52 APPENDIX TO PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS, 
India.—Lieut.-General Richard Strachey, R.E., F.R.S. 
Natal.—Walter Peace, Esq., C.M.G. (the Agent-General for Natal). 
New South Wales.—Prof, Liversidge, F.R.S. 
New Zealand.—The Hon. W. P. Reeves (Agent-General for New Zealand). 
Queensland.—Chas, S. Dicken, Esq., C.M.G. (Acting Agent-General for 
Queensland). 
The following are some of the resolutions agreed to :— 
That each delegate shall have a vote in deciding all questions brought 
before the Conference. 
That it is desirable to compile and publish by means of some international 
organisation a complete catalogue of scientific literature, arranged according 
both to subject-matter and to authors’ names. 
That in preparing such a catalogue, regard shall, in the first instance, be 
had to the requirements of scientific investigators, to the end that these 
may, by means of the catalogue, find out most easily what has been published 
concerning any particular subject of enquiry. 
That the administration of such a catalogue be entrusted to a representa- 
tive body, hereinafter called the International Council, the members of 
which shall be chosen as hereinafter provided. 
That the final editing and the publication of the catalogue be entrusted 
to an organisation, hereinafter called the Central International Bureau, 
under the direction of the International Council. 
16. That any country which shall declare its willingness to undertake the 
task shall be entrusted with the duty of collecting, provisionally classifying, 
and transmitting to the Central Bureau, in accordance with rules laid down 
by the International Council, all the entries belonging to the scientific 
literature of that country. 
That in indexing according to subject-matter, regard shall be had, not 
only to the title (of a paper or a book), but also to the nature of the contents. 
That the catalogue shall comprise all published original contributions to 
the branches of science hereinafter mentioned, whether appearing in 
periodicals or in the publications of societies, or as independent pamphlets, 
memoirs, or books. 
That in each country the system of collecting and preparing material for 
the catalogue shall be subject to the approval of the International Council. 
That in judging whether a publication is to be considered as a contribution 
to science suitable for entry in the catalogue, regard shall be had to its con- 
tents, irrespective of the channel through which it is published. 
That the Central Bureau shall issue the catalogue in the form of “ slips ” 
or ‘‘cards,” the details of the cards to be hereinafter determined, and that 
the issue take place as promptly as possible. Cards corresponding to any 
one or more branches of science, or to sections of such sciences, shall be 
supplied separately at the discretion of the Central Bureau. 
That the Central Bureau shall also issue the catalogue in book form from 
time to time, the entries being classified according to the rules to be herein- 
after determined. 
