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Authorised form of nameBoys; Sir; Charles Vernon (1855 - 1944); physicist and inventor
Dates1855 - 1944
NationalityBritish
Place of birthThe rectory, Wing, Uppingham, Rutland, England
Date of birth15 March 1855
Place of deathSt Mary Bourne, Andover, Hampshire, England
Date of death30/03/1944
Occupationphysicist and inventor
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Home educated; Marlborough College (1869); Royal School of Mines, Jermyn Street, London.
Career:
Demonstrator of Physics, Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines; professor at the Royal College of Science (now Imperial College London) (1889-1897); examiner at the University of London; Metropolitan Gas Referee (1897).
Honours:
Kt 1935
Memberships:
ARSM
Physical Society (President 1916–17)
Rontgen Society (President 1906–7)
Awards/Medals:
Duddell Medal and Prize 1924
Elliott Cresson Medal 1939
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1888
ProposerJames Thomas Walker
Walter Noel Hartley
David Edward Hughes
George John Romanes
William Henry Mahoney Christie
John Hall Gladstone
Robert Bellamy Clifton
James Dewar
Warington Wilkinson Smyth
Edward Frankland
Frederick Guthrie
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1896; Rumford Medal 1924
Exhibited an oscillating spark experiment to the Royal Society (1890).
RelationshipsParents Reverend Charles Boys and Caroline Goodrich Dobbie.
Spouse: Marion Amelia, granddaughter of Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock (FRS 1816); they divorced in 1910.
Children:
Published worksRCN R83170
RCN R83177
RCN 16786
RCN 16783
RCN 16784
RCN 16785
RCN 16782
RCN 6881
RCN 13707
RCN 13793
General contextRemembered for his innovative experimental work in thermodynamics and high-speed photography.
Invented fused quartz fibre torsion balance.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 771-788, plate, by Rayleigh
References:
Sir Kenneth Hutchison, 'The Royal Society and the Foundation of the British Gas Industry' in NR 1984-85 vol 39 pp 245-270, plate
F Kurzer, 'The life and work of Charles Tomlinson FRS: A Career in Victorian Science and Technology' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 203-226
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/18004298
Royal Society codeNA8138
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1888/11Boys, Sir Charles Vernon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/525/7/1/7Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, London, to [Dugald] Clerk17 January 1916
MS/525/7/1/1'Thermit attack on zeppelins', report by Charles Vernon Boys[1914]
MS/525/6/10/17Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, to [Dugald] Clerk14 July 1915
MS/525/7/1/4Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, London, to [Dugald] Clerk5 August 1915
IM/007141Group photograph1911
NLB/15/755Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 December 1897
NLB/20/148Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1900
PP/14/21/3Photograph, instrument for Cavendish experiment by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys1889
RR/16/165Letter from Jospeh Larmor, to Charles Vernon Boys, regarding a paper 'A radical area-scale' by R W K Edwards11 February 1904
NLB/4/320Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Charles Vernon Boys19 April 1890
NLB/4/309Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1890
NLB/2/954Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society11 January 1889
NLB/6/512Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1892
NLB/6/23Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society11 February 1892
NLB/3/945Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons20 November 1889
NLB/6/319Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society11 April 1892
NLB/7/115Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1892
NLB/6/696Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to R M Walmsley, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh28 June 1892
NLB/7/86Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons 26 November 1892
NLB/7/90Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company26 November 1892
NLB/34/209Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1906
NLB/5/1219Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1892
NLB/10/5Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society20 August 1894
NLB/9/74Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1894
NLB/10/173Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary Royal Society11 October 1894
NLB/26/845Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1903
NLB/11/33Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society5 April 1895
NLB/11/60Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society8 April 1895
NLB/13/277Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrisons]20 July 1896
NLB/11/142Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Henry Hardinge Samuel Cunynghame, Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.29 April 1895
NLB/12/77Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1895
NLB/9/876Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]23 July 1894
NLB/9/897Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings25 July 1894
NLB/9/899Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]25 July 1894
NLB/13/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Henry Poynting, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1896
NLB/13/336Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1896
NLB/12/600Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Harold Baily Dixon, Rev Frederick John Smith and Professor William Cawthorne Unwin20 March 1896
NLB/13/692Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Lieutenant Colonel Right Honourable, Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards5 November 1896
NLB/13/724Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society11 November 1896
NLB/14/711Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society, 27 The Grove, Boltons, S.W.30 April 1897
RR/15/190Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Description of a range-finder' by George Forbes4 July 1901
RR/15/319Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The movements of the flame in the explosion of gases' by Harold Baily DixonJune 1902
RR/18/136Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the flow of water through pipes and passages having converging or diverging boundaries' by A H GibsonFebruary 1911
RR/15/337Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A portable telemeter, or range-finder' by G Forbes to Joseph Larmor19 April 1902
RR/16/128Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on paper 'The dependence of the Refractive Index of gases on temperature' by George Walker WalkerMarch 1903
