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Authorised form of nameTurner; Herbert Hall (1861 - 1930); astronomer and seismologist
Dates1861 - 1930
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLeeds, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth13 August 1861
Place of deathSabbatsberg Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe
Date of death20/08/1930
Occupationastronomer and seismologist
Research fieldAstronomy
Seismology
ActivityEducation: Leeds modern school; Clifton College, Bristol (1874); Trinity College, Cambridge (1879)
Career: Chief Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1884-1893); Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford University (1893-1930); Turner founded the International Seismological Survey (ISS) at the observatory, establishing it as the global publication for seismic events (1918-1922); advocated for a world time service to precisely correlate earthquake reports, challenging the existing norms (1919-1924); died following a stroke suffered while presiding at a meeting of the international commission on seismology.
Membership:
Royal Astronomical Society (1885)
General secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1913-1922)
Awards/Medals:
Bruce Medal (1927)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1897
Age at election36
ProposerBartholomew Price; William Esson; Edwin Bailey Elliott; William James Lloyd Wharton; Edwin Dunkin; Edwin Ray Lankester; Andrew Ainslie Common; Arthur Schuster; Charles Vernon Boys; John Hopkinson; William Ellis; Robert Bellamy Clifton
William Henry Mahoney Christie; William de Wiveleslie Abney; William Huggins; Edward James Stone; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; George Johnstone Stoney; Robert Stawell Ball; Joseph Norman Lockyer; George Howard Darwin
RelationshipsParents: John Turner (bap. 1831, d. 1883), an artist, and Isabella Hall (1840/1–1924), of Hexham.
Spouse: Agnes Margaret (1877–1958), daughter of Robert Whyte, a merchant involved in South Africa trade, of Pentland House, Lee (1899)
Children: Ruth Turner
PublishedWorksRCN 27697
RCN R66544
RCN 21529
RCN 21530
OtherInfoThe crater Turner on the Moon and Asteroid 1186 Turnera were named after him.
He was one of the observers in the Eclipse Expeditions of 1886 and 1887.
In the field of astronomy, he made significant breakthroughs with two crucial inventions, utilising his observatory's resources to complete nearly a quarter of the entire catalogue project at Oxford.
In the realm of seismology, Turner's reputation rests on two theoretical and two administrative accomplishments. He successfully maintained John Milne's (FRS 1887) international earthquake reporting organization and implemented a crucial reorganisation by shifting from collating data by reporting station to focusing on seismic events. Turner played a pivotal role in developing the Zoppritz–Turner tables, enhancing earthquake location accuracy. Despite prevailing consensus, he made a groundbreaking discovery in 1922 by identifying deep-focus earthquakes.
Turner was an early proponent of the idea that the Earth had a liquid core and solid mantle, and the tables he prepared formed the basis for subsequent work by Sir Harold Jeffreys (FRS 1925) and David Bullen, confirming this hypothesis.
In 1930, Turner's second significant discovery was mapping volcanic and earthquake events as the 'ring of fire' around the Pacific rim. His transformative contributions reshaped the practice of seismology, and the enduring legacies of the ISS and his deep earthquake discovery solidify his impact. Through his dedicated offices and tireless committee work, Turner ensured that his seemingly obsolete observatory remained at the forefront of scientific advancement.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1931 vol 133 pp i-ix, plate, signed by R A S
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27848634
CodeNA1105
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EC/1897/25Turner, Herbert Hall: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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NLB/18/16Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [Professor H H] Turner 22 December 1898
NLB/34/218Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society13 December 1906
NLB/1/295Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Joseph Norman Lockyer, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Arthur Schuster and Herbert Hall Turner1 December 1886
NLB/2/236Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner, Royal Observatory, Greenwich9 March 1888
NLB/4/639Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner, Royal Observatory29 July 1890
NLB/2/198Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner24 February 1888
NLB/4/915Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich25 November 1890
NLB/18/167Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh27 January 1899
NLB/4/970Copy letter from Michael Foster to Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary of the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Astronomical Society11 December 1890
NLB/6/990Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, 1893 Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society29 September 1892
NLB/7/106Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, S.E.1 December 1892
NLB/18/122Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor H H Turner 19 January 1899
NLB/10/962Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Observatory, Oxford15 March 1895
NLB/12/83Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Andrew Ainslie Common and Professor Herbert Hall Turner6 December 1895
NLB/16/681Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons20 May 1898
NLB/13/25Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society29 May 1896
NLB/12/350Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society3 February 1896
NLB/12/421Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society17 February 1896
NLB/12/598Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee21 March 1896
NLB/12/589Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society18 March 1896
MC/16/303Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Honorary Secretary of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society Burlington House, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society2 April 1896
NLB/12/410Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W.14 February 1896
NLB/12/572Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House16 March 1896
RR/15/226Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The mathematical theory of errors of judgement with especial reference to the personal equation' by Karl Pearson10 June 1901
