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lv%rch 10, 1924* 
Ur. ¥. de C. Ravenel, 
Administrative Assistant 
to the Secretary. 
My-, dear 
kr . 
Ravenel: - 
Inasmuch as the subcommittee "v^rhich considered my application for the 
Walter Kathbone Bacon Scholarsiiip has niade unfavorable recomendation, 
j appeal to you for a favorable decision.. 
Learning from llr. Dorsey that mine, so far as he was aware, was the 
only application submitted in response to the published announce^ nt, I 
had hoped to be called by the committee to furnish any additioml inform- 
ation they might desire. This considerati on was not youchaafed me. 
The subcoimittee seems to be of the mind that the income should be 
used nowl This is discriminatory, to say the least. No action has-been 
taken ydth regard to the fund since it became available, more tlian ^our 
ySrs ago. nL, after my application has been 
prescribed in the published announcement m bcience , the committee 
suddenly feels that mildn the less than sixteen montiis interval before 
my application is dated to take effect, something more should be done. 
I am "acutally ready" to undertake the scholarship on p 
as stated in ny application. Hie intervening period is no more tton 
preparation for the South taorlo^ rosoar* eon- 
temulated, and to satisfactorily arrange ny offici^ and _ persona at a . 
T+ U not an expedition to be undertaken on a week s notice, nor did h 
It IS not on ^ Scholarship in "Science" indicate -Uiat it was necessary 
aiiriouiicGiriG nt oi bn.e ocaoiarsuJ-p n o* n • ^ n r'r.+ n r»-nq 
to have 0 ».'s "'^JS^Sst.'lf'^t'addrd in So‘a prior graL. 
SLf did'^i naterlaliio, ^hoLd oonfliot ,rith py oofUor and p-oforrod 
date of July 1, 1925. 
After all the dates set were but tentative as appears in ^ 
applioftiofi, thLrtho earlier one given Is preferred; nevertheless, 
if' the time elemeiit may result in the deollnatlon of the application, 
could be arranged to advance the date. 
I beg to remind youtthat triis scholarship was first announced in 
"Local Kotfs" Ivlay 29, 1919, published in the Washington newspaper , 
not else^-diere, and carried in the Annual Report for 1919. 
on June 1, 1922, in my "research memorandum" 
secretary, at his request, I indxided project ^of a^du^ t^U^^ce 
carcinological study and mGntxonGd thG .\i dy 
from which it was hoped to obtain funds. 
