Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to The Secretary to the Admiralty President and Council have had before them the letter of 27 April referring to [John] Stanley Gardiner's scheme for the exploration of a part of the Indian Ocean from a scientific point of view, and in which the Admiralty states that it would be prepared to arrange for one of H M Surveying ships to undertake a cruise with two naturalists in the waters in question for eight months from November 1905. Stanley Gardiner gratefully accepts the generous offer. 9 May 1904