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THE publication of collections of scientific papers serves a three-fold purpose. It renders easy of access scattered papers for which search would otherwise have to be made through a considerable mass of proceedings, transactions and journals; it furnishes a history of the part played by the author of the papers in the onward progress of scientific knowledge, and it affords an insight into the thoughts which the author has put into writing at various stages of his lifetime. To adequately serve the last object the collection must be comprehensive, and no paper should be deemed too short or of too passing interest to be included in the series. We cannot do better than quote Lord Rayleigh's remarks on this point in the preface:—
Scientific Papers.
By John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh Vol. i. 1869–1881. Pp. xvi + 562. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1899.)
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B., G. Scientific Papers . Nature 61, 588 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061588a0
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