Letter from James Taylor, Trinity College. Cambridge, to the Secretary, the Royal Society, Burlington House, London He has been offered an appointment as a physicist for the Nobel Explosives Company in Ayrshire and therefore asks to resign his Mackinnon Studentship. He wishes to finish his present work at the Cavendish Laboratory. He has already incurred expenses equal to the full £300 of the annual stipend and asks if it would be possible to receive this. He thanks Council for enabling him to continue his physical researches. 9 June 1928