PREFACE. 



This Catalogue is intended to coiuuin the principal independent period- 

 icals of every branch of iniro and applied science, published in all countries 

 from the rise of tliis literature to tiie close of the year 1882. The compiler 

 has endeavored to give full titles, names of editors, sequence of series, and 

 other bibliographical details, and to arrange the whole on a simple plan 

 convenient for reference. The range of topics will be seen by examining 

 the Index of Subjects ; while medicine has been excluded, anatomy, physi- 

 ology, and veterinary science, being related to zoology, have been admitted. 

 With a few exceptions serials published by learned Societies have been 

 omitted; those admitted either form part of a series begun or ending in 

 an independent periodical, or are presumably not exclusively devoted to 

 the proceedings of the Societies by which they are edited. The admission 

 of Society publications to this Catalogue would swell the volume to an 

 inconvenient size, and has been rendered unnecessary by the publication of 

 the "Catalogue of Scientific Serials," by Mr. S. H. Scudder (Cambridge, 

 1879, 8vo). 



Some of the journals included in the present work are of doubtful scien- 

 tific value, and the right of some to be classed as periodicals is questiona- 

 ble ; in these and other debatable cases, many titles have been admitted on 

 the ground that "in a bibliography it is much better that a book should 

 be found which is not sought, than that one should be sought for and not 

 found." (Zuchold.) 



Thej)lan of the Catalogue is as follows: The titles arc arranged alphabeti- 

 cally by the first word, the articles and the adjective New (with its equiva- 

 lent in different languages) alone excepted. The various titles borne by a 

 })eriodical at different times are arranged in chronological order under the 

 first or earliest title of the series. Cross references have been freely intro- 

 duced, and are of four kinds ; \d, from the later to the first title of a periodi- 

 cal which has suffered changes in title ; 2d, from short titles in common use 

 to the accurate designations, od, from the names of the principal editors to 

 the journals conducted by them; 4//i, in the case of astronomical publica- 

 lions, from the places in which the Observatories are situated to the titles of 



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