Add. MS a/207/22
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20 Sept. 1831
Part of Additional Manuscripts a
Slough - JH's critique of the values and objectives underlying the foundations of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: science 'is often called a republic but such a society as is here proposed will make it a democratic tyranny with all the vices of the narrowest oligarchy'. JH thanks WW for his 'lecture on nomenclature' and defends his use of the word 'photonomy' in his work on light.