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THE name of Rome and the favourable season gave to the congress recently held in the Italian capital an international character, evident, not so much in the numerous concourse of visitors from all parts, as in the nature of the subjects treated. The congress was interesting, not only with regard to the original communications on historical subjects, but still more so respecting the series of discussions on the necessity of collecting and putting in order the material for study so as to render it easily accessible. Bibliographical questions are of greater importance to the historian than to the man of science. The latter, who has at his disposal material in a great measure of recent date and easily accessible, has been able, with greater facility than the historian, to get up good indexes and catalogues; but the difficulties which stand in the way of those desirous of collecting historical data, and of those who have to put them in order, varying, uncertain, obscure as such data are, scattered here and there in innumerable archives and libraries, are very great indeed.
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GIACOSA, P. Positive Sciences at the International Congress of History . Nature 67, 613 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067613a0
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