Copy letter from S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to A Stafford Esq In answer to the question as to why the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty should be expected to pay the expenses of printing Capt [Frederick William] Beechey's paper on tide. Replies the paper has been printed in the 'Philosophical Transactions' on the understanding with the Hydrographer that the cost will be offset by the Admiralty. [See MS/426/457] 13 May 1852