1. D. deB. BEAVER., R. ROSEN, Studies in Scientific Collaboration. Part I. The Professional Origins of Scientific Co-authorship,Scientometrics, 1 (1978) No. 1, 65–84.
2. It appears to have diminished the importance of social class only to a certain extent and then only for a short time. Cf. M. CROSLAND,The Society of Arceuil, London, 1967, p. 202.
3. M. CROSLAND, op. cit.The Society of Arceuil, London, 1967, p. 202.
4. The Society of Arcueil, founded by LAPLACE and BERTHOLLET, was the most important private scientific society of the time. The society's counterpart today might be seen as the invisible college. See M. CROSLAND op. cit.The Society of Arceuil, London, 1967, p. 202, for a detailed study of this society.
5. M. CROSLAND, op. cit.The Society of Arceuil, London, 1967, p. 158–159.