1036 ON THE DATES OF LINN^US'S SYSTEMA NATURE;.' [Nov. 26, 



Caroli a Linne. Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae. 

 Ed. 13. Cura Jo. Fricl. Gmelin. Tomi 3. 8vo. Lipsiae, 

 1788-1793. 



The same five parts were noticed in the ' Monthly Review ' for 

 December 1792 (vol, ix.), the dates of publication being given as 

 1788-91, a period which covers Part 6. This notice begins: 

 " A work so voluminou.s as this is now become could not be 

 ■expected to start forth, like Minerva from Jupiter's brain, at 

 ■once in complete form. Part after part has made its appearance 

 in regular succession, and although we have not yet seen the 

 whole work entire, we understand that it either is so or will be 

 .so very shortly." It was completed early in the following year. 



The only recent publications in which the date of any part 

 subsequent to the first has been correctly given are, it is believed, 

 those of the Ray Society, the discovery having been made in 

 1906 during the preparation of the synonymy for the second 

 volume of Alder and Hancock's ' British Timicata ' (1907) ; and 

 these notes are now published on the suggestion of Mr. 0. Davies 

 Sherborn, who has done much valuable work in zoological biblio- 

 o-raphy and was already aware that the date on the titlepage of 

 vol. i. of Gmelin 's ' Linnaeus ' did not apply to the whole of the 

 parts in that volume. 



