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form the actual significant contributions in a paper 

 regardless of its title. 



(2) The editorial requirement that a suitable abstract 

 prepared in accordance with these rules be submitted 

 with a manuscript when offered for publication. 



(3) That this author's abstract, after proper editing, be 

 published in a periodical abstract journal (possibly 

 monthly) for the appropriate science. 



(4) That all abstracts be held in type for at least one 

 year, in order that the materials may be reclassified 

 according to subject and reprinted as an annual 

 topical review. / 



(5) That as essential parts of this annual topical review 

 for any given field of science, there be also published 

 complete author and subject lists. 



(6) That such lists be accumulated and published in 

 separate volumes at intervals of five or ten years. 



The ideal execution of this general plan will de- 

 mand international cooperation by developing 

 methods, and by the assistance of special scientific 

 groups, to establish suitable abstract or other 

 periodicals. As a matter of fact, encouraging prog- 

 ress has already been made with several of the more 

 important scientific journals which have adopted the 

 substance of the proposals involved in this program, 

 (h) Although this Division is in no sense primarily re- 

 sponsible for the publication policies of the Council, 

 it has contributed substantially to their development. 

 These policies involve the publication in a bulletin series 

 of important scientific papers which do not find any 

 natural place in extant scientific journals, and also the 

 circulation of reprints of important papers published in 

 media reaching but a limited circle of readers. Already 

 there have appeared several reprints and the following 

 bulletins: Number i, " The National Importance of 



