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THE reviewer who aspires to give an account of recent progress in any department of science, is met at the outset by two causes for embarrassment. What beginning shall be selected for developments called recent? What developments shall be selected for discussion from the mass of investigations to which his attention has been called? So rapidly is the army of workers increasing, and so numerous are the journals in which their work is recorded, that the effort to keep up with even half of them is hopeless; or, to borrow a simile employed by the late Prof. Huxley, “we are in the case of Tarpeia, who opened the gates of the Roman citadel to the Sabines, and was crushed under the weight of the reward bestowed upon her.”
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Recent Progress in Optics3. Nature 53, 233–238 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053233a0
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