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Accounting HF
Advertising HF
Aeronautics TL
Agriculture S
Africa DT
America (general) E
American Indian Languages PM
American Literature PS
Animal Culture SF
Anthropology GN
Archeology CC
Architecture NA
Arts (general) NX
Asia DS
Asian, African Languages & Literature PL
Astronomy QB
Bacteriology QR
Bibliography Z
Biography CT
Botany QK
Building Construction TH
Business HB - HJ
Canada F
Chemical Engineering TP
Chemistry QD
Civil Engineering TA
Classical Antiquity DE
Classical Language & Linguistics (general) PA
Computer Science QA
Constitutional History JF - JQ
Decorative, Fine Arts NK
Drawing NC
Economics HB - HJ
Education, History of LA
Education, Theory of Practice LB
Electrical Engineering TK
Engineering (general) TA
English Language PE
English Literature PR
Environmental Engineering TD
Europe D
Fine Arts N
Fish Culture & Fisheries SH
Forestry SD
France DC
Genealogy CS
General Works A
Geography (general) G
Geology QE
German Language PF
Germanic Literature PT
Germany DD
Great Britain DA
Handicrafts TT
History D, E, F
Highway Engineering TE
Home Economics TX
Human Anatomy QM
Hunting, Wildlife Management SK
Hydraulic Engineering TC
Internal Medicine RC
International Law JX
Latin America F
Law (general) K
Library Science Z
Literary History & Collections (general) PN
Literature ML
Local Government JS
Logic BC
Manufacturers TS
Mathematics QA
Mechanical Engineering TJ
Medicine R
Medicine, Public Aspects RA
Military Science U
Mining, Metallurgy TN
Motor Vehicles TL
Naval Science V
North and South America F
Nursing RT
Oriental Languages & Literature PJ
Painting ND
Pharmacy RM
Philosophy B
Photography TR
Physical Education GV
Physics QC
Physiology QP
Plant Culture SB
Political Science J
Political Theory JC
Print Media NE
Psychology BF
Public Administration JF - JQ
Recreation GV
Religion BL - BX
Romance Languages PC
Romance Literature PQ
Russia, Poland DK
Scandinavia DL
Science (general) Q
Scores M
Sculpture NB
Slavic Languages & Literature PG
Sociology HM - HX
Spain, Portugal DP
Statistics HA
Technology T
Therapeutics RM
United States (general) E
United States (local) F
United States Law KF
Zoology QL



A General Works
B Philosophy
BC Logic
BF Psychology
BL - BX Religion
CC Archeology
CS Genealogy
CT Biography
D Europe
DA Great Britain
DC France
DD Germany
DE Classical Antiquity
DK Russia, Poland
DL Scandinavia
DP Spain, Portugal
DS Asia
DT Africa
E America (general)
E United States (general)
F North and South America
F United States (local)
F Canada
F Latin America
G Geography (general)
GN Anthropology
GV Physical Education
GV Recreation
HA Statistics
HB - HJ Business
HB - HJ Economics
HF Accounting
HF Advertising
HM - HX Sociology
J Political Science
JC Political Theory
JF - JQ Constitutional History
JF - JQ Public Administration
JS Local Government
JX International Law
K Law (general)
KF United States Law
LA History of Education
LB Theory of Practice, Education
M Scores
ML Literature
N Fine Arts
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing
ND Painting
NE Print Media
NK Decorative, Fine Arts
NX Arts (general)
P Philosophy
PA Classical Language & Linguistics (general)
PC Romance Languages
PE English Language
PF German Language
PG Slavic Languages & Literature
PJ Oriental Languages & Literature
PL Asian, African Languages & Literature
PM American Indian Languages
PN Literary History & Collections (general)
PQ Romance Literature
PR English Literature
PS American Literature
PT Germanic Literature
Q Science (general)
QA Computer Science
QA Mathematics
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
QD Chemistry
QE Geology
QK Botany
QL Zoology
QM Human Anatomy
QP Physiology
QR Bacteriology
R Medicine
RA Medicine, Public Aspects
RC Internal Medicine
RM Pharmacy
RM Therapeutics
RT Nursing
S Agriculture
SB Plant Culture
SD Forestry
SF Animal Culture
SH Fish Culture & Fisheries
SK Hunting, Wildlife Management
T Technology
TA Engineering (general)
TA Civil Engineering
TC Hydraulic Engineering
TD Environmental Engineering
TE Highway Engineering
TH Building Construction
TJ Mechanical Engineering
TK Electrical Engineering
TL Motor Vehicles
TL Aeronautics
TN Mining, Metallurgy
TP Chemical Engineering
TR Photography
TS Manufacturers
TT Handicrafts
TX Home Economics
U Military Science
V Naval Science
Z Bibliography
Z Library Science


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