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Authorised form of nameKnott; Cargill Gilston (1856 - 1922)
Dates1856 - 1922
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPenicuik, Midlothian, Scotland
Date of birth30 June 1856
Place of deathEdinburgh
Date of death26/10/1922
Research fieldNatural philosophy
Seismology
ActivityEducation:
DSc
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/05/1920
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP); DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1922-1923 vol 102 pp xxvii-xxviii signed by R A S
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/32860703
CodeNA767
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1920/08Knott, Cargill Gilston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/73/2/2Unpublished map, 'Japan, showing earthquake districts' by Cargill Gilston Knott1896
NLB/14/141Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Gargill Gilston Knott, 42 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh11 January 1897
NLB/14/152Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Cargill Gilston Knott13 January 1897
RR/13/52aReferee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by Cargill Gilston Knott23 November 1896
NLB/14/123Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, Secretary, Royal Society11 January 1897
NLB/14/854Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Arthur Schuster, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 May 1897
NLB/19/630Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Cargill Gilston Knott, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1899
NLB/19/250Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Cargill Gilston Knott, [Fellow of the Royal Society]19 July 1899
NLB/56/310Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS11 January 1919
RR/26/89Referee's report by Cargill Gilston Knott, on a paper 'Multenions and differential invariants. —II' by Alex McAulay[October 1921]
NLB/59/386Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS27 September 1920
RR/13/52Second referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by Cargill Gilston Knott1896
NLB/56/725Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS12 May 1919
NLB/58/41Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS4 March 1920
NLB/58/521Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS15 May 1920
NLB/58/902Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott Esquire, FRS1 July 1920
RR/13/51Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by Cargill Gilston Knott1896
RR/13/54Letter from Cargill Gilston Knott, on his paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' to the Secretary of the Royal Society7 January 1897
NLB/59/45Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS12 July 1920
NLB/60/608Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS2 March 1921
RR/13/53Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by Cargill Gilston Knott to Richard Tetley Glazebrook11 December 1896
RR/14/213Referee's report by Cargill Gilston Knott, on a paper 'On the propagation of earthquake motion to great distances' by Richard Dixon Oldhamnd [July 1899]
NLB/59/711Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS5 November 1920
RR/14/214Letter from Cargill Gilston Knott, to Arthur William Rucker, regarding a paper 'On the propagation of earthquake motion to great distances' by Richard Dixon Oldham27 July 1899
NLB/60/468Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gillston] Knott, FRS11 February 1921
NLB/60/288Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS; Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, Edinburgh13 January 1921
NLB/64/314Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinbrugh; 22 George Street, Edinburgh12 March 1923
NLB/61/705Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS14 October 1921
NLB/61/256Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS; 47 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh9 June 1921
NLB/61/553Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS26 July 1921
NLB/61/463Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS; Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, Edinburgh9 July 1921
NLB/61/371Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS24 June 1921
NLB/61/567Copy letter from [Alfred Hastings White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society]; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS3 August 1921
NLB/61/572Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS8 August 1921
NLB/62/216Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS3 January 1922
NLB/57/881Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to unknown correspondent26 February 1920
NLB/61/492Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cargill Gilston] Knott, FRS12 July 1921
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/60New Letter Book volume 60, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration2 December 1920-26 April 1921
NLB/14/82Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Cargill Gilston Knott, 42 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh24 December 1896
AP/73/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by C G [Cargill Gilston] Knott1896
AP/73/2Unpublished paper, 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by C G [Cargill Gilston] Knott1896
NLB/37/323Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Cargill] G [Gilston] Knott, The University, Edinburgh2 March 1908
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