XIV. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



total number of entries in the author catalogue of the second 

 annual issue is therefore 49,876, an increase of 6,429, or about 

 15% more than the number in the first annual issue. The total 

 number of pages in the first annual issue is 8,387. 



The following table shows the number of slips received and the 

 instalments in which they were supplied to the Central Bureau: — 



Germany 



France 



United Kingdom ., 



United States 



Russia 



Italy 



Holland 



Austria 



Poland 



India and Ceylon .. 



Japan 



Switzerland 



Hungary 



Denmark 



Sweden 



Victoria 



Norway 



New South Wales . 



Finland 



South Africa 



Belgium 



Canada 



New Zealand 



South Australia . 



Western Australia 



146,552 slips in 59 instalments 



46,702 



43,484 



37,688 



21,071 



13,473 



6,657 



6,379 



3,492 



2,231 



2,208 



1,932 



1,745 



1,722 , 



1,457 



1,415 



1,303 



1,016 



707 , 



645 



584 



537 



327 



130 



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522 instalments 



It was originally intended that the catalogue should not only 

 contain the titles of papers, but that their subject matter should 

 be fully indexed also ; financial considerations have, however, led 

 to the number of subject-entries being at present limited in number. 

 The title slips received at the Central Bureau very often showed 

 that the papers were insufficiently indexed, especially in the lists 

 of new species in botany and zoology; also chemistry; in many cases 

 the Central Bureau has made good these deficiencies. The 



