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New York State Museum
and Science Service
July 1, 1963 - June 30, 1964
MUSEUM BULLETIN NUMBER 401
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM AND SCIENCE SERVICE
The University
of the State
of New York
ALBANY, NEW YORK
1965
The State
Education
Department
126th Annual Report
of the
New York State Museum
and Science Service
The University
of the State
of New York
ALBANY, NEW YORK
The State
Education
Department
1965
The University of the State of New York
Regents of the University
Years when
terms expire
edgar w. couper, a.b., LL.D. , L.H.D., Chancellor, Binghamton
thad l. collum, c.E., Vice-Chancellor, Syracuse
ALEXANDER J. ALLAN, JR., LL.D., LITT.D., Troy
GEORGE L. HUBBELL, JR., A.B., LL.B., LL.D., LITT.D., Garden City
CHARLES W. MILLARD, JR., A.B., LL.D., Buffalo
EVERETT j. PENNY, B.c.s., d.c.s., White Plains
carl h. Pforzheim er, JR., a.b., m.b.a., d.c.s., Purchase
EDWARD M. M. WARBURG, B.S., L.II.D., New York
j. carlton corwith, b.s., Water Mill
JOSEPH W. MCGOVERN, A.B., LL.D., L.H.D., LL.D., New York
ALLEN D. MARSHALL, A.B., LL.D., Scotia
JOSEPH T. KING, A.B., LL.B., Queens
Joseph c. indelicato, m.d., Brooklyn
mrs. Helen b. power, a.b., litt.d., Rochester
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james e. allen, JR. President of the University
and Commissioner of Education
ewald B. NYQUIST Deputy Commissioner of Education
HUGH M. flick Associate Commissioner for Cultural
Education
william N. fenton Assistant Commissioner for
State Museum and Science Service
victor H. cahalane Assistant Director of State Museum
M668-Mr65-2000
Contents
iv MUSEUM ADVISORY COUNCIL
v THE STAFF
1 GENERAL STATEMENT
8 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE SURVEYS
8 Anthropological Survey
10 Biological Survey
12 Geological Survey
16 THE MUSEUM
27 APPENDICES
35 PUBLICATIONS
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Museum Advisory Council
1964
Frederick J. Dockstader,
New York City
1965
William C. Steere,
New York City
1966
George F. Goodyear,
Buffalo
1967
Chester M. Suter,
Chatham
1968
Brian H. Mason,
New York City
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The Staff
State Museum and Science Service
WILLIAM N. FENTON
Assistant Commissioner
Anthropological Survey
WILLIAM A. RITCHIE
ROBERT E. FUNK
State Archeologist, Associate Scientist
Junior Scientist
Biological Survey
DONALD L. COLLINS
DONALD P. CONNOLA
PAUL F. CONNOR
RODNEY C. DE GROOT
HUGO A. JAM NBACK, JR.
DONALD M. LEWIS
EUGENE C. OGDEN
RALPH S. PALMER
State Entomologist, Principal Scientist
Senior Scientist (Entomology)
Scientist (Zoology)
Senior Scientist (Botany)
Senior Scientist (Entomology)
Junior Scientist
State Botanist, Associate Scientist
State Zoologist, Associate Scientist
Geological Survey
JOHN G. BROUGHTON
JAMES F. DAVIS
DONALD W. FISHER
Y. WILLIAM ISACI-ISEN
W. LYNN KRE IDLER
LAWRENCE V. RICKARD
ROSS P. SANGSTER
ARTHUR M. VAN TYNE
VACANT
State Geologist, Principal Scientist
Scientist (Geology)
State Paleontologist, Associate Scientist
Associate Scientist (Geology)
Senior Scientist (Geology)
Senior Scientist (Paleontology)
Science Research Aide — Wellsville Office
Scientist (Geology) — Wellsville Office
Senior Scientist (Geochemistry)
State Museum
VICTOR H. CAHALANE
Assistant Director
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Curatorial
ROGER L. BORST
Associate Curator (Geology)
JENNIFER CHATFIELD
Associate Curator (Interpretation
CHARLES E. GILLETTE
Associate Curator (Archeology)
CLINTON F. KILFOYLE
Associate Curator (Paleontology)
EDGAR M. REILLY, JR.
Associate Curator (Zoology)
STANLEY J. SMITH
Associate Curator (Botany)
JOHN A. WILCOX
Associate Curator (Entomology)
Exhibits
HELEN C. FISHER
Museum Technician (NDEA)
EDITH FROELICH
Museum Technician (Temporary)
LEWIS E. KOHLER
Museum Technician
LOUIS J. KOSTER
Senior Museum Technician
HAROLD W. ROSS
Museum Technician (NDEA)
ROBIN D. ROTHMAN
Museum Technician
THEODORE P. WEYIIE
Museum Exhibits Designer
School Services
C. MICHAEL DARCY
Museum Education Supervisor
S. CRAIG SMITH
Museum Instructor (NDEA)
MARY JANE STAUCH
Museum Instructor (Temporary)
PAUL WEINMAN
Museum Instructor
Library
EILEEN COULSTON
Librarian, Junior Scientist
Clerical
MARION B. BENDER
Clerk
MARYELLEN CANFORA
Stenographer
LINDA A. HEERAN
Stenographer (NDEA)
JOAN C. KELLEY
Senior Stenographer
JOSEPH T. KILLEA
Mail and Supply Helper
ROSELLE LITHGOW
Clerk
PATRICIA SARGOOD
Stenographer
MARJORIE R. SCHMIDT
Principal Clerk
GRACE SMITH
Senior Stenographer
CATHERINE M. STAPLETON
Stenographer
MARY C. STEARNS
Stenographer
EILEEN A. WOOD
Senior Stenographer
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Guards
JOHN C. CUNNINGHAM
ANTHONY GENSICKI
EDWARD W. MCCARTY
WILLIAM C. ZIMMER
Building Guard
Building Guard
Building Guard
Museum Caretaker
Photographer
JOHN A. HELLER
Museum Photographer
Maintenance
JACOB SMALLENBROEK
JAMES WIEDEMANN
Carpenter
Maintenance Man (Carpenter)
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General Statement
I have the honor to return a report on the activities and accom-
plishments of the New York State Museum and Science Service for
the year ended June 30, 1964.
The leveling of buildings between State Street and Lincoln Park
for the South Mall has enhanced the prospect for a new State
Museum building. The planning effort for a new museum facility
occupied the major attention of the staff during much of the year.
Although the cultural center may not occupy a very high priority in
the minds of State budgeters and planners, it is apparent that some-
thing will have to be done to relieve the dreary monotony of office
buildings. No tourist is going to come to Albany to see State offices,
but he will come to visit a cultural center. As the director of a great
natural history museum remarked, “If they’ve torn down the build-
ings, you’ve got it made.”
