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Authorised form of nameMiller; William Hallowes (1801 - 1880)
Dates1801 - 1880
NationalityBritish
Place of birthVelindre, Llangeler, Cardiganshire, Wales
Date of birth06 April 1801
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death20 May 1880
Research fieldCrystallography
Mineralogy
ActivityEducation:
MA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/02/1838
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
For Sec 1856-1873
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1870
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1880-1881 vol 31 pp ii-vii
References:
R Robson and Walter F Cannon, 'William Whewell, FRS (1794-1866)' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 168-191
Notes:
According to DNB he was born at Velindre, near Llandovery. According to Gazetteer Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, but Velindre itself in Llangeler in Cardiganshire - thus the disparity between DNB information and the entry above. DSB also says that he came from Llandovery, Carmarthenshire.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/112679487
CodeNA7152
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MC/7/36Letter from Dr Eug Fourmer [?], archivist, Biological Society, Paris, to W [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London19 March 1864
MC/6/91Letter from H [Hermann] Helmholtz, Heidelberg, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society10 June 1860
MM/14/12Report by WH Miller on a paper 14 Febraury 1855
MM/14/202Letter from WH Miller, Cambridge6 May 1864
MS/743/1/68Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to [John Hall] Gladstone17 July 1867
MS/743/1/180Slip with chemical references [by William Hallowes Miller?][1867?]
MC/6/45Letter from Wilhelm [Eduard] Weber, Göttingen, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society12 November 1859
RR/6/81Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Abstract of the results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, France, Belgium, Prussia, Russia, India, Australia, made at the ordnance Survey Office, Southampton' by Henry James and Alexander Ross Clarkend [1867]
MC/9/369Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Brussels, to [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London24 April 1872
MC/8/357Letter from [Charles Eugène] Delaunay, Paris, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]4 May 1869
NLB/16/296Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W J Lewis, Trinity College, Cambridge9 March 1898
RR/3/195Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the electric-conducting power of the metals' by Augustus Matthiessen1857
RR/2/131Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion' by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and James Prescott Joule7 July 1853
RR/5/142Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On new cornish minerals of the brochantite group' by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne[1865]
RR/7/43Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the mineral constituents of meteorites' by Nevil Story Maskelyne1870
RR/1/94Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a continuous self-registering thermometer' by Mansfield Harrison15 September 1845
RR/7/79Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the action of rays of high refrangibility upon gaseous matter' by John Tyndall[1870]
RR/6/21Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Inferences and suggestions in cosmical and geological philosophy' by Edward William Brayleynd [1867]
RR/3/196Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the conductive powers of mercury and __ on heat' by Augustus Matthiessen1857
RR/6/172Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the expansion by heat of metals and alloys' by Augustus Matthiessennd [1866]
RR/6/312Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the thermal resistance of liquids' by Frederick Guthriend [1869]
MC/9/314Letter from Ami Boué, Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna, to Professor [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]26 January 1872
MS/257/3/134Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine20 January 1869
RR/1bis/40Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'An account of some experiments exhibiting new instances of the absorbing power of streams; with a few remarks on the pulsation of jets' by G Robinson23 August 1844
MC/2/179Letter from [August Leopold] Crelle, Berlin, to John William Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society27 June 1835
MC/7/375Letter from E H [Edward Henry] Palmer, St John's College, Cambridge, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]15 November 1866
RR/7/111Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the meteorites of Shalka and Breitenbach' by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne3 April 1871
RR/7/143Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a new instrument for recording minute variations of atmospheric pressure' by Wildman Whitehouse12 June 1871
RR/1bis/46Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a formula for the elastic force of vapour at different temperatures' by Shortrede13 May 1848
MS/427/41Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society to Prof. [Thomas George] Bonney, FRS22 June 1880
MC/12/94Letter from T G [Thomas George] Bonney, Barmonk, to the Society25 September 1880
RR/1bis/12Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on an untraced paper about measuring distance, by Bowman23 August 1844
MC/6/69Letter from A [Adolf] Trendelenburg, secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London11 April 1860
MS/426/433Copy letter from S [Samuel] Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Lloyd; to [George Biddell] Airy; to Sir D [David] Brewster; to J [John Frederick William] Herschel; to Prof [James David] Forbes; W H [William Hallowes] Miller; Baden Powell; and Dr Thewell16 November 1850
