ARRANGEMENT OF THE CATALOGUE. 



PUBLICATIONS issued by an institution are entered under the name 

 of that institution, while institutions are listed under the towns 

 in which they are established : independent serials will be found under 

 the town of publication. The names of institutions and the titles of 

 independent publications are arranged together alphabetically under 

 the towns and the towns alphabetically under the countries to which 

 they belong, the order of the latter being shown in .the Table of Contents 

 (p. iii). Changes in title, whether of institutions or of publications, 

 have been noted as far as possible and, in the case of independent 

 serials, changes in the town of publication are indicated by cross- 

 references. 



When volume number and date are followed by a dash, it is to be 

 understood that all subsequent issues are available ; but with works 

 published in Germany and Austria, this symbol merely indicates that 

 the publications were being received regularly up to the beginning 

 of the war. 



To facilitate reference a copious index has been added. In both 

 index and Catalogue the names of towns are printed in heavy type, 

 those of institutions in roman type and the titles of publications in 

 italics. The numbers in the index, and those used for cross-references, 

 refer to the separate entries and not to the pages. The heavy type 

 capitals, placed after the volume-numbers of individual publications, 

 indicate the libraries in which these volumes will be found. 



Except for minor alterations in method, necessitated by the fact 

 that the libraries of a number of different institutions are dealt with, 

 the arrangement of the Catalogue closely follows that of the Catalogue 

 of the Serial Publications in the Library of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, compiled by Mr. A. P. Hunt. Acknowledgment 

 is due to this Society and to the Compiler for the provision of so satis- 

 factorv a model. 



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