This concern is shared by the planners. At the end of the calendar
year 1963, the officers of the Department were called to a conference
in the Office of General Services, and almost overnight we were re-
quired to file requirements for museum galleries, the storage of col-
lections, and laboratories for the scientists of the Science Service.
Anticipating that this demand would arise, we had sketched the di-
mensions of this facility and the nature of its programs in the 124th
Annual Report of the New York State Museum and Science Service,
which happily we were able to put on the table at the first planning
meeting. Copies were also in the hands of the budget examiners.
With full knowledge that improved public relations would be neces-
sary to sell such a facility to the taxpayer who will pay for it and
use it, to put our colleagues in the museum profession throughout the
nation on notice, and to fulfill the request of the American Associa-
tion of Museums, we commissioned the writing of a general sketch
of our services to the public entitled “A Service to Science” which
appeared in the January issue of Museum News. Reprints of the
article documented a presentation to the Regents which was attended
by the Commissioner of General Services on January 23. The re-
quirements for the new facility which were then in preparation were
filed February 3.
The most difficult to communicate and yet the most significant
requirement of any such facility is the need for a balance of space
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between exhibit galleries, ranges for systematic collections, labo-
ratories, and other facilities. A proportion of 40-40-20 is a standard
rule in the museum profession that is most honored in the breach by
architects. One of the most serious difficulties in communicating this
idea to architects is the length of the chain of command and the pos-
sibility of the erosion or rearrangement of the balance so that the
galleries completely dominate the museum to conform with the popu-
lar image. We have had the good fortune of a personal visit from
the chief architect for the Mall; if we can now arrange to develop
a close working relationship with his firm by affording one of his
junior architects working space within our establishment, it is con-
ceivable that our program requirements can be translated into archi-
tects’ plans.
In viewing museum buildings around the world, we have seen
altogether too many examples of the erosion of the original formula
in government-built museums. In one instance, no offices were pro-
vided for the staff, to say nothing of storage for collections. In
another, laboratories were omitted. In a third museum, air condi-
tioning compressors completely filled a hall, and in a fourth instance,
no one anticipated the depth of ceiling required for recessing air
conditioning ducts and lighting for museum galleries. With these
matters in mind, the Assistant Commissioner attended the dedication
of the new Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian
Institution and inspected the new research facilities and ranges of
the U. S. National Museum of Natural History. The Assistant Di-
rector continued his close contacts with other museum facilities under
construction. To this end, he and the Associate Commissioner visited
the Milwaukee Public Museum and museums in Chicago, as did the
Assistant Commissioner on another occasion.
Cooperation with other museums of the State has increased mark-
edly during the year. The “museum aid bill” as the legislation im-
plementing the so-called “Hochschild Report,” as the Report of the
Commissioner's Committee on Museum Resources has come to be
known, was introduced a second time in the 1964 Legislature, with-
out success. Both the report and the legislation have aroused wide
interest in the nation, stimulating inquiries from New Jersey, Illinois,
Connecticut and California, but the legislation has not yet attracted
sufficient grass roots support within New York State to secure its
passage. To be certain, the New York State Association of Museums
has skillfully guided the legislation and made its existence known to
legislative leaders who have expressed sympathy for it, and strong
support has come from the major cultural institutions of New York
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City, Rochester and Buffalo. So far, the bill has fallen between the
two stools of massive appropriations for the Education Department
and insufficient revenues. It is apparent that State aid for museums
is undergoing the same life cycle as State aid to libraries, and that
ultimately it will be an accepted part of the State Education Depart-
ment’s package of services to cultural institutions.
A related phase of cooperation with other museums is an increase
in the number of queries for tbe chartering of new museums. The
staff assisted several new corporations in the formation of museums.
The Assistant Commissioner, at the request of an attorney, visited
the extensive collection of a private citizen in Rochester with a view
to recommending a way to convert a private collection to educational
purposes. He also visited several institutions that had been chartered
in previous years to render further advice on their programs. It is
apparent that, as the demand for this service increases, a museum
extension division is in the offing. Looking forward from chartering
museums to their registration under the State aid bill, the Regents
Minutes and other records of the Department were researched toward
compiling an up-to-date list of museums that might qualify as educa-
tional institutions.
Saying “no” to a taxpayer is sometimes difficult. Gracefully refus-
ing to hang in the Museum a framed photograph of a natural forma-
tion (operated as an attraction for private gain) because accepting
the gift would imply in the donor’s mind the obligation of the State
Museum to exhibit it and would therefore give one commercial enter-
prise an unfair advantage over others is an awkward situation that
skates the narrow line between a geologic or archeologic site and
private enterprise. It is much easier to give advice to the trustees
of a nature preserve, or even to a commercial bank concerning natu-
ral history prints appropriate as decor for bank offices, or to an
arboretum as a possible research site for our scientists. Simplest of
all is to give advice in one’s specialty, as to assist a composer in his
search for Seneca music. Perhaps most satisfactory was the continu-
ing advisory capacity of the Assistant Commissioner to the Seneca
Nation of Indians toward planning their rehabilitation as a result of
the building of the Ivinzua Dam.
Cooperation at the professional level is one of the most enjoyable
and rewarding experiences for the scientist-administrator. SIAM
are the initials for the Summer Institute in Anthropology for Mu-
seums which was held in July and August at the Lhiiversity of
Arizona, Tucson, and involved three members of our staff. SIAM
was a six weeks’ training course for museum personnel, sponsored by
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the American Association of Museums, financed by the National
Science Foundation, and held at the Arizona State Museum. It was
one of two such training programs to upgrade the quality of teaching
in the two most popular natural science areas of museum interpreta-
tion— anthropology and astronomy. Fellowships were awarded to two
members of our staff — the Associate Curator of Archeology and a
Museum Instructor — and the Assistant Commissioner, who was a
member of the planning committee, participated for one week as a
consultant teacher. Participants felt it was a valuable experience. It
was probably the best-staffed summer course in anthropology held in
any university in recent years. For some of us, the return to teaching
was a welcome experience.
At the research level, we were involved in the organization and
conduct of a conference on anthropological research in museums held
at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, during October. Here,
an attempt was made to explore the ways that anthropological col-
lections in museums can be used most fruitfully to advance research
in the study of man and how museums may best get back into the
forefront of anthropology as a science.
The scientist-administrator who does not maintain some contact
with the field or the laboratory dies on the vine as the field is con-
verted to other uses. In response to a request from the Conservation
Department for an article on the Seneca Green Corn Ceremony, the
writer spent a week in the field during July with the Seneca Indians
of Allegany Reservation, the site of his former research, and then
a week writing the article. He also edited for publication Captain
William Hyde's Observations on the Five Nations of New Yorke,
1698, the first description of these interesting people by an English
observer. The original manuscript is in the Gilcrease Foundation,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was discovered by the writer some years ago.
