| Description | Before he answers Sir Joseph John Thomson's letter, regarding the subject matter of Dewar's speech on 7 June, asks what statutes of the Royal Society authorise Thomson in 'addressing me [Dewar] in the terms you have thought proper to adopt'.
At the bottom of letter a draft reply is written in pencil: ''My dear Dewar, I have received your letter of the 27th and will bring it before the Council of the Royal Society. Yours very truly, J. J. Thomson'. |