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Actual dates of issue very uncertain. Even if we had dated covers, 
they could not be depended on, for the contemporary numbers of the "Annals" 
never appeared during the month printed on the covers. The Proceedings 
were very carelessly distributed; few copies went to any one except members. 
It was not even voted to send them free to members until 7 N 1870, probably 
several months after the first number had been printed; and the Philadelphia 
Academy received none until 1872 (Proc. Phila. Acad. 1872:305). 
A few facts, however, seem to stand cut, and there are various reason- 
able inferences. 
Yolume 1 
The first number probably consisted of 44 pages; at least, there 
was a sharp break after page 44. Page 44 was short, and the signature (pages 
53-44) was short; page 45 begins a marked change in typography. Page 44 ended 
with the meeting before, and page 45 began with the meeting after the summer 
vacation of 1870. This first number probably appeared with reasonable prompt- 
ness: probably during the summer, surely before the end of the year. 
The second number probably ended on page 108; at least it included 
that page, and was issued before 13 Mr 1871. For at the meeting of that date 
was recorded (page 188) an error on page 98 (in the signature ending on page 
108). 
Whether the remainder of the volume was in numbers is very doubtful; 
the loose signatures were probably distributed to members from time to time, 
perhaps not as printed and certainly not very soon after the meetings they 
record. During 1872 the Philadelphia Academy received (as noted above )pages 
1-238; and apparently no more were sent to them. No doubt all the pages then 
published were sent, but the time of the year when this occurred is not re- 
corded; it is in an annual report. 
