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WHEN Lord Beveridge published his report on “Voluntary Action’ in October 1948, a supplementary volume was promised, entitled ”Evidence for Voluntary Action". In this volume, now published*, are collected reports on investigations by Mass Observation on the friendly societies, voluntary and on some aspects of charity in Great Britain, tables embodying the results of a survey made by Research Services, Ltd., in July and August 1947, memoranda on the finance of voluntary action and memoranda submitted by organisations, as well as by individuals, on special topics. The result is a miscellany of information, of varying merit, some formal or statistical, some discursive and, more rarely, critical. Apart possibly from Mr. A. F. Wells's memorandum on urban and rural amenities, which gives a survey of the work of the amenity societies, including the National Trust, which is in itself particularly useful in view of the steadily increasing threats to the scenic heritage and flora and fauna of Britain, and Mr. R. Wilson's notes on the future of voluntary action, the supplementary volume contains little for the scientific worker that he will not find in Lord Beveridge's original book.
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The Freedom of Voluntary Associations. Nature 164, 721–724 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164721a0
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