Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society 'Dear Prof [Professor] Lankester, You doubtless intend your letter of Feb. [February] 3 for the Council, at this next meeting on Feb 18. It will be laid before them. You of course recognize that it is not in the power of the Officers of the [Royal] Society to make an alteration in the list of Candidates after it has been formally read in the Society in accordance wuth the Statute. Very truly yours, J [Joseph] Larmor Sec. R.S. [Secretary, Royal Society] P.S. I should say that the President approves this letter'. 4 February 1904