Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans,] Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretaries of the British Association Notes that the Royal Society are not prepared to give their representatives on the Committe of the British Association [to carry out an oceanographic expedition] power to press a case upon the Government until the case has been presented to the Royal Society's Council and fully considered. However, explains that the President and Council of the Royal Society have resolved to appoint the following Fellows to meet with the British Association's Committee, and to consider bringing a case [for the expedition] before the Government: Professor [Frederick William] Gamble Professor [John] Graham Kerr [Arthur Robert] Hinks, Esq. Professor [Horace] Lamb Colonel [Henry George] Lyons Sir David Prain Sir Arthur Schuster. 2 December 1920