MM/19/74Letter from William Hallowes Miller, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1 October 1860
EC/1838/10Miller, William Hallowes: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/6/134Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the refraction-equivalents of the elements' by John Hall Gladstone26 October 1869
IM/003101Miller, William Hallowesnd
RR/2/256Third referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a general law of density in saturated vapours' by John James Waterston19 April 1853
RR/7/154Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the Philosophical Transactions of the year 1868' by George Biddell Airy26 January 1872
RR/7/62Letter from William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a searcher for aplanatic images applied to microscopes, and its effects in increasing power and improving definition' by George Royston Pigott to the Secretary of the Royal Society7 June 1870
RR/7/134Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the measurement of the chemical intensity of total daylight made at Catania during the total eclipse of Dec. 22nd, 1870' by Henry Enfield Roscoe and Thomas Edward Thorpe12 July 1871
RR/1bis/47Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Essays on hygrometry and barometry' by Shortrede13 May 1848
RR/1bis/16Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the use of the barometric thermometer for the determination relative heights' by James Robert Christie[1846]
RR/4/92Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Experimental researches to determine the density of steam at different temperatures, and to determine the law of expansions of superheated steam' by William Fairbairn and Thomas Tate[1860]
MC/8/294Letter from Andrew Ten Brook, Librarian at the University Michigan General Library, Ann Arbor, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London13 January 1869
RR/4/90Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Experimental researches to determine the density of steam at different temperatures, and to determine the law of expansions of superheated steam' by William Fairbairn and Thomas Tate29 May 1860
PT/55/2Paper, 'History of the standards of English weight' by William Hallowes Miller[1856]
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
RR/2/252Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the nature of the force why which bodies are repelled from the poles of a magnet; to which is prefixed, an account of some experiments on molecular influences' by John Tyndall18 April 1855
RR/2/254Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller and George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On a general law of density in saturated vapours' by John James Waterston30 October 1851
RR/2/129Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the air-engine' by James Precott Joule16 January 1852
RR/2/130Second referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the air-engine' by James Precott Joule29 March 1852
RR/4/172Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the specific gravity of alloys' by Augustus Matthiessen1860
RR/4/173Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the electric conducting power of alloys' by Augustus Matthiessen1860
RR/6/7Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Computation of the lengths of the waves of light corresponding to the lines in the dispersion spectrum measured by Kirchhoff' by George Biddell Airy19 June 1867
RR/5/232Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Results of the magnetic observations at the Kew Observatory, from 1857 and 1858 to 1862 inclusive.-No. I' by Edward Sabine11 July 1863
MC/5/340Letter from Dr Paul Escher, Vienna, to [William Hallowes Miller], Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society18 April 1858
MC/5/342Letter from C Wiedmann, librarian of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, to Dr W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society26 April 1858
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
MC/6/63Letter from Herman de Schlagintweit and Robert de Schlagintweit, Berlin, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society15 March 1860
MC/6/154Letter from Louis Coulon, Neuchatel, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], London21 June 1861
MC/6/162Letter from Roussetol [?], secretary of the Academy of Science and Humanities of Montpellier, Montpellier, to [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London3 July 1861
MC/6/189Letter from Dr James Horner, librarian of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Zurich, Switzerland, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society22 December 1861
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
MC/8/360Letter from Alph [Alphonse] de Candolle, Geneva, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society7 May 1869
MC/6/243Letter from Ross [?], 80 Marine Parade, Brighton, to [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]1 August 1862
MC/6/256Letter from J R Mariners, secretary of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, Brussels, to [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London30 October 1862
MC/6/240Letter from Dr James Horner, library of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Zurich, Switzerland, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London18 July 1862
MC/6/299Letter from C A F Peters, Royal Observatory, Altona, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London9 February 1863
MC/7/18Letter from Domenico Piari [?], secretary of the Academy of Science, Bologna, to the Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London9 February 1864
MC/7/19Letter from le Cohnet d'Alhuartz [?], secretary of the Society of Natural Sciences of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Luxemburg, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London14 February 1864
