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prismatic forms of xenotime more abundant and widespread than 

 the octaliedral one and than monazite as well. 



In addition to zircon, xenotime and monazite the author found 

 anatase, regarded as secondary, in about half of the residues 

 examined ; dumortierite in two kaolins from 2-mica granite ; 

 chrysoberj^l in seven kaolins (6 2-mica granites and 1 syenite) 

 and one fresh 2-mica granite ; staurolite in two kaolins from 

 aplite, and andalusite in five kaolins from 2-mica granites. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. International Catalogue of Scientific literature. First 

 Annual Issue. M. Botany, Part I, May, 1902. Pp. xiv, 378. 

 D. Chemistry, Part I, June, 1902. Pp. xiv, 768. — These tw^o 

 volumes of the first annual issue of the International Catalogue 

 of Scientific Literature, commencing with the year 1901, have 

 recently appeared. This Catalogue is published for the Inter- 

 national Council by the Royal Society of London, being an out- 

 growth of the well-known Catalogue of Scientific Papers relating 

 to the scientific literature of the Nineteenth Century, published 

 by the same Society. In the form which the plan has finally 

 taken, each complete annual issue of the Catalogue will consist of 

 seventeen volumes, one for each of the sections of science sepa- 

 rately recognized. The set will be sold to the public for £18, 

 individual volumes costing, according to size, from ten to thirty- 

 five shillings. The director is Dr. H. Forster Morley, whose 

 address is at the Central Bureau, 34 and 35 Southampton st., 

 Strand, London, W.C. Twenty-nine Regional Bureaus have 

 been arranged for, which are to furnish the material for the Cata- 

 logue ; for the United States, communications are to be sent to 

 Prof. S. P. Langley, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 



The method of classification and indeed all the details of the 

 entire plan have been ver}^ carefully worked out, but only the 

 outline can be given here. Each of the volumes issued consists 

 of three parts : [a] Schedules and indexes in four languages, 

 English, French, German and Italian; [h) an author's catalogue ; 

 (c) a subject catalogue. The subject catalogue is divided into 

 sections, each of which is denoted by a four-figure number between 

 0000 and 9999. These numbers follow one another in order but 

 all are not used, space being left for such additions to the system 

 of classification as may be found necessary in future years. In 

 the case of the two volumes now published, the material for 1901 

 being yet incomplete, the first part will be followed by a second 

 part in a few months ; in future, however, when the organization 

 is complete, it is planned to issue a single annual volume only 

 for each subject. 



The breadth and completeness of this great scheme for putting 

 within the reach of every worker in science a catalogue of all 

 original contributions on the subject in which he is interested, in 

 whatever form or place published, is worthy of the century with 



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