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It is to be lamented that a leayen of the same meanness apparent in the jealousy of the mathematical Professors, at the success of the Mechanics, still pervades the proceedings at Cambridge and Oxford; in the assertion of their abstract right each to a copy, not only of books properly so called, but of copper or steel plate prints, either plain or coloured, published with letter-press explanations of the subject—a class of works 