In 1872 the first Polish scientific academy (Academy of Arts and Sciences) was founded in Kraków. The Academy founded the first international journal Bulletin International de l’Acadèmie des Sciences de Cracovie (Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Krakau), in which mathematical papers were published. In 1910 the journal was divided into classes and series ­– for mathematics it was: Classe Des Sciences Mathèmatiques et Naturelles. Sèrie A: Sciences Mathèmatiques. From 1890 to 1952, when the Academy was disbanded, in the journal were published almost 400 mathematical papers. Among the authors were outstanding mathematicians: M. Fréchet, A.N. Kolmogorov, T. Levi–Civita, G. Polya, G.T. Whyburn and the Poles: S. Banach and W. Sierpiński.

I shall present basic statistical facts about the journal. Moreover, I will describe several papers important in the history of mathematics, which have been published in this journal, for example On the Problem of Two Samples and On the Problem of k Samples by E. Pearson and J. Neyman.