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Classification Bibliographique Decimate des sciences philosophiqu.es:
tables methodiqu.es (2e edition; IIB Publication No. 42; Louvain:
L'Institut, 1900).
16. Service Geologique de Belgique, La Classification Decimale de Melvil
Dewey appliquee aux sciences geologiques pour I'elaboration de la Bibliographia
Geologica (IIB Publication No. 28; Bruxelles: Hayez, 1898);
and, Service Geologique de iBelgique, La Classification de Melvil Dewey
completee par la partie 549—599 de la Bibliographia Universalis et appropriee
pour I'elaboration de la Bibliographia Geologica: Introduction,
table methodique et index alphabetique (2 e edition; IIB Publication
No. 29; Bruxelles: Hayez, 1899).
37. Classification decimale des sciences astronomiques: introduction et index
alphabetique (Publication No. 11; Bruxelles: OIB, 1897).
18. Louis Weissenbruch, La Classification Bibliographique Decimale et son
application a la science des chemins de fer. (IIB Publication No. 17;
Bruxelles: P. Weissenbruch, 1897). This pamphlet was also published in
English with the same IIB Publication number.
19. Classification decimale des sciences photographiques: tables developpees
(Publication No. 16: Bruxelles: OIB, 1897).
20. Classification Decimale: Tables generates abregees (Publication No. 9;
Bruxelles: OIB, 1897), These tables were also published in IIB Bulletin,
II (1897, 1—73.
21. Vittorio Benedetti, Classificazione decimale. Tavole generali di Melvil
Dewey, ridotte e adoptate dall' Istituto Internazionale di Bibliografia
(IIB Publication No. 12; Firenze (Florence): G. Barbara, 1897).
22. Manuel Castillo, La Classificacion bibliografica decimal. Exposicidn del
sistema y traduccion directa de las Tablas generates del mismo... (IIB
Publication No. 13; Salamanca: Jmprenta de Calatrava, 1897).
23. Carl Junker, Die Dezimalklassifikation. Gekiitze allgemeine Tafeln: Deutsche
Ausgabe (IIB Publication No. 14; Wein (Vienna): Holder, 1897).
24. Organisation internationale de la bibliographie scientifique, op cit. This
work, like the Rules, was unsigned, but was presumably written by Otlet.
He acknowledged the «Rules» in his «Sur la structure des nombres classificateurs».
25. Otlet to Melvil Dewey, ?? 1895, Dossier No. 259, «Dewey» Mundaneum.
26. Ibid.
27. Paul Otlet, «Le programme de l'lnstitut International de Bibliographie:
objections et explications*, IIB Bulletin, I (1895—96), 85—93. This will
be called «Objections and Explications* in the following paragraphs.
A slightly fuller and more systematic presentation of these ideas appeared
in the pamphlet Organisation internationale de la bibliographie
scientifique. Here the form and geographical subdivisions were described,
together with number—compounding using the colon. Some discussion
was also presented about filing problems which would arise when numbers
were complicated by the various punctuation signs.
28. Marcel Baudouin, «La Classification Decimale et les sciences medicales»,
IIB Bulletin, I (1895—96), 161—181.
29. Victor Carus, «La Zoologie et la Classification Decimale», IIB Bulletin,
] (1895—96), 189—193. The quotation is from page 189. Carus was
commenting on various proposals submitted to him by the Office and
explained by Otlet in «Sur la structure des nombres classificateurs» (see
below). Carus, 1823—1903, was an eminent German Zoologist. His
history of Zoology is still a standard work. He edited the Zoologischer
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