Letter from G.R Agassing, 76 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society Encloses £1047 to establish a memorial to his father's friend, Sir John Murray. The memorial is to consist of a suitable gold medal to be known as the "Sir John Murray Medal for Oceanographic Research", to be awarded for distinguished research in oceanography, including marine biology, internationally regardless of race or nation of the individual [enclosure not present]. March 1919