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What is an index?

Chapter 18: INDEX.
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The pamphlet opens with a historical survey of the word index and its shifting meanings, tracing early usages, notable opinions, and illustrative specimens; it then provides practical guidance on making indexes, covering compilation techniques, concise and accurate headings, alphabetical order versus classification, treatment of names and prefixes, cross-references, and frequent errors; examples and critiques are used throughout to show good and bad practice and to argue for organized efforts to improve indexing standards.

INDEX.

  • Abbott (E.), Concordance to Pope, 77
  • Abecedarie, as a synonym of Index, 10
  • Acrostic, as a motto for an Index, 69
  • “Acuerdo Olvido,” a supposed author, 52
  • Adam (A.), Geographical Index, 82
  • Adams (J.), Index Villaris, 105
  • Adjectives, when to be used as catchwords, 72
  • —— (Substantival), as headings, 44
  • Agassiz, Bibliographia Zoologiæ, 32
  • —— —— blunder in, 50
  • Agricultural (Royal) Society, Index to Journal, 86
  • Aler (Paul), editor of the “Gradus ad Parnassum”, 29
  • Alison’s History of Europe, Index, 78
  • All the Year Round, Index, 89
  • Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors, alluded to, 19, 25, 27, 53
  • —— —— the forty Indexes, 28
  • Almanac, Index to the Companion to the, 91
  • —— —— marks of repetition in, 67
  • Almanac (American), Indexes, 89
  • Alphabet (one) for Indexes, 71
  • Alphabetical Arrangement, difficulties of, 58
  • Alunno (F.), Index to Boccaccio, 29
  • American Almanac, Indexes, 89
  • “American Bookseller”, 34
  • American Journal, Indexes, 89
  • American Journal of Pharmacy, Index, 89
  • American Jurist and Law Magazine, Index, 89
  • American Pharmaceutical Association, Index to Proceedings, 83
  • ‘Anleitung’ as an author, 61
  • Annual Register, Index, 89
  • Anonymous Books, arrangement of, in the British Museum Catalogue, 29 (note)
  • Antonio (N.), value of his “Bibliotheca Hispana”, 20
  • —— arrangement of the Index, 20
  • —— his quotation of the remark that an Index should be made by the author of the book, 19, 21
  • Aquin (D’) quotes ‘Mantissa’ as an author, 52
  • Arago’s Works, divided Index to, 57
  • Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, etc., Index, 88
  • Archæologia, Indexes, 87
  • Archæological (British) Association, Index to the Journal, 83
  • Archæological Epistle to Dean Milles, not by Mason, but by Baynes, 27
  • Armytage (G. J.), Index to Dugdale’s Visitation of York, 79
  • Arrowsmith’s Atlas, Index, 82
  • Ashmole MSS., Index, 108
  • Asiatic Society of Bengal, Index to Asiatic Researches and Journal, 83
  • Assurance Magazine, Index, 89
  • Astronomical (Royal) Society’s Memoirs, 34
  • —— Indexes to Memoirs and Monthly Notices, 86
  • “Athenæum” (The), 50
  • —— uselessness of the Indexes from their subdivisions, 57
  • —— want of a general Index, 48
  • —— suggestion of an Index Society in 1877, 37
  • Athenæum Library Catalogue, Index of Subjects, 36
  • Athenæus, blunder in the Index to Dalechamp’s edition, 21
  • Atlantic Monthly, Index, 90
  • Atlases, Indexes of, 82
  • Augmentation Office, Index to Grants, 102
  • Authorities to be Indexed, 73
  • “Ayenbite of Inwyt,” Table of Contents to the book, 7
  • Ayscough’s (Rev. S.) Indexes, 25, 46
  • —— Index to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 92
  • —— Index to the Monthly Review, 93
  • —— Index to Shakespeare, 77
  • Bachaumont, Mémoires de, 51
  • Baillet, his General Index in thirty-two folio volumes, 21
  • Baker MSS., Index, 108
  • Baret’s Alvearie, use of the words Index and Table in the book, 10
  • Barker (E. H.), Index to his edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus, 25
  • Baronius, noble Index to his “Annales Ecclesiastici”, 14
  • Bayle, his opinion on the need of judgment in the compilation of an Index, 21
  • Baynes (John), his terrible curse, 27
  • Beaconsfield (Earl of), editor of Isaac Disraeli’s Works, 53
  • Bentley attacked in an Index by Dr. King, 16
  • Best (Mr. Justice), reference to his “great mind”, 44
  • Bible, Concordances to the, 28, 75-76
  • ——, Indexes to the, 76
  • Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Index, 90
  • Bibliographical Research, rapid growth of the taste for, 34
  • Bibliotheca Sacra, Index, 90
  • “Bibliothecar. Chetham.,” his contribution to a General Index, 37
  • “Biglow Papers,” humorous Index to it, 18
  • Bigsby’s Thesaurus Siluricus, 35
  • —— Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus, 35
  • Billings (Dr. J. S.), his proposed National Catalogue of Medical Literature, 33
  • Binney (Hon. Horace), proposed punishment for the publisher of an indexless book, 27
  • Biographie Moderne, blunder in, 60
  • Biographie Universelle, life of an imaginary person, 50
  • Birch (W. De Gray), Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici, 106
  • —— Index to the Journal of the British Archæological Association, 83
  • Births, Deaths and Marriages, arrangement of newspaper lists of, 66
  • Bishops, their signatures a source of trouble to some, 64
  • —— to be arranged under their family names, 63, 72
  • Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Index, 90
  • Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, Index Nominum, 78
  • Blomfield’s (Bishop) review of Barker’s edition of Stephens’s Thesaurus, 25
  • Boccaccio, Index to his words and phrases, 29
  • Bochart (M.), called an Index the soul of big books, 21 (note 12)
