| Description | 'I have to acknowledge your letter of the 16th instant and do not anticipate any objection to your consulting the Hooke Papers in the archives of this Society. In fact, I have already anticipated the sanction of Council to the extent of submitting them to your inspection; but if you wish to copy from them the Council will wish to know the exact purpose for which the extracts are to be used, and in particular, if for publication, the nature of the publication. The Council recently passed the following resolution:-
With reference to the granting of applications to copy manuscripts in the Archives of the Society, it was resolves:- that in future so such applications be granted except on the condition that any publication of matter extracted from the archives of the Society be submitted in proof to the Society.' |