Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
London, S.E.
1897
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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter, No. 12648/97, forwarding copy of The Report of the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory for 1896, and to state that a copy of this Report had already reached me direct from the Colony.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
M.H. Christie
Astronomer Royal
The Under Secretary of State