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General Scientific Journals 



entific journals available, in addition to the union catalogs and world lists, which 

 contain the needed references to such special serials. 



Many more journals could be quoted in various languages, not counting the 

 publications of the academies and learned societies, but those quoted are more than 

 sufficient for the general purpose.'* If a historian wished to have a general view of 

 science in 1895, the simplest way of obtaining it would be to consult the periodicals 

 which appeared in that year. Many of these periodicals, if not all of them, are 

 available in every good research library. 



*" Some journals which ran only for a few years and have long been out of circulation and 

 forgotten ( in spite of their goodness ) have been omitted, because they are difiBcult to find except 

 in the oldest and largest libraries. 



