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pose the restrictions in question, but they 
are of opinion that those reasons do not 
necessarily hold good for all countries. 
And the objections which they entertain 
to the proposal would be lessened if liberty 
were given to individual Regional Bureaux 
when they find it necessary or desirable, in 
one or more of the places in which a paper 
is referred to, to make use of modified titles 
describing the contents of the paper better 
than the title itself. The extent to which 
such use of modified titles can be made 
must, of course, be subject to the control of 
the International Catalogue Council. 
The English members cannot assume that 
even if it be thus changed, the conditions 
proposed by the German Government will 
be accepted by the Royal Society ; but they 
desire, before bringing the whole matter be- 
fore the Royal Society, to be informed of 
the views of the German Government in 
respect to the proposed change. 
Moreover, so grave a departure from the 
scheme for providing a Catalogue, which 
should unquestionably be the best of its 
kind, could only be recommended if all the 
principal countries also consent. In par- 
ticular, as the American delegate was un- 
fortunately unable to attend the Confer- 
ence, it will be necessary that the whole 
question at issue should be communicated 
to him, and that American opinion should 
be ascertained. 
The German delegates expressed their 
willingness to submit this statement to their 
Government. 
It was Resolved :—That separate sched- 
ules shall be provided for the following 
branches of science : 
. Mathematics. 
. Mechanics. 
. Physics. 
. Chemistry. 
. Astronomy. 
. Meteorology (including Terrestrial Magnet- 
ism). 
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. Mineralogy (including Petrology and Crystal- 
lography). 
. Geology. 
. Geography (Mathematical and Physical). 
. Paleontology. 
. General Biology. 
. Botany. 
Zoology. 
Human Anatomy. 
. Physical Anthropology. 
. Physiology (including Psychology, Pharma- 
cology and Experimental Pathology). 
. Bacteriology. 
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And that the branches of Science be indi- 
cated by the letters of the alphabet in con- 
secutive order as registration letters. 
Schemes for Physics, Mineralogy, Pe- 
trology, Crystallography, Geology, Paleon- 
tology, Geography, Botany, Zoology and 
Physiology were adopted; and schemes. 
for Mathematics, Mechanics, General Bi- 
ology, Chemistry, Human Anatomy, Psy- 
chology, Bacteriology, Physical Anthropol- 
ogy, Astronomy and Meteorology were also 
approved for adoption, subject to the intro- 
duction of minor alterations by Committees. 
to whom they were referred with the in- 
struction to complete such revision and re- 
turn the schemes to the Royal Society by 
the end of September at latest. 
A general introductory section common to. 
all sciences was adopted. 
It was agreed that complete lists of new 
species would be required in the case of sev- 
eral of the sciences. 
With reference to the cataloguing of the 
applications of science— 
It was Resolved :—That technical matters. 
of scientific interest shall be included in the 
catalogue, but shall be referred to under the 
appropriate scientific headings. 
It was Resolved :—That a general list of 
journals indexed in the Catalogue, with the 
abbreviations to be used as references, be 
issued with the first edition of the Cata- 
logue, and that a supplement giving the 
additions to this list be issued annually, 
