Letter from [William Napier] Shaw, Meteorological Office, 63 Victoria Street, London, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House 'Dear Sir, I have received an application from Justus Pethes' Geographische Anstalt, Gotha, for a copy of "Magnetic and Meteorological Observations" made by the Southern Cross Antartctic Expedition, 1898-1900 (for review). Will you please say whether I shall send one of the spare copies of the work in question, supplied by the Royal Society to this Office for distribution to scientific men? Yours faithfully, W N Shaw'. [For reply, see related records]. 2 January 1906