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Authorised form of nameThomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist
Dates1856 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCheetham Hill, near Manchester, Cheshire, England
Date of birth18 December 1856
Place of deathCambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Date of death30/08/1940
Dates and placesBurial:
Nave, Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Occupationphysicist
Research fieldElectricity
Atomic physics
Physics
ActivityEducation:
Owen's College, Manchester; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1880)
Career:
Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge (1883); Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution, London; Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge (1884-1918); Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1918); died after suffering from senile decay (1940).
Medals and prizes:
Smith's Prize 1880
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1906
Elliott Cresson Medal 1910
Albert Medal 1915
Franklin Medal 1922
Faraday Medal 1925
Dalton Medal 1931
Honours:
Kt 1908; OM 1912
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
Age at election28
ProposerHenry Enfield Roscoe
William Davidson Niven
Arthur Schuster
Balfour Stewart
William Thomson
Rayleigh [John William Strutt]
Edward John Routh
John Couch Adams
Arthur Cayley
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
PRS 1915-1920; VP 1911-1913
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1894; Hughes Medal 1902; Copley Medal 1914
Lectures:
Bakerian 1887, 1913
RelationshipsParents: Joseph James Thomson (d. 1873), antiquarian bookseller, and Emma Swindells (d. 1901), of the local Vernon family.
Siblings: Frederick Vernon Thomson
Spouse: Rose Elzabeth, daughter of Sir George Paget (FRS 1873).
Children: Sir George Paget Thomson (FRS 1930) and Joan Paget Thomson.
Published worksRCN 21878
RCN 21879
RCN 21880
General contextDiscovered the electron and isotopes.
Coined the terms 'delta ray' and 'epsilon radiation'.
Remembered for the plum pudding model (to describe atom structure); Thomson scattering; Thomson problem; the Gibbs–Thomson equation.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Anniversary Address 1920 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A 98 1920-21 pp319-328
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 74/4/80; NCUACS 91/4/00; NCUACS 117/3/03. Papers deposited in Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 587-609, plate, by Rayleigh
References:
George and Joan Thomson, 'J J Thomson as We Remember Him' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 201-210, plate
Derek J Price, 'The Cavendish Laboratory Archives' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 139-147
C T R Wilson, 'Reminiscences of My Early Years' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 163-173
Sir George Thomson, 'An Unfortunate Experiment: Hertz and the Nature of Cathode Rays' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 237-242
John G Jenkin, 'The Appointment of W H Bragg, FRS, to the University of Adelaide' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 75-99
S Devons, 'Rutherford and the Science of His Day' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 221-242
Gordon Squires, 'A History of the Electron', review of Per F. Dahl, Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of J J Thomson's Electron in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 176-177
Sir Brian Pippard, 'Stumbling Towards the Light', review of E A Davis and I J Falconer, J J Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 375-376
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
P Harper, 'Preserving scientific archives: the work of NCUACS' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 227-232
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/7472229
Royal Society codeNA8288
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MS/928/6/2/10Note from Joseph John Thomson, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys24 May 1921
NLB/18/727Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J J Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1899
MM/17/45Letter from JJ Thomson to Arthur Schuster13 December 1915
EC/1884/19Thomson, Sir Joseph John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/9/39Letter from JJ Thomson, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, to AW Porter5 January 1933
IM/004428Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Thomson, Sir Joseph John1898
MM/9/23Letter from JJ Thomson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to AW Porter18 February 1898
PB/1/21Photocopies of letters of biographical interest. The originals are held by Lady Blackett. Some other photcopies have been distributed to the appropriate folders (see A.11, A.14, A.17, A.24, A.34)
CMB/36/31Minutes, meeting of the War Committee6 December 1917
PP/14/13/1Manuscript, 'The specific resistance of sulphur and other properties' by James Monckman1888
CMB/36/30Minutes, meeting of the War Committee30 November 1917
CMB/36/37Minutes, meeting of the War Committee28 February 1918
NLB/66/32Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS12 February 1924
IM/004554Thomson, Sir Joseph Johnnd
P/0131Portrait of Thomson, Sir Joseph1922
NLB/27/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society23 October 1903
NLB/7/500Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society3 March 1893
NLB/57/145Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia29 July 1919
NLB/1/611Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Jospeh John Thomson6 October 1887
NLB/2/321Copy letter from Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1888
NLB/4/670Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society 18 September 1890
NLB/3/223Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson12 April 1889
NLB/3/301Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1889
NLB/3/709Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1889
NLB/3/717Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge25 September 1889
NLB/5/408Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1891
NLB/5/460Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1891
NLB/5/421Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph James Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1891
NLB/5/451Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]13 June 1891
NLB/5/535Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1891
NLB/5/616Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Hugo Müller, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1891
NLB/7/550Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary, Clarendon Press, Oxford10 March 1893
NLB/22/354Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1901
NLB/7/629Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson25 March 1893
NLB/5/860Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society6 November 1891
NLB/5/818Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1891
NLB/7/557Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to P Lyttelton Gell, The Clarendon Press, Oxford13 March 1893
NLB/5/933Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1891
