Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to M Achille Brachet, Rue Odessa, No. 18 (Maison Pezou), Pres la Gare du Montparnasse, Paris 'Sir, I am instructed to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 11th July, and to say that the President does not see his way to undertake the matter therein treated of for the present. I am, your obedient servant, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 13 July 1894