| Description | Geikie has seen Larmor's letter to 'The Times' on the cost of printing. He knows that Larmor has sympathy with Trinity College Dublin and refers him to the Royal Commission report on the College, which Geikie wrote two years ago. He pushed it through the press to catch the framers of the Irish Act of 1920 and recommended an annual subsidy of £49,000 and a lump grant of £113,000 for building and other requirements. They were not embodied in the Act, but an annual sum of £30,000 was. This has not been paid to the College and Geikie is afraid it may be overlooked in the new treaty with the Irish Free State. He asks Larmor to intercede with Mr. [Herbert Albert Laurens] Fisher and to see that Trinity is properly provided for. Geikie had hoped to be at the Royal Society Anniversary meeting, to see the Copley Medal handed to Larmor, but was unable to stay. |