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RECENTLY I have enjoyed an opportunity of visiting a number of the scientific institutions of America, but it was with a feeling of humiliation that I learnt that several of the best-known and most important of them have to pay for works like the various Survey and Challenger Reports which are published by the British Government. It would have been possible perhaps to have obtained some statistics on the subject, but I must confess to having been restrained by a feeling of shame from making direct inquiries; what I did hear about it merely reached me in the course of casual conversation.
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BALL, V. The Distribution of Scientific Works Published by the British Government. Nature 30, 634 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030634b0
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