  • Bodleian Library, Indexes to Catalogues of MSS., 108
  • Bolton (H. C.), Bibliography of the History of Chemistry, 34
  • —— Index to the Literature of Manganese, 34
  • Book-Analyst and Library Guide, 34
  • Bookseller’s ‘reason’ for not giving an Index, 13
  • Boston (Mass.), Indexes to City Documents, 101
  • Botanical Magazine, Indexes, 90
  • Bowyer (William), praise of one of his Indexes, 25
  • “Boyle upon Bentley”, 16
  • Bramwell (G.), Table of the Private Statutes, 97
  • Brayley’s Surrey, Indexes to, 56
  • Bremond (— de), Table des Mémoires dans les Transactions Philosophiques, 87
  • Brent (G. S.), Index to the Journal of the Geographical Society, 86
  • Bridger’s Index to Pedigrees, 79, 104
  • Brigham le jeune for Brigham Young, 61
  • Brightwell (D. B.), Concordance to Tennyson, 78
  • British and Foreign Medical Review, Index, 90
  • British Archæological Association, Index to the Journal, 83
  • British Association Reports, 34
  • —— —— General Index in six Alphabets, 57, 83
  • British Catalogue of Books, Index, 36, 107
  • British Critic, Indexes, 25, 90
  • British Museum Catalogue, 63
  • —— —— arrangement of Anonymous Books, 29 (note), 43
  • —— Rules for Cataloguing, 70
  • —— Indexes to Catalogues of MSS., 36, 108
  • Broch (J. K.), an imaginary author, 50
  • Brodie (Thomas), Index to the Journals of the House of Lords, 99
  • Bromley’s (William) Travels, ill-natured Index made to them by his enemies, 17
  • Brown (Arthur), Treatise on different calculi, attributed to him, 50
  • Browne’s (Sir Thomas) “Religio Medici,” the errata uncorrected in several editions, 65
  • Brunet (G.) translates ‘White Knights’ as Le Chevalier Blanc, 52
  • Brussels Academy’s Memoirs, 34
  • Buckland (Dr.), said to be the author of a work “sur les ponts et chaussées”, 53
  • Buffon’s Natural History, Index to the Plates, 78
  • Buist, Index to Books and Papers on India, 103
  • Bulwer Lytton (Sir Edward), Lord Lytton, his numerous names, 62, 63
  • Burke’s Landed Gentry, Index to, 78
  • Burney (M. C.), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
  • Burton (Hill), “Book Hunter,” allusion to the power in the hands of an Indexer, 16
  • —— History of Scotland, Index, 79
  • Calcutta Review, Index, 91
  • Calendar, as a synonym of Index, 7, 11
  • Calendars of State Papers, 31
  • Calendarium, use of the word in English books, 7
  • Cambridge Concordance, 75
  • Cambridge, Trinity College, Index of Books printed before 1600, 108
  • Camden Society Publications, projected Index to, 36
  • Campbell (Lord), proposed punishment for the publisher of an indexless book, 27
  • —— his confession, 28
  • —— good index to Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 46
  • Campkin (H.), his Index to the Sussex Archæological Collections, 26, 88
  • Camus, an imaginary author, 50
  • Canada, Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly, 101
  • Canadian Journal, bad Indexes to, 42-43
  • Capgrave’s Chronicle of England, blunder in the Index, 49
  • Carlisle (Nicholas) Index to Archæologia, 87
  • —— Index to the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 86
  • Carlyle (Thomas), Index to his Works, 79
  • —— his reference to Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix”, 14
  • —— he denounces the putters forth of indexless books, 27
  • —— his remarks on the want of Indexes to the standard Historical Collections, 39
  • Cartularies, Index to, 102
  • Carus (J. V.), Bibliotheca Zoologica, 32
  • —— —— blunders in the Index, 57
  • Cary’s English Atlas, Index, 82
  • Catalogue, as a synonym of Index, 11
  • Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 32, 104
  • Catalogues, Indexes to, 107-108
  • Cataloguing, Rules for, 70
  • Census of 1871, Index, 105
  • “Centralblatt,” various German, 34
  • Chadwick (J. N.), Index Nominum to Blomefield’s Norfolk, 78
  • Chambers (R.), Index to Heirs-at-Law, 102
  • Channing, two Doctors of the name, how to be distinguished, 68
  • Charities, Index to the Commissioners’ Reports, 101
  • Chatillon, compiler of the “Gradus ad Parnassum”, 29
  • Chemical Society’s Journal, 33
  • —— —— Index, 83
  • Chemistry, Bibliography of the History of, 34
  • Chetham Society’s Index, 84
  • Chitty (E.), Index to Cases in Courts of Equity, 101
  • —— his grudge against Justice Best, 45
  • Chorley (Josiah), Metrical Index to the Bible, 76
  • Christian Observer, Index to, by Macaulay, 26
  • Cicero, his joke about Pollex and Index, 8
  • —— his use of the word Index, 8
  • Cinthio’s Novel turned into November by Warburton, 53
  • Clarke (Mrs. Cowden), Concordance to Shakspere, 25, 77
  • Clarke’s (Wm.) Roman, Saxon, and English Coins, Index to it, 25
  • Classification v. the Alphabetical Arrangement, 56
  • Clergyman and Dissenting Minister of the same Name, 69
  • Cleveland (C. D.), Concordance to Milton, 77
  • Cobbett’s Woodlands quoted, 55
  • Cohen, the former name of Sir Francis Palgrave, 63
  • Coke (Lord Chief Justice), an inaccurate man, 31
  • Coleman (J.), Index to Printed Pedigrees, 104
  • Coleridge (H.), Glossarial Index, 102
  • College of Surgeons, Index to the Catalogue, 107
  • Commons (House of), Indexes to Reports, Bills, Papers, etc., 100, 101
  • —— Indexes to Journals, 99
  • Companion to the Almanac, Index, 91
  • Conant (T. J.), Index to the American Encyclopædia, 79
  • Concordances to the Bible, 28;
  • first, in 1247, 28;
  • first English, by Marbeck, 28;
  • first English to New Testament, 28
  • —— list of, 75-78
  • Congregational Quarterly, Index, 91
  • Congress Library, U.S., Index to old Catalogue, 47
  • Connecticut Academy, 34
