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sciences, which had been put forward in the report fco the British 

 Association, was abandoned, and it was decided " that all the sciences 

 should be comprehended." The tentative restrictions were, of course, 

 finally relaxed. It was resolved to extend the indexing to works in 

 other libraries not contained in the library of the Royal Society ; and 

 in 1864, when the question of printing had to be determined, it was 

 decided to offer the Catalogue to Government for publication. 



The cost to the Society of compiling the material for the first 

 series of the Catalogue was considerable, and many of the Fellows 

 had spent no small amount of time, not only in superintending 

 the progress of the work at home, but in corresponding with 

 Academies abroad, with the view of making the list of serials 

 to be catalogued as complete as might be. It was therefore 

 with some reason that the Lords of the Treasury, in resolving to 

 priut the Catalogue at the public expense, stated that they had 

 regard " to the importance of the work, with reference to the promo- 

 tion of scientific knowledge generally, to the high authority of the 

 source from which it comes, and to the labour gratuitously given by 

 members of the Royal Society for its production." The printing of 

 this first series of the Catalogue covering the scientific serials from 

 the year 1800 to 1863, was commenced by the Stationery Office in 

 1866, seven Fellows of the Royal Society undertaking to read the 

 proof-sheets gratuitously. The sixth and last volume of the series, 

 completing the alphabet, was issued in 1872. 



An additional decade of serials, embracing the years 1864-73, 

 containing about 99,000 titles, and filling two additional quarto 

 volumes (vols. 7 and 8), was completed in January 1876, and pub- 

 lished by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1879. But when the 

 next decade neared completion it was found, that, even keeping 

 the Catalogue on the old lines, and making no considerable addition 

 to the number of serials catalogued, ten years of memoirs, which 

 formerly filled two volumes, would now fill three ; and an additional 

 difficulty arose from the fact that the Treasury now informed the 

 Society that the " ' Catalogue of Scientific Papers ' would not be 

 continued as a publication of the Stationery Office." Parliament 

 voted, however, a gift towards the charges of publication, and a 

 portion of this gift, supplemented by the Royal Society's own funds, 

 was devoted to the issue of vol. 9, which the Cambridge University 

 Press, aided by a subsidy from the Society, published in 1891. The 

 question how to meet the expense of future volumes was, however, 

 still an unsolved problem until in December, 1892, Dr. Ludwig Mond 

 made the Society the handsome donation of 2000 to assist in 

 carrying on the Catalogue and Index. Partly by aid of this gift, 

 vol. 10 was published in 1894, and vol. 11, completing the decade 

 187483, last year. 



