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See also:RECORD (See also:Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from See also:cor, See also:heart or mind) , a verb or noun used in various senses, all derived from the See also:original one of preserving something permanently in memory . In this See also:article, however, we are only concerned with documentary records, or archives . In its accurate sense a See also:record is a document regularly See also:drawn up for a legal or administrative purpose and preserved in proper custody to perpetuate the memory of the transaction described in it; for the most See also:part it forms a See also:link in a complicated See also:process, and unless the connexion between it and the other documents making up the process has been preserved, a portion of its meaning will have perished . The first care, therefore, of the custodian of records should be to preserve this connexion, where it exists . In the See also:majority of countries a previous task awaits him; it has been his See also:duty to collect and arrange his documents . There are few countries in which records have not passed through a See also:period of neglect; each See also:office of See also:state has kept or rather neglected its own papers; each See also:court of See also:justice has been the keeper of its own records; the student has been paralysed by a multitude of repositories among which he vainly sought the documents he required . To this See also:stage two systems have succeeded; the See also:system of centralization both of records and of 1898), a thoughtful study of the See also:political See also:geography of the Far is regulated by the Indictable Offences See also:Act 1848 (II & 12 Vict . See also:East and its possible changes; " La Perse " (Bul . See also:Soc . Neuchateloise, 1899); " La Phenicie et See also:les Pheniciens " (ibid., 1900); La Chine et la See also:diplomatic europeenne (" L'Humanite nouvelle " See also:series, 1900); L'Enseignement de la geographic (Instit . Geograph. de Bruxelles, No . 5, 1901) . Shortly before his See also:death See also:Reclus had completed L'Homme et la terre, in which he set the See also:crown on his previous greater See also:works by considering See also:man in his development relative to See also:geographical environment . Reclus died at Thourout, near See also:Bruges, on the 4th of See also:July 1905 . |
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