  • Contractions, dangers in filling them out, 53
  • Cooke (J.), The Preacher’s Assistant, 106
  • Copland’s Dictionary of Practical Medicine, 35
  • Corpus Christi Guild, York, incomplete Index to the Register of, 48
  • Cotton’s (C.) Concordance, 75
  • County and Local Histories, need of Indexes to them, 39
  • County Visitations, Indexes to, 102
  • Courts of Equity, etc., Index to Cases, 101
  • Cranwell (E.), Index to Books printed before 1600 in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 108
  • Crestadoro (Dr.), his Index to the British Catalogue of Books, 36, 107
  • Croker’s (Wilson) discovery of the blunders in the Mémoires de Louis XVIII., 51
  • Cross (J. Ashton), his pamphlet on a Universal Index, 37
  • —— paper before the Conference of Librarians, 37
  • Cross references in an epitaph, 55
  • —— need of care in the use of, 54
  • —— use and abuse of, 72
  • Cruden’s (Alex.) Concordance, 29, 76
  • Cruttwell (Rev. C.), Concordance of Parallels collected from Bibles and Commentaries, 76
  • Cunningham (T.), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 31, 99
  • Curtis (F. A.), on the best method of constructing an Index, 58
  • Curtis (S.), Indexes to the Botanical Magazine, 90
  • Cushing (W.), Index to the North American Review, 94
  • Cutter’s Rules for Cataloguing, 62, 70
  • Cyclopædia (Appleton’s Annual), Index, 79
  • —— (English), Index, 79
  • “Da,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
  • “Dal,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71
  • Darling’s Cyclopædia Bibliographica, 36, 106
  • “De,” French surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
  • De Bernardy’s Index-Register for next-of-kin, 103
  • Dedication of an Index, 13
  • “Del,” “Della,” surnames to be arranged under these prefixes, 71
  • De Morgan (Prof.) on the Index to Jeake’s “Arithmetick”, 38
  • —— on the length of life of bibliographies, 62
  • —— Index of authors to his Arithmetical Books, 48
  • De Quincey’s specimen of a French Abbé’s Greek, 51
  • ‘Derselbe’ as an author, 61
  • “Des,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71
  • Devils of use in a printing office, 69
  • Differential Calculus misread as different calculi, 49
  • Dircks’s Worcesteriana, blunder in, 50
  • Disraeli’s (Isaac), Works edited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 53
  • —— Curiosities of Literature, quoted, 22, 54, 57, 66
  • Donis (Nicholas), an imaginary author, 50
  • Doran (Dr.) on “Best’s great mind”, 45
  • Dorus Basilicus, an imaginary author, 50
  • Douce (Francis), 27
  • Downame’s (J.) Concordance, 75
  • Downes’ (T.) Index to Pennant’s London, 81
  • Draper (W. F.), Index to the Bibliotheca Sacra, 90
  • Drayton, his use of the word Index, 7
  • Dublin Medical Journal, Index, 91
  • “Du,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71
  • Dugdale’s (Sir W.) Visitation of York, Index, 79
  • —— Antiquities of Warwickshire, use of the words Index and Table in that book, 10
  • Duncan (J.), Index to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 79
  • Dunn (S.), Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
  • Eadie’s Dictionary of the Bible, cross reference in, 54
  • Edgeworth’s Essay on Irish Bulls, arranged under the head of Zoology, 57
  • Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Index, 91
  • Edinburgh Review, Indexes, 91
  • Edwards (J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, 106
  • Egerton MSS., Index to, 108
  • Encyclopædia (American), Index, 79
  • Encyclopædia Britannica, useless cross reference in, 55
  • —— —— Index, 79
  • —— Metropolitana, Index, 79
  • Engelmann’s praiseworthy Bibliographies, 32
  • Engineers, see Institution; North of England.
  • England, Parliamentary History of, Index, 81
  • —— Pictorial History of, Index, 81
  • “Enriched with two lists,” a supposed author, 52
  • Erasmus, his use of Alphabetical Indexes, 8
  • Errata, should they be Indexed?, 65
  • ——, instances of malicious, 66
  • Essayists, Indexes to the, 79
  • Exchequer Records, Index to, 105
  • Fabiani (Ferdinand), his blunder in a name, 52
  • Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici, 106
  • Field (C. D.), Index to the Indian Statute Book, 98
  • Finlay (J.), Index of Irish Cases in Law and Equity, 103
  • Flaxman (Dr. Roger), payment for Parliamentary Indexes, 31
  • —— Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
  • —— Johnson angry with him on account of the entry Mr. John Milton in the Index to the Ramblers, 64
  • Fleming (Abraham), the index-maker of Shakespeare’s day, 10
  • Ford’s Handbook of Spain, amusing reference in, 55
  • Forster (J.), The Churchman’s Guide, 106
  • Forster (Rev. Mr.), Parliamentary Indexer, 31
  • —— Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
  • Freeling (G. H.), Index to Numismatic Papers, 83
  • Freeman (K.), Repertorium Juridicum, 98
  • Fuller (Thomas), his praise of Indexes, 12
  • —— his Index to the ‘Pisgah-sight of Palestine’, 12-13
  • Furness (Mrs. H. H.), A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems, 78
  • Gallager (Owen), 61
  • Gentleman’s Magazine, Indexes, 25, 92
  • —— badness of the Index of names, 46
  • Geographical (Royal) Society, Indexes to the Journal, 86
  • Geological Society, Index to Transactions, Proceedings, and Journal, 84
  • Geological Survey of India, Index to the Records, 84
  • Gerarde’s Herbal, by Johnson, use of the words Index and Table in that book, 10
  • Giddings (J.), Indexes to The Times, 96
  • Giraldus, his story of the crowd of devils attracted by false passages in a book, 69
