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shall not exceed, including the appendix, one hundred and fifty printed 

 pages. 



And for and in consideration of the furnishing, by the said parties of the 

 second part, of the illustrations and manuscript as aforesaid, the parties of 

 the first part agree to deliver to the parties of the second part five hun- 

 dred copies of the said work, complete and bound as aforesaid, so soon as 

 the same can be prepared ; and they further agree that, so soon as the sale 

 of the said work shall have returned to them the cost of composition, 

 printing, paper, and binding, then, out of the first profits of the same they 

 the said party of the first part will further deliver to the parties of the 

 second part additional copies of the said work until the said additional 

 copies amount to five hundred, so that the whole number of copies fur- 

 nished shall be one thousand in all, free of all charge to the parties of the 

 second part. 



And it is mutually agreed that after the delivery of the said thousand 

 copies the said illustrations shall be and remain the property of the parties 

 of the first part ; but the said parties of the first part agree that they will 

 at any time, on being thereto required by the parties of the second part, 

 deliver to the said parties of ihe second part any number of impressions 

 from any of the said plates at the cost of paper and printing. 



And the said parties of the first part agree that so soon as the illustra- 

 tions and manuscript are delivered to them, they will cause the said 

 work to be published without unnecessary delay. 



In testimony whereof, the parties of tlie first part have hereunto set 

 their hands and seals, and the chairman of the said building committee 

 has hereunto subscribed his name, on the behall of the said building 

 committee, the day and year above written. 



RUBt::RT DALb: OWEN, Chairman, 

 on behalf of Budding Commiitet (f Smithsonian Institution. 



Rathbun Allen, 

 Witness as to signature of Robert Dale Owen* 



WILEY & PUTNAM. 



William B. Graves, 

 Witness as to signature of Wiley 5^' Putnam. 



The size selected is what is called long quarto, and its somewhat ob- 

 long shape is suitable for plates. The price stipulated for the paper, $6 40 

 a ream, insures its good quality. The size of the paper and of type, and 

 the size of the printed page, were selected in part with reference to the 

 probable form of our Transactions, which form, I think, might advanta- 

 geously be copied, without variation, from this volume. 



I found that no publisher would agree to deliver to us one thousand 

 copies at once, nor until they had secured a return of the money actually 

 expended by them. "^Phey were all of opinion that so large a number as 

 one thousand copies distributed at the outset, would so injure the sale as 

 to make it a losing business. 



As it was necessary to obtain considerable assistance from Mr. Ren- 

 wick in preparing dravvings for wood-cut illustrations, revising text,(fcc., 

 I made a verbal agreement with him that, in return for such assistance as 

 :I might have occasion to require of him. iie should receive twenty-five 



