Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Miss A Goss, Home House, Worthing 'Dear Madam, In answer to yours of the 18th., the Treasurer desires me to say that he thinks it is a pity for Mr Bateman to resign the Fellowship, which he has held for nearly 60 years, but that if he desires to do so it is necessary, as a matter of form, that his letter of resignation should be signed by himself. I am, yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 19 March 1896