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Authorised form of nameLangley; John Newport (1852 - 1925)
Dates1852 - 1925
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNewbury, Berkshire, England
Date of birth02 November 1852
Place of deathHis home at Cambridge
Date of death05/11/1925
Research fieldPhysiology
Histology
ActivityEducation:
Exeter Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1875), MA (1878), ScD (1896)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1877, re-elected 1885); Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer, Cambridge University (1883-1903); Professor of Physiology, Cambridge (1903-1925)
Memberships:
Neurological Society of Great Britain (President 1893)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1883
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1897-1898; VP 1904-1905
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1892
Lectures:
Croonian 1906
RelationshipsSon of John Langley and Mary, daughter of Richard Groom; married (1902) Vera Keathleen, daughter of Frederick Forsyth-Grant of Ecclesgrieg, Kincardineshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Venn
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1927 vol 101 pp xxxiii-xli, plate, by Walter Morley Fletcher
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/44433985
CodeNA7038
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GLB/24/10Extract from the address to the Physiological Section of the British Association Meeting of 1899 by J N Langleymid 20th century
MM/16/64Letter from JN Langley, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Society24 May 1904
NLB/52/8Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Newport Langley FRS14 July 1915
NLB/46/460Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society1 August 1912
NLB/26/387Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 March 1903
NLB/12/691Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge13 April 1896
NLB/2/89Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society9 January 1888
NLB/2/263Copy letter from Michael Foster, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1888
NLB/2/407Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1888
NLB/2/535Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge28 July 1888
NLB/2/413Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1888
NLB/2/590Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 September 1888
NLB/7/385Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company3 February 1893
NLB/2/843Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 November 1888
NLB/2/225Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Trinity College Cambridge5 March 1888
NLB/4/1013Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1890
NLB/6/181Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge19 March 1892
NLB/6/185Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1892
NLB/6/180Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society18 March 1892
NLB/6/752Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1892
NLB/6/734Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society4 July 1892
NLB/6/1158Copy letter from Michael Foster, to General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby November 1892
NLB/5/525Copy letter from Michael Foster, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society7 July 1891
NLB/7/87Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society28 November 1892
NLB/7/685Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Edwin Wilson, Cambridge 10 April 1893
NLB/7/381Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge1 February 1893
NLB/5/768Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1891
NLB/7/639Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Edwin Wilson, Post Office Terrace, Cambridge28 March 1893
NLB/7/448Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 February 1893
NLB/9/81Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 March 1894
NLB/10/638Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society11 January 1895
NLB/11/656Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society27 August 1895
NLB/12/495Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1896
NLB/13/160Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1896
NLB/12/418Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society17 February 1896
NLB/12/438Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge19 February 1896
NLB/12/462Copy letter from Michael Foster, to John Newport Langley, [Fellow of the Royal Society]20 February 1896
NLB/13/665Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge29 October 1896
NLB/13/718Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1896
RR/15/218Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The properties of the arterial and venous walls' by J A MacWilliamNovember 1901
NLB/16/95Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J N Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1898
NLB/18/684Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J N Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge21 April 1899
NLB/16/847Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J N Langley21 June 1898
NLB/17/52Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Joseph Chamberlain, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies7 July 1898
NLB/16/607Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J N Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1898
NLB/17/514Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society11 November 1898
NLB/19/367Copy letter from Theodore E James, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society29 August 1899
NLB/22/605Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1901
NLB/18/349Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J N Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge27 February 1899
NLB/18/607Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J N Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1899
NLB/18/655Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J N Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge17 April 1899
NLB/19/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1899
NLB/19/657Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge18 November 1899
NLB/22/487Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John Newport] Langley22 May 1901
NLB/22/511Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge24 May 1901
NLB/22/580Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [John Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society8 June 1901
NLB/21/759Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1901
NLB/25/129Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society18 August 1902
