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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. Association copy, formerly owned by Watson Davis, founder of the American Documentation Institute and the Director of Science Service. Includes handwritten note signed by Vernon's wife Charlotte Kellogg to Davis regarding his contribution to publication of this book, along with typed note concerning possible printing of additional copies of the book if it's to be reviewed by Science Service's journal. Davis had worked with Kellogg in Geneva in 1926, attempting to persuade the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation to support establishment of a European "Science Service" modeled on its American counterpart. The two men would have worked closely together over the years through their respective associations with the National Research Council in Washington. Bound in gray cloth, gilt title lettering. Vg+ condition in clear plastic dust wrapper. Faint paper-clip mark on margin of 1 page; Contents otherwise quite bright & clean, binding & hinges tight; boards show virtually no wear. xi, 160 p. frontis., pl., portraits. The publication of this book was made possible by Dr. Kellogg's war time associates of the Commission for Relief in Belgium through the Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc. : "with the compliments of" slip from the Belgian American Foundation is laid in.
