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State might reasonably be called upon to pay. Local authorities
should be empowered to hand over to the trustees of the local
museum an adequate sum for this assistance to higher science
teaching1.
At the second meeting, Mr. John Hopkinson, of the Hert-
fordshire Field Club, brought forward some practical suggestions
as to certain matters of bibliographical interest in connection
with the publications of local societies. He urged the necessity
of printing the date of publication of a number, not merely on
the cover, but also in the body of the journal, so that the date at
which any given paper was issued might always be determined,
and questions of priority of publication be settled. The
wrappers of the several parts should be bound in the volume ; for,
if not preserved in this way, the date of issue, when only on the
cover, is lost. He naturally condemned the practice of publishing
a volume without index or table of contents, or list of illustra-
tions. In printing the name of the author of a paper, initials, if
not the full Christian name, should always be given for sake of
clear bibliographical reference. With regard to the important
matter of reprints, Mr. Hopkinson urged the necessity of always
giving the number of the volume from which the paper is
extracted, the date and the original pagination. The type should
never be shifted, and the pagination of the separate copy
should be preserved in exact correspondence with the original.
Dr. Tempest Anderson, of York, the vice-chairman of the
conference, advocated uniformity in the size and shape of the
publications of local societies. The format which he recom-
mended was about that of the Century Magazine. This is rather
larger than the Essex Naturalist. The matter of size, how-
ever, was carefully discussed some years ago by a Committee of
the British Association, and the size then officially recommended
was demy octavo, which is that of our own publication. It was
suggested, however, in the discussion that the time had come for
a revision of this question, and Dr. Anderson explained that the
extended use of photography rendered a rather large page
necessary in order to introduce effective illustrations.
With regard to the work of the various sections of the British
Association which might be aided by the corresponding societies,
it will suffice to refer only to what immediately concerns the
1 Mr. Johnson's paper has been published in the School World for October, 1904.