He also continued the writing of a general book on the Five Nations
of New York (which was commenced during a Professional Devel-
opment Leave).
A research administrator takes greatest pride in research accom-
plished by his staff. He is also proud of their ability to attract grants
from outside sources. Just as the universities have experienced an
alteration of their structure as a result of private and public grants
that have come to the faculty, so a public museum that has been
wholly supported by public funds finds it difficult to ingest grants
secured by its staff scientists. We now have two large public grants
from national foundations and two smaller private grants from pri-
vate foundations, which in total exceed the annual Science Service
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Figure 1. On October 19, 1963, the province of Ontario, the village of Clinton, the Six Nations, the New York State Museum and
Science Service, and the University of Toronto Press honored Horatio Emmons Hale (1817-1896), the eminent Iroquoian scholar,
on the occasion of the reprinting of his classic The Iroquois Book of Rites, for which Dr. William N. Fenton wrote the introduction.
(Ontario Dept, of Travel and Publicity photo)
research budget. The principal investigator who receives his salary
and travel from the public institution finds himself in a conflict of
reporting relationships between his administrative superiors and the
granting agency. There is a tendency to take one’s public position
for granted and look to one’s colleagues in the community of science
for judgment on one’s research results. The scientist naturally looks
upon his research grant as his project, and does not always regard
it in the same way he does State-financed research. Even though the
grants come from public funds or from funds given in lieu of taxes,
and are made to a public institution, reporting relationships become
confused.
A second aspect of national grants to State and private universities
affects the acquisition of new collections. Within the last year, while
the State Museum was awaiting the disposition of a budget request
for the purchase of a fossil collection within the State, which would
have been an important research adjunct to the State’s large collection
of invertebrate fossils, the same collection was purchased by an out-
of-State university, and a State university at that, with funds fur-
nished to a principal investigator by the National Science Foundation.
Had the New York State Museum applied to the National Science
Foundation for funds to purchase the collection, which we would
deem an inappropriate request, it probably would have been denied.
As a professional anthropologist, the writer served as an officer of
one learned society, honored the usual requests of colleagues to ad-
dress their students, served on a fellowship screening committee, and
was involved in three trips to Canada on literary, museum, and uni-
versity matters, all at the request of Canadian officials, as listed in
the Appendices. His office was deeply involved in the preliminary
stages of American participation in the International Congress of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences which involved commu-
nication with a wide variety of agencies. Of possible interest to edu-
cators, he wrote one of the chapters for the Report of the Commission
on the Humanities.
It is frequently said of the State Museum that “when European
men of science come to this country, their first question is, ‘Which
way is Albany?’ ” The famous words were spoken by Louis Agassiz,
the Swiss naturalist of the last century, in addressing the American
Association for the Advancement of Science at Albany, 1856. It
might be said that this question is still asked.
Visitors of the year included Godfried W. Locher, Professor of
Anthropology, University of Leiden, Holland ; Rudolph Karl Bigalke,
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MacGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa ; and Frem Pong
Bdu, Nigeria, graduate fellow at Yale.
STAFF CHANGES
On September 5, C. Michael Darcy was appointed provisionally
to the position of Museum Education Supervisor vacated July 25
by Janet L. Stone, who began a two year leave of absence with the
Peace Corps in Africa. Judith A. Drumm resigned September 4 to
undertake graduate study at Rutgers University, and Paul Weinman
was appointed to this instructorship on December 12. Maryellen Can-
fora’s position of Typist was reclassified to Stenographer on July 25.
On October 17, S. Craig Smith was appointed to the Museum In-
structor position vacated by Mr. Darcy and Grace Smith was ap-
pointed Senior Stenographer upon the resignation of Vera McMillen
Wheeler.
William N. Fenton
Assistant Commissioner for
State Museum and Science
Service
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Accomplishments of the Surveys
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY
Aboriginal settlement pattern studies in the Northeast were con-
tinued with National Science Foundation support, and new and
important facts were obtained. Two field parties headed by the State
Archeologist and the Junior Scientist, respectively, with six graduate
student assistants carried out intensive excavations on four important
prehistoric sites in central and eastern New York and eastern Massa-
chusetts. The work added a large volume of significant settlement
pattern information to that already accumulated by our researches
under this program into the development of agriculture, village life,
and the growth of communal longhouse society.
At Kipp Island in central New York the first settlement pattern
data for the Point Peninsula culture of the Middle Woodland period
were uncovered. Three types of houses were revealed, together with
a large amount of artifact materials and hearth charcoal from which
radiocarbon dates ranging between A.D. 310 and 630 have been
secured. A cemetery connected with this site was also explored,
yielding the remains of 120 individuals and significant burial data.
At Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, the State Archeologist exca-
vated a stratified site of the Early Woodland period and obtained
abundant data relating to the cultural sequence and to the adaptation
of a primitive group to a coastal ecology.
Two large village sites of the Late Woodland period, Kelso in
central New York and Garoga in the eastern part of the State, were
excavated under the supervision of the Junior Scientist. The former
site, representing the earliest Iroquois village so far known, was
characterized hy two large palisaded enclosures and numerous proto-
longhouses ranging up to 128 feet in length. The Garoga village of
the late prehistoric Iroquois represents the only complete excavation
of a classic Iroquois town site on record.
In addition to the above program, work was begun in the Hudson
Valley on river valley surveys in New York State for the purpose
of discovering the archeological resources of the State and planning
for their systematic, long-term investigation.
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Figure 2. State Science Service personnel excavating floor of ancient longhouse of earliest known Iroquois culture. About one-half is
exposed; remainder (foreground) has been backfilled. Kelso site, Elbridge, Onondaga County, N. Y.
During the year the data from the Kipp Island and Kelso site
excavations were studied, analyzed, and prepared for publication. The
State Archeologist completed a book manuscript entitled Early Man
to Iroquois to be published by the Natural History Press of the
American Museum of Natural History. A paper on “Early Man
in New York” was also written; it was read for him at the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
in Cleveland.
Cooperative work of the State Archeologist included giving aid,
advice, and information to a large number of professional and
amateur students, colleagues, State agencies, and others. Finally,
office activities and administrative work included interviews with 206
local and out-of-town visitors.
William A. Ritchie
State Archeologist
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
Most of the work of the Biological Survey is concerned with two
large fields: (1) natural resources and ecology and (2) public health.
Within these two areas are several programs with separate but inter-
related projects.
The first field, natural resources and ecology, includes research on
forest pests — fungus diseases, white pine weevil, and gypsy moth ; on
specialized botany, including studies of fossil pollen and aquatic
plants ; and on small mammals.
