Copy letter from [William] Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society; to C.Todd Esq., Observatory, Adelaide [Australia] Replies that the requested 3 copies of Instructions concerning the Transit of Venus in 1882 have been sent. Notes that the provisional scheme has already mentioned in a report by the Government of the Colony of South Australia. States gladness to hear C.Todd already has the question of longitude between Adelaide and Port Darwin in hand. Mentions Lieut-Commander Green also working on the project. 24 November 1881