MC/7/21Letter from C [Carmelito] Sciutto Patti, general secretary of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences, Catania, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London16 February 1864
MC/7/79Letter from J Cameron, Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Cambridge30 May 1864
MC/7/80Letter from Professor [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], to [William Allen] Miller [?], [Treasurer of the Royal Society]30 May 1864
MC/7/90Letter from Wm [William] Allen Miller, King's College London, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society8 June 1864
MC/7/94Letter from W H [William Hallowes] Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to General [Edward] Sabine, President of the Royal Society14 June 1864
MC/7/122Letter from M Rousset, General Secretary of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Montpellier, Montpellier, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society24 September 1864
MC/7/167Letter from Fr [Frederik] Kaiser, Director of the Observatory at Leiden, Leiden, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London27 January 1865
MC/7/171Letter from E Pescino, Royal Academy of Naples, Naples, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London6 February 1865
MC/7/162Letter from Robert Kane, Industrial Museum, 57 Stephens Green, Dublin, to Dr W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House, Piccadilly, London8 January 1865
MC/7/195Letter from Henry James, Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Ofce, Southampton, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society4 April 1865
MC/7/202Letter from Abria, Faculty of Science, Academy of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, to [William] H [Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society2 May 1865
MC/7/302Letter from Henry Wheatland, Secretary of the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society5 February 1866
MC/7/315Letter from A [Anton] Menge, Secretary of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Danzig, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society28 March 1866
MC/7/361Letter from Charles Dickson, secretary, Gothenburg, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society10 October 1866
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
MC/8/44Letter from H [Hermann] Burmeister, Museum of Buenos Aires, to Wm H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London10 May 1867
MC/8/163Letter from the commission for the erection of a statue to the memory of Boerhaave, Leiden, to H W [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society31 March 1868
MC/8/174Letter from R [Rudolph] Clausius, Würzburg, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society16 April 1868
MC/8/204Letter from Jeffries Wyman, Hersey Professor of Anatomy, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, to Professor William Hallowes Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society1 June 1868
MC/8/228Letter from A [Albert von] Kölliker, Würzburg, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society29 June 1868
MC/8/242Letter from Achille Costa, director of the Zoological Museum of Naples, Naples, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Secretary of the Royal Society, London 24 August 1868
MC/8/245Letter from [P] Delestre, director of the Morlaix Tobacco Factory, Morlaix, to [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]1 September 1868
MC/8/250Letter from Edward W Berling, librarian at the University Lund, Lund, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society7 October 1868
MC/8/285Letter from Alexr [Alexander] Agassiz, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to [William Hallowes Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]24 December 1868
RR/3/135Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Researches on the cinchona alkaloids' by William Bird Herapath27 April 1858
MC/8/358Letter from A H [Arthur Herbert] Church, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, to Dr [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]4 May 1869
MC/8/361Letter from Alph [Alphonse] de Candolle, Geneva, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society7 May 1869
MC/8/399Letter from John H Stinson, Portland, state of Oregon, United States, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London27 July 1869
MC/9/5Letter from A [Adolf] Ernst, Carácas, to Professor W [William] Hallowes Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London8 January 1870
MC/9/21Letter from H [Henning] Ratjen, librarian of the Royal Library at the University of Kiel, Kiel, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society29 January 1870
MC/9/28Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to General Sir Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society14 February 1870
MC/9/22Letter from A S [Alpheus Spring] Packard jr, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Massachusetts, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society31 January 1870
MC/9/43Letter from John H Stinson, Portland, Oregon, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Secretary of the Royal Society, London9 March 1870
MC/9/252Letter from Buys Ballot, Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, Utrecht, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society2 September 1871
MC/9/104Letter from W H [William Hallowes] Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to the Royal Society29 June 1870
MC/9/116Letter from John H Stinson, Portland, Oregon, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], London6 August 1870
MC/9/127Letter from E H von Baumhauer, secretary of the Dutch Society of Science, Harlem, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London5 October 1870
