Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to L Pyke, Members Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. 'Dear Mr Pyke, The Soiree Committee met yesterday to make arrangements for the June Soiree, and your letters of April 23 and 28 were laid before them. I regret to say that the exhibit which you were kind enough to offer was not accepted. Thanking you for your courtesy, I am, yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 18 May 1894