Description | 'Dear Sir, We have received notice from the Keeper of the Privy Purse of HM approval of the award of the Royal Medals for the present year, by the Council of the Royal Society. I send you therefore, the two names which are to be engraved, and I am directed to request that you will be good enough to send the medals here before the 30th instant. William Benjamin Carpenter, James Joseph Sylvester'. |