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Miscellaneous Intelligence. 431 
3. The uniformity of size of pages of Scientific Societies Pub- 
Lications.—The committee appointed by the British Association, 
of which Professor S, P. Thompson was chairman, to consider the 
most desirable size of page for scientific publications, has made 
a report from which the following recommendations are taken. 
The importance of these will be readily understood:— 
Standard octavo size.—Paper demy, the pages measuring 14° 
< 22°", or, when uncut, 53 in.x82 in. The width, ¢, measured 
from the stitching to the edge of the printed matter, to be 12%, 
or 43 in., and the height, d, of the printed portion, including the 
running headline, to be 18°", or 7 in. 
Limit of octavo size——The paper page not to be less than 
14° X 21°5™, or 54 in. X 8} in., and the letterpress not to exceed 
the measurements c=12 5™, or 4£in, d=18°5™, or 7}in. Reprints 
and unbound numbers of journals to be issued with their edges 
uncut, or cut not more than 0°25, or 4 in., all round. 
Standard quarto size.—Paper demy, the pages measuring, when 
uncut, 22°" x 285°", or 82 in. wideX 11} in. high. Reprints and 
unbound numbers of this size to be uncut, or cut 0°25, or ¢ in. 
Measurements of letterpress to be c=18°5°, or 74 in, d=21°5™, 
or 84 in. 
Limits of quarto size.—Paper pages not to measure less than 
215°", or 83 in., wide x 28°", or 11 in., high. Letterpress not to 
exceed the measurements c=19, or 74 in., d=23™, or 9 in. 
To avoid the mutilation of plates in binding the committee recom- 
mend that the dimensions of the illustrations should never exceed 
13°" 20°", or 5% in. x72 in., for octavo plates, and 21° x 25°, 
or 84 in. X10 in., for quarto, the width being measured from the 
back of the book. Where plates have to be folded, the fold 
should be 12°5°, or 5 in., from the stitching in octavo, and 20°5°, 
or 8$ in., in quarto papers. Any folding plate should, when 
referred to elsewhere than in the opposite page of letterpress, 
have a blank space equal to the breadth of the paper page at the 
left hand, so that when open it can be referred to without closing 
the portion of the book being read that refers to it. This should 
be carried out even when the diagram or plate would not other- 
wise have to be folded, in order to reduce the trouble of reference. 
Each article should begin a page. If possible it should begin 
a right-hand page. It is then possible to bind up any article with 
others on the same subject without having also to bind up the 
last half page of another paper. 
4, Map of the wooded area of Connecticut.—Among the series 
of maps of Connecticut being prepared by the U.S. Geological 
Survey in codperation with the State of Connecticut represented 
by its Commissioners, Wm. H. Brewer, James H. Chapin and 
Jonn W. Balou, the one expressing the areas covered by woods 
has appeared, published under date of 1893. The scale of the 
map 18 zesyo0 With 100 foot contours. 
s Phewles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis, vol. 1, 
Soils, pp. 607, vol. ii, Fertilizers, pp. 332; by H. W. WixeEy, 
Chemist of the U. 8S. Department of Agriculture. 
