Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Etheridge, Fellow of the Royal Society 'Dear Sir, Your note addressed to the Treasurer has been laid before the Officers, and they instruct me to say in copy that they have been compelled to decline several such applications from want of space, the list being already more than full. I am, yours faithfully, Herbert Rix Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 6 June 1889