| Description | 'We have received the enclosed letter from the India Office, covering a request for the loan of a prism used by Mr Evershed in his Spanish Eclipse Expedition of 1905. Inasmuch as the prism appears to belong to the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, I am directed to forward the application to you and to ask that the Committee may deal with it.
I am informing the India Office of the course we have taken.' |