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MAY I add a few words of information to the appreciative review of the above publication which appeared in NATURE of February 17, p. 214. Our headings are “The Subject Headings used in the Dictionary Catalogues of the Library of Congress” to which an annual supplement is published. These are linked up with the corresponding classes in the shelf-classification of that library. The advantage of this type of catalogue is that, if properly compiled, it combines system and uniformity with the property of immediate reference. It is in fact a class catalogue in which the headings are arranged in “index” order. Your reviewer's suggestion that we should print a list of the journals indexed in each Class List will be certainly adopted when our funds admit of it. Our Class Lists for 1915–16 contained such Lists as well as Authors' Indexes, and it was with the utmost regret that we were compelled to discontinue these features.
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HULME, E. The Subject Index to Periodicals. Nature 111, 360–361 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111360d0
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