MC/9/134Letter from Th [Thomas] Biddulph, Balmoral, to Dr [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]7 November 1870
MC/9/173Letter from Dr Chr [Christian] Baehr, Chief Librarian of the University, Heidelberg, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society7 March 1871
MC/9/38Letter from Buys Ballot, Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, Utrecht, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London24 February 1870
MC/9/309Letter from Edm [Edmond] Reusens, conservator of the library at the University of Louvain, Louvain, to [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society23 January 1872
MC/9/310Letter from W H [William Henry] Flower, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, to Professor [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]24 January 1872
MC/9/304Letter from W H [William Hallowes] Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to the Royal Society6 January 1872
MC/9/345Letter from B F [Benjamin Franklin] Sands, Rear Admiral, Superintendent, U S Naval Observatory, Washington, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London15 March 1872
MC/9/356Letter from Dr Ch [Charles] Jelinek, Vienna, Austria, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society1 April 1872
MC/9/360Letter from Otto Meyer, Librarian of the University of Rostock, Rostock, Mecklenburg, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London5 April 1872
MC/9/383Letter from W H [William Hallowes] Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to the Royal Society3 June 1872
MC/9/452Letter from Nevil S [Story] Maskelyne, British Museum, to [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]16 December 1872
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10/69Letter from A [Adolf] Erman, Berlin, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society4 February 1874
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
PT/60/8Paper, 'On the mathematical theory of sound' by Rev S [Samuel] Earnshaw[1858]
RR/3/134Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Researches on the cinchona alkaloids' by William Bird Herapath27 April 1858
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/2/255Second referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a general law of density in saturated vapours' by John James Waterston21 June 1852
MS/257/3/140Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine11 May 1873
MS/257/3/141Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine19th century
MS/257/3/137Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine9 August 1871
MS/257/3/135Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine20 November 1869
MS/257/3/138Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine7 November 1871
MS/257/3/139Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine27 November 1871
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
MS/257/3/136Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge to Edward Sabine7 May 1870
RR/2/257Report enclosed with third referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a general law of density in saturated vapours' by John James Waterston19 April 1853
RR/1bis/29Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper [attributed] 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London, and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the Moon's declination' by Luke Howard2 April 1841
RR/2/78Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On osmotic force' by Thomas Graham11 October 1854
RR/2/97Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Further researches into the properties of the sulphate of lodo-quinine or Herapathite, more especially in regard to its crystallography, with additional facts concerning its optical relations' by William Bird Herapath21 April 1854
RR/3/200Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the construction of the new imperial standard pound, and its copies of platinum ; and
on the comparison of the imperial standard pound with the kilogramme des archives' by William Hallowes Miller		25 June 1856
RR/4/33Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the expansion of metals and alloys' by Frederick Crace Calvert and G C Lowe28 March 1860
RR/4/179Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the effect of the presence of metals and metalloids upon the electric conducting power of pure copper' by Augustus Matthiessen23 May 1860
RR/5/258Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'An account of experiments on the change of the elastic force of a constant volume of atmospheric air, between 32° F. and 212° F., and also on the temperature of the melting-point of mercury' by Balfour Stewart3 July 1863
RR/7/61Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a searcher for aplanatic images applied to microscopes, and its effects in increasing power and improving definition' by George Royston Pigott27 May 1870
RR/7/137Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Records of the magnetic phenomena at the Kew observatory - No. IV. Analysis of the principal disturbances shown by the horizontal and vertical force magne­tometers of the Kew Observatory, from 1859 to 1864' by Edward Sabine12 July 1871
RR/7/229Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, Austria, Spain, United States, Cape of Good Hope, and of a second Russian standard, made at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. With a preface and notes on the Greek and Egyptian measures of length by Sir Henry James' by Alexander Ross Clarke25 June 1873
RR/7/491Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the expansion of sea-water by heat' by Thomas Edward Thorpe and Arthur William Rücker1876
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
HSF/1/2/57Letter from W H [William Hallowes] Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to Sir John [Frederick William] Herschel24 February 1868
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