| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1907/13 | Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/525/5/2/48 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57,58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 19 August 1915 |
| IM/003529 | Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest | nd |
| IM/003530 | Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest | nd |
| MS/525/5/3/31 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 16 November 1916 |
| MS/525/6/6/1/27 | 'Notes re anchor specifications' [by Joseph Ernest Petavel?] | January 1915 |
| MS/525/5/2/31 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 1 June 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/1/28 | 'Creeper - draft no 2': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 7 December 1914 |
| MS/525/6/4/2 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, 9 Brighton Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk | 5 December 1914 |
| MS/525/5/2/12 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 24 March 1915 |
| MS/525/5/2/37 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 1 July 1915 |
| MS/525/5/3/1 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 22 January 1916 |
| MS/525/6/11/8 | Engineering sketch for a vessel driven by centrifugal pumps, by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 27 January 1916 |
| MS/525/5/5/13 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretay, Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 13 February 1919 |
| MS/525/6/6/1/26 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 20 January 1915 |
| MS/525/6/8/10 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 22 May 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/10 | 'Re. Tidal mine', note by Joseph Ernest Petavel | [10 February 1915] |
| MS/525/6/6/2/6 | 'Tidal mine', note by Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester | 5 February 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/1 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Bertram Hopkinson, Admiralty, London | 1 February 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/9 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 10 February 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/1/29 | 'Creeper - draft no 4': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 15 December 1914 |
| MS/525/6/6/1/31 | [Creeping mine] 'Draft no 6': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Andrew Robertson | 15 December 1914 |
| MS/525/6/6/1/30 | [Creeping mine] 'Draft no 5': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Andrew Robertson | 15 December 1914 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/5 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to [Dugald] Clerk | 5 February 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/11 | 'Further suggestions for tidal mine': engineering drawing by James Ernest Petavel | 20 February 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/18 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, Lukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey | 5 March 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/25 | 'Tidal mines': drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel, C H Lander and Andrew Robertson | 11 March 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/13 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 24 February 1915 |
| MS/525/6/6/3/13 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields | 23 June 1915 |
| MS/525/6/8/1 | Joseph Ernest Petavel, The Victoria University of Manchester, to the Secretary of the Engineering Subcommittee of the Royal Society War Committee, Burlington House, London | 30 January 1915 |
| MS/525/6/11/7 | 'Notes on the propulsion of vessels by waterjets', by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 27 January 1916 |
| IM/003531 | Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest | nd |
| NLB/36/639 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 November 1907 |
| RR/15/234 | Second referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 18 February 1901 |
| RR/15/235 | Referee's report by John Joly, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | March 1901 |
| RR/17/421 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The stresses producing elastic breakdown in mild steel' by W Mason | 22 January 1910 |
| RR/16/361 | Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The pressure of explosions: experiments on solid and gaseous explosives' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 19 September 1905 |
| RR/17/187 | Committee report to Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel | 30 July 1907 |
| NLB/17/128 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 22 July 1898 |
| NLB/17/61 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 8 July 1898 |
| NLB/19/410 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney, Rathmore Lodge, Bolton Gardens South, Earl's Court, S.W. | 25 September 1899 |
| NLB/19/578 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 34 Abingdon Mansions, Kensington, W. | 3 November 1899 |
| NLB/23/2/55 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Granville House, Anson Road, Victoria Park, Manchester | 26 March 1901 |
| NLB/33/14 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The Victoria University, Manchester | 15 June 1906 |
| NLB/32/206 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, University, Manchester | 26 January 1906 |
| NLB/35/592 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society, University, Manchester | 17 June 1907 |
| NLB/35/697 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 5 July 1907 |
| NLB/37/448 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to A Stanley Fose, The Cotton Powder Co Ltd, Faversham | 20 March 1908 |
| NLB/37/178 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS | 8 February 1908 |
| NLB/43/502 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society | 30 January 1911 |
| NLB/42/127 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel | 7 April 1910 |
| NLB/41/198 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 October 1909 |
| NLB/41/649 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 January 1910 |
| NLB/44/464 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS | 14 July 1911 |
| NLB/43/326 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 December 1910 |
| NLB/44/441 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS | 11 July 1911 |
| NLB/43/681 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 March 1911 |
| NLB/60/101 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 10 December 1920 |
| NLB/48/15 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 April 1913 |
| NLB/58/337 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 22 April 1920 |
| NLB/61/493 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 12 July 1921 |
| NLB/64/7 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 19 January 1923 |
| NLB/58/400 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 30 April 1920 |
| NLB/58/128 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 17 March 1920 |
| NLB/55/79 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 27 November 1917 |
| NLB/69/164 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Petavel, K.B.E, FRS | 22 January 1926 |
| NLB/59/467 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 5 October 1920 |
| NLB/64/664 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel FRS | 29 May1923 |
| NLB/59/856 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 22 November 1920 |
| NLB/59/835 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 19 November 1920 |
| RR/14/84 | Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 7 June 1898 |
