358 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATION.y;. MUSEUM. 



Study of its collections, and by means of printed ImndDoolvS describiuj;; said col- 

 lections, and in such otlier ways as may be practicable to make said museum a 

 means of instrnction to the citizens of the State. In order to provide for the 

 expense of printing the aforesaid scientific publications, and in order to increase 

 the usefulness and efficiency of said museum as aforesaid, the annual appropria- 

 tion to be made for its maintenance shall be $15,000, to be paid on vouchers 

 approved by said trustees. 



Sec. 3. The trustees of the State Museum of Natural History are hereby 

 appointed to supervise the completion of the publication of the paleontology 

 of the State, to contract for the preparation and printing thereof, and to 

 audit and certify to the expenditures therefor; and it is hereby provided that 

 one volume of said paleontology shall be published within one year from the 

 execution of the contract for its preparation, that a second volume shall be 

 published within two years, and that the entire work shall not extend beyond 

 five bound volumes in addition to those already issued, all of which shall be 

 published within five years from the passage of this act, and shall comprise 

 the following subjects; that is to say, the Lamellibranchiata (bivalve shells) 

 to be bound in two volumes; the Bryozoans (fossil corals) to be bound in two 

 volumes; the Braehiopoda (lamp shells) to be bound in one volume; and the 

 Crustacea, etc. (crabs, etc.) to be bound in one volume; and the sum of 

 $15,000 shall be appropriated annually for five years for the purposes of this 

 section, payable on vouchers certified by said trustees; which sum of .$15,000 or 

 so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money 

 in the treasury not otherwise appro))riated, for the purpose of said piiblieation 

 for the current year. 



Sec. 4. The volumes of the natural history hereafter to be published and the 

 copies still remaining of the volumes already published shall be in the charge 

 of the trustees of said museum, who shall distribute and sell the same in ac- 

 cordance with the provisions of law now in force for such distribution and sale, 

 and the proceeds of such sale said trustees shall use for the purpose of forming 

 a suitable library for said museum, and they shall have authority to make ex- 

 chfinges with such portion of the volumes of said work as are not required for 

 distribution or snle and to receive donations and deposits of books and speci- 

 mens on such terms as they shall deem advantageous for said museum. 



Under this provision a scientific staff was created, subject to 

 appointment by the trustees, to consist of a director, " "who may also 

 be State ceolocfist," and " of three assistants, together with such 

 special assistants as may be necessary, whose compensation shall be> 

 fixed from time to time by the said trustees, together with the State 

 geologist. State entomologist, and botanist as these officers arc now 

 defined and provided for by law." 



With this incorporation of the departments into the general or- 

 ganization of the State museum, the scientific staff became in a 

 certain definite sense subsidiary or contributory to the general func- 

 tions of the museum as a depository of scientific collections. 



The same law recognized the fact that the geological hall was in- 

 sufficient both in capacity and in construction for the accommodation 

 of the greatly increased collections of the State museum and the 

 scientific work of its departments, and authorized the regents of 



