No. 211.] 
5 
" For volume 5. Drawings finished for this volume 28 — lor 
figures engraved on wood 108=136 figures." 
" All the drawings in progress at the present time are for the 
third volume." 
Again, at page 68 he says, And though I cannot positively 
state that the number of figures or plates required will exceed 
the number estimated two years since, yet I think in working 
up the fossils in the higher rocks, I shall probably exceed the 
amount previously estimated." 
" It will require four volumes to complete the work on Pale- 
ontology, unless one or more of the volumes is made of large 
and un wieldly size. I had previously contemplated this, but I 
find that the materials allotted to the second volume would 
make it much larger than any yet published, and I prefer to 
leave a part for the third volume. The investigations, notes, 
memoranda, &c., as well as a large part of the drawings, and 
some of the lithographic engravings, have been made for the 
third volume of the series." 
The estimates for completing the volumes on Paleontology, as 
deduced from Prof. Hall's statement, including salary for five 
years, amount to $90,801.75. (See page 176.) 
The estimate of the cost for completing the agricultural work 
as shown by Prof. Emmons, is $45,714.50. (See page 171.) 
The actual amount paid out for the Natural History of the 
State, includes the sum of $425,375. 76, to which is to be added 
the amounts paid for printing the annual reports of the geolo- 
gists from 1836 to 1841— $19,530.30; also value of lot and 
buildings for museum, $25,000; making in all, to January, 1850, 
the sum of $454,909.06. 
We find in the report of the commissioners appointed to take 
charge of the publication of the geological report, and to pay 
certain claims against the State, made to the Legislature April 
1st, 1851, (see Assembly Doc, 1851, No. 124,) that the estimate 
of the expense of completing the third volume on agriculture, 
was put at $23,736.25, and that the commission did not advise a 
departure from the plan of publication as before determined on. 
