Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Ephraim Cutter, 1730 Broadway, New York Rix returns Cutter's manuscript and explains that no paper can be registered or read before the Royal Society unless it is by a Fellow of the Society, or has been 'communicated', and thereby endorsed, by a Fellow as a guarantee of its suitability. He further states, that in addition to this regulation, which is always adhered to, his paper does not come within the scope of the Society. 6 December 1889