text:  True it is that the first paper of Mr Talbot did not contain an account of the processes employed by him and therefore should not have been even read to the Society; but the paper on the Calotype did contain such description and we see no reason why a society for the advancement of knowledge should not give publicity to a valuable process though made the subject of a patent--but it certainly should not bestow an honorary reward upon an inventor who has withheld from the Royal Society and the public the practice of the invention whose processes he communicates