Within the first area, with deterioration of the American beech
tree as his first assignment for study, the newly appointed Senior
Scientist (Botany) [Mycology] has discovered 20 new fungal asso-
ciates of beech, and demonstrated a probable connection with the
oyster-shell scale insect ( Lepidosaphes ulmi).
A long-term study in forest ecology and genetics was begun by the
Senior Scientist (Entomology). This study will attempt to determine
the factors which favor resistance of white pine to attack by white
pine weevil. Observations and investigations over a period of several
years, some of which were summarized in State Museum and Science
Service Bulletin 389 White Pine Weevil Attack in Relation to Soils
and Other Environmental Factors in Nczu York, by D. P. Connola
and Earl C. Wixson, have led to this new approach. It recognizes,
incidentally, the desirability of finding methods other than use of
chemical insecticides for control of forest and other pests.
The small mammal survey, in addition to its contribution of
ecological data and specimens, also has an important bearing on the
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Figure 3. In a study of weevil attack in relation to water balance, white
pines were placed in large cages and exposed to the insect Half of the trees
were deprived of moisture by regulating the amounts of water given. Soil
moisture was measured (as here) twice weekly by means of a Delmhorst
meter.
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second or public health area. The Scientist (Zoology) brought speci-
mens of birds, as well as mammals, and his specialized knowledge to
the virus, vector, and host survey on Long Island. Of special interest
in this program was the finding by Dr. Elinor Whitney, bacteriolo-
gist and virologist of the State Health Department, that the six
isolates of a new virus from the mosquitoes and animals collected
by our staff were related to the Hart Park Virus discovered in Cali-
fornia. This new virus was officially named Pdanders Virus, from
the Flanders Bay area near Riverhead, where the host specimens
were found. It was described in a paper by Dr. Whitney in the
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
That portion of the pollen studies listed as “Travels of Airborne
Pollen” which is supported by a grant from the U. S. Public Health
Service is classified in the public health field. The State Botanist,
leader of this project, was appointed to the Research Committee of
the American Academy of Allerg}' and was elected chairman of the
Committee on Pollen and Mold. A set of instructions for the con-
struction and use of the intermittent rotoslide pollen sampler was
prepared, and arrangements were made for distribution of the instruc-
tions by the American Academy of Allergy. Detailed blueprints have
been made available from the Oak Ridge Reproduction Service in
Tennessee.
All members of the Survey have participated in planning for the
new Museum and Science Service building that is proposed for the
South Mall.
Donald L. Collins
State Entomologist
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
The Geological Survey is making steady progress in basic and
applied research. In order to meet obligations, however, it will be
necessary to add specialists in other fields, particularly in environ-
mental geology and its subdivision, urban geology. Data must not
only be collected and compiled but they must be prepared in such a
way as to be intelligible to laymen and other nongeological specialists.
During the year, the State Geologist served as chairman of a
Science Service committee to make plans for office and laboratory
space in the South Mall. In order to meet needs of the next 10 to
15 years, staff, space, and budget should be about three times the
present level.
The oil and gas office at Wellsville was expanded by the addition
of two small offices which will be available for visitors who wish
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Figure 4. The intermittent rotoslide pollen sampler is widely used for obtain-
ing the pollen count and for research in aerobiology.
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to make microscopic studies of well cuttings. There is also additional
space for cutting and storing well samples. A small display of
minerals and rocks of interest to visitors has been prepared.
Collections of Cricoconarids in Devonion and Silurian strata have
been made by the State Paleontologist. They will be used in a study
of the morphology, paleoecology, and stratigraphic usefulness of this
extinct group of mollusks. The State Paleontologist also studied
and photographed a new edrioasteroid from the Manlius Limestone.
Stratigraphic sections on Crane Mountain, in the North Creek
Quadrangle, were measured by the Associate Scientist (Geology).
This mountain appears to have important significance for the inter-
pretation of Adirondack geological history.
Preliminary skeleton logs of all wells through the Onondaga and
deeper in New York State have been completed by the Senior
Scientist (Geology). Eventually, the results will be used to update
Bulletins 3 73 and 390. Considerable time was spent checking data
for the project on subsurface formations below the Trenton in New
York State.
A collection of Silurian Lower and Middle Devonian conodonts
is being assembled by the Senior Scientist (Paleontology), in order
to establish zonation within rocks of these periods. The collection
now includes conodonts from three Silurian formations, twelve Lower
Devonian units, nine Middle Devonian units and four LTpper De-
vonian horizons.
A preliminary report on the suitability of the Restof mine for
storage of art objects in case of enemy attack was compiled by the
Scientist (Geology). Gas samples from the mine were collected for
analysis at the Pittsburgh laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
The following projects were undertaken by temporary personnel:
A microscopic study was completed of all well samples in the
Museum collection for those New York State wells penetrating the
interval between the Trenton limestone and the Precambrian base-
ment. This comprehensive study will permit a more valid correlation
of the subsurface units in the State and should lead to a much
clearer understanding of the subsurface stratigraphy. Members of
the permanent staff assisted in this interpretation.
Geologic mapping in the four 7^ -minute quadrangles which make
up the Tarrytown 15 minute quadrangle was continued. A structural
analysis of the New York City group of rocks in this area is develop-
ing, which indicates multiple folding from different directions during
several mountain-building periods. Interpretation of this extremely
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complex structure will be a major contribution to the geology of the
New York City metropolitan area.
Extensive collections of New York State rocks (particularly in the
Adirondacks and the Hudson Highlands) were made, in order to
study the form and apparent origin and genesis of zircon, an im-
portant accessory mineral which is not destroyed during orogenic
episodes.
Mapping in the Berlin quadrangle was continued as a contribution
to the understanding of Taconic geology. The first Middle Cambrian
rocks in New York State were found, as was an extensive trilobite
fauna in Lower and Middle Cambrian rocks. The trilobites are being
studied at Johns Hopkins University, and it is already apparent that
a great many new genera and species will be described.
Paleoecological investigations of the Helderberg Limestones in
central and eastern New York, based on a careful lithological study,
were continued. The results will be correlated with earlier findings
on the stratigraphy of the Late Cayugan and Helderbergian rocks
(Bulletin 386).
Extensive collections of Middle and Upper Devonian vascular plant
remains from new exposures in the Catskills were made. The ma-
terial will be studied at Cornell University and the specimens
eventually deposited in the Museum collections.
A map of the glacial geology of western New York between Lake
Erie and the Genesee River was essentially completed. It will be
published eventually as one of the series on the same base as the
State Geologic Map.
A number of radiometric age determinations on rocks of the
Adirondacks and the Hudson Highlands was also carried on.
John G. Broughton
State Geologist
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The Museum
The staff of the New York State Museum has completed another
year of care for the scientific collections and of educational service
to the public.
