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
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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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![84 respomlcnce l^s taken place between Mr, Panizzi ami myself on tlio subject, which has, I understand, been laid before you. That correspondence has since been printed by Mr. Panizzi, with some prefatory remarks, in which the tacts of the case, so far as they are within my know- ledge, are misrepresented.* Most dishonourable conduct is imputed to some Readers in the Libi-ary,'f* if not to me; it is more than insinuated that 1 have been actuated by “ malice,” and I am accused of great meanness and wilful falsehood. I 1 shall not now deign to reply to these aspersions, nor inquire how far you may consider it fit and becoming in any Officer of the Museum to offer so gross an insxdt to a gentleman who has merely complained of neglect in his department, and fairly criticised a Catalogue printed at the ]*ublic expense. Put as Mr. Panizzi has presumed, in reference to yonr Hoard, to say that 1 have shrunlc^ and will shrink, § from any iiujuiry you may think proper to institute, I owe it to my own character to declare that I am most willing to rej)cat and maintain to you, or in any other j)lace, everything I have said in my corres])ondence with Mr. Panizzi, and in the articles in the “Spectator,” to which he alludes. An opportunity will, 1 hope, be afforded to the general body of Readers in the Museum to vindicate themselves from the charges || brought against them in Mr. Panizzi’s pamphlet. If he means to apply those charges to me, then J beg leave to demand from your justice, that he may be called upon to prove them to your Hoard. 1 think it right to add, that my opinion that the Li- brary is not properly managed has been much strengthened by Mr. Panizzi’s own statement, ^ viz., that though the l^itle and the Press-mark were correctly (and I submit legibli/) written on a ticket, it rc(piired no less than six persons and an hours time to find a common and well- known book ! It is farther material to observe, that instead, as I had * Pages 10, 14. t I’npps 8, 9. .j Page.s 16, 17, 25, in tlie Note.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28038988_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
