The Syndics' catalogue for 1875 (a pamphlet of 16 tiny pages) reflects the beginnings of schoolbook publishing: it opens with some nine volumes in the Pitt Press Series; then follow Scrivener's _Paragraph Bible_, Scholefield's _Greek Testament_ and several theological works including Isaac Barrow's _Works_ in nine volumes; there are five editions of Greek and Latin authors, among them being Paley and Sandys's _Private Orations of Demosthenes_ and Heitland's _Cicero pro Murena_; mathematics and physics claim nine books, including Kelvin and Tait's _Elements of Natural Philosophy_; history is represented by Mullinger's first volume, already referred to, and Mayor's edition of Baker's _History of St John's College_; of law books there are three, including Whewell's edition of _Grotius de Iure Belli ac Pacis_; and the list ends with a few catalogues and university examination papers. In 1877 the publication of another important series was begun--_The Cambridge Bible for Schools_. The general editor was Dr J. J. S. Perowne, afterwards Bishop of Worcester, and the first volume to appear was Maclear's _St Mark_. Originally designed for school use, the series soon attained a wider public. It was begun before the publication of the Revised Version and at the very time when the controversy was raging in Scotland which resulted in the suspension of Robertson Smith from his professorship at Aberdeen; when the series was finally completed by Sir George Adam Smith's _Deuteronomy_ in 1918, many of the older volumes had already been replaced or revised. On the death of Bishop Perowne in 1904 _The Times_ referred to the series as one which had "done more to spread accurate Biblical knowledge among English-speaking people than any book except the Revised Version." The agreements between the university presses and the two companies of revisers for the publication of the Revised Version had been completed, "after much careful consideration as well as protracted negotiation," in 1873. Three years earlier the New Testament company had held the first of its 407 meetings in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey. The company included the most distinguished theologians of the time--Hort, Westcott, Lightfoot, Ellicott, Scrivener, W. F. Moulton--and at first an average of only seventeen verses was revised in the daily session. Later, however, progress became a little more rapid and the revision was completed on 11 November, 1880. The Revised New Testament was published jointly by the university presses in 1881 and the Old Testament three years later. The secretary of the Old Testament company was W. Aldis Wright, for more than 30 years a Syndic of the Cambridge Press.