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 1880-1920] ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 249 important papers to the Royal Society or to some local Society, an inconvenience which no bibliographical indexes or reviews yet devised have been able to mitigate. But this is no fault of our Society, and future historians of science will readily acknowledge that it has been mindful of its motto Quicquid nitet notandum.