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The Royal Society has formed a committee for the purpose of collecting and publishing the whole of the correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton. It is hoped that a substantial part of the work will be completed and that some of the volumes will be issued by the time of the celebration of the tercentenary of Newton's birth in 1942. The members of the committee are as follows: Sir Charles Sherrington (chairman), Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, Prof. G. N. Clark, Sir William Dampier, Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir Thomas Heath, Dr. H. Spencer Jones, the Librarian of Trinity College (Mr. Adams) and Prof. H. C. Plummer. The Council invited Prof. Plummer to be the editor of the correspondence and he has accepted this great responsibility. It is hoped to obtain the co-operation of all librarians in the various libraries of America and of Europe, and notifications of any original letters appertaining to Newton in their collections should be sent to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W.1.
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Newton's Correspondence. Nature 144, 65 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144065c0
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