| RefNo | NLB/54 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/54 |
| Level | File |
| Title | New Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration |
| Date | 10 January 1917-2 November 1917 |
| Description | New Letter Book volume 54 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers and other annual routines. Volume 54 also covers the subject of the First World War.
Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison.
Primary recipients: Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Dugald Clerk; William Henry Eccles; John Stanley Gardiner; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison & Sons; William Abbott Herdman; James Hopwood Jeans; Sir William Napier Shaw; Charles Scott Sherrington; 'Scientific Indust. Dept.'; Arthur Schuster; Sir Joseph John Thomson.
Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter. |
| Extent | 516p comprising 911 letters |
| Format | Carbon |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. |
| Dimensions | Height 44(cm), width 29(cm). |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5307 | Callendar; Hugh Longbourne (1863 - 1930); physicist | 1863 - 1930 |
| NA7825 | Clerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer | 1854 - 1932 |
| NA1856 | Eccles; William Henry (1875 - 1966) | 1875 - 1966 |
| NA1149 | Gardiner; John Stanley (1872 - 1946) | 1872 - 1946 |
| NA8225 | Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935) | 1854 - 1935 |
| NA6570 | Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924) | 1858 - 1924 |
| NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |
| NA8281 | Sherrington; Sir; Charles Scott (1857 - 1952); physiologist | 1857 - 1952 |
| NA6483 | Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist | 1851 - 1934 |
| NA8288 | Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist | 1856 - 1940 |
| NA7142 | Shaw; Sir; William Napier (1854 - 1945); meteorologist | 1854 - 1945 |
| NA6969 | Fletcher; Sir; Lazarus (1854 - 1921) | 1854 - 1921 |
| NA6968 | Brown; Horace Tabberer (1848 - 1925) | 1848 - 1925 |
| NA2170 | Hobson; Ernest William (1856 - 1933) | 1856 - 1933 |
| NA8036 | Young; William Henry (1863 - 1942) | 1863 - 1942 |
| NA8059 | Halliburton; William Dobinson (1860 - 1931) | 1860 - 1931 |
| NA2914 | Head; Sir; Henry (1861 - 1940) | 1861 - 1940 |
| NA7963 | Bower; Frederick Orpen (1855 - 1948); botanist | 1855 - 1948 |
| NA8024 | Waller; Augustus Desire (1856 - 1922) | 1856 - 1922 |
| NA2163 | Frankland; Percy Faraday (1858 - 1946); chemist | 1858 - 1946 |
| NA1221 | Blackman; Frederick Frost (1866 - 1947) | 1866 - 1947 |
| NA1831 | Farmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944); botanist | 1865 - 1944 |
| NA2865 | Vines; Sidney Howard (1849 - 1934) | 1849 - 1934 |
| NA1196 | Walker; George Walker (1874 - 1921) | 1874 - 1921 |
| NA6247 | Strahan; Sir; Aubrey (1852 - 1928) | 1852 - 1928 |
| NA1767 | Hill; James Peter (1873 - 1954) | 1873 - 1954 |
| NA1423 | Lewis; Sir; Thomas (1881 - 1945) | 1881 - 1945 |
| NA6496 | Allbutt; Sir; Thomas Clifford (1836 - 1925) | 1836 - 1925 |
| NA5951 | Seward; Sir; Albert Charles (1863 - 1941) | 1863 - 1941 |