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31. Moniteur beige, 17 September 11805, and 24 December 1895. Report of
the Minister and the Royal decrees are reproduced in IIB Bulletin, I
(1895—6), 58—61.
32. Ferdinand Van der Haeghen, 1830—1913, was responsible for the still
continuing, enormous Bibliotheca Belgica. This was begun in 1880 and
took the novel form of small separate sheets. It was continued after
Van der Haeghen's death by his deputy, Paul Bergmans, and was completed
in 1964. A new edition is now under way in conventional volume
form. »
Michel-Felix Mourlon. 1845—1915, was a distinguished geologist and
paleontologist who became Director of the Service Geologique de Belgique
in 1897. He became Director of the Classes des Sciences in the
Academie Royale des Sciences et des Beaux Arts in 1894.
Maurice de Wulf, 1867—1946, like Otlet's old friend Armand Thiery,
was one of Cardinal Mercier's first group of students at Louvain. He
rose in the academic ranks to professeur ordinaire in 1899. He was secretary
to the Revue Neoscolastique founded by Mercier and became its
editor in 1906, a post he held for 40 years. He was a member of the
Academie iRoyale des Sciences et des Beaux Arts.
33. La Fontaine, however, soon grew in eminence in Parliament. In later
years he was Premier Vice-President of the Senate and played the
piano for Queen Elizabeth and went mountain climbing with King Albert.
It is of interest that before he ascended the throne in 1909, Albert
was himself a member of the Senate for the preceding six years.
34. These bibliographies went through a number of rather rapid changes of
title and relationship which are described in IIB Bulletin. I (1895—6),
146—148.
35. *Bureaiucratisation» is used here, not in any pejorative sense, but in
the general sense given it in the literature of sociology and organisation
theory.
36. «iNote pour M. le Secretaire General de l'Administration des Sciences,,
des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, 10 Janvier 1897». Archives du Royaume
de Belgique, Enseignement Superieur, Nouveau Fonds, No. 381.
37. «Reglement d'ordre interieur de l'Office International de Bibliographies*,.
Moniteur beige, 12 December il898. They were reproduced in various
IIB publications such as Annuaire de I'lnstitut International de Bibliographie
pour Vannee 1899 (IIB Publication No. 23; Bruxelles: IIB, 1899),
pp. 20—23.
38. Copy of a letter dated 11 September 1895 sent to forty-three countries,
Archives du Royaume de Belgique, Enseignement Suiperieur, Nouveau
Fonds, No. 389.
39. Henri La Fontaine. «,Rapport sur le progres de l'organisation bibliographique
internationale depuis la premiere Conference Bibliographique
de 1895», IIB Bulletin, II (1897), 246.
40. Archives Nationales de France, Bibliotheques et Archives, F 1713492:
iRepertoire Bibliographique Universel, ,«renseignements generaux, notes
et rapports*, and, «coT,respondence».
41. Letters to and from the Service beige d'Exchanges Internationaux and
other departments about the exchange of OIB materials are to be
found in Archives du .Royaume de Belgique, Enseignement Superieur,
Nouveau Fonds, No. 381.
42. The following information is taken from a small file of letters to which
separate reference is not made. They cover the period July and August
1896 and are contained in Dossier No. 183, «Otlet, Paul», Mundaneunu
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