Excerpt from The Journal of the American Chemical Society: General Index to the First Twenty Volume, 1879-1898, and to the Proceedings, 1877-1879

HE earlier volumes of the Journal contained abstracts of papers which had appeared elsewhere. So many of the names of the authors of these papers were erroneously printed that we had to verify all such by reference to the original, unless it was already well known to us. They appear in this index in the correct form, with initials of Christian names supplied, if possible. When it could not be determined whether M. Was an initial or the French equivalent of our Mr., it was printed In a few cases, articles which it is suspected belong to the same author appear under entries slightly different in form; the two entries under Guyard, and the first and third under Monnet are examples. Had Monnet y Cos written more frequently, it would have been possible to resolve the doubt which prevented the placing all papers by a person under his name in its latest form, according to the established rule. In case of variety in ways of print ing certain names, the Royal Society's Catalogue has commonly been fol lowed. But the few Russian names cited have not been rescued from the confusion produced by transliteration into English from both French and German.

In the index of authors, few liberties have been taken with titles, except in spelling uniformly certain words, such as benzene, on which probably all would now agree. In the index of subjects, it was thought desirable to se cure somewhat more uniformity of spelling and nomenclature in the titles of abstracts.

The index has been printed from the original cards which had been pre pared directly from the pages of the Journal and afterwards twice verified. Having been arranged alphabetically, they were made ready for the printer by cancelling words common to successive entries, and by changes in order of words and other slight modifications of expressions. In an index so pre pared, the compiler sometimes satisfies himself with a sequence and relation of entries not quite so felicitous as if everything had been rewritten, but the figures submitted to the printer cannot be erroneous, except by becoming illegible. In our labor of love for the Society, we thought that accuracy of reference to page and volume was that most desired at our hands. The fact that the preparation of the index was divided somewhat equally between two compilers has lessened the uniformity of treatment which might have been secured otherwise.

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