RR/16/201Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The modulus of torsional rigidity of Quartz fibres, and its temperature coefficient' by Frank HortonDecember 1904
RR/16/121Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The elasmometer, a new interferential form of elasticity apparatus' by Alfred Edward Howard TuttonMay 1903
RR/16/166Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, a paper 'A radical area-scale' by R W K Edwards16 February 1904
RR/16/151Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the compressibility of solids' by John Young Buchanan9 March 1904
RR/16/386Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The amplitude of the minimum audible impulsive sound' by P E ShawApril 1905
RR/20/91Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Note on copying machinery' by A Mallock10 July 1913
RR/17/68Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Investigation of the law of burning of modified cordite' by Major J H Mansell[December 1906]
RR/16/387Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An electrical measuring machine for engineering gauges & other bodies' by P E ShawDecember 1905
RR/16/385Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The improved electric micrometer' by P E ShawApril 1903
RR/18/23Referee's report and letters by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Tone perception in gammarus pulex' by Francis Joseph Cole1 February 1910
NLB/16/751Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to C V Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1898
NLB/17/275Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society29 September 1898
NLB/18/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W J Lark5 January 1899
NLB/19/193Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 July 1899
NLB/19/2Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1899
NLB/19/243Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Arthur Mason Worthington, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1899
MC/20/3Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, The Metropolitan Gas Referees, 66 Victoria Street, [Joseph] Larmor5 January 1905
NLB/20/375Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Henry Trueman Wood5 April 1900
NLB/20/654Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1900
NLB/22/285Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Charles Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1901
NLB/22/316Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Charles Vernon] Boys, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 April 1901
NLB/22/507Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Charles Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society24 May 1901
NLB/23/1/17Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Charles Vernon Boys, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 August 1901
NLB/23/1/339Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1901
NLB/23/1/879Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society11 February 1902
NLB/24/278Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1902
NLB/46/184Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society22 June 1912
NLB/26/795Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society[May 1903]
NLB/25/798Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Professor John Wesley Judd, and Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney, [Fellows of the Royal Society]5 January 1903
NLB/29/98Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society5 July 1904
NLB/30/377Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1905
NLB/28/450Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society9 March 1904
NLB/30/677Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society5 May 1905
NLB/28/576Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society13 April 1904
NLB/30/846Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1905
NLB/32/175Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]20 January 1906
NLB/31/904Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1905
NLB/32/518Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society26 March 1906
NLB/29/844Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1904
NLB/33/837Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1906
NLB/35/520Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons8 June 1907
NLB/35/181Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1907
NLB/37/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys, 66 Victoria Street, SW11 May 1908
NLB/34/901Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society22 March 1907
NLB/44/48Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 26 April 1911
NLB/37/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society, 66 Victoria Street, SW8 April 1908
NLB/37/730Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1908
NLB/40/97Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 6 April 1909
NLB/40/124Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 21 April 1909
NLB/42/20Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Sidney Frederic] Harmer, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee7 March 1910
NLB/41/656Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1910
NLB/44/451Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 12 July 1911
NLB/41/740Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society18 February 1910
NLB/44/176Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 23 May 1911
NLB/44/534Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 29 July 1911
NLB/44/718Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS27 October 1911
NLB/44/472Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys14 July 1911
NLB/46/53Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1912
NLB/46/99Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1912
NLB/46/291Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Robert Hadfield, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1912
NLB/47/157Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS 9 December 1912
NLB/47/851Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys FRS22 April 1913
MS/928Some papers of Charles Vernon Boys1851-1971
NLB/50/63Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Charles Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1914
NLB/21/104Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1900
RR/18/13Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys on a paper 'The determination of the tension of a recently formed watersurface' by Niels Henrik David BohrSeptember 1910
RR/18/180Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The testing of plane surfaces' by P E ShawDecember 1911
RR/18/19Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the absolute expansion of mercury' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar and Herbert MossDecember 1910
