8. National Numbers.—In using national symbols to qualify a topic, it is necessary only to use the class letter and first figure of the place, and to add to the topic number in order to show subject and locality. Thus,a general work on Freemasonry in Russia would be marked L185S0, instead of L185-S000 or L185.S000. There is no need to divide the topic from the place number by means of dots or dashes, and all through it must be understood that the principal countries are to be expressed by letter and first figure of number only, as shown on the Summary Tables. In the case of extremely minute subdivision it may be necessary to closely localize a topic, say such as Freemasonry in Texas, in which case the number, for clearness, should be L185W328, and not L185W1, which would express the United States and not Texas. None of the National or Race names appear in the Categorical Tables, and it is, therefore, necessary to take them from the full Classification Tables. It is sometimes necessary to qualify a topic by a race or language number instead of a national one, and it is then best to use the whole of the language mark, thus :—
circumstance to use the geographical rather than the linguistic national
SUBJECT
Pali Freemasonry
L185M260.
Such subdivisions are, however, rarely required, and it is best under every
numbers. — 9. New or Intercalated Numbers.
If any new or other subject is found unrepresented in the tables, either as a general covering head, or special
topic, a place for it can be made at any point by treating the existing numbers as decimals, and adding the units from o to 9 as found necessary. Thus, suppose places are specially wanted for bodies named Christadelphians, Christian Strugglers, Christian Travellers, Christian Worshippers, and it is necessary to insert them between K951 and K952, they can be added thus :—
Catholic Apostolic Church Christadelphians
Christian Strugglers
Christian Travellers
Christian Worshippers Christian Endeavour Society.
Or, if other intercalations are probable, the odd numbers should be used, so as to still leave room on each side of numbers :—
Catholic Apostolic Church Blank
Christadelphians
Blank
Christian Strugglers
Blank etc.
By this means ten entirely new places can be found between every existing number, apart from the large number of spaces already purposely left blank all through the classification. Of these there are about 10,000, making with the 14,000 extra places now provided, a total of 24,000. But there is no reason apart from a long symbol, why five figures should not
be used in the main number, if thought desirable, or why, indeed, the additions to the decimal main numbers should not run on to 100 or even 1000 places. But it seems extremely unlikely that, even in the very largest