| Description | Feels it right to inform him of the '"juxtaposition" question'. Says that deputations from the four societies now located at Somerset House attended Mr Wilson at the Treasury on 29 April by his invitation. Believes it fair to infer that the government is willing to assign them a part of Burlington House on certain conditions. Informs that all the societies except the Royal had declined the offer of temporary (underlined) accommodation; and that the Geological and Astronomical societies professed their readiness to move when the government consented to erect a building worthy of Science and the Nation in which the chief scientific societies might be place in juxtaposition in a convenient and central locality. Advocated, on the part of the Royal Society, the present admission of the government of the principle of juxtaposition. Gave Mr Wilson a paper containing the description of the precise loans with which the Royal Society would be satisfied at the present. |