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Is this to be the last issue of this useful annual? Unless further support is received the publishers announce that they cannot continue its publication, at least in its present form, and it is proposed to economise by printing only the titles of papers which have been published as well as read. We doubt, however, if this would enable the publishers to reduce the price of the volume substantially and in these days of heavy expenses it is the high price which, we believe, prevents a wider sale. If the “Year-Book” as it is cannot continue, we would suggest an annual volume omitting all the lists of papers. Such a classified directory giving the names and addresses of learned societies and including, as now, their officers, brief particulars as to meetings, publications, and conditions of membership, would be useful and the information could be kept thoroughly up-to-date if the volume was issued about May. For the present, however, we must be grateful to the publishers for continuing their efforts and also to the officers of societies who have given the time and trouble to enable the “Year-Book” to retain its official character.
The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland: a Record of the Work done in Science, Literature and Art during the Session 1928–1929 by numerous Societies and Government Institutions.
Compiled from Official Sources. Forty-sixth annual issue. Pp. vii + 413. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1930.) 18s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 125, 667 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125667b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125667b0