Copy letter sent from unknown correspondent, to The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, Downing Street Encloses minutes of the last Council meeting, regarding Professor [William Abbott] Herdman's report on the Ceylon Pearl Fishery [no enclosure]. Presses upon the desirability of urging the Ceylon Government to provide the means of completing the report. Asks that: 1. The Ceylon Government pay the promised £300 for the first two parts of the report. 2. The Ceylon Government provide about £500 towards publishing the last two parts of the work. President and Council will refund the proceeds of the sale of the four parts of the report. 24 February 1904