Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Hills, Public Library, Grace Hill, Folkestone 'Dear Sir, In answer to your applicatn [application] of yesterday's date, I regret to say that owing to the great expense to which the Society has been put for the production of the Krakatoa Report, no free list has been opened for this volume. I am, yours faithfully, Herbert Rix Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 21 November 1888