Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society 'Dear Sir, A paper by Mr Alexander McAuley on "Octonians" was at the last Committee of Papers referred for some consideration and report of the Sectional Committee on Mathematics, and I am desired by Lord Rayleigh to forward you the manuscript and the reports upon it. The reports are inclosed herewith, the manuscript I am sending in a separate registered packet. I am, yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 25 February 1896