Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Hon. Hugh L. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer Informs Hugh L. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, of a formation of a delegation, (consisting of the President [Thomas Henry Huxley], the Astronomer Royal [William Henry Mahoney Christie], and Mr. Warren De La Rue) to discuss the importance of making a contribution towards the expenses of the International Metric Bureau. States that all other European nations and the US have already done so. [3] May 1884