| Description | 'Dear Sir,
With reference to your letter of January 15 last, and subsequent correspondence concluding with your letter of the 13th instant on the subject of the re-publication of the papers of William Herschel, I am directed to inform you that at the meeting of the Council yesterday the Report of the Herschel Committee was received and its recommendations approved, and that the Council passed a resolution undertaking to guarantee half the cost of the republication, as contemplated in the Report of the Committee.' |