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go out partly colored and partly not. We therefore certified the ac- 
count, having previously authorized the completion of the coloring. 
Mr. Gavit presented the following account : 
To printing 3^000 impressions of each of the plates 
17 a 28, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49 a 70, vol. 2d of the 
Palaeontology, being 27,000 impressions at $15,. . , 405 00 
S84 lbs. of paper, at 25 cents, 246 00 
$651 00 
This was accompanied with a certificate of Mr. Gebhard that he 
had received the above impressions, with the steel plates, and we 
accordingly certified the account. 
On referring to the abstract of contracts thus certified at the con- 
clusion of this communication, the total amount will be found to 
he,.. 117,569 82 
Out of the appropriation of $18,000, we have paid 
the following contingent accounts : 
To G. Van Wie, carpenter, for sundry work done in 
the Geological Rooms, $10 00 
To J. S. Cameron, for work done in the Ge- 
ological Rooms, 34 99 
To Richard Van Rensselaer, for insurance 
on the 2d volume of the Agriculture, va- 
luing the same at $2,500, 15 00 
To John Gebhard, Curator, for collecting, 
assorting and arranging the wood cuts, 
drawings, steel plates and engravings, both 
lithographed and on steel , (the last amount- 
ing to above 300,000 impressions,) and 
making a report on the same, hereunto an- 
nexed, 200 00 
■ $250 99 
$17,829 81 
CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, 
Secretary of State, 
T. ROMEYN BECK, 
Secy bf the RegHs of the University. 
