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ON Tuesday, Congregation at Oxford declined, by a majority of 106 votes to 60, to sanction the lending of books or manuscripts from the Bodleian Library. This decision is, no doubt, greatly regretted by a number of resident graduates, but it has the cordial approval of most other persons. Had the proposed change been made, it is certain that sooner or later many valuable books and manuscripts would have been lost or injured, and scholars would constantly have found that the works they wanted were “out.” It would have been a serious mistake to transform one of the most magnificent collections of books in the world into a lending-library for the benefit of a small class of students.
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Notes . Nature 36, 109–112 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036109a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036109a0
