Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Clements R Markham, Fellow of the Royal Society The printed copies of the letter to the Treasury have come in and Harrison encloses a list of all the individuals whose signature needs to be appended: -Mr Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society -Mr A Buchan, Fellow of the Royal Society -Captain Creak, Fellow of the Royal Society -Sir J Evans, Fellow of the Royal Society -Sir Archibald Geikie, Fellow of the Royal Society -Professor W A Herdman, Fellow of the Royal Society -Major Darwin, Secretary, R. Geograph. Soc. [Royal Geographical Society] -Mr Hughes, Secretary, R. Geograph. Soc. [Royal Geographical Society] -Mr Somers Cocks, Treasurer, R. Geograph. Soc. [Royal Geographical Society] -Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton -Vice-Admiral Markham -Rear-Admiral Aldrich -Captain Field -Dr T W Blanford, Fellow of the Royal Society -Lord Kelvin, Fellow of the Royal Society -Duke of Argyll, Fellow of the Royal Society The Presidents of: -The British Association -Royal Society of Edinburgh -Royal Irish Academy -Linnean Society -Geological Society -Zoological Society -Physical Society -Chemical Society -Manchester Philosophical Society -Cambridge Philosophical Society The Vice-Chancellors of the following Universities: -Oxford -Cambridge -London -Victoria The Directors of: -British Museum (Natural History) -Royal Gardens, Kew -The Astronomer Royal 19 May 1899