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I THINK it would promote scientific information if it were more the custom for those who need copies of papers to make direct application for them. Authors are usually provided with separate impressions for distribution, but are often much in the dark as to how to turn them to the best advantage. The bulk of such copies usually find their way to men of established scientific position who have worked at the subject of the paper in past years, but have perhaps ceased to take interest in it; while those who are actively engaged upon the subject, if they do not happen to have already published matter of importance, are left unprovided for.
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R. Diffusion of Scientific Memoirs. Nature 29, 261 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029261b0
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