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Excerpt from The Geographical Journal, Vol. 8: Including the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society; July to December, 1896 Our labours connected with the library have been somewhat retarded by the heavy work entailed upon our stafl' by the recent meeting of the International Geographical Congress; still, good progress has been made. The authors catalogue was completed and published at the close of last session. The work of preparing cards and slips, with the titles of all our books, and of the articles in all the volumes of transac tions and journals, for the subjects catalogue, has steadily advanced, until now upwards of such titles have been written out. It remains to complete the classification of these cards, and the subjects catalogue will at once be available for reference in the library. Mean while, the 00pious bibliography published monthly in the Journal has been cut out, pasted on cards, and classified by Dr. Mill for four years, so that the subjects catalogue is actually complete for all accessions from the present month upwards to 1892. The question of printing must be postponed until the whole is collected on cards, cross-references supplied, and the entries classified. Probably two years will elapse before this is completed; but within six months the arrangement will be sufliciently advanced to make the catalogue a work of very great usefulness to all Fellows of the Society who are engaged in geographical study or research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.