Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Frederick William Edridge Green, 21 Belsize Square, N.W. 'Dear Sir, In reply to your letter of yesterday's date I beg to inform you that your application will come before the Grant Committee in due course, but it is unusual to communicate the date of meeting, or the names of the members of that committee to applicants. Yrs [Yours] faithfully H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 1 May 1889