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siderable importance and are given below. No months are 
given, being unknown, except for the last 18 pages. 
13A to 21A, Novissima Appendix, pages 1 to 272 (1880). 
22A to 23A, Novissima Appendix, pages 273 to 336 (1882). 
[24A] “Entrega ultima,” Novissima Appendix, pages 337 to 375 (June 
15, 1883). : 
The dates given are those printed on the fourth page of each 
fascicle-cover, and are probably correct. In this connection it is 
well to note that the introduction to the ‘““Novissima Appendix,” 
_ page IX, is dated December 12, 1880. It is possible that this was 
printed at a later date than were the other fascicles, otherwise 
it is difficult to conceive how 272 pages of this large work could 
be printed and distributed between December 12 and the close 
of the year. It is, of course, possible that the dates on the 
fascicle-covers are wrong, but in any event those credited to the 
year 1880 could scarcely have been later than 1881. If the 
dates given on the fascicle-covers are correct, and I know of no 
method of disproving them, it will be noted that no part was 
issued in the year 1881, and that but three parts were issued 
in the years 1882-1883, which corresponds with information 
supplied by F.-Villar in the year 1902, to the effect that a 
number of parts were issued in 1880, but that after that date 
considerable delay ensued in finishing the work. 
As noted above, the edition de luxe of this work was limited 
to 500 copies. By no means this number is now extant, as at 
least a portion of the unsold ones was destroyed by fire in the 
burning of the Guadalupe convent, near Manila, February 19, 
1899. In a letter written by Father Fernandez-Villar in the 
year 1902, in response to a request made by me, he informed 
me that many bound volumes of the work, about 4,000 unbound 
parts, and 16,000 plates were destroyed in the Guadalupe fire; 
the above figures may in part apply to the cheaper edition with 
the uncolored plates. 
Copies of this work are not uncommon in Manila, but all that 
I have had the privilege of examining, here or elsewhere, with the 
exception of the one copy from which the above data regarding 
the dates of issue were taken, have been bound, and the original 
fascicle-covers not preserved. 
Most copies of the work have the plates segregated in two 
volumes, but one of the copies in the library of the Bureau of 
Science has them scattered through the text of the four volumes. 
With the hope that this copy of the work might throw some 
light on the dates of issue of the plates, it was carefully ex- 
