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PRIOR to the annual general meeting, Lord Rutherford opened the new reading rooms at the Institute of Physics. Through the generosity of the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, some rooms have been allocated to the Institute for this purpose, and these have now been comfortably furnished. The Joint Library Committee set up by the Institute, the Physical Society, and the Optical Society has arranged that the libraries shall be combined for the mutual benefit of all, and thus a large number of periodicals and other books are already available for the use of members of the Institute and its participating societies. In addition, a limited number of textbooks and reference books are included in the library. In the course of his remarks, Lord Rutherford said that the opening of these rooms is another example of the cooperation of the participating societies through the Institute, which was one of the purposes for which the Institute was founded. Some of the rare old books belonging to the Physical and Optical Societies were open for inspection during the afternoon. It is hoped that authors and publishers will present suitably inscribed copies of their books, and in this way those whose attention has been directed to new books by the reviews published in the various journals of the Institute and its participating societies will have an opportunity of examining the books more carefully before procuring their own copies.
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Reading Rooms at the Institute of Physics. Nature 129, 823 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129823b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129823b0