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While looking through the copies of the " CoUivatore " I fell 
the truth of what Dr Micheli had fully dealt with in his article, 
namely: The great rush which pervades everything at the present 
'day : the hurry and running so as to lose as little time as possilDle. 
Occupied with these thoughts and the desire to see this 
system applied to the periodicals, according to their contents, I 
applied to the Bruxelles International Bibliographical Institute for 
the classifying tables for agriculture, and was informed that the 
tables were in course of preparation and that Mr Vermorel had 
been appointed for the work. I obtained these tables last year 
and now I place them before my bee keeping colleagues, with 
the hope that at least with regard to the branch relating to api- 
culture, my desires before referred to may be realized. 
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Before making my proposal and explaining the classification 
tables, I will give some idea of the bibliographic decimal system 
and explain the tables proposed by the distinguished Agricultural 
Scientist V. Vermorel, for the classification of the writings of 
that portion of agriculture which relates to bee-keeping. 
The system of decimal classification was applied to biblio- 
graphy by Melvil Dewey, one of the most distinguised American 
bibliophiles. 
This system has already been adopted for the bibliographic 
classification relative to medicine, astronomy, geography, philology, 
sociology, music and mathematics. 
The decimal classification of bibliographic documents is 
obtained by means of classifying numbers formed by the 10 arab 
figures -of the decimal numeration completed by a certain number 
of signs of union, abbreviation and composition. 
To establish the series of classifying numbers, the whole of 
what constitutes human knowledge was divided into grou[)s, 
forming ten principal classes, each of which is represented by 
one of the 10 figures in the decimal form, namely with the 
decimal figures from to 1 in the following way: 
0. General works. 
0.1 Philosophy. 
0.2 Religion, — Theology. 
0.3 Social science. — Jurisprudence. 
0.4 Philology. 
