| Reference number | NLB/59 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/59 |
| Level | File |
| Title | New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration |
| Date | 9 July 1920-2 December 1920 |
| Description | New Letter Book volume 59 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 Secretart, Edwin Dellar; Secretary, James Hopwood Jeans.
Primary recipients: Aeronautics Committee; Henry Edward Armstrong; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison & Sons; James Hopwood Jeans; Henry George Lyons; Henry Forster Morley; Sir David Prain; 'Scientific & Indust. Res.'; Sir 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. |
| Extent | 516p comprising 938 letters |
| Format | Carbon |
| Manuscript |
| Physical description | Half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. The binding is sound, but the spine is slightly affected by red rot. |
| Dimensions | Height 44(cm), width 29(cm). |
| Access status | Open |
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |
| NA8105 | Armstrong; Henry Edward (1848 - 1937); chemist and educationalist | 1848 - 1937 |
| NA8225 | Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935) | 1854 - 1935 |
| NA6939 | Lyons; Sir; Henry George (1864 - 1944); geologist and museum director | 1864 - 1944 |
| NA8273 | Prain; Sir; David (1857 - 1944); botanist | 1857 - 1944 |
| NA6483 | Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist | 1851 - 1934 |
| NA8288 | Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist | 1856 - 1940 |
| NA5541 | Fisher; Herbert Albert Laurens (1865 - 1940) | 1865 - 1940 |
| NA8246 | Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934) | 1849 - 1934 |
| NA6269 | Beilby; Sir; George Thomas (1850 - 1924) | 1850 - 1924 |
| NA930 | Thomson; John Millar (1849 - 1933) | 1849 - 1933 |
| NA6614 | Haddon; Alfred Cort (1855 - 1940); anthropologist and ethnologist | 1855 - 1940 |
| NA6570 | Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924) | 1858 - 1924 |
| NA1716 | Boycott; Arthur Edwin (1877 - 1938) | 1877 - 1938 |
| NA1831 | Farmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944); botanist | 1865 - 1944 |
| NA6154 | Shipley; Sir; Arthur Everett (1861 - 1927); zoologist | 1861 - 1927 |
| NA1328 | Watts; William Whitehead (1860 - 1947); geologist and educationist | 1860 - 1947 |
| NA7844 | Fletcher; Sir; Walter Morley (1873 - 1933); physiologist and medical administrator | 1873 - 1933 |
| NA8209 | Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868 - 1939); astronomer | 1868 - 1939 |
| NA2214 | Rosenhain; Walter (1875 - 1934); metallurgist | 1875 - 1934 |
| NA8002 | Pearson; Karl (1857 - 1936); statistician and eugenicist | 1857 - 1936 |
| NA7000 | Keith; Sir; Arthur (1866 - 1955); museum curator and palaeoanthropologist | 1866 - 1955 |
| NA6261 | Taylor; Henry Martyn (1842 - 1927) | 1842 - 1927 |
| NA8247 | Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929); zoologist | 1847 - 1929 |
| NA8118 | Bateson; William (1861 - 1926); biologist | 1861 - 1926 |
| NA695 | Frazer; Sir; James George (1854 - 1941) | 1854 - 1941 |
| NA1348 | Gregory; John Walter (1864 - 1932); geologist and naturalist | 1864 - 1932 |
| NA8294 | Wager; Harold William Taylor (1862 - 1929) | 1862 - 1929 |
| NA7014 | Richardson; Sir; Owen Willans (1879 - 1959); physicist | 1879 - 1959 |
| NA6169 | Fowler; Alfred (1868 - 1940); astrophysicist | 1868 - 1940 |
| NA6126 | Harmer; Sir; Sidney Frederic (1862 - 1950); zoologist | 1862 - 1950 |