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meeting.
More as I find it.
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    BWVF Meeting, 6 September 1976
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    Agenda.
    1. Minutes of the last meeting.
    2. Nomenclature.
    3. Funds.
    4. Research notes.
    5. Field reports.
    6. AOB.
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    1. Last minutes:
    Motion to approve JH, Second FR. Vote: unanimous.
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    2. Nomenclature:
    FR proposes namechange. ‘BWVF’ dated. CT reminds FR of tradition. FR insists ‘BWVF’ exclusive, proposes ‘S (Society) WVF’ or ‘G (Gathering) WVF’. CT remonstrates. EN suggests ‘C (Coven) WVF’, to laughter. Meeting growing impatient. FR moves to vote on change, DY seconds. Vote: 4 for, 13 against. Motion denied.
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Someone has added by hand:
‘Again! Silly Cow.’]
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    3. Funds/Treasury report.
    EN reports this quarter several payments made, totalling £—. [
The sum is effaced with black ink.
] Agreed to keep this up-to-date to avoid repeat of Gouldy-Statten debacle. Subscriptions are mostly current and with
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This is the end of a page and the last I have of these minutes.
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The next piece is a single sheet that looks word-processed.
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    1 September 1992
    M E M O
    Members are kindly asked to show more care when handling items in the collection. Standards have become unacceptably lax. Despite their vigilant presence, curators have reported various soilings, including: fingerprints on recovered wood and glass; ink spots on cornices; caliper marks on guttering and ironwork; waxy residue on keys.
    Â Â Of course research necessitates handling but if members cannot respect these unique items conditions of access may have to become even more stringent.
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    Â Â Before entering, remember:
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    Â Â â€¢ Be careful with your instruments.
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    Â Â â€¢ Always wash your hands.
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The next page is numbered ‘2’ and begins halfway through a paragraph. Luckily it contains a header.
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    BWVF P APERS, NO. 223. J ULY 1981.
    uncertain, but there is little reason to doubt his veracity. Both specimens tested exactly as one would expect for V D , suggesting no difference between VD and VF at even a molecular level. Any distinction must presumably be at the level of gross morphology, which defies our attempts at comparison, or of a noncorporeal essence thus-far beyond our capacity to measure.
    Â Â Whatever the reality, the fact that the two specimens of VF mortar can be added to the BWVF collection is cause for celebration.
    Â Â This research should be ready to present by the end of this year.
    REPORT ON WORK IN PROGRESS:
VF and Hermeneutics

by B. Bath.
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    Problems of knowledge and the problematic of Knowing . Considerations of VF as urban scripture. Kabbala considered as interpretive model. Investigation of VF as patterns of interference. Research currently ongoing, ETA of finished article uncertain.
    REPORT ON WORK IN PROGRESS:
Recent changes in VF Behaviour

by E. Nugen.
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    Tracking the movements of VF is notoriously difficult. [
Inserted here is a scrawl — ‘No bloody kidding. What do you think we’re all bloody doing here?
] Reconstructing these patterns over the longue durée [
the accent is added by hand
] is perforce a matter of plumbing a historical record that is, by its nature and definitionally, partial, anecdotal and uncertain. As most of my readers know it has long been my aim to extract from the annals of our society evidence for long-term cycles (See Working Paper 19, Once More on the Statten Curve ), an aim on which I have not been entirely unsuccessful.
    Â Â I have collated the evidence from the major verified London sightings of the last three decades (two of those sightings my own) and can conclusively state that the time between VF arrival at and departure from a locus has decreased by a factor of 0.7. VF are moving more quickly.
    Â Â In addition, tracking their movements after each appearance

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