The Evolution of Serials Published by Scientific Societies ...: Read Before the Philosophical Society of Washington, April 13, 1899

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Page 232 - ... continued to pursue his studies in comparative anatomy, for which his practice left him ample time, and also acted as prosector to the eminent Dr. Horner, professor of anatomy at the university. Leidy's initial publications appeared, at the age of twentytwo, in the year 1845 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and of the Boston Society of Natural History...
Page 231 - ... of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. The...
Page 224 - The American Society of Civil Engineers, with a large and practically national membership, a fixed home, and frequent local as well as annual migratory meetings, publishes rather voluminously in two 8vo serials — the first, or Proceedings, being chiefly an administrative record, while the second, or Transactions (accompanied by maps, plates, diagrams, etc.), is a record of research.
Page 237 - ... papers in convenient form for the use of the bibliographer and student ; (2) publication under his own name that the responsibility and credit may appear prima facie ; and (3) publication in such form that he may obtain and distribute copies of his own treatises at will. The last of these...
Page 225 - Sciences, with a home office but with a uational membership and partly migratory meetings, leads the list in the number of its serials and in the editions in which they appear. Of the seven nominally regular serials and the additional two resulting from inconstancy in nomenclature, the first, or Annual, is chiefly...
Page 225 - ... and both local and migratory meetings, maintains two . serials (or, rather, two editions of the same serial) : the first consisting only of a series of preliminary issues of the records of research (printed in the Engineering and Mining Journal for some years, but...
Page 228 - Sei. of Phil., the Memoirs of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., the Anniversary Memoirs of the same Society, and the Abstracts of the Geol. Soc. of London) ; and they have published in all, for greater or less periods, forty different serials (including the Eng. and Min. Jour., the Annual Reports and Reports...
Page 226 - ... Proceedings, comprises moderately full administrative records and greatly condensed records of research, and is issued in annual volumes as soon as may be after meetings. The Memoirs, established in 1875 as a vehicle for publishing in extenso the results of elaborate investigations, are practicully discontinued, and the Transactions gave place to the Proceedings with the reorganization of the Association in 1847.
Page 237 - ... development of a form of publication known as the author's separate, which is the bane of the bibliographer and the burden of the librarian, since it commonly involves needless duplication of editions. Emphatic protests on the part of students and bibliographers against re-paging such separates...
Page 233 - History (and in less measure the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London and the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

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