8 
[Senate 
for the second volume until after that time.' Other causes beyond 
my crntrol prcA^ented progress in the lithography. I commenced 
gving out drawings as soon as the engravers were ready for them ; 
and continued to do so much faster than the plates were finished. 
My statement made to Gov. Fish, on the 1st of March, 1849, sbows 
the number of plates then given out to the engravers. At that time 
the plan of the volume was arranged, and the drawings with yery 
few exceptions were ready for the engravers. 
That statement is as follow : 
« Of the plates designed for Vol. IL, Nos. 1, 3. 6, 9, 72,73 asd 
77 were done in lithography by George Endicott in 1844. 
"Plates 2, 4, 4a, 5a, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16,23,24^275 295 
30, 31, 61, 62, 63, 64, 79, 80, 81, 82. 83, 84, have been done in 
lithography by Mr. R. H. Pease, (under a contract with Got. 
Young,) with the exception of 5a, 79 and 82, which are not jet 
completed, but in hand. The whole number of plates in lithography 
by Mr. Pease, done and in hand, for the 2d volume, is 27. 
" For the steel engraving, I have put into Mr. Pease's hands plates 
53, 54 and 58, and two other plates are reserved for him. 
" Messrs, Gavit and Duthie have in hand the plates numbered 5, 
13, 14, al7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26t, 28, 32, 33, 41, 42, 43, 44, 
45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 49a, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 65, a66, 67, eia^BSy 
69, 70, making 37 in all for the present volume. 
The whole number of plates at that time, either finished or in the 
hands of the engravers, was 76 ; and the only plates remaining to he 
given out in March, 1849, were the corals, from plates 34 to 40 in- 
clusive, and about five or six other plates. The plates which at tbat 
time had been given out to the engravers, embrace all the Crinoidea 
and Brachiopoda, ail the Acephala with the exception of a smgle 
plate, and all the Cephalopoda and Trilobites, care having been taken 
that all the plates of a certain family or kind should be. given out at 
the same time and consecutively. 
By comparing the above list with the plates now completed, I ind 
yet unfinished, plates 54, 58, 19, 20, 56, 57, 65, 67, 68, while plates 
23 and 55 are not yet comiiienced — all these having been in the cb- 
gravers' hands two years. 
* 23 and 24 should have been 25 and 26'. 
t 25 and 26 should have been 23 and 24. 
