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who does not know our work with the Decimal Classification, very
well», Dossier No. 183, i«Otlet, Paul», Mundaneum.
19. iC.-V, Langlois, «A Propos de l'Institut International de Bibliographies
Revue Internationale de bibliotheques 1895—1896, il ,(1897),..p. 104.
Langlois refers to the IIB in his Manuel de Bibliographie, Hisforique
(Paris: Hachette, 1896), passim. Langlois, 1863—1929, became Director
•of the Archives Rationales in 1912.
20. C.-V, Langlois. «A Propos...», p. 114.
21. Ibid., 119.
22. Charles Sury to Paul Otlet, 25 August 1896, Dossier No. [183, «Paul
Otlet», Mundaneum.
23. «iNotes and Documents», IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6), p. 105.
24. Ibid., pp. 113—118.
25. Ibid., pp. 121—126. An interesting account of the history of the Concilium
iBibliographicum is to be found in Katherine. O. Murra, «Some
attempts to organise bibliography internationally*, Bibliographic Organisation,
Jesse Shera land Margaret Egan, eds., (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1951).
26. «Notes et Documents*, pp. 120—121, 130—133.
27. oNotes et Documents*.
28. C. M, Gariel, «Expose des propositions votees par le congres de l'Association
francaise pour l'avancement des sciences, Bordeaux, aout, Jl895»,
IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6), pp. 62—66.
29. Charles Richet, 1850-—1935, descended from a prosperous medical family.
He did important work in immunology, became a member of the French
Academie de Medecine in 1898, won the Nobel Prize for physiology in
1913, was elected to the Institut de France in 1914 and became President
of its Aoademie des Sciences in 1933. He was also very much interested
in spiritualism, what he called i«metapsychology».
30. Charles .Richet, «La Classification Decimale*, Revue Scientifique,
4 e serie, IV (28 December, 1895), p. 801.
-31. Ibid., p. 805.
32. Charles Richet, «La Bibliographie Decimale et le Congres de la Societe
JRoyale de Londres (1896)». This article appeared in Revue Scientifique,
11 July 1896, and was reprinted in IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6),
pp. 293—299. Reference is made to the latter, p. 208.
33. C. M. Gariel, «Les Travaux de la Conference Bibliographique de Bruxelles»,
Revue generate des Sciences, VI (30 September, 1895), p. 834.
Gariel, 1841—1924, a physicist or biophysicist, wrote extensively on
acoustics and hearing.
34. M. Baudouin, «Le Probleme Bibliographique*, Revue scientifique, 4 e
serie, IV (7 December 1895), p. 710.
'35. M. Baudouin, «La Classification Decimale et les sciences medicales»,
IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6), pp. 166—181. Baudouin, 1860—1941, took his
Doctorat in the Faculte de Medecine de Paris and wrote a number of
works of scientific popularisation. In the last years of the century, however,
his interests were turning to pre-history, a subject to which
he devoted the rest of his life and on which he published numerous research
monographs.
36. The formation of the French section of the Institute was announced in
«Chronique», IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6), p. 279.
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