| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1955/01 | Bates, Sir David Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000290 | Bates, Sir David Robert | 1970 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8726 | Bates, Sir David Robert | c 1960 |
| RR/70/20 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere II. The theory of recombination in the ionized layers' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | 14 March 1947 |
| RR/69/17 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere. I' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | 17 December 1945 |
| RR/71/30 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The emission of the negative system of nitrogen from the upper atmosphere and the significance of the twilight flash in the theory of the ionosphere' by David Robert Bates | 16 October 1948 |
| RR/69/16 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The quantal calculation of the photo-ionization cross-section of atomic potassium' by David Robert Bates | March 1946 |
| RR/71/29 | Referee's report by Alfred Gordon Gaydon, on a paper 'The emission of the negative system of nitrogen from the upper atmosphere and the significance of the twilight flash in the theory of the ionosphere' by David Robert Bates | [1948] |
| RR/71/31 | Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The calculation of the absolute strengths of spectral lines' by David Robert Bates and Agnete Damgaard | [1948] |
| RR/71/28 | Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The intensity distribution in the nitrogen band systems emitted from the earth’s upper atmosphere' by David Robert Bates | [1948] |
| RR/71/27 | Referee's report by Alfred Gordon Gaydon, on a paper 'The intensity distribution in the nitrogen band systems emitted from the earth’s upper atmosphere' by David Robert Bates | [1948] |
| RR/67/15 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'Exchange effects in the theory of the continuous absorption of light' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | September 1940 |
| RR/65/179 | Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'Dissociation, recombination and attachment processes in the upper atmosphere II. The rate of recombination' by Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, David Robert Bates, R A Buckingham and J J Unwin | October 1938 |
| RR/68/7 | Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'The negative ions of atomic and molecular oxygen' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | 31 December 1941 |
| RR/68/8 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The negative ions of atomic and molecular oxygen' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | [1941] |
| RR/71/32 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The calculation of the absolute strengths of spectral lines' by David Robert Bates and Agnete Damgaard | [1948] |
| RR/73/12 | Referee's report by Paul Dirac, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. II. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - Comparison with experiment' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | 1950 |
| RR/73/10 | Referee's report by Paul Dirac, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. I. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - General theory' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | 1950 |
| RR/77/106 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'Inelastic collisions between atoms. I. General theoretical considerations' by David Roberts Bates, Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey and A L Stewart | 13 June 1952 |
| RR/73/9 | Referee's report by Robert Ernest Davies, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. I. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - General theory' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | [March 1950] |
| RR/79/62 | Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'Wave functions of the hydrogen molecular ion' by David Robert Bates, Kathleen Ledsham and A L Stewart | 8 April 1953 |
| RR/79/61 | Referee's report by Charles Alfred Coulson, on a paper 'Wave functions of the hydrogen molecular ion' by David Robert Bates, Kathleen Ledsham and A L Stewart | 28 March 1953 |
| RR/73/11 | Referee's report by Robert Ernest Davies, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. II. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - Comparison with experiment' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | [March 1950] |
| MDA/N/1/26 | Correspondence between David Robert Bates and the Royal Society | 21 March 1955-4 August 1961 |