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he could not conceive subdivisions of science requiring technical expert 

 advice : that day is gone in India but there is still much to teach the 

 official, as also the man in the street, in this respect. 



If then the applied biologist is to make himself felt, it will be through 

 an organisation comparable to those by which the chemists, the engineers 

 and the doctors assert themselves ; we hope to make the Association 

 such an organised body : the publication of the Annals will be a means 

 to that end and we ask all applied biologists to support it, to join the 

 Association and to induce others to do so too. 



The Library. There is at present no centre in London where the 

 literature of applied biology can be consulted or obtained on loan. 

 Societies such as the Zoological, Entomological, and Linnaean, maintain 

 libraries of systematic and purely scientific literature, but scarcely any 

 at all of the applied aspect. It is proposed to found the nucleus of a 

 library of applied biology and in this connection an appeal is made to 

 members to send : 



(1) Separates of all papers they have published so far as these are 

 available. 



(2) Separates of those they have received which they do not speci- 

 ally want and duplicates. 



(3) Parts or sets of any periodicals they do not need. 



(4) Books they can spare. 



This is an experiment in this sense, that it is not yet certain that 

 the library can be maintained ; but members are asked to send separates, 

 etc. under these conditions : 



(1) All will be acknowledged. 



(2) All will be kept in a room at the Royal College of Science, open 

 to all members. 



(3) All will be card-indexed under author and subject. 



(4) All will be registered with the name of the lender and under the 

 condition that, should the library be broken up or not maintained, 

 they will be returned to the lender. 



(5) So far as possible, they will be available for loan, personally 

 or by post, on the borrower signing a receipt, and an undertaking to 

 return them or be liable for their return or replacement. 



(6) The Association will pay postage out, the borrower postage 

 back. 



It is probable that the foundation of a library will be of the greatest 

 value to members, and when the membership has increased the income 

 of the Association will enable the library to be added to and made of 



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