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Museum. The reason for the repeal of the law creating this 
board was chiefly the fact that it had no dependence on or con- 
nection with any other department of government and it was the 
expressed feeling of legislators and the Governor that this work 
should be carried on under the auspices of The University of the 
State of New York. Therefore, when this repeal became effective, 
the Regents of the University replaced the old board with a Com- 
mittee on Geographic Names, without qualification of the functions 
of the board, this committee taking the following personal com- 
position: As representatives of the Board of Regents, Messrs 
Charles B. Alexander, Herbert L. Bridgman and Walter Guest Kel- 
logg; as active members, the Director of the Museum as chairman, 
Dr james) Sullivan, Wr AciCy hicksyAs | Eeiavani aenav Aner me 
Parker and H. C. Wardell. Since its organization, the committee has 
been called upon to adjudge a number of applications for changes 
of names, introduction of new names, etc. and these will be sum- 
marized in a future report. 
The old board in the course of its existence prepared and printed 
in the) Directors |Report tor) the jyear 1913 (New York ‘State 
Museum Bulletin 173, pp. 44-48), detailed lists with historical 
explanations and definitions of all the place names in Albany, 
Rensselaer and Schenectady counties, and in accordance with the pur- 
pose of the present committee to continue this explication of the 
remaining place names of the State, there 1s presented on a later page 
a glossary of the place names of Ontario county. 
