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I DO not know whether your numerous readers realise that many of the public documents published by the United States Government and the Smithsonian Institution can be obtained by direct personal application to the author, at least as long as copies remain undistributed.

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ABBE, C. Smithsonian Institution Documents. Nature 48, 6 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048006a0

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