Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to James Bonwick, 9 South Vale, Norwood, S.E. 'Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that at the meeting of the President & Council held last week leave was granted to you to make extracts from the Journal Books of the Royal Society relating to the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, & the topography & history of New South Wales. I am, yours faithfully, Herbert Rix Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 19 July 1889