Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to J Y W MacAlister, Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society, 20 Hanover Square 'Dear Sir, I submitted your note of the 29th to the Officers together with a large number of similar applications, but, as we already run the risk of being greatly over-crowded, the Officers were obliged to decline them. I am, yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 1 June 1894