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On account of ihese advantages, the Bruxelles International 
Bibliographic Institute, the highest authority on bibliography, has 
adopted Dewey's system for its classifying tables. 
This Institute which has been working for nearly seven years 
at this classification of the universal bibliographic catalogue, is 
largely aiding in propagating the extension of this system, so, in 
future, all general and special bibliographies of all nations should 
be made in accordance with this system. 
They can thus be made use of for the above mentioned 
universal catalogue, and scientific productions of any nation can 
be ascertained by any other nation. 
The enterprise of the Bruxelles Central Office was not limited 
to this course only, for on finding that Dcweifs classifying tables 
wire incomplete, in consequence of having been drawn up, as 
Miclieli suggests, by bne man alone, who Could not have a 
complete knowledge of the whole of the information constituting 
human knowledge, the Institute employed several distinguished 
authorities in various countries to amplify these tables. 
For instance there was no agricultural bibliography, nor could 
this be made from Dewey's, as he had only given the first general 
division of 10 groups. It was in consequence of this defect that 
the Institute in 1899 appointed Mr Vermouel of Villefranche, 
director and founder of the wine growing establishment of that 
district, to prepare the tal)les on agricultural sciences, according 
to the above mentioned system; a work which, with the assistance 
of Messrs GuiUe, C. Michaut, Dr Letelier and Miss JuUieron, he 
completed and published in February 1900 under the title of 
" Manuel clu Ripertolre bibllographique des sciences agricoles, (ftabli 
d'apres la classification d6citn,ale ", par V. Vermorel (025.4 : 63). 
Selecting from that catalogue, that w'.iich refers to apiculture, 
the following are the tables we find: 
63 Agriculture. 
63.8 Les insectes utiles k V agriculture. — Apiculture. — 
S^riciculture. 
63.81 Apiculture. — Abeilles. 
(Pour la physiologie et Tanatomie des abeilles, voir 895,79). 
