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the difficult heights, but in the lowlands and at the outset of the 

 journey, their progress was needlessly hampered and their time 

 pitilessly frittered away. Even those who make no claim to exalted 

 genius, who attempt no heroic adventures, but who with a modest 

 and faithful industry endeavour to do the needful drudgery of science, 

 may ask to be delivered from a state of affairs which more or less 

 compels them to waste their own time and reluctantly to waste the 

 time of others. If it is true in commerce that time is money, it is no 

 less true that it is also one of the chief factors of success in science. 

 Therefore I appeal to this Association to make a small effort for a 

 great purpose, by appointing a committee to consider how the time of 

 scientific workers in general may be saved, through the introduction 

 of method and order into the publication of scientific results. 



Thomas R. R. Stebbing. 



