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an independent production, but where is the line to be drawn 

 between such, and the merest cutting from a journal? In the 

 numerous means which lie between these extremes, where can we 

 say, this shall be included, and that rejected ? I think the canon 

 I have laid down for my own guidance a sufficiently satisfactory 

 one, and it has been approved by competent judges in this country. 

 I hold that every reprint which possesses a full title-page and 

 independent pagination, even if the original paging be also 

 retained, is, to all intents and purposes, a separate work, and must 

 be catalogued as such ; if, in addition, the original medium of 

 publication be given by the bibliographer, so much the better. 

 To exemplify my meaning as to fall and half-titles, Dillenius's 

 4 Hortus Elthamensis' has a full title to vol. i., but only a half-, 

 or as some style it, a bastard-title, to vol. ii., running thus, 

 "Plantarum rariorum horti Elthamensis. Tomus alter., " and 

 nothing more. The rule just enuuciated may sometimes require 

 to be relaxed, to admit such cases as Coemans* ' Spicileges 

 mycologiques,' Nos. 1-8, Brux., 1862-3, 8vo. (ii., 1722), which 

 were reprinted from the ' Bull. Bot. Belg.,' but can only boast 

 of a half-title. Apart from evident exceptions like these, both 

 criteria should be maintained. Much depends upon the printers, 

 some of whom issue the reprints from societies' publications in a 

 form suitable for inclusion under our rule, others so as to be 

 invariably shut out. As many editions should be described as 

 known, with their successive editors. 



How should the entries be arranged ? As in Pritzel, in the 

 alphabetical order of the authors' names ; we want primarily an 

 approximately complete list of books, as near to a perfect library 

 catalogue as possible ; an Index rerum is an adjunct to this, but 

 should not take its place. Dryanders Catalogus is an example of 

 the results to which excessive refinements in arrangement may 

 lead ; we are obliged to consult the alphabetical list of authors in 

 the fifth volume before we can find particulars of the books in the 

 other four. 



The name of each author, as a heading to his list of 

 productions, should be expressed in his vernacular, with his 

 Christian names in full, as he himself spelled them ; or if he varied 

 the spelling, then according to the majority of instances, or his 

 usage in his later years, with the dates and places of his birth and 

 death, and other particulars, similarly to Pritzel. I have said, in 

 the author's native language, for we have no right to alter or 

 mutilate a man's name, as unfortunately the manner of some is. 

 I fear that no nation can be held free from the reproach of doing 

 this in some degree, but the French cultivate this vice to excess, 

 and the Germans follow hard after them. Cross-references should 

 be inserted in their proper places, to guide the readers to the main 

 entry. For example, let the main entry be : — 



L'Escluse, Jules Charles tie, (Clusia, Linn.) *Arras, 19 Febr., 



rm 1526. fLeiden, 4 Apr., 1609. 



-Lhen would follow the biographical notices, as in the ' Thesaurus,' 

 a &d the books in chronological order ; where several editions of 



