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Mr, Herbert Campion, writing on May 4, 1919, says: "As 

 regards Gundlach, the library at the British Museum (Natural 

 History) inckides a copy of the Anales, as well as a copy of the 

 Contribucion. The parts were not received periodically, as they 

 were issued, but a set was purchased on 24th October, 1899. 

 The Contribucion is bound separately, and the title-page of Vol. 

 II bears the date 1886 as part of its contents. Vols. XXV and 

 XXVI of the Anales are bound up in their original green paper 

 covers. The first page of each cover gives the date of publica- 

 tion and the fourth page an indice, which refers, not only to the 

 entrega itself, but also to the pliego aparte issued with it, when- 

 ever one was included. It is quite easy, therefore, to associate 

 every pliego or sheet of the Contribucion with the particular 

 entrega of the Anales with which it appeared, . . ." 



I have found no reference to Gundlach's Contribucion on the 

 Neuroptera, either as "pliegos" of the Havana Anales or as a 

 separate work, in the Zoological Record^ or in the Jahresberichte 

 of the Archiv ftir Naturgeschichte from 1888 on. Gundlach was 

 elected a member of the Sociedad Espafiola de Historia Natural 

 de Madrid in 1872 or 1874 (the printed lists differ as to date), 

 and the "Actas" in the Anales of this Society mention additions 

 to the library, but, although the receipt of Tomo XXVIII, 1892, 

 entregas 329-332, Tomo XXIX, 1892, entregas 333-337, of the 

 Anales of the Havana Academy is acknowledged,^ I find no 

 record of the reception of the volumes containing Gundlach's 

 work now under discussion. 



As will appear later, Gundlach's chief correspondent on the 

 Odonata was Dr. H. A. Hagen and, up to October, 1889, it would 

 seem that Hagen knew nothing of Gundlach's publication, as 

 Hagcm wrote to me from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 October 16, 1889, of some specimens which I had submitted to 

 him: "No. 1 is Lepthemis gravida Hagen n. sp. in my coll. and 

 from Florida. It is very near to L. herbida Hag. also new but 

 printed in my Synopsis 1875, p. 74" (no description). Gund- 

 lach published the description of herbida on page 261 of his Con- 



* Volume One of the Contribucion, dealing with the Lepidoptera, is quoted in 

 the Zoological Record for 1891, Insects, pp. 2.5, 21,5. 



6 Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. Madrid, xxi, Adas, p. 186, 1892. 



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