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98 THE PANIZZI CLUB. Mr. MacAlister then formally moved the main resolution : * That a club composed of the senior officers of State, University, and Professional Libraries be established to promote good fellow- ship and closer co-operation, and that the club be called the Panizzi Club.' Extracts from letters approving of the formation of a club were then read by Mr. McKillop from Mr. Edmund Gosse (House of Lords Library), Mr. Austin Smyth (House of Commons Library), Mr. Lyster (National Library of Ireland), Mr. Dickson (Advocates' Library, Edinburgh), Mr. Minto (Signet Library, Edinburgh), Mr. Palmer (National Art Library, South Kensington), Mr. Fulcher (Science Museum, South Kensington), Mr. Headicar (London School of Economics), Mr. Viftor Plarr (Royal College of Surgeons), Mr. Hudleston (War Office), Dr. Stapf (Kew Gar- dens), Mr. Severn (Gray's Inn Library), Mr. Newbegin (British Astronomical Association), Mr. Clifford (Chemical Society), and Sir Edward Busk. Commenting on these letters, Mr. Wyndham Hulme said they showed a general agreement that the existing want of organization was a deplorable, but also a remediable fact, and that the modest and slender scheme proposed was what was wanted. As an old member of the Council of the Library Association he wished to say that if the Associa- tion had failed to attract librarians of the research libraries, that was not the L. A.'s fault. It had given practical proof of its respect for these librarians by taking every opportunity of electing them to its