26 Royal Colonial Institute. 



X.— THE NEWSPAPER ROOM. 



Over 670 newspapers, journals, and magazines are received and filed at the Institute. 

 Most of the monthly and quarterly magazines are kept in the library or on tables in 

 the law-room, but the newspapers and weekly journals are displayed on stands in the 

 newspaper -room. They include periodical publications from every portion of the 

 British Empire, which are arranged in different sections, and can be easily and 

 quickly found. It may be stated that almost every newspaper of any importance is 

 received, many of them being presented by their publishers. Fellows from overseas 

 and Eesident Fellows who have returned to the Mother Country, find the news- 

 paper-room one of the most useful features of the Institute, for by means of the files 

 of current papers, they are enabled to keep in close touch with events in the portion 

 of the Empire with which they are connected. No other institution has so good a 

 display of Colonial periodical publications. It M'onld be invidious to point out any 

 special paper or journal, but attention may be directed to the various classes of 

 papers that are filed in this room. First are the daily newspapers published in 

 the capitals and chief cities of the Empire, and reflecting the political and social 

 life of their respective spheres. The majority of these are, after the expiration of 

 one year, handed over to the British Museum for permanent storage, and Fellows 

 of the Institute may always consult back files on presentation of their card to the 

 museum officials. Then there are the official gazettes from every State in the Empire, 

 which are kept permanently in the Institute so that they may be available for reference 

 at any time. Many important trade journals, both of a technical and commercial 

 character, are also received, and by their aid the business man is able to follow the 

 different commercial movements in the Empire. There is in addition a number of 

 papers and magazines of a special character, relating to medicine and tropical hygiene, 

 mining, engineering, and tropical products ; whilst the magazines include the 

 chief British and overseas monthlies, and reflect every phase of thought. The 

 magazines also include the agricultural journals of the different States, the periodical 

 journals of the chief British, Colonial, and foreign learned societies, the journals 

 of the principal geographical societies, a number of reviews dealing with anthropo- 

 logical and linguistic topics, and the various law reports and legal journals published 

 in the Overseas Dominions. 



XI.— LOCAL BRANCHES. 



A Branch of the Institute may be constituted in any town or district in the United 

 Kingdom upon the requisition of ten or more local subscribers being sent in to the 

 Institute with the name and address of the Honorary Secretary. 



Ladies and Gentlemen may become Members of such Branches. 



As such they shall be entitled to receive the Monthly Journal of the Royal Colonial 



