INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



This Volume contains 56325 entries of titles of papers by 10049 Authors from Fitting 

 to the end of the letter H. 



The total number of entries printed for the period 1SS4 1900 is now brought up to 



1(>5100 as follows: 



Authors Entries 



A 2001 11551 



B 692S 40109 



C 4:351 24994 



D 3072 17665 



E 1368 7750 



F 2846 16367 



G 3716 20581 



H 4717 26023 



28999 165100 



The Catalogue Committee, in acknowledging the very efficient work of the Catalogue 

 Staff, desires to record the regret with which it accepted the resignation of the Director, 

 Dr. Herbert M'^'Leod, F.R.S., in November 1915, after a severe serious illness of several 

 months which made a return to active work impossible. Dr. M'Leod has been offered and 

 has accepted the position of Honorary Director of the work with which he has been actively 

 associated for fourteen years, and in which his persistent zeal, unfailing courtesy, organizing 

 skill, and scrupulous accuracy have been invaluable. Other changes in the Catalogue Staff 

 have been brought about by other causes. The special funds originally placed at the 

 disposal of the Committee by the late Dr. Ludwig Mond and other generous friends of the 

 undertaking were practically exhausted by the end of 1914, and in 1915 the preliminary 

 stages of compiling and arranging the slips of entries were completed. These circumstances 

 compelled a reduction in the Staff of Assistants, both Senior and Junior. Miss Bremner, 

 who had been associated with the undertaking since 1894, and whose experience and 

 knowledge had been of great value to the Director, retired, in April 1914, to well-earned 

 rest when the completion of the work was in sight. Miss Hanbury left at the end of 

 February of the same year. In August 1915 the Staff was further reduced by the departure 



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