16 Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the 



Tl s 1 cause ^ tne i r common seal to be hereon impressed, and the 

 L '- 1 Chancellor and Secretary have hereto subscribed their names, 

 and the said Charles H. Van Benthuysen has also hereto sub- 

 scribed his name and affixed his seal this twenty-eighth day 

 of July, 1883. 



(Signed) H. R. PIERSON, 



Cliancellor. 

 DAVID MURRAY, 



Secretary. 



CHARLES H. VAN BENTHUYSEN. [l. s.] 



In consideration of the sum of one dollar in hand paid by the parties 

 to the within contract, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, 

 I hereby consent to the contract. 



(Signed) E. R. VAN BENTHUYSEN. [l. s.j 



Contract between the State of New York, by the Trustees 

 of the State Museum of Natural History, and James Hall, 

 State Geologist. 



Memorandum of agreement made and entered into this first day of 

 September, A. D., 1883, by and between the people of the State of 

 New York, by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, 

 acting as Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History, pursuant 

 to section three of chapter three hundred and fifty-five of the Laws of 

 1883, and James Hall, State Geologist, of the city of Albany. 



Witnesseth, that whereas it is provided by said act that the trustees 

 of the State Museum of Natural History shall supervise the completion 

 of the publication of the Palaeontology of the State ; contract for the 

 preparation and printing thereof, and audit and certify to the expendi- 

 tures thereof, and that one volume of said Palaeontology 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 , to be bound 

 in two volumes ; the Bryozoa, to be bound in one volume ; the Brachi- 

 opoda, to be bound in one volume, and the Crustacea, et cetera, to be 

 bound in one volume ; now, therefore, it is hereby agreed by and be- 

 tween the parties aforesaid that the said Hall shall prepare and furnish 

 all the text and description of plates required by each and all of the 

 aforesaid volumes on Palaeontology, and shall deliver the manuscript 

 thereof in suitable installments and in a fair and legible condition to 

 the printer, and shall correct and return within four working days the 

 proof of the same as it may be delivered to him by the printer ; that 

 the said Hall shall also make or procure to be made by competent 

 draughtsmen and furnish to the lithographer all the drawings of fossils 



