CHAPTER VII.
THE PRINCIPAL ENTRY.—CORPORATE AND OTHER FORMS.—EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS.
69.—In cataloguing the transactions, memoirs, proceedings and other publications of the learned societies, the societies in their corporate capacity are regarded as the authors and so treated, the principal entry being placed under the first word of their names not an article, provided they are societies of a national or general character, as
Royal Society of London.
Library Association.
Linnean Society.
Royal Geographical Society.
Society of Antiquaries.
Societies of a strictly local character are to be entered under the name of the place of meeting or publication, as for example the publications of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-on-Tyne are not entered under “Literary,” but
Newcastle-on-Tyne Literary and Philosophical Society,