College and Research Libraries


er's blurb, book jacket, binders' title , nor the 
half-title contain the word , Horus. 

This "Guide" is a must acquisition for the 
reference shelf of every college and research 
library.-Thomas P. Fleming, Columbia Un :-
versity. 

M edical Bibliographers 
The Or eat Medical Bibliograph ers: A Study 

in Humanism. By John F. Fulton. Phila-
delphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 
I95 1. xv, I07p. , 37 figs. $4.00. 
As the Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography 

for I950, Dr. John F. Fulton, Sterling Pro-
fessor of the History of Medicine at Yale 
University, delivered three informative lec-
tures on medical bibliography. These lectures, 
cleverly written and fully documented have 
now been printed in an attractive format by 
the University of Pennsylvania Press. 

The first lecture deals with the origin of 
bibliography under the influence of Bishop 
Johann Tritheim. The first real medical bib-
liographer was Symphorien Champier with 
his De medicinae claris scri'ptoribus (Lyon, 
I506). The outstanding medical bibliographer 
of the sixteenth century was Conrad Gesner 
whose Bibliotheca universalis (Zurich, I545) 
contains an immense alphabetical listing of 
authors with abstracts of their publications, 
both printed and manuscript. With Gesner 
the science of bibliographical description was 
born. 

The second lecture on the seventeenth and 
eighteenth century covers a period in which 
Dr. Fulton is particularly interested. His 
accounts of the· first medical book sales and 
the first book sellers' catalogs with biblio-
graphical descriptions are particularly in-
triguing. Due attention is given to the 
outstanding bibliographer, Albrecht von Hal-
ler (I 708-I 777), and the great bio-bibliogra-
phers, Eloy and Atkinson. 

The third lecture covers the expanding field 
of medical subject indexes and the contribu-
tions of Ploucquet, Forbes and Callisen. John 
Shaw Billings and the great Index Catalogue 
of the Surgeon-Gen eral's Library (now the 
Armed Forces Medical Library) are given 
well justified appreciation. The medical-
bibliographical works of Choulant, Osler, and 
Geoffrey Keynes are treated with some length. 
The volume contains five appendices: I) The 

various editions, extracts and supplements of 
Gesner's Bibliotheca, 2) A list of early medi-
cal book sales, 3) Descriptions of the various 
Haller bibliographical publications, 4) A list 
of the works of Johann Ludwig Choulant, 
and 5) A full description of the twenty-two 
personal bibliographies compiled by Geoffrey 
Keynes. There is a special section of thirty-
seven figures illustrating the various outstand-
ing items discussed. 

Here is another example of how the rich 
resources of libraries can be put to work in 
the hands of a skillful scholar. Dr. Fulton is 
fortunate in having available the rich collec-
tions of Arnold Klebs ( I870-I943), Harvey 
Cushing ( I869-I939), in addition to those of 
the Yale Medical Library and his own out-
standing collection. 

Medical bibliographers throughout the cen-
turies have been leaders in the bibliographical 
field, and this publication should be present in 
every library concerning itself with bibliogra-
phy and the broader field of documentation.-
Thomas P. Fleming, Columbia University. 

Library Literature 
Library Literature. 1949-1951. Edited by 

Dorothy Ethelyn Cole. New Y ark, H. W. 
Wilson Co., I952. 862p. (Service basis). 

Librarians have come to know that if they 
want to find bibliographical citations to litera-
ture relating to problems in their field they 
consult Library Literature. The current 
cumulation covers the years I949 through 
I95I. Miss Cole, the editor, has made an 
effort to include foreign publications for the 
war years. Also, it is intended to fill in as 
many gaps for foreign publications as possible 
in future issues. 

The present indexing includes I20 periodi-
cals, as compared to 97 in the I946-48 
volume. As in past issues, it also includes a 
"Check-list of Professional Publications." 
Miss Cole notes that the library school theses 
indexed have greatly increased, a result of 
the thesis requirement for the master's degree 
in library schools which have changed from 
the bachelor's degree. Cooperation from 
library schools is essential for Library Litera-
ture to be complete in this respect, and one 
is somewhat disturbed to find such Columb:a 
omtsswns as the essays by Budington, Bump, 
Martignoni, Schein, Stickle, Stripling, and 

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Thurlow (see "Graduate Theses Accepted by 
Library Schools in the United States, 1950-
195 !-Supplement," Library Quart erly 22:36-
37, January, 1952) , and the essay by Malcolm 
(George Peabody) listed in the Library 
Quarterly 20:296, October, 1950. There may 
be others, as no effort was made to check all 
items. 

