| Description | 'It will save time if I send you provisionally some reply to your letter of the 21st which you have addressed to the President personally. I do not quite know what list you refer to as showing 200 Addresses, because I observe that in the letter from the President which he wrote to you when introducing the subject he said that the number would probably not exceed 150, and I think the difference between that and 138 can probably be explained. None of the German Universities sent Addresses, as they combined to present a large copper plaque; and some of the other institutions, whose names you have on your list of omissions, sent them on a form from which we can print direct. However, I shall have to go into it with the President when he comes up tomorrow and you will have a further letter.' |