Letter from Francis Augustus Towle, Assistant Secretary, the Royal Society, to Sir Walter Morley Fletcher [William Bate] Hardy is away until April. The Royal Society has received seventeen applications for the Tata Professorships. Twelve are American and many of the candidates do not seem well qualified. Dr Rudolph, a Canadian, is supported by Professor McLennan. Another is Dr H A Haig, pathologist to the Ministry of Pensions. The remaining three candidates are in Rangoon, Colombo and the Straits Settlements. Hardy has not yet written to the Seceretary of State. He asks for Fletcher's agreement in deferring the meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee. 22 March 1921