REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, 1922 7 
~The second horizon is the original locality from which specimens 
were washed out in the flood of 1865. ‘This is at 1020 feet A. T., 
that is, 60 feet above the former and is 2300 feet away in a direct 
line. The third level is at the foot of the Manorkill falls 6400 feet 
away and 100 feet above the last level. This is at 1120 A. T. The 
intervening rock is gray sandstone in heavy beds, some intercalated 
sandy shale between. A noteworthy fact indicating that these trees 
grew in place is the presence of a dark root shale beneath each — a 
fact which seems to preclude a possibility of the transportation of 
the stumps to their present place. 
Lower horizon 
Old loc ality 
Manorkilt 
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This is an ideal north-south rock section showing the three levels of the 
fossil forests. 
The biological characters of these remarkable plants have never 
been elucidated, though when they were first found Sir William 
Dawson, the leading paleobotanist of his time, expressed some views 
regarding them and applied names which today have no particular 
meaning. The present report contains an account of the structure 
‘and probable relations of these primitive plants prepared by Wini- 
fred Goldring. 
The restoration of the Mastodon. An adventure to portray the 
American mastodon as he stood in the flesh, has this year been 
brought to completion and the restoration made is installed in the 
Museum. The attempt to bring back into the semblance of life this 
great and recently extinct member of our fauna was justified by the 
abundance of the remains which have been uncovered in the State 
and by the rather extensive knowledge of the structure of the beast 
which has resulted from long study of it. The Cohoes mastodon 
