Defence Of Dr Gould By The Scientific Council Of The Dudley Observatory Third Edition

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Download or read book Defence of Dr. Gould by the Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Defence of Dr. Gould by the Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory We came with the determination rigorously to examine into the state of affairs, to ascertain how much of error might be due to each party, and to suggest rules for the government of both in their subsequent intercourse. We came not as partisans to uphold Dr. Gould in what we might consider the wrong, but as men having a solemn duty to discharge towards the community, anxious to prevent the dissipation of a noble bequest, anxious to avert the disgrace to the city of Albany, to ourselves, to our friends in the Board, which would result from an open and uncompromising rupture between our associate and the Board of Trustees. We therefore respectfully requested of the Board a statement of the difficulties of which they complained. We also made a similar request of Dr. Gould. By the Trustees, however, we were accused of an unwarrantable assumption of power. They refused to furnish us with any facts or to hold any intercourse with us unless we would sanction the immediate removal of Dr. Gould. They gave him no opportunity to defend himself. They refused to allow the case to be investigated, and their President prematurely published charges against Dr. Gould, so vitally affecting his character that, unless substantiated by the clearest evidence, they must be considered as the result of a malicious determination to destroy, if possible, his reputation as a man of science and a man of honor, and to do him a wilful and egregious wrong. After the publication of this astonishing document we again requested the President of the Trustees to furnish us the evidence on which these assertions were founded. This he refused to do, and, in answer to our respectful and repeated solicitations, they consummated their acts of arbitrary power by assuming to dismiss us as the Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.