Letter from Science and Art Department, South Kensington, to [Joseph Lister], President of The Royal Society Forwarding, on behalf of the Committee of Council on Education, a copy of a letter with an enclosure [enclosures present] from The Foreign Office in relation to the Third International Congress of Applied Chemistry, due to be held between 28 July and 2 August, the following year. Enquiring whether the Royal Society wishes to appoint Delegates to the Congress and informing that a similar letter has been addressed to other scientific societies. 4 June 1898