Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts

· 1889

FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD; WAYNFLETE PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND A CURATOR OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. The present 'Remarks' are a reprint, with many omissions and additions, of two privately printed papers which were communicated to the Curators last year. From November, 1884, for about twelve months, I did very little more than watch attentively the way in which Bodleian business is transacted, to me at once a novelty and a surprise. For some purposes writing is preferable to talking, and accordingly in November, 1885, I printed a memorandum containing many gentle hints--+phônanta sunetoisin+--which I faintly hoped might eventually prove beneficial to the Lib…

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