764 Rev. a on the Dates of the 
APPENDIX (¢. 
NOTES ON THE DATES OF PUBLICATION SINCE 1896. 
Since the beginning of the year 1896 each part has 
borne the month and day of publication, and with very 
few exceptions these may be taken as correct, Messrs. 
Longmans & Co. having generally received them on the 
same or the following day. There are a few occasions on 
which they have been sent out to the Fellows on the day 
previous to that on which they were dated, but even in 
these cases it is only those resident in the London district 
who have received them before the nominal date of pub- 
lication, and such may well be regarded as cases of 
“preferential distribution.” The very few cases of more 
important discrepancy are as follows :— 
Vol. Part. | Dated. Received by Messrs. Longmans. - 
| 
1900 3 Oct. 22nd Oct. 12th 
1903 2 June 2nd May 30th 
1907 5 
April 14th April 22nd 
The last of these is quite unimportant. 
APPENDIX? BW. 
ON PART 1 OF THE VOLUME FOR 1894. 
In the Proceedings in the volume for 1894, p. xxii, it is 
recorded that Sir George (then Mr.) Hampson raised a 
question as to the date of Part 1 of the Transactions for 
that year, certain names depending on the date for their 
priority. The date on p. 1 is “March,” that on the cover 
“April” (unfortunately not a unique discrepancy), and 
the part was actually issued in May. A few copies were 
sent out to Members of the Council on April 9th, and the 
issue was immediately stopped because a figure on Plate 1, 
which had been cancelled, had never been replaced, and a 
blank appeared on the plate where the figure should have 
been. No copies had been sent to Messrs. Longmans, 
none had been sold, none were distributed outside the 
Council, and those issued were recalled, and it was held 
