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Tigné Barracks, Malta. Is unable to convalesce in Florence, the Lovat Scouts Brigade.

Returns C1/92 to James Henry Monk

Reports that he 'got a little out of order' on the journey from Cannes, and resolves to take care of himself; cannot uses his 'eyes or brain' for an hour or two after dinner 'or - dyspepsia'. States that he has much work to do. Regrets that he missed seeing Arthur before he left. Declares that he enjoyed the Mediterranean air. Reports that he found out Mrs Plunkett, who asked after his mother. He travelled to Cannes with Mr Otto Goldschmidt, 'a most neat - vivacious little man', whose wife [Jenny Lind] is 'rather a swell at Cannes: but not popular' as far as he could tell. Describes the scenic delights of Mentone. Reports that Symonds is very ill, and that his wife looked 'worn and anxious.' Wonders if William will come over to Cambridge that term.

Refers to several works, which he believes will be of interest to Sidgwick; Pfeiffer's (1863) Uber Genossenschaftswesen, Bishop Ketteler's (1864) Die Arbeiterfrage und das Christentum, Karl Marx's Misere de la Philosophie, Lassalle's pamphlets, Professor Huber's The English Universities.

Mentions Sidgwick's having intimated his willingness to lay out some money 'for the furtherance of cooperative attempts' in the country, when he visited him last. Gives his opinion of the the benefits to cooperative companies of the investment of 'a couple of thousand pounds...applied here and there in judicious doses'. Advises Sidgwick 'to take shares, and discusses the disadvantages of giving loans. Lists five bodies, which he believes at the present 'to be really deserving of pecuniary support: the Rochdale M[ ] Card Manufacturing Society, the Leicester Cooperative, the Wolverhampton and Brewood Cooperative Plate Locksmiths, the [London] Framemakers and Gilders Association, and the [London] Cabinet Makers Cooperative Society; and gives some details about their recent business. Mentions other deserving societies - the Cooperative Nailmakers of Lye, the P[ ] Boiler-makers, and the North of England Cooperative Printing Society - but does not recommended investment in them. Recommends Sidgwick 'not to spend a farthing upon any of these ventures without first seeing the men, and if possible their place.'

Clovelly, Metung. Dated 12 March, 1904 - Is coming to London with his daughter May; suggests [Baldwin] Spencer knows more about the ceremony of circumcision and subincision, and the knocking out the tooth is in his chapter on Ceremonies of Initiation; did not pay attention to totemism before, but has found a survival in the Kurnai, and is annoyed he did not learn it before, but totems are not prominent in their society.

JWL is grateful to WW for his 'hints': 'with respect to the first not having the paper before me I do not recollect sufficient to give an answer, I should have liked to know whether the argument is conclusive to you'. The Council have appointed a committee to consider the printing of some observations the Admiralty have sent. JWL has 'requested Capt. Beaufort [Francis Beaufort] to get from some of the places a specification of the manner in which the time was obtained and of the zero point from which the heights are reckoned'. Could WW tell Mr Lodge that the Library committee will meet on August the 2nd.

RS sends WW two pieces of his work: 'The longitude of Brussels contains a better account of personal equation than I think you will find elsewhere'. He is disappointed with his article on the Transit: 'Still I believe it contains more on the subject of an elementary and practical nature than can be found elsewhere'. RS's 'old antagonist Sir James [James South] has issued a placard and an advertisement in the Times of Monday last, which I suppose he intends for a severe blow to the Astronomer Royal and to me'. RS believes this was induced by John W. Lubbock's 'folly in giving him a hearing by the Council of the Royal on the subject of their copies of their Transactions. This kind of notice, was pretty certain to revive his spirits and as no notice will be taken of his placard, I dare say he will feel encouraged to make another attack. It is hard that Lubbock's want of ordinary tact and sense should bring wrong on other people, for if in consequence of this, South should again assail the Society I feel certain that Sir John [John Herschel] will give small aid in quieting Sir James however easily he may be gulled by him'.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London E.C. Dated 24 February 1915 - Returns proofs of ['The Northern Bantu']; is sorry he has had to leave home on account of influenza; is now working on his Huxley lecture on 'Legends of a Great Flood'.

Personal and scientific correspondence, including:
Correspondence 1956 on gyroscopes, and spin of a ball
1968 on submarine jet (in this letter Wallis mentions that a flood has destroyed many of his files and wartime films)
1971 re Wallis's sponsorship of Julian Taylor (Taylor's great-nephew) at Christ's Hospital (see also A.103)
1972 re any surviving diaries of Sir Charles Craven d.1944 (in his letter Wallis mentions his own lifelong suffering from migraine)
1974 re R.100, designed by Wallis.
Very little survives of Taylor's contribution to the correspondence.

O'Gorman, M. 1950

Oliphant, M.L.E. 1947, 1977-78

Oppenheimer, J.R. 1951

Ortner, G. 1954

2nd Meeting: Agenda, Minutes, 1 p. ms. calculations.

4th Meeting, 24 October 1952.: Agenda, miscellaneous ms. notes and calculations.

Concerns atomic weapons and the balance of power and includes an abstract of a Discourse given by Powell at the Royal Institution,

Lecture on 'Protein nutrition of ruminants' to Animal Husbandry Seminar, Massey Agricultural College Palmerston North, 7 October 1959: Brief correspondence re arrangements, 1959.

Invitation to address Central Branch of the New Zealand Veterinary Association, Palmerston North, October 1959.

Invitation to address New Zealand Grassland Association, Gisborne, 1-4 December (declined).