Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretaries, Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen 'Sir, In reply to the desire expressed in your letter of June 30, that the Royal Society should be represented at the proposed International Conference at Innsbruck, I am directed to say that the President and Council of the Royal Society have appointed as a delegate their Fellow John Henry Poynting, Professor of Physics in Mason College, Birmingham. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (signed) M. Foster Sec. R.S. [Secretary, Royal Society]'. 28 July 1894