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Classification for Bibliography of Science

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MR. BLISS1 has proposed the thesis, with which he is so good as to couple my name, that classification should be applied methodically to scientific literature and that the study of classification should now become a first concern of national and international organisations.

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  1. Nature, 127, 889, June 13, 1931.

  2. Pollard, A. F. C., "The Decimal Bibliographical Classification of the Institut International de Bibliographie", 1926, p. 3.

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BRADFORD, S. Classification for Bibliography of Science. Nature 128, 268–269 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128268b0

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