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AN attempt has been recently made to supply a great desideratum for naturalists residing in or visiting London, in a reading-room, in a central situation, where they may consult recent publications and current periodical literature, English and foreign. The Linnean Society has taken advantage of the excellent accommodation now afforded it in Burlington House, Piccadilly, to utilise its council-room for this object when not required for the purposes of the Society. The room is open from ten to six (or four on Saturdays) to Fellows of the Society and others properly introduced, and several tables are well supplied with the newest literature in the two branches of Biology, and others are furnished with accommodation for writing, &c. It is also in immediate proximity to the very fine library of standard works in natural history possessed by the Society, where the librarian is always in attendance. If we might make a suggestion to the Council of the Society for the further development of this very useful movement, it would be that means should be taken for a more prompt and regular supply of some of the leading foreign scientific journals, as, for instance, the Comples Rendus of the French Academy, in which respect the reading-room of the Linnean Society still contrasts unfavourably with that of the Royal College of Surgeons; but the longer hours are a great advantage. The room ought to become the recognised rendezvous for naturalists in London.

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Notes . Nature 12, 240–242 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012240a0

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