58 
Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
Sweden — 
1. Acta mathematica , Stockholm. 
United Kingdom — 
94. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Math. Soc., Edinburgh. 
111. Math reprinted from Educ. Times, London. 
262. Proceedings of the London Math. Soc., London. 
316. Mathematical Gazette, London. 
329. Messenger of Mathematics, Cambridge. 
380. Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Math., London. 
United States — 
16. American Journal of Mathematics, . . . ., Baltimore. 
20. American Mathematical Monthly, Springfield, Mo. 
23. Annals of Mathematics, pure and applied, Cambridge, Mass. 
298. Bulletin of the American Math. Society, New York, N.Y. 
336. Transactions of the American Math. Soc., New York, N.Y. 
It is seen that the number included in the list * is 67: if it were 
perfectly complete the number would be about 80. These 67 are 
apportioned among the different countries thus : — Austria 4, 
Belgium 2, Denmark 1, France 12, Germany 12, Holland 3, 
Hungary 3, Italy 9, Japan 1, Norway 1, Poland 2, Portugal 2, 
Russia 3, Sweden 1, United Kingdom 6, United States 5. Spain, 
it will be observed, does not appear : this is not because she 
publishes no mathematical serials, but probably because she has 
been slow in forming a “regional bureau” to work with the 
Council of the International Catalogue. 
In the second place, all serials like the Proceedings of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh are excluded, being ruled out by the fact 
that the contents of such serials are not mainly mathematical. 
An afterthought, however, makes it doubtful whether the 
* The list lays itself open to criticism, but let him throw the first stone 
who knows the difficulties of organising the machinery necessary to produce 
not one year-book but the whole seventeen annual volumes of the International 
Scientific Catalogue. For one thing, the director of such an undertaking will 
find his numerous regional-bureaux at sixes and sevens as to where the line of 
exclusion is to be drawn, and consequently elementary journals will be inserted 
in one land and shut out in another. Then, of course, journals have an 
appreciable death-rate, and no list can be complete and accurate for long : 
that here used is the first drawn up. In view of what has been already 
accomplished, alike by the Council and by the Director, the manifest duty of 
all scientific men is to lend what aid they can towards now perfecting the 
Catalogue in detail. 
The number preceding the title of any serial is the consecutive number 
which distinguishes it in the above-mentioned List of Journals. 