NLB/10/404Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1894
NLB/10/260Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Right Honourable General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby1 November 1894
NLB/10/332Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1894
NLB/10/533Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson12 December 1894
NLB/11/529Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings17 July 1895
NLB/10/623Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thompson4 January 1895
NLB/11/561Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 July 1895
NLB/10/557Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]18 December 1894
NLB/9/506Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1894
NLB/11/485Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society12 July 1895
NLB/11/646Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons24 August 1895
NLB/11/633Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society20 August 1895
NLB/11/878Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]25 October 1895
NLB/9/966Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1894
NLB/13/392Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society, Foley Arms Hotel, Malvern14 August 1896
NLB/13/325Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Francis Landey Patton, President, Princeton University, New Jersey, United States of America24 July 1896
NLB/12/567Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1896
NLB/13/409Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge22 August 1896
NLB/12/864Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society21 May 1896
NLB/14/211Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 January 1897
NLB/14/151Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]13 January 1897
NLB/14/210Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society22 January 1897
NLB/58/118Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society16 March 1920
NLB/14/264Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society5 February 1897
RR/15/237Referee's report by Joseph Johnson Thomson, on a paper 'The action of magnetised electrodes upon electrical discharge phenomena in rarefied gases' by C E S PhillipsApril 1901
NLB/14/459Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Galzebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1897
NLB/27/134Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 July 1903
NLB/15/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1897
NLB/16/150Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to R T Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 February 1898
NLB/16/27Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [Prof G H] Darwin 14 January 1898
NLB/18/554Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J J Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society29 March 1899
NLB/16/297Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J J Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society9 March 1898
NLB/17/446Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society3 November 1898
NLB/16/860Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society (Chairman of the Mathematical Committee)22 June 1898
NLB/17/782Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1898
NLB/19/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professors Joseph John Thomson and Professor Arthur Schuster, [Fellows of the Royal Society]2 August 1899
NLB/18/580Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George] Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1899
NLB/18/614Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J J Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society11 April 1899
NLB/19/445Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society5 October 1899
NLB/19/817Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society3 January 1900
NLB/20/202Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1900
NLB/18/641Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Arthur William] Rucker, Secretary of the Royal Society14 April 1899
NLB/20/201Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society, Prince Mansions, 70 Victoria Street,S.W. 22 February 1900
NLB/20/703Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1900
NLB/20/701Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1900
NLB/21/3Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office,S.W.14 July 1900
NLB/21/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University of London, South Kensington, S.W.16 July 1900
NLB/22/261Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society1 April 1901
NLB/21/206Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society27 September 1900
NLB/23/2/253Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Deputy Master, Royal Mint, E.6 November 1902
NLB/22/529Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1901
NLB/23/2/260Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society6 November 1902
NLB/23/2/151Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1901
NLB/23/1/266Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society18 October 1901
NLB/23/1/583Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society7 December 1901
NLB/54/107Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Tylor, [Wife of Sir Edward Burnet Tylor, FRS]6 February 1917
NLB/54/111Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Chauveau, [Wife of Professor Jean Baptiste Auguste Chauveau, FRS]7 February 1917
NLB/25/713Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1902
NLB/54/106Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Worthington, [Wife of Professor Arthur Mason Worthington, FRS]7 February 1917
NLB/54/108Copy letter from Joesph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Oliver, [Wife of Professor Daniel Oliver, FRS]6 February 1917
NLB/23/2/380Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society22 October 1903
NLB/27/664Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thompson, Fellow of the Royal Society11 November 1903
NLB/32/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1905
NLB/32/137Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1906
NLB/33/683Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1906
NLB/36/386Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society23 October 1907
NLB/37/488Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor Wm [William] Hicks, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physics & Chemistry Sectional Committee27 March 1908
NLB/42/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor Sir J [Joseph] J [John] Thomson FRS 21 April 1910
NLB/42/113Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Joseph Thomson FRS 6 April 1910
NLB/44/184Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor Sir J [Joseph] J [John] Thomson FRS23 May 1911
NLB/46/585Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society30 September 1912
NLB/44/185Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor Sir J [Joseph] J [John] Thomson FRS23 May 1911
NLB/43/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1911
NLB/48/104Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 May 1913
NLB/58/924Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society5 July 1920
