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THE sudden and unexpected death, from heart failure, of DR. HERBERT HAVILAND FIELD, at the age of fifty-two, is a great loss to scientific workers. Some thirty years ago Field, then an American student at Paris, left the path of biological research for the less inviting road of bibliography. His aim was to provide a bibliographic service by cards of standard size. Each card carried numbers according to a modification of the Dewey decimal system, enabling it to be sorted mechanically into place according to the classification desired. Later he became associated with the bibliographic section of Zoologischer Anzeiger, and eventually founded at Zurich the well-known Concilium Bibliographicum, which has had the support of the Swiss Government and of various American funds. There he died at his work. It is to be hoped, especially in the present circumstances of the International Catalogue, that the institution he founded will continue and expand.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 242 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107242c0
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