Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army

Abstract

THIS sixteenth volume completes the twenty years' labour of Dr. J. S. Billings, and brings the catalogue of the finest medical library in the world to the close of the alphabet. We have in previous articles remarked on its extraordinary fulness, and its value to all engaged in the study of medical literature. For it is not merely a guide to the Washington Library; it is a classified index to something like a moiety of all that has ever been published on medicine and its allied sciences. Ample and distinctive descriptions are given of more than 300,000 books and articles, with over 800,000 cross-references. The volume before us has an additional feature of the greatest usefulness. No less than 282 folio pages are required to contain a list of the abbreviated and the complete titles of the periodicals, transactions, reports, and the like, now or formerly issued in all parts of the world and in every civilised language. The abbreviations are those used in the catalogue; but they are so concise, and at the same time so sufficient, that it would be well if they could be uniformly adopted by all who quote—and give their authority.

Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army.

Authors and Subjects. Vol. xvi. W—Zythus. Folio, pp. xiv. + ‘282] + 822. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895.)