NLB/46/310Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1912
NLB/58/142Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society18 March 1920
NLB/48/703Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society29 September 1913
NLB/48/139Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]24 May 1913
NLB/48/39Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [John] Joseph Thomson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]30 April 1913
NLB/48/97Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 May 1913
NLB/48/324Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1913
NLB/48/155Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1913
NLB/47/27Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor Sir J [Joseph] J [John] Thomson OM, FRS15 November 1912
NLB/47/10Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor Sir J [Joseph] J [John] Thomson OM, FRS13 November 1912
NLB/51/93Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Joseph John Thomson OM, FRS11 December 1914
NLB/50/200Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society22 May 1914
NLB/57/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Constable & Co Ltd; 10 Orange Street, WC 228 January 1920
NLB/54/633Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society9 July 1917
MC/29/259Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]25 November 1914
NLB/52/662Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society8 February 1916
NLB/50/803Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, to Sir Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1914
NLB/52/652Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Miss Roscoe, Daughter of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe3 February 1916
NLB/52/182Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor Joseph John Thomson, FRS7 October 1915
NLB/53/134Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., PRS5 May 1916
NLB/54/555Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society18 June 1917
NLB/55/833Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS14 October 1918
NLB/54/224Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Dukinfield Henry] Scott, FRSUndated
NLB/52/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society21 December 1915
NLB/52/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS18 January 1916
NLB/54/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society25 June 1917
NLB/53/541Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to [Mrs. Ramsay]25 October 1916
NLB/54/223Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Henry] Young, FRS7 March 1917
NLB/52/539Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society10 January 1916
NLB/53/203aCopy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lady Ramsay25 May 1916
NLB/52/757Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Lady Markham, Wife of Sir Clements Robert Markham21 February 1916
NLB/59/563Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society19 October 1920
NLB/58/362Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society26 April 1920
NLB/52/506Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society4 January 1916
NLB/55/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS09 March 1918
NLB/54/120Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society13 February 1917
NLB/54/109Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Reid, [Wife of Mr. Clement Reid, FRS]6 February 1917
NLB/54/105Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs [Pusima] Meldola 8 February 1917
NLB/53/542Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to [Mrs. Keith Lucas]25 October 1916
NLB/53/567Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Mrs. Gay, The Manor House, Wickmere, Norwich30 October 1916
RR/22/81Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Ionisation potentials of mercury, cadmium, and zinc, and the single- and many-lined spectra of these elements' by John Cunningham McLennan and J P HendersonJune 1915
NLB/53/634Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to The Chairman of the Committee of the Privvy Council responsible for the expenditure of any moneys provided by Parliment for scientific and industrial research10 November 1916
NLB/54/599Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to K. B. C. Bennett Esquire2 July 1917
NLB/60/49Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS4 December 1920
NLB/54/474Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society21 May 1917
NLB/53/288Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Mrs. Thompson29 June 1916
NLB/54/578Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society25 June 1917
NLB/54/837Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society15 October 1917
NLB/60/50Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS6 December 1920
NLB/55/112Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., PRS07 December 1917
NLB/57/139Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A Compton Esq; Drayton House, 40 Claricade Gardens, W229 July 1919
NLB/53/203Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir William Crookes, O.M., FRS25 May 1916
NLB/53/539Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to unknown correspondent25 October 1916
NLB/54/649Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society13 July 1917
NLB/58/476Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society11 May 1920
NLB/54/525Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society11 June 1917
NLB/54/758Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society12 September 1917
NLB/54/811Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society9 October 1917
NLB/53/47Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Mrs. [Jeane] Judd23 March 1916
NLB/54/848Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society19 October 1917
NLB/56/127Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society27 November 1918
NLB/59/481Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society6 October 1920
NLB/56/370Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society24 January 1919
RR/10/371Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the heating effects of electric currents' by William Henry Preece1 July 1890
NLB/56/241Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society20 December 1918
NLB/55/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., President of the Royal Society26 April 1918
RR/9/89Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the vibrations of a vortex ring, and the action upon each other of two vortices in a perfect fluid' by Joseph John Thomson1882
NLB/56/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society23 May 1919
NLB/56/466Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society17 February 1919
NLB/56/391Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society29 January 1919
RR/9/314Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson10 February 1885
RR/11/87Letter from Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson10 July 1891
NLB/56/570Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of His Majesty's Treasury13 March 1919
RR/9/263Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The force function in crystals' by Alfred Einhorn12 February 1884
