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None the less we are surprised that a journal with so high-sounding 

 a title should so ignore the objects of its existence and the respon- 

 sibilities that it has assumed, as entirely to omit all reference to the 

 original place of publication of the article. We may also point out 

 the absence of an exact date of publication from the wrapper, the 

 pages, and the included catalogue-slips of this Bulletin. To parody 

 an old saying, we must really cry, " Bibliographer ! bibliograph 

 thyself." 



The Belgian bibliographers seem to have found Mr Arctowski's 

 article as unpractical as interesting. One thing is certain, we are 

 not going to wait — not even the Eoyal Society Committee — for 

 someone to write us a phylogenetic history of science. Therefore 

 the impossibilities of the suggested classification do not greatly 

 matter. At the present moment work is being done in the biblio- 

 graphy of science on a definite and uniform plan, which may be 

 ridiculous, incorrect, confusing, but which is workable and being- 

 worked. There are no doubt plenty of beautiful, symmetrical 

 schemes, as clear as daylight, but they are not in use. The follow- 

 ing bibliographies are announced by the Institut International in a 

 catalogue of its publications : — Bibliographia Philosophica, B. Socio- 

 logica, B. Astronomica, B. Zoologica, B. Medica Italica, B. Ana- 

 tomica, B. Physiologica, B. Ostetrica e Ginecologica Italiana, while 

 there are in preparation a Bibliographica Geologica, B. Physica, 

 B. Medica Belgica, B. Agronomica Italica, and others. 



Some of these bibliographies represent the adhesion to the 

 uniform plan of periodicals or societies hitherto working on other 

 lines, such as the Zoologischcr Anzeigcr, Anatomischer Anzeiger, and 

 II Policlinico. We notice too that the Biological Society of Paris 

 accompanies its 1896 volume with an analytical index to the 

 articles, arranged on the principles of the decimal classification. 

 All the subjects dealt with in over 300 articles are thus referred 

 to in two pages. These and numerous other facts, which it would 

 be wearisome to detail, show that the system is gaining ground, 

 whereat manv will marvel. 



A Biological PiEcord 



Yet another form of scientific bibliography comes to us in I' Annexe 

 Biologique, further described as "comptes rendus annuels des travaux 

 de biologie generate publics sous la direction de Yves Delage, pro- 

 fesseur a la Sorbonne avec la collaboration d'un Comitc' de Pi'dac- 

 teurs." The secretary to the editors is Dr Georges Poirault. The 

 work is published by Schleicher Kivres, 15 Puie des Saints-Peres, 

 Paris, at a price of 20 francs. The first volume, just received by 

 us, deals with the literature of the year 1895. We may describe 



