placed in one of the corridors near the office of the State Ento¬ 
mologist. 
The remaining duplicates, the specimens unsuitable for mounting, 
that had been arranged in trays and kept in table cases, the greater 
part of the specimens of fungi belonging to the exhibit of our State 
at the World’s Columbian Exposition and the models of fungi 
donated to the State Herbarium by the Agricultural Department at 
Washington, were packed in boxes and are now in storage on the 
fifth floor of the Capitol. 
Desk room and space for a table was given me for temporary occu¬ 
pancy in one of the rooms of the State Entomologist. By this ar¬ 
rangement iny work is necessarily hindered and the proper care of 