NLB/53/540Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to unknown correspondent25 October 1916
RR/11/88Letter from Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson24 August 1891
RR/9/326Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the sympathetic vibrations of jets' by Chichester A Bell6 July 1886
MS/929/1/216Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, FRS, Golmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to James Mackenzie Davidson19 February 1918
NLB/53/628Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS10 November 1916
NLB/57/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr John Horne, FRS11 October 1919
RR/9/315Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson3 April 1885
RR/13/197Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the relation between magnetic stress and magnetic deformation in nickel' by E Taylor Jones8 February 1897
NLB/57/484Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS14 November 1919
NLB/56/637Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Robert] Greville3 April 1919
NLB/56/777Copy letter from Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Robert] Greville22 May 1919
RR/10/96Referee's report by Herbert McLeod, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the dissociation of some gases by the electric discharge' by Joseph John Thomson24 June 1887
NLB/56/790Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society26 May 1919
RR/10/55Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On ellipsoidal current-sheets' by Horace Lamb29 March 1887
NLB/58/675Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Flight-Commander Greg; South Acre, Cambridge4 June 1920
NLB/58/824Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society23 June 1920
MS/929/1/215Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, FRS, Golmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to James Mackenzie Davidson23 November 1913
NLB/58/933Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society6 July 1920
NLB/59/277Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society25 August 1920
NLB/68/159Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, OM, FRS21 May 1925
RR/13/47Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the capacity and residual charge dielectrics as affected by temperature and time' by John Hopkinson and E Wilson4 January 1897
NLB/55/231Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS28 January 1918
NLB/59/272Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society18 August 1920
NLB/59/898Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society27 November 1920
RR/10/305Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the magnetic action of displacement-currents in a dielectric' by Silvanus Phillips Thompson7 March 1889
NLB/58/731Copy letter from [Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society12 June 1920
NLB/58/277Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society14 April 1920
NLB/58/254Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society12 April 1920
NLB/58/162Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society22 March 1920
RR/11/127Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the collision of elastic bodies' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury13 February 1892
RR/11/52Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the forces, stresses, and fluxes of energy in the electromagnetic field' by Oliver Heaviside24 October 1891
NLB/63/247Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 25 July 1922
RR/10/92Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'Some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena.—Part II' by Joseph John Thomson15 April 1887
NLB/58/909Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society2 July 1920
NLB/55/759Copy letter from [Dr.] Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Joseph John] Thomson, O.M., PRS06 September 1918
NLB/57/859Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to CF Gifford Esq; Solicitor's Department, HM Treasury, Storey's Gate, SW 125 February 1920
NLB/57/140Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to SS Buckman Esq.29 July 1919
NLB/58/674Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Flight-Commander Greg; South Acre, Cambridge4 June 1920
NLB/57/562Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Manager, Lloyds Bank 5 December 1919
NLB/58/735Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society14 June 1920
NLB/57/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, the Faraday Society11 November 1919
NLB/60/501Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS17 February 1921
RR/12/227Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On some phenomena in vacuum-tubes' by David Salomons4 February 1894
NLB/58/804Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society21 June 1920
NLB/57/585Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Institution of Naval Architecture9 December 1919
NLB/55/392Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS19 March 1918
NLB/59/684Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society2 November 1920
NLB/59/718Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society5 November 1920
NLB/59/599Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society23 October 1920
NLB/59/868Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society24 November 1920
NLB/59/129Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society19 July 1920
NLB/59/113Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society17 July 1920
NLB/59/345Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society22 September 1920
NLB/59/229Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society28 July 1920
NLB/59/340Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society22 September 1920
NLB/57/17Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to W [Walter] Alison Phillips Esq2 July 1919
NLB/59/243Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society30 July 1920
NLB/59/585Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society22 October 1920
NLB/60/666Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS11 March 1921
NLB/57/452Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to JH [Sir James Hopwood] Jeans, FRS6 November 1919
RR/13/204Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Electrification of air, of vapour of water, and of other gases' by William Thomson, Magnus Maclean and Alexander Galt1 November 1897
NLB/60/115Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, FRS10 November 1920
MC/34/165Letter from Roger T. Smith, Rickmanswroth, Herts, to The Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House9 February 1919
NLB/59/836Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society19 November 1920
RR/14/280Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Impact with a liquid surface studied by the aid of instantaneous photography. Paper II' by Arthur Mason Worthington and R S Colend [May 1899]
NLB/60/499Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS16 February 1921
NLB/60/628Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, FRS; to Dr. P. Giles, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge3 March 1921
