Record

Reference numberNLB/54
Alternative reference numberNLB/54
LevelFile
TitleNew Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration
Date10 January 1917-2 November 1917
DescriptionNew Letter Book volume 54 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers and other annual routines. Volume 54 also covers the subject of the First World War.

Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison.

Primary recipients: Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Dugald Clerk; William Henry Eccles; John Stanley Gardiner; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison & Sons; William Abbott Herdman; James Hopwood Jeans; Sir William Napier Shaw; Charles Scott Sherrington; 'Scientific Indust. Dept.'; Arthur Schuster; Sir Joseph John Thomson.

Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter.
Extent516p comprising 911 letters
FormatCarbon
Manuscript
Physical descriptionHalf-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding.
DimensionsHeight 44(cm), width 29(cm).
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA5307Callendar; Hugh Longbourne (1863 - 1930); physicist1863 - 1930
NA7825Clerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer1854 - 1932
NA1856Eccles; William Henry (1875 - 1966)1875 - 1966
NA1149Gardiner; John Stanley (1872 - 1946)1872 - 1946
NA8225Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935)1854 - 1935
NA6570Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924)1858 - 1924
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
NA8281Sherrington; Sir; Charles Scott (1857 - 1952); physiologist1857 - 1952
NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
NA8288Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist1856 - 1940
NA7142Shaw; Sir; William Napier (1854 - 1945); meteorologist1854 - 1945
NA6969Fletcher; Sir; Lazarus (1854 - 1921)1854 - 1921
NA6968Brown; Horace Tabberer (1848 - 1925)1848 - 1925
NA2170Hobson; Ernest William (1856 - 1933)1856 - 1933
NA8036Young; William Henry (1863 - 1942)1863 - 1942
NA8059Halliburton; William Dobinson (1860 - 1931)1860 - 1931
NA2914Head; Sir; Henry (1861 - 1940)1861 - 1940
NA7963Bower; Frederick Orpen (1855 - 1948); botanist1855 - 1948
NA8024Waller; Augustus Desire (1856 - 1922)1856 - 1922
NA2163Frankland; Percy Faraday (1858 - 1946); chemist1858 - 1946
NA1221Blackman; Frederick Frost (1866 - 1947)1866 - 1947
NA1831Farmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944); botanist1865 - 1944
NA2865Vines; Sidney Howard (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA1196Walker; George Walker (1874 - 1921)1874 - 1921
NA6247Strahan; Sir; Aubrey (1852 - 1928)1852 - 1928
NA1767Hill; James Peter (1873 - 1954)1873 - 1954
NA1423Lewis; Sir; Thomas (1881 - 1945)1881 - 1945
NA6496Allbutt; Sir; Thomas Clifford (1836 - 1925)1836 - 1925
NA5951Seward; Sir; Albert Charles (1863 - 1941)1863 - 1941
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