THE PUBLIC
Total attendance in the exhibit halls was about 222,500; an increase
of four percent over the previous year. This figure was based on an
estimate of 150,500 persons on the 253 weekdays and 38,200 for the
52 Saturdays, plus actual counts of 2,759 on the five holidays and
11,059 during the 21 Sundays that the Museum was open. A change
of openings from summer to spring-fall months, initiated in 1962-63,
was continued. About twice as many people took advantage of this
schedule as compared with visitation in summer during previous
years. Excellent publicity material on the Sunday as well as regular
weekday openings was distributed to radio and TV stations by the
Radio-TV Bureau of the Department of Commerce.
More than 100 different books, pamphlets, kits, and other items
were carried at the Sales Desk in the foyer. The stock was increased
to include postcards and new colored slides of some exhibits. Each
item has been chosen on the basis of its educational value or capacity
to stimulate intellectual and scientific curiosity. The offerings aroused
so much interest that a portion of the proceeds from the yearly sales
total of $6,655 was devoted to hiring a part-time attendant to handle
the sales and release the Museum guards for patrolling the halls and
performing other duties.
Service to visitors was improved by building an additional coat-
room to supplement the very inadequate space which was often piled
high with the outdoor paraphernalia of school classes. Waste space
under the cliffs of the Gilhoa Fossil Forest exhibit was utilized.
Here, behind the Sales Desk, a room was built and fitted with
hangers and a clothes-receiving bench. The two rooms can accom-
modate the belongings of 200 visitors. Outside the entrance is a wall
cartoon showing a snowshoe hare “jumping” out of its winter coat,
a deer fawn “losing” its spots in autumn, and other natural history
examples of “coat shedding” in caricature.
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Figure 5. Even before entering the classroom, these winter visitors learn a lesson on adaptation to environment.
In conjunction with work on the second coatroom, the pumping
system for the stream in the fossil forest exhibit was completely
redesigned. A new pump was installed in a soundproofed compart-
ment under the artificial ledges of the diorama. The old pump, which
was noisy and prone to break down, was removed from the first coat-
room where it had been an annoyance for many years.
EXHIBITS
The outstanding accomplishment in exhibition was the completion,
after two years of planning and preparation, of a description of the
history and applications of bird art to science. This display was
installed in two especially designed cases, each 45 feet in length.
By necessity, they were located in the two corridors between the
Rotunda and Biology Hall and separated by a large light well.
Hopefully, they can be brought together within a few years in a new
building. The exhibit was planned by two Scientific Aides, Mrs.
Aileen Merriam and Richard L. Scheffel ; design and assembly were
accomplished by Theodore P. Weyhe, Museum Exhibits Designer,
assisted by Robin D. Rothman, Museum Technician, and all members
of the exhibits-preparation staff. The task involved manufacture and
assembly of 150 pictures, reproductions, and other objects, plus 170
labels. Original paintings were contributed by the artists, Richard
E. Bishop of Philadelphia, Pa., Don Eckelberry of Babylon, N. Y.,
Francis Lee Jaques of St. Paul, Minn., and Roger Tory Peterson
of Old Lyme, Conn. Books, plates, and other material were given
by 19 other donors.
Two permanent exhibits were completed and installed in Paleon-
tology Hall. The colorful display of protistids (“first” animals) and
a fine restoration of Devonian marine life in its natural setting were
planned by the State Paleontologist, Donald W. Fisher, designed by
the Museum Exhibits Designer, and executed by Louis J. Koster,
Senior Museum Technician, and his associates. Another diorama
concerning the black shale environment of the Ordovician period
was nearing completion at the end of the year. A figure of an Indian
child, planned several years ago and sculptured by the Senior
Museum Technician, was finished and installed in the Iroquois Bark
House. Exhibits were made of the fulvous tree duck (an aberrant
species which showed up recently on Long Island) and of “Ge-oddi-
ties” (three rare minerals of the northwestern Adirondack's). The
old display of fluorescent minerals was rebuilt and furnished with
new lighting. Renovation of the extensive series of New York
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Figure 6. The Indian child sculptured by Louis T. Koster, Senior Museum
Technician, resides in the Iroquois Bark House.
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Figure 7. What at first appears to be an exhibit of trophies turns out as a lesson in conservation. Big game hunters Dr. and Mrs.
W. Brandon Macomber, of Albany, carefully avoided collecting those species in danger of extinction.
reptiles continued ; specimens of additional species were collected and
reproduced in epoxy, and a new facade and canopy were added to
give a new look to the old cases.
The exhibit halls were enhanced during the year by two temporary
shows. Some two dozen specimens from the Macomber donations
of mammals were brought out for a lesson in the conservation of
Africa’s rapidly vanishing wildlife. For a month, we were privileged
to show 20 pieces of animal sculpture by Anna Hyatt Huntington.
The loan, which had been arranged with the artist shortly before her
death, was carried out by the Mariners Museum, Newport News,
Va. Display of the aluminum casts were greatly enhanced by place-
ment on special surfwood paneled pedestals, which were painted
black and white and backed by a clump of white birch trees. This
setting was originated and designed by the Museum Exhibits De-
signer.
A final, major change in the exhibition area was effected this year
with the dismantling of 92 old exhibits in the former Morgan Hall
by Charles E. Gillette, Associate Curator of Archeology. He was
assisted by student labor and by volunteers under the Museum Aide
Program of the Senior Girl Scouts.
EDUCATION
Improvements were made in the operation of the school education
program, a department of the State Museum which during recent
years has become increasingly useful in rendering service to the
public. In a reappraisal of the role of education within the Museum
as a whole, it is realized that interpretation of the Museum to the
public is an area of prime responsibility. To make the most effective
use of resources and personnel, however, services must be tailored
to particular needs. At present, the schoolchildren and teachers of
New York State appear to be that segment of the public most in
need of instructional service and also in the best position to take
advantage of it. Under Jennifer Chatfield, Associate Curator of
Interpretation, and C. Michael Darcy, acting Museum Education
Supervisor, the workshop program for teachers was improved and
expanded. One of the sessions was an aerial field trip which enabled
participants to obtain a graphic concept of the geology and the
patterns of historical development and land use of the Capital Dis-
trict. Fifty teachers (who paid personally for the half-hour flights)
were thoroughly briefed and furnished with maps for recording
impressions which would enable them later to do a better job of
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Figure 8. A diversion from pure learning, an exhibit of animal sculpture
offered aesthetic enjoyment as well.
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class instruction. Much information was contributed to the work-
shop program by the scientific staff of the State Museum and Science
Service. Lecture-demonstrations, supplementing those by the Museum
Instructors, were given by Messrs. Borst, Connor, Fisher, Gillette,
Reilly, and Wilcox and by William L. Lassiter, Division of Archives
and History.