NLB/60/205Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS22 December 1920
RR/17/364Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The effect of hydrogen on the discharge of negative electricity from hot platinum' by Harold Albert Wilson16 March 1908
NLB/60/711Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS; Trinity Lodge, Cambridge18 March 1921
NLB/60/638Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS8 March 1921
NLB/57/378Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr S [Sydney] Chapman, FRS29 October 1919
NLB/60/147Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS15 December 1920
NLB/57/385Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, The Admiralty 29 October 1919
RR/14/191Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The piscian stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer29 December 1899
RR/14/240Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the least potential difference required to produce discharge through various gases' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh21 October 1899
NLB/55/525Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., FRS16 May 1918
RR/9/191Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'On the determination of the number of electrostatic units in the electromagnetic unit of electricity' by Joseph John Thomson2 October 1882
RR/10/142Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of a swarm of meteorites, and on theories of cosmogony' by George Howard Darwin28 March 1888
RR/15/111Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a papet 'The conductivity of gases under the becquerel rays' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJanuary 1901
NLB/57/600Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to WM How, Esq, Bailiff & Bursar of Schrewsbury [sic] School15 December 1919
NLB/57/141Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to FN Williams Esq29 July 1919
NLB/55/630Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs. Sollas02 July 1918
NLB/57/598Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr SF [Sidney Frederic] Harmer, FRS13 December 1919
NLB/57/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies3 February 1920
NLB/57/136Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ronald Ross, FRS, KCB29 July 1919
NLB/57/163Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Arthur Latham, Esq, MA MD31 July 1919
NLB/57/33Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, PRS, OM7 July 1919
NLB/57/528Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society, OM24 November 1919
NLB/57/434Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WM [William Maddock] Bayliss, FRS6 November 1919
NLB/57/382Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Air Ministry, Kingsway, WC229 October 1919
NLB/57/388Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Great George Street, SW130 October 1919
NLB/57/604Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies15 December 1919
NLB/57/138Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to WR Fearon Esq; Emmanuel College, Cambridge29 July 1919
NLB/57/40Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, PRS8 July 1919
NLB/57/147Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to GHF [George Henry Falkiner ] Nuttall, FRS29 July 1919
NLB/57/124Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, MP26 July 1919
NLB/57/430Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Charles Chree, FRS6 November 1919
NLB/57/429Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major PA [Percy Alexander] MacMahon, FRS6 November 1919
NLB/57/432Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor PF [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS6 November 1919
NLB/57/642Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, HM [His Majesty's] Treasury2 January [1920]
NLB/57/383Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor BD [Bertram Dillon] Steele, FRS29 October 1919
NLB/57/346Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, OM, President of the Royal Society; to the Agent, the Bank of England; Western Branch, Burlington Gardens W23 October 1919
NLB/55/589Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Sir William Crookes, FRS21 June 1918
NLB/57/389Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to TE Pickles Esq, Publications Department; HM [His Majesty's] Stationery Office, Westminster, SW 130 October 1919
NLB/57/460Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to CT [Charles Thomas] Heycock Esq, FRS11 November 1919
NLB/57/438Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society, OM 7 November 1919
NLB/55/543Copy letter from Miss Maud K. Jukes, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS25 May 1918
NLB/57/692Copy letter from Sir David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Messrs Coutts & CoJanuary 1920
NLB/57/527Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society, OM25 November 1919
NLB/57/539Copy letter from [Sir Alfred Bray Kempe], Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS29 November 1919
NLB/55/544Copy letter from Miss Maud K. Jukes, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS25 May 1918
NLB/55/697Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS23 July 1918
NLB/57/576Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers9 December 1919
NLB/57/606Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS15 December 1919
NLB/57/605Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Clerk, Trustees of the London Parochial Charities15 December 1919
NLB/57/615Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, President of the Royal Society, OM15 December 1919
NLB/57/678Copy letter from TE James, Clerk of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Midland Railway Co. Derby12 January 1920
NLB/55/767Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, PRS14 September 1918
NLB/57/724Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Amalgamated Press Ltd; the Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, EC 420 January 1920
NLB/57/749Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Vice Chancellor, Cambridge University [Dr Peter Giles]30 January 1920
NLB/57/721Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to GH Thomson Esq.; Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne28 January 1920
NLB/57/601Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Threlfall, FRS15 December 1919
NLB/57/593Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director [Sir Joseph Ernest Petavel, FRS, KBE], the National Physical Laboratory12 December 1919
NLB/57/607Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, the Air Ministry15 December 1919
NLB/57/602Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS, GCBE, ECVO13 December 1919
NLB/57/860Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Miss ME Seaton; 29 Woolstone Road, Forest Hill, SE 2325 February 1920
NLB/55/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS21 June 1918
NLB/57/882Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the News Editor, the Times26 February 1920
NLB/57/837Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, HM [His Majesty's] Treasury19 February 1920
NLB/55/770Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, O.M., PRS17 September 1918
