Volume 1

Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900 / compiled and published by the Royal Society of London.

  • Royal Society (Great Britain)
Date:
1867-1925
Catalogue details

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Credit: Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900 / compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    In resolving on this undertaking the Council did not propose to task the Society with more than the preparation of a Manuscript Catalogue for use in their own Library; but it was hoped that eventually the Catalogue might be printed for general use at the public expense, or by means of funds contributed from other sources. The work was accordingly begun without delay, and has been carried on under the superintendence of the Library Committee. Four copies were made of the titles of the Papers to be catalogued; one set of these has been bound up to form a manuscript Serial Index, now deposited in the Society's Library, others were reserved to be arranged for printing. A large proportion of the Periodical Works containing Titles to be extracted was at hand in the Royal Society's Library, and to these very extensive additions have been made during the progress of the work. Another rich store of materials existed in the Library of the British Museum. Valuable contributions were also supplied by the Libraries of the Chemical, the Entomological, the Geological, the Linnean, the Pharmaceutical, the Royal Geographical, the Royal Medical and Chirurgical, and the Zoological Societies, the London Institution, the Office of Patents, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Institution, the School of Mines, and the University of Cambridge; and the President and Council gratefully acknow- ledge their obligations to the Governing Bodies and Librarians of these Institutions for the facilities thus afforded. With a further view to completeness, printed lists of the Periodical Publications already included were from time to time transmitted to Foreign Academies and Scientific Institutions, with a Circular letter from the Foreign Secretary requesting to be informed of deficiencies which might be supplied by the Libraries of the Institutions addressed. In response to this application a valuable contribution was obtained, through the obliging intervention of W. Ritter von Haedinger, of nearly 2,000 Titles from the Library of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute of Vienna, carefully extracted by the Librarian, M. Senoner. Valuable aid was. also afforded from Prague through the good offices of Professor John Czermak. As the preparation of the manuscript approached completion, it became expedient