Catalogues of Scientific Literature 



99 



A large number of annual volumes were actually published from 1902 to 1916, 

 but the gigantic undertaking was a victim of the first World War and of the national 

 selfishness and loss of ideahsm which the War induced. The volumes pubhshed 

 cover the scientific literature for the period from 1901 to about 1913.®* 



** The publication includes 254 octavo volumes, varying in thickness from half an inch to 

 two inches, and the original price was about £,260. The stock has been sold to William Daw- 

 son and Sons, London, who oflFered a complete set for the price of £ 60 unbound, or £. 100 

 bound (November 1935). Unfortunately most of Messrs. Dawson's stock was lost, by enemy 

 action, during the second World War and these voliunes are now almost unobtainable. 



