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V. — A Catalogue of Chemical Periodicals. 



BY H. CARRIXGTON" BOLTON. 

 Read Jan. 5th, 1885. 



Introductory. — This Catalogue is intended to contain the titles 

 of the principal chemical periodicals of all countries, from the 

 rise of this literature to the present day. The tendency in serial 

 publications, especially in those of earlier date, to include in a 

 single journal many departments of science, makes it difficult 

 for the bibliographer to draw the line accurately between period- 

 icals devoted to given sciences. Therefore any attempt to classify 

 chemical periodicals is liable on the one hand to too great exclu- 

 siveness to satisfy the needs of some, and on the other to too 

 great comprehensiveness and consequent voluminosity. 



Chemistry is so commonly treated in periodical literature to- 

 gether with the kindred sciences of physics and of pharmacy, 

 that strictly speaking a full bibliography of chemical periodicals 

 should include all those devoted to the two sciences just named. 

 Moreover there is a large and growing number of technical jour- 

 nals dealing with a special branch of chemical technology, such 

 as brewing, dyeing, gas-making, sugar-refining, etc. ; and these 

 also should be included in any bibliography claiming to be ex- 

 haustive. The following catalogue is however confined to the 

 more limited plan, for two reasons; — first, because it is prepared 

 for the convenience of chemists needing a reasonably full list of 

 chemical journals for use in compiling indexes to special topics, 

 in accordance with the scheme of cooperative indexing in charge 

 of a committee of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science ; and second, because my " Catalogue of Sci- 



