Suppl. Field Authorsation - WE02

FORM 7

Application for Supplementary Field Authorisation

Applicant : P. H. Wainwright, Fellow

Original authorisation: T.I.I.D./LV-26, Mauritius, concluded 24 June 1893

Passage requested: Port Louis, earliest sailing

Duration estimated: Six weeks [crossed out and annotated: I don’t know]

Party: None requested. Applicant will travel alone.

Grounds for return (applicant to state fully): The first trip ended before I had finished looking. There’s more to find.

Materials requested: Preserving spirit. Cotton wool. Six cases, small. Lime. And whatever the Society keeps for eggs.

Endorsed: Approved, 21 August 1893.

Charged against the Africa account. Sailing 2 September.

[Registrar’s Note: He was asked three times to state his grounds. The above is his third answer and better than the first two. — Registrar]

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