Abstract
THE eighth ordinary meeting of the British Society for International Bibliography was held in the Science Museum, South Kensington, on March 25. After the president, Prof. A.F. C. Pollard, had opened the meeting, Dr. Van Heurn, director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Amsterdam Laboratories of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., gave a description of the work and organisation of this Bureau. The secretary of the Society, Mr. E. Lancaster-Jones, followed with an account of the progress of the English edition of the Universal Decimal Classification. He reported that the first fasciculeof the work is now available, while the second will be ready very shortly. Messrs. Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., are the British agents. The main item on the agenda a discussion on the preparation of indexes to periodical bibliographies and allied publications then followed. This was opened by Dr. P. S. Hudson, deputy director of the Imperial Bureau of Plant Genetics at Cambridge, who described the preparation of the yearly cumulative indexes to Plant Breeding Abstracts, the quarterly publication of his Bureau. The abstracts are classified by the Universal Decimal Classification; hence the preparation of the index, in which the entries are arranged in numerical order of their classification numbers, is extremely simple.
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