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Papers,' which at present is only brought down to 1883, The 

 volume under review is due to international co-operation, each 

 country, by its Hcgional Bui'eau, undertaking to supply the biblio- 

 graphy of science, to be combined into one whole by the Central 

 Eureau in London. The idea is tliat of the seventeen annual 

 volumes wliich are planned each should be devoted to one science, 

 thus making it easy for specialists to subscribe for such portions as 

 they may require. 



Although printed by the month of May, the volume has only 

 recently been issued — a delay which must be attributed to the diffi- 

 culty attending every new issue of similar extent. 



The scope of the volume before us vaaj best be given by a state- 

 ment of its contents. A short preface of five pages explains the 

 foundation of the work, the contributing countries, and the list of 

 subjects, followed by an enumeration of twenty-nine Eegional 

 Bureaus and their chiefs, explanations of the method of using the 

 volume, and then the schedule of botanic subjects, each item having 

 a registration number, to facilitate the grouping of titles. While 

 each subject volume is denoted by a letter — e. cj., M, Botany, 

 N, Zoology, II, Bacteriology, &c. — each item of the schedule is 

 designated by four figures. Thus, the introductory portion com- 

 prises such items as 0040, Addresses, Lectures ; 0070, Nomen- 

 clature. External Morpholog}' and Organogen}' are comprised in 

 numbers 1000 (General) to 1800 (Teratology); similarly Anatomy, 

 Development, aud Cytology are numbered from 2000 (General) to 

 2000 (Cell-formation). The succeeding main headings are : — 

 Physiology, Pathology, Evolution, Taxonomy, and Geographic 

 Distribution, closing with an index of the subheadings. The 

 schedule is also given in French, German, and Italian. Topogra- 

 phical Classification, a scheme common to all the sciences, also 

 appears in the same languages, closing this preliminary matter. 

 The catalogue of books and papers under the title of " Authors' 

 Catalogue" occupies pp. 43-126. The name of the writer pre- 

 cedes the title of his work in usual bibliographic method, followed 

 by the registration number or numbers under which the same paper 

 will be found in the " Subject Catalogue ; " these entries are con- 

 secutively numbered for reference. The " Subject Catalogue '*' of 

 240 pages forms the largest part of the volume ; and this feature is 

 peculiar to this series, beiug entirely absent in the ' Catalogue of 

 Scientific Papers,' so far as that has been issued. Each separate item 

 of the schedule is set out, with the particulars referring to it from 

 the " Authors' Catalogue" repeated ; the registration numbers are 

 given at the head of each page as an indication. Under the heading 

 Taxonomy a list of new genera and species is appended to each 

 group — as, for instance, the Algae, Fungi, and so forth ; the running 

 numbers of the " Authors' Catalogue " are here used to show the 

 particular paper in which the species is published. The volume 

 ends with an enumeration of the serials referred to, with the 

 abbreviations emjdoyed. 