  • Girdlestone’s (Rev. C.) Concordance to the Psalms, 76
  • Glaisher (J. W. L.), account of early books on Logarithms, 34
  • Glanville’s ‘Vanity of Dogmatizing,’ quotation from, 12
  • Glossarial Index to English Literature of thirteenth century, 102
  • Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, Index, 80
  • Gomme (G. Laurence), Letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, 38
  • Gough (H.), Index to Parker Society’s Publications, 85
  • Gradus ad Parnassum, 29
  • —— in the British Museum Catalogue, 29 (note 18)
  • Green (Rev. J.), Concordance to the Liturgy, 77
  • Greenhill (Dr.), on the formation of an Index Society, 70
  • Griffiths (Rev. J.), Index to Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 107
  • ‘Grundriss’ as an author, 61
  • Gruteri Thesaurus Inscriptionum, Index to the book by Scaliger, 20
  • Guarini placed among Ecclesiastical writers on account of his Il Pastor Fido, 57
  • Gurwood’s Despatches of the Duke of Wellington, Index, 82
  • Guy (D.), Index to Dr. Watts’s Psalms, 78
  • Guy’s Hospital Reports, Index, 84
  • Haidinger and Hauer, their names mixed up, 50
  • Hall’s (Sidney) General Atlas, Index, 82
  • Hallam’s Constitutional History, good Index to, 46
  • Haller, as great a bibliographer as he was a physiologist, 31
  • Halliwell (J. O.), Hand-Book Index to Shakespeare, 78
  • Hamilton (H. C.), Index to the Pictorial History of England, 81
  • Hamst (Olphar), pseud. for Ralph Thomas, 48, 52
  • Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Index, 92
  • Hardy (Sir T. Duffus), remarks on the “Pye-Book”, 11 (note 7)
  • Hare’s Walks in London, Index, 44
  • Harleian MSS., Index to, 108
  • Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Index, 92
  • Harrison (Robert), he proposes the formation of an Index Society in the “Athenæum”, 37
  • Harvard University, 35
  • Hawkins’s Pleas of the Crown, absurd cross references in, 55
  • Headings, instances of bad, 43
  • —— arrangement of, 71
  • —— printing of, 73
  • Hector (J.), Index to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 85
  • Hennen (J.), Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 86
  • Henrietta Maria, not alluded to in Prynne’s Index, 15 (note 9)
  • Heralds’ Visitations, Indexes to, 102, 103
  • Hericourt (Achmet d’), Annuaire des Sociétés Savantes, 53
  • Heirs-at-Law, Indexes to, 102-103
  • Hervey’s (R. F.) Concordance, 75
  • Hesketh (Fleetwood), 61
  • Heskeths, their change of name, 62
  • Hippocrates, dedication of the Index to his Aphorisms, 13
  • Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index to Transactions, 84
  • Historical Collections, need of Indexes to those standard works, 39
  • Historical MSS. Commission, Indexes to Reports, 101
  • Hitopadesa quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, 51
  • Hodge (C.), Index to Systematic Theology, 107
  • Holden (Edward S.), Index of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebulæ, 35
  • —— Index of Books and Memoirs on the Transits of Mercury, 35
  • Holland (Philemon), the translator-general, 10
  • Holme’s Academy of Armory, Index, 80
  • Holmes (T.), Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, 85
  • Homer, Poetical Index to Pope’s translation of the Iliad, 23
  • —— Concordance to the Iliad, 76
  • Horticultural Society, Index to Transactions, 84
  • House of Commons Journals, sums paid for the Indexes, 31
  • Howell’s “Discourse concerning the Precedency of Kings”, 13
  • Howell’s State Trials, Index, 80
  • Hume (Rev. A.), Index to Transactions of Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 84
  • Hume’s History of England, Biographical Index to, 80
  • Hungarians place the Surname before the Christian name, 61
  • Hunt (Leigh), his opinion on Index-making, 22, 24
  • —— supposed author of the joke on Best’s great mind, 45
  • Hunter (J. B.), Index to the New York Medical Journal, 94
  • Hutchins’s Dorset, separate Indexes to, 56
  • I and J to be kept distinct, 59, 71
  • “Incorporation,” first use of the term, 48
  • Index, history of the word, 7-11
  • —— use by the Romans, 8
  • —— naturalization of the word in English, 8
  • —— introduced in the nominative case, 8
  • —— the French word, 11
  • —— the German word, 11
  • —— alphabetical order not at first considered essential in one, 9
  • —— long struggle with the word Table, 10-11
  • —— said to be the soul of a book, 21
  • —— not to be subdivided, 56
  • —— answers to objections to a General Reference Index, 40
  • —— various opinions on the value of Indexes, 12-13, 27
  • —— Indexes not necessarily dry, 14, 22
  • —— satirical and humorous Indexes, 16-18
  • —— Indexes of sentiments and opinions, 23
  • —— special and subject Indexes, 28-36, 39
  • —— Preliminary List of English Indexes, 74-108
  • Index Expurgatorius not a true Index, 8, 74
  • Index learning, authors continually warning readers against it, 12
  • Index Society, sense in which its title should be understood, 7
  • —— account of the various attempts to found one, 36-38, 70
  • —— answer to the question, what can such a Society do?, 38-40
  • Indexers, power in their hands, 15
  • —— no writers more read, 19
  • —— celebrated, 20-21, 24-26
  • —— proposed formation of a staff of, 37
  • Indexing—compilation, 41-55
  • —— arrangement, 56-66
  • —— printing, 66-70
  • —— Rules, 71-73
  • India, Index to Books and Papers on, 103
  • —— said to be conquered by Judas Maccabeus, in Capgrave’s Chronicle, 49
  • Indian Statute Book, Index, 98
  • Indical, word used by Fuller, 12
  • Indice, the word used by Ben Jonson, 8
  • —— the French word, 8, 11
