Description | 'Dear Sir, In reply to your letters of the 4th, 8th and 17th February, I have to inform you that I have no power to receive any paper intended to be laid before the Royal Society unless it be communicated by a Fellow or Foreign Member of the Society. I therefore return your communication by this post, and remain, your obedient servant, Robt [Robert] Harrison Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. |