Letter from AC Egerton to Le Gros Clark, Dept of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford Discusses the role of the Royal Society in promoting natural knowledge, and the role of the British Association in providing public access to this knowledge - 'the BA must not expect to speak with authority in the name of the body of scientists' - points out the committees in place for the officers of the Royal Society to bring scientific matters to the attention of the government. 20 October 1941