| Description | "Happening to be the only Vice President last summer in London during the recess of the Royal Society I had the honour to inclose your Lordship a letter from Prince Masserano, in which he informed the Royal Society that the King of Spain had consented to furnish them with the natural productions of South America which they might request, provided his Majesty might receive in return for his own museum those of the Britsh Colonies" For full description see HMC Calendar (11th Report Appendix 5), 1887, available for consultation at the Staffordshire Record Office and at the William Salt Library, Stafford |