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all that concerns the public health in its municipal, national, and 

 international relations. 



Nine numbers of the volume have been issued, and the volume 

 will be complete with the January number, when the "Annual In- 

 dex " will be compiled. The Index is a very elaborate piece of 

 work, and will comprise 200 pages in double or triple columns. The 

 work is of great value to all the medical profession, especially to 

 professors in medical schools and colleges, officers of health, and 

 workers in scientific laboratories. 



The subscribers to the Index Medicus are chiefly residents of the 

 United States, but the list includes subscribers in England, Ireland, 

 Scotland, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, 

 Roumania, Sweden, Switzerland, and Manila. There are now 455 

 subscribers. 



Herbert Putnam, Washington, D. C. Grant No. 56. For prepar- 

 ing and publishing a Handbook of Learned Societies. $5,000. 



In order that the scientific investigators of this country, and espe- 

 cially those connected with the Carnegie Institution, might have an 

 accurate knowledge of the agencies which now exist for the promo- 

 tion of scientific inquiry in every part of the world, the Advisory 

 Committee on Bibliography recommended that a descriptive cata- 

 logue be prepared of all the learned societies of the world. 



At the present time such information, and particularly regarding 

 the publications of learned societies, is incomplete and unorganized, 

 being scattered through a large and miscellaneous collection of vol- 

 umes, many of which are inaccessible and not well known. A 

 careful and comprehensive list would be of great value to all the 

 librarians of the country who aim at the preservation of the trans- 

 actions of learned bodies. It would also furnish a basis for ex- 

 changes. The funds for research work held by these various 

 institutions have special significance with reference to the activities 

 of the Carnegie Institution. The plan of the Handbook included 

 information as to these eleven points : 



(i) Name or names of the society or institution, indicating any 

 change which may have occurred, with cross references. 



(2) Objects of the society. 



(3) Brief historical note. 



(4) Endowments, research funds, prizes, etc. 



(5) Offices of the society. 



