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The drawings were all done on stone, at the College of Charleston, by Mr. C. G. Platen, 

 an artist in this department, who has no superior in our country. The letter press is in 

 part by Messrs. Harper & Calvo and Messrs. James & Williams, all native printers of the 

 city of Charleston. As there was no press for printing the plates, in our city, we were 

 compelled to have them done elsewhere. 



The expense of preparing and publishing such a work was much beyond the calcula- 

 tion we had made at the commencement, and the liberality of the Legislature in sub- 

 scribing for two hundred copies, alone saved us from heavy loss, and enabled us to com- 

 plete it in the best style of art. It is a good specimen of what can be done by our artists 

 at home. 



Should the State, in her generous love of science, determine to continue her patronage, 

 it is proposed to complete the publication of the Tertiary fossils, by describing and illus- 

 trating the interesting forms that have been discovered in the Post Pleiocene and Eocene 

 formations. 



