| RefNo | NLB/27/480 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/27 p286 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from Alfred Bray Kempe, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Date | 6 October 1903 |
| Description | Harrison has shown Kempe the correspondence about Miss Woodward's bill for drawing Dr Andrew's illustrations and Kempe discussed the matter with the President [William Huggins] and [Joseph] Larmor. They all agree it would ne introducing a 'dangerous precedent' if the Society were to allow to an author expenses incurred by them in preparing a paper for presentation to the Society, as part of the ordinary cost of publication, and that it would be a still more dangerous precedent to allow an author to run up a bill without the Society knowing anything at all about it, and to have it sent to the Society for payment.
The expenses of the 'Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society]' and the 'Proceedings [of the Royal Society]' are increasing to such an extent as to cause serious anxiety.
There may be cases in which the preparation of drawings for a paper which it is proposed to present to the Society, in which a grant might be made from the Donation or Publication Fund and the Officers will consider whether they can ask the Council to make such a grant in the present case. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| PhysicalDescription | Typescript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8247 | Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929) | 1847 - 1929 |
| NA6638 | Kempe; Sir; Alfred Bray (1849 - 1922) | 1849 - 1922 |