Volume 1

Catalogue of the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.

  • Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Date:
1879
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Credit: Catalogue of the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Journals, and other Periodical Publications, and all official and other Reports, which interfere with, and to which it is so difficult to give a fixed and recognised position in an alphabet of authors' names are arranged separately in three distinct Catalogues at the end (for infor- mation on which see No. 19). 2. The name of each author is printed in Roman small capitals [Bed- does], and his works are placed in the chronological order of their publi- cation, with these two exceptions: That any collected edition of his works stands first before the original editionsin their separate form, and all successive editions of a single work, and publications supplementary to, or otherwise connected with it, take precedence of the work next in order of date. 3. To collected editions of an author's works consisting of more than one volume an abstract of the contents of each volume is appended, and abstracts of contents have also been added to that class of work with indefinite titles such as Essays and Observations, Opuscula, &c., from which a knowledge of the nature of the contents cannot other- wise be learned. 4. Papers originally published in Journals or in the Transactions of a Society, when separately printed and placed in the Society's Library by presentation or otherwise, have been regarded as independent works and catalogued accordingly, but they are in some degree an anomaly in a catalogue in which the Papers of Transactions, &c., are not inserted. 5. In old works, where a variety in the spelling of an author's name frequently occurs among different editions, the best known orthography has been adopted, with cross references from the other forms. 6. Among foreign latinized surnames the derivation of one of them from the place of an author's birth is a frequent source of error in Cata- logues. Cross references are used in any doubtful case of this kind in which a mistake may have possibly occurred. 7. With regard to Christian names, the adoption of any one general rule is difficult, but as to give the whole in full would, in many old Latin works, cause the first line of a title to consist entii-ely of Christian names, it has been considered sufficient for the identification of authors to give the first Christian name in full, and to confine the others to their initials. 8. In cases where an author's name has been omitted from a title page, or concealed under initials or pseudonym, but where conclusive evidence of authorship could be obtained from the work itself or from other sources, the name has been printed in full but enclosed in brackets. Anonymous works when placed under their principal subject have the word printed in italics [Inoculation], and in English to avoid the scattering of them throughout the Catalogue under different synonymcs; but if placed under an important word of the title, it is printed in