Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80 Regents Street, W1 Informs the Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to anticipate permission to reproduce figure 2 from a paper ['VIII. Some observations on Welwitschia mirabilis, Hooker, f'] by Prof. [Henry Harold Welch] Pearson in Transactions B.198. Explains that the author is dead and there will be no need to trace the heirs. Seeks clarification over a reference to 'The Magnetic Balance of Wills and Hector' from Transactions 1924, Physical Review, explaining that there are no papers by these authors in that publication. 20 October 1928