  • —— the Italian word, 8, 11
  • —— the Spanish word, 11
  • Indices, objection taken to the use of this plural in English, 9 (note 4)
  • Indicium, the original of the French Indice, 11
  • Initials, careless use of, 64
  • Inquisition (The), ingenious mode of outwitting, 66
  • Institute of Actuaries, Index of Journal, 89
  • Institution of Civil Engineers, Index to Proceedings, 84
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Index to Proceedings, 84
  • Inventory, as a synonym of Index, 11
  • Ireland, Index to the Commons’ Journal of, 99
  • —— Index to the Townlands and Towns of, 105
  • Irish (Royal) Academy, Index to the Transactions, 86
  • Irish Cases in Law and Equity, Index, 103
  • Irish Statutes, Index, 98
  • Italians sometimes place the surname before the Christian name, 61
  • J. C., ludicrous filling out of these initials, 53, 70
  • Jackson (J. R.), Index to the London Geographical Journal, 86
  • Jardine (D.), Index to Howell’s State Trials, 80
  • Jazon, an imaginary author, 51
  • Jeake’s “Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed,” Index to, 38
  • Jebb (Bishop) confused with his uncle, the Unitarian writer, 50
  • Jevons (Prof. Stanley), his suggestion of an Index Society, 37
  • Jewel’s Apology, by Isaacson, bad Index to, 43
  • Johnson (Dr.) advises Richardson to add an Index to his novels, 23
  • —— preface to his Dictionary quoted, 41
  • —— his anger at Milton being styled Mr. John Milton, 64
  • Johnston (Andrew), Pocket Index to Oke and Stone, 80
  • Johnston’s (Keith) Index Geographicus, 82
  • Jones (Edward), Index to Records, 105
  • Jones (Thomas), his contributions to a General Index, 36
  • Jonson (Ben), his use of the word Indice, 8
  • Journals and Transactions, indexing of, 72
  • Juvenal, the Venice edition of 1478, the first book with a printed errata, 65
  • Keble’s Christian Year, Concordance to, 77
  • King (Dr. William), the inventor of satirical Indexes, 16
  • —— his attack upon Bentley in the Index to “Boyle upon Bentley”, 16
  • —— his parody of Lister’s “Journey to Paris”, 17
  • —— his attack upon Sir Hans Sloane, and the “Philosophical Transactions”, 17
  • Knobel (E. B.), Chronology of Star Catalogues, 34
  • “La,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
  • ‘Labia Dormientum,’ title of a book, 57
  • Lambeth Library, Index of Books printed before 1600, 107
  • Lamoignon (M. de), his library, 21
  • Lancashire and Cheshire, Historic Society of, Index, 84
  • Latinised names of celebrated men, 61
  • Lawrence (Rev. R. French), Index to Strype’s Works, 81
  • Lawyers good indexers, 29
  • “Le,” surnames to be arranged under this prefix, 71
  • Leases of Manors and Lands, Index of, 103
  • Le Clerc, his appreciation of the work of the indexer, 20, 21
  • Leisure Hour, Index, 93
  • Letsome (S.), the Preacher’s Assistant, 106
  • Lewis (Sir George Cornewall), the supposed editor of Isaac Disraeli’s Works, 53
  • Libraries (Public) in the United States, Special Report, 42
  • Library Association of United Kingdom, Index to the Report of the Conference of Librarians, 39
  • Library Association (American), Rules for Cataloguing, 62, 70
  • “Library Table”, 34
  • Link, de Stellis Marinis, arranged under the head of Astronomy, 57
  • Linnean Society, Index to the Transactions, 85
  • Lister’s “Journey to Paris,” parodied by Dr. King, 17
  • Littré, his derivation of Indice, 11
  • Liturgy, Concordance to the, 77
  • Liverpool, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Index, 84
  • Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, Index to Proceedings, 85
  • Logarithms, Account of early books on, 34
  • London (George), his name often spelt Loudon, 49
  • London (William), the bookseller, mistaken for Bishop Juxon, 65
  • London Catalogue, Index, 107
  • London Corporation, Index to Minutes of evidence taken before the Commissioners, 101
  • London Institution Catalogue, 36
  • London Library Catalogue, Index, 36
  • London Magazine, Index, 93
  • London Medical and Physical Journal, Index, 93
  • Lords (House of), Indexes to Sessional Papers, 99-100
  • —— Indexes to Journals, 98-99
  • Loudon (C. J.), the Duke of Wellington mistakes his signature for that of the Bishop of London, 49
  • Louis XVIII., Memoirs of, a mendacious compilation, 51
  • Low (Sampson), Index to the British Catalogue, 36, 107
  • —— Index to Current Literature, 107
  • Lowell’s “Biglow Papers,” humorous Index to the book, 12
  • Lyttelton’s (Lord) History of Henry II. has a long list of errata, 66
  • Lytton (Lord), his numerous names, 62
  • M‘ and Mc to be arranged as if written Mac, 72
  • Macaulay an Indexer at the age of fifteen, 25
  • —— Indexers treated with contempt by him, 26
  • —— his objection to the indexing of his History by a Tory, 15
  • McEwen on the Types, arranged under the head of Printing, 57
  • McMasters (Rev. S. Y.), Index to Hume’s History of England, 80
  • Macray (Rev. W. D.), Index to the Catalogue of Ashmole MSS., 108
  • —— Index to the Catalogue of Rawlinson MSS., 108
  • Madox’s History of the Exchequer, Index to, 80
  • Maitland (Rev. S. R.), Index of Books printed before 1600 in the Lambeth Library, 107
  • Maittaire (M.) prides himself on his talent for Index-making, 24
  • Malcom (H.), Theological Index, 107
  • Manchester Free Library Catalogue, Index, 36
  • Manchester Statistical Society, Index to Transactions, 85
  • Manganese, Index to the Literature of, 34
  • Mantissa, a supposed author, 52
  • Manuscripts, Guide to the verification of, 103
  • —— Indexes of, 108
  • Marbeck (J.), Concordance to the Bible, 28, 75
