Letter from A R Ainsworth, Board of Education, Whitehall, London, to [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House 'Dear Hardy, I enclose herewith a copy of a note which we have received through the Foreign Office from the Russian Academy of Sciences together with a caopy of a letter from the British Mission at Leningrad (this for your confidential information). I should like, if I may, to come round to Burlington House to talk the matter over with you. I should very much appreciate your advice as to the bodies in this country to whom we should communicate the Academy's offer. Yours sincerely, A R Ainsworth'. Enclosed is a copy of a letter from T H Preston to William Peters, Acting Charge d'Affaires, British Mission, Moscow, dated 10 June 1925. Enclosed is a reply from [William Bate Hardy], Secretary of the Royal Society, dated 13 July 1925. 9 July 1925