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tion to scientific writers. The project was based upon the 

 condition of the payment of copyright to each of the con- 

 tributors from all the countries in which the books were 

 issued. Nothing of the kind had ever been done or at- 

 tempted before ; and, in regard to its result, Dr. John W. 

 Draper remarked, " Although there are international 

 copyright regulations in Europe, and my various works 

 have been translated into many foreign languages, I have 

 never received anything from them except upon the vol- 

 ume I wrote for the International Series, and on that I have 

 been paid regularly by the English, French, German, and 

 Italian, as well as by the American publishers." Fifty vol- 

 umes have now appeared in that series, and the American 

 publishers have voluntarily paid all the foreign contribu- 

 tors the same as if they had been citizens of the United 

 States. And this they have done in spite of the fact that 

 this honourable arrangement has been disregarded, and 

 various of the volumes have been reprinted in shabby 

 twenty-cent editions, on which, of course, the authors have 

 received nothing. 



This, then, is the way in which Mr. Harrison has been 

 outraged. He had his articles brought out in good shape 

 for such of his friends as desired to possess them in a sepa- 

 rate form. He has been " plundered " by being protected 

 against plunder on the part of those who might have issued 

 a trivial and fugitive edition of his controversy, and allowed 

 him nothing for it. He has been " pirated " by having 

 voluntarily secured for him the substantial benefits of an 

 international copyright law. 



But Mr. Harrison's articles were used without his con- 

 sent, and that is what the charge of " piracy " here amounts 

 to. His consent was not asked because it would have im- 

 plied control of that over which he had no control. If he 

 had refused, that would not have stopped the publication, 

 but would have simply defeated the purposes of those who 



