New York State Museum Memoirs

The table below is a list of the New York State Museum Memoirs that the NYS Library has made available online as part of its Digital Collection. The New York State Museum Memoir series began with Memoir 1 in 1889 and was suspended in 1923 with Memoir 16. The series was renewed in 1968 with Memoir 17.

Notes:

Memoir 25 had not been digitized due to copyright restrictions.
Memoirs published during the last 10 years are not available online from the State Library.

All Museum Memoirs

List of Individual Memoirs

Memoir No.	Title	Author	Date	General Subject
1	Development of Some Silurian Brachiopoda	Charles E. Beecher and John M. Clarke	1889	Paleontology
2	A Memoir on the Palaeozoic Reticulate Sponges: Constituting the Family Dictyospongidae	James Hall and John M. Clarke	1898	Paleontology
3	The Oriskany Fauna of Becraft Mountain, Columbia County, N.Y.	John M. Clarke	1900	Paleontology
4	Report of the State Botanist on Edible Fungi of New York 1895-99	Charles H. Peck	1900	Biology
5	Guelph Fauna in the State of New York	John M. Clarke and Rudolf Ruedemann	1903	Paleontology
6	Naples Fauna in Western New York (Part 2) Part 1 is contained in the 16th Annual Report of the New York State Geologist.	John M. Clarke	1904	Paleontology
7	Graptolites of New York. Part I: Graptolites of the Lower Beds	Rudolf Ruedemann	1904	Paleontology
8	Insects Affecting Park and Woodland Trees (Part 1 & 2)	Ephraim P. Felt	1905-1906	Biology
9	Early Devonic History of New York and Eastern North America (Part 1 & 2)	John M. Clarke	1908 - 1909	Paleontology
10	Devonic Fishes of the New York Formations	Charles R. Eastman	1907	Paleontology
11	Graptolites of New York. Part 2: Graptolites of the Higher Beds	Rudolf Ruedemann	1908	Paleontology
12	Birds of New York (Part 1 & 2)	Elon H. Eaton	1910 -1914	Biology
13	Calcites of New York	Herbert P. Whitlock	1910	Geology
14	The Eurypterida of New York (Part 1 & 2)	John M. Clarke and Rudolf Ruedemann	1912	Paleontology
15	Wild Flowers of New York (Part 1 & 2)	Homer D. House	1918	Biology
16	The Devonian Crinoids of the State of New York	Winifred Goldring	1923	Paleontology
17	Early Middle Ordovician Chazy Trilobites of New York	Frederick C. Shaw	1968	Paleontology
18	Origin of Anorthosite and Related Rocks	Yngvar W. Isachsen, Editor	1969	Geology
19	Bloodsucking Flies and Other Outdoor Nuisance Arthropods of New York State	Hugo Jamnback	1969	Biology
20	Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in the Northeast	William A. Ritchie and Robert E. Funk	1973	Anthropology
21	A Study of North American Edrioasteroidea	Bruce M. Bell	1974	Paleontology
22	Recent Contributions to Hudson Valley Prehistory	Robert E. Funk	1976	Anthropology
23	Franconian Trilobites of New York State	Rolf Ludivgsen and Stephen R. Westrop	1983	Paleontology
24	The Inland Fishes of New York State	C. Lavett Smith	1985	Biology
25	Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley, New York State (Vol. 1 & 2)	Robert E. Funk	1993	Anthropology
26	The Pearly Mussels of New York State	David L. Strayer and Kurt J. Jirka	1997	Biology
27	The Motorcycle Industry in New York State: A Concise Encyclopedia of Inventors, Builders, and Manufacturers	Geoffrey N. Stein	2001	History
28	A Great Day for Elmira: An Illustrated History of Twentieth-Century Grade Crossing Elimination Projects in Elmira and Elsewhere in New York	Geoffrey N. Stein	2009	History