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WE owe so much to the activity of the institution founded at Washington by the generosity of Mr. Carnegie that it seems ungracious to find any fault, yet we must enter a plaint against the inconvenience of the form of publication which it has adopted. The instalment of the report on the California earthquake of April 18, 1906, now published, consists of two quarto volumes, of more than 450 pages in all, issued in paper covers, accompanied by an atlas which measures two feet in length and more than half a yard in breadth, a size which renders its accommodation, in the libraries of most of those who will want to possess and use it a matter of great inconvenience, and necessitates its being stored and kept apart from the volumes which.it accompanies. Yet this atlas might easily have, been produced in a size that would match the text, for few of the twenty-five maps fill the whole of the sheets on which they are printed, and there are none which might not have been reduced in scale without any loss, and even in some cases with advantage; while those seismograms which could not be reproduced on a page of the same size as the text could have been folded, as is done by the Japanese Earthquake Investigation Committee, without any inconvenience.
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The Californian Earthquake of 19061. Nature 80, 10–11 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080010a0
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