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Dr. Ernest Gushing Richardson, one of the great international 

 authorities on bibliography, stated in a paper on the International 

 Catalogue published in Science, June 20, 1930 : 



♦ * * The research endowments are bomharded with bibliographical 

 projects of varying method and degrees of merit. They aid or support a good 

 many projects. They are deeply concerned as trust organizations to put their 

 money where it will do the most good. Other things being equal, they prefer 

 to put it where one dollar will do the work of four. * * * It is here they 

 can give the most bibliographical service with the least money. The proposi- 

 tion touches the libraries in a very similar way. If and when the matter is 

 revived it will depend for financing, if not on the endowments, than on library 

 subscriptions. If this machine is scrapped, when a new one is started either 

 a $3,000,000 endowment must be had from promoters of research or a quad- 

 ruple price charged to libraries. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Leonard C. Gunnell, 



Assistant in Charge. 

 Dr. Charles G. Abbot, 



Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 



