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A SPECIAL conference has been called together by the Royal Society to consider the future of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The conference held its first meeting at Burlington House on September 28, Sir Joseph Thomson in the chair. The following is the list of delegates:—Sir David Prain, Sir Arthur Schuster, Mr. J. H. Jeans, Prof. H. E. Armstrong, Dr. F. A. Bather, and Dr. P. C. Mitchell, representing the Royal Society; Prof. M. Knudsen, Denmark; M. A. Lacroix, France; Dn G. van Rijnberk, Holland; Prof. R. Nasini and Comm.Ing. E. Mancini, Italy; Dr. H. Nagaoka, Japan; Mr. R. Laache, Norway; Baron Alstromer, Sweden; Dr. H. Escher, Dr. M. Godet, and Dr. H. Field, Switzerland; Dr. R. M. Yerkes, Dr. L. E. Dickson, Mr. L. C. Gunnell, and Dr. S. I. Franz, U.S.A.; Sir Henry Hayden and Dr. S. W. Kemp, India; Sir Thomas Muir, South Africa; Sir Edward Parrott, Queensland; Prof. E. W. Skeats, Victoria; Mr. C. B. Rushton, Western Australia; and Prof. A. Dendy, New Zealand. The delegates were the guests of H.M. Government at a dinner at the Carlton Hotel on September 29.