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the mass of knowledge appertaining to these sciences or concep- 
tions, must only deprive the chief divisions of clearness and 
accuracy, and "create great difficulty in the actual work of assigning 
classifying numbers ',o the memorandum or publication. 
It would therefore be desirable to modify Vermorel's tables 
taking into consideration the views I have already expressed. 
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With regard to Apiculture and Bees — the object I have in 
view is to propose a system which when used in connection 
with the various bee-culture periodicals, the several subjects 
treated in them may bo more clearly shown, so that the bee- 
keeper may, at the end of the year, at a glance, find them. I 
propose therefore that Vermorel's tables which I have largely 
adopted should be modified and the following tables which seem 
to me capable of containing all known production connected with 
this science, made use of. But in doing this, in order that any 
doubt in the assigning of Lhe classifying number may be lessened, 
the division of the various subjects relating to this industry 
should be carried out in the special way usually adapted by 
specialists and writers in this branch of science. 
These tables, which do not lake up much space, should be 
printed in pamphlet form yearly or at the beginning of every 
periodical and it would bo desirable that every author of an ar- 
ticle should place below the title, the classifying number adapted 
to his work, as I have myself done today. 
The classification of a writing, made in this way, would 
attain great precision, as it would be made by those who would 
know exactly the principal subject of the writing, and therefore 
the place to be assigned to it in the classiflcation. 
For the use and appUcalion of these tables, only the following 
few, simple rules are necessary: and it is better they should be 
few and simple so that they may be easily and without error, 
carried out. 
First of all, as all .knowledge on bees must be in the group 
0.6381, these first decimal numbers need only be shown once on 
bee-journals, for instance on the cover, and afterwards understood 
or indicated by the sign ». or even simply a dot. Thus on seeing 
written ». 2-'S it would mean 0,6381.243. 
