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NOTES AND REFERENCES. 
Plane Curves, “Traité de Géométrie Analytique,” par G. Salmon traduit par O. Chemin, 
8vo. Paris, 1884, and the list of Memoirs given, p. 538. 
347. I attach some importance to this short paper as giving my own general 
views of the subject to which it relates, and in particular as to the line of separation 
between finite and transcendental analysis. 
378. I have printed this Report as it was in some measure in connexion there 
with that the Royal Society of London undertook the very important work, their 
Catalogue of Scientific Papers. I do not remember by whom the Report was drafted 
but some of the recommendations contained in it are due to me. The Catalogue 
is on a more extensive plan than that recommended in the Report, inasmuch as it 
is not limited to Physics and Mathematics but extends to all branches of Natural 
Knowledge—but it is interesting to compare the extent of it with the Estimate in the 
Report—vols. I. to vi. (1800 to 1863) contain together 5743 pages : vols. vu. and vm. 
(1864 to 1873) contain together 2357 pages—the number of entries on a page is 
about =30; and we thus have, 1800 to 1863, about 173,000 entries, and 1864 to 1873, 
about 71,000 entries. 
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