Letter from William Napier Shaw, Secretary of the Meteorological Office, to Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society Returns the letter from the Foreign Office with its enclosures. Has told the [Meteorological] Council but they have no means of taking part in the international investigation of the upper air by means of balloons or kites, but are willing to render assistance in the consideration of whether such an investigation is held in the British Isles, and what would be necessary for carrying it out. 14 October 1902