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vices to be performed by him might be executed by the geologist 
and the assistant. It was therefore agreed that for executing the 
principal drawings, and packing the specimens, and for the expen- 
ses of concentrating them at convenient places for transporting 
them to Albany, an additional compensation of $300 should be 
paid to each geologist. A similar allowance was also made to the 
mineralogist, zoologist and botanist, in addition to their salary of 
$1,500 per annum. As the drawings for the botanical and zoolo- 
gical departments required much more labour and skill, those hav- 
ing the charge of these two departments were allowed to incur 
the expenditures before specified for the services of draughtsmen. 
As some of the persons employed in the survey were connected 
with literary and scientific institutions, and were not willing to 
dissolve their connections with them, and as their engagements 
were not of such a character as to prevent them from completing 
the part of the survey assigned to them within the time contem- 
plated by the law authorizing it, they were employed at a less sa- 
lary than that allowed to those who had no such engagements. 
Three of the persons thus employed, viz. Dr, Torrey^ Dr. Beck and 
Prof. Emmons^ receive only $1,200 annually; the others, viz. Dr. 
DeKay, Mr. Mather, Mr. Conrad and Mr. Vannxejji, are allowed 
a full salary of $1,500. Each assistant has received a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $800 per annum. 
If the suggestions in the report laid before the last Legislature, 
in relation to the persons to be employed and their compensation, 
had been pursued, the amount of expenditures for each geological 
district would have been $3,800; but by the modifications that 
have been adopted, the annual expenditure has been reduced to 
$2,600. The reduction from the estimate is $4,800 each year in 
the four districts; but the mineralogical department, which was 
not contemplated by the report, will involve an expenditure of 
from fifteen to eighteen hundred dollars per annum which was not 
embraced in the estimate submitted to the Legislature. It may 
become necessary, before the completion of the worlc, to employ 
a skilful draughtsman, to execute some of the more important and 
difllicult drawings in relation to the geological department. 
Many scientific ^ntlemen were not only willing but desirous to 
engage in the survey, as it was an enterprise to be executed under 
the patronage of the State; yet I believe they all considered that 
the highest compensation which I felt authorized to allow them 
