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Furnivall then became editor; he was enthusiastic and knowledgeable, yet temperamentally ill-suited for the work.{{Fact|date=April 2008}} Recruited assistants handled two tons of ''quotation slips'' and other materials. Furnivall understood the need for an efficient excerpting system, and instituted several prefatory projects. In 1864, he founded the Early English Text Society, and in 1865, he founded the Chaucer Society for preparing general benefit editions of immediate value to the dictionary project. The compilation lasted 21 years.

 

 

Despite the participation of some 800 volunteer readers, the technology of paper-and-ink was the major drawback regarding the arbitrary choices of relatively untrained volunteers about "what to read and select" and "what to discard."{{Citequote}}{{Clarifyme|date=April 2008}} A prolific contributor, [[William Chester Minor|W. C. Minor]], Murray would learn much later during his editorship of the dictionary, was an inmate of the [[Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane]]. As months and years elapsed, the project languished. Furnivall lost track of assistants; some presumed the project abandoned; some died, their quotation slips unreturned to the editor. Later, the letter "H" quotation slips sack was found in [[Tuscany]]; others slips were burned as waste paper [[tinder]].