Appendix VII. 



REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC 



LITERATURE. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the 

 United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of, Scientific Literature for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. 



The organization known as the " International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 

 ture " has by means of the cooperation of all of the principal countries of the 

 world been publishing since 1901, in seventeen annual volumes, a classified 

 index catalogue of the current scientific literature of the world. Each country 

 collects, indexes, and classifies the scientific literature published within its bor- 

 ders and furnishes to the central bureau in London the material thus prepared 

 for publication in the annual volumes. 



The cost of preparation is borne by the countries taking part in the work, in 

 the great majority of cases the support being derived through direct govern- 

 mental grants. The entire cost of printing and publishing is borne by the sub- 

 scribers to the catalogue. The bureau for the United States contributes yearly 

 about 11 per cent of the entire work. 



The allotment for the present fiscal year made by Congress for this purpose 

 was $5,000, the same as for previous years. Five persons are regularly em- 

 ployed in the prei^aration of the classified index to American scientific literature. 



During the year there were 28,528 references to American scientific litera- 

 ture completed and forwarded to the central bureau in Loudon as follows : 



Literature of 1901 408 



Literature of 1902 523 



Literature of 1903 366 



Literature of 1904 956 



Literature of 1905 5,629 



Literature of 1906 T,217 



Literature of 1907 13,429 



Total - 28,528 



Twenty-one volumes of the catalogue were received and delivered to subscrib- 

 ers in this country, as follows: 



Fifth Annual Issue— Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, Mineralogy, 

 General Biology, Botany, Zoology, Anatomy, Anthropology, Physiology, and Bac- 

 teriology, completing the issue. 



Sixth Annual Issue— Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Miner- 

 alogy, Geology, Geography, Zoology, and Anatomy. 



All sections of the civilized world are represented in this enterprise, as shown 

 by the following list of the regional bureaus now established and regularly fur- 

 nishing to the London central bureau classified citations of scientific papers 

 published within their domains: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, 

 Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India and Ceylon, 

 Italy, ' Japan, Mexico, New South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, Poland (Aus- 

 61782—08 6 '^'^ 



