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IN 1796, Britain being then at war with France, a French scientific sailor, Chevalier de Rossel, a prisoner of war in England evidently on parole, dined with the Royal Society Club in London on the invitation of Alexander Dalrymple, the Hydrographer to the Admiralty. The Navy, as well as the Royal Society, clearly regarded scientific standing as entitling its holder to civilised and friendly treatment, regardless of the misfortune of a state of war between the two countries.
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HILL, A. International Status and Obligations of Science*. Nature 132, 952–954 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132952a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132952a0