Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C R Haines, 17 Keppel Street, W.C. 'Dear Sir, Referring to your letter of the 2nd inst. [instant], we cannot trace any proposal or invention laid before the Royal Society by the Richard Haines you mention, but there is a paper in the "Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society]" vol. xvi., p.268, by Edward Haines entitled "An Account of an Occulation of Saturn by the Moon, March 19, 1687, observed at Totteridge near London, latitude 51o 39'." I am, yours faithfully, Robt Harrison Asst. Sec. RS. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 22 May 1896