This program for improving science instruction in schools should
be extended in the State. Because of lack of personnel and funds for
staff travel, teacher workshops are restricted to the Capital District.
By using the mails, however, other educational services have been
made available through an informative and idea-provoking news-
letter to some 3,000 teachers throughout New York State. This letter
serves to keep teachers and other interested visitors aware of the
Museum’s program and what it can offer them. More loan kits of
scientific materials have been prepared and additional “leaflets” up
to 74 pages in length have been written or are in preparation. All
of these materials, it is hoped, will enable teachers to do a better
job of teaching.
For the third summer, a series of films on nature and natural
resources conservation was presented as a free service to the public.
Drawing a total audience of 950 persons (50 percent larger than
that of the previous season), it was necessary to move from the over-
crowded classroom to improvised seating in the old History Hall.
The Museum education staff received several Science Congress
award winners and, with the assistance of exhibits technicians, in-
stalled their displays in Orientation Hall for several months’ viewing.
Instruction on special subjects for visiting school classes was con-
tributed by curators. Dr. Reilly was especially active in lecturing to
youthful biology groups, both in the Museum and elsewhere in the
region. Several Girl Scouts performed clerical chores in the educa-
tion office (and also worked at the public information desk and in
archeology collections). We maintained a listing in the Albany
Junior League’s “opportunities for public service” without attracting
volunteers.
Science classes for school groups continued with one significant
change. In an effort to improve instruction for both children and
teachers using our available staff and facilities, general tours of
exhibits were dropped. Practically all such requests in the past had
been made on behalf of groups of youngsters who came to the
Museum with no advance preparation for learning and as only one
stop in an excursion to their capital city. (In 1962-63, general tours
Were given to 3,500 individuals.) As teacher demands for instruction
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Figure 9. Teachers are briefed before an aerial field trip to study patterns of land use in the Capital
District. (Knickerbocker News photo)
and material to supplement the established school curriculum had
increased in recent years, it now seemed essential to concentrate
efforts in this area.
Our records show an increase in the number of visiting children
in groups of all types of approximately 5,000, almost 15 percent
larger than in the previous year. Classes from schools also increased
in the same proportion. Unfortunately, due to delay in filling two
vacancies resulting from resignations of members of the teaching
staff, the latter was undermanned over 25 percent for the first half
of the Museum’s school year. Although instructors carried at least
10 percent heavier teaching loads, many requests from schools for
instruction of their classes were necessarily refused. Primarily for
this reason, the number of children registered in the Museum educa-
tion program was 3,500 to 4,000 less in 1963-64 than in the preceding
year, a decline of about 15 percent. This loss of pupil instruction
was more than balanced by expansion of service to teachers in work-
shops and in statewide distribution of teaching aids.
SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS
In the collections, highlights were as follows : Archeology, further
progress was made in reidentifying articles from the Morgan and
Beauchamp collections ; botany, almost 5,000 specimens accessioned
and maps completed for all species of mosses represented in the
Herbarium; geology, the Trainer collection of minerals, donated to
the State Museum in 1949, was cleaned, cataloged, and prepared for
loan to the newly organized Southeast Museum at Brewster ; paleon-
tology, 27 new types, some 700 New York bryophytes and grapto-
Iites from Germany and Czechoslovakia were added to this collection,
which continued to be heavily used by scientists from other institu-
tions ; zoology, over 700 items added, and a long-needed rearrange-
ment of bird nests, osteology, mammals, and alcohol-preserved collec-
tions began following installation of steel shelving. The curator of
geology continued research on clay minerals in the Lower Devonian
carbonate rocks of the upper Hudson Valley, and the curator of
entomology carried on his studies of the leaf beetles. The last named
completed and turned in for editing a 350-page synopsis of one of
the subfamilies, the Galerucinae, and the curator of botany submitted
his manuscript entitled “A Check List of Grasses of New York
State.” Both works will be published as Museum Bulletins.
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GIFTS RECEIVED
Among numerous gifts from thoughtful and generous donors were
a hne collection of minerals from the southern Adirondack's by Elmer
B. Rowley, Glens Falls, a select group of minerals from Ivigtut,
Greenland, by Harold Newman, Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, an
outstanding hexagonite specimen by William Rocco, Scotia, and 20
specimens of African mammals which were given by Dr. and Mrs.
W. Brandon Macomber, Albany. The latter also had mounted for
exhibition, without expense to the State Museum, the head and neck
of a black rhinoceros which they had donated in 1958. We also
received a mounted tuna, 9 feet, 7j/2 inches long and 890 pounds — a
record at the time it was caught in 1939 — as a gift from the J. A.
Manning Paper Company of Green Island. After minor repairs, the
tuna was placed on the west wall of Biology Hall near the Hecht
collection of fishes.
LIBRARY
The State Museum maintains a small library containing files of its
own publications, publications of other N. Y. State agencies, publica-
tions of other state surveys, other Museums, and federal documents
relating to science, as well as books and periodicals which are used
frequently by the staff. The major responsibility of the librarian
is in the reference field. Increasingly, she and her one part-time clerk
are finding it difficult to keep up-to-date with the expanding volume
of scientific publications. Another complicating factor is inadequate
room. Although the former quarters in the main building were
crowded, the Museum library was moved 4 years ago to a room
in the Annex that was 25 percent smaller. The only available storage
space, then and now, is a city block and two floors distant. As a result,
time and effort is expended in withdrawing and returning items which
are required for use by the staff but for which room is not available
in the Museum library.
STAFF ENRICHMENT
A grant of funds obtained by the American Association of
Museums made it possible for two of our staff, curator of archeology
Charles E. Gillette and education instructor Judith A. Drumm, to
attend the 6-weeks session of the Institute in Anthropology for
Museum Personnel at the University of Arizona. The opportunity
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Figure 10. Present facilities do not permit an increase in library resources for a dynamic scientific organization. The juxtaposition
of clerical activities and reference reading is not ideal.
to brush up on the science and preservation-curatorial methods and
the exposure to the ideas of fellow workers were highly advan-
tageous. Three members of the staff. Miss Chatfield, Miss Rothman,
and the writer, participated in seminars on Africa which were
arranged bv the Department’s Office of Foreign Area Studies with
a grant from the New World Foundation. This, too, was a broaden-
ing experience.
NEW BUILDING PLANNING
Several man weeks of time were spent by the Museum staff in
drawing up space requirements for a new home on the South Mall.