NLB/57/461Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, International Research Council 11 November 1919
NLB/57/884Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Editor of the Times [Henry Wickham Steed]26 February 1920
NLB/55/909Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [John Joseph] Thomson, PRS16 October 1918
NLB/55New Letter Book volume 55, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration5 November 1917-1 November 1918
NLB/57/862Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr JN Pring; the University, Manchester25 February 1920
NLB/57/384Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AS [Arthur Stewart] Eve, FRS, CBE29 October 1919
NLB/57/453Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JB [Sir John Bretland] Farmer, FRS6 November 1919
NLB/63/83Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., FRS 22 June 1922
NLB/66/716Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, FRS25 June 1924
NLB/57/137Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, the Liverpool Geological Society29 July 1919
RR/13/207Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'A dynamical theory of the electric and luminiferous medium.— Part III. relations with material media' by Joseph Larmor9 June 1897
NLB/57/97Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society, OM23 July 1919
NLB/57/122Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Research Department25 July 1919
NLB/57/238Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Prain, FRS, CMG26 September 1919
NLB/57/507Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to R Sweeting Esq; 409 Chamber of Commerce Building, Rochester, NW20 November 1919
NLB/57/861Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WH [Sir William Henry] Bragg, FRS, OBE25 February 1920
NLB/57/454Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Miss Annie Foster; Pell View Wodplumpton, nr [near] Preston, Lancs [Lancashire]11 November 1919
NLB/57/431Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Keeper HM [His Majesty's] Privy Purse [Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, GCB, GCVO, PC]6 November 1919
NLB/57/776Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Egerton C Grey, Esq. D.Sc.2 February 1920
NLB/57/741Copy letter from Professor [Sir] William Abbott Herdman, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Y Delage28 January 1920
NLB/57/753Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Viscount Grey, FRS, KG [Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS]30 January 1920
NLB/57/747Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Viscount Windsor [Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth]30 January 1920
NLB/57/339Copy letter from WE Smith, Acting Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Royal Society; to the Agent, Bank of England21 October 1919
MS/928/6/3/9Letter from Joseph John Thomson, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, to Andrew Russell Forsyth7 February 1939
RR/14/238Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the nature of electrocapillary phenomena.—I. Their relation to the potential differences between solutions' by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith3 February 1899
NLB/65/159Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS28 August 1923
NLB/63/237Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS20 July 1922
NLB/65/11Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, FRS12 July 1923
NLB/68/849Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, CM, FRS12 November 1925
NLB/70/60Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, OM, FRS11 December 1926
NLB/71/184Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C. F. Pond Esq., University Press, Cambridge3 February 1928
RR/9/88Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the vibrations of a vortex ring, and the action upon each other of two vortices in a perfect fluid' by Joseph John Thomson21 March 1882
NLB/59/302Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society8 September 1920
NLB/66/717Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS25 June 1924
NLB/66/686Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS19 June 1924
NLB/3/376Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]24 May 1889
NLB/3/730Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society26 September 1889
NLB/10/257Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [the Engraver of the Mint]1 November 1894
NLB/10/624Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society4 January 1895
NLB/9/774Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1894
RR/15/275Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The application of the kinetic theory of gases to to electric, magnetic & optical properties of diatomic gases' by George Walker WalkerApril 1901
NLB/17/485Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to the members of the National Physical Laboratory Committee as nominated4 November 1898
NLB/20/622Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Cunningham McLennan, Toronto, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 June 1900
NLB/20/694Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs19 June 1900
NLB/44/412Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor Sir J [Joseph] J [John] Thomson FRS 7 July 1911
NLB/54/231Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society12 March 1917
RR/21/121Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The transmission of electric waves around the earth's surface' by Hector Munro Macdonald[January 1914]
NLB/54/333Copy letter from [Theodore] E. James, Clerk of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society13 April 1917
RR/14/57Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Researches in vortex motion.—Part III. On spiral or gyrostatic vortex aggregates' by William Mitchinson Hicks16 March 1898
NLB/56New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 November 1918-27 June 1919
NLB/56/651Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society7 April 1919
NLB/56/677Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society11 April 1919
NLB/53/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., PRS27 March 1916
RR/9/320Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter' by Herbert Tomlinson21 September 1885
NLB/48New Letter Book volume 48, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration25 April 1913-25 October 1913
RR/12/138Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Propagation of magnetization of iron as affected by the electric currents in the iron' by John Hopkinson and E Wilson30 May 1894
NLB/59/208Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society26 July 1920
NLB/59/333Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; Trinity College, Cambridge21 September 1920
RR/12/229Second referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On some phenomena in vacuum-tubes' by David Salomons12 June 1894
NLB/57/79Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to T J Rees, Esq. BA, Director of Education, County Borough of Swansea15 July 1919
NLB/57/146Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society28 July 1919
NLB/57/597Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sir Arthur] Schuster, FRS13 December 1919
