Ve. Vd. England, Germany, and Northern Europe. Ve. Collection of French Topography in volumes. BOOK 111. Chapter VI. Local arrange ment, and its appliances. Yb. Catalogues of Collections and of the works of Particular Artist. Yc. Miscellaneous Catalogues and Inventaries. Yd. and Ye, Sale Catalogues. Mr. Jomard's Finally, the Classification of the Geographical Col- Classification of lections of the Imperial Library is as follows: I. MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY AND COSMOGRAPHY. a. Uranography and other astronomical Maps and Charts. b. Geodesy and Map-Projection. c. Hypsometry. d. Metrology.. e. Gnomonics. II. GENERAL GEOGRAPHY AND CHOROGRAPHY. a. General Atlases, Maps of the World and Planispheres. b. Maps of Portions of the World. a. Statistical, Ethnographical, Administrative, Educational, Eccle- b. Travelling Maps. the Geographical Collections of the Imperial Library at Paris. c. Politico-economical Maps. d. Canal Maps. e. Frontier Maps. V. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. a. Sacred Geography. b. Ancient and Comparative Geography. c. Military Geography. d. Maps and Atlases of Voyages and Travels. e. Mediæval Maps and Geographical Records. 1 In the local arrangement of Maps, the book-shaped receptacles called "Solander-cases" will be found convenient and serviceable. Each Map should have its specific number. Whatever the number of maps in any division, no case should include more divisions than one. The numbers should be so allotted as to make ample provision for the growth of the Collection, without disturbance of the sequence once established. Before closing this section of the subject it will be desirable to notice, very briefly, a publication by Mr. Shurtleff of Boston, called Decimal System for Libraries, which is entitled to an ample meed of approbation on the score of good intentions, although I am wholly unable to discern the propriety of applying the new term "Decimal System" to an account of manipulations and arrangements which have been well known in European Libraries for scores of years. That term belongs simply to a mode of numbering Library Shelves, which is worth describing in the author's own words; although the use of fixed shelves throughout a Library, -with the exception of the lowest tier or two, per 1 Essai sur l'histoire de la Bibliothèque du Roi, ut supra. DECIMAL NUMBERING FOR SHELVES. 929 haps, is a practice eminently inconvenient, and on this practice Mr. Shurtleff's plan appears to hinge. The Decimal plan proposes the division of every room appropriated to, the reception of books into alcoves or recesses, the number of which in each apartment shall always be a multiple of ten. Each alcove must contain exactly ten ranges of shelves; each range again consisting of ten shelves.... "The shelves of the first range of the first alcove "will be numbered 110, 111, 112, 113, etc. to 119; the second range, 120-129; and so on for the other ranges... When 0 occupies the place of tens, it denotes that the range is the tenth of the alcove; and 1 must be deducted from the figure in the place of hundreds, in order to denote correctly the number of the alcove. Thus, for instance, if a book is on "Shelf no. 208," it will be found on the 8th shelf of the 10th range and (deducting 1 from 2 in the place of hundreds) of the 1st alcove." 1 1 Shurtleff, Decimal System for Libraries (Bost., 1856), 15, 16. BOOK III. Chapter VI. Local arrange ment, and its appliances. Vol. II. 59 |