Letter from [Edwin] Ray Lankester, 40 Nottingham Place, London, to [Dr Michael] Foster, [Secretary of the Royal Society] Returns enclosed application [not attached],which he was requested to bring before the Committee, as he is no longer chairman. Maintains that the work of Mr Sherborne is of great value but as it is not a publicaiton, it cannot be assisted from a fund alloted for producing publications. Believes there is future possibility of the piblication of Sherborne's catalogues. 13 May 1897