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International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 

 The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature consists of 

 a classified subject and author catalogue of all original scientific 

 literature beginning with January i, 1901. All of the seventeen 

 sciences named below are included within the scope of the catalogue, 

 one volume a year being devoted to each : Mathematics, mechanics, 

 physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology (including terrestrial 

 magnetism), mineralogy (including petrology and crystallography), 

 geology, geography (mathematical and physical), paleontology, gen- 

 eral biology, botany, zoology, human anatomy, physical anthropology, 

 physiology (including experimental psychology, pharmacology and 

 experimental pathology), and bacteriology. 



The organization consists of a central bureau in London (Dr. H. 

 Forster Morley, Director) to edit and publish classified references 

 to the world's current literature furnished by regional bureaus estab- 

 lished in and supported by the principal countries of the world. 

 The system of classification adopted divides each science into spe- 

 cific, numbered subdivisions, under one or more of which it is pos- 

 sible to classify any paper on any subject within the domain of 

 science. Conversely, when any subject is to be investigafed, the 

 plan is first to find the subject-heading in the classification schedule 

 and to use the number there given instead of a page number in look- 

 ing up the grouped references in the body of the catalogue, the 

 pages of which bear the schedule numbers in addition to page num- 

 bers. As, with the exception of additions, these subdivisions and 

 numbers are the same from year to year, this method will materially 

 aid in investigations covering a term of years. 



Regional bureaus are established in the following countries : 

 Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cape Colony, Denmark, Egypt, France, 

 Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, 

 Italy, India and Ceylon, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, New South 

 Wales, Norway. Portugal, Poland, Queensland, Russia, South Aus- 

 tralia, Sweden, Switzerland, Victoria, Western Australia, and Fin- 

 land. Authority over all questions of methods and administration 

 is vested in an international convention to be held in London in 

 1905, 1910, and every tenth year following. 



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