164 The Ottawa Naturalist. [November 



THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC 



LITERATURE.* 



This Catalogue is an outcome of systematic efforts on the 

 part of a committee ot the Royal Society of London together with 

 the co-operation of governments throughout the world to arrange 

 scientific literature both as to subject matter and to authors' 

 names. The first literature to be included is that of January, 

 1901. 



The main purpose of this Catalogue is to furnish scientific in- 

 vestigators with a ready means of ascertaining "most easily what 

 has been put-'lished concerning any particular subject of inquiry." 



The Catalogue includes the following branches of science : 



A. Mathematics. 



B. Mechanics. 



C. Physics. 



D. Chemistry. 



E. Astronomy. 



F. Meteorology (including terrestrial magnetism). 



G. Mineralogy (including Petrology and Crystallo- 



graphy). 

 H. Geology. 

 J. Geography. 

 K. Palaeontology. 

 L. General Biology. 

 M. Botany. 

 N. Zoology. 

 O. Human Anatomy. 

 P. Physical Anthropology. 

 Q. Physiology (including experimental psychology, 



pharmacology and experimental pathology). 

 R. Bacteriology. 

 The subject matter is grouped under a number of headings. 

 A Central Bureau edits and publishes the "Catalogue." 

 Regional bureaus exist with a view of furnishing the Central 



*The late Dr. G. M. Dawson, a director of the Geol. Survey Department, 

 during his life-time, did much to assist the Canadian Government and the 

 committee of the Royal Society of London in furthering the objects of the 

 International Catalogue ol Scientific Literature. 



