700 Science in Utopia. 
many inquiries on both sides in the course of which the following 
facts were elicited. In Utopia during recent years the prosecution 
of science has enormously increased and, as usual, this increase has 
mirrored itself in the literature. Under the old system, which 
closely resembled our own, there was neither official supervision nor 
~ recognized limitation upon publication. The great mass of literature 
soon made specialism necessary with constantly narrowing limits, 
until the broader purposes of scientific study were rapidly being lost 
sight of in the attempt to meet the bibliographic obligations thus 
imposed. 
Just at this juncture it happened that the continent of South 
America was opened to the Utopian explorers (whether this occurred 
before or subsequent to 1492, I was unable to ascertain, by reason 
of my unfamiliarity with the standards of Utopian chronology). 
The result was an alarming increase in purely faunal and systematic 
publications. The case soon became so desperate that a congress 0 
the sciences was called to meet in the capital city which, after 
mature deliberation, proposed a permanent organization with the 
following functions and powers. j 
The organization was called the parliament of philosophy and is 
a strictly representative body, so guarded that personal jealousy 
among competitors can not easily exclude worthy applicants, while 
the financial burdens are nominal. : 
A council elected at the biennial session of this parliament 18 
charged with the duties of a bibliographic bureau. In this work 
they receive aid from the department of state corresponding to our 
patent office and congressional library, here united under onè 
management. At each session committees, appointed by the various 
sections, report for adoption a scheme of working classification 
the department presided over by the section both as relating to the 
distribution of subordinate topics and the systematic arrangement 
of the categories of natural species. 
While conformity to the scheme adopted is not binding upon 
authors, it forms a more or less perfect approximation to current 
views and is the official standard for reference during the ensuing 
term. This being settled, writers cannot secure recognition for 
publications until they have been entered in the proper departmen 
of the bureau of bibliography, which is also charged with the duty 
