Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Sydney Howard Vines, Fellow of the Royal Society The President and Council have decided not to publish Professor [Harry] Marshall Ward's paper as it stands, but suggest, subject to the water Research Committee's approval, that he should be asked to prepare a summery for publication. Marshall Ward's figures and a copy of the manuscript of his full paper have been sent to Ward in order that he may, if he sees fit, prepare parts of it for publication. 25 March 1897