Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the relations of particular structural features' to David Douglas Cunningham States that it is a Royal Society policy to keep papers that have been submitted for publication in their archives. Therefore, they cannot send them back to the author (unless an agreement was previously settled upon). He can send the paper but, but only as a loan. Subject: Physiology/Botany [Not published]. 7 July 1883