64 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
There is no need in this case to invoke the aid of the millionaire. 
Even supposing no money at all were being at present spent on 
the object, a sum of £100 per annum would purchase and preserve 
all the serials on the list. If a moneyed benefactor were wanted, 
it would not be to produce fine bindings and elaborately carved 
bookcases : it would rather he from fear that in an odd time of 
indifference or of pinch part of the collection would otherwise have 
to be discontinued, whereas the whole essence and value of such 
an undertaking lie in its continuity. 
In a final word, he the work done anew as a whole, or done 
piecemeal out of existing elements, the aim should be to do it 
soon before we fall further behind, to make it complete and 
thorough, and to see that it is accessible to all workers who can 
prove their ability to use it. 
( Issued separately February 14 , 1906 .) 
