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according to the sections suggested by Mr. Beeson. If a genus is split 

 up, you have simply to remove your card and change your guide card. 



Our experience is that cards are not satisfactory except (1) when Mr. Fletcher, 

 the work of a Section or Department is comparatively in its infancy 

 and (2) for purely systematic references. All our economic work is 

 recorded on the File system, the Files being kept arranged in systematic 

 order, and each species having its File, which includes all the information 

 we have on it, whether published or unpublished, and including corres- 

 pondence about it and any illustrations that have been done. On 

 turning up a File we have at once the whole information we have on 

 the subject of the insect concerned. Systematic work is entered on 

 card-catalogues or interleaved copies of " Fauna " volumes, and general 

 notes are entered into interleaved copies of Indian Insect Life and 

 So2dh Imlian Insects. It is very rarely that any publication fails to fit 

 into one of thesd systems but, for the few that do not, a general 

 alphabetical card-catalogue is quite sufficient. 



The main difference between Mr. Beeson's scheme and that adopted 

 at Pusa seems to be that he considers that subject-indexing of entomolo- 

 gical literature can be carried out by a clerical staff, whilst we act on 

 the assumption that this is technical work that must be done by a 

 properly trained man. I should be very sorry to have to rely on 

 references as extracted by merely clerical labour. Eecently in our 

 own library I found a monograph on dragon-flies put away by the 

 librarian under the heading of Diptera and that sort of thing is bound 

 to happen constantly when merely clerical labour is devoted to classi- 

 fication of entomological literature. 



I beg to propose the following resolution : — Mr. Beeson. 



" That this Meeting considers it desirable to adopt a standard classi- Resolution 6. 



flcation of Entomological Literature for India. 

 " That, if such a sch'jme be adopted, it would be of considerable 

 advantage that it should, if possible, coniorm with the scheme 

 in use at ths Impsr^al Bureau of Entomology, London, and that 

 the Director of that Bureau ba approached for informotion on the 

 matter. 

 " That such information be ci culated to those interested in the sub- 

 ject in India, and that the matter be brought up for discussion at 

 the next Entomological Meeting." 

 I second this Resolution. j^j^ Andrews. 



[This Resolution, on being fut to the Meeting, ivos carried imanimouslij.'] 



