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THE first part of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society for the 150th session (1937-38) has appeared. It contains the acta of the Society atmeetings from that of October 28 to that of December 9 ; it embodies infull three of the papers read at the meetings, and abstracts of the others, whether reserved for printing in the Journal of the Society or not. It is exactly a hundred years since the Society began to print the Proceedings. At first they appeared two to five times during a session, in sheets of eight or sixteen pages, by which method during the ten years 1838-1848 the average interval between the making of a communication to the Society and its record in print was six months ; and during the seven years 1848-1855 it was seven months. In 1856 the Society began to issue its Proceedings of an entire year after the end of the session and continued to do so for seventy-four years, except that between 1860 and 1872 they appeared each year in two, three or four parts as ready.
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Publications of the Linnean Society. Nature 141, 111 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141111b0
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