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Maps are entered in the first instance under the name of the 

 country charted. 



Cross-references are given freely in all cases where they will 

 facilitate research. 



Titles in Eussian, Servian, Japanese, and other Eastern languages 

 have been transliterated and translated, help in this direction 

 having been freely given by Professor E. K. Douglas, members of 

 the Japanese Embassy, and members of the staff of the Printed 

 Books Department at Bloomsbury. 



Mr. Woodward also acknowledges assistance received from 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, Mr. L. 

 Fletcher, Mr. J. Britten, Professor F. J. Bell, Mr. G. C. Crick, 

 Mr. G. A. Boulenger, Dr. F. A. Bather, and others. 



Eeferring to the exactitude with which the work has been done, 

 let us turn to Berendt (G. C). The first entry gives his name in 

 full and his birth and death dates, and lists a tract ; the second 

 entry chronicles his "Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen 

 Eeste . . . gesammelt . . ." The separate papers in 

 this work are fully plotted out, and thus we have an entry con- 

 cerning five works, of which the ordinary catalogues merely give 

 the covering title. Let us now refer to Buffon. We find no less 

 than ten editions of his "Complete Works," of which two, if not 

 three, are not to be found elsewhere in England, all of which 

 are fully listed out, and the date for each volume of each series 

 inserted. Even the " Guides des Excursions " of the Geological 

 Congresses held at Zurich and St. Petersburg are fully listed as 

 to their separate papers. With regard to those troublesome 

 publications which are issued a few pages at a time and extend 

 over a term of years, afterwards to be bound up as an ordinary 

 book, and all records of date lost, Mr. Woodward has, whenever 

 possible, either supplied the facts himself or given a note as to 

 where they may be found. Many of these entries, occupying 

 but a few lines of print, may mean hours, days, or weeks of 

 hunting of the most wearisome description through contemporary 

 literature. In this connection he has inserted a great deal of 

 the matter collected by the writer while compiling his " Index 

 Animalium." The irritating practice of authors of using one only 

 of their christian names, or of using their surname hyphened 

 to the last christian name without legal title, or of using the 

 surname only, have all been dealt with, and many errors of 

 this nature that have unavoidably crept into earlier catalogues 

 have now been cleared up. We no longer read such a jumble 

 as the fertile mind of an Indian babu elaborated for the catalogue 

 of a well-known Indian library : — 

 Buffon, de. 



, Le Citoyen la Cepede. 



, le Comte de. 



, le Comte de la Cepede. 



, le Clerc de. 



See also Lacepede, 



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