As a palæographer, whose life had been spent among MSS., Sir Edward Bond could not be expected to take the same warm interest in the Library Association that may reasonably be looked for in a librarian chiefly conversant with printed books, but he well understood the duty in this respect imposed upon him by his office as Principal Librarian, and evinced this by presiding over the London meeting of 1887. He married a relative, Miss Caroline Barham, daughter of the famous author of the "Ingoldsby Legends." Lady Bond survives her husband, and he has left five daughters, all married. He wrote no independent work, but edited the _Statutes of the University of Oxford_, the _Trial of Warren Hastings_, and several books for the Hakluyt and other Societies, besides contributing numerous memoirs to the _Transactions_ of his own special creation, the Palæographical Society. FOOTNOTES: [335:1] Contributed to _The Library_, May 1898. INDEX Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, wishes to introduce printing into Persia, 119 Africa, question as to first introduction of printing into, 123 Aldrich, Stephen J., of the British Museum, an authority on incunabula, 208 Ancina, Bishop, his integrity, 169 Antequera Castro, Joseph, author of a book printed in Paraguay, 133 Baber, Rev. H. H., his Museum catalogue, 85; his plan for an improved catalogue, 90 Bailey, J. B., on subject indexes to scientific periodicals, 225 Beresford, General, prints proclamations in Buenos Ayres, 136 Bethnal Green Library, its contrivance for the accommodation of books, the prototype of the British Museum sliding-press, 267 Bible, the foundation of the system of classification adopted at the British Museum, 212 Blades, William, his "Enemies of Books," 283-287 Bond, Sir Edward Augustus, K.C.B., Principal Librarian of the British Museum, his services to the British Museum Printed Catalogue, 15; his negotiations with the Treasury, 65, 73, 94; memoir of, 335-339 Bonifacius, Joannes, author of the first book printed by Europeans in China, 121 Bradshaw, Henry, 209 British Museum Catalogue, how far a model for other catalogues, 7 Canevarius, Antonius, collector of books and amateur of bindings, 164-166 Carlisle, Nicholas, 312 Cary, Rev. Henry, 295 Classed indexes to Museum Catalogue, how to be made, 106 Classification of Books on the shelves of the British Museum, Library, 211 Clemente Patavino, early Italian printer, 201 Cole, Sir Henry, 84, 109 Collins, C. H., Esq., of Edgbaston, advocates a classified index of scientific papers, 22 Colophons of the early printers, 197-209 Cordier, M. Henri, Chinese bibliographer, 121 Crestadoro, Mr., advocates dictionary catalogues, 46 Cutter, C. W., his report on catalogues, 46; his cataloguing rules, 48 Dewey, Melvil, on the decimal system of classification, 80