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Authorised form of nameEwing; Sir; James Alfred (1855 - 1935)
Dates1855 - 1935
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDundee, Angus, Scotland
Date of birth27 March 1855
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death07/01/1935
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Dundee; University of Edinburgh. BSc
Career:
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan (1878-1883); Professor of Engineering, University College, Dublin (1883-1890); Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, University of Cambridge (1890-1903); Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh (1916)
Honours:
KCB 1911
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1887
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1929-1931
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1895
Lectures:
Bakerian (jointly) 1899
RelationshipsSon of Rev James Ewing of Dundee, Free Church minister.
Married: 1) (1879) Anne daughter of Thomas Blackburn Washington of Claymount, West Virginia; 2) (9 March 1911) Ellen Lina, daughter of John Hopkinson (FRS 1878) and sister of Bertram Hopkinson (FRS 1910)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 475-492, plate, by R T Glazebrook
References:
R V Jones, 'Alfred Ewing and "Room 40"' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 65-90, plate
T M Charlton, 'Professor Bertram Hopkinson, CMG, MA, BSc, FRS (1874-1918)' in NR 1974-5 vol 29 pp 101-109
Notes:
Date of death incorrect in ON.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/37695587
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Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/14/178Letter from John Perry, 13 Brunswick Square, to Sir Alfred Ewing 13 December 1890
NLB/19/779Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J H Agar Baugh16 December 1899
EC/1887/06Ewing, Sir James Alfred: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/14/177Letter from Osmond, Paris, to Sir Alfred Ewing 21 November 1890
MM/14/170Letter from JD Everett, Belfast, to Sir Alfred Ewing 22 September 1890
MM/14/165Letter from Gisbert Kapp, Wimbledon, to Sir Alfred Ewing 4 May 1890
MM/14/175Letter from G Griffith, Harrow, to Sir Alfred Ewing 7 November 1891
MM/14/166Letter from A Gray, Bangor, to Sir Alfred Ewing 10 June 1890
MM/14/176Letter from S Sekiya, Kobe, Japan, to Sir Alfred Ewing 16 November 1890
MM/14/164Letter from Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, to Alfred W Ewing6 November 1953
MM/14/180Letter from Sir William Anderson, Woolwich Arsenal, to Sir Alfred Ewing 15 December 1890
MM/14/172Anonymous letter to Sir Alfred Ewing 30 September 1890
MM/14/181Letter from SP Thompson, Chislett Road, to Sir Alfred Ewing 18 December 1890
MM/14/173Letter from EP Culverwell, Trinity College, Dublin, to Sir Alfred Ewing 8 October 1890
MM/14/174Letter from EP Culverwell, Trinity College, Dublin, to Sir Alfred Ewing 25 October 1890
MM/14/167Letter from WH Price, GPO London, to Sir Alfred Ewing 20 June 1890
MM/14/169Letter from AE Kennelley, Orange, New Jersey, to Sir Alfred Ewing 23 July 1890
MS/525/5/5/22Postcard from James Alfred Ewing, 16 Moray Place, Edinburgh, to the Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London14 February 1919
IM/006476Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Sir Dugald Clerk 1910
IM/001343Ewing, Sir James Alfrednd
IM/Maull/001340Ewing, Sir James Alfrednd
MM/14/168Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, Liverpool, to Sir Alfred Ewing 9 July 1890
NLB/25/103Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society11 August 1902
NLB/25/104Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society11 August 1902
NLB/20/780Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1900
NLB/48/368Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [James Alfred] Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1913
NLB/2/667Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden6 October 1888
NLB/6/805Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]16 July 1892
NLB/4/545Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, 3 Norwood Terrace, Dundee7 July 1890
NLB/3/557Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing12 July 1889
NLB/3/514Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society1 July 1889
NLB/7/826Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society, Langdale Lodge, Cambridge5 May 1893
NLB/5/739Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martins Lane2 October 1891
NLB/8/71Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]11 July 1893
NLB/16/225Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J A Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1898
NLB/8/115Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings18 July 1893
NLB/8/642Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company30 November 1893
NLB/8/196Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society27 July 1893
NLB/8/625Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1893
NLB/10/583Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] 31 December 1894
NLB/11/118Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1895
NLB/11/295Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1895
NLB/11/947Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Allan Wyon, 2 Langham Chambers, Portland Place, W.7 November 1895
NLB/19/284Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor James Alfred Ewing and W Rosenhain, [Fellows of the Royal Society]26 July 1899