NLB/25/117Copy letter from Theodore E James, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society13 August 1902
NLB/23/2/522Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1904
NLB/36/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hedgerley Lodge, Cambridge18 November 1907
NLB/30/43Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1905
NLB/32/627Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to Professor [John Newport] Langley, [Fellow of the Royal Society] 25 April 1906
NLB/29/111Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1904
NLB/30/6Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society16 January 1905
NLB/30/267Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 February 1905
NLB/29/95Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge1 July 1904
NLB/31/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 June 1905
NLB/32/227Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society1 February 1906
NLB/32/205Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1906
NLB/32/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 January 1906
NLB/32/481Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 March 1906
NLB/33/326Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society3 August 1906
NLB/32/569Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1906
NLB/33/368Copy letter from A H White, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society16 August 1906
NLB/32/728Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 May 1906
NLB/32/886Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1906
NLB/32/750Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Hedgerley Lodge, Cambridge21 May 1906
NLB/32/831Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1906
NLB/37/748Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] N [Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hedgeley Lodge, Madingley road, Cambridge7 May 1908
NLB/35/552Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1907
NLB/36/768Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts Lubbock & Company12 December 1907
NLB/37/431Copy postcard from the Royal Society to Professor J [John] N [Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hedgerley lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge. 19 March 1908
NLB/37/619Copy postcard from the Royal Society to Professor J [John] N [Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge14 April 1908
NLB/40/628Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] N [Newport] Langley FRS 10 July 1909
NLB/41/644Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1910
NLB/44/762Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] N [Newport Langley FRS6 November 1911
NLB/45/586Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] N [Newport] Langley FRS1 April 1912
NLB/46/505Copy letter from [Secretary of the Royal Society], to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society13 August 1912
NLB/48/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [John Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society1 August 1913
NLB/50/778Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [John Newport] Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1914
NLB/51/553Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Newport Langley FRS23 April 1915
NLB/51/559Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Newport Langley FRS26 April 1915
NLB/51/636Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Newport Langley FRS11 May 1915
NLB/52/171Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir William Crookes, President of the Royal Society5 October 1915
NLB/52/88Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Newport Langley FRS10 August 1915
NLB/54/718Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS21 August 1917
RR/9/312Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the structure of hyaline cartilage' by George Thin23 February 1885
NLB/54/456Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS17 May 1917
RR/22/64Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Experiments on the restoration of paralysed muscles by means of nerve anastomosis. Part III - Anastomosis of the brachial plexus, with a consideration of the distribution of its roots' by Robert KennedyFebruary 1915
NLB/54/455Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor W. H. Thompson; Ministry of Food, Grosvenor House, W.17 May 1917
NLB/54/698Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS13 August 1917
NLB/54/620Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS6 July 1917
NLB/54/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS24 July 1917
NLB/54/613Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS4 July 1917
NLB/54/651Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, Vice President of the Royal Society13 July 1917
NLB/59/539Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS15 October 1920
NLB/59/799Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS13 November 1920
RR/8/327Referee's report by Edward Emanuel Klein, on a paper 'On the histology and physiology of pepsin-forming glands' by John Newport Langley12 May 1881
RR/8/328Referee's report by William Rutherford, on a paper 'On the histology and physiology of pepsin-forming glands' by John Newport Langley27 May 1881
RR/9/358Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The minute anatomy of the brachial plexus' by W P Herringham8 April 1886
RR/9/210Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the cortical connexions of the optic nerves' by David James Hamilton27 May 1884
RR/9/116Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Contributions to our knowledge of the connexion between chemical constitution, physiological action, and antagonism' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash1883
NLB/56/848Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS16 June 1919
MC/13/85Letter from J N [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society11 August 1884
RR/10/128Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'An investigation into the functions of the occipital and temporal lobes of the monkey's brain' by Sanger Brown and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer6 February 1888
RR/11/72Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Results of hemisection of the spinal cord in monkeys' by Frederick Walker Mott11 July 1891
RR/10/324Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'An experimental investigation into the arrangement of the excitable fibres of the internal capsule of the bonnet monkey (Macacus sinicus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley13 January 1890
RR/11/167Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The hippocampus' by Alex Hill1 June 1892
NLB/60/354Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS21 January 1921
