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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Hall and the executors could not for some time see their way 

 to permit additional material to be lent from that collection. 

 This matter was however eventually arranged with the executors, 

 and I am pleased to report that the work in this form is well 

 progressed. 



Transactions with the executors of the James Hall estate 



During the life of Prof. Hall and while paleontologic investi- 

 gations were in active progress, there was always a considerable 

 amount of material belonging to his private collection in the 

 rooms of the state geologist and paleontologist, and on the other 

 hand considerable property of the state museum in his possession 

 at his private laboratory. I am pleased to report that the claims 

 of the state museum on the one hand and of the Hall estate on the 

 other have been in the main now satisfactorily adjusted. I 

 have delivered to the executors of that estate all of the material 

 in my charge that belonged to Prof. Hall and for which we had 

 no farther use, and I have retained with their consent a limited 

 amount of material pertaining to problems under study now and 

 before the death of Prof. Hall. On the other hand I have re- 

 ceived from the executors of that estate all the material in their 

 possession to which it seemed possible to establish an undoubted 

 claim and have signed in receipt the accompanying statement : 



16 Ap. 1899 



The articles herewith specified, the property of the New York 

 state museum, have been this day delivered by the executors of 

 the estate of Prof. James Hall, deceased, to the custody of the 

 state paleontologist and receipt thereof is hereby acknowledged. 



1 drawer of type specimens of fossils 



1 drawer miscellaneous specimens of fossils 



4 boxes unopened, marked as containing specimens exhibited 

 at the New Orleans exposition 



2 boxes unopened, marked as containing material for school 

 collections 



5618 original drawings, sketches and outlines of fossils 



The material above specified is in full satisfaction of all claims 



yet made on behalf of the New York state museum against said 



estate. 



