Third annual report of the Regents of the University, on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the historical and antiquarian collection, annexed thereto.

Date:
1850
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Credit: Third annual report of the Regents of the University, on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the historical and antiquarian collection, annexed thereto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IlEPO R T. TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The Regents of the University Respectfully Report : That during the past year, many and various additions have been made to the Cabinet. For the Zoological department, there have been procured a number of specimens of animals native to the State, and which were not previously in the collection. A list of those presented and purchased accompanies this report. The engagements of Dr. Fitch, during the last season, have prevent¬ ed him from increasing the collection of Insects, but the matter is still left in his charge, and he will doubtless, ere long, forward additional specimens. ' | The Regents have to state with regret, that some of the preserved animals have recently been found to be injured by the moth. An ex¬ amination of them is now making by a competent person, who is direct¬ ed to destroy such as may be too far affected, and also to take every means to prevent future loss through this cause. The Botanical Collection continues in excellent order, and is carefully preserved. Valuable donations have been received from various persons, for the Mineralogical and Geological Museum. These are particularly speci¬ fied in the accompanying documents, but the Regents deem it proper to add, that a few months since, Dr. Nathaniel F. Moore, late President of Columbia College, tendered to them a collection of minerals, fossils and shells, made by his deceased nephew, Casimir De Rham, jr. Al¬ though the State Cabinet is peculiarly appropriated to our native pro¬ ductions, still the interest attached to these memorials of a young and