OcTOBER 6, 1899.] 
It was agreed—‘‘ That each country rep- 
resented on the Committee has only one 
vote.” 
Reports upon the scheme for the Inter- 
national Catalogue prepared by the Royal 
Society, framed in pursuance of Resolution 
21, of the Conference of 1898, which had 
been forwarded from the following coun- 
tries, namely: Austria, Belgium, France, 
Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzer- 
land, United States of America, together 
with statements of the steps proposed to be 
taken for carrying out the Catalogue in 
India, Japan and Mexico, were received 
and fully considered by the Committee in 
the course of the meeting. 
A discussion then took place on the fol- 
lowing conditions, laid down by the German 
government, as those under which alone 
Germany was prepared to take part in the 
enterprise : 
1. Die sachlichen Nachweise (subject 
entries) sollen wegfallen und in der unter 
III, 2 gegebenen Hinschrankung durch die 
Anwendung mehrfacher Ordnungssymbole 
ersetzt werden. 
2. Bei der Festlegung der den Titeln im 
System zukommenden Platze durch Ord- 
nungssymbole soll im Allgemeinen die 
Regel gelten, dass jeder Titel nur an einer 
Stelle unterzubringen ist. 
3. Dersachlich geordnete Theil der Buch- 
ausgabe soll in allen Disziplinen lediglich 
aus den Titeln zusammengestellt werden; 
und zwar ausnahmslos unter Voranstellung 
des Verfassernamens. 
4. Die Zettelausgabe soll als offizieller 
Theil des Unternehmens wegfallen. 
5. Die Beitrittserklarung soll zunachst 
nur auf funf Jahre erfolgen. = 
It was Resolved : 
1. That the issue of a Card Catalogue be 
postponed for the present. 
2. That a paper shall be entered in the 
Catalogue in more places than one only 
when this is rendered desirable by its scien- 
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tific contents. No exact limits tothe num- 
bers of entries to be allowed to single papers 
can at present be fixed. This must be deter- 
mined by the Central Bureau after adequate 
experience. Untilsuch limits are determined, 
if the Central Bureau is of the opinion that 
in the returns made by any regional bureau 
the numbers of entries to single papers do 
not correspond to the scientific contents, 
_it shall be its duty to intervene; such in- 
tervention, however, to be based not on 
individual cases, but upon an average. As 
regards the order of arrangement of entries 
in the final sub-divisions, in general this 
shall be in accordance with authors’ names, 
except the subject demand other treatment. 
The English members thereupon made 
the following statement : 
The conditions under which the German 
Government agree to take part in the es- 
tablishment of the Catalogue, viz. : 
(a) That in general each title should be 
entered in one place only; and 
(8) That ‘subject entries’ and ‘signifi- 
cant words’ must not be used, 
differ so materially from the scheme for- 
mulated by the two Conferences, and so seri- 
ously affect the whole character of the en- 
terprise, that the English members feel that 
they have no power to accept them without 
consulting the Royal Society upon the matter. 
With respect to (a), if the condition be 
interpreted in accordance with the decision 
arrived at by the International Committee 
in Resolution 2 (see above), the difficulty is 
materially lessened. 
With respect to (8), however, they feel 
sure that the restriction of entries to titles 
only will so largely diminish the value of 
the Catalogue, bringing it below that of 
various indices and reports already exist- 
ing, and hence so lessen the sale as to ren- 
der the financial success of the enterprise 
extremely doubtful, if not impossible. 
They quite understand the reasons which 
have led the German Government to pro- 