  • Markland (J. H.), remarks on Indexing, 27, 45, 46
  • Marshall (G. W.), Index to Pedigrees, 104
  • “Mass, Anatomy of the,” has a long list of errata, 65
  • Maty (P. H.), Index to the Philosophical Transactions, 25, 87
  • May (T. Erskine), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
  • Medical and Chirurgical Library, Index to Catalogue, 36, 108
  • —— —— Indexes to the Transactions, 86
  • Medical Literature, Bibliography of, 33
  • Medico-Chirurgical Review, Index, 93
  • “Menagiana,” quotation from, 21 (note 12)
  • Merchants’ Magazine, Index, 93
  • Merewether and Stephens’s History of Boroughs alluded to, 48
  • Meyerbeer, his name a union of Christian- and Sur-names, 63
  • Michel’s (Dan) ‘Ayenbite of Inwyt,’ Table of Contents to the book, 7
  • Military Magazines (German), Index to, 36
  • Milton, Concordance to, 77
  • Minsheu, his use of the word Index, 10
  • Misprints, the Indexer must be on his guard against them, 49
  • Mr., use of this word in an Index, 64
  • Montaigne’s Essays, Index to Cotton’s Translation, 22
  • Monthly Magazine quoted, 55
  • Monthly Review, Indexes, 25, 93-94
  • —— late use of the word Table in that work, 11
  • —— quotation from, 19
  • Moody (J.), epitaph on, 55
  • Moore (Edward), Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, 31, 99
  • More (Hannah), Macaulay’s letter to her, 26
  • Morgan (A.), Index to Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 85
  • Moreri, makes an author named Dorus Basilicus, 50
  • Morris’s Catalogue of British Fossils, 35
  • Name is that by which a person is known, 62
  • —— one, divided into two, 51
  • —— two of the same, often confused together, 68
  • —— surname placed before the Christian name, 61
  • Names, rules for the arrangement of foreign and English, respectively, 60, 71
  • —— two rolled into one, 50
  • —— authors arranged under their Christian names, 20
  • —— rule for the arrangement of compound names, 60, 72
  • —— Latinised names of celebrated men, 61
  • Napier’s Bones, works on, arranged under the head of Anatomy, 57
  • Naturalists’ Miscellany, Indexes, 94
  • Nebulæ, Index of Books and Memoirs relating to, 35
  • New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Index, 94
  • New Englander, Index, 94
  • New York Lyceum of Natural History, Annals of, 34
  • New York Medical Journal, Index, 94
  • New York State Library, Index to the Catalogue, 36, 108
  • New York Times, Index, 94
  • New York Daily Tribune, Index, 94
  • New Zealand Institute, Index to Transactions and Proceedings, 85
  • Newman’s (Samuel) Concordance, 75
  • Next-of-Kin, Indexes to, 102-103
  • Nichols (John), Indexes to his “Literary Anecdotes” and “Illustrations”, 25, 46
  • Nicholson (J.), Index to Assurance Magazine, 89
  • Nicolai (John), turned into a place, 51
  • Niles’s Weekly Register, Index, 94
  • North American Review, Indexes, 94
  • North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Index to Transactions, 85
  • “Notes and Queries”, 46, 69
  • —— announcement in its pages of the projected formation of an Index Society in 1854, 36
  • —— Indexes, 95
  • Noy’s (Attorney-General) reference to Prynne’s Index, 14
  • Numerals to be used for number of volumes, 73
  • Oke and Stone, Pocket Index to, 80
  • Oldys (William) on the need of Indexes, 19-20
  • Ordnance Survey, Index, 83
  • Oriuna, the supposed wife of Carausius, 52
  • Ormerod (G. W.), Classified Index to the Geological Society, 84
  • Oulton (A. N.), Index to the Irish Statutes, 98
  • Ovid, Index to Sandys’s translation, 22
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library, Indexes of Ashmole and Rawlinson MSS., 107
  • —— Index of the Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University, 107
  • Oxford (Robert Harley Earl of), reported to be the author of the Index to Bromley’s Travels, 18
  • Page, division of the Indexed, 73
  • Palgrave (Sir Francis), his former name Cohen, 63
  • —— Index to his Reports as Deputy Keeper of the Records, 106
  • Pall Mall Gazette, letters in, by “A Lover of Indexes”, 37
  • Parker Society Publications, Index to, 36, 85
  • Parliament, Indexes to the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 98-99
  • —— Index to the Rolls of, 102
  • Parliamentary Debates, Index, 92
  • Parliamentary History of England, Index, 81
  • Parliamentary Papers, Indexes of, 99-101
  • Pathological Society, Indexes to Transactions, 85
  • Payne (Thomas) mistaken for Tom Paine, 50
  • Peacock (Edw.), remarks on the badness of the Index to Whitelock’s Memorials, 47
  • —— suggests a List of Indexes, 74
  • Pedigrees, Indexes to, 103
  • Peers to be arranged under their titles, 62, 72
  • —— their signatures a source of trouble to some, 64
  • Pennant (T.), Index to Buffon, 78
  • —— Index to his Account of London, 81
  • Penny Cyclopædia, vague cross references in the, 54
  • Pepys’s Diary, marks of repetition in the Index, 68
  • Periodicals, Indexes of, 89-96, 104
  • Perkins, (F. B.), on Book Indexes, 42
  • Peru, Present State of, 51
  • Pharmaceutical Journal, Indexes, 95
  • Pharmaceutical (American) Association, Index to Proceedings, 83
  • Philippart (Sir John), Index to Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 92
  • Phillipps (Sir Thomas), Indexes, 102-103
  • Philosophical Magazine, 34
  • —— Indexes, 95
  • Philosophical Transactions, Indexes, 87
  • —— laughed at by Dr. King, 17
  • Pickering (Danby), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97
  • Picus of Mirandula, an edition of his works, published in 1507, has a long list of errata, 65
  • Piddington (H.), Index to Geological Papers, 83
