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 336 THE PANIZZI CLUB. only by helping to make its applicants happy that other libraries could be of use to the Museum. Under the stress of the immense increase in the output of foreign books the facts as to what was being bought in other London libraries, and the extent to which these libraries were open to the public or (if not to the public) to all serious students, would become of more and more impor- tance to those responsible for the Museum's pur- chases. On the other hand, if there were conscious co-operation on the part of the great specialist libraries of London, these also would be able to effect economies by each of them being able to keep more closely to its speciality, in the confidence that the Museum could be trusted to look after the subjects with which no other great library was specially concerned. To perfect such a system of co-operation it was obvious that some interchange of notes of Accessions would be very useful, and any scheme which was proposed to bring this about would be sure of sympathetic consideration on the part of the British Museum. ALFRED W. POLLARD.