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Dr. Ward: Personally I do not think any better plan 

 could be found. 



Mr. Fearing: Another question is: Shall the subject 

 entries be followed by the name of the author? As for ex- 

 ample, "Fish Culture— A Practical Art; by J. H. Bissell." 



Dr. Ward: There is only this to say, speaking per- 

 sonally again, I have recalled that in a certain year Mr. 

 Dwight Lydell said something in a paper on the bass that 

 bore on another point, and if one had to hunt through every 

 paper on the bass to find which one Mr. Lydell wrote, it 

 would be hard to get at that specific information. 



Mr. Fearing: You will find it under the heading "Ly- 

 dell, remarks on black bass." There is really a double 

 entry of the author's name, for it would appear both under 

 the headings "Lydell" and "Black bass." 



The next question is : Shall authors' names be entered 

 in full, or as given in the list of members, or with initials of 

 first names only? 



There are many men who, perhaps, for the purposes of 

 this Society use a middle name, as A. John Brown, instead 

 of A. J. Brown. It is as simple one way as the other, to put 

 them in as they are given in the list of members, or other- 

 wise. In many cases it is almost impossible to give the full 

 name correctly. 



Secretary : Perhaps it would be best to have no hard 

 and fast rule. Simply make the entry according to the 

 author's signature. 



Mr. Fearing: The simplest way would be to give the 

 name as it appears in the list of members. 



Another question is: Shall the reference be given to tin- 

 year of meeting or number of meeting? 



Dr. Ward: There is one point here, that we all should 

 bear in mind, and that is that all librarians who bind these 

 proceedings will put on the back the number of the volume 

 and not the year, or if they put on the year they may put on 

 the year of publication, which is the date recognized, and not 

 the year in which the paper was read. Now thai will render 



