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Many of these have cost from twelve to

twenty guineas each plate; but I shall take five pounds as the

average cost of the first portion, and twelve as that of the

latter This would produce,

70 X 5 = 350

187 X 12 = 2244

L2594



As this is only proposed as a rough approximation, let us omit

the odd hundreds, and we have two thousand pounds expended in

plates only on ONE branch of science, and for one person!

Without calling in question the importance of the discoveries

contained in those papers, it may be permitted to doubt whether

such a large sum might not have been expended in a manner more

beneficial to science Not being myself conversant with those

subjects, I can only form an opinion of the value from extraneous

circumstances Had their importance been at all equal to their

number, I should have expected to have heard amongst the learned

of other countries much more frequent mention of them than I have

done, and even the Council of the Royal Society would scarcely

have excluded from their Transactions one of those productions

which they had paid for as a lecture



It might also have been more delicate not to have placed on the

Council so repeatedly a gentleman, for whose engravings they were

annually expending, during the last twenty years, about an

hundred pounds On the other hand, when the Council lent Sir E

Home the whole of those valuable plates to take off impressions

for his large work on Comparative Anatomy, of which they

constitute almost the whole, it might have been as well not to

have obliterated from each plate all indication of the source to

which he was indebted for them





THE PRESIDENT'S DISCOURSES-I shall mention this circumstance,

because it fell under my own observation



Observing in the annual accounts a charge of 381L 5sfor the

President's Speeches, I thought it right to inquire into the

nature of this itemHappening to be on the Council the next

year, I took an opportunity, at an early meeting of that Council,

to ask publicly for an explanation of the following resolution,

which stands in the Council-books for Dec



"Resolved, That 500 copies of the President's Discourses, about

to be printed by MrMurray, be purchased by the Society, at the

usual trade price



The answer given to that question was, "THAT THE COUNCIL HAD

AGREED TO PURCHASE THESE VOLUMES AT THAT PRICE, IN ORDER TO

INDUCE MRMURRAY TO PRINT THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES



I remarked at the time that such an answer was quite

unsatisfactory, as the following statement will prove



The volume consists of 160 pages, or twenty sheets, and the

following prices are very liberal:



L s

To composing and printing twenty sheets, at

3L 60 0 0

Twenty reams of paper, at 3L 60 0 0

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