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ANYONE desiring to see the new books in various branches of science who has had the use of the great libraries in Oxford or in Cambridge, and finds himself transferred to London as his habitation, must be astonished, as I have been, to find that there is no great scientific library in London, and that access to all the incomplete libraries of the various scientific societies does not enable him, even when he takes the large amount of trouble necessary to inquire at all of them, to see the important and necessary new books in various branches of work.
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LANKESTER, E. The Need of a Great Reference Library of Natural Science in London. Nature 80, 427 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080427a0
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