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95 THE PANIZZI CLUB. HANKS to some excellent organization on the part of Mr. Wyndham Hulme, of the Library of the Patent Office, and Mr. McKillop, late librarian of the London School of Economics, the suggestion that co-operation between the different educational and research libraries might best be promoted by getting the 'right people' together in a room was carried out with much success at a dinner held at the Imperial Restaurant on Thursday, i gth January. About a score of important libraries l were represented by senior members of their staff, good wishes from as many more were read out by Mr. McKillop, and promises of support, verbal or written, had been received from so many others as to justify the hope that when a more formal start is made not merely some, but all, of the 'right people' will be found helping. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Y. W. MacAlister, who, as he recalled in his opening speech, twenty- two years ago, while Hon. Secretary of the Library 1 Admiralty, Board of Education, British Museum, Geological Survey, India Office, Patent Office, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, Cheltenham College for Ladies, Bed- ford College, London, University College, London, London School of Economics, Royal Society of British Architects, Athenaeum Club, Royal Colonial Institute, Central Conservative Organization, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, British Medical Association, Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Sanitary Institute.