RR/24/71Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The support and origin of the mountains of central Asia' by Richard Dixon Oldham[April 1917]
RR/17/6Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The distribution of blue and violet light in the corona on August 30, 1905, as derived from photographs taken at Kalaa-es-Senam, Tunisia' by L Beckernd [1907]
NLB/16/317Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor H H Turner16 March 1898
NLB/18/271Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor H H Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society15 February 1899
NLB/35/46Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1907
NLB/15/276Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society27 July 1897
NLB/16/389Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor H H Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society25 March 1898
NLB/16/400Copy agenda for a meeting at the Royal Society on the total eclipse of the Sun, January 189831 March 1898
NLB/15/666Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society, New College, Oxford13 November 1897
NLB/18/73Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrisons & Sons 10 January 1899
NLB/16/643Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor H H Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society13 May 1898
NLB/16/599Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to the Secretaries of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, The Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House6 May 1898
NLB/29/17Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1904
NLB/27/150Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1903
NLB/23/2/497Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1904
NLB/25/42Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society29 July 1902
NLB/26/470Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society25 March 1903
NLB/25/339Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1902
NLB/26/294Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Herbert Hall Turner, [Fellow of the Royal Society], University Observatory, Oxford25 February 1903
NLB/26/604Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1903
NLB/27/868Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1903
MC/19/808Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to [Joseph] Larmor4 December 1904
NLB/31/913Copy letter from the Earl of Rosse [Laurance Parsons] and Herbert Hall Turner, to Dr James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1905
NLB/32/198Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1906
NLB/31/238Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1905
NLB/31/221Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society10 July 1905
NLB/34/891Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1907
MC/25/262Letter from [Herbert Hall Turner], B.A Seismology [Committee], University of Observatory, Oxford, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]1 June 1910
NLB/32/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1905
NLB/32/137Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1906
NLB/31/587Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society16 October 1905
NLB/31/606Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society17 October 1905
NLB/31/696Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society2 November 1905
NLB/32/356Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 February 1906
NLB/31/918Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society8 December 1905
NLB/29/902Copy letter from Secretaries of the Royal Society, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 January 1905
NLB/33/856Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society16 November 1906
NLB/35/197Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1907
NLB/34/758Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1907
NLB/35/414Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1907
NLB/37/118Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner FRS29 January 1908
NLB/35/716Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1907
NLB/34/918Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society, Treasurer, Huggins Portrait Trust26 March 1907
NLB/38/417Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1908
NLB/41/812Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1910
NLB/42/683Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner FRS 3 August 1910
MC/26/265Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]1 February 1911
NLB/43/475Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society24 January 1911
NLB/43/545Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society 8 February 1911
NLB/43/565Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1911
NLB/48/59Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Herbert Hall] Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1913
NLB/45/418Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Astronomer Royal1 March 1912
NLB/45/754Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner, DCL, FRS3 May 1912
NLB/47/417Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner FRS, Oxford29 January 1913
NLB/45/740Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner FRS1 May 1912
NLB/48/55Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1913
NLB/47/660Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professorr H [Herbet] H [Hall] Turner FRS10 March 1913
NLB/47/737Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Herbert Hall ] Turner3 April 1913
NLB/47/636Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner FRS6 March 1913
NLB/48/13Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1913
NLB/48/390Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Henry Hall] Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society26 June 1913
NLB/47/823Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Herbert] H [Hall] Turner FRS18 April 1913
MC/20/449Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison28 November 1905
NLB/31/536Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1905
NLB/52/7Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Herbert Hall Turner FRS14 July 1915
NLB/51/456Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Herbert Hall Turner FRS23 March 1915
NLB/51/683Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Herbert Hall Turner FRS21 May 1915
NLB/52/436Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, FRS7 December 1915
NLB/52/207Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, FRS13 October 1915
NLB/52/183Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, FRS7 October 1915
NLB/52/388Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, FRS25 November 1915
