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Thanks CJM for defending him in the House of Commons

With carbon copy of reply from R. A. Butler,

Copied by Anne Benson Procter.

2 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn - CL has nearly overcome his difficulties in nomenclature: 'Your arguments for curtailing the superfluous vowels satisfy me, and the threat of the future reviewer is most agreeable'. CL thinks 'Paracene and Procene tho' pretty words ought not to be used as comprehensive grouping names, for there would then be confusion between the greater and the subordinate Cenes. Your Cenogenous is infinitely better than my Cenophorous, especially for a reason which must always be kept in view in chronological names in geology, that it may with propriety be affixed to each of the separate tertiary beds, rocks etc and their contents - now I should not wonder if the terminology which we are now constructing should ultimately prevail over every other hitherto invented'. CL proceeds to talk about the terminology coined by the French geologist, Alexandre Brongniart. CL gives his definitions of the geological divisions - Hypogene, Paleogene, Cenogene and Contemporary.

Trinity College, Cambridge. - Glad to hear that King is doing well, though when produced in the Combination Room his letter 'conveyed terror to the heart of Prior'; has passed on King's instructions about the sofa and baize door; other arrangements. The ceilings of King's room will have to be whitewashed; the paint in the study will have to be washed and the carpet taken up. Thinks King is 'well out of the way while the discussions on the statutes are going on'; they begin on Saturday. The [Medical] Inspector says that the clothes in which King came back to College in September should be disinfected: 'Baking at a high temperature appears to be effectual'.

Note added above heading of paper: 'I hope you will bring back some words of wisdom from the parrot'.

Reports that on receiving Myers' 'excellent' news he 'went and settled with the P[etty?]s finally on the terms of Mrs P's last note.' Announces that they will probably come on 'Sat. 29th.' Announces tha the should be delighted to dine in [H]. Sq. on 13th if there is no séance', but asks ought they not to have [William?] Eglinton there. Says that he will dine on Wednesday wherever Myers likes, but doesn't particularly want it known that he is in town 'for this purpose', and therefore doesn't want the Savile [Club]. Adds that Gurney is 'ever so much better.'

2 pp. typescript and MS, with 1 p. MS calculations attached, n.d. but c. July 1941.

With extract, and Ackerley's reply at the end of the letter.

(Bibliog. 119).
D.110: 6pp. ms. draft (in Birch's hand), entitled 'Davenport's version of "A theorem of Davenport & Heilbronn"' and 19pp. ms. draft (in Davenport's hand), labelled 'superseded'.
D.111: 37pp. typescript draft with ms. corrections.

Including transcript.