Record

Reference numberNLB/57
Alternative reference numberNLB/57
LevelFile
TitleNew Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration
Date27 June 1919-27 February 1920
DescriptionNew Letter Book volume 57 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers, soirees and other annual routines.

Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison; Secretary, James Hopwood Jeans.

Primary recipients: Charles Chree; Coults & Company; Arthur Dendy; Few & Company; Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison & Sons; Sidney Frederic Harmer; William Abbott Herdman; Frederick Gowland Hopkins; John William Nicholson.

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 899 letters
FormatCarbon
Manuscript
Physical descriptionHalf-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. The binding is sound, but the spine is slightly affected by red rot.
DimensionsHeight 44(cm), width 29(cm).
Access statusOpen
Access conditionsCurrently not available due to conservation being carried out, expected return by Aug 2021
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
NA1735Chree; Charles (1860 - 1928); physicist1860 - 1928
NA2894Dendy; Arthur (1865 - 1925); zoologist1865 - 1925
NA8225Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935)1854 - 1935
NA6126Harmer; Sir; Sidney Frederic (1862 - 1950); zoologist1862 - 1950
NA6570Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924)1858 - 1924
NA6168Hopkins; Sir; Frederick Gowland (1861 - 1947); biochemist1861 - 1947
NA6296Nicholson; John William (1881 - 1955)1881 - 1955
NA6402Barcroft; Sir; Joseph (1872 - 1947)1872 - 1947
NA1312Adami; John George (1862 - 1926)1862 - 1926
NA591Robertson; Andrew (1883 - 1977); mechanical engineer1883 - 1977
NA7297Hopkinson; Bertram (1874 - 1918)1874 - 1918
NA5951Seward; Sir; Albert Charles (1863 - 1941)1863 - 1941
NA1076Sahni; Birbal (1891 - 1949)1891 - 1949
NA2292Haldane; John Scott (1860 - 1936)1860 - 1936
NA6969Fletcher; Sir; Lazarus (1854 - 1921)1854 - 1921
NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh1875 - 1947
NA6683Hicks; William Mitchinson (1850 - 1934)1850 - 1934
NA8288Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist1856 - 1940
NA686Moir; James Reid (1879 - 1944); archaeologist1879 - 1944
NA6611Blackman; Vernon Herbert (1872 - 1967); cytologist and plant physiologist1872 - 1967
NA6638Kempe; Sir; Alfred Bray (1849 - 1922)1849 - 1922
NA2281Ross; Sir; Ronald (1857 - 1932); malariologist1857 - 1932
NA3570Euler; Leonhard (1707 - 1783)1707 - 1783
NA1068Stirling; James (1692 - 1770)1692 - 1770
NA1571Nuttall; George Henry Falkiner (1862 - 1937); bacteriologist1862 - 1937
NA1285Gamble; Frederick William (1869 - 1926)1869 - 1926
NA930Thomson; John Millar (1849 - 1933)1849 - 1933
NA8105Armstrong; Henry Edward (1848 - 1937); chemist and educationalist1848 - 1937
NA8366Brown; Adrian John (1852 - 1919)1852 - 1919
NA8188Crookes; Sir; William (1832 - 1919); chemist and science journalist1832 - 1919
NA6503Tilden; Sir; William Augustus (1842 - 1926)1842 - 1926
NA1491Fischer; Emil Hermann (1852 - 1919)1852 - 1919
NA8209Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868 - 1939); astronomer1868 - 1939
NA869Kapteyn; Jacobus Cornelius (1851 - 1922)1851 - 1922
NA7142Shaw; Sir; William Napier (1854 - 1945); meteorologist1854 - 1945
NA6939Lyons; Sir; Henry George (1864 - 1944); geologist and museum director1864 - 1944
