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 (12) The general rule for choice between different forms of an author's name is to take "the form best known in France." As instances we may quote : Lord Tenterden under Abbott (he acquired his renown as Lord Chief-Justice Abbott), but Lord Aberdeen under Aberdeen. This sounds eminently reasonable, but we imagine that differences about its application must from time to time disturb the peace of the Bibliotheque.

(13) The disputes about the domain of cataloguer and bibliographer are happily avoided to a great extent, as the incunabula of France are already being catalogued by Mademoiselle Pellechet, and a reference to the first volume of her catalogue takes the place of an elaborate description.

The general rule given in the Rapport for the cataloguing of anonyma is simplicity itself. The first word of the title (not being an article) is to be the heading. In the next paragraph, however, it is laid down that the cataloguer shall, as a rule, take his heading not from the first vague line of the title, but from the name which serves as special designation. This appears to apply to all such anonymous books as in the British Museum catalogue appear under personal and geographical names, and to assign to them such names as headings. However, criticism on these points is hardly reasonable before the second part of the catalogue begins to appear, and that is an unknown date.

The aeuvres emanees de collectivites, such as "reports, addresses, &c., shall be put under the name of the assembly or meeting from which they emanate."