  • Pilpay’s Fables quoted as the fables of the damned Calilve, 51
  • Pineda (Juan de), Index to his “Monarchia Ecclesiastica”, 13
  • Places, Indexes of, 105
  • Plateau (J.), Bibliographie Analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la Vision, 34
  • Plays, Prynne’s attack upon, 14
  • Pliny’s Naturall Historie of the World, use of the words Index and Table in that book, 10
  • Plutarch’s Lives, by North, the Index called a Table, 10
  • ‘Pollex’ contrasted with ‘Index’, 8
  • Polybiblon: Revue Bibliographique Universelle, 34
  • Poole’s (W. F.) Index of Periodical Literature, 35, 104
  • —— the projected third edition, 35
  • —— his remarks on the abuse of cross references, 54
  • —— on the defects of classification, 56
  • Pope (A.), Concordance to the Works of, 77
  • Population Tables, 1871, Index, 105
  • Practitioner, Index, 95
  • Prefixes in surnames, rules regarding them, 60, 71
  • Prendergast (G. L.), Concordance to the Iliad, 76
  • —— Concordance to Milton, 77
  • Pridden (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102
  • Prinsep (J.), Table of Indian Coal, 83
  • Printing of an Index, 66
  • —— of the headings, 73
  • Prynne’s “Histrio-Mastix,” specimens from the Index, 14-15
  • Prynne, a martyr to his conscientiousness in making an Index, 14
  • Psalms, Concordances to the, 76
  • Pullen (P.), Index to Joanna Southcott’s Writings, 81
  • “Pye” as a synonym of Index, 11 (note 7)
  • “Pye-Book,” derivation of the word, 11 (note 7)
  • “Quarterly Journal of Science,” Index, 16, 95
  • Quarterly Review, Indexes, 95-96
  • Quérard (J. M.), Thomas’s notice of his life, 48, 52
  • Quotations to be Indexed, 73
  • Raithby (J.), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97
  • Rambler, Index to, 64
  • Rawlinson MSS., Index, 108
  • Rawlinson’s (Dr.) note on the Index to Bromley’s Travels, 17
  • ‘Rechenbuch’ as an author, 61
  • Records, Index to the, 105
  • Register, as a synonym of Index, 7, 10, 11
  • —— the German word for Index, 11
  • Religious Houses, Alphabetical List of the Heads of, 106
  • Repertory of the Acts, Index, 96
  • Repetition, marks of, in an Index, 67
  • Reuss, Repertorium commentationum, 32
  • Richardson (S.), Tables to Clarissa, 23
  • —— Index to his three novels, 23, 81
  • —— a practised Indexer, 24
  • Richmond and Gordon (Duke of), his signature mistaken for that of a firm, 65
  • Riddell (H.) and J. W. Rogers, Index to the Public Statutes, 97
  • Riding (West) of Yorkshire, attempted derivation by a Frenchman, 53
  • Robertson (W.), Index to the Charters granted by Sovereigns of Scotland, 105
  • Rogers (H.), his appreciation of the work of the Indexer, 19
  • Rolls of Parliament, Index, 102
  • Roman de la Higuera (Geronymo) transformed into ‘Father Geronymo, a Romance of La Higuera’, 51
  • Rowe (Rev. George), Index to Reports of the Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, etc., 88
  • Royal Society attacked by Dr. King, 17
  • —— Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 32, 104
  • —— Indexes to the Philosophical Transactions, 87
  • Ruffhead (Owen), Index to the Statutes at Large, 97
  • Rules for obtaining Uniformity in the Indexes of Books, 71-73
  • Ruskin’s Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds arranged under the head of Agriculture, 57
  • St. to be arranged in the alphabet as Saint, 72
  • Saints to be arranged under their proper names, 72
  • Salisbury (Bishop of), mistaken for a Mr. John Sarum, 65
  • Scaliger, his Index to Grater’s “Thesaurus Inscriptionum”, 20
  • Scarron, his malicious erratum, 66
  • Schmidt (A.), Shakespeare-Lexicon, 77
  • Scientific Papers, Catalogue of, 104
  • Scobell’s ‘Acts and Ordinances,’ use of the words Index and Table in that Book, 10
  • Scotland, Index to the Acts of Parliament, 102
  • —— Index to the Acts of the Free Church, 102
  • —— Index to Charters granted by Sovereigns of, 105
  • Scribner’s Monthly, Index, 96
  • Scudder (H. E.), Index to the Atlantic Monthly, 90
  • Scudery (Mdlle. de), her notice of a dedicated Index, 13
  • Seal (Great), Treatise on, arranged under the head of Zoology, 57
  • Seignelay-Colbert de Castle Hill, Bishop of Rhodez, 51
  • Seneca, his indication of the contents of his books, 7
  • —— his use of the word Index, 8
  • Sermons, Indexes to, 106
  • Shaftesbury (Earl of), misprint in his letter to “The Times”, 53 (note 35)
  • Shakespeare, his use of the word Index, 9
  • —— Concordances to, 25, 77-78
  • Shaw (G.) and R. P. Nodder, Indexes to Naturalists’ Miscellany, 94
  • Shenstone’s “Schoolmistress,” ludicrous table of contents, 22-23
  • Silliman’s American Journal, Indexes, 89
  • Simms (C. S.), Index to the “Remains” published by the Chetham Society, 84
  • Sims (R.), Index to Pedigrees and Arms, 103
  • Skewes (Rev. H.), Index to Wesley’s Journals, 82
  • Sloane (Sir Hans) laughed at by Dr. King, 17
  • Societies, Indexes to Publications of, 83
  • Society of Antiquaries, Indexes to Archæologia, 87
  • Society of Arts, Indexes to Transactions and Journals, 88
  • Solly (Edward), he proposes the formation of an Index Society, 37
  • —— on “Best’s great mind”, 45, 46
  • Southcott’s (Joanna) Writings, Indexes, 81
  • Southey’s “Doctor,” headings to the chapters, 23
  • Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians, General Index, 24, 43, 79
  • Speed’s History of Great Britaine, use of the words Index and Table in that book, 11
  • Speed (S.) reason for not adding an Index to one of Howell’s works, 13
  • Spiller (B.), Index to Public Statutes, 97
  • Stamp (G.), Index to the Statute Law, 98
