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"This is no study for the man who is in a hurry." --
G. Malcolm Dyson, 1947, p.86
"Searching the older chemical literature." in Searching the Chemical Literature. (Advances in Chemistry Series, no. 30) Washington: ACS, 1961, pp.83-91.
