Townsend has considered the problem of double‐force defects distributed uniformly throughout elastically isotropicspheresand has achieved separation of the image displacements from those displacements which would occur in an infinite medium. Here it is shown how a similar separation of the total displacement into the two contributions can be achieved for the case of elastically isotropicellipsoidscontaining double‐force defects. Townsend’s result is derived as a special case.