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To printing title page, 76 25 
Printing and binding 3000 copies, 6,000 00 
$35,426 25 
For completing volume five, same as volume four, 35,426 2f 
Add to this expense to be made on volume three,. . 19,151 25 
Total, $90,003 75 
It will be observed that in the preceding estimate, allowance 
is only made for 100 plates each, for volumes four and five. 
Whereas, it appears from the communication of Mr. Hall, (As- 
sembly Doc, 1855, No. 53, page 24,) that the total number of 
plates for volume three is 118. Should a like number of plates 
be required for volumes four and five, the total expense in com- 
pleting the Paleontology, in pursuance of the foregoing contract, 
will exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. 
There has already been expended on the Natural History of 
the State, as follows, to the year 1850, $445,375 04 
In 1850, 16,918 82 
1851, 651 00 
1852, 24,901 00 
1853, 13,463 63 
1854, 8,747 20 
1855, 8,747 12 
Add $100,000 to be yet expended, 100 ,000 00 
$618,803 81 
The committee have ascertained, by reference to the legisla- 
tive documents, that at the commencement of the geological 
survey, it was decided that the fossils should be illustrated by 
wood engravings. Under this determination, something like 
twenty thousand dollars was expended in engraving wood cuts for 
that purpose. Subsequently, however, under the advice of per- 
sons engaged in the survey, the wood cuts were thrown aside, 
and lithograph and steel engravings substituted. The result 
has been 'an enormovs increase of expenditure beyond what was 
originally intended. 
For the purpose of illustrating this subject clearly, the com- 
mittee have obtained one of the original blocks of wood cuts, 
from which the following impressions were printed. This block 
