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it should be entered. This may he of great importance in questions 
of priority. The month and year of issue of each separate part of 
which the volume consists, with the number of the first and last 
page in each part, should always he printed after the title-page or 
table of contents and list of plates; thus, for example— 
Part I, pp. 1-48... ... ... October, 1904. 
,, II, pp. 49-80, ix-xvi ... January, 1905. 
This might obviate the necessity , if not the advisability, of binding 
the covers. 
A volume sometimes appears without an index, more often 
without a table of contents and a list of the plates or other 
illustrations. Occasionally the index is placed at the beginning of 
a volume; it should always be at the end. In one case at least 
a table of contents is called an index; in another that abomination, 
a collection of separate indexes, is called “indices,” a term which 
should be restricted to its mathematical signification. 
A frequent fault is the separate pagination of a thin publication, 
usually called “Annual Report and Proceedings,” or “Annual 
Report and Transactions,” the first part of which titles is 
superfluous. When, say, ten of these, of perhaps thirty pages or 
so each, are bound together to form a volume, how difficult it is to 
ascertain their contents, how difficult it would be to satisfactorily 
index the volume! Much rarer is the fault of making a volume so 
thick that it has to be bound in two. 
Occasionally the name of an author is given thus: “Mr. Myth 
read the following paper on Sea-serpents.” Initials should always 
be given. Occasionally the name of an author is omitted altogether. 
This is the case with an annual meteorological report by the 
Rev. W. LaTouch which appears in a very useful publication called 
a ‘ Record of Rare Pacts,’ issued by an energetic Corresponding 
Society, the Caradoc Pield Club. 
Now a few words about reprints. I receive one, paged 1 to 4. 
It is stated, on the cover only, to be from the proceedings of 
a certain Society, neither volume nor date being given. I wish to 
enter it in a bibliographical list. Reference to the publication 
from which it is reprinted is absolutely necessary. I cannot find 
it in any London library. Eventually I get the required 
information from the Secretary of the Society. The reprint has 
not only been re-paged, but the position of the type on the pages 
has been altered so as to get into four pages a paper running in the 
original into five—a great temptation certainly. Rut in all reprints, 
except reports of proceedings which would never have to be entered 
in a bibliography, the original pagination should be retained, and 
the title of the publication, the volume, and the date—month and 
year—should be printed on the paper as well as on the cover, so 
that it remains if the cover be taken ofi, as for binding. 
There is one other point I should like to impress upon you. 
Your proceedings should be published ; that is, it should be possible 
to purchase them. They are then amenable to the copyright laws ; 