NLB/57/510Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Glazebrook, FRS, CB20 November 1919
NLB/57/667Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Sir Godfrey Thomas Bart8 January 1920
NLB/57/626Copy letter from AH White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society18 December 1919
NLB/57/656Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society, FRS, IMS, CMG7 January 1920
NLB/57/538Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to His Excellency, Sr Administrator, Isle of Principe, West Africa [São Tomé]24 November 1919
RR/9/190Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'On the determination of the number of electrostatic units in the electromagnetic unit of electricity' by Joseph John Thomson18 September 1883
NLB/57/59Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, [Sir Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, KCVO] 11 July 1919
NLB/57/867Copy letter from unknown correspondent, [Secretary of the Royal Society]; to HG Maurice Esq CB26 February 1920
NLB/57/701Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society [?]; to Admiral Sir Henry B [Braderwine] Jackson, FRS, GCB20 January 1920
MM/9/22Letter from JJ Thomson, Conway, to AW Porter26 March 1896
NLB/12/897Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1896
NLB/54New Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 January 1917-2 November 1917
RR/10/48Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Some anomalies in the winds of Northern India, and their relation to the distribution of barometric pressure' by S A Hill30 April 1887
NLB/53/63Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., PRS31 March 1916
NLB/53/370Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Secretary, Reconstruction Committee, 6a Dean's Yard, S.W. 24 July 1916
RR/10/215Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the electromotive properties of the leaf of Dionæa in the excited and unexcited states.—Second paper' by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson20 July 1888
RR/12/160Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'A dynamical theory of the electric and luminiferous medium' by Joseph Larmor5 February 1894
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
NLB/60New Letter Book volume 60, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration2 December 1920-26 April 1921
NLB/57/245Copy letter from Sir Alfred Bray Kempe, FRS, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to the Agent, the Bank of England, Western Branch26 September 1919
NLB/57/347Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, OM, President of the Royal Society24 October 1919
NLB/57/541Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to his Excellency, the Brazilian Ambassador [Fontoura Xavier]29 November 1919
NLB/57/799Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary HM [His Majesty's] Treasury9 February 1920
NLB/64/712Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh7 June 1923
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/9/189Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the determination of the number of electrostatic units in the electromagnetic unit of electricity' by Joseph John Thomson14 August 1883
RR/9/301Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the connexion between electric current and the electric and magnetic inductions in the surrounding field' by John Henry Poynting17 July 1885
NLB/20/162Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Sir Richard Strachey, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Meteorological Council19 February 1900
RR/10/95Second referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'Some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena.—Part II' by Joseph John Thomson17 June 1887
RR/12/90Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the ascent of sap' by Henry Horatio Dixon and John Joly20 February 1895
RR/14/3Letter from Joseph John Thomson, to George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper [attributed] 'Tables for the solution of the equation d2y/dx2 + 1/x · dy/dx - (1 + n2/x2) y = 0' by W Steadman Aldis3 August 1898
RR/14/41Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'An extension of Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light to include dispersion, metallic reflection, and allied phenomena' by Edwin Edser7 March 1898
MC/13/57Letter from J J [Joseph John] Thomson, Trinity College Cambridge, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society10 June 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
AP/75/12Unpublished paper, 'On the theory of refraction in gases' by George W [Walker] Walker1903
AP/65/2Unpublished paper, 'On aeolotropic [anisotropic] elastic solids' by C [Charles] Chree1888
RR/12/388Third referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On some phenomena in vacuum-tubes, No. 2 and 3' by David Salomons17 December 1894
AP/73/7Unpublished paper, 'On a new method of determining the vapour pressures of solutions' by E B H [Edward Bruce Herschel] Wade1897
RR/13/55Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The measurement of high potential difference' by H C Leake, R Leventhorpe and C S Whitehead9 January 1896
RR/29/41Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Some experiments on the proportionality of mass and weight' by Harold H PotterAugust 1923
PP/7/22/1Manuscript, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall1885
PP/7/2Paper, 'The vortex ring theory of gases. On the law of the distribution of energy among the molecules' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson1885
PP/7/22Paper, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall1885
PP/7/22/2Figures, a drop of ink falling into water by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall1885
PP/8/23/1Manuscript, 'Some experiments on the production of ozone' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and R [Richard] Threlfall1886
PP/8/23Paper, 'Some experiments on the production of ozone' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and R [Richard] Threlfall1886
PP/8/22/2Figures, experimental equipment by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and R [Richard] Threlfall1886
PP/10/52Paper, 'On the rate at which electricity leaks through liquids which are bad conductors of electricity' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1887
PP/10/52/1Manuscript, 'On the rate at which electricity leaks through liquids which are bad conductors of electricity' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1887
PP/11/2Paper, 'Conduction of heat in liquids' by C [Charles] Chree1887
PP/10/52/2Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1887
PP/8/22Paper, 'On an effect produced by the passage of an electric discharge through pure nitrogen' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and R [Richard] Threlfall1886
PP/14/5Paper, 'On the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarisation of light in doubly refracting bodies' by A W Ward1889
PP/12/12Paper, 'On the effect of occluded gases on the thermo-electric properties of bodies, and on their resistances; also on the thermo-electric and other properties of graphite and carbon' by James Monckman1888
