Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to M W van Bemmelen, K Magnetisch en Meteorologisch Observatorium, Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia] 'I much regret that you should have been kept so long without a reply to your application for an exchange of publications with this Society. Such applications, however, have to be dealt with by a special Committee, which meets only at long intervals. I regret now to have to inform you that that Committee does not see its way to acceding to your request for the [Philosophical] Transactions of the Society.' 23 December 1912