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my late brother and the State. The statement has been made up 
"with the utmost care and is I believe correct. 
As during the past summer a considerable part of the deficiency 
has been made up by printing such work as Prof. Hall could make 
ready, it is desirable that you should (if you have the power, as I 
suppose you have) authorize us to go on and make up the deficiency 
as fast as the materials are furnished us. 
I am obliged to leave this city about the middle of next week to 
be absent some months, and should be pleased to hear from you on 
the receipt of this. 
Yours very respectfully, 
WM. ENDICOTT. 
In the bills of Geo. Endicott against the State for li- 
thographing, for the Natural History of New-York, the 
drawing on stone of 928 fossils for Hall's Palseontology 
is charged, while it appears that only 735 fossils have been 
drawn which are put upon 70 quarto and 9 double quarto 
plates (equal to 88 single quarto plates) thus showing a 
deficiency in the work actu^illy done, of 193 fossils a $5. . $965 00 
The printing of 3,050 each of 62 quarto and 5 double, 
equal to 72 double quarto plates only has been done 
while the bills above referred to show that the printing of 
3,050 each of 100 quarto plates has been charged, making 
a deficiency in the printing of HalPs Palseontology of 3,050 
each of 28 quarto plates ; say 84,500 impressions a $10, 
pr. M 854 00 
In the above named bills the lithography of 46 quarto 
plates of various subjects for Emmons' Agriculture is 
charged and these plates have all been drawn except 4 
plates of " corn," containing 4 figures each, charged at 
$80, while one plate of apples containing 5 figures has 
not been charged nor paid for, thus reducing this deficien- 
cy of $80.00, to 55 00 
The printing of 3,050 each, of 44 plates for Emmons' 
Agriculture, has been charged, while it appears that only 40 
have been printed, making an apparent deficiency in the print- 
ing of 3,050 each, of 4 quarto plates; but in the bill of Decem- 
ber 26th, 1844, the printing of the usual edition of only 
7 plates of tints, for landscape drawings in vol. 1 Emmons' 
Agriculture, is charged, while the plates show clearly that 
10 such were done, thus reducing the above named de- 
ficiency of 3,050 each of 4 quarto plates, to 3,050 of 1 
quarto plate, at $10 per thousand, 30 50 
$1,904 50 
