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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Fletcher, Robert, Army Medical Museum, Washington, District of 

 Columbia. Grant No. 234. Preparation and publication of the 

 Index Medicus. (For previous reports see Year Book No. 2, 

 p. xxiii, and Year Book No. 3, p. 95. ) $10,000. 



Report. — After the publication of the report in the last Year Book 

 the volume of the Index Medicus for 1904 was completed. It formed 

 a large octavo volume of 1,201 pages, the index of authors and sub- 

 jects occupying 205 pages in addition. The index of subjects brings 

 together, under separate headings, all references to every subject in 

 the twelve monthly parts. Of the volume for 1905 the numbers to 

 October, inclusive, have appeared. The scope of the work becomes 

 enlarged each year with the increase in the number published of 

 medical books and periodicals. In the Index Medicus for 1904 there 

 appeared over 3,800 titles of new medical books under their appro- 

 priate subject headings, and during the same period about 1,400 

 periodicals were regularly indexed. Laboratory work, not only in 

 biology, but in everything relating to the public health, has also 

 much increased in the number of its publications. The formidable 

 epidemics of plague, cholera, and yellow fever, which have to some 

 extent reappeared during the present year, have already brought 

 numerous reports to medical journals and societies. These are 

 indexed and made available for officers of health and the medical 

 profession generally. 



It is interesting to observe the extent to which the Index Medicus 

 is made use of abroad. Its subscribers, though chiefly residents of 

 the United States, are also found in Australia, Austria-Hungary, 

 Belgium, Bohemia, Canada, Canal Zone (Panama), Denmark, Eng- 

 land, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Philippine 

 Islands, Portugal, Roumania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and Switz- 

 erland. 



Putnam, Herbert, Library of Congress, Washington, District of 

 Columbia. Grants Nos. 107 and 290. Preparatio?i and publica- 

 tion of a Handbook of Learned Societies. ( For previous reports see 

 Year Book No. 2, p. xxiv, and Year Book No. 3, p. 97.) $5,500. 



Mr. J. David Thompson, chief of division of documents, Library 

 of Congress, has been acting as editor of the Handbook. He submits 

 the following report : 



Except for current notes of publications of foreign societies, the 

 whole time of the office force has been devoted to preparing for the 



