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It became necessary, therefore, to secure the reappropriation of 

 these moneys, to be applied to the purposes originally intended 

 by the law of 1883, before we could proceed with the work of 

 volume VIII. This was finally accomplished through the supply 

 bill passed by the Legislature to which the Governor affixed his 

 signature in May, 1888. We were then free to go on with 

 the work which had so long been suspended. The collec- 

 tions of Brachiopoda delivered at the State Hall in 1886 

 remained in the same condition as then, no work having 

 been done upon them, and in all essential respects the same 

 as when the work on the Brachiopoda was suspended in 1878. 

 The collection was in fact less available for immediate use, for the 

 reason that it had been separated from other congeneric material 

 with which it had been formerly associated while preparing the 

 earlier plates. 



The first requirement, therefore, was to put the Brachiopoda of 

 the Museum Collection into an accessible condition, and to ascer- 

 tain in what directions it would be necessary to acquire additional 

 material. It should also be remembered that no field collections 

 of importance have been made for the Museum within the past 

 ten years, except some small special collections of Bxyozoa and 

 Crustacea ; that the field collections previous to that time had 

 been especially made for the Lamellibranchiata, Gastropoda, 

 Cephalopoda and Corals, so that no special attention has ever 

 been given to the collection of Brachiopoda by the State Museum 

 since the completion of volume IV. 



With a full knowledge and appreciation of the resources of the 

 State Collections, it became very evident that the requirements for 

 the completion of the volume could never be complied with were 

 we to depend upon making collections in the field. It there- 

 fore became necessary to employ every available resource for pro- 

 curing specimens for illustration, and the writer has been author- 

 ized to have collections made in the field, to a limited extent, 

 where practicable ; to purchase collections to a small extent, and 

 to make exchanges ; to visit and examine all private and public 

 collections accessible, and to borrow from these such specimens 

 as are not otherwise attainable, for the illustration of the volume. 



After the passage of the law, reappropriating the lapsed money, 

 Mr. J. M. Clarke immediately began the systematic arrangement of 

 all the available material in the State Museum collections, and sub- 



