Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W. Acknowledges receipt of their communication of 27 September, reference H. 5945, which has been forwarded to George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society. A further communication has been made. Two reports, references C. 4551 and C. 4551-1 referred to as enclosures with the letter, have not appeared. 1 October 1888