Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Galton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman, Kew Observatory Committee 'My dear Sir, In reply to your enquiry made in the office yesterday, I regret to say that in the pressure of business at the last Council meeting the appointment to the vacancy on the Kew Committee was not reached, but it will form an item of the agenda for the next meeting. I am, yours faithfully, Robt Harrison Asst. Sec R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 7 May 1898