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At the same time, it is not very easy — according to the forms of 
the University — to express any general opinion upon the subject; and 
the Council deem it the less necessary, because they are assured, on 
vs^hat seems to them excellent authority, that the present Government 
of Defence has taken care that all precious works of the kind alluded to 
have been deposited in bomb-proof vaults. 
Still the Eoyal Irish Academy may rest assured that whatever 
influence the University of Oxford can exert shall be used in so good a 
cause. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
• H. Gr. LiDDELL, 
Vice-chancellor. 
To the Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy. ''^ 
University of Bonn. 
'^EoT^x, 19, Nov., 1870. 
Euer wohlgeboren fiir mich hochst befremdende Aufforderung, 
an Schritten bei der englischen Eegierung zum Schiitz der pariser 
wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen vor Kriegsgefahr theilzunehmen, 
habe ich empfangen. Ich sehe mich durchaus nicht in der Lage Ihren 
"Wiinsche zu entsprechen, und kann dies um so weniger bedauern als 
fiir jeder unbefangen hinlanglich gewiss ist, dass die deutsche Kriegs- 
leitung, auch ohne fremde Ermahnung, fest gesonnen ist, Schatze der 
Wissenschaft und der Eunst, so viel an ihr liegt, nicht der Zerstorung 
Preis zu geben. 
Der Konigliche Oberbibliothecar, 
Jacob EERi;rATs. 
Serrn W. K. Sullivan, wohlgeboren, Buhlin.''^ 
[Translation.] 
''Bow, 19 JSFov., 1870. 
'' SiE, — I have received,- for me a very strange summons, to take 
part with the English Government in steps for the protection of the 
Parisian Scientific Collections against the danger of war. I do not 
see myself by any means in a position to correspond to your wishes, 
and I can regret this the less, as it is sufficiently apparent to every 
unprejudiced person, that the German leaders of the war are fully 
determined, as far as in them lies, not to give up to destruction trea- 
sures of Science and Art. 
'' The Eoyal Principal Eibrarian, 
'' Jacob Beenats. 
TT. K. SidUvan, Mq., Buhlin.'' 
