14 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Cooperation 
The Museum cooperates with various official agencies whose work 
requires technical information in educational, scientific or administra- 
tive lines, or with which it works in a partnership relation for the 
accomplishment of some definite end. Some of these activities are 
noted here: 
1 The United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of the 
Census in gathering and compiling statistics relating to the mining 
and quarry industry 
2 The National Research Council in the solution of problems in 
paleontology 
3 The Conservation Commission and the United States Bureau 
of Agriculture in the control of the gipsy and brown tail moths 
4 The Conservation Commission in the enforcement of the con- 
servation law as it concerns the birds, mammals and fishes of the 
State 
5 The State College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station at Geneva in the study and control of noxious insects 
6 The State Department of Farms and Markets in the control of 
fruit and vegetable insects and the enforcement of quarantine laws 
7 ‘The National conferences on state parks 
8 Official conferences on the welfare of the national parks 
Q The State Indian Commission in its educational and adminis- 
trative work bearing upon the interests of the Indians of the 
Commonwealth 
10 The United States Indian Commissioners and the Federal 
Commission of One Hundred on Indian Affairs 
11 The State Farm Bureau organizations in work upon insect 
and plant disease control 
12 The Public schools of the State in the preparation and dis- 
tribution of publications relating to the animal and plant life of 
the State 
Proposed New Museum Building 
Not long after the State Museum had occupied its present quar- 
ters in the Education Building, it became quite evident that the space 
allotted for it would not be adequate for the science museum alone, 
and by 1916 the Director had designed a plan for a new and 
independent museum building, going so far as to secure from the 
administration of the city of Albany the allotment of a site for 
this suggested building. The plan was purely an expression of the 
needs of the institution without any substantial hope of realization 
