(1) No wonder the same three years have cut threefold the output of scientific, technical, medical and agricultural literature, reference books and cyclopaedias .(2) I have only been able to procure a few cyclopaedias of art and science.(3) The works on the subject to which I have access are Marey's and Jamieson's books published by Appleton's and various magazines and cyclopaedic articles.(4) Among our library holdings with more than 80,000 volumes, our cyclopaedic collection of statistics is especially useful because users can find almost any main statistics in a single space.(5) In her cyclopaedic book on Modern Housing, Bauer limited her comments on the achievements of American war housing.(6) With the exception of cyclopaedias and dictionaries, almost every book that aims at being useful requires an index to make its store of knowledge accessible.(7) There are dictionaries, and cyclopaedias , and summaries, and synopses, and indexes, and catalogues on every imaginable subject.(8) From the 20,000 reference books lying open to the consultation of all readers in the great rotunda of the British Museum reading room, to the small and select case of dictionaries, catalogues, cyclopaedias , and other works of reference in a town or subscription library, the interval is wide indeed.
