International Catalogue of Scientific Literature

Abstract

AN international conference of delegates from scientific academies to consider the future of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature was held last week by invitation of the Royal Society of London. Sir J. J. Thomson, president of the Royal Society, took the chair. The conference was attended by delegates from Denmark (Prof. Martin Knudsen), France (Prof. A. Lacroix), Holland (Prof. G. van Rijnberk), India (Sir H. H. Hayden and Dr. S. W. Kemp), Japan (Prof. H. Nagaoka), New Zealand (Prof. A. Dendy), Norway (Dr. Rolf Laache), Queensland (Sir Edw. Parrott), South Africa (Sir T. Muir), Sweden (Baron Alströmer), Switzerland (Dr. H. Escher, Dr. Marcel Godet, and Dr. H. H. Field), United States of America (Prof. L. E. Dickson, Mr. L. C. Gunnell, Dr. S. I. Franz, and Dr. Robert M. Yerkes), Victoria (Prof. E. W. Skeats), and Western Australia (Mr. G. B. Rushton). The Royal Society was represented by three of its officers (Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir David Prain, and Mr. J. H. Jeans), together with Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, Dr. F. A. Bather, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, and Sir Arthur Schuster. The Italian delegates, having been delayed in the railway journey, were unfortunately not in time to take part in the proceedings.