UNIVERSITY OF 

 SANTA BARBARA COLLEGE LlBRAWf 



PREFACE 



TN the Preface to the volume forming the Subject Index to the papers on 

 Pure Mathematics for the nineteenth century, published in 1908, an 

 outline of the history of the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers 

 is given ; it is not necessary to repeat that account. 



The present volume deals with the papers on Mechanics as classified in the 

 Schedules of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature ; it contains 

 21295 entries referring to the papers contained in 959 serial publications. 



The Index titles for papers published in the latter part of the century, 

 from 1884 to 1900 inclusive, have been made by Referees familiar with the 

 subjects, who have consulted the original papers and have made the titles 

 from the contents of the papers and not merely from their headings. It 

 was intended that the Index entries for the papers from 1800 to 1883 should 

 be made from the complete titles as printed in the Catalogue of Authors 

 already published ; but it was soon found that many of these titles were too 

 indefinite for such minute classification, and reference has had to be made 

 to the original papers in a large number of cases. 



The subjects are arranged under the registration numbers adopted in 

 the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature ; a copy of Schedule B 

 (Mechanics) of that Catalogue, is prefixed to the Index, with indication of 

 the pages on which the titles for the different sections occur. It has 

 occasionally been found convenient, in order to save repetition in printing, 

 to group entries under a sub-heading which is not contained in the Inter- 

 national Catalogue Schedule. Where this has been done the sub-heading is 

 printed in italics. In some of these cases the words of the sub-heading are 

 understood to exist before the entries following them, and consequently 

 these entries commence with small letters. These minor classifications, 

 being often made mechanically on the basis of the explicit mention of the 

 sub-heading, are not to be taken as exhaustive; cognate entries may be 

 found elsewhere under the same main heading. The unit of classification 

 is thus the complete numbered heading. 



