Letter concerning the Royal and other scientific institutions : respectfully addressed to their managers, proprietors, and subscribers / by M.L. Este.

  • Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Letter concerning the Royal and other scientific institutions : respectfully addressed to their managers, proprietors, and subscribers / by M.L. Este. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon that point, and could not divest themselves of several ideas, which at first appeared to them insurmountable difficulties. Such expressions were frequently repeated to me, and produced the following correspondence by which those difficulties were removed. Knowing that the Board of Managers consists of noblemen and gentlemen of the highest rank and respectability in the kingdom, per- fectly sympathising with them in the pro- priety and delicacy of their feelings, lest 1 should trespass upon the province of some other professors, (an unnecessary apprehension,) I fre- quently asserted the implicit reliance I had in their honour; and stated in my correspondence that my sole wish in communicating my sug- gestions to them, was to put them fully and UNRESERVEDLY in possession of all my views, thereby to assist them in forming their judg- ment upon my proposals—which I requested them to modify ; as I was only anxious to pro- ceed with them in the most liberal manner, and to meet their wishes in every respect; (vide the Correspondence, Proposals, No, 2.) fully confident, that if they approved of my suggestions, they would rwt adopt them to my exclusion, and that they would observe in their arrangements, with respect to myself, the same delicacy they felt and had often expressed for others. As they would not allow me to tres-