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GERMAN LIBRARIES. 133 order slips, 1 and sends letter and order slips in a cover 'frei durch Ablosung' to the Royal Library. Four or five days later, one or several parcels con- taining the books available at Berlin arrive at Jena. With them comes a letter returning the order slips for books not available at Berlin, and stating the number of the books sent, the time for using them, and the insured value. The Jena library pays the parcel post fee when receiving the parcel, and the fee for packing quarterly. A slip with the current number of the books borrowed by the Jena library from other libraries and the date for return- ing the book by the reader to the Jena library (a few days earlier than the date for returning it to the Royal Library) is put into each book. A card recording the current number, the name of the lending library, title and press-mark, and the date for returning the book to the Jena library, is written for each book ; special conditions of the lending library are added. The frequenter, who learns by post-card that the ordered book is avail- able, subscribes this card, promising to return the book in the ordinary way, and pays 20 Pfennige for each Berlin volume. 2 The cards are arranged according to the date for returning the book, and if the date is the same, according to the current 1 The average is forty weekly. 2 This is a special regulation of the Jena library as to its frequenters, and quite independent of the relations between the Jena library and the Royal Library, whereas a library participating in the Prussian Leihverkehr is obliged to ask its frequenter for just 20 Pfennige for each volume borrowed from Berlin or any other library of the federation.