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None the less we are surprised that a journal with so high-sounding 
a title should so ignore the objects of its existence and the respon- 
sibilities that it has assumed, as entirely to omit all reference to the 
original place of publication of the article. We may also point out 
the absence of an exact date of publication from the wrapper, the 
pages, and the included catalogue-slips of this Bulletin. To parody 
an old saying, we.must really ery, “ Bibliographer! bibliograph 
thyself.” 
The Belgian bibliographers seem to have found Mr Arctowski’s 
article as unpractical as interesting. One thing is certain, we are 
not going to wait—not even the Royal Society Committee—for 
someone to write us a phylogenetic history of science. Therefore 
the impossibilities of the suggested classification do not greatly 
matter. At the present moment work is being done in the biblio- 
graphy of science on a definite and uniform plan, which may be 
ridiculous, incorrect, confusing, but which is workable and being 
worked. There are no doubt, plenty of beautiful, symmetrical 
schemes, as clear as daylight, but they are not in use. The follow- 
ing bibliographies are announced by the Jnstitut International in a 
catalogue of its publications :—Bibliographia Philosophica, B. Socio- 
logica, B. Astronomica, B. Zoologica, B. Medica Italica, B. Ana- 
tomica, B. Physiologica, B. Ostetrica e Ginecologica Italiana, while 
there are in preparation a Bibliographica Geologica, B. Physica, 
B. Medica Belgica, B. Agronomica Italica, and others. 
Some of these bibliographies represent the adhesion to the 
uniform plan of periodicals or societies hitherto .working on other 
lines, such as the Zoologischer Anzeiger, Anatomischer Anzeiger, and 
Ll Policlinico. We notice too that the Biological Society of Paris 
accompanies its 1896 volume with. an analytical index to the 
articles, arranged on the principles of the decimal classification. 
All the subjects dealt with in over 300 articles are thus referred 
to in two pages. These and numerous other facts, which it would 
be wearisome to detail, show that the system is gaining ground, 
whereat many will marvel. 
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A BrouocicaAL REcoRr 
YET another form of scientific bibliography comes to us in L’ Année 
Biologique, further described as “comptes rendus aunuels des travaux 
de biologie générale publiés sous la direction de Yves Delage, pro- 
fesseur a la Sorbonne avec la collaboration d’un Comité de Rédac- 
teurs.” The secretary to the editors is Dr Georges Poirault. The 
work is published by Schleicher Fréres, 15 Rue des Saints-Peéres; 
Paris, at a price of 20 francs. The first volume, just received by 
us, deals with the literature of the year 1895. We may describe 
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