Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Turner Thiselton Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society 'Dear Sir I am instructed to ask whether Thursday, February 6th, at three o'clock would be a convenient day and hour ^to you^ for a Soiree Committee to be held. Yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society] P.S. You will remember that you are Chairman of this Committee'. 27 January 1896