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I TRUST the timely protest made in NATURE of December 29 against the recent action of the Government in restricting the distribution of its publications will meet with the support it deserves. Every scientific worker with any patriotism must long ago have been ashamed at the parsimonious manner in which the world's greatest Government distributes the results of the scientific activities of its various departments. The type, paper, and so-called covers of the publications of the Geological Survey, for example, have been a disgrace to any scientific institution, and now that the valuable work these publications unquestionably contain is to be made even more inaccessible, the time has surely arrived when every one should use his utmost to protest.
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SHEPPARD, T. Government Publications and their Distribution. Nature 113, 83 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113083b0
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