NA824Joly; John (1857 - 1933); geologist and physicist1857 - 1933
NA1209Crossley; Arthur William (1869 - 1927); chemist1869 - 1927
NA7844Fletcher; Sir; Walter Morley (1873 - 1933); physiologist and medical administrator1873 - 1933
NA1323Smith; Samuel Walter Johnson (1871 - 1948)1871 - 1948
NA2157Retzius; Magnus Gustaf (1842 - 1919)1842 - 1919
NA8017Sharpey-Schafer; Sir; Edward Albert (1850 - 1935)1850 - 1935
NA8247Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929); zoologist1847 - 1929
NA1716Boycott; Arthur Edwin (1877 - 1938)1877 - 1938
NA7858Bayliss; Sir; William Maddock (1860 - 1924); physiologist1860 - 1924
NA1580Douglas; Claude Gordon (1882 - 1963)1882 - 1963
NA6235Threlfall; Sir; Richard (1861 - 1932); physicist and chemical engineer1861 - 1932
NA8153Bruce; Sir; David (1855 - 1931); bacteriologist and parasitologist1855 - 1931
NA7376Huggins; Sir; William (1824 - 1910); astronomer1824 - 1910
NA773Cushny; Arthur Robertson (1866 - 1926)1866 - 1926
NA1758Dixon; Henry Horatio (1869 - 1953)1869 - 1953
NA7523Forster; Sir; Martin Onslow (1872 - 1945); chemist1872 - 1945
NA7976Garrod; Sir; Archibald Edward (1857 - 1936)1857 - 1936
NA1349Jackson; Sir; Henry Bradwardine (1855 - 1929); naval officer and developer of wireless telegraphy1855 - 1929
NA8272Pope; Sir; William Jackson (1870 - 1939); chemist1870 - 1939
NA6247Strahan; Sir; Aubrey (1852 - 1928)1852 - 1928
NA6269Beilby; Sir; George Thomas (1850 - 1924)1850 - 1924
NA1228Eve; Arthur Stewart (1862 - 1948)1862 - 1948
NA6150Oram; Sir; Henry John (1858 - 1939); naval officer1858 - 1939
NA3577Smith; Sir; Grafton Elliot (1871 - 1937); anatomist and anthropologist1871 - 1937
NA2191Littlewood; John Edensor (1885 - 1977)1885 - 1977
NA1398Goodrich; Edwin Stephen (1868 - 1946); zoologist1868 - 1946
NA8091Smith; Sir; Frank Edward (1876 - 1970)1876 - 1970
NA6252Reinold; Arnold William (1843 - 1921)1843 - 1921
NA1660Volterra; Sir; Vito (1860 - 1940)1860 - 1940
NA8239Hill; Archibald Vivian (1886 - 1977)1886 - 1977
NA1163Doncaster; Leonard (1877 - 1920)1877 - 1920
NA8192Dale; Sir; Henry Hallett (1875 - 1968); physician1875 - 1968
NA1227Barnes; Ernest William (1874 - 1953)1874 - 1953
NA1376Masterman; Arthur Thomas (1869 - 1941)1869 - 1941
NA8138Boys; Sir; Charles Vernon (1855 - 1944); physicist and inventor1855 - 1944
NA7221Smiles; Samuel (1877 - 1953)1877 - 1953
NA8278Rutherford; Ernest (1871 - 1937); Baron Rutherford of Nelson1871 - 1937
NA1431Trail; James William Helenus (1851 - 1919)1851 - 1919
NA662Bryce; Thomas Hastie (1862 - 1946)1862 - 1946
NA6790Lenox-Conyngham; Sir; Gerald Ponsonby (1866 - 1956)1866 - 1956
NA8273Prain; Sir; David (1857 - 1944); botanist1857 - 1944
NA8024Waller; Augustus Desire (1856 - 1922)1856 - 1922
NA7857Starling; Ernest Henry (1866 - 1927); physiologist1866 - 1927
NA7000Keith; Sir; Arthur (1866 - 1955); museum curator and palaeoanthropologist1866 - 1955
NA5875Elwes; Henry John (1846 - 1922)1846 - 1922
NA5502Godman; Frederick Du Cane (1834 - 1919)1834 - 1919
NA1729Newall; Hugh Frank (1857 - 1944); astrophysicist1857 - 1944
NA688Lees; Charles Herbert (1864 - 1952); physicist1864 - 1952
NA1105Turner; Herbert Hall (1861 - 1930); astronomer and seismologist1861 - 1930
NA8246Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA6169Fowler; Alfred (1868 - 1940); astrophysicist1868 - 1940
