Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society 'Dear Dr Common, I am instructed to forward you the enclosed letter from the Marine Biological Association, and to beg you to lay it before the Eclipse Committee and obtain their views upon it for the information of the Council, if possible, before their next meeting on the 18th inst. I am, yours faithfully, Robt Harrison Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 8 February 1897