APPENDIX VII, 
REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC 
LITERATURE. 
Srr: I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the 
United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. 
The United States Regional Bureau is one of the 32 regional bureaus now 
cooperating, through a central bureau in London, in the production of the 
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The aim of the enterprise 
is to index and classify all current published scientific papers and by means 
of 17 annual volumes publish and distribute the data thus prepared to the 
various subscribers to the catalogue throughout the world. The methods em- 
ployed in indexing and classifying each paper result in what is practically 
an analytical digest of the subject of each paper, this being accomplished by 
means of references to classification schedules which are arranged to include 
in systematic order each minute subdivision or subject of all the recognized 
natural and physical sciences. The regional bureaus are supported by the 
countries in which they are established, thus allowing all funds derived from 
subscriptions to be used to defray the actual cost of printing and publishing. 
The bureau in this country is supported by a direct congressional appropriation. 
The allotment for the present fiscal year was $5,000, the same as for previous 
years; the number of the staff has remained the same, namely, five persons. 
During the year there were 34,409 classified index cards prepared by this bu-— 
reau and forwarded to London as follows: 
Wwiterabure: OF UOOM gar ao Se ee ed Ber a Sa Bn Seep 133 
Miterature Of NWNOODS ele 2 oo a eel ale a eS a 235 
Literature’ of) 19032225. 2. Se ey hie Sea 2 SEB ae 
Titerature of 904i. c05. 3.1 2 a lee I 309 
Literature of W905 - = 28 254 2k ee ee ae rg ee oe 1, 656 
Literature of W906. 2.24 2-2 SEE Re eel Ne ee 4, 410 
Titterature of 1007 ==. ee 2 a ee eee 8, 509 
iteraturesote 908.22 ae eee tLe ee eee 18, 784 
10D 621) La Se oR he Rae NE I Se ty gr ee 34, 409 
The corresponding total for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, was 28,528, 
thus showing an increase of 5,881, or over 20 per cent. There has been an in- 
crease also in the number of citations furnished by other bureaus, for since the 
beginning of the enterprise in 1901 the number of pages in the combined 17 an- 
nual volumes has increased nearly one-third, as shown by the following table: 
Pages 
SU ent ME SS 0 ee la mk a Dane ap gL 7, 763 
SGCONMCMRUSS UGS en ads oN ne ie ea Pe gS Ee 2 8, 826 
EPUEVD TGS SS Ul Cee ee 9 etek ye aeRO ate BE ee a 8, 493 
DROUIN lata SS Wl Cone oe a ea ee eee ee 8, 681 
Beir SS Te asa he eae SS ee ee Oe eA 10, 785 
Six threes et see Be ret Ne ek ok. EE ea 10, 049 
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