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The Bibliotheca Osleriana, which itemizes Sir William Osler's library at the time of his death, represents the work of many minds. The library itself was Osler's, as was the method of classification. His second cousin, W. W. Francis, who headed the Osler Library for three decades; R. H. Hill, the British librarian; and Archibald Malloch, the Canadian who was librarian at the New York Academy of Medicine for many years, collaborated in assembling and editing the material for the library's catalogue. TheBibliotheca Oslerianais that catalogue. Osler created the system of classification used in the catalogue. The first grouping, about 1,700 of the 7,600 items, is theBibliotheca Prima; in it, Osler placed the works of authors whom he felt had made essential contributions to the history of medicine or of science. In the next and largest group,Bibliotheca Secunda, he put those authors whose works had played a
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