«U. S.» Adjutant-General. Bureau of Engineers. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Bureau of Navigation. Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks. Bureau of Topographical Engineers. Commissary-General. Department of the Interior. Department of the Navy. Department of War. Freedmen’s Bureau. Hydrographic Office. Military Academy. Naval Academy. Naval Asylum. Naval Observatory. Patent Office. Pension Office. Public Lands.
The subordination of bureaus and offices to departments is adopted simply for convenience, and is changed from time to time as the exigencies of the public service demand. There is no corresponding convenience in preserving such an order in a catalogue, but inconvenience, especially in the case of the above-mentioned changes. The alphabetical arrangement has here all its usual advantages without its usual disadvantage of wide separation.
252. Insert a synopsis of the arrangement whenever there are enough titles under a heading to require it.
This applies chiefly to the larger countries (as «France», «Great Britain», «United States»), the more voluminous authors (as «Cicero», «Shakespeare»), one title-entry («Bible»), and possibly some subjects not national. The arrangement of titles under «Bible» will be governed by §§ 240, 242, 245, and 247; but it can be best understood from an example in some catalogue which has many titles under that heading. The synopsis in the Boston Athenæum catalogue is as follows:
Whole Bibles (first Polyglots, then single languages arranged alphabetically).
Works illustrating the whole Bible (under the heads Analysis, Antiquities, Bibliography, Biography, Canon, Catechisms, historical and theological, Commentaries, Concordances, Criticism, Dictionaries, Evidences, authority, etc., Geography, Hermeneutics, History, Inspiration, Introductions, Natural history, Science and the Bible, Theology, morals, etc., Miscellaneous illustrative works).
Parts of the Old Testament (arranged in the order of the English version), and works severally illustrating them.
Parts of the New Testament, and works illustrating them.
Under each part the order is: Editions of the original texts chronologically arranged;—Versions, in the alphabetical order of the languages;—Illustrative works.