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Written from Trinity Lodge - asking for a vote in favour of Prince Albert for Chancellor.

WW is to be a candidate for the office of Professor of Mineralogy in consequence of John S. Henslow's resignation (appointed Regius Professor of Botany). WW is optimistic that he will be appointed. Could JCH help WW with some inquiries respecting the history of the Botanical Professorship. WW is to change his travelling plans for the summer: 'I shall go to Freyberg and Berlin except I can hear of some better school of German mineralogy. We will improve our science from that quarter as well as your literature'.

London - thanks him for the pamphlets, Dean of Chester now Bishop

'Cell Biol. Congress Paris. Plates for dem. Structure and Composition of Adenovirus studied by combined electron micrography and Cytochem.' 1960
'RSM Lecture. The Electron Micrography of Viruses. Plates for slides from other workers papers. Plate for Students Polio Vaccine Slide' 21 Feb. 1961
'British Association Lecture. Symposium on Subcellular Components. Plates for slides from other workers papers' Aug. 1961
'Path. Soc. Aberdeen and RSM Lab. Meeting BSI. Plates for Herpes Dem. caps' July and Aug. 1961
'Plans of Electron Micrography Room and 1st Floor'

3 pp. ms. notes, given on various occasions

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Thanks him for the book ['Totemism'?] ; wishes he could provide a small map of the world showing the extent to which totemism is known to prevail. Signed in pencil. The accompanying envelope is docketed 'on Totemism' in Frazer's hand.

Letter of 4 July 1908 accompanied by a page from Jackson's commonplace book dated 16 July 1907.

Cells received from other laboratories and sent to the Department of Pathology, Bristol, for testing, control, and experiments

Label inside front cover: "C, Philosophy of Mechanics and of Physical Astronomy"

Observes that Patterson's 'plunge into Magyardom is more serious than [Patterson] anticipated' and Sidgwick has been considering any suggestions he could make to him, but can find none. Believed that a man such a Patterson ought to be able to earn £200 a year 'without going to Hungary', but does not now think that there is much prospect of him achieving this result.

A ‘careful copy of one of the ancient manuscripts, said to be by Thomas Rowley of Bristol which were bequeath'd by the late Dr Glynn to the British Museum: It was traced upon the original some years ago by T. Kerrich M.A. then Fellow of Magdalen College Cambridge, & was engraved by [Barak] Longmate for Mr Barrett’s History of Bristol’. A copy of a page from ‘Rowley's Heraldic Account of Bristol Artists and Writers’ [since established as Thomas Chatterton's forgery].

Letter to Michael [Barratt] re 'the argument you left on my blackboard', written 'Manchester 12th Feb'; MS calculations (some on verso of 1963 example sheets).

Photocopies of cuttings. Includes a rough translation of one review which appeared in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung on 3 Nov. [no year given].

7 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, S.W. - Thanks Donovan for his letter of the 5th; Donovan's 'suspicion of the 2nd Law of Thermo-dynamics seems to be a growing one in several quarters; at least with regard to its universal if not its particular application'; mentions Bickerton's 'Theory of Impact' and Steinmetz's article 'The Death of Energy'.

Goes on to discuss a problem 'which, if you have not seen it, I owe to Mr. Pocock. It is based on the hypothesis of Psycho-neural Parallelism, or, as Huxley says, on the supposition that every Psychosis is correlated to a Neurosis'. Goes on to discuss memory and the 'quantity of neural energy' expended in learning.

Incomplete?

'Plans Submitted by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, O.M., M. P., for Utilising the Depression to Reorganise and Develop our National Resources and to Improve National Conditions'.

The Pitbury Advowson Bill

HR did not intend to offend the family and friends of J H Monk