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duty of Air. Panizzi; or whoever else might have been employed 

 by the Council, to follow the directions and instructions which might 

 from time to time be given to him by that Committee. 



Mr. Panizzi was continually complaining of ill usage, while he at 

 the same time did not disclose the nature of his supposed injuries. 

 He stated that he could not proceed with the work, but would not 

 point out any ground of complaint. When requested to explain 

 wherein he thought himself aggrieved, he would give no definite 

 answer to the inquiry, but proposed to refer matters to an arbitra- 

 tion ; leaving the Council all the while unacc|uainted with the sub- 

 jects of dispute, or with the points to be settled by such arbitration. 

 When, for the purpose of mutual understanding, he was invited to a 

 conference with the Committee, he refused to meet them, and would 

 only communicate by letter with the Council"^. 



Finding, at length, that the great cause of the olfence taken by 

 Mr. Panizzi consisted in his being directed by the Committee to 

 omit certain comments and notes which he had introduced, in his 

 own name, in the Catalogue, the Council, in deference to his wishes, 

 and in the spirit of conciliation, conceded the point in dispute, and 

 agreed that he might consider the manuscript corrections made by 

 the members of the Committee, merely '■ as suggestions for his gui- 

 dance." But. far from meeting them in the same spirit, he next re- 

 quired of the Coimcil, as a condition without which he could not 

 proceed with the Catalogue, a further concession, namely, that they 

 should rescind the whole resolution of its Committee, and declare it 

 null and void. It was obviously impossible to comply with so unrea- 

 sonable a demand, which seemed so like a mere pretext for the total 

 abandonment of the Avork : and no alternative remained but to pass 

 the resolution of the 14th July. ■• that Mr. Panizzi be no longer em- 

 ployed in the formation of the Catalogue.'' 



On the Council requesting the return of the reAdses in his pos- 

 session. 3Ir. Panizzi refused to do so. alleging that they are his pri- 

 vate property ; nor would he even deliver up the key of the drawers 

 containing the manuscript slips ; refusals which, of course, put an 

 end to all further correspondence with him on the part of the 

 Council. 



So far from the Council having ever withheld from Mr. Panizzi, 

 as he asserts in his pamphlet they have done, the precise number of 

 titles which he wi'ote for the Catalogue, they have always been 

 ready to afford him that information. The slips were carefully 

 counted by Mr. Shuckard. in whose accuracy Mr. Panizzi placed 

 the fullest reliance, and who was appointed for that purpose with 



* yote ly Mr. Ecilu. — Mr. Panizzi having stated in his lertei* to the SecTetarv, 

 of July brh ;see his pamphlet, page 3S_ that "Mr. Baily took away my written 

 " memorandum, and ordered Mr. Roberton not to take any step," I beg to remark, 

 first, that. u-Un xhrf Utter v:as read at the Council, I was surprised at the assertion, 

 and di;" - iccr. never having seen nor heai'd of the written memo- 



randum: . . :o : secondly, that Mr. Eoberton was immediately called 



before the Council, and, on being questioned as to this subject, disclaimed also 

 any knowledge of the circumstance. — Frakcis Baily. 



