396 REPORT—1904. 
Eventually I get the required information from the Secretary of the 
Society. The reprint has not only been re-paged, but the position of the 
type on the pages has been altered so as to get into four pages a paper 
running into five—a great temptation certainly. But in all reprints, 
except perhaps reports of proceedings which would never have to be 
entered in a bibliography, the original pagination should be retained, and 
the title of the publication, the volume, and the date —month and year— 
should be printed on the paper, as well as on the cover, so that it remains 
if the cover be taken off, as for binding. 
There is one other point I should like to impress upon you. Your 
proceedings should be published ; that is, it should be possible to purchase 
them. They are then amenable to the copyright laws ; copies have to be 
presented to five libraries—one in London, one in Oxford, one in Cam- 
bridge, one in Edinburgh, and one in Dublin. That in London is the 
British Museum Library ; and even if you only print and do not publish 
your proceedings, a copy should be sent there. This is a point I cannot 
too strongly urge. 
We possess, at the Office of the Association, a very valuable and 
unique collection of the Proceedings of the Corresponding Societies. I 
hope that it will in future be kept intact, and that by more extensive and 
convenient premises being acquired by the Association it may be possible 
to improve its arrangement and make it more accessible than it is at 
present, and I also think that an effort should be made to get replaced 
certain publications which some years ago were lent and lost, so that 
every paper catalogued in the Reports of the Association may be readily 
referred to, for some of them are not now to be found in London, not even 
in the library of our greatest national institution, the British Museum. 
Mr. W. Whitaker said he should like to support what Mr. Hopkinson 
had stated. The speaker had wasted much time in trying to find where 
a paper came from in order that he might be able to quote it properly, 
and in many instances he had taken his separate copy to a library where 
the journal existed and collated it himself with the original. When one 
has to republish a paper it is inconceivably inconvenient to shift the 
type, as printers will do. Societies and editors of papers should make 
printers understand that they cannot do as they like in these matters. Mr. 
Hopkinson spoke of the Library of the British Museum. Not long ago 
the speaker sent some annual reports of a provincial Society to the British 
Museum and they were returned! They were not entered at Stationers’ 
Hall, and were not wanted at the Museum. The Library is so full that 
little things formerly received cannot be accepted now. 
The Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing thought that if sent tothe British Museum 
at South Kensington they would be received most gratefully. 
Mr. Whitaker observed that that is a different thing. He thought 
the Trustees of the future would very much regret the action of the 
Trustees of the present, because these thin pamphlets become so difficult 
to get hold of in years to come. He hoped the Delegates would notice 
what Mr. Hopkinson had said, and try to get the Societies to adopt some 
kind of system in editing. There is an opinion about that anyone can 
edit a journal. That is the greatest mistake possible. It requires a 
good deal of technical knowledge. A man can be a good writer and good 
reader, and yet make the worst possible editor. He had told several 
Societies of these defects and they had been remedied. It is for the 
