Letter from H [Henry] Rawlinson, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, to Sir George Biddell Airy, President of the Royal Society Regarding the North Polar exploration. Rawlinson encloses copies of two letters, one from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his reply to [Robert] Lowe. Rawlinson goes on to discuss the Chancellor's refusal to send an Arctic expedition in 1873 and asks the Society to set up a committee to confer with the Royal Geographical Society's Arctic Committee to prepare a renewed proposal on this matter. [Enclosures are present, have a total extent of 4p, and are labelled MC/9/487a and /487b within the volume.] 4 February 1873