174 REMARKS ON BOTANICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



the same work are given, I prefer to let the date of the last edition 

 determine its place in the list, since therein the author has had an 

 opportunity of expounding his latest views. The cross-references 

 in this instance would be : — 



Clusius, Carolus, vide L'Escluse. 

 L'Ecluse, Charles, vide L'Escluse. 

 Each work should have the full title-page recited (excluding the 

 laudatory epithets, which are sometimes made so prominent), the 

 place, with publisher's name and date. The pagination of each 

 volume should be stated, together with the number of plates, and 

 the size of the book so expressed as never to be mistaken for pages, 

 thus, 4to, 8vo, or 4o, 80, etc. Any omissions from the full 

 title, where necessary, as for instance where it is interrupted 

 by a long adulation to the Pra?ses or similar functionary, should 



be shown by " ," r some such well-known sign. 



Additions to be included in square brackets, thus : — 



Cakuel (/•'.) Florida [dell' isola] di Montecristo. Milano, 

 1864. 8vo. (ii. 1564). 



The words so inclosed do not stand part of the title, but were 

 printed in the ' Thesaurus ' as if they formed an integral part 

 thereof. Information afforded by the bibliographer, when not in 

 the form of notes in smaller type, should also be enclosed in square 

 brackets, so that the authors of anonymous works, when known, 

 and ascertained dates which are not actually declared in the work 

 itself should be so marked. I consider that the date of presentation 

 ot a thesis is not necessarily the date of publication, thus, the date 

 ... . die xxx. Decembris . . . ." only fixes the time of 

 oral delivery, and by no means the absolute date of publication, as 

 commonly understood. Such date should therefore always be 

 given, as for instance, [1850] , for in these theses the foot of the 

 title-page mentions the place of issue and the printer or publisher, 

 but n o date. Again, if the author's name be absent from the 

 title-page, but supplied in his preface without any chance of 

 mistake, I am not sure that I would bracket it ; but if there should 

 be more than one introductory epistle, and error may occur in 

 assigning the authorship, then I would show m Y sense of these 

 circumstances by brackets. As an example, notice " Hortus 

 regms. Pansns 1665. fol.," which may be found variously 

 catalogued under Vallot or Joncquet from this very cause. 



Another item of much-needed reform is in the indexing of 

 tneses tlie present no-system being to rank them sometimes 

 under the name of the Praeses, sometimes under that of the 

 J^esponsor. A certain measure of excuse may be found for this in 



^LIT U p am0Unt ° f , authorshi P : thus, whilst we find in many 

 ™»!« \ e \ 18 absolutel y the author, in perhaps as many 

 ST 8 , tru , e wnter " tne Responsor. Linnams corrected with 

 Ins own hand some of the theses which appear in the • Amcenitates 

 academic* ; examples maybe seen in the Banksian library and 

 probably elsewhere, so that he must be herein credited with 

 editorship at least The most flagrant instance of the abuse of 



tins system that I know of is A-urdh's • Ai,Wi«,«i W.anici.' 1). 



