The catalog's cover, for instance, is unusual because it features not a single artwork but rather photographs of the artists.
Even today many of these objects are commonly referred to by their Messier catalog number; M20, for instance, is the great Trifid Nebula, in the constellation Sagittarius.
You never know what you might find on the Net these days: Texas Tech University's Virtual Vietnam Archive, for instance, catalogs the graffiti scribbled on bunk beds by Vietnam-era recruits making the lonely Pacific voyage on a troop transport ship.
For a larger collection, you may wish to divide catalogs into broad categories (for instance office supplies versus parts for your products).
For instance, a catalog selling leather gloves needs to include the features that set the gloves apart: fur lining, buttoned wrists, Italian leather.
In California, for instance, scientists have cataloged 1,400 faults, yet for smaller earthquakes — magnitude 6.7 or less — about one in three still occur on previously unknown faults.
For instance, "if the catalog had not been closed down, then the company would have been in a much stronger position for the Internet," Mr. Edelman said.
This week, for instance, Bluestem Brands, a catalog and online retailer, said it was postponing its offering because of market conditions; meanwhile, Clovis Oncology, a maker of cancer drugs, priced its shares at $13, at the low end of its expected range.
Russia, for instance, presents a catalog of designs made during the Soviet era, drawing attention to how design developed during the time, often idealistic and forgotten, of a state-regulated economy.
"Bestiary," for instance, begins, "A bestiary catalogs / bests," and goes on to contrast it with a "goodiary".