NLB/52/514Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, FRS4 January 1916
RR/17/77Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'Report of private expedition to Philippeville, Algeria, to view the total eclipse of the sun, August 30, 1905' by T C Porter and W P Colfox[February 1907]
RR/19/114Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'On a cassegrain reflector with corrected field' by Ralph Allen Sampson16 January 1913
NLB/54/257Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS16 March 1917
RR/22/35Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The lunar diurnal magnetic variations, and its change with lunar distance' by S ChapmanFebruary 1915
RR/24/27Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The solar and lunar diurnal variations of terrestrial magnetism' by Sydney Chapman[April 1917]
NLB/64/159Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS13 February 1923
NLB/63/564Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS07 November 1922
NLB/61/58Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS3 May 1921
NLB/58/114Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS16 March 1920
NLB/58/215Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS29 March 1920
NLB/55/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS01 February 1918
NLB/58/492Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS13 May 1920
NLB/57/261Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HH [Herbert Hall]Turner, FRSAugust 1919
NLB/59/929Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS1 December 1920
NLB/61/148Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS24 May 1921
RR/27/9Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'On the depth of earthquake Foci' by S BanerjeeJuly 1922
NLB/61/258Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS9 June 1921
NLB/69/461Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS22 April 1926
NLB/64/329Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS15 March 1923
NLB/62/360Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS31 January 1922
NLB/64/825Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS.26 June 1923
NLB/64/218Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS23 February 1923
NLB/62/653Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS30 March 1922
NLB/62/902Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS1 June 1922
NLB/63/129Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS04 July 1922
NLB/65/712Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS12 December 1923
NLB/67/142Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel [Henry George] Lyons, FRS1 November 1924
NLB/63/885Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS17 January 1922
NLB/65/314Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS10 October 1923
NLB/64/865Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Herbert Hall Prof. Turner, FRS4 July 1923
NLB/62/401Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS9 February 1922
NLB/69/152Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS21 January 1926
CD/49/18Copy letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner10 January 1905
NLB/69/829Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS26 October 1926
MC/15/205Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to [Herbert] Rix31 July 1891
CD/73/24Letter from Joseph Larmor, St John's College, Cambridge, to [Herbert Hall] Turner3 February 1912
NLB/69/603Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall] Turner 18 June 1926
NLB/61/630Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS23 September 1921
NLB/69/680Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Frank Heath, K.C.B14 July 1926
CD/4/10Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner7 November 1922
NLB/70/873Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS26 October 1927
NLB/71/605Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall]Turner, FRS19 July 1928
NLB/72/347Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS5 July 1929
NLB/63/161Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS07 July 1922
CD/4/5Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner7 July 1922
CD/49/2Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society30 October 1903
CD/48/11Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society20 January 1903
CD/73/25Letter from [Ralph Allen] Sampson, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to [Herbert Hall] Turner4 February 1912
NLB/42/65Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Senatore, Professor P Blaserna, President of the R Accademis dei LinceiUndated
CD/44/33Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society6 December 1923
CD/49/3Letter from [Sir William Henry Mahoney] Christie, Astronomer Royal of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to [Herbert Hall] Turner28 September 1903
CD/44/35Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner12 December 1923
CD/49/7Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society15 February 1904
CD/73/20Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner; Oxford, to [Ralph Allen] Sampson1 February 1912
CD/49/4Letter from [Maurice / Moritz] Loewy, President of the International Committee for the International Astrographic Chart (Carte du Ciel), and Director of the Paris Observatory, to [Herbert Hall] Turner27 October 1903
CD/48/5Copy letter from Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society, to [Herbert Hall] Turner28 October 1902
CD/49/15Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, to the President of the Royal Society1 December 1904
CD/49/10Letter from [William Ernest] Cooke, Government Astronomer of Western Australia, to [Herbert Hall] Turner3 March 1904
CD/73/28Letter from [Ralph Allen] Sampson, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to [Herbert Hall] Turner8 February 1912
CD/73/27Letter from [Major Edmond Herbert Grove Hills], 32 Prince's Gardens, S.W., to [Herbert Hall] Turner6 February 1912
NLB/21/766Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1901
NLB/13/21Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society29 May 1896
NLB/12/584Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, The Foreign Office, S.W.18 March 1896
RR/17/7Second referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The distribution of blue and violet light in the corona on August 30, 1905, as derived from photographs taken at Kalaa-es-Senam, Tunisia' by L Becker13 April 1907
NLB/15/720Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to the Under Secretary of State for India, Whitehall, S.W. 22 November 1897
NLB/16/661Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor H H Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society17 May 1898
