Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, Foreign Office, S.W. 'Sir, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 29, which was laid before our Council the next day, and has been referred by them for answer to the Committee charged with the arrangements for the Conference on the question of cataloguing Scientific Literature. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Herbert Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 1 February 1896