Letter from Horace Lamb, 6 Wilbraham Road, Fellowfield, Manchester, to [Joseph] Larmor He does not think there need be much delay in the Hopkins award. [Ernest William] Hobson's papers on spherical harmonics are anterior to the named period, but that may not matter. If preference is given to applied mathematics, then [Augustus Edward Hough] Love and [James Hopwood] Jeans have important papers in the 1901-3 period. The latter would have a strong case. Larmor's letter gave the first hint of the true reason for [Andrew Russell] Forsyth's resignation, but there was a word that Lamb could not decipher, and the whole thing is mysterious; it seems 'an inexplicable disaster'. He hopes the Trinity people will waive the resignation. On Royal Society candidates, the only competition seems to be among the physicists. [Ernest William] Barnes and [Frederick] Soddy have striong claims, and he briefly discusses [Alfred] Fowler, [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, [Louis Napoleon George] Filon, and [Richard Cockburn] Maclaurin. Among engineers, he favours [George Gerald] Stoney. [William Ernest] Dalby is astute but Lamb does not think much of him. 9 February 1910