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•or papers published, and the other with small Roman or italic 
numerals for the proceedings or accounts of the meetings, 
should eventually be produced, and this volume must not be 
so thin as to tempt two or more being bound in one, nor so 
thick as to require its being divided when bound. From 
300 to 600 pages is perhaps the greatest latitude which should 
be allowed to a volume, but much will depend upon the thick- 
ness of the paper and the number of plates. It is immaterial 
whether two or more such volumes are produced in a year, or 
whether one volume takes several years to complete. This 
volume must have a title-page with the date of its completion 
and place of its publication, a table of contents at the beginning 
and an index at the end, and somewhere within it, that is, 
not only on the covers of the parts which it comprises, the date 
of publication of each part (month and year), with the numbers 
of the pages of which each part consists. It can then be 
ascertained at a glance in what part any paper appeared and 
the date of its publication. It is also advisable that after the 
table of contents there should be a list of the plates and of the 
text -figures, in each case showing their position in the volume.’ 
REPRINTS. 
‘ When authors are supplied with separate copies of their 
papers, the original pagination must be maintained, and in 
such copies, not only on their covers, must be printed the 
name of the publication, which may be abbreviated, and the 
volume, part, and date (month and year). As copies of papers 
may be cut out of a volume it is an excellent plan, now adopted 
in the ‘ Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History 
Society,’ to print in small type, at the end of each paper, on 
the bottom of the page, the above particulars, which need not 
occupy more than one line and look best in italics. If that be 
done, what a bibliographer requires to know cannot be lost.’* 
ANNUAL REPORTS. 
‘ There are very few of these conditions, I may perhaps 
call them rules, which are generally observed in the publications 
of our smaller natural history societies. Many such call their 
publications “ Annual Reports.” They may consist of not 
more than one or two sheets octavo (sixteen or thirty-two pages), 
each Report being separately paged. It may take ten or 
twenty to form a volume sufficiently thick to bind. As 
usually they have neither table of contents nor index, to 
ascertain whether a volume thus made up contains a paper on 
* In The N aturalist this suggestion has been adopted for many years, 
except that on every leaf the title of the journal, the month and year, is 
printed ; which, with the page number at the top, enables a full reference to 
be obtained to a paper only a page in length. — E d. 
1914 Oct. 1.3 
