A similarly chaotic system was used for the earlier 

 Miscellaneous Collections; as a consequence, the advertisement 

 page for Volume 2, no. V lists 1862 as the date of publication 

 but the various articles therein are dated from 1852 to 1862. 

 Specifically, the Baird & Girard Catalogue (art. 49) has January 

 1853 on the cover and this date is verified in Baird' s (see Bull. 

 20) and Girard's (Bull. 41) bibliographies (but also see Adler, 

 K. , J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc. 4:55-57, 1963). 



The later Miscellaneous Collections followed much the same 

 format as the Proceedings and dates were determined from the 

 tables of contents. In some cases the "Quarterly Issue" 

 Miscellaneous Collections were duplicated in the regular series. 

 In the first edition of this list the "Quarterly Issue" numbers 

 were listed separately and several titles were included 

 incorrectly. I have attempted to minimize confusion by listing 

 all under Miscellaneous Collections and using the earliest 

 publication date when a paper appeared in both "series". 



A limited number of copies of each Bulletin were stamped with 

 the date of publication on the "Advertisement" page. Number 58 

 and 60 had the date printed on the title page. 



The Contributions to Zoology also have a limited number of 

 copies stamped with the date of publication. These dates have 

 been cross-checked with the typed tables of contents in the bound 

 set in the Smithsonian reference collection. 



If no specific date is included with the citation, it 

 indicates that one could not be determined; two dates indicates 

 disagreement between the dates stamped in two individual copies 

 and the first date given is assumed to be correct. 



For some of Cope's earlier papers in Smithsonian series, I 

 utilized the following reference to help determine proper dates: 



Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1930 Biographical memoir of 

 Edward Drinker Cope 1840-1897. Natl. Acad. Sci. Biogr. 

 Mem. 13(3) :127-317. 



Cope's annotated bibliography is found on pp. 172-317, and an 

 explanation of the extensive research on publication dates and 

 titles of Cope's many papers is given on p. 172. 



R.I. Crombie 

 1978 



