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to be made for its maintenance shall be fifteen thousand dollars, 

 to be paid on vouchers approved by said trustees." 



For the purpose of carrying out this provision of the law the 

 additional sum of $5,000 was added to the previous annual 

 appropriation of the museum. At that time the writer had in 

 preparation and well forwarded a paper upon the genera of the 

 fossil Lamellibranchiata. Also in a forward state of preparation 

 a monograph of the Dictyospongidae, of which preliminary 

 notices had appeared in the museum reports for 1862 and 1881. 

 The Report for 1S62 was published in 1803, and the Report for 

 1881 was published in 1881 ; the paper on the Dictyospongidae 

 having been published in 1882 in advance of the Report. 

 Besides these other papers were in progress corresponding with 

 the subjects uuder investigation for the volumes on the 

 Palaeontology. 



The monograph upon the Dictyospongidae, as far as it had pro- 

 gressed, was brought before the Trustees of the State Museum in 

 January, 1885, and the following resolution was passed : 



Resolved, That the monograph of Director Hall, on Dictyo- 

 spongidae, be published by the museum as Bulletin No. 1. 



However, when I asked for the means of completing and pub- 

 lishing the work, it was refused. After the completion of volume 

 V, part I, I brought before the trustees, the subject of a bulletin 

 upon the Genera of Lamellibranchata asking for means of com- 

 pleting the work which had been already carried on to a consid- 

 erable extent, and ten plates of these illustrations had been 

 already published with my report for 1881. To this application 

 I received a refusal. After this I had in progress and well for- 

 warded, the material for a bulletin upon the Bryozoa, which, 

 at the request of the secretary of the Board of Regents, in 1889, 

 I carried on to near completion at my own expense ; but when 

 presented for publication it was refused. 



In order to avoid the humiliation of a farther refusal, I have 

 ceased asking for the means of publication, but on several 

 occasions have, brought before the museum committee the 

 drawings of Dictyospongidae, as far as completed, and also the 

 drawings of fossil Corals, which had been made to the num- 

 ber of at least eighty quarto plates, before the passage of the 



