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Museum catalogue in print, I am yet averse 

 to attempting to print it just as it stands : 

 in the first place, because I regard the 

 undertaking as beyond our strength ; and 

 in the second place, because, although 

 such a catalogue would tell the student at 

 a distance what books by particular au- 

 thors were in the library, it would not tell 

 him what books on particular subjects 

 existed there ; the latter, as it appears to 

 me, being the more urgent necessity of 

 the two. I should therefore be inclined 

 to recommend the preparation of an 

 abridged classified index, compiled from 

 the fourth-copy slips I have been de- 

 scribing, and its publication from time to 

 time in sections severally complete in 

 themselves, as affording the best means for 

 a gradual solution of the problem. Most 

 of these sections, I have little doubt, 