NLB/63/216Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esq., FRS18 July 1922
RR/20/124Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Absolute measurements of a resistance by a method based on that of Lorenz' by F E SmithNovember 1913
NLB/56/143Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr. R. Bailey; 15 & 15 Bennett's Hill, Birmingham29 November 1918
RR/28/11Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on gravitative attraction' by P E Shaw and N Davy[1922]
NLB/61/37Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS29 April 1921
NLB/56/194Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, Chairman of the Scientific Relief Committee and FRS13 December 1918
RR/34/88Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Amplitude of sound waves in pipes' by E G Richardson[July 1926]
RR/28/119Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Capillary action' by W Galloway28 September 1923
RR/11/77Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, 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 Poynting10 August 1891
NLB/56/528Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, Chairman of the Scientific Relief Committee and FRS4 March 1919
RR/37/27Referee's report by Ralph Allen Sampson, on a paper 'Solid dipleidoscope prisms' Charles Vernon BoysApril 1928
NLB/58/779Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS18 June 1920
NLB/56/913Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS27 June 1919
RR/32/67Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An electrical method for the study of impact applied to the struck string' by W H GeorgeMarch 1925
RR/11/69Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Some measures of Young’s modulus for crystals' by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock12 March 1891
NLB/58/116Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS16 March 1920
RR/10/123Referee's report by William De Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'The radio-micrometer' by Charles Vernon Boys17 April 1888
RR/10/124Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'The radio-micrometer' by Charles Vernon Boys11 June 1888
RR/10/126Detailed referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'The radio-micrometer' by Charles Vernon Boysnd [1888]
RR/37/28Referee's report by Ralph Allen Sampson, on a paper 'Solid dipleidoscope prisms - Supplement' by Charles Vernon BoysJuly 1928
RR/11/224Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the mechanical stretching of liquids: an experimental determination of the volume-extensibility of ethyl-alcohol' by Arthur Mason Worthington1 March 1892
NLB/58/695Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS7 June 1920
RR/12/63Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'On the Newtonian constant of gravitation' by Charles Vernon Boys16 July 1894
RR/13/107Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications' by Ernest RutherfordJuly 1896
RR/14/209Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the recovery of iron from overstrain' by James Muir11 February 1899
RR/13/159Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Impact with a liquid surface, studied by the aid of instantaneous photography' by Arthur Mason Worthington and R C Cole6 December 1895
RR/18/132Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Experiments on stream-line motion in curved pipes' by John EusticeJanuary 1911
RR/14/87Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An experiment in search of a directive action of one quartz crystal on another' by John Henry Poynting and P L Gray27 October 1898
RR/14/248Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and James Arthur Pollocknd [April 1899]
RR/14/152Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The crystalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhainnd [July 1899]
RR/20/31Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Load-extension diagrams taken with the optical load-extension indicator' by William Ernest DalbyFebruary 1913
NLB/65/269Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS1 October 1923
RR/20/10Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A simple form of micro-balance for determining the densities of small quantities of gases' by Francis William AstonNovember 1913
NLB/61/749Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS21 October 1921
NLB/57/229Copy letter from TE James, Clerk of the Royal Society; to CV [Charles Vernon] Boys Esq., FRS, Chairman of the Scientific Relief Committee22 September 1919
RR/26/7Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A simple apparatus for approximate harmonic analysis and for periodicity measurements' by William Lawrence Balls[May 1921]
NLB/67/159Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esq., FRS6 November 1924
NLB/61/903Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS10 November 1921
NLB/62/294Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esquire, FRS19 January 1922
NLB/57/845Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS21 February 1920
RR/65/57Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity' by J S ClarkAugust 1938
NLB/63/609Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esq., FRS15 November 1922
NLB/67/161Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Minister of the Mint6 November 1924
NLB/66/58Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys, FRS15 February 1924
NLB/67/191Copy letter of a notice sent to 'The Times'; 'The Morning Post'; 'The Daily Telegraph'; 'Nature'; the Press Association10 November 1924
NLB/71/377Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys, Esq., FRS26 April 1928
NLB/66/640Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys, FRS11 June 1924
NLB/67/315Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Assistant Secretary of the National Institute for the Blind; 224/8 Great Portland Street, W.1.4 December 1924
NLB/67/523Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys, FRS15 January 1925
NLB/71/341Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys, Esq., FRS16 April 1928
NLB/71/327Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys, Esq., FRS2 April 1928
NLB/72/739Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Vernon] Boys Esq., FRS31 March 1930
MS/525/6/10/15Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, to [Dugald] Clerk9 June 1915
MM/5/38Copy of letter from James Watt, Birmingham, to Joseph Priestley26 April 1783
MS/525/7/1Boys-Errington correspondence with the Royal Society War Committee: Engineering Sub-CommitteeDecember 1914-January 1916
IM/000506Boys, Sir Charles Vernonnd
NLB/9/200Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society16 April 1894
NLB/11/159Copy letter from Dr Michael Foster, to Henry Cunningham, Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.4 May 1895
