Description | 'Dear Sir, Adverting to your note of May 15, I have the pleasure to inform you that, at their meeting on Thursday last, the President & Council resolved to accede to your request for permission to make extracts from the archives of the Society relating to Mr Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary of the Royal Society from 1730 to 1752. I am yours faithfully, Herbert Rix Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. |