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work it is procured. This could remain 

 the property of the club for the use of 

 all the members, and as subscripitons 

 continued to mount up other works 

 would be added, and by degrees all the 

 most useful books would be procured. 

 An arrangement in connection with 

 this plan could doubtless be made with 

 a local bookseller, to allow the mem- 

 bers to have some reduction off the 

 price of the works ordered. There 

 should also be a further arrangement 

 with regard to the ultimate ownership 

 of the books. So soon as a member 

 has paid in the cost of any work he 

 desires to possess, it should become his 

 property on the understanding that it 

 should remain in circulation, so that it 

 may not be necessary for two members 

 to procure the same work, and thus the 

 club would have a greater variety. In 

 selecting books regard should be had 

 to the wish of the majority, but never- 

 theless each individual should have the 

 right of selecting a book in turn. 

 Where there are many subscribers per- 

 haps the better way would be for each 

 to write the name of the book they 

 desired, on a slip of paper. If more 

 than one selected the same book, then 

 that with most votes should be first 

 procured, and the others in turn. 

 Book clubs on this plan are most suc- 

 cessfully conducted in many places. 

 We know one Book Club, Limited, (to 

 two members) who have been paying 

 for some time, and have recently pur- 

 chased Newman's Moths, and are now 

 paying in for another for the other 

 member. With regard to magazines a 



most useful system might be invalided 

 in such a club. Working men cannot I 

 afford to take in all the magazines is 

 there are published, but each member 5 

 might take in a different one. Say . 

 such a club is composed of four Ento-i f 

 mologists, A, B, C, and D. Each ■ 

 takes in a different magazine ; the oner 

 taken in by A as soon as read is transj 

 ! mitted to B, who reads it and then I 

 I forwards it to C, who afterwards for- H 

 j wards it to D, and then back again tc , 

 ! A, and so on with the magazines taken N 

 in by the other members. Thus foi 

 an extra outlav of 2d. in postage eacl • 

 member gets to see three magazine! < 

 besides his own, and is thus kept wel r 

 posted up with what is moving in hii ' 

 particular line. In many cases tin ft. 

 cost would be even less than that, fo 

 children might be employed in convey id 

 ing the papers where the distance wa 

 not great. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



Our friends have had great trouble hither! 

 in procuring the Young Naturalist throufl 

 a Bookseller : the firm who supplied tl 

 trade at first being too far from the centre f« 

 collectors to go to Walworth for odd copies 

 a penny paper. We now have pleasure 

 j announce that we have arranged with 

 Messrs. John Kempster & Co., 

 St. Bride's Avenue, 



Fleet Street, 



London, E. <| 



who will in future supply the trade ; and '» 

 trust our readers will have no further difficult 

 in procuring copies through a local Bookselli 