NLB/11/132Copy letter from Michael Foster, to; Professor James Dewar, Professor William Cawthorne Unwin, Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Reverend Frederick John Smith and Harold Baily Dixon, Fellows of the Royal Society26 April 1895
RR/15/336Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A portable telemeter, or range-finder' by G Forbes1 March 1902
NLB/25/208Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society23 September 1902
NLB/28/850Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1904
NLB/34/755Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society5 March 1907
NLB/37/700Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/37/712Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Colonel H W Feilden, Burwash5 May 1908
NLB/44/157Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles[ V ]Vernon] Boys FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society]19 May 1911
RR/12/64Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'On the Newtonian constant of gravitation' by Charles Vernon Boys18 July 1894
NLB/66/445Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS9 May 1924
MS/928/2/110Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, The Atheneum, to Joseph Larmor1 December 1911
NLB/10/24Copy letter from A H White, to Messrs West, Newman & Company3 November 1894
NLB/10/7Copy letter from Michael Foster, to The Secretaries, Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 20 August 1894
RR/19/125Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A standard measuring machine' by P E Shaw[June 1912]
RR/19/34Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An optical load-extension indicator, together with some diagrams obtained therewith' by William Ernest Dalby[February 1912]
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/19/124Letter from Charles Vernon Boys, to Arthur Schuster, regarding a paper 'A standard measuring machine' by P E Shaw23 July 1912
RR/17/83Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite' by Robert Robertson[March 1906]
PP/15/33/4Diagrams, astronomical observations by Charles Vernon Boys1890
RR/15/92Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The tempering of iron hardened by overstrain' by James MuirAugust 1900
RR/21/84Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The capacity for heat of metals at low temperatures' by Ernest Howard Griffiths and Ezer Griffiths[1914]
RR/24/11Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The lunar and solar diurnal variations of water-level in a well at Kew observatory, Richmond' by E G Bilham[January 1918]
PP/10/24Paper, 'Preliminary note on the "radio-micrometer" a new instrument for measuring the most feeble radiation' by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys1887
PP/15/33Paper, 'On the heat of the Moon and stars' by Charles Vernon Boys1890
PP/14/21/1Manuscript, 'On the Cavendish experiment' by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys1889
PP/14/21Paper, 'On the Cavendish experiment' by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys1889
PP/14/21/2Diagrams, geometrical diagrams by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys1889
PP/15/33/3Photograph, experimental apparatus by Charles Vernon Boys1890
PP/15/33/2Diagram, experimental apparatus by Charles Vernon Boys1890
PP/15/33/1Manuscript, 'On the heat of the Moon and stars' by Charles Vernon Boys1890
RR/14/133Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Investigations on platinum thermometry at Kew Observatory' by Charles Chreend [January 1900]
RR/13/210Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivities of single and mixed solids and liquids and their variation with temperature' by Charles Herbert Lees27 December 1897
RR/14/281Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Impact with a liquid surface studied by the aid of instantaneous photography. Paper II' by Arthur Mason Worthington and R S Colend [May 1899]
RR/15/308Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The interpretation of photographic records of the response of nerve obtained with the capillary electrometer' by George James Burch15 February 1902
RR/17/202Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Space described in a given time by a projectile moving in air' by Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallock[April 1907]
RR/19/35Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On principles, methods and applications of drop-formation in the scientific measurement of liquids' by R Donald[December 1912]
RR/20/68Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram HopkinsonOctober 1913
RR/30/34Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An automatic and continuous recording balance. (The Odén-Keen balance.)' by John Reginald Horder Coutts, Edward Mortimer Crowther, Bernard Augustus Keen and Sven Odén[May 1924]
MC/16/154Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys and [John Henry] Poynting Foxhill, Alvechurch, to Professor [Michael] Foster11 October 1894
MC/16/155'Report of the delegates of the Royal Society to the conference on the measurement of gravity held at Innsbruck in September 1894' by [Charles Vernon] Boys and [John Henry] Poynting1894
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/19/84Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, 66 Victoria Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison16 January 1904
MC/19/85Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, 66 Victoria Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison21 June 1904
NLB/28/107Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Vernon Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society11 January 1904
MC/23/62Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, 66 Victoria Street, London, to the Assistant Secretary of The Royal Society3 April 1908
MS/603/1/125Letter from C V [Charles Vernon] Boys, the Metropolitan Gas Referees, 66 Victoria Street, London, to [Joseph] Larmor6 October 1911
MC/23Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1908
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
P/0275Portrait of Boys, Charles Vernon1915
MC/29/21Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, to The Secretary, Royal Society6 February 1914
MC/21/45Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society8 November 1906
MC/29/22Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, to The Secretary, Royal Society24 February 1914
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/38Volume 38 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1924
MC/38/5Letter from [Charles Vernon] Boys, The Gas Referees, 66 Victoria Street, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society7 November 1924
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