such an entry of course being kept quite apart from the subject-heading Newcastle-on-Tyne.
There are antiquarian and other societies whose work covers a much larger area than the particular locality in which they hold meetings or their offices happen to be situated, and they could not be fitly entered under the name of the place. For instance, the publications of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire emanate from Liverpool, but the place of meeting or publication might be changed to Manchester or Chester without in any way affecting the nature or scope of the Society’s work. Therefore the entry in such a case should not be under Liverpool or even “Historic,” but
Lancashire and Cheshire, Historic Society of.
Almost similar are the publishing societies dealing with a limited area, as the Chetham and Surtees Societies, but the specially distinctive name settles the matter, and the entries would accordingly be under those names. Societies of this class, however, are simply the publishers of collections of books, and so, in addition to the entries under the societies’ names, each book must have a separate author-entry. The entries would be after this manner:—
Navy Records Society, Publications of the. v. 1-9. la. 8o. 1894-7
v. 9 The journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-2; ed. by Oscar Browning.
(The first eight volumes would be set out in the same way in their place as are the contents of collected works).
Rooke, Sir George, Admiral of the Fleet.
Journal, 1700-2; ed. by Oscar Browning. (Navy Records Soc., v. 9.) 1897
It would be within the scope of most catalogues to separately enter under authors and subjects any exceptionally important monographs published with or supplementary to, the transactions of scientific or other societies, but to go further than this and to catalogue in this way each separate contribution to such transactions opens up so vast a field of work that it need not be attempted. Special libraries used only by special classes of the community will have to settle the length to which they can go in this direction according to their several requirements and the means at their disposal. Something towards this end of making available the contents of transactions, proceedings, and the like has been accomplished in the Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers, but there is infinitely more yet to be done and the majority of libraries will choose to wait for the promised great International Catalogue of Scientific Literature rather than attempt to index the contents of whatever transactions they happen to possess in their libraries, though this great catalogue has up to the present got no further than the conference-and-dinner stage of compilation.