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used the latter should be preferred. A series of sections 

 should be accompanied by an extended description to 

 enable those working in other groups to appreciate the 

 matter in a minimum of time. We are all busy enough, 

 and the donor of the slide can usually write an ex- 

 tended description with little trouble to himself and save 

 his fellow members hours of time, if indeed they do not 

 pass on in despair for lack of time to work it out. 



CIRCULATION. 

 About the usual number of boxes has passed through 

 the Circuits during the past two years. The few exces- 

 sive delays, causing abnormal irregularity in many Cir- 

 cuits, have been due, as usual, to gross negligence of a 

 very few members. Equally unnecessary, because easily 

 avoidable, are the too frequent losses of club property. 

 Boxes and note-books are often lost temporarily, and 

 great injury done, by careless misdirection, or by using 

 tags that have been used several times and are so de- 

 faced that it is almost impossible to know where they 

 came from or are going to, or by sending without any 

 tag or with one not safely attached, or by sending with- 

 out sufficient stamps, or without Club tags and envelopes 

 (or the only acceptable substitute, those with a personal 

 return address plainly printed on them) ; but even in 

 these cases they are generally heard from shortly. 

 Those which are finally lost are chargeable to members 

 who, for want of a moment's personal attention, allow 

 them to be mislaid among rubbish or cleaned out into 

 the waste basket by heedless housemaids or ignorant 

 ofiice boys. Equally due to carelessness is the breakage 

 o^ slides ; our boxes are practically safe, not a slide in 

 thousands being injured while in theo^ if properly 

 packed, each in its proper space. They are nearly always 

 broken by careless handling or focusing, or from careless 

 packing. The only clear exception to that statement 

 thus far known is that they will not, it must be admitted, 



