THE PUBLICATION DATES OF THE BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ BOTANIQUE DE FRANCE (VOLS. 41–61, 1894–1914)

Abstract

SummaryFor each of Vols. 41–61 of the Bulletin de la Sociéte botanique de France the publication dates of the instalments, as well as some other bibliographical particulars, are assembled in a table. For most instalments an editorial note with information about the precise or approximate publication date was available. In several cases more precise publication dates were obtained through reconstruction on the basis of internal and/or external evidence from several sources.As was shown earlier for Vols. 1–40, in Vols. 41–61 too the year of publication on the title page of the volumes is unreliable. For each volume some instalments were published in the next year only, or even still later. During a calendar‐year temporal overlap of successive volumes often occurred. The usual sequence of binding of the instalments of a volume differs from their original sequence of publication.The Mémoires de la Société botanique de France, which sometimes are considered to constitute an independent serial, actually are an integral part of the Bulletin. In this paper the Mémoires published with Vols. 52–61 are treated in the same manner as the other instalments of those volumes. A survey of Mémoires 1–26, with pagination and publication dates, is added.