Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W. 'Dear Sir, I am instructed by Dr [Michael] Foster to forward you the inclosed letter from the War Office, dated February 13th, for the information of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee and to ask that it may be returned to this office. Yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 14 February 1896