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35 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W.3. - Has been reading the abridged 'Golden Bough' and suggests a connection between the myth of Adonis, Attys and Osiris and the existence of primitive wheat in the same area of the Lebanon and Mount Hermon; provides an extract of a chapter on wheat in Professor J. Arthur Thomson's 'Science Old & New'. She has met a Syrian lady, Miss Fareedeh el Akle, who has a school at Brummana; she read the description 'Adonis in Syria', and found the description accurate; this woman had been of service in the campaign in Palestine and Syria and had seen much of Lawrence and had given him lessons in Arabic.

Greyfriars, Southwold - Calls Frazer's attention to J. A. Thomson's 'Maternal Impressions' who cites Dr J. W. Ballantyne's 'Teratogenesis, an Enquiry into the causes of monstrosities' and 'Discussion on Heredity in Disease'.

The Elms, Avenue Road, N.W. - Has received Donovan's letter of 19 July. Does not know whether Donovan wishes to 'investigate the intra-molecular action of living tissue... - the dynamics of Metabolism and Electrolysis in fact - or... treat the organism as a whole, before proceeding to analytical work. Quotes from J. [Arthur] Thomson (Hibbert Journal, Oct 1911), and J. W. Jenkinson on 'Vitalism'.

Includes minutes of the Third Meeting of the Panel of Advisors for Broadcast National Lectures, which were held at Savoy Hill, London, 12 June 1930.