Material relating to college and research 
libraries may be estimated as abundant when 
one realizes that 12 pages of entries are needed 
for "College and university librarians" aQ~ 
"College and university libraries" and its vari-
ous subdivisions. Many more references of 
special interest are included under such head-
ings as Acquisitions, Bibliographical control, 
Bibliography, Cooperation, Photographic re-
production and projection, Reference books, 
Research and the library, and Research mate-
rials.-Mauric e F. Tauber, Columbia Uni-
v ersity. 

M anagement Terms 
The Management Dictionary; Standardiza-

tion of Definitions and Con cepts of the 
T erminology in the Field of P ersonnel 
Management. By A . E. Benn. New York, 
E.xposition Press, f952. 376p. $7 .50. 

It is fairly easy for a reviewer to pick out 
faults in a compil~tion of this sort, especially 
a pioneer reference book in its field. One can 
criticize the omission by the Management 
Dictionary of a definition for cost accounting 
(one of the 14 topics specifically mentioned as 
being within the scope of the book). Then 
there is an elaborate, inconsistent system of 
indirect entries, using DEPARTMENTAL 
RANKING, ORDER OF MERIT and 
ORGANIZATION, COMMUNIST-
ACTION; but GUARANTEED ON-
TRIAL RATE and 1oo PER CENT 
PREMIUM PLAN. There are numerous 
cross references, but one looking under COM-
MUNIST-ACTION ORGANIZATION; 
RATE, GUARANTEED ON-TRIAL; or 
PREMIUM PLAN, 100 PER CENT wol,lld 
not find any guide. The compiler's penchants 
for listing abbreviations twice, with and with-
out the periods (as ALA, A.L.A.) and for the 
expression "and so forth" are annoying. 

However the essential criteria in judging a 
dictionary are the proper choice of words and 
phrases to be included and the accuracy and 

OCTOBER, 1952 

clarity of the definitions. To insure excellence 
in these endeavors, the compiier analyzed sta-
tistically over 50,000 possible concepts; defi-
nitions were compiled from 86oo current 
( 1945-) sources, including some 3300 periodi-
cals, 2600 newspapers, 1400 pamphlets, 1200 
monographs and 100 speeches. Only those 
concepts defined similarly at least five times 
were retained. Thus the method of compiling 
items and defining them seems unusually valid. 

The definitions should be correct as far as 
they go, though in that for the LABOR-
MANAGEMENT RELATIONS ACT not 
too rpuch light is cast on the provisions: 
" Federal legislation~ enacted June 23, 1947, 
which amends the National labor relations act 
of 193 5 ; • it deals with labor and management 
relations affecting interstate commerce. Abbrevi-
ated L.M.R.A. Syn.: Taft-Hartley law." 

This characteristic is neither rare nor, on the 
other hand, typical. . 

The dictionary can be improved, and a pos-
s:ble future second edition should be more 
satisfactory. It provides definitions of words 
and phrases, with their synonyms and anto-
nyms, and explanations of symbols and formu-
las, brought together for the first time in one 
alphabetic list. For its accuracy and conveni-
ence, it is recommended to business, industrial 
engineering, labor and personnel management 
libraries.-Robert Scott, Engin eering Library, 
Columbia University. 

Marginal Punched Cards 
Marginal Punched Cards. By Howard F. 

McGaw. Washington, D.C., The Scare-
crow Press, 1952. 218p. $4.50. 
Many librarians shy away from articles con-

taining statistics set forth with highly techni-
cal explanations that only practising experts 
can appreciate. They are apt to treat similarly 
the descriptions of punched card routines that 
have been appearing the last few years in re-
gard to the bibliographic control of the litera-
ture of scientific and technical subjects. The 
relatively small number of articles on library 
applications of punched card systems has 
shown a conscious effort on the part of the 
writers to use terms familiar to any librarian 
with an ordinary knowledge of mathematics, 
but Dr. McGraw takes the extra precaution 
of warning readers on page 61 of his book: 
(Librarians who have had no experience with 

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