Letter from J. Read, Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing Street, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society Acknowledges the Royal Society's letter, and informs them that the Secretary of State at the Colonial Office still feels that Mr [John] Roscoe's anthropological expedition to East Africa should be postponed until after the war. Thinks that the expedition would put responsibility on the limited staff. 27 October 1917