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should be 17. Dr. H. Forster Morley was appointed Director of the 

 Central Bureau, and an Executive Committee of the International Council 

 was also formed. The Central Bureau is established in offices at 34 and 35 

 Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C. Schedules of Classification and 

 the Instructions for the use of Regional Bureaus have been elaborated and 

 are issued in English, French, Italian, and German. 



The second meeting of the International Council was held in London on 

 May 23 and 24, 1904. At this meeting it was decided 'That in view of the 

 success already achieved by the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature, and of its great importance to scientific workers, it is imperative 

 to continue the publication of the Catalogue beyond the first five annual 

 issues '. 



The first meeting of the International Convention was held in London on 

 July 25 and 26, 1905, and was attended by accredited representatives from 

 Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Italy, Japan, 

 Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of 

 America. The Convention received and adopted the resolution of the 

 International Council of the previous year, recommending that the work be 

 continued for a second period of five years ; and they requested the Royal 

 Society to continue to act as the publishing body, and in that capacity to 

 conclude a contract with Messrs. Harrison & Sons for printing and publishing 

 the volumes of the Catalogue that would index the scientific literature of the 

 years 1906-1910. The Convention also asked the Royal Society to make 

 provision for the working capital required. 



In response to these resolutions, the Council of the Royal Society arranged 

 for an extension, with certain modifications, of the then existing contracts, 

 so that they should cover the printing and publishing of the Catalogue up to 

 the end of the tenth annual issue. The Society has advanced sums amounting 

 altogether to ,^7,500 for working expenses, upon which annual interest is paid. 



At the meeting of the International Convention in 1905 the Schedules of 

 Classification underwent careful revision. The Convention also approved 

 a proposal for the amalgamation of Volume N (Zoology) of the Catalogue 

 with the Zoological Record published by the Zoological Society of London. 

 The amalgamation was agreed to for the five years 1906-1910, and it has 

 recently been extended to cover the period 1911-1915. 



At a third meeting of the International Council held in London on July 

 29 and 30, 1907, details of the work of the Regional Bureaus established in 

 the various co-operating countries were taken into consideration, and it was 

 decided to issue a new edition of the Instructions for the use of Regional 

 Bureaus. The fourth meeting of the International Council was held in 

 London on June 3 and 4, 1909. 



The second meeting of the International Convention was held in London 

 July 12 to 13, 1910. It was attended by accredited representatives from 



