Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Sir Richard Owen, [Fellow of the Royal Society] 'Dear Sir Richard Owen, The Committee of Papers has not yet come to a decision with respect to the publication of your last paper. The fact is that the referees felt themselves unable to make a report without inspection of the actual specimen; and the Society has consequently made application to Dr E Ramsay for the loan of it. (signed) Rayleigh'. 8 April 1889