Catalogue of Books in the Presidency College Library Part II Scinece (Including Science Reference Books and Periodicals)

In the Dewey system the nine digits and zero are taken to signify the main sections of the library ten in all and all sub-sections and subdivisions of sub-sections follow this decimal basis. [...] The principal advantages of this system are —first that each book has a definite number corresponding to its position on the shelves of the library ; secondly that the principal eigits in the number of the book can be determined from a knowledge of the subject with which it deals and similarly the subject from the principal digits ; thirdly that under the system new books can be placed in alp [...] 06 BRIDGEWATER TREATISES 22 vols: 1. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Condition of Man. [...] The Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. [...] 38 OFFICIAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.