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Scudder's Catalogue of Scientific Serials
Scudder, Samuel H.
Catalogue of Scientific Serials of all countries including the transactions of learned societies in the natural physical and mathematical sciences: 1633 - 1876 .
Cambridge, Library of Harvard University, 1879.

There is a free electronic copy of this item available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2925864, which is maintained as part of the Cornell University Library Windows on the Past digital library collection.

This is an excellent listing of scientific serials published across the world up to the year 1876.

In general, the compiler excluded "publications dealing exclusively with Medicine, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Horticulture, Technology, Manufactures, Philology and History..."

Bibliographic and historical information about journal titles is given in the main section of this work, which is arranged first by country, subarranged by city of publication, and then sorted alphabetically. The geographical arrangement is particularly useful in deciphering early abbreviations of society journal titles, if a place name figures prominently in the name of the society.

There is an Appendix with Corrections. There is an Index of Towns, and an Index of Titles (actually the titles are listed in Scudder's own abbreviationed form). Finally there is an Index of Minor Subjects that identifies journals on subjects like Botany, and Meteorology.

Contents of Scudder's Catalogue of Scientific Serials
Heading
Place
in the
Volume
Number
of Pages
International pp.1-2
2
Great Britain and Ireland pp.2-36
35
Denmark, Sweden and Norway pp.36-46
11
Holland pp.46-61
16
Belgium pp.61-65
5
France pp.65-117
53
Spain and Portugal pp.118-121
4
Italy pp.121-140
20
Switzerland pp.140-147
8
Germany pp.148-221
74
Austria
[Includes Hungary, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), part of Jugoslavia, and part of present-day Poland.]
pp.221-241
21
Russia
[Includes part of present-day Poland.]
pp.241-250
10
Greece and Roumania p.251
1
Asia (South of the Russian Dominions) pp.251-256
6
Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand pp.256-259
4
Africa p.259
1
South America, Mexico and the West Indies pp.259-263
5
United States of America pp.263-291
29
British America (i.e. Canada) pp.291-293
3
Appendix with Corrections pp.294-307
14
Index of Towns pp.308-314
7
Index of Titles pp.315-354
40
Index of Minor Subjects pp.355-358
4

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