Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society Informs James Hopwood Jeans of two new papers communicated by Sir Ernest Rutherford, both by [Charles Drummond] Ellis and [Herbert Wakefield Banks] Skinner: 'A Reinvestigation of the ß-Ray Spectrum of Radium B and Radium C' and 'The Interpretation of ß-Ray Spectra'. Reports that Rutherford considers both papers publishable right away. Informs Jeans of a new paper by [Godfrey Harold] Hardy and E. Landau, 'The Lattice Points of a Circle'. Forwards [Frank Edward] Smith's report of J. E. P. Wagstaff's paper 'An Electrical Method of Determining the Velocity of Detonation of Explosives', communicated by Robert Robertson, which Smith suggests should be published. Discusses the letter to 'the Cancer people' [the British Empire Cancer Campaign Committee?]. 12 December 1923