A letter addressed to the Earl of Rosse, President-Elect of the Royal Society / by Marshall Hall.

  • Marshall Hall
Date:
October 1848
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Credit: A letter addressed to the Earl of Rosse, President-Elect of the Royal Society / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «S*> POSTSCRIPT. It has occurred to me as proper to point out, in this Post¬ script, one or two changes which I deem essential for the restoration of peace and honour at the Royal Society. 1. In the first place, I believe there will be no peace at the Royal Society, whilst there are secret Reports on papers presented to it; 2. In the second place, I believe, there will be no justice, and consequently no satisfaction, whilst papers containing the description of dissections, and, still more, the detail of novel and delicate experiments, are judged without those dissections and those experiments being most carefully, and perhaps re¬ peatedly, witnessed ; 3. There can be no peace, confidence, or honour at the Royal Society, whilst those innovations and foci of cliqueism, termed Committees, exist, and prey, as they do, like cancerous growths, upon its frame and constitution. 4. One thing is most important; that, in any case of supposed wrong, the President, and the Council, of the Royal Society be accessible to the complainant; and that he be treated with civility and consideration. PRINTED liY J. MALLETT, LIX WAKDOOR STREET, LONDON.
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