It appears that the State Museum and Science Service will require
approximately 400,000 square feet to house the present staff and
such additional programs as can be expected during the next two
or three decades and to provide exhibits in the natural and physical
sciences which are adequate for educational needs. The Assistant
Director continued his studies of buildings for features which may be
adaptable to use in our plans. For this purpose, trips were made to
Chicago (Natural History Museum and Art Institute), Milwaukee
(Public Museum and Art Museum), and St. Louis (Museum of
Westward Expansion, Science Museum, and Missouri Botanical
Garden’s Climatron). The State Museum’s education staff con-
tributed to the fact-gathering effort by conferring with about 200
teachers in 20 schools of the Albany area to obtain comments on the
educational services which would be expected in a new museum.
(Results of this survey were also used in revamping our current
education program to obtain maximum usefulness.)
MISCELLANEOUS
Among the activities of the writer which were outside of his
official duties but related to them was the completion of a survey
and report on the status of the cougar, grizzly, and wolf in North
America for the New York Zoological Society and the Boone and
Crockett Club.
Victor H. Cahalane
Assistant Director, State Museum
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Appendix A
1964 GRADUATE STUDENTS
HONORARIA RECIPIENTS
Entomology
Fitzgerald, terrence d., State University College of
Forestry at Syracuse University
Bionomics of a lepidopterous bark miner in ash trees. . $540
wing, merle w., Cornell University
Taxonomic revision of Nearctic ant genus Acantho-
myops 600
Geology
fullerton, david s., Yale University
Glacial geology of the Upper Mohawk Region, New
York 540
grosvenor, Florence a., University of Rochester
Brachiopoda of the Rondout formation in the Rosen-
dale quadrangle 300
helenek, henry l., Brown University
Investigation of origin and metamorphic evolution of
major rock units in the Hudson Highlands 420
* kirchgasser, william, Cornell University
Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Cashaqua shale
formation in central and western New York 300
lindholm, roy c., Johns Hopkins University
Petrology of the Onondaga limestone 420
mcconnell, carl l., Yale University
Stratigraphic study of the Grenville metasedimentary
sequence in eastern Adirondacks 480
* turner, brian b., Yale University
Geology of southern half of Schroon Lake quadrangle 480
Zoology
dunham, david w., Cornell University
Behavioral study of rose-breasted grosbeak 480
wolfe, james l., Cornell University
Certain aspects of population dynamics of the eastern
chipmunk 600
* Renewal. $5,160
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Appendix B
Conferences and professional meetings in which the Museum and
Science Service staff participated :
American Anthropological Association, annual meeting, San Fran-
cisco, Calif. — Fenton, Ritchie
American Anthropological Association, board meeting, Detroit,
Mich. — Fenton
American Association of Museums, annual meeting, St. Louis,
Mo. — Cahalane
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Toronto, Can. — -
Fisher, Kreidler
American Bryological Society Foray, Adirondack Mountains —
Smith, S. J.
American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, annual
meeting, New York, N. Y. — Cahalane
American Indian Etlmohistoric Conference, Newberry Library,
Chicago, 111. — Fenton
American Institute of Biological Sciences, annual meeting,
Amherst, Mass. — Connor, De Groot, Lewis, Ogden, Vormevik
American Mosquito Control Association, annual meeting, Chicago,
111. — Collins
American Ornithologists’ Union, annual meeting, Gainesville,
Fla. — Palmer
Association of Science Museum Directors, Springfield, 111. — -
Cahalane
Atmospheric Biology Conference, Minneapolis, Minn. — Ogden
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Whiteface Mountain —
Smith, S. J.
Boone and Crockett Club, annual meeting, New York, N. Y. — -
Cahalane
Central States Anthropological Association, Milwaukee, Wis. —
Fenton
Commissioner’s Staff Conference, Diamond Point, N. Y. — Fenton
Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Stroudsburg, Pa. —
Kreidler, Rickard
Cornell University Teachers Workshop, Schakleton Point, Oneida
Lake, N. Y. — Reilly
Defenders of Wildlife, annual and executive committee meetings,
Washington, D. C. — Cahalane
Directors of Systematic Collections, 8th Conference, New York,
N. Y. — Fenton
Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Philadelphia, Pa. —
Gillette
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Entomological Society of America, annual meeting, St. Louis,
Mo. — Collins
(Eastern Branch), annual meeting, New York, N. Y. — Collins
Federation New York State Garden Clubs, annual meeting,
Cooperstown, N. Y. — Reilly*
Fort Ticonderoga Memorial Ceremony, Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y. —
Fenton
Geological Society of America, annual meeting, New York, N. Y. —
Broughton, Davis, Fisher, Isachsen, Rickard
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. — Fenton
National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Phila-
delphia, Pa. — Fenton
National Museum of History and Technology, Washington,
D. C. — Fenton
New York Academy of Sciences, Geologic Sciences, New York,
N. Y. — Isachsen*
New York State Archeological Association, Auringer-Seelye Chap-
ter meetings, Fort Edward, N. Y. — Funk*, Gillette*
New York State Archeological Association, annual meeting, West
Point, N. Y. — Funk, Gillette, Ritchie*
New York State Archeological Association, Mid-Hudson Chapter
meeting, Rhinebeck, N. Y. — Funk*
New York State Archeological Association, Van Epps-Hartley
Chapter, winter meeting, Albany, N. Y. — Funk, Gillette, Ritchie*
New York State Archeological Association, Van Epps-Hartley
Chapter, annual meeting, Fonda, N. Y. — Gillette
New York State Association of Museums, Council meeting, New
York, N. Y. — Fenton
New York State Department of Health, Interdepartmental Health
and Hospital Council, Committee on Pesticides, Albany, N. Y. —
Collins
New York State Geological Association, Syracuse, N. Y. —
Broughton, Fisher, Kreidler, Rickard
New York-Vermont Interstate Commission on Lake Champlain
Basin, Vergennes, Vt. — Broughton, Davis
Northeast Museums Conference, West Point, N. Y. — Fenton
Northeastern Forest Pathology Workshop, Morgantown, W. Va. —
De Groot
Northeastern Forest Pest Council, annual meeting, Boston, Mass. —
Collins, Connola, De Groot
Northeastern Forest Tree Improvement Conference, New Bruns-
wick, N. J. — Connola
Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, N. Y. — Fisher and
Rickard
Peck Mycological Foray, Oneonta, N. Y. — De Groot, Smith
Sigma Xi, Albany Club — Ritchie*
Society for American Archeology, Chapel Hill, N. C. — Ritchie*
* Gave talk.
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State Natural Resources Committee for Cornell and Syracuse Uni-
versities, Ithaca, N. Y. — Cahalane, Fenton
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Interagency Conference on
Bacillus thuringiensis (Gypsy moth pathogen), New Haven,
Conn. — Collins, Connola
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Biennial
Vector Control Conference, CDC, Atlanta, Ga. — Collins
Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. — Ritchie*
Wenner Gren Foundation of Anthropological Research, Conference
on Africa, New York, N. Y. — Fenton
* Gave talk.
