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It is proposal to issue by subscription a catalogue of-scientific -serial publications in all 
languages* which has been prepared by Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, Librarian of the America! 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and formerly librarian of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, and well known for his Various scientific publications.- 
This work, which has Vfoilble the extgntwof any* existing list of ^ the like, kind, aimys . to ^ 
include all stWfety transactions andtindependefit journals in-wery* bi^rcirbf natural, mathemat¬ 
ical!, and physi^tP sciehbe, excepting only* the allied sconces ^ — medicine, agriculture, 1 
-technology, etc.* The different 1 ^institutions or ^periodicals are arranged undejj^the towns in 
which they are established or published, and the %)wns, fellow ai^Jph^betical order under their 
respective countries, ®rosspreferences ? as thejiccompanyi^ig samp]# will slrnw, are *given 
wherever desirable. * . vv 
Secretaries of learned bodies will find this work useful as a chedk list of th#ir exchanges, 
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and jibrarians can readily ma% use of it as a catalogue of their own scientific serials, either by 
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separate numbers and pasting them upon cards 
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suitable marginal marks or by extracting th< 
for their slip-catalogue. 
^t will be printed in octavo, on paper of the size and quality 0 / the inclosedNspoeimen 
pages, will extend to almost 300 pages, and will be delivered, bound in cloth, to subscribers at 
four dollars tlfe copy! Other copies tvillM>e printed on one side of the leaf—to be cut up for 
catalogue usC-^^hud will be delivered in folded sheets at five-dollars the copy. Its publication 
is contingent upon 25(1 copies being subscribed;^fqr. A blank for subscription accompanies 
this circular. ^ * 
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