44 Forty- FOURTH Report on the State Museum. 



already fifteen plates lithographed and printed to the number of 

 3,000 copies of each, and one plate not printed. There are 

 also original drawings to the number of more than three hundred 

 figures, showing that the work of illustration is very far advanced. 

 It is undoubtedly true that the most difficult part of the entire 

 work has been accomplished viz.: that upon the Brachiopoda 

 Inarticulata entire, and also that upon the earlier Articulates of 

 the Primordial or of the Cambrian and Lower Silurian faunas, 

 leaving thfe remaining work to be done among groups which are 

 less obscure and their relations and already better understood than 

 were those of the earlier types of this division of the Brachiopoda. 



