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Abstract On 12 July 1966 a meeting was held in the Conference Room at Quality House to consider the question of the preservation of scientific and technological records. Quality House, in a court off Chancery Lane, is the home of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the setting up of which in 1869 was the result of a Memorial submitted in 1859 to the then Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, signed by influential members of both Houses of Parliament and other distinguished individuals, asking that official action should be taken ‘to rescue from oblivion and in many cases from decay valuable collections of papers the contents of which are now unknown even to the possessors which are . . . of the highest value on account of the information which they afford in matters of history, . . . biography and several other important subjects’. The actual words are given because they apply to some manuscripts and documents of scientific interest. It may be questioned in some quarters whether the contents of such scientific documents can be unknown to the possessors, but experience of disregarded collections of ancient books of great rarity has convinced the writer that in ancient foundations including some cathedrals and churches there must still be stores of such papers which have not been examined in modern times.
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