Letter from Douglas Galton, to R W Hanbury, Secretary of the Royal Society Galton informs Hanbury he has 'unofficially' learnt that the Treasury 'have under consideration a proposal to appropriate a portion of the Old Deer Park at Richmond to purposes connected with that town', and refers to the government's appropriation of the Kew Observatory in that park for 'scientific purposes, discussing the use of that land'. 16 October 1896