Copy letter from Wiliam Bate Hardy, Vice President of the Royal Society; to Professor Frederick Walker Mott, FRS; 25 Nottingham Place, W. Informs Professor Frederick Walker Mott that he has sent his corrected proof onto press. Explains that what confused him about Professor Mott's statement initially was that he thought Professor Mott was claiming that a discected germ could withstand boiling water. Realises this was not what Professor Mott had intended. 7 March 1916