| RR/45/34 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The combustion of colloidal propellants' by A D Crow and W E Grimshaw | [August 1931] |
| RR/24/44 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Internal ballistics' by Albert George Hadcock | 29 November 1917 |
| RR/18/174 | Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'Experimental work on a new standard of light' by W A Harwood and Joseph Ernest Petavel | January 1911 |
| NLB/60/8 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 2 December 1920 |
| RR/14/224 | Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | nd [October 1899] |
| RR/14/223 | Referee's report by William de Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 25 September 1899 |
| RR/47/131 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Further history of a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and Alfred John Dawson | February 1932 |
| NLB/62/189 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 21 December 1921 |
| NLB/61/79 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 5 May 1921 |
| NLB/61/260 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 9 June 1921 |
| RR/17/183 | Referee's report by Richard Threlfall, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel | [February 1907] |
| RR/17/185 | Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel | 4 June 1907 |
| NLB/62/135 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 9 December 1921 |
| NLB/61/283 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 16 June 1921 |
| NLB/61/273 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 13 June 1921 |
| NLB/61/902 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 10 November 1921 |
| NLB/62/54 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 24 November 1921 |
| NLB/62/161 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee, Air Ministry, Kingsway, W.C.2. | 13 December 1921 |
| RR/56/13 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Ship waves: The relative efficiency of bow and stern' by Thomas Henry Havelock | [January 1935] |
| NLB/62/495 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 23 February 1922 |
| NLB/64/52 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee; Air Ministry, Kingsway | 23 January 1923 |
| NLB/63/541 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 03 November 1922 |
| NLB/64/67 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 26 January 1923 |
| NLB/57/804 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JE [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 9 February 1920 |
| NLB/57/705 | Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor J. E. [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 23 January 1920 |
| NLB/64/78 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 29 January 1923 |
| NLB/63/186 | Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 11 July 1922 |
| NLB/64/80 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 30 January 1923 |
| NLB/57/122 | Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Research Department | 25 July 1919 |
| NLB/57/267 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director, National Physical Laboratory | 30 September 1919 |
| NLB/57/754 | Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 31 January 1920 |
| NLB/57/806 | Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, KCB | 12 February 1920 |
| NLB/64/548 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 03 May 1923 |
| NLB/64/613 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 11 May 1923 |
| NLB/64/691 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel FRS. | 4 June 1923 |
| NLB/65/448 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 2 November 1923 |
| NLB/65/181 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 11 September 1923 |
| NLB/65/177 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS | 8 September 1923 |
| NLB/64/667 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Robert Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS | 29 May 1923 |
| NLB/65/680 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 6 December 1923 |
| NLB/64/626 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk FRS | 16 May 1923 |
| NLB/64/849 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director [Joseph Ernest Petavel, FRS] of the National Physical Laboratory | 29 June 1923 |
| NLB/65/123 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS | 4 August 1923 |
| NLB/64/376 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS | 23 March 1923 |
| NLB/66/136 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS. | 28 February 1924 |
| NLB/66/467 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 16 May 1924 |
| NLB/66/685 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 19 June 1924 |
| NLB/69/286 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E, FRS | 22 February 1926 |
| NLB/66/734 | Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 30 June 1924 |
| RR/29/19 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Experiments with the Hopkinson pressure bar' by J W Landon and H Quinney | May 1923 |
| NLB/69/206 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., FRS | 29 January 1926 |
| NLB/68/688 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS | 14 October 1925 |
| NLB/70/558 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, KBE, FRS | 18 May 1927 |
| NLB/72/9 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, KBE, FRS | 18 January 1929 |
| NLB/71/924 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., FRS | 7 December 1928 |
| CD/62/21 | Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Director of the National Physical Laboratory; to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 20 June 1924 |
| NLB/66/38 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS | 12 February 1924 |
| NLB/66/686 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS | 19 June 1924 |
| RR/29/44 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Calorimetry of high explosives' by Robert Robertson and William Edward Garner | May 1923 |
| MS/525/6/6/2/24 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | 11 March 1915 |
| RR/15/233 | Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | 17 February 1901 |
| NLB/54/149 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS | 19 February 1917 |
| RR/17/186 | Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson to Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel | 2 July 1907 |
| NLB/66/610 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS | 5 June 1924 |
| NLB/64/677 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS | 31 May 1923 |
| NLB/62/148 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS | 9 December 1921 |
| RR/17/184 | Referee's report by Charles Thomas Heycock, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel | [May 1907] |
| NLB/66/506 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS | 20 May 1924 |
| NLB/64 | New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 19 January 1923-11 July 1923 |
| MC/20/277 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly | 16 August 1905 |
| RR/14/85 | Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel | nd [June 1898] |
| RR/28/109 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The rate of heat transmission from the working fluid in an internal combustion engine' by A H Gibson | [March 1923] |
| RR/20/69 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram Hopkinson | 4 November 1913 |
| RR/24/34 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A graphical method of drawing trajectories for high-angle fire' by William Ernest Dalby | 17 February 1917 |
| MC/20 | Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1905 |
| MC/20/278 | Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly | 21 November 1905 |
| P/0254 | Portrait of Petavel, Joseph Ernest | 1954 |