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ranged according to the alphabetical order 

 of the authors' names, the full titles of the 

 the memoirs or books of each author fol- 

 lowing his name in the order of the regis- 

 tration symbols by which they are indi- 

 cated. 



These titles shall be given in the original 

 language alone if that language be either 

 English, French, German, Italian or Latin. 



In the case of other languages, the title 

 shall be translated into English, or such 

 other of the above five languages as may 

 be determined by the Regional Bureau con- 

 cerned (see 8 and 15 above) ; but in such 

 case the original title shall be added, either 

 in the original script, or transliterated into 

 Roman script. 



The title shall be followed by every nec- 

 essary reference, including the year of pub- 

 lication, and such other symbols as may be 

 determined. In the case of a separately 

 published book, the place and year of pub- 

 lication, and the number of pages, etc., 

 shall be given. ( '98. 18 and 25. ) 



24. The entries in the Subject Catalogue 

 shall be primarily arranged in the order of 

 the appropriate registration symbols in the 

 schedules. 



The order of arrangement in the final 

 subdivisions shall in general, be in the 

 alphabetical order of the authors' names, 

 unless the subject demand other treatment. 

 (Rep. Comm., p. 3.) 



25. Each entry in the Subject Catalogue 

 shall consist (a) of the author's name 

 ('98.18, i); (/3) of the title of the paper, 

 or of a modified title describing the con- 

 tents of the paper [or that portion of the 

 contents of the paper to which the entry 

 specially refers] better than the title itself 

 (Rep. Comm., p. 4) ; {y) of an adequate 

 reference to the journal or other publica- 

 tion. ('98.18, i.) 



The titles or modified titles in the Subject 

 Index shall be given only in English, French, 

 German, Italian or Latin. 



If the title of the paper is not in one of 

 these languages, the name of the language 

 in which it was published shall be added, 

 but the title or transliterated title in the 

 original language shall be given in the Au- 

 thor's Catalogue only (see 23 above). 



V. — OF THE LIST OF JOURNALS, COMMUNICA- 

 TIONS TO WHICH ARE TO BE CATA- 

 LOGUED. 



26. Each Reginal Bureau shall, before 

 November 30, 1900, furnish to the Central 

 Bureau a list of the Journals, the contents 

 of which it proposes to catalogue. Such 

 Journals to be arranged in a list according 

 to the order of the 17 sciences (see 16 above), 

 which form the subject-matter of the Cata- 

 logue. 



Journals dealing with science generally 

 are to be placed under a special heading of 

 ' General Science.' 



Journals dealing with a limited number 

 of sciences are to be placed under a special 

 heading of ' Several Sciences, ' and the sci- 

 ences with which they deal clearly indicated 

 by the registration letters of Section 16 

 above. 



27. On receipt of the above lists the Cen- 

 tral Bureau shall prepare for each of the 17 

 sciences a list of the Journals (whether 

 special or general) dealing with that sci- 

 ence, together with the abbreviated titles 

 which it proposes to use. 



Copies of these lists shall be furnished to 

 each of the Regional Bureaus before Janu- 

 ary 1, 1901, and the abbreviated titles 

 therein given shall alone be used by the 

 Regional Bureaus in the slips (see 15 above) 

 communicated by them to the Central Bu- 

 reau. 



28. A general list of journals indexed in 

 the Catalogue, with the abbreviations to be 

 used as references, shall be issued with the 

 first edition of the Catalogue. A supple- 

 ment, giving the additions to this list, shall 

 be issued annually with a new edition at 

 the end of five years. (Rep. Comm., p. 5. ) 



