| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1923/08 | McBain, James William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/39/364 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to James W [William] McBain, University College, Bristol | 11 January 1909 |
| RR/32/41 | Referee's report by James William McBain, on a paper 'The behaviour of crystals and lenses of fats on the surface of water. Part I.—The mechanism and rate of spreading' by Arthur Cary and Eric Keightley Rideal | July 1925 |
| RR/17/316 | Referee's report by William Mitchenson Hicks, on a paper 'The mechanism of the adsorption of hydrogen by carbon' by James William McBain | 29 November 1908 |
| RR/34/53 | Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'Adhesives and adhesion: True chemical compounds as adhesives' by James William McBain and W B Lee | [November 1926] |
| NLB/57/150 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Glazebrook, FRS, CB, Chairman of the Physics Committee | 30 July 1919 |
| NLB/57/651 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [James William] McBain, FRS, the University, Bristol | 7 January 1920 |
| RR/54/42 | Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Measurements of adsorption at the air-water interface by the microtome method' by James William McBain and Robert C Swain | January 1936 |
| RR/68/236 | Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Freezing-points of solutions of typical colloidal electrolytes; soaps, sulphonates, sulphates and bile salt' by Stewart A Johnston and James William McBain | [1942] |
| RR/32/43 | Referee's report by James William McBain, on a paper 'The behaviour of crystals and lenses of fats on the surface of water.—Part II. The effect of temperature on the equilibrium pressure' by Arthur Cary and Eric Keightley Rideal | July 1925 |
| NLB/66/49 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G FRS | 14 February 1924 |
| NLB/67/926 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, FRS | 8 April 1925 |
| RR/39/82 | Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'A robust microbalance of high sensitivity. Suitable for weighing sorbed films' by James William McBain and H G Tanner | [August 1929] |
| NLB/68/462 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James William] McBain, FRS | 14 July 1925 |
| NLB/73/222 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [James William] McBain, FRS | 12 March 1931 |
| NLB/66/466 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 15 May 1924 |
| RR/39/81 | Referee's report by Arthur John Allmand, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity caused by insoluble monomolecular films of fatty acid on water' by James William McBain and C R Peaker | [July 1929] |
| RR/48/110 | Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'Sedimentation equilibrium in the ultracentrifuge; types obtained with soap solutions' by James William McBain and M E Laing McBain | [September 1932] |
| RR/51/32 | Referee's report by Arthur John Allmand, on a paper 'The diffusion of potassium chloride in aqueous solution' by James William McBain and C R Dawson | 21 September 1934 |
| RR/30/36 | Referee's report by James William McBain, on a paper 'A discontinuity in the dehydration of certain salt hydrates' by Edward Mortimer Crowther and John Reginald Horder Coutts | [May 1924] |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| RR/32/42 | Referee's report by James William McBain, on a paper 'The behaviour of crystals and lenses of fats on the surface of water—Part III. The effect of the polar group on the equilibrium pressure' by Arthur Cary and Eric Keightley Rideal | April 1925 |
| RR/66/151 | Referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'Adsorption of lauryl sulphonic acid in the surface of its aqueous solution, and the Gibbs theorem' by James William McBain and Lloyd A Wood | [November 1939] |
| RR/51/31 | Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'The diffusion of potassium chloride in aqueous solution' by James William McBain and C R Dawson | 19 July 1934 |
| RR/17/315 | Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'The mechanism of the adsorption of hydrogen by carbon' by James William McBain | 29 September 1908 |
| RR/66/152 | Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'Adsorption of lauryl sulphonic acid in the surface of its aqueous solution, and the Gibbs theorem' by James William McBain and Lloyd A Wood | [August 1939] |
| RR/31/46 | Referee's report by James William McBain, on a paper 'The destruction of rennin by agitation: A case of catalysis at an air-liquid interface' by Eric Keightley Rideal and Charles George Lewis Wolf | [May 1924] |
| RR/64/109 | Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Spontaneous emulsification, and reactions overshooting equilibrium' by James William McBain and Ts-ming Woo | [June 1937] |
| RR/66/150 | Referee's report by Arthur John Allmand, on a paper 'Adsorption of lauryl sulphonic acid in the surface of its aqueous solution, and the Gibbs theorem' by James William McBain and Lloyd A Wood | [November 1939] |