Copy letter from Michael Foster, to George Mathews Whipple, Superintendent, Kew Observatory In reply to Whipple's letter 127/2 of 1 May, asking permission on behalf of the Kew Committee to lend certain pendulum apparatus to the Government Astronomer at Melbourne, in order to make a series of pendulum observations across Australia, Foster is directed by the President and Council to inform Whipple that it was agreed at their recent meeting to grant permission. 25 May 1892