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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



The Dates. 



The actual dates at which the 137 nimihers forming the ten 

 volumes were issued are not easy to ascertain, as a largo numher 

 of the plates bear no date, notwithstanding the " direction of tlie 

 Act" (then in force, but unfortunately allowed to lapse) that each 

 should bo dated. Dr. Daydon Jackson compiled a list of these 

 dates, so far as he w^as able to ascertain them, which is prefixed to 

 the copy of the Eepository in the Kew Herbarium : in this the 

 first six volumes are indicated as follows : — 



Vol. IV. 



Ap.-Dec. 1802 tt. 217-270. 

 Jan.-Mar. 1803 „ 271-288. 



Vol. V. 



Ap.-Dec. 1803 tt. 289-342. 

 Jan.-Mar. 1804 „ 343-360. 



Vol. VI. 



Ap.-Dec. 1804 tt. 361-414. 

 Jan.-Mar. 1805 „ 415-432. 



The dates for vols, vii-x are very incompletely given in 

 Dr. Jackson's list. Vol. vii was begun in December, 1806, and 

 the remainder of the volume was issued in 1807 ; but from this 

 time forward the month of issue is hardly ever noted, and in very 

 many cases the year is not entered, though this can usually be 

 approximately ascertained. From the date mentioned, however, 

 the monthly dates of the later issues, beginning with part 97, may 

 be deduced from the " Monthly Botanical Eeport"" in the Monthly 

 Magazine for 1807-13, from which the following list has been 

 compiled. This gives in successive order the number of the part of 

 the BejJository — supphed in [ ] when not actually mentioned in 

 the Report — the number of the plate and name of the plant 

 standing first in each part, and the date of the number of the 

 Magazine in which the notice appeared. The last date, of course, 

 is always later than the appearance of the part of the Eejwsitory, 

 w^hich must have been issued in the previous month, if not earher, 

 but it affords a useful approximation. The numbers of parts 128 

 to the end are taken from the wrappers of vol. x in the Banksian 

 Library. 



* The author of these Reports, which do not appear to have been recently 

 consulted, was Samuel Frederick Gray ; they present interesting features which 

 I hope to make the subject of a future note. 