NLB/13/30Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society[May] 1896
NLB/12/849Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor F G Baily, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh18 May 1896
RR/15/51Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on the Bakerian lecture 'The crytalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter RosenhainJuly 1900
RR/15/145Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Micro-crystalline structure of platinum' by Thomas Andrews20 November 1901
RR/15/251Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The measurement of magnetic hysteresis' by George Frederick Charles Searle and T G BedfordMay 1901
NLB/14/432Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 March 1897
NLB/14/433Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to James Alfred Ewing, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 March 1897
RR/15/349Referee's report by Henry Alexander Miers, on a paper 'Effects of strain on the crystalline structure of lead' by J C W Humphrey13 June 1902
NLB/22/144Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [James Alfred] Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society11 March 1901
NLB/18/521Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [J A] Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society25 March 1899
NLB/15/64Copy telegram from an unknown correspondent, to Dr Frankland, Professor James Alfred Ewing, Professor Fletcher, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, and Professor Raphael Meldola[17 June 1897]
RR/15/351Referee's report by Francis Henry Neville, on a paper 'Effects of strain on the crystalline structure of lead' by J C W Humphrey21 July 1902
NLB/18/820Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J A Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society19 May 1899
RR/16/326Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The elastic properties of steel at high temperatures' by Bertram Hopkinson and F Rogers8 July 1905
NLB/15/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1897
NLB/24/253Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 April 1902
NLB/19/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J H Agar Baugh20 December 1899
NLB/18/480Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society17 March 1899
NLB/18/662Copy letter from [Arthur William] Rucker, to [Professor J A] Ewing, Cambridge[18 April 1899]
NLB/25/251Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing Fellow of the Royal Society and J C W Humfrey 3 October 1902
NLB/19/491Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited, 83 Cannon Street, E.C. 14 October 1899
NLB/21/326Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain, [Fellows of the Royal Society] 1 November 1900
NLB/19/708Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society, Langdale lodge, Cambridge28 November 1899
NLB/19/698Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1899
NLB/19/781Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society18 December 1899
NLB/19/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J H Agar Baugh18 December 1899
NLB/20/627Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1900
NLB/18/821Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor J A Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society19 May 1899
NLB/21/63Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing [Fellow of the Royal Society] and Walter Rosenhain 23 July 1900
NLB/21/78Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society24 July 1900
NLB/21/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1900
NLB/22/157Copy telegram from the Royal Society, to [James Alfred] Ewing, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Engineering Laboratory, Cambridge[March 1901]
NLB/22/161Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [James Alfred] Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1901
NLB/23/1/424Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society, Langdale Lodge, Cambridge11 November 1901
NLB/23/2/289Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society, and J C W Humfrey23 January 1903
NLB/28/61Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]4 January 1904
NLB/28/176Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society, and L M Walter26 January 1904
NLB/30/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society22 March 1905
NLB/28/398Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Naval College, Greenwich28 February 1904
NLB/28/452Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Andrew Jamieson, 16 Rosslyn Terrace, Kelvinside, Glasgow8 March 1904
NLB/35/109Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society17 April 1907
PP/12/29/2Diagram, 'Section through duplex pendulum seismograph' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1888
NLB/37/671Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [James] A [Alfred] Ewing, CB, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1908
NLB/41/263Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1909
NLB/48/192Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1913
NLB/51/116Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Alfred Ewing KCB, FRS14 December 1914
NLB/52/456Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Alfred Ewing, FRS14 December 1915
RR/19/88Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'An investigation into the magnetic behavior of iron and some other metals under the oscillatory discharge from a condenser' by E W Marchant27 December 1912
