Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS Forwards extracts from Council meetings during the 1890s regarding the Colour Vision Committee: suggestions in 1890 that the President and Council should appoint a Committee to consider the subject of colour-blindness; the appoitment of the Committee in 1890 (the President, Captain [William de Wiveleslie] Abney, Professor A. H. [Arthur Harry or Arthur Herbert?] Church, Professor [Michael] Foster, Mr [Francis] Galton, Dr [William] Pole, Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], and Mr Brudenell Cater); printing the Report of the Colour Vision Committee in the Proceedings in 1892; links to the Board of Trade; carrying out the recommendations contained in the Report. Informs Rayleigh that [Dr Frederick William] Edridge Green periodically expresses grievance in the Medical Press at the Report's findings and a certain section he alleges was taken by the Royal Society as a consequence of that report. 19 July 1923