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Topics before the Cambridge University Senate include Fitzwilliam Museum extension, mathematics as a subject in the Natural Sciences Tripos, residence of undergraduates, and a variety of other business. With three fly-sheets concerning the parliamentary election of 1926, and one in favour of retention of the University constituencies dated after 1928-1929.

Explaining that he was unlucky not to be elected a Fellow

Items 76-93, 95-96, 98, 100-109, 111-140 are copy letters; the originals are not in the collection. An incomplete collection of duplicates of these copy letters may be found at M5/1/141.

Sidney Sussex. Has taken BD degree and was voted a University Preacher and a judge for Greek and Latin Ode prizes, method of allotting University Preachers, encourages his brother Weeden to attempt prize poems.

Advice to N M Butler as a monitor, encourages him to visit the school library, only two Classical candidates for fellowships.

Windsor Castle: Sends condolences on the death of Gordon Butler on behalf of the King.

23 Suffolk St., Pall Mall - JDF's days in Cambridge 'were some of the happiest of my life'. He regrets that he did not have the opportunity to have had 'a systematic education within the walls of Trinity'. JDF is devoted to the pursuit of the physical sciences: 'in the present state of Science a liberal basis of mathematical knowledge is indispensable to its successful prosecution'. JDF has never had a lesson in mathematics and has taught himself from book one of Euclid to the integral calculus. 'It is one of the current mistakes of the present popularizing system to imagine that difficulties in the pursuit of knowledge are confined to the lower classes'. Could WW point out to him a course of study to assist his work in the theory of heat and the science of meteorology.

Specifying the objectives of the late Earl of Bridgewater's will with regard to the production of a set of eight treatises displaying God's power, wisdom and goodness as manifested in design, and the names of the eight individuals elected to write the Bridgewater treatises.

RIM will not be attending the BAAS meeting at Cambridge for various reasons, but mainly because of Adam Sedgwick's dislike of him: 'If I did not feel that he had irresolvably made up his mind to be alienated from me, I would still make every effort in my power to win back his friendship. For a long time and even during our gelogical disputes about nomenclature, he declared that they never could or should interupt our friendship and I am at a loss to know why in the last years he has become so morose and unforgiving' [see Adam Sedgwick to Everina Affleck, 25 September 1862].