Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Goring, Hanlon & Company, 17 Leadenhall Street, E.C. 'Dear Sirs, We are much obliged to you for your note of yesterday's date respecting Mr Crick. We do not in any way wish to inconvenience you, and can wait for a month, if necessary. Perhaps you will send him to us as soon as you can quite conveniently spare him? I am, your obedient servant, Herbert Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 13 January 1894