Correspondence engineering literature

In an article on Engineering Literature in the February issue of the JOURNAL Mr. Donald McNicol says: “As time goes on our store of literature increases. The task of t h e student who searches through the literatureof a subject becomes increasingly prolonged. Should the files increase proportionately in the next fifty years, a situation might exist which would be serious.” And further on: “From year to year the product of the will to write has increased. There is brought to the mill more grist thancan be accommodated in periodicals conducted on an economical footing.”