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I HAVE followed the correspondence in your columns on the question of the organisation of scientific literature with very keen interest, and should esteem it a favour to be allowed to add a few remarks to what has been said. There are two ways in which the present disorganisation might be dealt with. The first is exemplified in Prof. Bonney's “Year-book of Science”; that is to attempt to provide a key to the present complex state of affairs in the form of yearly abstracts. But even supposing this year-book (invaluable as it is) were comprehensive, which it admittedly is not, of what use would it be to the many workers who have neither the time nor the opportunity to spend hours in first-class libraries, nor the means to buy even a tolerable number of the innumerable magazines, journals, reports, &c., dealing with their special subject.
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DONNAN, F. The Organisation of Scientific Literature. Nature 48, 436 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048436b0
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