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RefNoMS/581/12
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TitleLetter from Charles Peter Layard, Secretary of Royal Society, to the Count of Windisch Gratz, Brussels
Date26 May 1785
DescriptionLetter to the Count at Bruxelles
'I am directed by the President and Council of the Royal Society of London to acquaint you that they have taken into condieration the proposal you were pleasd to make them in your Letter to Sir Joseph Banks the President dated the 9 of May last ant thaty after mature deliberation they were unanimously of Opinion that the repeated declaration in the advertisement prefixed to each volume of the 'Philosophical Transactions' absolutely precludes the Society undertaking the Trust you wish to repose in them .

I here subjoin an Extract of the said advertisement as far as it relates to this subject,
"It is necessary on this occasion to remark to the dishonour of the Society" '

Endorsed "Approved at a Council May 26th. 1784".
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FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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