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The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society were 

 published in parts. The first part of the second volume of the 

 new series, containing Say's Cardbici and Hydrocanthari was 

 printed and published in 1823. The covers of the parts had a 

 printed title on the side, with the date. Unfortunately this was 

 not repeated in the pages of the text, and when the parts came 

 to be bound, there was nothing to show that one half of the 

 volume had actually been published and distributed a year or 

 more, as the case might be, before the last part, the title page 

 bearing the date only of the latter, and being printed with it. 

 Mr. Say seems almost to have foreseen the consequence of this 

 carelessness, for he had separate title pages printed to a con- 

 siderable number of copies of his paper above named, and these 

 copies were stitched and distributed by himself to his corre- 

 spondents. I have one of these same copies. 



You ought not to take the dates of Say's insects in the Tran- 

 sactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 

 Vols. IV and VI, from the dates of those volumes, excepting 

 only what begins on p. 177 of Vol. VI, with Elater bettus and 

 onwards, which was printed from Say's manuscript. All the 

 preceding portion is a reprint of his New Harmony papers, 

 dating from March 17, 1830 to August 1, 1834. It has been 

 generally supposed that these New Harmony papers came out 

 only in the " Disseminator " ; this is not true. Only a few 

 numbers appeared in the Disseminator, and of these separate 

 copies were struck off, and were stitched with the succeeding 

 sheets, and were distributed by Mr. Say with a separate title 

 page, till he had gone to the seventy-third page of the work. 

 The last eight pages were printed after the title page, and only 

 a short time before his last sickness and death. About one 

 half of the whole work, ending with the description of Lathro- 

 bium dimidiatum, was actually printed and distributed in 1830. 

 Thence to AnthopTiagus verticalis inclusive, in 1831 ; thence to 

 Aleoehara semicarinata inclusive, in 1832 ; which finished what 

 is contained in the fourth volume of the Transactions of the 



