Nature Volume 49; International Journal of Science (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Koy implies that he resigned his position as secretary to the Council (sic) as a kind of protest against the latter's mode of transacting business. This statement is incorrect. In the first place, Prof. Roy was one of the secretaries to the Executive Committee, and not to the Council. In the second place, Prof. Roy resigned that position without making any protest whatever to the committee, by whom his resignation was at once and unconditionally accepted. (5) The subject of the temporary directorship was discussed by 'gentlemen who are" or have been "directors of laboratories." Prof. Roy implies it was not so discussed by experts. The error of this allegation is probably due to the fact that he was absent from the Council meeting at which the question was first brought up, and that he was not a member of any committee. It may be noted that Prof. Roy complains of nonattendances. On this point his statement may at once be conceded so far as he personally is concerned, since in 1893 he attended but three meetings. (6) The question of appointment of a temporary Director was stated on December 13 to be urgent, and the urgency was admitted by the whole Council with the exception of Prof. Roy. Prof. Roy tells your readers that the statement "carried no weight with him." Possibly this may have been because he was absent from the previous Council meeting when the point of urgency was folly discussed; but such ignorance, even if admitted to be an excase, does not account for Prof. Roy now withholding the fact that when hewas present on the 13th ult. the reason of the urgency was fattr communicated to him. Also, it is not right for him to withhold, as he does, the fact that the acceptance of the report of the sub-committee, which was wholly co...