Friday, September 11, 2015

Remembering


This is a picture of some elderberries on a tree in our front yard. We also have two more trees in the back, although one of those is still on the mend after a raccoon tried climbing its slender trunk last year — giving it a serious bend. Larry used to make elderberry wine.

Monday, September 07, 2015

Still missing


In (I think) 1960, back in my home town in Germany, my mother purchased for me my first copy of Micky Maus. It might have been #4 of that year's series. Subsequent issues were also bought for me, until I had a small stack, and these I brought with me to Canada when we emigrated in May of that year. Thus my hoarding craze began. For the few years that I managed to hold onto those comic books I was somewhat annoyed at not having those missing (#1-3) issues.

In 1967 I started collecting Scientific American magazines. Soon aware that its then-current format started in May 1948 I began seeking out back issues. Thirty-some years later I had garnered not only those but additional monthlies going back to 1920 and assorted weeklies going all the way back to 1845.

In November 2011 I scored 3246 pdf issues of Scientific American Weekly (out of the 3349 that were published prior to 1910, not including the Supplement). Over the past three days I have added (cropped from Google-available bound volumes) 88 of the missing 103 issues to my collection.

That leaves 15 still missing (date / volume / number):

1866-04-28   14  18  $
1867-06-22   16  25
1872-12-21   27  25  $
1895-11-23   73  21
1902-07-05   87   1  $
1902-07-12        2  $
1902-07-19        3  $
1902-07-26        4  $
1903-05-16   88  20  $
1904-02-13   90   7  $
1904-06-11       24  $
1904-06-18       25  $
1904-06-25       26  $
1904-09-24   91  13  $
1907-10-26   97  17

The $ signs mark the 12 issues that are available from Scientific American for $8 US each.