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of temperature upon each plate, and the plates with each other when 
colored J is too obvious to require remark. 
As regards the fruits, there was no subject in the Survey so im- 
portant as this, when I commenced it, and I could not have done less 
than I have done ; and in order to give usefulness to this part of the 
work, they should also be colored : of this there can be no doubt, 
and upon this point, and also upon the question of authority, I was 
authorised by the several committees to whom the subject had been 
committed, and also by Governor Young, whose certificate appears 
in the public documents. I deem it necessary that all the plates 
should be colored, inasmuch as it is only hy the co/or that the different 
fruits can be distinguished from each other. 
(Signed) E. EMMONS. 
We requested, after considering the above statement : 
1. That the affidavit of E. Emmons, Jr., be obtained, to the effect 
that the plates charged as above had been colored, or were in the 
process of coloring, as mentioned in the report of the committee of 
1850, previbus to the order of Governor Fish for discontinuing the 
coloring ; and also that the Temperature Tables, as charged in the 
account, were colored before the order of Governor Fish. We re- 
ceived the following : 
State of JYew-York^ Albany^ ss. — Ebenezer Emmons, Jr., of the 
city of Albany, deposes and says, that the whole number of plates 
colored before the order was given by Gov. Fish to stop, was forty- 
six, including six in process of coloring, being those mentioned by 
Mr. Cornell in his report. Said deponent further says, that the tem- 
perature tables were entirely finished previous to said order of Gov. 
Fish. 
(Signed) EBENEZER EMMONS, Jr. 
Sworn to before me this 18th ) 
day of May, 1850. \ 
William D. Morange, 
Commissioner of Deeds. 
2. That copies of the forty colored plates should be deposited with 
us. This was complied with, so far as related to the 3d volume of 
Dr. Emmons'. Those belonging to the 2d volume were in the hands 
of the printer and bookbinder. 
