No. 221.
Mr. Evarts
to Sir Edward Thornton.
Washington, October 31, 1878.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th instant, stating that the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians have, in accordance with the request of V. F. Benett Stanford, Esq., M. P., undertaken to award a prize of £100, offered by that gentleman, for an essay on hydrophobia which shall be considered of sufficient merit, and requesting me, in accordance with instructions received by you from Lord Salisbury, to take such steps as may be most convenient for communicating copies of the notice which you inclose to the universities or medical schools in the United States where they will be most likely to attract attention or to otherwise judiciously dispose of them.
I have accordingly caused an announcement of the prize offered to be made in the public press of this country, and, as an additional means to further the object of your note, have communicated copies of the notice received from you to the Secretary of the Interior, for transmission to the Bureau of Education. Due note has also been made of the willingness which you express in your note to receive and transmit to England any essays on the subject prepared in this country.
I have, &c.,