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themselves of opportunities of being useful. No- 

 thing would tend better to attain this end than the 

 circulation of printed skeleton forms, on various sub- 

 jects, which should be so formed as, 1st, to ask dis- 

 tinct and pertinent questions, admitting of short and 

 definite answers ; 2dly, To call for exact numerical 

 statement on all principal points; 3dly, To point 

 out the attendant circumstances most likely to prove 

 influential, and which ought to be observed ; 4thly, 

 To call for their transmission to a common centre. 



