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crl-11039	Voigt, Melvin J.	Scientific Serials: Characteristics and Lists of Most Cited Publications in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Physiology, Botany, Zoology, and Entomology (Book Review)	1956-11-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1476	60	57	The vagaries of fate are apparent in both the first and the latest of the great benefac- tions: the first when Joshua Bates, the Lon- don banker, recalling his own experience as a poor boy in Boston, responded from across the sea with a promise of fifty thousand dol- lars when Ticknor sent out his noble printed proposal for a public library open to all; and the latest, when the library received in trust the million dollar gift of John Deferrari, whose amazing career from fruit peddler to millionaire was guided, unknown to the li- 518 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Publication of a composite list of this mag- nitude creates the danger that in spite of the warnings of the author, the list will be used indiscriminately as a gauge against which library collections will be measured and to- ward which libraries will attempt to build.	cache/crl-11039.pdf	txt/crl-11039.txt