Record

RefNoNLB/52
AltRefNoNLB/52
LevelFile
TitleNew Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration
Date9 July 1915-8 March 1916
DescriptionNew Letter Book volume 52 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 52 also covers the subject of the First World War.

Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison; Secretary, William Bate Hardy.

Primary recipients: William Maddock Bayliss; Coults and Company; Percy Faraday Frankland; John Stanley Gardiner; Harrison & Sons; Arthur Schuster; J Tait.

Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter.
Extent516p comprising 912 letters
FormatCarbon
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionHalf-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. The binding is sound, but the spine is slightly affected by red rot.
DimensionsHeight 44(cm), width 29(cm).
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsCurrently not available due to conservation being carried out, expected return by Aug 2021
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8234Hardy; Sir; William Bate (1864 - 1934)1864 - 1934
NA2163Frankland; Percy Faraday (1858 - 1946); chemist1858 - 1946
NA1149Gardiner; John Stanley (1872 - 1946)1872 - 1946
NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
NA7858Bayliss; Sir; William Maddock (1860 - 1924); physiologist1860 - 1924
NA8225Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935)1854 - 1935
NA8246Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA1492Anderson; Sir; Hugh Kerr (1865 - 1928)1865 - 1928
NA688Lees; Charles Herbert (1864 - 1952)1864 - 1952
NA7577Baker; Henry Frederick (1866 - 1956); mathematician1866 - 1956
NA1196Walker; George Walker (1874 - 1921)1874 - 1921
NA6974Poulton; Sir; Edward Bagnall (1856 - 1943)1856 - 1943
NA7141Thompson; Silvanus Phillips (1851 - 1916); physicist and electrical engineer1851 - 1916
NA8188Crookes; Sir; William (1832 - 1919); chemist1832 - 1919
NA8278Rutherford; Ernest (1871 - 1937); Baron Rutherford of Nelson1871 - 1937
NA1105Turner; Herbert Hall (1861 - 1930); astronomer and seismologist1861 - 1930
NA7038Langley; John Newport (1852 - 1925)1852 - 1925
NA6939Lyons; Sir; Henry George (1864 - 1944); geologist and museum director1864 - 1944
NA8070Lodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940)1851 - 1940
NA1328Watts; William Whitehead (1860 - 1947)1860 - 1947
NA1780Kerr; Sir; John Graham (1869 - 1957)1869 - 1957
NA6369MacBride; Ernest William (1866 - 1940); marine biologist and eugenicist1866 - 1940
NA1752Wynne; William Palmer (1861 - 1950)1861 - 1950
NA3128Parsons; Sir; Charles Algernon (1854 - 1931); engineer1854 - 1931
NA3577Smith; Sir; Grafton Elliot (1871 - 1937)1871 - 1937
NA1726Hele-Shaw; Henry Selby (1854 - 1941)1854 - 1941
NA1313Dunstan; Sir; Wyndham Rowland (1861 - 1949)1861 - 1949
NA1209Crossley; Arthur William (1869 - 1927); chemist1869 - 1927
NA1831Farmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944)1865 - 1944
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
NA7124Cash; John Theodore (1854 - 1936)1854 - 1936
NA6235Threlfall; Sir; Richard (1861 - 1932); physicist and chemical engineer1861 - 1932
NA2890Fleming; Sir; Alexander (1881 - 1955); bacteriologist1881 - 1955
NA1208Evershed; John (1864 - 1956)1864 - 1956
NA7857Starling; Ernest Henry (1866 - 1927); physiologist1866 - 1927
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
NA6402Barcroft; Sir; Joseph (1872 - 1947)1872 - 1947
NA7012Pickering; Percival Spencer Umfreville (1858 - 1920)1858 - 1920
NA1323Smith; Samuel Walter Johnson (1871 - 1948)1871 - 1948
NA1177Cuthbertson; Clive (1863 - 1943)1863 - 1943
NA671Sampson; Ralph Allen (1866 - 1939)1866 - 1939
NA3523Barrett; Sir; William Fletcher (1844 - 1925); physicist1844 - 1925
NA1170Allen; Edgar Johnson (1866 - 1942)1866 - 1942
NA1649Dalby; William Ernest (1862 - 1936)1862 - 1936
NA4520Godwin-Austen; Henry Haversham (1834 - 1923)1834 - 1923
NA8036Young; William Henry (1863 - 1942)1863 - 1942
NA7142Shaw; Sir; William Napier (1854 - 1945)1854 - 1945
NA7850Lowry; Thomas Martin (1874 - 1936)1874 - 1936
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930)1863 - 1930
NA1437Smith; James Lorrain (1862 - 1931)1862 - 1931
NA2292Haldane; John Scott (1860 - 1936)1860 - 1936
NA1735Chree; Charles (1860 - 1928); physicist1860 - 1928
NA2865Vines; Sidney Howard (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA7844Fletcher; Sir; Walter Morley (1873 - 1933)1873 - 1933
NA1398Goodrich; Edwin Stephen (1868 - 1946)1868 - 1946
NA1767Hill; James Peter (1873 - 1954)1873 - 1954
NA6982MacMahon; Percy Alexander (1854 - 1929); mathematician1854 - 1929
NA1402Hickson; Sydney John (1859 - 1940)1859 - 1940
NA7970Farr; Clinton Coleridge (1866 - 1943)1866 - 1943
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