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INTEKNATIONAL SCIENCE. 



loguing of the scientific literature of the world both according to the 

 subjects and authors." Twenty-nine countries (counting the four 

 Australian colonies separately) are actively participating in this 

 work by furnishing slips containing the entries which form the basis 

 of the catalogue. A still larger number of countries assist by sub- 

 scribing to the annual volumes. 



The subjects included in the catalogue are classified according to 

 seventeen branches of science, as follows : 



[A^mathematics ; B=mechanics ; C=pliysics ; D^chemistry ; E=astron()my ; F= 

 meteorology ; G^mineralosy ; H=geology ; .J=geography ; K=paleontology ; L=biol- 

 ogy ; M^botany ; N^zoology ; 0=anatomy ; P=anthropology ; Q=physiology ; R==bac- 

 teriology. ] 



" The cataloguing enterprise here referred to is the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature. The original suggestion for international cooperation in the preparation of 

 an index to science was made by Professor Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, who, at the meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 18.5.5, at Glasgow, called attention to the growing need of such an index. 



The " Catalogue of Scientific Papers." published for many years by the Royal Society 

 of London, was the first fruit of Professor Henry's suggestion. The International Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature is an outgrowth of the " Catalogue of Scientific Papers." 



The Smithsonian Institution since the beginning has represented the United States in 

 this important international undertaking. — Editor, Smithsonian Institution. 



