30 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HISTORY SURVEY [Bull. 



Author 



G. P. Clinton 



H. W. Conn 



J. H. Sage and L. B. Bishop 



W. E. Britton and others 



W. E. Britton 



A. E. Verrill 



B. W Kunkel 



It is needless to remark that the cost of the larger editions, 

 in excess of the number of copies prescribed by the general law, 

 is not great. In ordinary printing, the chief expense is in the 

 composition, and that is the same for a small edition as for a 

 large one. Where there are maps and illustrations, the largest 

 item of cost is the preparation of the plates, and that too is in- 

 dependent of the size of the edition. The first nine of the scien- 

 tific bulletins published by the Survey cost $9,570.90. On the 

 basis of figures given by the printers it appears that the excess r 

 of cost above the 1,575 copies authorized by the general law was 

 only about $3,033. 



Reference has been made to the fact that the general law 

 limiting the number of copies of public documents to 1,575, 

 specifically provides for larger editions of the reports of certain 

 officers and institutions. For instance, the maximum editions of 

 certain reports, subject in each case to the approval of the Board 

 of Control, are as follows : — state board of education, 6,000 ; 

 bureau of vital statistics, 3,000; state librarian, 2,500; board of 

 agriculture, 5,000; commissioners of fish and game, 3,000; bureau 

 of labor statistics, 15,000; Connecticut agricultural experiment 

 station, 12,000; state board of health, 3,000; factory inspector, 

 5,000; Storrs agricultural experiment station, 7,000; highway 

 commissioner, 3,500. In each of these cases the Comptroller is 

 authorized to print 575 additional copies for the bound volumes of 

 public documents. It will be noticed that in general the reports 

 of the scientific bureaus of the state are published in larger 

 editions than the merely administrative reports of state officers, 

 for the obvious reason that they should be read or consulted by a 

 much larger number of people. It is obviously reasonable that 

 the State Survey should be treated in the same manner as the 

 other scientific bureaus. 