RR/20/112Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Elastic hysteresis in steel' by F E Rowett16 December 1913
NLB/63/683Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS30 November 1922
NLB/55/852Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS16 October 1918
RR/28/108Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The rate of heat transmission from the working fluid in an internal combustion engine' by A H Gibson15 January 1923
NLB/56/635Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Alfred Ewing, FRS2 April 1919
RR/12/197Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On slow changes in the magnetic permeability of iron' by William M Mordey25 December 1894
RR/11/247Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the annual and semi-annual seismic periods' by Charles Davison31 July 1893
RR/29/67Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Experiments on the duration of impacts, mainly of bars with rounded ends, in elucidation of the elastic theory' by J E P Wagstaff12 January 1924
RR/8/41Referee's report by William Pole, on a paper 'On friction between surfaces moving at low speeds' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin and James Alfred Ewing14 May 1877
RR/9/137Letter from James Alfred Ewing, on his paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised or by magnetising them when twisted' to the Secretary of the Royal Society19 October 1883
RR/11/185Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Magnetic properties of pure iron' by Francis Lydall and Alfred W S Pocklington14 June 1892
RR/11/151Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the measurement of the magnetic properties of iron' by Thomas Gray14 June 1892
RR/10/153Referee's report by Shelford Bidwell, on a paper 'Magnetic qualities of nickel' by James Alfred Ewing and G C Cowan22 May 1888
RR/15/147Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The mechanism of the electric arc' by Phoebe Sarah Hertha Marks Ayrton19 June 1901
RR/12/112Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the measurement of the magnetic properties of iron' by Thomas Gray5 July 1894
RR/13/257Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Mechanical equivalent of heat' by Osborne Reynolds and W H Moorby18 March 1897
RR/13/7Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The hysteresis of iron and steel in a rotating magnetic field' by Francis Gibson Baily20 June 1896
RR/41/50Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Cleavage tests of timber' by Ernest George Coker and G P ColemanMay 1930
RR/11/251Referee's report by John Ambrose Fleming, on a paper 'Magnetic qualities of iron' by James Alfred Ewing and Helen G Klaassen8 July 1893
RR/14/151Referee's report by John Perry, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The crystalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhainnd [July 1899]
RR/27/116Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on some of the properties of steel' by Henry Reginald Arnulph MallockJanuary 1923
RR/10/151Referee's report by Shelford Bidwell, on a paper 'Magnetic qualities of nickel (supplementary paper)' by James Alfred Ewing25 July 1888
NLB/61/827Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS1 November 1921
NLB/61/38Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS29 April 1921
RR/8/293Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Grylls Adams, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing14 April 1882
RR/15/285Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The growth of megnetism in iron under alternating magnetic force' by Ernest Wilson15 March 1901
RR/14/152Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The crystalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhainnd [July 1899]
RR/21/140Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'A thermomagnetic study of the eutectoid transition point of carbon steels' by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith and J Guild31 January 1914
NLB/62/128Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS8 December 1921
NLB/55/855Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS17 October 1918
NLB/61/791Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS26 October 1921
NLB/61/267Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, FRS13 June 1921
RR/9/351Referee's report by John Perry, on a paper 'Effects of stress and magnetisation on the thermoelectric quality of iron' by James Alfred Ewing20 April 1886
RR/9/349Referee's report by John Hopkinson, on a paper 'Effects of stress and magnetisation on the thermoelectric quality of iron' by James Alfred Ewing19 March 1886
NLB/68/774Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS31 October 1925
NLB/68/778Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, KCB, FRS31 October 1925
NLB/68/691Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Longmans, Green and Co.; 39 Paternoster Row, E.C.4.16 October 1925
NLB/71/564Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, K.C.B, FRS6 July 1928
NLB/72/513Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James] Alfred Ewing, KCB, FRS22 November 1929
NLB/73/199Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Alfred Ewing, K.C.B, FRS26 February 1931
NLB/73/90Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Alfred Ewing, K.C.B., FRS26 November 1930
NLB/73/196Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A. D. C. Parsons Esq., SW119 February 1931
