296 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, Japan, 

 South Wales, Russia, South Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 

 tin- Tinted States of America. At this Convention it was resolved 'That in 

 \ir\\ of the success already achieved by the International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature and of the great importance of the objects which it 

 promotes, it is imperative to continue the publication of the Catalogue during 

 the period 1911-1915 and, on the recommendation of the International 

 Council, during the subsequent five years 1916-1920'. All the delegates 

 lit voted in favour of this resolution with the exception of the representa- 

 ti\e of Germany, who stated that his country desired to reserve its decision. 

 The German Government has, however, since the meeting of the Convention 

 announced its intention of continuing its support of the undertaking for the 

 third quinquennial period. 



The Convention of 1910 also resolved 'That in view of the resolution 

 arrived at to continue the Catalogue for a further period of five years, 

 tlu Royal Society of London be requested to act, as in the past, as the 

 publishing body and to make the necessary contracts'. The Council of the 

 I {oval Society has therefore agreed with the printers for the extension of 

 the contracts for printing and publishing the Catalogue until the end of the 

 fifteenth annual issue, namely, the one indexing the literature of 1915. 



The contributions of the various countries have taken the form of promises 

 to subscribe for a certain number of complete sets of the volumes or their 

 equivalent. The following is a list of the sets thus subscribed for at the 

 present time : 



New Zealand .... 1 

 Norway ..... 5 

 Nova Scotia .... 1 

 Orange River Colony . . 1 

 Poland ... .1 



Portugal 1 



Queensland .... 1 

 Russia . . . . .30 

 South Australia . . . 2 

 Spain ..... 1 



Sweden 5 



Switzerland .... 8 

 Transvaal Colony ... 1 

 United Kingdom . . .45 

 United States of America . 58 



Victoria 1 



West Australia ... 1 



Total 369 



