﻿PALAEONTOLOGY. 
  

  

  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  February 
  24, 
  1894. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Palaeontology 
  has 
  progressed 
  as 
  rapidly 
  as 
  

   practicable. 
  Volume 
  YIII, 
  part 
  2, 
  is 
  very 
  nearly 
  completed 
  ; 
  the 
  

   text 
  is 
  printed 
  up 
  to 
  about 
  320 
  pages, 
  and 
  the 
  matter 
  already 
  in 
  

   type 
  will 
  bring 
  it 
  to 
  about 
  350 
  pages. 
  Only 
  six 
  plates 
  remain 
  to 
  

   be 
  lithograph* 
  d, 
  and 
  the 
  printing 
  of 
  the 
  lithographic 
  stones 
  up 
  to 
  

   1,000 
  copies 
  each, 
  has 
  been 
  nearly 
  completed, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  

   of 
  the 
  last 
  four 
  stones. 
  In 
  order 
  to 
  complete 
  the 
  edition 
  there 
  

   remain 
  yet 
  to 
  be 
  printed 
  2,0()0 
  copies 
  each 
  of 
  about 
  twelve 
  or 
  

   fifteen 
  stones. 
  The 
  w 
  T 
  ork 
  remains 
  unfinished 
  for 
  the 
  want 
  of 
  

   sufficient 
  appropriation 
  to 
  carry 
  it 
  forward 
  to 
  completion. 
  

  

  In 
  order 
  to 
  secure 
  date 
  of 
  publication 
  I 
  have 
  had 
  fifty 
  copies 
  

   of 
  the 
  text 
  of 
  the 
  volume 
  bound 
  and 
  distributed, 
  the 
  work 
  

   appearing 
  in 
  two 
  separate 
  parts, 
  or 
  fascicles. 
  The 
  first 
  of 
  these 
  

   was 
  published 
  in 
  July, 
  189 
  • 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  fascicle, 
  carrying 
  the 
  

   work 
  up 
  to 
  ; 
  17 
  pages, 
  wa> 
  issued 
  in 
  December, 
  1893, 
  and 
  copies 
  

   distributed 
  t 
  scientific 
  workers 
  and 
  to 
  scientific 
  societies. 
  It 
  

   is 
  a 
  great 
  misfortune 
  th 
  it 
  the 
  volume 
  in 
  its 
  entire 
  condition 
  

   was 
  not 
  issued 
  before 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  1893 
  as 
  it 
  could 
  easily 
  

   have 
  been, 
  had 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  publication 
  been 
  available. 
  The 
  

   delay 
  in 
  the 
  publication 
  o? 
  volume 
  YIII, 
  part 
  1, 
  and 
  of 
  part 
  2 
  is 
  

   not 
  in 
  any 
  manner 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  author 
  or 
  to 
  any 
  one 
  connected 
  

   with 
  the 
  work, 
  but 
  simply 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  failure 
  of 
  the 
  super- 
  

   vision 
  to 
  provide 
  the 
  means 
  for 
  its 
  publication. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  fossil 
  sponges 
  has 
  progressed 
  rapidly 
  since 
  

   last 
  year, 
  when 
  the 
  Legislature 
  made 
  an 
  appropriation 
  providing 
  

   mems 
  to 
  car 
  y 
  on 
  the 
  work 
  toward 
  completion. 
  Owing 
  to 
  this 
  

   action 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Legislature 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  resumed 
  

   upon 
  these 
  fossils, 
  and 
  the 
  original 
  drawings 
  are 
  now 
  nearly 
  all 
  

   completed 
  for 
  forty 
  six-plates 
  of 
  imperial 
  quarto 
  size. 
  The 
  

   manuscript 
  for 
  the 
  text 
  is 
  far 
  advanced 
  and 
  will 
  be 
  completed 
  

   before 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  and 
  the 
  memoir 
  will 
  be 
  communicated 
  

  

  