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that no publication had taken place. A discussion took 
place at the Meeting of June 6th on the question raised 
by Sir George Hampson, and he proposed, “ having regard 
to the Secretary’s statement,” that May 2nd should be 
held to be the date. There is no record of what the 
Secretary did say, and the Council Minute Book of that 
period is unfortunately the one missing volume (v. App. /’), 
but the Postage Book shows that he might very well have 
said that the revised Part was delivered to the Society and 
issued by them on May 2nd, and on this information Sir 
George Hampson’s proposal was undoubtedly might. 
Amendments were proposed, and Mr. Verrall’s, referring 
the matter to a Committee, was adopted. Now the only 
thing open to such a Committee to do was to find out 
whether the Part in question had been published at an 
earlier date than May 2nd, as the evidence of its publica- 
tion by that date was complete, but at the meeting on 
Dec. 5th they reported that the first day it was available 
at the Publishers was May 11th, which was consequently 
“fixed” as the date of publication. With the information 
now available it is impossible to account for this date at 
all, the day on which Messrs. Longmans received their 
copies of the Part being May 15th. There can, however, be 
no doubt that, the decree of the Council notwithstanding, 
the real date of the publication of Part 1 for 1894 is May 
2nd of that year. 
APPENDIX Z. 
ON THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE PRINTING 
FIRMS EMPLOYED BY THE SOCIETY. 
The first volume of the First Series of Transactions (to- 
gether with the Proceedings), consisting of three Parts, was 
published by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, a firm now 
represented by Messrs. Taylor & Francis at the same 
address. The sheets of Proceedings distributed at the 
Meetings of the Society between 1840 and 1846 were also 
printed (or rather reprinted, v. App. B) by the same firm, 
but they have been unable to find any record of these, 
though they have kindly furnished the exact dates of 
publication of the first volume. From 1837 to 1879 the 
printing was entrusted to various firms of Roworth, now 
represented by Messrs. Roworth & Co., of 19, Newton 
