CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALAEONTOLOGY. 197 



Twelfth Annual Report of the Regents on the State Cabinet. 



The first seventeen pages of the palseontological part of this Report 

 were printed and stereotyped in January and the early part of 

 February, 1859; and nearly one hundred copies were distributed 

 immediately thereafter. The entire report was printed and published 

 previous to the 20th September, 1859; and any person, procuring 

 proofsheets from the printer "m the beginning of the month of 

 Augusf\ must have obtained the sheets at least as far as page 56, 

 which had been printed in the early part of July. The proofsheets 

 of the Tenth Report were in like manner procured from the printer^ 

 as fast as issued. Similar practices have been resorted to by interested 

 parties, with respect to other reports; proofsheets having been 

 obtained from the printing-office, many months in advance of pu- 

 blication : and I wish simply to record the fact in this place. I had 

 supposed that authors considered such proceedings disreputable, and 

 I scarcely believe that there can be a difference of opinion among 

 gentlemen in regard to acts of this kind. [ See Canadian Journal of 

 Industry and Science, N. S. No. 34, p. 355; and Canadian Naturalist 

 and Geologist, Yol. vi, No. 4, p. 317.] 



Fifteenth Report on the State Cabinet. 



The woodcuts, arranged in pages in this Report, were originally 

 intended to be inserted in their appropriate places with the descrip- 

 tions of the species; but a considerable part of the report having 

 been stereotyped and printed last year, it became impossible to 

 accomplish this object. 



The palseontological part of the Report, as far as page 112, was 

 published in advance in the months of August and September, 1861. 

 The descriptions of the Crinoidea were published in July 1862, and 

 the entire Report will be published in the first days of October 1862. 



JAMES HALL. 



