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Forty-second Annual Report on the 



not only to obtain this stone from the pavement, but also others 

 of the same kind which might still be found in the quarry from 

 which this was dug. In this way a large collection of specimens, 

 making in all almost a carload, have been procured and received 

 at the Museum. 



Director Hall has also procured from various sources in the 

 west and southwest of the country, specimens which he proposes 

 to make use of in preparing for publication the last volume of 

 Palaeontology. 



According to the law passed in 1883, the last volume of the 

 series in Palaeontology should have been published during the 

 present year. But various circumstances have delayed this pub- 

 lication and it can not be issued until some time during the next 

 calendar year [1890]. In the report of the State Geologist, which 

 is appended to this report, a full account will be given of the con- 

 dition of the material and of the prospects of publication. The 

 most serious circumstance attending this publication is that the 

 sum of money appropriated for the publication will not suffice to 

 make it on the scale originally designed. If the cost is kept 

 within the bounds of the money appropriated, then the last 

 volume must be made materially smaller than was intended. 



Upon a full consideration of the questions involved, the local 

 Museum committee came to the following conclusion in reference to 

 this matter: "A sum sufficient to prepare and deliver a volume on 

 the Palaeontology within the limits of the appropriation, is to be 

 reserved and kept intact ; at the same time the appropriation is to 

 go on for a volume of the size and plan originally fixed. The 

 subject is thus to be presented to the Legislature, with a state- 

 ment of the circumstances attending the publication, namely, that 

 the sum appropriated in accordance with the original bill of 1883, 

 has not been found sufficient to publish the work as thus planned ; 

 that the trustees have, however, reserved a fund sufficient to pub- 

 lish a volume smaller than the preceding ones, and in this way to 

 complete the publication. The trustees, however, think that it 

 is advisable to make the remaining volume of the form and size 

 originally designed, and they propose, therefore, to submit to the 

 Legislature the question of the appropriation of an additional 

 sum, which shall, when added to the balance now available, be 

 sufficient to publish and complete a suitable final volume," 