NA8118Bateson; William (1861 - 1926); biologist1861 - 1926
NA1306McBain; James William (1882 - 1953)1882 - 1953
NA8015Robertson; Muriel (1883 - 1973)1883 - 1973
NA1426Heycock; Charles Thomas (1858 - 1931); chemist1858 - 1931
NA8047Newstead; Robert (1859 - 1947)1859 - 1947
NA2213Alcock; Alfred William (1859 - 1933)1859 - 1933
NA6268Horne; John (1848 - 1928); geologist1848 - 1928
NA8228Greenhill; Sir; Alfred George (1847 - 1927)1847 - 1927
NA1322Arden-Close; Sir; Charles Frederick (1865 - 1952); surveyor and geographer1865 - 1952
NA3135Bohr; Niels Henrik David (1885 - 1962)1885 - 1962
NA1070Mond; Alfred Moritz (1868 - 1930); 1st Baron Melchett; industrialist, financier, and politician1868 - 1930
NA437Luciani; Luigi (1842 - 1919)1842 - 1919
NA7145Fleming; Sir; John Ambrose (1849 - 1945); electrical engineer and university teacher1849 - 1945
NA7970Farr; Clinton Coleridge (1866 - 1943)1866 - 1943
NA3408Hall; Basil (1788 - 1844); naval officer and author1788 - 1844
NA6654Gill; Sir; David (1843 - 1914); astronomer1843 - 1914
NA8204Dobell; Cecil Clifford (1886 - 1949)1886 - 1949
NA7129Grey; Thomas de (1843 - 1919); 6th Baron Walsingham1843 - 1919
NA6974Poulton; Sir; Edward Bagnall (1856 - 1943)1856 - 1943
NA1649Dalby; William Ernest (1862 - 1936)1862 - 1936
NA5101Griffiths; Ernest Howard (1851 - 1932)1851 - 1932
NA5612Laidlaw; Sir; Patrick Playfair (1881 - 1940)1881 - 1940
NA1474Pembrey; Marcus Seymour (1868 - 1934)1868 - 1934
NA8070Lodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940)1851 - 1940
NA8140Bragg; Sir; William Henry (1862 - 1942); physicist1862 - 1942
NA2972Mackinnon; William Alexander (1784 - 1870); politician and merchant1784 - 1870
NA8203Dixon; Harold Baily (1852 - 1930)1852 - 1930
NA6615Myers; Charles Samuel (1873 - 1946)1873 - 1946
NA2163Frankland; Percy Faraday (1858 - 1946); chemist1858 - 1946
NA8262Mott; Sir; Frederick Walker (1853 - 1926); neuropathologist and eugenicist1853 - 1926
NA6982MacMahon; Percy Alexander (1854 - 1929); mathematician1854 - 1929
NA1348Gregory; John Walter (1864 - 1932); geologist and naturalist1864 - 1932
NA1831Farmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944); botanist1865 - 1944
NA2901Masson; Sir; David Orme (1858 - 1937)1858 - 1937
NA2455Benham; Sir; William Blaxland (1860 - 1950)1860 - 1950
NA8281Sherrington; Sir; Charles Scott (1857 - 1952); physiologist1857 - 1952
NA2609Schott; George Adolphus (1868 - 1937)1868 - 1937
NA8213Einstein; Albert (1879 - 1955); theoretical physicist1879 - 1955
NA6474Bonney; Thomas George (1833 - 1923); geologist1833 - 1923
NA1328Watts; William Whitehead (1860 - 1947); geologist and educationist1860 - 1947
NA3828Leishman; Sir; William Boog (1865 - 1926); bacteriologist, pathologist, and British Army medical officer1865 - 1926
NA7978Hardy; Godfrey Harold (1877 - 1947)1877 - 1947
NA694Parsons; Sir; John Herbert (1868 - 1957); ophthalmologist and physiologist1868 - 1957
NA6427Scott; Alexander (1853 - 1947)1853 - 1947
NA1156Tennyson D'Eyncourt; Sir; Eustace Henry William (1868 - 1951); naval architect1868 - 1951
NA8002Pearson; Karl (1857 - 1936); statistician and eugenicist1857 - 1936
NA7825Clerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer1854 - 1932
NA2165Osler; Sir; William (1849 - 1919)1849 - 1919
NA6369MacBride; Ernest William (1866 - 1940); marine biologist and eugenicist1866 - 1940
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