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PROF. TAIT'S letter in your issue of December 27 (p. 196) raises two questions of interest to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Prof. Tait states that during the last thirty years he has received very few of the publications of the Society. I cannot find from the records of the Society that Prof. Tait has ever expressed the wish to have the publications sent to him. The Cambridge Philosophical Society, like the Royal Society of London, the Royal Astronomical Society, and, I believe, other scientific societies, sends its publications to all Fellows who claim them within a reasonable time from the date of issue. Any Fellow requesting that all publications may in the future be sent to him receives them as they appear. The second point is the free distribution of copies. I find that at the present date the Transactions or Proceedings of the Society, or both, are sent either gratis or in exchange for other publications to the following number of centres:—
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GLAZEBROOK, R. Diffusion of Scientific Memoirs. Nature 29, 287 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029287a0
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