NOVEMBEE 11, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



661 



ference, and gave an account of the corre- 

 spondence relating to the non-representation 

 of certain countries. 



The following resolutions were then 

 agreed to : 



6. That the ordinary hours of meeting 

 be 11 a. m., to 1 p. m., and 2:30 to 4:30 

 p. m. 



7. That each delegate shall have a vote 

 in deciding all questions brought before the 

 Conference. 



8. That English, French and German be 

 the official languages of the Conference, 

 but that it shall be open for any delegate 

 to address the Conference in any other lan- 

 guage, provided that he supplies for the 

 proces verbal of the Conference a written 

 translation of his remarks into one or other 

 of the ofiBcial languages. 



9. Professor Foster having formally pre- 

 sented the Report of the Committee of the 

 Royal Society, copies of which were for- 

 warded, in April last, to the several govern- 

 ments represented at the Conference, the 

 discussion of the recommendations was 

 opened, and it was resolved : 



10. That the Conference confirms the 

 principle that the Catalogue be published in 

 the double form of cards and book. 



11. That Schedules of Classification shall 

 be authorized for the several branches of 

 science which ib is decided to include in the 

 Catalogue. 



12. That geography be defined as limited 

 to mathematical and physical geography, 

 and that political and general geography be 

 excluded. 



13. That anatomy be entered on the list 

 as a separate subject. 



14. That a separate schedule be provided 

 for each of the following branches of science: 

 Mathematics, Astronomy, Meteorology, 

 Physics, Crystallography, Chemistry, Min- 

 eralogy, Geology (including Petrology), 

 Geography — Mathematical and Physical, 

 Paleontology, Anatomy, Zoology, Botany, 



Physiology (inducing Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Pathology), Bacteriology, 

 Psychology and Anthropology. 



15. That each of the sciences for which 

 a separate schedule is provided shall be in- 

 dicated by a symbol. 



16. Professor Foster announced the re- 

 ception of a letter from the German Charg6 

 d'Affairs to the President of the Royal 

 Society, stating that Geiheimer Regierungs- 

 Rath Professor Dr. Klein, of Gottingen, 

 had been appointed German Delegate to the 

 Conference. 



The regulations to be observed in the 

 preparation of cards or slips were then 

 taken into consideration, and it was re- 

 solved : 



17. That Italian should be added to the 

 list of languages not requiring translation. 



18. That for each communication to be 

 indexed at least one slip, to be called a Pri- 

 mary Slip, shall be prepared, on which shall 

 be either printed or type-written or legibly 

 handwritten in Roman script : 



(i.) Title- entries. — The author's name and 

 the full title of the communication, in the 

 original language alone if the 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 Collecting Bureau con- 

 cerned ; 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. 



(ii.) Subject-entries, indicating, as briefly 

 as possible, the principal subjects to which 

 the communication refers. Every effort 



