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entrega concluye el tomo XXIV de los Anales y comienza en 

 pliego separado la publicacion de la parte tercera de la Entomo- 

 logia que trata de los Neuropteros de la Isla de Cuba por el Dr. 

 Gundlach." The title-page of this Tomo XXIV is dated Habana 

 . . . 1887, but this volume contains (pp. 589 et seq.) com- 

 munications of the "Sesion del 13 de Mayo de 1888." Similarly: 

 "Indice de las Materias contenidas en el Tomo XXV. . . . 

 Nota. — Con la presente entrega concluye el tomo XXV de los 

 Anales y sigue en pliego separado la publicacion de la parte tercera 

 de la Entomologia que trata de los Neuropteros de la Isla de Cuba 

 por El Dr. Gundlach.'^ The title-page of Tomo XXV is dated 

 Habana . . . 1888, but the volume contains (pp. 881 et seq.) 

 the proceedings of the "Sesion publica ordinaria del 24 de Alarzo 

 de 1889" which, moreover, are entered in the "Indice" for this 

 volume, p. vi. 



The method of publication of the "entregas" and "pliegos" 

 has been cleared up by a letter which I owe to the kindness of 

 Dr. Charles T. Ramsden,^ of Guantanamo, Cuba, dated October 

 14, 1916, from which the following is taken: 



In the first place I must make certain things clear: The Academic year 

 begins on the 19th of May, and lasts till the same day of the following year, 

 for this reason you will note that the Vols, cover two calendar years. The 

 reason for this is that the Academy was founded on the 19th of ]\Iay. The 

 result is that all communications up to the 13th of May, 1888 (this being the 

 date of the last meeting of that Academic year), appear in the Proceedings, 

 Vol. XXIV, 1887; for the same reason Vol. XXV, 1888, contains communica- 

 tions sent in during the first months of 1889. 



I should also inform you that Gundlach's pubHcations were wTitten very 

 slowly, and at times with long interruptions, as he did not live at Havana, but 

 at the sugar estate "La Fermina"; and when o[)portunity offered went on his 

 collecting trips about the Island, as also to Porto Rico. With each number of 

 the Anales appeared a " pliego " of eight pages of Gundlach's " Contribuciones " ; 

 there were twelve numbers each year, these numbers were called "Entregas." 



The Parte II, Vol. II of Gundlach's " Contribucion a la Entomologia 

 Cubana" contains the H>Tnenoptera; this Vol. II was begim in 1886 and 

 ended in 1891; the Parte II is composed of 24^ "Pliegos," the last of which 



^ To Dr. Ramsden the scientific world is indebted for a highly interesting 

 biographical account of Gundlach in Ent. News, xxvi, pp. 241-260, June, 

 1915, and subsequently in a Spanish version Vida y Exploraciones Zoologicas 

 del Dr. Juan Gundlach en Cuba (1839-1896) in Memorias de la Sociedad 

 Cubana de Hist. Nat. "Felipe Poey," iii, nums. 4-6, pp. 146-168, 1918. 

 Both versions are accompanied by the same two portraits. 



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