Alphabetical Catalogue Of The Library Of The Faculty Of Physicians And Surgeons Of Glasgow Preceded By An Index Of Subjects

Author : Alexander Duncan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243885312
Total Pages : 728 pages
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Download or read book Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Vol. 2 written by Alexander Duncan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Vol. 2: Preceded by an Index of Subjects; Comprising the Additions, 1885-1900 This second. Volume of the Catalogue is in sequence to that published in 1885 (which in the present volume is termed Vol. In the sense of being supplementary to it. Each volume is complete in itself and exclusive of the other, except as regards a short supplement added to Vol. I., the entries in which are incorporated in the present volume, and a few omissions in the Index Of Subjects of the first 'volume also supplied in the present. The new volume contains the additions to the Library made Since 1885. Its preparation was begun in 1899, and was designed as a memorial of the Ter centenary of the F aculty' celebrated in November of that year. The delay in its completion has been partly due to the occasional pressure of other duties on the Librarian, partly to the increased labour involved in cataloguing works executed on the plan of collaboration, which have much increased in number of late years, and partly to the considerable time required for pre paring for the printer the Index of Subjects after the Catalogue of Authors was in type. With one or two exceptions Of no great importance, the general plan of the former volume has been adhered to. For details of this plan persons consulting the Catalogue are referred to the Preface of that volume.' The chief departures from the scheme there explained consist in the less frequent use of the dash and the almost total disuse Of the double dash in the Index Of Subjects, and in the treatment for alphabetical purposes of the German modified vowel when occurring in the Authors' Catalogue. As regards the dash, it was found that in many cases it could be omitted without detriment. In the first volume the German modified vowel was alphabetically treated as a diphthong: in this volume it is regarded as a Simple vowel. Lofiler' in the earlier volume is therefore to be sought for under Lee, in this under Lof. 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.