Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas William Bridge, Mason College, Birmingham 'Dear Sir, Your MS [manuscript] is to hand. Please let me know at once whether you intend it to be referred with a view to Phil. Transactions ['Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'], or whether you send it in for publication in the (8vo) [octavo] Proceedings ['Proceedings of the Royal Society']. If the former, I must trouble you for a short abstract at once for use at the meeting and subsequent publication in the 'Proceedings'. I am, faithfully yours Herbert Rix Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 12 June 1889