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The Importance of Peripheral Publications in the Documentation of Biology
The Importance of Peripheral Publications in the Documentation of Biology
Pages 429-434
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There are at the present time a number of indices, in addition to the one used as an example in this paper, which attempt a broad coverage of scientific literature in order to supply specialized kinds of information to scientists working in their respective subject-matter fields. A few of these indices are the Gray Herbarium Card Index at Harvard; the Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum ofthe Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; the Zoological Record and Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus of the Zoological Society of London; Schulze's Nomenclator Animalium Generum et Sub-generum, published by the former Prussian Academy of Science; and the Fungus Catalogue of the Crops Protection Research Branch, and the Index maintained by the Entomology Research Division, both of the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
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The complete Index is divided into five sections: an Author Catalogue, a Parasite or Subject Catalogue, a Host Index, a Checklist of Specific and Sub-specific Names, and an AntheLnintic Catalogue. These catalogues are housed and maintained in the Animal Parasite Laboratory, Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, BeltsviLe, MarylancI.
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This information which often lies buried deep within the body of a paper is a necessity for all who use the Linnean system of nomenclature, who are concerned with the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature, the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature, and the International Bacteriological Code of Nomenclature, and who are interested in the identification, transmission, and eradication of disease organisms or in developing new and improved varieties of plants and animals. Some of these items of information are: a.
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Not only must papers appearing in full in reports of congresses receive special attention, but abstracts of proceedings must also be carefully examined and indexec3. The proceedings of the Indian Science Congresses have proved especially troublesome from a nomenclatorial standpoint, because of the policy of reporting new genera and species in abstract form with adequate description to give them validity.
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. Institutes for medical research ordinarily cont1ne themselves to Investigations in the realm of human medicine, but occasionally they are the source of unexpected items such as the discovery of the intermediate host of Tacnia regis, a cestode of the cat family genera Felis or Leo.
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The book was not unknown when Opinion 77 was rendered since the author citation had been published in 1907 in the Author Sect-ion of the Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology. Since more than 98 percent of the information available in the literature in this field of biology would be overlooked if "peripheral publications," as defined in this paper, were not thoroughly searched for information pertaining to medical and veterinary zoology, it is concluded that adequate indexing in this field requires the well-organized and thorough searching of all scientific literature having the remotest connection with the principal sciences included in it.
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