On the question of authorship in "Academical Dissertations" : a paper read at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Sept. 15, 1881 / by Benjamin R. Wheatley.

  • Wheatley, Benjamin Robert.
Date:
1883
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    solute ” position, and therefore, I suggest, should, with few exceptions, be removed from the status of author, which belongs grammatically as well as bibliographically to the proponent, defendant, or respondent, who in the nominative case dominates the entire construction of the title-page. The British Museum rule, as adopted by Mr, Cutter in his “ Rules for a Dic- tionary Catalogue ” and by our Associa- tion since, viz., “ Consider the Respondetit or Defendant of a Thesis as its Author except when it unequivocally appears to be the work of the Prases f does not comprehend cases where both the words respondent and defendant occur together. The respondent is the author when words like auctor respondens are attached to his name, or when the preeses is the only other name mentioned on the title,