MEMORANDA FOR PROOF-READERS.
The form is regular octavo.
Text is long primer, single leaded.
Tables and lists, having rules and boxheads, nonpareil solid.
Headings of tables and lists, brevier italic, lower case.
There are no numbered chapters. The heading of each section, which takes the place of chapter heading, is pica light-face celtic caps, spaced.
Geological ages and epochs are capitalized; for example, “Devonian,” “Trias,” “sub-Carboniferous” v. [page [176].]
Quoted extracts in regular text type (long primer), between quotation marks.
Capitalize “the West,” “the South,” etc., but not “western New York,” “central Pennsylvania,” etc.
Do not use “&c.” for “etc.”