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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
In the present paper I propose only to refer to a single problem of the modern study of history, naval or otherwise—the exigencies of research.
Naval history is at length recognised as a subject of special study ; it has its historians, its scholars, students, and the general readers of its special publications, and it has a large and powerful society which represents their literary interests.
page 98 note 1 Mr. Marsden's scholarly edition of the High Court of Admiralty Records (Selden Society) and numerous interesting passages which may be found amongst the recent publications of the Rolls Series may be cited as instances in point.
page 99 note 1 In one case within the knowledge of the present writer, an enthusiastic specialist spent several years of constant labour upon a fragmentary monograph of the subject.