Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert McLeod, FRS 'I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant. I am sorry that you cannot see your way to writing an obituary notice of Dr [Charles Edward] Groves, but I quite understand the difficulty you would feel in doing so. I note your kind offer to answer any questions that are sent to you.' Above the letter a note says a similar letter has been sent to the following: Professor EW [Ernest William] Hobson, FRS, - Committee for Mathematics Sir R [Richard Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, and Professor [William Henry] Bragg, FRS, - Committee for Physics Sir R [Richard Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, and Mr [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton, FRS, - Committee for Radio-telegraphy Sir A[Archibald] Geikie, FRS, and Professor Gregory, FRS, - Committee for Geology Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS, and Colonol [Sir Henry George] Lyons, FRS, - Committee for Geography Professor [ Sir John Bretland] Farmer, FRS, and Professor [Frederick William] Gamble, FRS, - Committee for Biological Sciences 28 February 1920