Appendix 7. 



REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF 

 SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the opera- 

 tions of the United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916: 



Each year 17 volumes of the catalogue are published by the Central 

 Bureau in London, one volume for each of the following named 

 sciences: Mathematics, mechanics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, 

 meteorology, mineralogy, geology, geography, palaeontology, gen- 

 eral biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, anthropology, physiology, 

 and bacteriology. 



The publication was begun in 1901, and since then all of the first 

 11 annual issues have been published, together with 14 volumes of 

 the twelfth issue, 10 volumes of the thirteenth issue, and 1 volume 

 of the fourteenth, a total of 212 regular volumes, in addition to 

 several special volumes of schedules, lists of journals, etc. 



The 14 volumes of the twelfth issue published are mathematics, 

 mechanics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, mineralogy, 

 geography, palaeontology, general biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, 

 and anthropology. 



The 10 volumes of the thirteenth issue published are mathematics, 

 mechanics, physics, astronomy, meteorology, mineralogy, geography, 

 palaeontology, general biology, and zoology. 



The one volume of the fourteenth issue published is zoology. 



During the year there were 24,160 classified references to American 

 scientific literature prepared by this bureau as follows: 



Literature of — 



1908 6 



1909 2 



1910 75 



1911 369 



1912 835 



1913 3. 948 



1914 8, 750 



1915 10, 175 



Total 24, 160 



It was, of course, inevitable that an international cooperative enter- 

 prise such as the International Catalogue should be affected by the 



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