| Description | 'With reference to your letter of the 7th instant and your previous communication of December 23, I think in the special circumstances of the case I may agree to your returning the three copies of our Philosophical Transactions which have been left on your hands; but I am to remind you that in no instance do we place the publications of the Society on sale or return, and that therefore we cannot undertake in future to deal with any similar cases that may arise in the same way.' |