Excerpt from Distributing Co-Operative Societies: An Essay on Social Ecomy I desire to return, so far as I am able, publicly, my warmest thanks to the distinguished Professor Luigi Cossa - on whose advice I publish this extremely modest study - who, with high-minded liberality, placed his rich library at my disposal, and procured for me the most recent books; and to my friend, Dr. Federico Guasti, a most zealous and able co-operator, who, besides allowing me access to the library of the Milan Unione Cooperative, favoured me with the tes which he had compiled in 1886 on the occasion of his writing a theme for his doctor's degree, and which he published only in part, and furnished me with very important information on the co-operative movement of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.