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form an estimate of the space which the catalogue would occupy. The num- 

 ber of papers in a volume of transactions is in general small, but there are 

 works, such as the Comptes Rcndus, the Astronomisclie Nachrichten, the 

 Philosophical Magazine, &c., containing a great number of papers, the titles 

 of which would consequently occupy a considerable space in the catalogue. 

 Upon the whole, the committee consider that, excluding America, they may 

 estimate the number of papers to be entered at 125,000, or, since each paper 

 would be entered twice, the number of entries would be 250,000. The num- 

 ber of entries that could conveniently be brought into a page quarto (double 

 columns) would be about thirty, so that, according to the above estimate, the 

 catalogue would occupy ten quarto volumes of rather more than 800 pages 

 each. It appears to the committee that there should be paid editors, who 

 should be familiar with the several great branches respectively of the sciences 

 to which the catalogue relates, but that the general scheme of arrangement and 

 details of the catalogue should be agreed upon between all the editors, and 

 that they should be jointly responsible for the execution. It would, of course, 

 be necessary that the editors should have the assistance of an adequate staff 

 of clerks. The principal scientific transactions and works would be accessible 

 in England at the library of the British Museum, and the libraries of the 

 Royal Society, and other philosophical societies. It would be the duty of the 

 editors to ascertain all the different w^orks which ought to be catalogued, and 

 to procure information as to the contents of such of them as may happen to 

 be accessible. The catalogue according to authors' names would be most 

 readily executed, and this catalogue, if it should be found convenient, might 

 be first published. The time of bringing out the two catalogues would of 

 course depend upon the sufficiency of the assistance at the command of the 

 editors. 



