Letter from Sir Archibald Geikie, President of the Royal Society, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society Informs Robert Harrison that before he died, Sir [George Howard] Darwin nominated Sir David Gill as his successor [to attend the seventeenth Conference of the International Geodetic Association, held in Hamburg in September 1913]. Notes that although he is quite willing to nominate Sir David, the final answer as to who will go will be decided after the holidays. 30 July 1913