Letter 0102

Waller read over Sloane’s suggestions for the Parisian Academie’s rules and regulations. Waller worries that the Royal Society, comprised wholly of volunteers, ‘will be unwilling to be too much confined and obliged’ to the particulars of Sloane’s recommendations. He discusses the potential effects of the proposed regulations on the publishing of scientific treatises. Richard Waller was a natural philosopher and translator who worked as the Royal Society’s secretary. He also served on its council and edited the Philosophical Transactions (Lotte Mulligan, Waller, Richard (c.16601715), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48707, accessed 19 June 2013]).