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62 The Library. it may be easiely seen and read by any person that comes into the Bibliotheck. . . ' [Reprinted in Greenwood's Public Libraries, 3rd edition, 1890, and by Mr. H. T. Folkard, of Wigan. There are the germs of many advanced modern ideas in this interesting tract, alphabetical and uniform cataloguing, classification and press-marking, open access, and newsrooms.] 1734. London, Middle Temple Library. Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Honorabili Societatis Medii Templi Londini, ordine Dictionarii dispositus. London, 1734. [This is the earliest English use of the word dictionary applied to the arrangement of a catalogue I have been able to find. Mr. Cutter mentions 1742 occurring in a German catalogue, as the earliest use of this term he had found up to 1876.] 1773. London Catalogue of Books in all languages, arts and sciences that have been printed in Great Britain from the year 1700, properly classed under the general branches of literature, and alphabetically disposed under each head. . . London, 1773. 1787. British Museum. Catalogues of printed books, 1787, 2 v.; 1813-19, 7 v.; 1841 (v. i., A-Az., all published. Contains cataloguing rules. 1849 (books of reference). Present great author and title catalogue in progress. 1792. Signet Library, Edinburgh. First catalogue, 1792. Catalogue. . . (arranged according to classes by George Sandy. . . librarian) ; with an alphabetical index of authors and subjects, 1805. 1820-37 (dictionary index ; 1856 (law books. . . with an alphabetical index of authors and subjects) ; 1871, &c. (Present catalogue in two vols., with supplement.) [The 1805 catalogue is elaborately classified (on De Bure's plan ?) and has what is practically a dictionary catalogue for an index.] 1809. Royal Institution, London. Catalogue. . . methodically arranged, with an alphabetical index of authors, by William Harris, 1809. New classified catalogue. . . with indexes of authors and subjects, and a list of historical pamphlets, chronologically arranged, byBenj. Vincent. 1857-59. 1809. Boston Athenaeum, Mass. Catalogues, 1809 (classed); 1827, &c. 1874-82, 5 v. (Mr. Cutter's elaborate classed catalogue, with indexes).