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THE method advocated by Mr. J. C. McConnel (NATURE, February 13, p. 342) would undeniably be feasible. But I should pity the fellow-craftsman who should have to carry it out. The idea of numerical subdivision has been worked out by Prof. Dewey with great ingenuity and industry in his “Decimal Classification and Relative Index,” 1885. We find, on referring to p. 31, that 016·9289551 will indicate the “Bibliography of Persian poets.” Natural science occupies a place from 500–600, and does not seem to have been as yet reduced to an equal degree of elegant simplicity, for the subject of “observing chairs, &c.,” is merely denoted by 522·28.
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CATALOGUER, A. The Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers: a Suggested Subject-Index. Nature 41, 391–392 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041391c0
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