Volume 1

[Report of the Council respecting the publication of A. Nasmyth's papers on the structure of the teeth].

  • British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
Date:
[1841]
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    BRITISH ASSOCIATION. At a Meeting of the Council of the British Association at Plymouth, July 28th, 1841, Resolved,—That Mr. Nasmyth’s abstract of his communication to the Meeting of the British Association at Birmingham, be printed in the next volume of the Associa¬ tion Reports, accompanied by the statement, which has been now read and approved by the Council, of the causes of the delay which has taken place in its publication. That copies of the statement be transmitted, as soon as they can be printed, to Messrs. Owen and Nasmyth, and to the President, Vice-Presidents and Officers of the Geological and Medical Sections, who have kindly complied with the former re¬ quests of the Council to act as a Committee of reference on this subject. At the Meeting of the British Association in Birmingham in August 1839, Mr. Nasmyth communicated three papers, one to the Geological Section, on the Structure of Fossil Teeth; a second to the Medical Section, on the Microscopic Structure of the Teeth ; and a third to the Medical Section, on the Structure of the Epithelium. Agreeably to the practice of the Association, the paper read to the Geo¬ logical Section was delivered to the Secretaries of that Section, Dr. Lloyd and Mr. Strickland; and an abstract of its contents having been prepared by Dr. Lloyd, for insertion in that portion of the annual volume which con¬ tains notices of the proceedings of the Sections, the original memoir and the abstract were transmitted to the Assistant General Secretary (Mr. Phillips), by whom the memoir was returned to Mr. Nasmyth. With respect to the two papers read before the Medical Section, the prac¬ tice above mentioned was not followed : no abstract of the contents of these papers was furnished by or through the Secretaries of the Section to the Assistant General Secretary. Notices of Mr. Nasmyth’s papers appeared in the Athenaeum and Literary Gazette of the period: those journals usually obtain such notices either from authors themselves or from reporters of their own : in the present case the Council have been informed by the respective editors, that the report in the Athenaeum of the two papers read to the Medical Section was supplied, and the proofs corrected, by Mr. Nasmyth himself, and the notice of the geo¬ logical paper by the reporter of the Athenaeum; and that the report in the Literary Gazette was drawn up by the reporter of that journal, from a rough manuscript furnished to him by Mr. Nasmyth. In the October following the meeting, Mr. Nasmyth applied to Mr. Phil¬ lips to know whether the papers read by him at the meeting would be printed entire, or in the form of abstracts ; and was acquainted in reply, that, accord¬ ing to usage, brief abstracts only could be inserted in the notices published by the Association, and unaccompanied by diagrams; the original memoirs and drawings being the author’s own property, and at his own disposal. On January 28, 1840, Mr. Nasmyth informed Mr. Phillips that he was preparing abstracts of his papers, and desired to know whether the papers read to the Geological and Medical Sections on nearly the same subject should be reported on as one, or kept separate. He also requested Mr. Phil¬ lips to obtain for him, from the Secretary of the Geological Section, the original memoir read at that Section, as an application which he had made for it himself remained unanswered, and he had only rough notes of that paper from which to make the abstract. Mr. Phillips informed him in reply, B