Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. G. Woodward Esq.; Weld, Maine, USA Regrets that for the moment Towle cannot give H. G. Woodward the information he asks for regarding the 'method of numbering' mentioned by Herbert Spencer. In reply to Woodward's other enquiry, gives information about the college founded by Josiah Mason in his will, which eventually became the University of Birmingham. 23 August 1927