Correspondence with, and official instructions from, Cambridge University, regarding the annual commemoration of benefactors; the appointment of the Astronomer Royal as an elector to the Professorship of Astrophysics and the Lowdean and Plumian Chairs; testimonials for R.A. Herman, R.H. Cowen, A.N. Whitehead and H.F. Baker, candidates for the Lowden Chair in 1913; the appointment of the Astronomer Royal as adjudicator of the Adams Prize; and the endowment of a Chair of Geodesy and a Geophysical Institute at Cambridge.