NLB/60/160Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS16 December 1920
RR/11/20Letter from John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On some of the variations observed in the rabbit’s liver under certain physiological and pathological circumstances' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and Sheridan Delépine to Foster16 November 1891
RR/12/220Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Degenerations consequent on experimental lesions of the cerebellum' by J S Risien Russellnd [1894]
RR/11/178Referee's report by David Ferrier, on a paper 'On the origin from the spinal cord of the cervical and thoracic sympathetic fibres, with some observations on white and grey rami communicantes' by John Newport Langley19 February 1892
RR/13/32Letter from John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the granular leucocytes' by G. Lovell Gulland to the Secretary of the Royal Society16 January 1896
RR/14/207Detailed referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The physiological action of choline and neurine' by Frederick Walker Mott and William Dobinson Halliburtonnd [1899]
RR/14/206Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The physiological action of choline and neurine' by Frederick Walker Mott and William Dobinson Halliburton3 May 1899
RR/13/297Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The relations between marine animal and vegetable life' by H M Vernon30 January 1898
RR/13/128Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Experiments in examination of the peripheral distribution the fibres of the posterior roots of some spinal nerves. -Part II' by Charles Scott Sherrington7 December 1896
RR/17/278Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The embedding of the embryo guinea-pig in the uterine wall and its nutrition at all stages of development' by E Emrys-RobertsNovember 1908
NLB/60/163Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS16 December 1920
RR/18/156Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Experiments on the restoration of paralysed muscles by means of nerve anastomosis. Part I - substitutes for the facial nerve' by Robery Kennedy18 April 1911
RR/18/93Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The chromaphil tissues and the adrenal medulla' by Thomas Swale Vincent10 April 1910
RR/10/325Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A record of the results obtained, by electrical excitation of the so-called motor cortex and internal capsule in an orang-outang (Simia satyrus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley6 July 1890
NLB/63/637Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS21 November 1922
NLB/57/552Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JN [John Newport] Langley, FRS3 December 1919
NLB/62/828Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS16 May 1922
NLB/62/804Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS10 May 1922
NLB/63/263Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS28 July 1922
NLB/62New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 November 1921-10 June 1922
RR/9/328Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A minute analysis (experimental) of the various movements produced by stimulating in the monkey different regions of the cortical centre for the upper limb, as defined by Professor Ferrier' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Horsley12 August 1886
NLB/63/204Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS17 July 1922
RR/10/144Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the development of the electric organ of Raia batis' by James Cossar Ewart24 April 1888
NLB/65/9Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS12 July 1923
NLB/65/73Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS24 July 1923
NLB/65/125Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William Bate] Hardy Esq., Secretary of the Royal Society4 August 1923
NLB/64/826Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Thomas] Heycock Esq. FRS26 June 1923
NLB/65/44Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Thomas] Heycock Esq., FRS17 July 1923
NLB/65/41Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Newport] Langley, FRS[17 July 1923]
NLB/65/132Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Thomas] Heycock Esq., FRS8 August 1923
NLB/68/929Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Hugh Anderson, FRS1 December 1925
NLB/69/907Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Cambridge University Press12 November 1926
NLB/7/7Copy letter from Michael Foster, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society[10 November 1892]
RR/10/281Referee's report by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, on a paper 'On the secretion of saliva, chiefly on the secretion of salts in it' by John Newport Langley and H M Fletchernd [1888]
NLB/2/500Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1888
NLB/2/648Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society2 October 1888
NLB/12/500Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society2 March 1896
NLB/13/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 October 1896
RR/16/312Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper by 'An investigation into the structure of the lumbo-sacral-coccygeal cord of the macaque monkey (macacus sinicus)' by Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald10 November 1905
NLB/17/38Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge7 July 1898
NLB/32/171Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Newport Langley, [Fellow of the Royal Society]19 January 1906
NLB/39/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Unknown Recipient17 November 1908
NLB/51/428Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Newport Langley FRS18 March 1915
RR/10/280Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'On the secretion of saliva, chiefly on the secretion of salts in it' by John Newport Langley and H M Fletcher27 August 1888
RR/10/381Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On out-lying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal-cord' by Charles Scott Sherrington3 March 1890
RR/17/172Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the occurrence of post-tetanic tremor in several types of muscle' by David Fraser Harris16 April 1907
RR/10/10Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A further minute analysis by electric stimulation of the so-called motor region of the cortex cerebri in the monkey (Macacus sinicus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley12 October 1887
