'Horitsu Keizai Rondai Shuran' published in 1908-10 is appraised as a pioneer index of social science articles in the Meiji era. But, as a result of our examination, we detected the fact that a good few of the titles, especially economic and industrial titles, of the journal recorded in 'Shuran', are unreliable because of having a great lack of items listed there.