762 Rev. G. Wheeler on the Dates of the 
notice is cohen aaa pt. 3 (published Jan. 2nd, 1843); 
pt. 4 (published Jan. Ist, 1844), and vol. iv, pt. 1 (pub-— 
lished April 7th, 1845), announce those for 1840, 1841 and 
1842, stating that those for 1843 are in the Press ; vol. iv, 
pt. 2, and subsequent parts, merely announce that the 
Journal of Proceedings from 1840 is printed for gratuitous 
distribution among the members, and for sale to the 
public, price 1s. per sheet. All this is very difficult to 
reconcile with facts, seeing that the sheets (except I and 
X) are wholly independent of the end of any year, and 
frequently end in the middle of a meeting. Probably, 
however, it implies that Sheets II and III were issued 
together before Sept. 2nd, 1842, and Sheets IV and V 
before Jan. Ist, 1844, which corresponds with the fact 
actually established that Sheet V was issued on Dec. 4th, 
1843, though the expression “a new part” of the Pro- 
ceedings would seem to indicate an earlier date for Sheet 
IV. This is borne out by the fact that Sheets II, III and 
IV were received by the Linnean Society on March 6th, 
1843, which, taken in connection with the notice on the 
cover of vol. 111, pt. 2, narrows down the date of Sheet IV 
to the interval between Jan. 2nd and March 6th, 1843. 
After Sheet V, the only indication of dates we possess is 
that Sheet VI was received by the Linnean Society on 
Nov. 29th, 1845, and Sheet VII on April 21st, 1846. 
A Minute of the Council Meeting on Aug. 5th, 1844, 
directed the Secretary and Treasurer to make arrange- 
ments for the continuation of the publication of the Pro- 
ceedings, and another entry of Oct. 7th states that the 
Secretary read a letter from Messrs. R. & J. Taylor, 
“agreeing to publish the Proceedings in the Annals of 
Natural History, on the same terms as originally adopted, 
they having agreed to alter their bill for the jive sheets 
already published.” The italics are mine. Here was 
new light, anda short search in the publication mentioned 
showed that a// the Proceedings since 1840 had been so 
published, and that in every case where the distribution of 
these sheets could be traced, the date was subsequent to 
that of the part of the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History in which the same information appeared ; it 
follows, therefore, that these sheets were merely a reprint, 
and that the date of all names, etc., contained in them is 
that of the part of this magazine in which they appeared. 
I have given above all the available information with 
