| Description | Harrison has Parsons' letter about the Glassworkers Cataract Reports and the Factory Lighting Committee and he will have an official response with as little delay as possible. Harrison questions whether this is not a matter for the Home Office given that all the reports has been sent in there officially. It seems to Harrison a little difficult for the Royal Society to take up a position one way or the other, having regard to the anomalous situation in which the Glassworkers' Cataract Committee has been left by the action of inaction of the Home Office. That Department have send only the barest formal acknowledgments of the Reports and have taken no notice of the official letter sent by the President and Council nearly a year ago.
In these circumstances Harrison does not know whether the Committee is 'alive or dead', and does not see how the Royal Society has any power to allow or oppose the use of information by the Home Office. |