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THE PANIZZI CLUB. 331 Cambridge also the college librarians have already met together as a body and resolved to hold a similar meeting at least once a year. They are thus doing as a self-contained body most of the things which we London librarians ('rari nantes in gurgite vasto') are beginning to think necessary. Let us hope that our Chairman will have sufficient persuasiveness to inspire the Cambridge librarians to organize themselves permanently, and that not merely as a self-contained body, but as a self- governing branch of this Club, so that they can contribute out of their experience to the common stock. At the present moment a majority of the members of this Club come from London libraries, and the Council is mainly composed of Londoners, who are also naturally much more easily able to attend than those who would have to come from a distance. We are thus confronted at the outset with a danger to which almost all Societies have succumbed, the danger of identifying the London members with the whole Club, so that resolutions passed or projects favoured at a meeting of London members tend to be treated as resolutions and projects of the Club as a whole, to the detriment of what is proposed else- where. It may be hoped that with the help of a Cambridge Chairman we shall avoid this pitfall. It will be the business of the 'News Sheet 5 to keep us informed of whatever is being done throughout the Club, and it will be pleasant if country members are made welcome at London meetings and London members at those held elsewhere. But the frequent arrival of notices of meetings which it is impossible