INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC 

 LITERATURE. 



INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF REGIONAL 

 BUREAUS. 



The object, scope, and organisation of the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature have been defined at 

 Conferences held in London on July 14-17, 1896 ; October 11-13, 

 1898 ; and June 12-13, 1900. 



The following document is largely' compiled from the 

 resolutions of these Conferences. 



I. 



OBJECT AND SCOPE OF THE CATALOGUE. 



1. The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature shall be 

 arranged according both to subject-matter and to authors' 

 names. 



2. The first literature to be included in the Catalogue is that 

 of January, 1901. 



Literature published before January 1, 1901, shall not be 

 included in the Catalogue, except when the date 1901 appears on 

 the title-page. 



The final parts of Journals issued in 1901 which reallj"^ belong 

 to the year 1900, and papers printed before 1901 in transactions 

 of Scientific Societies and other publications, which as a rule are 

 issued in separate parts, shall be excluded from the Catalogue, 

 unless they form part of a Jounial, the title-page of which bears 

 the date 1901. 



3. In preparing the Catalogue regard shall, in the first 

 instance, be liad to the requirements of scientific investigators, 

 to the end that these may, by means of the Catalogue, find out 

 most easily what has been published concerning any particulai* 

 subject of inquiry. 



