Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society The President and Council at their last meeting resolved that a sum of £20 be granted to Dyer from the Donation Fund on the behalf of William Botting Hemsley for drawing up in alphabetical form a digest of the existing information and most accessible literature relating to the vegetable productions and resources of the various possessions of the Empire. A cheque for that amount will be forwarded in a few days. 13 June 1887