RR/9/264Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Experimental researches in magnetism' by James Alfred Ewing17 February 1885
MM/14/179Letter from TC Medenhall, Washington DC, to Sir Alfred Ewing 15 November 1890
MM/14/171Letter from AE Kennelley, Orange, New Jersey, to Sir Alfred Ewing 27 September 1890
IM/Maull/001341Ewing, Sir James Alfrednd
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
RR/15/301Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The minute structure of metals and other plastic solids' by George Thomas BeilbyApril 1902
NLB/11/985Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1895
NLB/1/106Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing10 April 1886
NLB/2/646Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 October 1888
NLB/11/945Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Keeper of the Privy Purse, Buckingham Palace7 November 1895
NLB/13/127Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1896
RR/15/332Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'The fracture of metals under repeated alternations of stress' by James Alfred Ewing and J C W Humfrey29 August 1902
RR/15/350Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'Effects of strain on the crystalline structure of lead' by J C W Humphrey28 June 1902
RR/16/68Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The constitution of the Copper-Tin series of alloys' by Charles Thomas Heycock and Francis Henry NevilleApril 1903
NLB/19/709Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Louis Napolean George Filon, [Fellow of the Royal Society], University College, Gower Street, W.C.28 November 1899
NLB/21/254Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [James Alfred] Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society11 October 1900
NLB/23/1/391Copy letter from Professor Arthur William Rucker, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society6 November 1901
NLB/34/755Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society5 March 1907
RR/28/121Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The effect of quenching from above the carbide temperature upon the magnetism of steel' by A A Dee12 June 1923
RR/10/154Referee's report by John Hopkinson, on a paper 'On the magnetisation of iron and other magnetic metals in very strong fields' by James Alfred Ewing and William Low11 November 1888
RR/12/91Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the whirling and vibration of shafts' by Stanley Dunkerley31 July 1893
RR/8/40Referee's report by Charles Watkins Merrifield, on a paper 'On friction between surfaces moving at low speeds' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin and James Alfred Ewing30 April 1877
RR/15/333Referee's report by Osborne Reynolds, on a paper 'The fracture of metals under repeated alternations of stress' by James Alfred Ewing and J C W Humfrey19 September 1902
RR/15/52Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on the Bakerian lecture 'The crytalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain19 July 1900
IM/001342Ewing, Sir James Alfred1922
NLB/8/79Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society12 July 1893
NLB/12/897Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1896
NLB/15/781Copy letters sent from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Michael Foster [Secretary, Royal Society]7 December 1897
NLB/23/1/564Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Bellamy Clifton, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1901
RR/9/350Letter from John Hopkinson, on a paper 'Effects of stress and magnetisation on the thermoelectric quality of iron' by James Alfred Ewing21 March 1886
RR/10/152Referee's report by John Hopkinson, on a paper 'Magnetic qualities of nickel' by James Alfred Ewing and G C Cowan15 May 1888
RR/10/155Referee's report by Shelford Bidwell, on a paper 'On the magnetisation of iron and other magnetic metals in very strong fields' by James Alfred Ewing and William Low19 November 1888
RR/10/274Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Magnetic and other physical properties of iron at a high temperature' by John Hopkinson26 April 1889
RR/8/289Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing[1881]
RR/8/294Letter from William Grylls Adams, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing4 May 1882
RR/9/18Letter from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing to the Secretary of the Royal Society20 June 1882
RR/15/294Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Experimental researches on drawn steel. - Part I. The influence of changes of temperature on magnetism. Part II. Resistivity, elasticity and density, and the temperature coefficients of resistivity and elasticity' by J R Ashworth8 February 1902
MC/11/89Letter from J A [James Alfred] Ewing, 22 India Street, Edinburgh, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]19 July 1877
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
PP/14/22/1Manuscript, 'On time lag in the magnetisation of iron' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1889
AP/61/3/3Unpublished appendix, regarding 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing11 February 1882
AP/61/3/2Unpublished figures, experimental equipment and results by James Alfred Ewing20 April 1881
RR/8/290Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing19 November 1881
AP/61/3/4Unpublished letter, regarding 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' from [George Gabriel] Stokes to unknown recipient13 November 1885
