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THE great deputation on behalf of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which waited on the Secretary for Scotland at the Scottish Office in Parliament Square in Edinburgh on June 1, stated a strong case in favour of more liberal treatment of the society by the Government. As one speaker expressed it, they were met there on Scottish soil, indeed at the very heart of the ancient metropolis of the kingdom of Scotland, to confer with their own Secretary of State, and to urge the claim of a society which has been identified with scientific progress in Scotland during the nineteenth century to remain in its old home, and receive some small assistance in producing its Transactions and Proceedings. It must be admitted that this appeal met with only a very disappointing response.
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The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Government . Nature 74, 150–151 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074150d0
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