Copy letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Dr. [Thomas Renton] Elliott, FRS 'Dear Elliott, It will be within your recollection that the council asked the Physiology Committee to appoint a student under the Lawrence Bequest. The student must undertake research connected "with the amelioration of suffering occasioned by the war". the Committee made a recomendation, but unfortunately it has been found impossible to carry it out. I shall be much obliged if you will give some consideration to the subject again and let me have any suggestions which occur to you.' 15 March 1916