Letter from [the Meteorological Committee], Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria Street, to [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society and to the Council Regarding the recommendations concluded from the report on the parliamentary grant for meteorology. Some of the senders were on the Treasury Committee or the Royal Society's Council. They agree to a modification of the current arrangement and send in their resignation from the Meteorological Committee. The senders are Richard Strachey, William James Smythe, Warren de la Rue, Francis Galton, George Henry Richards, and Frederick John Owen Evans. 31 March 1877