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I WISH it were possible to induce our learned societies to be a little more liberal; it should be their aim to spread knowledge, not make it a luxury for the wealthy. I happen to wish to read a paper by Professor Tait on “Rotation,” published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The only libraries I have access to are those of the British Museum and London Institution. At the Museum there is no volume of the “Transactions” later than 1864; at the London Institution no volume later than 1862; so that if I persevere in my intention of reading the paper, I must buy the volume containing it, for which I must pay 2l. 2s.—that is, I must buy thirteen papers I don't want in order to be able to read one which I do want: these include one on the temperature of newly-born children, and another on tetanus in cold-blooded animals.
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Transactions of Scientific Bodies. Nature 1, 507 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001507a0
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