Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In accordance with this idea, circulars were sent to all the Home authorities asking for succinct historical summaries. At first these were to be limited to words each, but this was modified in a subsequent circular to an average limit of words, the older Societies being given more space, and the others warned that their matter might have to. Be. Editorially curtailed.