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THE past week has witnessed the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth, on July 12, 1628, of Henry Howard, who, in 1677, became sixth Duke of Norfolk, on the death of his brother Thomas. The Royal Society recalls him as the donor of a great library of rare books and manuscripts; the University of Oxford for the bestowal of the Arundel marbles. Originally the library was at Arundel House, in the Strand; afterwards at Gresham College. Howard was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on Nov. 28, 1666, through his acquaintance with John Evelyn. Many important influences were in fact established by means of the friendship. Evelyn himself tells us that it was at his instigation that Mr. Howard granted the Society use of rooms in Arundel Hoxtse, whilst Pepys writes, under date Jan. 9, 1667, βTo Arundel House, when first the Royal Society meet by the favour of Mr. Henry Howard, who was there. And here was a great meeting of worthy noble persons; but my Lord Brouncker, who pretended to make a congratulatory speech upon their coming hither, and great thanks to Mr. Howard, did do it in the worst manner in the world.β
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News and Views. Nature 122, 66β71 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122066a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122066a0