Copy letter from Michael Foster, to F D Fisher, Grantham 'Sir, In reply to your letters, I am directed by the President and Council to state that the usual method for bringing an account of scientific discovery before the Society is for some Fellow of the Society to communicate a paper written by the author of the account. I am, your obedient servant, M Foster Sec. R.S. [Secretary, Royal Society]'. 24 May 1894