| Description | He has taken too long to answer Boswell's letter. He does not know about the Human Trypanosomiosis Institute bulding. The building was incomplete and it would cost another £2,500 to finish it according to the requirements of the Medical Department. Wayland went over with an engineer and got the cost down to £700 and the Chief Secretary told him that so long as this was spent before the end of 1935, the place would be his. The new Governor has different ideas and things are still in the air. The last he had seen of John Solomon was when he was on his way to Kabale with a female he picked up at the Salisbury Hotel, Nairobi. Solomon is satisfied that Wayland is competely incompetent where Pleistocene geology is concerned, although he has not said so to Wayland. He had said to Wayland's most junior assistant that he was the only geologist in Uganda capable of handing problems of the local Pleistocene geology. They cannot agree with Solomon, who is 'a lightning geologist proceeding by rapid flashes of distorting brilliance'. Two opinions should be good, but the way Solomon has acted is 'disgusting' and he will not help him further. Way will be home this year, taking a course in geophysics at Imperial College. Simmons leaves for good in about a week. |