Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum. A reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement; and a correspondence with that officer and the Trustees.
- Nicholas Harris Nicolas
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum. A reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement; and a correspondence with that officer and the Trustees. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Press MiU'k. Title of the Work wanted. Size. Place. 581 i Burchet£s History of Trans- actions at Sea. 8. * 1>ate. 1707 (Date) May 18th,46. N. Harris Nicolas. (Signature.) After having waited one hour and a half without receiving this book, T quitted the Library, and addressed the following letter to Mr. Panizzi: TO A. PANIZZI, ESQ. Torrington Square, 18th May 1840. My deah Sik, I beg leave to acquaint you with what occurred to me to-day in the Reading-room of the J3ritish Museunt, thinking it a proper subject of complaint. At a few minutes after three o’clock, T wrote, according to the present forms, iov five books. After half tin hour four of them were brought me. The fifth, viz. “ Hurchett’s complete History of Transactions at Sea,” not having ap- peared, I spoke twice to Mr. Scott, who assured me that he had often applied for it, and that on his last a])plication he was told that I had given a wrong Press-mark, which he had corrected. I denied that I had given a wrong Press-mark. At half past four I again asked for the book ; and a strong observation having caused the gentleman who succeeded Mr. Cates to attend to the matter, he ascertained that 1 had given both the Title and the Press-mark correctly. A person then came to me from the Library. His first * Three letters were written here, wliieh, though rather illegible, look more like fol than anything ebe ; but Mr. Panizzi reads it for, and says it may have been meant for London !](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28038988_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
