New Letter Book volume 17, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration New Letter Book volume 17 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers, soirees and other annual routines. Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison; Secretaries Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker; Theodore E James. Primary recipients: Colonial Office; George Howard Darwin; John Evans; Michael Foster; Foreign Office; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison & Sons; Lord Joseph Lister; Office of Works; Arthur William Rucker; Robarts, Lubbock & Compay; Her Majesty's Treasury. Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter. 29 June 1898-20 December 1898