[Gordon Daniell Knox, journalist and author.] Duplicated Typed Circular, signed by Knox (as editor of The Standard), ‘to all Fellows of the Royal Society’, accompanied by three question to which he invites answers.

A son of Sir George Edward Knox, Gordon Daniell Knox was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, before going into journalism. He served as deputy editor of the Times of India, and was the author of several works of popular science. The letter and questionnaire are on separate pieces of paper, pinned together. Each 1p, 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Circular letter, 9 November 1909. Twenty-three lines of text, beginning: ‘Dear Sir, / I am sending a copy of “The Standard” for the 1st of this month to all Fellows of the Royal Society.’ He discusses the arrangement of the paper, expressing a hope that signed articles, such as ‘the one written by Dr. Miers’, will be published, along with educational and scientific news. He will be ‘greatly obliged’ if the recipient ‘can see your way to answering the enclosed questions’, as he wants ‘to be able to explain to the Universities and to the Learned Societies that I have asked these questions of the Fellows of the Royal Society, and to inform them as to the replies I have received’. TWO: Questionnaire. Three numbered questions, with gaps for answers, beginning with ‘(1) Do you consider it desirable that scientific matters should be treated to the ordinary news of the day?’