NLB/23/2/496Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1904
NLB/28/420Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society3 March 1904
NLB/31/445Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1905
NLB/31/842Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society23 November 1905
NLB/35/501Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 June 1907
NLB/34/673Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1907
NLB/34/755Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society5 March 1907
RR/19/112Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'A new treatment of optical aberrations' by Ralph Allen Sampson[April 1912]
RR/20/23Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'Some phenomena of sunspots and of terrestrial magnetism - Part II' by Charles ChreeJune 1913
RR/24/10Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'On the evolution of our galactic system' by Alexander William Bickerton[April 1917]
CD/48/16Statement regarding the Astrographic Charts of the Perth Observatory, by Herbert Hall Turner21 February 1903
CD/48/15Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to Sir Michael Foster21 February 1903
CD/48/14Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to the Chairman of Board A of the Government Grant Committee17 February 1903
CD/48/1Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society23 October 1902
NLB/18/212Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [Professor H H] Turner 7 February 1899
NLB/23/2/495Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, [Fellow of the Royal Society]17 June 1904
NLB/31/889Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society1 December 1905
NLB/69/681Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. M. Treasury14 July 1926
NLB/71/665Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Herbert Hall] Turner, FRS27 September 1928
CD/49/1Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society12 October 1903
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MDA/C/12/2/17Letter from Herbert Hall Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Joseph Larmor19 December 1904
PP/8/19Paper, 'On the correction to the equilibrium theory of tides for the continents' by G H [George Howard] Darwin and H H [Herbert Hall] Turner1886
AP/80/8Paper, 'Total solar eclipse of 1900 May 28. Preliminary report on the observations made at Bouzaréah (in the grounds of the Algiers Observatory [Algeria])' by H H [Herbert Hall] Turner and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1900
MC/14/179Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society8 January 1887
NLB/1/459Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Henry Mahoney Christie, Astronomer Royal13 June 1887
MC/14/241Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Dr [John] Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society27 June 1887
MC/15/267Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, to the Secretary of the Royal Society8 April 1892
MC/15/275Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, to the Secretary of the Royal Society18 May 1892
MC/16/105Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Michael] Foster31 March 1894
MC/16/268Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, to the Secretary of the Royal Society5 December 1895
MC/15/114Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Secretary to the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to the Secretary of the Royal Society24 November 1890
MC/14/213Letter from [William Henry Mahoney] Christie, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to John Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society18 May 1887
NLB/1/349Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herbert Hall Turner, Royal Observatory, Greenwich11 January 1887
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/20/446Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society30 April 1905
MC/19/805Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society18 June 1904
MC/19/806Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society19 June 1904
MC/19/807Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society22 November 1904
MC/25/261Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Chairman of the Committee, B.A Seismology Committee, University Observatory, Oxford, to Sir Archibald Geikie, [President of the Royal Society]1 June 1910
NLB/42/384Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner2 June 1910
MC/26/267Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 February 1911
MC/26/264Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]30 January 1911
MC/26/266Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to the Council of the Royal Society, [Royal Society]1 February 1911
NLB/30/176Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1905
MC/27/341Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to the President of the [Royal Society]9 December 1912
MC/20/445Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison7 February 1905
MC/20/447Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison6 October 1905
NLB/31/897Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1905
MC/28/285Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Chairman B.A Seismology [Committee], University Observatory, Oxford9 October 1913
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/30/209Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]21 November 1915
MC/30/208Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]8 October 1915
MC/30/207Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]4 October 1915
MC/30/206Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society]22 September 1915
MC/30/205Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, [Harrogate], University [Observatory], Oxford, to [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society]16 September 1915
MC/21/627Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison26 March 1906
MC/22/473Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, Treasurer of the Huggins Portrait Fund, Burlington House, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House29 January 1907
MC/22/474Postcard from [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London11 March 1907
NLB/34/810Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Herbert Hall] Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society12 March 1907
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/29/26Letter from [Herbert Hall] Turner, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Burlington House, London, W, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society8 November 1914
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