| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/000029 | Adams, William Grylls | nd |
| EC/1872/09 | Adams, William Grylls: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/15/57 | "The stresses and strains in isotropic elastic solid elipsoids in equilibrium under bodily forces derivable from a potential of the second degree", by Charles Chree | March 1894 |
| NLB/4/483 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Grylls Adams | 13 June 1890 |
| NLB/2/726 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society] | 18 October 1888 |
| NLB/6/116 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Grylls Adams | 4 March 1892 |
| NLB/6/217 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 March 1895 |
| NLB/3/924 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society | 13 November 1889 |
| NLB/5/951 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor W G [William Grylls] Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 November 1891 |
| NLB/5/936 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 November 1891 |
| NLB/7/804 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor William Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 April 1893 |
| NLB/10/555 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 17 December 1894 |
| NLB/9/575 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 June 1894 |
| NLB/21/614 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 December 1900 |
| NLB/16/875 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Mr Francis Galton, Fellow of the Royal Society, 42 Rutland Gate, S.W. | 24 June 1898 |
| NLB/22/784 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Grylls] Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 July 1901 |
| NLB/18/596 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 April 1899 |
| NLB/32/35 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 14 December 1905 |
| NLB/28/500 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to F R Fowke, Secretary, Solar Physics Committee | 16 March 1904 |
| NLB/38/273 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 July 1908 |
| RR/7/429 | Referee's report by Henry Enfield Roscoe, on a paper 'The action of light on selenium' by William Grylls Adams and R E Day | 7 August 1876 |
| RR/10/386 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Preliminary note on a new magnetometer' by W Stroud | 14 June 1890 |
| RR/9/48 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the variation of the electrical resistance of glass with temperature, density, and chemical composition' by Thomas Gray | 25 March 1882 |
| RR/10/25 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Conduction of heat in liquids' by Charles Chree | 28 April 1887 |
| RR/8/312 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on two papers 'Experiments on electric osmose' and 'Electric currents caused by liquid diffusion and osmose' by George Gore | [1881] |
| RR/8/309 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the thermo-electric behaviour of Aqueous solutions with platinum electrodes' by George Gore | nd [1881] |
| RR/9/221 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Magnetic polarity and neutrality' by David Edward Hughes | 22 April 1884 |
| RR/9/311 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the constant of electromagnetic rotation of light in bisulphide of carbon' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh | 6 April 1885 |
| RR/9/105 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On impact with a liquid surface' by Arthur Mason Worthington | 3 April 1882 |
| RR/9/97 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the influence of the galvanic current on the excitability of the motor nerves of man' by Augustus Vilney Waller and A de Watteville | 3 April 1882 |
| RR/9/363 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Dynamo-electric machinery' by John Hopkinson | 1 June 1886 |
| RR/9/208 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Some relations of heat to voltaic and thermo-electric action of metals in electrolytes' by George Gore | 1884 |
| RR/9/252 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the changes produced by magnetisation in the length of rods of iron, steel, and nickel' by Shelford Bidwell | 14 July 1885 |
| RR/10/289 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on the Bakerian Lecture 'A magnetic survey of the British Isles for the epoch January 1, 1886' by Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe | 6 July 1889 |
| RR/11/107 | Second referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Comparison of simultaneous magnetic disturbances at several observatories' by William Grylls Adams | 1892 |
| RR/11/7 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'The thermal emissivity of thin wires in air' by William Edward Ayrton and H Kilgour | 6 October 1891 |
| RR/11/78 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On a determination of the mean density of the Earth and the gravitation constant by means of the common balance' by John Henry Poynting | 1891 |
| RR/12/335 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Alternate current dynamo-electric machines' by John Hopkinson and E Wilson | 8 May 1895 |
| RR/9/235 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the transfer of energy in the electromagnetic field' by John Henry Poynting | 10 June 1884 |
| RR/9/136 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Experimental researches on the electric discharge with the chloride of silver battery. Part IV' by Warren De La Rue and Hugo Müller | 5 July 1883 |
| RR/9/187 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Experiments, by the method of Lorentz, for the further determination the absolute value of the British Association Unit of Resistance, with an appendix on the determination of the pitch of a standard tuning-fork' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh and Nevil Vincent Sidgwick | 17 February 1883 |
| RR/8/293 | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Grylls Adams, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing | 14 April 1882 |
| RR/10/208 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young | 17 October 1888 |
| RR/9/251 | Letter from William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Observations on variations of the electromotive force between metals at high temperatures in fused salts' by Thomas Andrews to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 17 October 1885 |
| MC/12/325 | Letter from Thos [Thomas] Burt, House of Commons, to [Walter White], Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 April 1883 |
