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In the second conference now lield, this Report of the Royal Society- 

 Committee was made the base of the deliberations, in order to come 

 as much as possible to a decision on the subjects contained therein. 

 Amongst the conclusions so arrived at I have to mention in the 

 first place those concerning the international organization. 



The establishment of an International Council and of International 

 Conventions, constituted as proposed by the Royal Society-Committee, 

 that is to say as described above, was accepted by the conference. 



The instituting of the International Committees of Referees on 

 the other hand was referred for consideration to the International 

 Council when constituted. 



In the second -place resolutions were passed on the arrangement 

 of the catalogue. 



Notwitlistanding the greater costs that will be incurred by it, 

 the maintaining of the slip catalogue, besides the book-catalogue, was 

 uigeutly insisted on from many sides. The resolution taken by the 

 former conference of editing the catalogue in both forms was unanimously 

 confirmed. It was however deemed necessary to make the finantial 

 prospects of the enterprise, which cannot at present be rightly 

 estimated, decide on the question whether only the primary slip- 

 catalogue or also the secondary one will have to be issued. 



This last course was thought very desirable in itself, as it offers 

 the only means of collecting and keeping together the complete slips 

 for each particular branch of science. The hope was expressed that 

 a suitable arrangement of the secundary slips might greatly reduce 

 the large difference of cost which, according to the report of the 

 Royal Society-Committee, would exist between the two forms of the 

 slip-catalogue. 



As to the classification-schedules in the third place, it was resolved 

 that separate schedules shall be composed for the following sciences: 

 Mathematics; Astronomy; Meteorology; Physics; Cristallography ; 

 Chemistry; Mineralogy; Geology (including Petrology); Geography 

 (only the Mathematical and the Physical part) ; Paleontology ; Ana- 

 tomy; Zoology; Rotany; Physiology (including Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Pathology); Bacteriology; Psychology; Anthropology. 



For the rest the assembly confined itself to draw up some very 

 general rules for the construction of these schedules, the further 

 development of which is left to a provisional International Committee, 

 which probably shall appoint experts for every branch to assist in 

 the working out. In many cases certainly the provisional classification- 

 schedule, added to the Report of the Royal Society-Committee, may 

 serve as a base. 



