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arrangement whereby books so received shall be used as an 

 Association Circulating Library, to be located at some centre 

 hereafter to be decided upon, so as to be available for the use of 

 any members of the several Associated Societies. As this feature 

 is likely to develop before long into one of considerable import- 

 ance, many questions relating to its management in the future have 

 been left for consideration at the next Annual Meeting. It is to 

 be hoped that additions may be received in other ways than by 

 tjie system of exchans:es referred to, and that, in time, the Council, 

 may see their way to setting apart a small portion of the Associ- 

 ation funds for the purchase of books suitable for such a circulating 

 library. 



The question of a Museum Convention for the circulation of 

 objects of interest, is another matter that might profitably be 

 considered qn the same occasion. 



The Council have approved of a fev^ pages of the Trans- 

 actions hemg devoted to the insertion of such Notes or Original 

 Observations, upon subjects coming within the domain of Science, 

 as may be deemed by the contributors to be not of sufficient 

 importance to form the subject of articles of a more lengthy 

 nature. The Notes inserted in the present volume may be taken 

 as examples of what is intended; but provided the contributions 

 are to the point, they need not necessarily be very short. ' 



It has also been decided that in future, Abstracts of Papers, 

 and Reprints of Papers at the Author's Expense, shall, subject to 

 the Council's approval, be permitted to appear in the Transaawns. 



The Council have already expressed the opinion that papers 

 submitted with a view to being inserted in the Transac/wns should 



