Draft letter from Michael Foster, Royal Society, Burlington House, to Milne Home, Coldstream, Scotland Informs that the Royal Society, in response to an invitation by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, has nominated Sir William Thomson FRS as the representative of the Society to cooperate with the Council of the Scottish Meteorological Society in taking charge of the proposed meteorological observatory on Ben Nevis; and that Sir William has accepted. 27 May 1882