GENERAL MEETING. 29 
276TH MEETING. NovEMBER 21, 1885. 
The President in the Chair. 
Fifty-seven members present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of Mr. 
Tuomas Hampson. 
The Chair communicated to the members an invitation from the 
Chemical Society to attend its meeting on December 10th and listen 
to the address of its retiring president, Prof. F. W. CLARKE. 
Mr. G. Brown GoopeE and Mr. C. V. Ritey made communica- 
tions on 
THE SYSTEMATIC CARE OF PAMPHLETS, 
exhibiting the appliances employed by them and illustrating their 
_ methods. . 
Mr. Goope furnishes each pamphlet with a firm, durable cover, 
by which it is protected from injury, and at the same time kept 
separate for convenient use and classification. Photographs, draw- 
ings, newspaper clippings, etc., are preserved in the same manner. 
[A full description of his appliances may be found: in Science, vol. 
VI, p. 337.] 
Mr. Rinry employs inexpensive, flexible covers, occupying less 
space, and stores them in the “ institute pamphlet case.” 
Mr. B. Pickmann Many, being invited to participate in the dis- 
cussion, exhibited his method of binding pamphlets together, a method 
in which four holes are punched at standard intervals in each pam- 
’ phlet and corresponding holes, in flexible hinges to stiff covers, so 
that a convenient volume can be made up by merely inserting and 
tying two cords, and any desired rearrangement or insertions can 
be made, the holes for binding always corresponding. [See Science, 
vol. VI, p. 407, and Library Journal, vol. VIII, p. 6.] 
Mr. Bruurnes described the tin boxes used in the storage of the 
immense file of pamphlets in the library of the Army Medical 
Museum. Mr. Warp and Mr. Toner spoke in approval of the 
substantial covers adopted by Mr. Goode. Messrs. GILBERT, TONER 
and Harxness opposed the binding of several pamphlets together, 
believing that such combination interferes with their use and ready 
classification and reclassification. 
Other remarks were made by Messrs. DALL, Mussry, and Doo- 
LITTLE. 
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