PP/14/1Paper, 'Note on the effect produced by conductors in the neighbourhood of a wire on the rate of propagation of electrical disturbances along it, with a determination of this rate' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson1889
PP/14/13Paper, 'The specific resistance of sulphur and other properties' by James Monckman1888
PP/18/11Paper, 'On a compensated air thermometer' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar1891
PP/17/24Paper, 'On the effect of temperature upon the refractive index of certain liquids' by W Cassie1891
PP/23/24Paper, 'Thermo-electric properties of salt solutions' by George Frederick Emery1894
PP/21/5/1Manuscript, 'The electrolysis of steam' by Joseph John Thomson1893
PP/20/9/1Manuscript, 'On the potential difference required to produce a spark between two parallel plates in air at different pressures' by J B Peace1892
PP/17/39Paper, 'On the theory of electrodynamics' by Joseph Larmor1891
PP/20/5Paper, 'On the theory of electrodynamics, as affected by the nature of the mechanical stresses in excited dielectrics' by Joseph Larmor1892
PP/21/5Paper, 'The electrolysis of steam' by Joseph John Thomson1893
PP/20/9Paper, 'On the potential difference required to produce a spark between two parallel plates in air at different pressures' by J B Peace1892
PP/21/5/2Diagrams, experimental equipment by Joseph John Thomson1893
PP/14/36/1Manuscript, 'On the velocity of transmission through sea-water of disturbances of large amplitude caused by explosions' by Richard Threlfall and John Frederick Adair1889
PP/14/36Paper, 'On the velocity of transmission through sea-water of disturbances of large amplitude caused by explosions' by Richard Threlfall and John Frederick Adair1889
RR/12/20Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The variation of molecular surface-energy with temperature' by William Ramsay and John Shields28 April 1893
RR/15/277Second referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The application of the kinetic theory of gases to to electric, magnetic & optical properties of diatomic gases' by George Walker Walker12 December 1901
MC/33/76Letter from Buckingham Palace, to Sir Joseph Thomson, [Royal Society]13 March 1918
RR/10/93Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'Some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena.—Part II' by Joseph John Thomson6 May 1887
RR/10/94Letter from Joseph John Thomson, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena.—Part II' by Joseph John Thomson8 June 1887
RR/11/8Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset18 February 1891
RR/13/58Letter from Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The measurement of high potential difference' by H C Leake, R Leventhorpe and C S Whitehead to John Ambrose Fleming16 February 1896
RR/13/201Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the calculation of the coefficient of mutual induction of a circle and a coaxial helix, and of the electromagnetic force between a helical current and a uniform coaxial circular cylindrical current sheet' by John Viriamu Jones10 February 1898
PP/24/23/1Manuscript, 'The electric strength of mixtures of nitrogen and hydrogen' by P G Fawcett1894
PP/23/24/1Manuscript, 'Thermo-electric properties of salt solutions' by George Frederick Emery1894
PP/24/23Paper, 'The electric strength of mixtures of nitrogen and hydrogen' by P G Fawcett1894
PP/8/22/1Manuscript, 'On an effect produced by the passage of an electric discharge through pure nitrogen' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and R [Richard] Threlfall1886
PP/8/23/2Diagram, experimental equipment by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and R [Richard] Threlfall1886
PP/12/12/1Manuscript, 'On the effect of occluded gases on the thermo-electric properties of bodies, and on their resistances; also on the thermo-electric and other properties of graphite and carbon' by James Monckman1888
PP/17/5Paper, 'On the rate of propagation of the luminous discharge of electricity through a rarefied gas' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson[1890-1891]
RR/13/152Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'Experimental proof of van 't Hoff's law' by Meyer Wildermann6 July 1896
MC/19/795Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to the Royal Society13 December 1904
MC/20/427Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to the Royal Society20 January 1905
MC/28/278Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]23 May 1913
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/29/258Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society]10 November 1914
NLB/51/49Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Joseph John Thomson OM, FRS27 November 1914
MC/30/202Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Homleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]8 December 1915
MC/31/112Letter from George George A Macmillan, [Honorary Secretary], The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, St Martin's Street, London, W.C, to Sir Joseph Thomson, Holm Leigh, West Road, Cambridge10 May 1916
MC/31/136Letter from [Heike Kamerlingh] Onnes, Huize Ter Wetering, Haagweg, Leiden, to [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society of London11 May 1916
MC/31/155Letter from Mildred Power, Holly Lodge, East Moseley, Surrey, to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society, [Royal Society]30 October 1916
MC/31/212Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]21 December 1916
MC/31/211Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]24 July 1916
MC/31/111Letter from George A Macmillan, [Honorary Secretary], The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, St Martin's Street, London, W.C, to Sir Joseph Thomson, Holm Leigh, West Road, Cambridge11 April 1916
MC/31/3Letter from E.C Shoecraft, Second Secretary of Embassy, Embassy of the United States of America, London, to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, W28 November 1916
MC/32/259Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 June 1917
MC/32/260Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]21 October 1917
MC/33/174Letter from [Alfred North] Whitehead, 97 Coleherne Court, S.W.5, to Sir Joseph Thomson, [Royal Society]5 May 1918
MC/34/2Letter from G.R Agassing, 76 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., to Sir [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal SocietyMarch 1919
MC/34/5Letter from [William] Waldorf Astor, National Health Insurance Joint Committee, Buckingham Gate, London, S.W.1., to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, Royal Society, Burlington House, W.1.March 1919
MC/34/14Letter from D da Young, Brazillian Embassy, London, to Sir Joseph Thomson, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, W3 December 1919
NLB/57/624Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs Ballie Reynolds; 1 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, W 817 December 1919
MC/34/128Letter from R. Blair, Education Officer, Education Office, London County Council, Victoria Embankment, W.C.2., to The Secretary, Royal Soceity24 May 1919
NLB/60/651Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, FRS9 March 1921
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