| NLB/3/498 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society | 25 June 1889 |
| NLB/28/716 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Grylls Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 May 1904 |
| RR/8/148 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivity of water' by James Thomson Bottomley | 6 May 1879 |
| RR/8/311 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Influence of voltaic currents on the diffusion of liquids' by George Gore | nd [1881] |
| RR/9/250 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Observations on variations of the electromotive force between metals at high temperatures in fused salts' by Thomas Andrews | 6 October 1885 |
| RR/9/400 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On a comparison between apparent inequalities of short period in sun-spot areas and in diurnal declination-ranges at Toronto and at Prague' by Balfour Stewart and William Lant Carpenter | 9 April 1886 |
| RR/10/209 | Second referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young | nd [1888] |
| RR/11/3 | Letter from William Grylls Adams, on his paper 'Comparison of simultaneous magnetic disturbances at several observatories' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, the Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 November 1891 |
| AP/67/16 | Unpublished paper, regarding Gaussian analysis by William Grylls Adams | 1891 |
| RR/7/431 | Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'The action of light on selenium' by William Grylls Adams and R E Day | 31 October 1876 |
| RR/11/1 | Referee's report by David Gill, on a paper 'Comparison of simultaneous magnetic disturbances at several observatories' by William Grylls Adams | 24 June 1891 |
| RR/9/388 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on two papers 'On the vapour-densities of alcohol' and 'On the vapour pressures of ammonium chloride' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young | 20 February 1886 |
| RR/9/265 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' by George Gore | 21 May 1885 |
| RR/10/252 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the effects of pressure on the magnetisation of cobalt' by Charles Chree | 15 February 1890 |
| RR/8/294 | Letter from William Grylls Adams, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing | 4 May 1882 |
| RR/11/2 | Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Comparison of simultaneous magnetic disturbances at several observatories' by William Grylls Adams | 1891 |
| MC/11/62 | Letter from W G [William Grylls] Adams, King's College, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 17 May 1877 |
| MC/11/179 | Letter from Warren de la Rue, Vice Chairman, Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 7 March 1878 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MS/427/273 | Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Thomas Burt M.P | 23 April 1883 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| RR/9/112 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Preliminary paper on a uniform rotation machine; and on the theory of electromagnetic tuning forks' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet | 26 February 1883 |
| RR/8/290 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing | 19 November 1881 |
| RR/9/15 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing | 29 March 1882 |
| AP/64/7 | Unpublished paper, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I - Elasticity (continued). The effects of change of temperature on the internal friction and torsional elasticity of metals' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1886 |
| AP/64/7/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I - Elasticity (continued). The effects of change of temperature on the internal friction and torsional elasticity of metals' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1886 |
| RR/10/296 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'The diurnal variation of terrestrial magnetism' by Arthur Schuster and Horace Lamb | nd [1889] |
| RR/15/279 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'A determination of the value of the earth's magnetic field in international units' by William Watson | 18 July 1901 |
| PP/3/1 | Paper, 'On the electrical resistance of carbon contacts' by Shelford Bidwell | 1883 |
| PP/3/1/1 | Manuscript, 'On the electrical resistance of carbon contacts' by Shelford Bidwell | 1883 |
| PP/3/1/2 | Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by Shelford Bidwell | 1883 |
| PP/6/45 | Paper, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I. Moduli of elasticity (continued). Relations between moduli of elasticity, thermal capacity, and other physical constants' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1884 |
| PP/6/45/1 | Manuscript, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I. Moduli of elasticity (continued). Relations between moduli of elasticity, thermal capacity, and other physical constants' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1884 |
| PP/6/45/2 | Figures, experimental equipment by Herbert Tomlinson | 1884 |
| PP/11/4 | Paper, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I. Elasticity—continued. The velocity of sound in metals and a comparison of their moduli of longitudinal and torsional elasticities as determined by statical and kinetical methods' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1887 |
| AP/64/13/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part III - Magnetic induction' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1887 |
| AP/64/13 | Unpublished paper, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part III - Magnetic induction' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1887 |
| RR/7/430 | Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The action of light on selenium' by William Grylls Adams and R E Day | 23 October 1876 |
| RR/8/310 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Phenomena of the capillary electroscope' by George Gore | nd [1881] |
| RR/9/19 | Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing | 20 June 1882 |
| PP/11/4/1 | Manuscript, 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I. Elasticity—continued. The velocity of sound in metals and a comparison of their moduli of longitudinal and torsional elasticities as determined by statical and kinetical methods' by Herbert Tomlinson | 1887 |
| MC/16/21 | Letter from William Grylls Adams, 43 Notting Hill Sqaure, to Lord Kelvin | |
| MC/16 | Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1893-1896 |
| MC/30/1 | Letter from [William Grylls] Adams, Heathfield, Broadstone, Dorset, to the [Royal Society] | 10 April 1915 |