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This wood cut, illustrating 8 fossils, cost the State of New- York, 
For drawing 20 figures, at $1.50, $30 00 
Engraving 20 figures, at $3.00, 60 00 
$90 00 
By reference to volume two of the Paleontology, it will be 
seen that the fossils figured in the preceding plate have all been 
re-produced in lithography, with numerous figures of the same 
fossil. The following statement of these fossils, as figured in 
volume two, is given for the purpose of comparison, and to show 
the great increase of expenditure : 
Plate No. 54. Spirifer Niagarensis, 18 figures, 
do 22 and 54. Spirifer Radiatus, 27 do 
do 54. Spirifer Crispus, 10 do 
do 54. Spirifer Sulcatus, 10 do 
do 52. Orthis Flabellum, 11 do 
do 52. Orthis Elegantula, 17 do 
do 52. Orthis Hybrida, 14 do 
do 54. Spirifer Eilobus, 10 do 
8 species. 117 figures. 
The amount paid by the State for drawing and lithographing 
these eight fossils, is as follows : 
Drawing 117 figures, at $1.50, $175 50 
Engraving 117 figures, at $3.00, 351 00 
$526 50 
This sum, as will be seen, only includes the cost of drawing, 
and engraving, and does not embrace the expenses for lettering 
the plates, the paper, nor printing, which may be stated at one 
hundred and fifty-seven dollars, making a total of six hundred 
and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents, and an increase of five 
hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-three cents over that 
of wood engravings, as above referred to. 
The committee are impelled from a sense of duty, to introduce 
an additional example in illustration of the extravagant amount 
being expended on the Paleontology of the State. 
The wood cut from which the following figures were printed, 
was used by the four geologists in their respective volumes, to 
illustrate the fossil " Pentamerus Galeafusj'^ or " Galeated Penta- 
