Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Monsieur le Secretaire du Conseil, Académie Impériale Militaire de Médecine, St Petersburg Mr A Shipley of Christ's College, Cambridge, having been appointed a delegate of the University of Cambridge at the Academy's approaching Centenary, the Royal Society take the opportunity of conveying through Shipley the earnest felicitations of the Society on the auspicious event of their Centenary, and the warmest fraternal wishes for the continued success of the distinguished Academy. 19 December 1898