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du Journal des Brevets (Contribution No. 50 aux Repertoires de l'lnstitut).
121. Ibid., p. 1.
22. Louis Masure, p. 46, includes in the list of Contributions to the Bibliographia
Universalis only Nos. .1 to 40 of the Repertoire des Brevets.
At least 47 were issued, and copies of most of these 47 are still
stored in the attics of the Mundaneum.
23. Otlet to Minister, 5 (?) December 1900, Dossier No. 259a, «Ministere de
l'lnterieur et de l'lnstruction Publique», Mundaneum.
24. Paul Otlet, ^Observations presentees au point de vue de la methode
bibliographique par le Comite de Direction de l'IIB», IIB Bulletin,
IV Fasc. 1—2 (1899), 5—51. This fascicule was described as an «Examen
du projet de la Societe Royale de Londres ooncernant le Catalogue International
des Sciences-),.
25. Paul Otlet, «Le Catalogue International de la Litterature Scientifique»,
IIB Bulletin, VII (1902), 209.
26. Several drafts of the note submitted to the meeting in \1905 remain
in the attics of the Mundaneum. One dated 30 June 1904 is entitled
«Communication faite par les delegues de la Belgique a la Convention
International du Catalogue International des Sciences, Londres,
25 Juillet 1906 relative aux complements a apporter a ce catalogue*, and
contains MSS corrections in Otlet's hand. A summary result of the
meeting from IIB's point of view appears in Organisation systematique
de la documentation et le developpement de I'Institut International de
Bibliographie, p. 47.
27. Remarks of Henryk Arctowski to a meeting of the Belgian Society of
Geology, «Proces-verbaux», 17 December 1907», Bulletin de la Societe
Beige de Geologie, XXI (1907), 280—81.
28. Decree of 5 May 1908, Dossier No. 406, «Comite Beige de Bibliographie
et de Documentation Scientifique», Mundaneum.
29. Summary Instructions for the work of «depouillement», ibid.
30. Conclusion of meeting of 5 May 1908. Other meetings had taken place
on 14 and 20 February, ibid.
31. Undated ms. note in Otlet's hand, ibid.
32. Otlet to Paul Heger (his uncle and Director of the Institut Solvay de
Physiologie), 27 November 1908 and 1 March 1909, ibid.
33. Ibid., passim.
34. Annuaire des societes scientifiques, artist iques et litter air es de Belgique,
1904—1905 (IIB Publication No. 66; Bruxelles: IIB, 1905).
35. Ibid., Introduction, p. 1.
36. Masure to Pierre Nenkoff 1914, Dossier No. 515, «Nenkoff», Mundaneum.
37. Olivier (joint editor) to Otlet submitting Goemaere's prices with the
comment wridiculous), 13 February 1905. Otlet agreed, 13 February 1904,
ibid.
38. In a ms note on a letter by Otlet to Fourez 6 March 1905, Otlet gives
the comparative prices: Fourez 67.50 francs for 400 titles—another
printer, 96 francs for 400 titles. (Dossier No. 221, «Fourez: Travaux
d'Impression», Mundaneum.)
39. Note dated 2 February 1905, Dossier No. 249, «Revue economique international*,
Mundaneum.
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