Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Cargill Gilston Knott, [Fellow of the Royal Society] Asks on behalf of the President and Council if Knott will confidentially provide his opinion on whether the accompanying paper should be published in whole or in part in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', or the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society'. Encloses a form concerning this. [No enclosures] 19 July 1899