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£109; Denmark, £102; Egypt, £17; Finland, 

 £45; France, £754; Germany, £901; Greece, 

 £34; Holland, £133; Hungary, £68; India and 

 Ceylon, £471 ; Italy, £459 ; Japan, £255 ; Mexico, 

 £86; New South Wales, £34; New Zealand, 

 £17; Norway, £85; Nova Scotia, £17; Orange 

 Eiver Colony, £17 ; Poland, £17 ; Portugal, £17 ; 

 Queensland, £34; Kussia, £512; South Aus- 

 tralia, £34 ; Sweden, £85 ; Switzerland, £119 ; 

 United Kingdom, £765 ; United States, £1,251 ; 

 Victoria, £17; Western Australia, £17. Total, 

 £6,755. 



Slips. Instalments. 



Germany 146,552 59 



France 46,702 38 



United Kingdom 43,484 166 



United States 37,688 68 



Russia 21,071 5 



Italy 13,473 25 



Holland 6,657 17 



Austria 6,379 2 



Poland 3,492 8 



India and Ceylon 2,231 39 



Japan 2,208 10 



Switzerland 1,932 7 



Hungary 1,745 4 



Denmark 1,722 17 



Sweden 1,457 4 



. Victoria 1,445 3 



Norway 1,303 12 



New South Wales 1,016 5 



Finland 707 8 



South Africa 645 4 



Belgium 584 2 



Canada 537 11 



New Zealand 327 3 



South Australia 130 4 



Western Australia ... 16 1 



343,503 



522 



It has been suggested that special efforts 

 shoiild be made by the regional bureatis to 

 bring the catalogue under the notice of scien- 

 tific workers, and to secure an increase in the 

 nn.mber of subscribers. The whole of the 

 first and second issues of the ' International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature ' have been 

 published with the exception of the volumes 

 on botany and zoology; the third annual issue 

 is in preparation and several of them are 

 already in the press. The number of entries 

 in the author catalogue of the first annual 



issue was 43,447, and the total number of 

 entries in that issue was 149,768. The num- 

 bers of books and papers indexed in the vol- 

 umes of the second annual issue are as fol- 

 lows : A, mathematics, 1,843 ; B, mechanics, 

 841; C, physics, 2,433; D, chemistry, 5,632; 

 E, astronomy, 1,223 ; E, meteorology, 1,988 ; G, 

 mineralogy, 1,307; H, geology, 1,702; J, geog- 

 raphy, 2,022 ; K, paleontology, 638 ; L, gen- 

 eral biology, 689; M, botany, 6,339; N, 

 zoology, 7,131; O, anatomy, 1,424; P, anthro- 

 pology, 1,861; Q, physiology, 9,671; E, bac- 

 teriology, 3,132. The total number of entries 

 in the author catalogiie of the second annual 

 issue is, therefore, 49,876, an increase of 

 6,429, or about 15 per cent, more than the 

 number in the first annual issue. The total 

 number of pages in the first anniial issue is 

 8,387. 



The foregoing table shows the number of 

 slips received aijd the instalments in which 

 they were supplied to the central bureau . 



It was originally intended that the catalogue 

 should not only contain the titles of papers, 

 but that their subject matter should be fully 

 indexed also; financial considerations have, 

 however, led to the number of subject entries 

 being at present limited in number. The title 

 slips received at the central bureau very often 

 showed that the papers were insufiiciently in- 

 dexed, especially in the lists of new species in 

 botany, zoology and chemistry; in many cases 

 the central bureau has made good these defici- 

 encies. The executive committee urge that 

 efforts should be made in all countries to 

 supply fuller information as to the contents- 

 of papers; if this were done the catalogue 

 would be much more complete and the cost 

 would be much decreased, and all journals are 

 urged to index each paper and attach the 

 registration numbers at the time of publica- 

 tion. 



At the meeting of the international council 

 held at the Royal Society's House, London, 

 May 23 and 24, 1904, it was resolved, in con- 

 sequence of the siiccess achieved by the ' In- 

 ternational Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 

 ture,' and of its great importance to scientific 

 workers, to recommend that its publication be 

 continued. The agreement with the contract- 