RR/9/14Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing17 March 1882
RR/9/15Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing29 March 1882
RR/10/311Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter.— Part III. Magnetic induction (continued).—The internal friction of nickel, and cobalt, studied by means of magnetic cycles of very minute range' by Herbert Tomlinson18 October 1889
AP/63/7Paper, 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised or by magnetising them when twisted' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing16 July 1881
RR/10/150Referee's report by John Hopkinson, on a paper 'Magnetic qualities of nickel (supplementary paper)' by James Alfred Ewing20 July 1888
AP/61/3/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing20 April 1881
PP/2/7/1Manuscript, 'On effects of retentiveness in the magnetisation of iron and steel (Preliminary notice)' by J A [John Alfred] Ewing7 March 1882
PP/2/7/2Diagrams, experimental results by J A [John Alfred] Ewing7 March 1882
PP/2/7/3Note, regarding 'On effects of retentiveness in the magnetisation of iron and steel (Preliminary notice)' by William Thomson3 May 1882
PP/2/7Paper, 'On effects of retentiveness in the magnetisation of iron and steel (Preliminary notice)' by J A [John Alfred] Ewing7 March 1882-3 May 1882
PP/4/7Paper, 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1882
PP/4/7/2Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1882
PP/10/26/1Manuscript, 'On the magnetisation of iron in strong fields' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing and William Low1887
PP/10/26/2Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by J A [James Alfred] Ewing and William Low1887
PP/12/29/3Diagrams, Tay Bridge vibrations by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1888
PP/14/22Paper, 'On time lag in the magnetisation of iron' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1889
PP/12/29Paper, 'Seismometric measurements of the vibration of the new Tay Bridge [Scotland] during the passing of railway trains' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1888
PP/12/29/1Manuscript, 'Seismometric measurements of the vibration of the new Tay Bridge [Scotland] during the passing of railway trains' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1888
PP/12/29/4Unpublished photograph, 'Arrangement for testing the duplex pendulum seismograph' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1888
PP/14/22/2Diagrams, experimental results by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1889
PP/16/28Paper, 'Contributions to the molecular theory of induced magnetism' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing16 June 1890
RR/10/120Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the changes produced by magnetisation in the dimensions of rings and rods of iron and of some other metals' by Shelford Bidwell20 March 1888
PP/10/26Paper, 'On the magnetisation of iron in strong fields' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing and William Low1887
RR/8/291Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to James Alfred Ewing, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing12 December 1881
RR/8/292Letter from James Alfred Ewing, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing11 February 1882
RR/9/16Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing1 May 1882
RR/9/17Letter from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing to the Secretary of the Royal Society19 June 1882
RR/9/19Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing20 June 1882
RR/26/37Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The atomic process in ferromagnetic Induction' by James Alfred Ewing[May 1921]
RR/26/38Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The atomic process in ferromagnetic Induction' by James Alfred Ewing[August 1921]
RR/26/106Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the influence of low temperatures on the magnetic properties of alloys of iron with nickel and manganese' by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Robert Abbott Hadfield and H R Woltjer22 March 1921
RR/41/51Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The yield point and initial stages of plastic strain in mild steel subjected to uniform and non-uniform stress distributions' by Gilbert Cook11 November 1930
RR/43/42Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The behaviour of a single crystal of aluminium under alternating torsional stresses while immersed in a slow stream of tap water' by Herbert John Gough and D G SopwithNovember 1931
RR/43/48Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'A research on Faraday's "steel and alloys"' by Robert Abbott Hadfield1931
PP/4/7/1Manuscript, 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1882
MC/15/91Letter from [James Alfred] Ewing, University College, Dundee, to [Herbert] Rix16 July 1890
MC/18/39Letter from [James Alfred Ewing], Admiralty, to [Joseph] Larmor9 June 1903
AP/61/3Unpublished paper, 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing1881-1885
MC/19/267Letter from [James Alfred] Ewing, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to the Royal Society6 February 1904
MC/19/269Letter from [James Alfred] Ewing, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison6 March 1904
MC/19/268Letter from [James Alfred] Ewing, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to the Royal Society9 February 1904
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