Letter from [Hugh] Bertram Cox, Downing Street, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society 'Gentlemen, I am directed by Mr Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of Sir [Archibald] Geikie's letter of the 21st instant, notifying the selection of Colonel [David] Bruce M.B., F.R.S., as the representative of the Royal Societyon the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund during Sir [Michael] Foster's absence; and I am to say that Colonel Bruce will be informed of the date of the next meeting of the Board. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, H Bertram Cox'. 25 November 1904