Letter from Charles E. Russell, Colonial Office, Downing Street, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society Apologises that Mr [Walter Hume] Long is so pressed with Government business that it is difficult for him to make an appointment to see William Bate Hardy. Suggests that Hardy call in at the Colonial Office and speak to Sir [Hubert] Read on the subject [of the Mackie expedition to Uganda]. 12 December 1918