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Included are letters from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh; J. H. Poynting, Baron Kelvin of Largs; Sir Archibald Geikie; Sir William Crookes; Robert Cary Gilson; J. W L. Glaisher; Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb; Henry Luke Paget; and a manuscript poem entitled ’Sir Joseph Thomson and the lons’, dedicated to Thomson and signed 'H.D.E. [M.R.I.]’.

Chale, High View Road, Sidcup - Congratulates Frazer and notes that anthropology and ethnology have been accorded an official status, much as geology was when Sir Archibald Geikie was awarded the Order of Merit; feels that anthropology needs some sort of stimulus: a great amount of material is being collected but isn't being used as it could be, wonders what Frazer's opinion is.