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Hall, and with miscellaneous museum duties and the fitting up of 

 the offices. 



Through the liberality of the committee upon the State Museum 

 the services of Mr. J. M. Clarke have been secured for the special 

 work on the Crustacea, which constitute the chief subject matter 

 for volume YII of the Palaeontology. Mr. Clarke having spent 

 some time in the field in the collection of additional material has 

 since been at work preparing these collections for study and 

 illustration. 



The printing of volume YI of the Palaeontology was begun in 

 August last, and about fifty pages put into type, when it became neces- 

 sary to suspend this work in order to give my time to the removal 

 of the collections to he State Hall, and it has not since been resumed. 

 In the meantime, however, Mr. Simpson has been engaged in 

 preparing material and completing the drawings for that volume. 

 Of the sixty-five plates authorized for volume VI, sixty have 

 already been lithographed and the drawings for the remainder will 

 soon be completed. The printing will be resumed as soon as we 

 can take possession of our new working rooms and remove thither 

 the material upon which we are at work for that volume, which 

 will be during the month of January, 1887. 



The following memoranda were made on the 26th of Novem- 

 ber, 1886, in regard to the material which had been transferred to 

 the State Hall, and of that still remaining in the private buildings. 

 The work of transferring these collections is now going on. 



Memoranda of Material Brought into the State Hall from 

 the Private Buildings of the Director. 



Fossils of all classes, systematically arranged, occupying 1,646 

 drawers. 



Several large tables and pyramids of shelves occupied by corals 

 and other fossils. 



One large glass-fronted case extending across the north-west 

 room, a length ot thirty feet, filled with corals. 



One hundred and two boxes filled with fossils stored in the 

 south-west corner basement of the State Hall. 



Sixty-seveu boxes sent down, and now in the third story of the 

 building awaiting arrangement in drawers. 



On the same floor twenty-one large boxes filled with fossil corals. 