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Appendix C
Cooperative Work (Service) : Extension program by the staff of
State Museum and Science Service to various groups :
Adirondack Mountain Club — Cahalane, Reilly*
Albany Academy for Girls — Reilly*
American Folklore Society — Fenton
American Museum of Natural History, Libraries and Collections —
Palmer
American Telephone and Telegraph Company — Kreidler
Appalachian Trail Conference — Cahalane
Blue Creek Garden Club — Reilly*
Brown University — Isachsen
Capital Area School Development Association — Gillette
Cayuga Museum of History and Art — Fenton*
Chatham High School Nature Club — Reilly*
Colonie Cub Scouts — Reilly*
Connecticut Entomological Society — Jamnback
Cornwall Museum — Reilly*
Dartmouth College, Department of Geology — Isachsen, Rickard
East Greenbush Science Fair — Reilly*
Fort Hunter Elementary School — Reilly*
Fort Plain Museum — Gillette
Fredonia College Biology Club — Reilly*
Harpur College Anthropology Club — Fenton*
Hudson Valley Girl Scout Council — Gillette
Independent Petroleum Association of America — Kreidler
Institute for Iroquoian Studies, Brantford, Ontario, Can. — Fenton
Institute for Iroquois Research (Symposium) — Fenton
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences, Permanent Council — Fenton
Interstate Oil Compact Commission — Kreidler
Joint Legislative Committee on Indian Affairs — Fenton
Kinderhook Memorial Library — Fenton*
National Herbarium of Canada — Smith, S. J.
National Museum of Canada — Fenton
National Park Service — Fenton, Ritchie
Natural Resources Committee of Cornell and Syracuse Universi-
ties— Cahalane
New Jersey Geological Survey — Rickard
New York Botanical Garden — Smith, S. J.
New York State Bureau of Criminal Investigation — Gillette,
Smith, S. J.
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets —
Smith, S. J.
* Gave talk.
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New York State Department of Commerce — Kreidler, Smith, S. J.
New York State Department of Conservation — Kreidler
New York State Department of Health — Fenton
New York State Department of Public Works — Fenton, Funk
New York State Executive Department— Kreidler
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation — Kreidler
Pok-O-Moonshine Counselors, Willsboro — Reilly*
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Rickard
Roberson Memorial Center, Committee of 100 — Fenton
Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center — Lewis
Rochester Academy of Science — Cahalane
School for Christmas Tree Growers — Connola
Seneca Nation of Indians at Salamanca — Fenton
State University of New York at Albany — Smith, S. J.
State University College at Geneseo — Smith, S. J.
State University College of Agriculture at Cornell University —
Smith, S. J.
State University College of Forestry at Syracuse University —
Collins, Connola, Smith, S. J.
Staten Island Institute — Smith, S. J.
Summer Institute in Anthropology for Museums, Tucson, Ariz. —
Drumm, Fenton, Gillette
Syracuse University, Department of Anthropology — Ritchie
University of Rochester — Rickard
University of Toronto — Fenton
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Can. — Fenton
University of Wisconsin — Fenton*
U. S. Bureau of Mines — Kreidler
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Ritchie
U. S. Public Health Service, New York City — Collins
WHUC Radio Station — Reilly*
Wildcliff Youth Museum — Fenton, Reilly
* Gave talk.
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Appendix D
COOPERATING AGENCIES
A continuing function of the Museum and Science Service is to
cooperate with agencies and organizations concerned with museum
and research activities in this and other states, with the governments
of the United States and Canada, with universities and industry in
the discovery, analysis, and dissemination of scientific information.
These contacts are frequently of reciprocal services, and they arise
often out of the personal contacts of the staff and, if so listed, would
measure individual participation, but they are here tabulated for the
organization.
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Colgate University
Cornell University
Fort Klock
Harpur College
Huyck Preserve
George Landis Arboretum
National Commercial Bank & Trust Company
New York State Department of Commerce
New York State Department of Conservation
New York State Department of Health
New York State Department of Labor, Division of Industrial
Hygiene
New York State Department of Public Works
Syracuse University
LT. S. Geological Survey
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Appendix E
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Offices held by staff
Adirondack Mountain Club, Vice-President — Cahalane
American Anthropological Association, executive board — Fenton
American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, Vice-
Chairman (reelected) — Cahalane
American Ornithologists’ Union, Committee on Bird Protection,
Chairman — Cahalane
Defenders of Wildlife, President — Cahalane
Federation of New York State Bird Clubs, Research and Publica-
tions Committee, Chairman — Reilly
Nature Conservancy, Eastern New York Chapter, Trustee —
Cahalane
New York State Archeological Association, Van Epps-Hartley
Chapter, Treasurer — Gillette
Shaker Museum, Trustee — Fenton
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Publications
Six Museum bulletins, including an annual report, were printed
in 1963-64. They totaled 814 pages of text and 111 plates, figures,
charts and maps. An Educational Leaflet comprising 30 pages and
11 figures was also printed; a second with 78 pages and 14 illustra-
tions was reproduced by the multilith process. Six miscellaneous
publications of the newsletter type were issued in multilith : three
numbers of the New York State Geogram totaled 48 pages, and
three pamphlets containing current information of interest to teachers
contained about 20 pages. Members of the staff published 12 papers,
totaling about 75 pages, in outside books, journals, etc.
At the close of the year, six manuscripts had been accepted for
publication. One was designed for the map and chart series ; the
others, totaling about 900 manuscript pages, will be Museum bulletins.
State Museum and Science Service
PUBLICATIONS
1963 The Empire State Geogram. Triannual Newsletter of the
Geological Survey. 2 illus. Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, 1963. 16pp.
1964 The Empire State Geogram. Triannual Newsletter of the
Geological Survey. 3 illus. Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter, 1964.
16pp.
1964 The Empire State Geogram. Triannual Newsletter of the
Geological Survey. 2 illus. Vol. 2, No. 3, Spring, 1964.
16pp.
1964 125th Annual Report of the New York State Museum and
Science Service, July 1, 1962-June 30, 1963. N. Y. State
Mus. & Sci. Serv. Bull. No. 395. 53pp.
1964 Museum Education. Monthly Newsletter of the Education
Office. Vol. 1, No. 5, April, 1964. 4pp.
1964 Museum Education. Monthly Newsletter of the Education
Office. Vol. 1, No. 6, May, 1964. 4pp.
1964 State Museum Services: Teacher’s Guide. 12pp.
Connola, D. P. & Wixson, E. C.
1963 White pine weevil attack in relation to soils and other
environmental factors in New York. N. Y. State Mus. &
Sci. Sene Bull. 389. 80pp., 4 pi., 13 figs., 3 maps
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