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mentioned, and with the contract made under that law ; and in this 
Document his argument showing the conflict, is given at length. 
There have been published and delivered nine volumes of this 
work, as follows : 
Four volumes on Geology ; 
Four volumes on Zoology ; 
One volume on Mineralogy. 
According to the plan of the geologists, there will be six volumes 
more published to complete the system. 
Of these, there will be one volume on ornithology, which is 
already printed and now in the hands of the binders, and nearly ready 
for delivery. There will be two volumes on botany, one of which 
is now printed, and is with the binders ; and of the other, about one- 
half the printing is done. The engravings and coloring for the 
volumes on ornithology and botany, are all completed. 
There will be one volume on agriculture, the manuscript of which 
is not yet completed. But a considerable portion of it is in the 
hands of the printer, and a part of the volume is now printed. 
There will be two volumes on Palaeontology ; the manuscript of 
which is about one-half completed ; but none of this work is printed. 
More than one-half of the drawings and engraving for the work, has 
been done, and it is expected that the whole series will be completed 
in about eighteen months. It is not fully determined whether the 
work on Palaeontology shall be bound in one or two volumes. If it 
shall be issued in two volumes, then one of those may be expected to 
be published in about six months, and the other in one year there- 
after. If that work shall all be included in one volume, then the 
number of volumes will be fourteen. 
In respect to the expense of this whole work, it will be recollected 
that for the first six years it was in progress, the Legislature was 
exceedingly cautious that the whole cost thereof should not exceed 
the sum of one hundred and four thousand dollars. In 1842, there 
was a further appropriation of twenty-six thousand dollars ; and as 
far as an inference can be drawn from the law itself, it was then 
understood and expected that no more money would be required from 
