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Description: In this two-page autograph letter signed, Oliver Lodge, as Principal of the University of Birmingham, relays the action of the Council regarding an appeal to mitigate the sentence against a Mr. Underwood.

“Dear Mr. Franks,

At the Council meeting today a petition was received from certain members of the senate in the case of Mr. Underwood.

Ultimately, with the support of all the members of the Discipline Committee who were all present. The following resolution was passed:- That the sentence on Mr. Underwood is that he be suspended until the end of the present academic year ending on the 30tj of September next.

Yours very truly/Oliver Lodge”

Written on an 8” x 10” folded sheet of  University of Birmingham stationery dated: “2 March 1910”. Item #A01831

Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940) was a pioneering British physicist. He perfected the radio-wave detector, the coherer, and added the trembler. His device became the standard detector in early wireless telegraph receivers. He was also the first Principal of University of Birmingham (1900-20).

Condition: Mailing fold lines, laid onto another sheet of heavy stock paper, otherwise good condition.