Second report to the Radcliffe Trustees, on the progress of the Radcliffe Library at the Oxford University Museum / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Second report to the Radcliffe Trustees, on the progress of the Radcliffe Library at the Oxford University Museum / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    I cannot however conclude this resume of the question submitted to the Bodleian Curators without adding how earnestly I hope that the Curators will be able to find some way of aiding the Scientific Library without practical injury to the wants of General Readers at the Bodleian. That way might possibly be found by depositing on trial, for five years, the Periodicals named in the List, marked List B, appended to this Memorandum; by keeping regularly posted in the Bodleian a list of the volumes so transferred; and by stipulating that these volumes may be recalled for use at the Bodleian on due notice. It will be no small boon to the Public if the Bodleian Curators, in addition to the magnificent Reading-Room which the Radcliffe Trustees have enabled them to throw open to the Literary Public, also aid the endeavour of those Trustees to make accessible in Oxford a complete Scientific Library, under the same roof with the Scientific Collections, now first placed together for mutual reference. When, indeed, I reflect on all that the Trustees have done for the University, I cannot but hope that the Bodleian Curators will be willing to make the experiment now proposed; since, being for a limited period, it cannot permanently affect the Bodleian—since, as the books can by this proposal be brought back to the Bodleian, when required, they will be nearly as accessible, even at the Bodleian, for bona fide use, as they are under the present arrangements; and since, by this timely concession, it will be conclusively shown which method is the more advantageous to the University, and which, after the year 1868, that is, after five years, is that which should in future be continued. I am, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Your faithful Servant, Oct. 25, 1862. Henry W. Acland. The Curators of the Bodleian Library having maturely deliberated on the subjects of the above Memorandum, Resolved, “ That the Periodicals in the annexed List, to which ‘Yes’ is affixed, be deposited in the Library of the New Museum, under Regulations to be sanctioned by the Bodleian Curators. (1 “ That the Bodleian and Radcliffe Librarians be requested to make draft oi such Regulations, to be laid before the Curators at their next meeting.”