Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society Harrison trusts the enclosed statement [not attached], which Mr White has drawn up from the correspondence, will satisfy Lankester that there has been no avoidable delay in the office in the publication of Mrs [Maria] Gordon's paper. On Gordon' part, considerable delay was occasioned by an unfortunate accident which completely incapacitated her for a long time. 1 December 1896