Information request

While revising OED entries, we are turning into full dated g quotations the many passing references to the Lexicon of Medicine and Allied Sciences of the New Sydenham Society (Syd. Soc. Lex.), g edited by H. Power and L. W. Sedgwick. This was published in four volumes,g 1881-99, but was earlier issued in parts from 1879. We would like to dateg the individual parts from which the OED quotes, but reliable dates andg ranges have proved hard to establish, as the traceable announcements ofg the Society do not always tally with reviews and some of the known facts,g while part copies are rare.

We would be delighted to hear from anyone who might have relevant information, or know the whereabouts of a set with individually dated part title pages, or even without title pages but date-stamped by a library. So far we have been able to establish authenticated dates and ranges for the following parts only:

• part 1 1879 a- ?
• part 16 1889 lin - mas
• part 20 1892 olf - oz
• part 21 1893 p - pin
• part 24 1898 scap - tape
• part 25 1899 tap(?) - zyth