THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 



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Societies the privilege already granted to and eagerly 



accepted by the Royal Astronomical Society, of duplicate 

 publication in their own Memoirs of all astronomical papers 

 which are printed in our Transactions. 



A similar open offer extended to the principal specialised 

 Societies, which they would be free to accept or to decline, 

 of facilities for the simultaneous duplicate publication in 

 their own Transactions of all papers communicated to the 

 Royal Society which concern their respective sciences, 

 would leave to them their complete independence, and not 

 involve the Royal Society in any obligation to them which 

 would in any way interfere with its own free administrative 

 working. 



An arrangement on these lines could be carried out at 

 a minimum of cost to both Societies, by the simple plan 

 that the duplicate copies of any paper required by the 

 special Society should be struck off at one setting up in 

 type. It would only be fair that the total expense should 

 be divided, the special Society paying, beyond the actual 

 cost of the printing off of its own copies, some portion, 

 possibly a small one, of the expense of the setting up in type. 



Modest as this suggestion may appear at first sight, it 

 would, I believe, do not a little to keep the Royal Society in 

 constant touch with its daughter Societies ; and it would 

 most certainly be to the advantage of the authors of papers, 

 in assuring to them the immediate circulation of their 

 communications among those, in this country and abroad, 



who have special knowledge of the subject and are working 



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