  • Standards Commission, Index to Reports, 101
  • Star Catalogues, Chronology of, 34
  • Statistical Society, Indexes to the Journal, 88
  • —— (Manchester), Index to Transactions, 85
  • Statutes, Indexes to the, 96-98
  • Steele’s (Sir Richard) Indexes, 24
  • Stenography, article on, in Rees’s Cyclopædia, 51
  • Stephen (Sir J. Fitzjames), on a complete digest of the Law, 30
  • —— on the early digesters of the Law, 31
  • Stone’s Justice’s Manual, Index, 80
  • Strachey (Rev. J.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102
  • Strype’s (J.) Works, Index, 81
  • Summary, as a synonym of Index, 7, 11
  • Surname, What is a?, 59
  • Sussex Archæological Collections, Index, 26, 88
  • Swift’s analytical table to his ‘Tale of a Tub’, 22
  • —— account of the condition of Edmund Curll, 26
  • —— bad index to his Works, edited by Scott, 46
  • Swinburne’s “Under the Microscope” arranged under the head of Optical Instruments, 57
  • Sykes (B.), List of Ancient Inscriptions, 83
  • Syllabus, as a synonym of Index, 7, 8, 11
  • Table, as a synonym of Index, 7, 10, 11, 14
  • —— present use of the word to describe a summary of the contents of a book, 11
  • —— late use of the word in the sense of an Index, 11
  • —— the French word, 11
  • Tabrum (E. J.), Index to Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, 106
  • Tabula, use of the word in English books, 7
  • Tatler, Index to the, 22, 24
  • Tedder (H. R.), his full Index to the Report of the Conference of Librarians, 39
  • Telegraph Engineers’ Society, Index to the Journal, 43
  • Tennyson, Concordances to, 78
  • Ter for tertius, as an affix to a name, 64
  • Theology, Indexes to, 107
  • Theses and Inaugural Dissertations, 32
  • Thevenot’s Travels, 50
  • Thomas (Ralph), Notice of Quérard, full index to it, 48
  • Thoms (W. J.), his references to indexing, 19, 27
  • Thring (Sir Henry), his Instructions for an Index to the Statute Law, 29, 41, 42
  • “Times (The),” arrangement of the names in the lists of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 66
  • —— Indexes, 96
  • Titles (misleading) of books, 57
  • Todd (A.), Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Canada, 101
  • Todd (Rev. H. J.), Verbal Index to Milton, 77
  • Topographical works, need of indexes to the chief, 39
  • Transactions, indexing of, 72
  • Transits of Mercury, Index of Books and Memoirs on the, 35
  • Trials (State), Index to, 80
  • Trinity College, Cambridge, Index to Books printed before 1600, 108
  • Turner (Dawson), Guide to the verification of Manuscripts, 103
  • Twiss (Francis), Verbal Index to Shakspeare, 25, 77
  • Tytler’s (P. F.) History of Scotland, Index, 81
  • U and V to be kept distinct, 59, 71
  • United Service (Royal) Institution, Index of Lectures and Papers, 87
  • Upham (E.), Index to the Rolls of Parliament, 102
  • Useful Knowledge Society, Index to the Maps, 83
  • “Van,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
  • Vardon (T.), Index to Local and Personal and Private Acts, 97
  • —— Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons, 99
  • Viar (S), an imaginary saint, 52
  • ‘Viol and Lute,’ a collection of Poems, arranged under the head of Musical Instruments, 57
  • “Von,” surnames not to be arranged under this prefix, 60, 71
  • Walpole’s Letters, bad index to, 46
  • Walton (Bp.) imagines an author named Camus, 50
  • Warburton’s (Bishop) blunder in filling out contractions, 53
  • Warton’s History of English Poetry, Index, 82
  • Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica, 50
  • —— —— Index, 35
  • Watts (Dr.), his warning against index learning, 12
  • —— Index to his Psalms, 78
  • Watts (H.), Index to Gmelin’s Handbook of Chemistry, 80
  • —— Index to the Journal of the Chemical Society, 83
  • Watts (Mr.), his objection to the use of an uncomplimentary adjective in an Index, 16
  • Watts (Thomas), on the formation of an Index Society, 70
  • Wellington (Duke of), Index to his Despatches, 82
  • —— amusing misreading of Loudon’s letter, 49
  • Wesley’s Journals, Index, 82
  • Westminster Review, Index, 96
  • Wheatley (B. R.), paper on an ‘evitandum’ in Index-making alluded to, 28, 45, 54
  • —— Index to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 86
  • —— Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society, 108
  • —— Index to Transactions of the Pathological Society, 85
  • —— Index to the Journal of the Statistical Society, 88
  • ‘White Knights’ translated as ‘Le Chevalier Blanc’, 52
  • Whitelock’s Memorial, Index to one volume folio edition made to do duty for four volume octavo edition, 47
  • Wickens (Robert), Concordance, 75
  • Wilkinson (T. R.), Index to Transactions of Manchester Statistical Society, 85
  • Wills in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Index, 107
  • Wilson (Rev. H. B.), Index to the Family Bible, 76
  • Winsor (Justin), Bibliographical Contributions, 35
  • —— letter to the “Athenæum” on an Index Society, 38
  • —— his “Handbook for Readers”, 74
  • Winton (George), the signature of Bishop Tomline, 65
  • Worcester’s (Marquis of) Century of Inventions, 50
  • Wrong (Abstract), a crime never committed, 18 (note 10)
  • Wynford (Lord), previously Sir W. D. Best, 45
  • Xeucathle, a disguised form of Newcastle, 61
  • Year Books, etc., Index to, 98
  • Yeowell (J.), Indexes to the Notes and Queries, 95
  • Young (Brigham), called Brigham le jeune in the Biographie Moderne, 61
  • Young (T.), Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 104
  • Zoological Record, 33
  • Zoological Society, Indexes to Proceedings, 88