E. B. Hunt on Scientific Publication. 27 
who were rich in ideas, but poor in purse, first found ymin A 
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strong caisevediag minds have elaborated their researches the 
volumes of memoirs are enriched with treasures of close reason- 
ing, sagacious insight, and results laboriously attained. These 
memoirs are still fresh with the vigor of original thinking, and. 
cannot be spared, as part of the training of future discovering 
see When original memoirs give place in the studies — in- Ss 
"reports, These a are patacae e aids for the. koond of the 
immense related areas 0 ans of one’s speciali whic he can 
In the true and uilebogiat sense of the word, mos 
rinted scientific memoirs cannot be said to or been published, = 
ublication implies something more than mere printing Tt 
involves the idea of cireulation or diffusion a among, the: whit 
y ex 
sions; but this a them almost as much in the dark as before. 
Each memoir has its special public diffused over all lands where — 
science is cultivated, and is only fully published, when it has 
reached the whole of this public. In some instances, this spe- 
