| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/26/82 | Referee's report by James Colquhoun Irvine, on a paper 'The action of ammonia and of amino-compounds on reducing sugars. I - The action of ammonia on dextrose ad laevulose' by Arthur R Ling and Dinshaw Rattonji Nanji | 3 Feburary 1922 |
| NLB/55/567 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor James Colquhoun] Irvine, FRS, The University, St. Andrews | 13 June 1918 |
| NLB/68/815 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Irvine, CBE, FRS | 5 November 1925 |
| NLB/55/565 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor James Colquhoun] Irvine, FRS, The University, St. Andrews | 13 June 1918 |
| RR/37/11 | Referee's report by James Colquhon Irvine, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds. IV .—The temperature coefficient of the photosynthesis of carbohydrates from carbonic acid' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly | November 1928 |
| NLB/63/835 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [James Colquhoun] Irvine, FRS | 04 January 1923 |
| NLB/65/614 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Principal [James Colquhoun] Irvine, FRS | 28 November 1923 |
| NLB/65/392 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, FRS | 25 October 1923 |
| NLB/68/842 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Irvine, FRS | 11 November 1925 |
| NLB/65/264 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 1 October 1923 |
| NLB/65/213 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John [Rose] Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 21 September 1923 |
| NLB/68/898 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Irvine, CBE, FRS | 23 November 1925 |
| NLB/65/673 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, FRS | 6 December 1923 |
| RR/35/9 | Referee's report by James Colquhoun Irvine, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds.—II. The photosynthesis of carbohydrates from carbonic acid by means of visible light' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, W E Stephen and N R Hood | 1927 |
| EC/1918/16 | Irvine, Sir James Colquhoun: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/56/61 | Referee's report by James Colquhoun Irvine, on a paper 'On the association of xylan with cellulose in certain structural celluloses' by A G Norman | 30 May 1936 |
| NLB/68/812 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint | 5 November 1925 |
| NLB/68/746 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William Cecil Dampier] Wetham Esq., FRS; also circulated to Sir James [Colquhoun] Irvine; Sir Thomas Lewis; Professor [John Charles Grant] Ledingham; Professor [James Peter] Hill; Professor [Edmund Johnston] Garwood; Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann; [John Edensor] Littlewood Esq.; Sir [Robert] Robertson | 29 October 1925 |
| RR/35/7 | Referee's report by James Colquhoun Irvine, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds.—III. Photosynthesis in vivo and in vitro' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly and J B Davies | [1927] |
| RR/35/14 | Referee's report by James Colquhoun Irvine, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds. I.—The action of ultra-violet light on carbonic acid' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, J B Davies and H Shanassy | March 1927 |