EC/1883/12Langley, John Newport: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/10/263Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the descending degenerations which follow lesions of the gyrus marginalis and gyrus fornicatus in monkeys' by E P France and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer9 April 1889
RR/11/226Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A further minute analysis by electric stimulation of the so-called motor region (Facial area) of the cortex cerebri in the monkey (macacus sinicus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley29 April 1893
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
PP/7/8Paper, 'On variations in the amount and distribution, of fat in the liver-cells of the frog' by J N [John Newport] Langley1885
RR/10/113Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on the Croonian Lecture 'On the coagulation of the blood' by Leonard Charles Wooldridge29 January 1887
RR/10/52Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A record of experiments upon the functions of the cerebral cortex' by Victor Alexander Haden Horsley and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer4 April 1887
RR/12/37Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Experiments in examination of the peripheral distribution of the fibres of the posterior roots of some spinal nerves' by Charles Scott Sherrington30 January 1893
RR/13/29Letter from John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the granular leucocytes' by G. Lovell Gulland to the Secretary of the Royal Society26 August 1895
RR/13/129Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Experiments in examination of the peripheral distribution the fibres of the posterior roots of some spinal nerves. -Part II' by Charles Scott Sherrington [COPY]7 December 1896
RR/14/11Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Observations on the anatomy, physiology and degenerations of the nervous system of the bird' by Rubert William Boyce and W B Warrington20 December 1898
RR/15/74Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The restoration of co-ordinated movements after nerve crossing with interchange of function of the cerebral cortical centres' by Robert Kennedy19 December 1900
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
RR/11/171Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The cerebrum of ornithrohynchus paradoxus' by Alex Hill1 September 1892
RR/11/41Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Contribution to the study of the vertebrate liver' by Sheridan Delépine20 January 1891
RR/11/21Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On some of the variations observed in the rabbit’s liver under certain physiological and pathological circumstances' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and Sheridan Delépine 16 November 1891
RR/16/66Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A comparative study of the grey and white matter of the motor-cell groups; and the spinal-accessory nerve in the spinal cord of the porpoise, (Phocoena communis)' by D Hepburn and D Waterston13 August 1903
PP/6/24Paper, 'The "paralytic" secretion of saliva' by J N [John Newport] Langley1885
PP/8/25Paper, 'On the structure of mucous salivary glands' by J N [John Newport] Langley1886
PP/14/34Paper, 'On the local paralysis of peripheral ganglia, and on the connexion of different classes of nerve fibres with them' by John Newport Langley and W [William] Lee Dickinson1889
PP/15/27Paper, 'On the progressive paralysis of the different classes of nerve cells in the superior cervical ganglion' by J N [John Newport] Langley and W [William] Lee Dickinson1890
PP/20/31Paper, 'Preliminary account of the arrangement of the sympathetic nervous system, based chiefly on observations upon pilo-motor nerves' by John Newport Langley1893
MC/15/314Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Professor [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society12 November 1892
RR/10/146Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on two papers 'The electric organ of the skate. - On the structure of the electric organ of Raia circularis' and 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart6 June 1888
RR/9/119Letter from John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Contributions to our knowledge of the connexion between chemical constitution, physiological action, and antagonism' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash to the Secretary of the Royal Society6 October 1883
RR/9/214Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the structure and functional significance of the human Corpus callosum' by David James Hamilton27 August 1884
RR/10/148Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart9 July 1888
RR/10/279Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The relation of physiological action to atomic weight' by Miss H J Johnstone and Thomas Carnelley9 November 1889
RR/11/147Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.–Observations on the structure, relations, progressive development, and growth, of the electric organ of the skate' by James Cossar Ewart30 March 1892
RR/12/30Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the nerve roots which enter into the formation of the lumbo-sacral plexus of Macacus rhesus' by J S Risien Russellnd [1893]
RR/13/176Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'An experimental research upon cerebro-cortical afferent and efferent tracts' by David Ferrier and W Aldren Turner6 June 1897
RR/15/224Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The chemistry of nerve-degeneration' by Frederick Walker Mott and William Dobinson HalliburtonApril 1901
RR/20/82Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'Experiments on the restoration of paralysed muscles by means of nerve anastomosis. Part II - Anastomosis of the nerves supplying limb muscles' by Robert KennedyJanuary 1914
MC/14/304Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 March 1888
MC/14/324Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Royal Society16 May 1888
MC/16/304Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Journal of Physiology, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society7 April 1896
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/19/527Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society29 October 1904
NLB/41/288Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society16 November 1909
NLB/41/252Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1909
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/20/92Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to [Joseph] Larmor17 January 1905
MC/20/93Memo from [John Newport] Langley, Journal of Physiology, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 January 1905
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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