Faraday to John Barlow   18 April 1851

Hastings | 18 April 1851

My dear Barlow

Look at the accompanying sketch of regulations[.]

Supposing them fit & proper or altered until they are so what do you say to having them printed in a proper form as a page of post paper and kept lying upon the tables in the library on Friday nights[.] A thousand or two being printed so that they might be given to the members reading there & that those which are removed or dirty may be continually replaced[.]

They ought of course to be sanctioned by the Managers & signed by you as Secretary: but

Would it not be important to have them on the tables before the first Friday Evening i.e the 2nd of May1 - and as no Managers meeting will occur before that would you mind our taking the responsibility on ourselves for that time. I have no objection to taking as much as you please2[.]

I do not wait until we meet at home but send this that there may be plenty of time for consideration. If we had thought of it sooner some such regulations might have been sent to each member with the report3 &c for the 1st of May4[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

1
Airy, G.B. (1851), Friday Evening Discourse of 2 May 1851.
2
The regulations for the Friday Evening Discourses were approved by the Managers at RI MM, 2 June 1851, 10: 333 and their earlier implementation was also approved.
3
That is The Annual Report of the Visitors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain for the Year 1850.
4
That is the Annual Meeting of the Royal Institution. RI MS GM, 1 May 1851, 5: 564-9.

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