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ence with all the societies which publish memoirs, and after 
fully explaining the objects of the agency makes arrangements 
with each Society to print a given number of separate copies of 
each memoir issued, making what might be called the specialists 
edition. The society might either furnish these copies at the 
cost of manufacture, or at a fixed price, or if it is able, it might 
donate them. Thus ‘the eed! igs agent will be supplied with 
unbound copies of each memoir. He is all this while at 
to be corresponding with all lees Ne pee pal 7 Lig ee 
ascertaining what class of m 
ae of the relation between TONS and demand might be 
ttained. T'his being all done and the agency fully supplied, 
Prof. A. B. living anywhere, orders a given number of particu- 
lar memoirs at prices ‘indicated in the hist. He has only a limi- 
ted surplus of means to bestow, but he can thus supply his exact 
wants at the minimum cost and without having to buy a lar 
number of memoirs he does not want. The result will, be ne 
Prof. A. B. a town remote from large libraries, can 
upon ce As far as is now possible moat foes the 
a 
reprints might in time be justified. The main idea would et 
ever be to ensure the proper publication of new memoirs as they 
are printed. Such an agency ought not to be an ordinary com- 
mercial agency, without guarantee of its continuance, but it 
should rest on a san basis, so as everywhere to deserve and 
possess confiden 
There are lees of ones sisetpitf underlying the philosophy 
of publication which have been too little regarded in vt lege 
once prohibitory. Such publications as Taylor’s Scientific Me- 
moirs, and Liebig and Kopp’s Reports ought not to be ex 
to succeed at such prohibitory prices as they bore. All that is 
necessary to ensure success to the principle of minimum n paying 
