| Description | ' As Honorary Secretary of the Academic Assistance Council, it is my duty to have to inform you that owing to unforeseen circumstances it has been impossible to take up the scheme of removal of the office of the Council as soon as we had hoped.
I had contemplated that the office would have been moved to its more permanent quarters at Malet Place by the end of this month or early in 1934. The scheme the Council had in mind involved the provision of office accommodation for the representative of the corresponding American Committee in this country and, although this had been tentatively agreed to in the first place, we have now to await the arrival of the Chairman of the American Committee at the end of this month. If the American Committee withdraw from the scheme the original plan approved by the authorities of University College will have to be modified.
On behalf of the Academic Council, may I request a further continuation of the hospitatlity so generously afforded by the Royal Society so that the work will not be interfered with pending the determination of the final arrangements?
I hope it will not be very long before I can inform you about the removal of the office and, in the meantime, I should like to emphasize the Council's indebtedness to the Royal Society for their hospitality. ' |