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ral; (2a) Sciences of the earth's interior (Metallurgy, Seismo- 

 logy, . . .); (26) Sciences of the earth's solid surface and crust 

 (Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, and sciences of mountains, 

 valleys, shores, and waterbeds) ; and the general science of solid 

 and viscous substances; (2c) Hydrology or Sciences of water- 

 sheds (i.e., of seas, lakes, ponds, springs, runnels, brooks, rivers, 

 underground reservoirs, clouds, saturated air, and of other water- 

 affected and water-containing substances), and science of water 

 and of liquids generally; (2d) Aerology Meteorology and 

 sciences of lower and higher air constituents and currents, 

 clouds, air thermology and barology, relation of air to super- 

 aerial and sub-terrestrial, to animate and inanimate, and to 

 terrestrial phenomena generally, and (2e), general science of 

 gases ; 



(d) General, Universal, and Non-Universal Physics, re-divided 

 each, as far as practicable, into General, Universal, and Non- 

 Universal. 



5. (a) General Biology, comprising the fundamental properties 

 of organisms; 



(b) Universal Biology Sciences of protoplasm, cell, tissue, 

 organ, system of organs, organism, and their animate and in- 

 animate environment; development of living forms generally, 

 of particular species, of fertilised ovum to birth, of birth to 

 death and decay, and further development of particular species ; 

 Sciences of sensibility, nutrition and excretion, adaptation and 

 regeneration, growth, reproduction, senescence, and death; 

 heredity, variation, and evolution; 



(c) Non-Universal Biology General: (1) Botany General, 

 Flowering and Flowerless Plants . . . ; (2) Zoology General ; 

 Invertebrates : Annulates, Molluscs, Radiates ; Vertebrates : Mam- 

 malia, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes; Palaeontology, Em- 

 bryology, Anatomy, Histology, Physiology; Systems Circula- 

 tory, Respiratory, Alimentary, Excretory, Reproductive, Skeletal, 

 Epidermic, Muscular, Nervous, Sensory, Cerebral . . .; 



(d) General, Universal, and Non-Universal Biology, each re- 

 divided, as far as practicable, into General, Universal, and Non- 

 Universal. 



6. (a) General Specio-Psychics, comprising fundamental pro- 

 perties of pan-human or species-produced culture; 



(b) Universal Specio-Psychics Sciences of societies, groups, 

 individuals, and their interrelations; Anthropology, Archaeo- 

 logy, Ethnography, Universal History, Socio-Geography, Demo- 

 graphy . . .; 



(c) Non-Universal Specio-Psychics General: History (of in- 

 dividual, and of minor and major social, civic, provincial, sub- 

 national, national, continental, and universal groups, institutions, 

 and products); Philology, Phonetics, Etymology, Grammar, 

 Gesture and Picture Languages, Telegraphic and other Signs 

 and Signals, Paleography, Epigraphy; Economics (Wealth pro- 



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