1881.] ^'^^ [Phillips. 



The work of Prof. Renault is closed by remarks on the geological distri- 

 bution of the plants of the fixmilies which he has examined. 



The Gicadce appear in the Carboniferous hy Pterophylhom carbonarium 

 and persist through the more recent formations to our time. 



The Zamim have also a carboniferous species Naggerathia foliosn, and a 

 few others in the Jurassic. 



The GycadoxylcB are represented by fossil wood of the upper Carbonifer- 

 ous. 



The Cordaites, the Poroxylce and Sigillarm are all Carboniferous and 

 Devonian ; a few ascending to the base of the Permian. 



Certain Almanacs Published in Philadelphia between 1705 and 1744. 

 By Henry Phillips, Jr. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, February 18, 1881.) 



In the library of our Society is a volume of Almanacs printed and pub- 

 lished in Philadelpliia, at various dates between 1705 and 1744. 



They are remarkable specimens of the degree of perfection, or rather lack 

 of perfection, to which the art of printing had attained in the Middle Colo- 

 nies in those early days, beginning with extremely bad paper, blurred im- 

 pressions and imperfect type, and exhibiting a progressive improvement 

 towards the later dates, but nowhere showing, however, what now-a-days 

 would be called a good piece of work. 



The volume which is a duodecimo, consists of Jacob Taylor's Almanacs 

 for 1705, 1706, 1709, 1711, 1712, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1727, 1738, 1740, 1741, 

 1743, 1744, and Titan Leed's Almanac for 1718. 



As a curiosity I reproduce the title page of Taylor's Almanac for 1705, 

 which will serve as a fair specimen of the manner in which publishers of 

 that era were wont to attract the attention of the purchasing community. 



An Almanack /or the year 1705. | AN | EPHEMERIS | of the Motions 

 and Aspects of the ] PLANETS | anCi-llxe. EcUpsesoiilie Luminaries^orXhQ 

 Year \ of English account 1705 | Fitted to the latitude of 40 Degrees North, 

 and I the Longitude of 75 Degrees West of London; \ serving Pensilvania 

 and the Places adjacent. | By Jacob Taylor. | Hermes Trismegisius. Cen- 

 tiloq. Aphor. 38 | . Saturn Passing out of one sign into another causes 

 strange Appari \ tions in the Heavens which the Arabians term Asiub ; & 

 Cer I tain other signs of a fiery nature. \ To which is added by C. P. 

 some remarks on D. L's abuses | to the Quakers, in his this Years two 

 Almanacks. | Printed at Philadelphia by Tiberius Johnson. | . 



This Almanac is a small volume of sixteen leaves, pages unnumbered 

 and without signatures. 



On the recto of the title page is a "Table of the Kings of England, 

 shewing the Years wherein They began 1o Reign ; the Years which they 

 have Reigned, and the Years since they Reigned." 



PROG. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XTX. 108. 2k. PRINTED MARCH 28, 1831. 



