Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Trinity College Cambridge 'Dear Sir, Your letter shall be laid before the Secretarues when they next come to town, though I fear there is no likelihood of the rule being set aside, resting as it does upon Statute. Cases of the kind occur every year, but I have never known the rule relaxed. I am, Dear Sir, yours faithfully, Herbert Rix Asst Sec [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 5 March 1888