Letter from Francis Galton, 42 Rutland Gate, to Professor [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society Galton informs Foster that Mr [George Matthews] Whipple will have to retire from the post of Superintendent of the Kew Observatory due to ill health. This raises questions of a pension, and the possibility of paying Whipple's doctors bill by a gift from the Scientific Relief Fund of the Royal Society. 31 January 1893