text:  They do good in so far as they carry out their professed objects of facilitating intercourse between votaries of similar branches of study--they do good by the more attainable communication of the researches of those who cannot afford or will not dare the ordinary channels of publication; but who sanctioned by the judgment of a select tribunal are glad to work and to impart to the public the fruits of their labour--they give an _esprit de corps_ which forms a bond of union to each section and induces a moral discipline in its ranks