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Authorised form of name	Petavel; Sir; Joseph Ernest (1873 - 1936); engineer and physicist
Dates	1873 - 1936
Nationality	British
Place of birth	London, England
Date of birth	14 August 1873
Place of death	Bushy House, Teddington, England
Date of death	31/03/1936
Dates and places	Burial: Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Occupation	engineer and physicist
Research field	Mechanics
	Engineering
	Physics
Activity	Education: Lausanne, Geneva; University College, London (1893); Owens College, Manchester (1900) Career: Beyer chair of engineering (1868-1905); Lecturer in mechanics at the University of Manchester combined with the post of director of the Whitworth Laboratories at the University of Manchester (1905); joined the general board of the National Physical Laboratory (1911-1916); served on the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , becoming chairman (1917); Director of the National Physical Laboratory (1919-1936). Honours: KBE 1920 Memberships: Institution of Civil Engineers Institution of Electrical Engineers
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	02/05/1907
Age at election	34
Proposer	Richard Threlfall
	George Carey Foster
	Harold Baily Dixon
	Richard Tetley Glazebrook
	Andrew Noble
	Arthur Schuster
Relationships	Parents: Emmanuel Petavel DD and Susanna, daughter of William Olliff, of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
General context	Developed of the ‘Petavel gauge’ for measuring variation in pressure caused by the explosion of gases. His directorship of the National Physical Laboratory saw it grow steadily, with facilities constructed for the study of physics, high-tension electricity, acoustics, and aeronautics.
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Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 183-203, plate, by Robert Robertson References: Russell Moseley, 'Government Science and the Royal Society: The Control of the National Physical Laboratory in the Inter-War Years' in NR 1980 vol 35 pp 167-193
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/42151897148224070875
Royal Society code	NA8267

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
EC/1907/13	Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/525/5/2/48	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57,58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	19 August 1915
IM/003529	Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest	nd
IM/003530	Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest	nd
MS/525/5/3/31	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	16 November 1916
MS/525/6/6/1/27	'Notes re anchor specifications' [by Joseph Ernest Petavel?]	January 1915
MS/525/5/2/31	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	1 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/28	'Creeper - draft no 2': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel	7 December 1914
MS/525/6/4/2	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, 9 Brighton Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk	5 December 1914
MS/525/5/2/12	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	24 March 1915
MS/525/5/2/37	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	1 July 1915
MS/525/5/3/1	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	22 January 1916
MS/525/6/11/8	Engineering sketch for a vessel driven by centrifugal pumps, by Joseph Ernest Petavel	27 January 1916
MS/525/5/5/13	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretay, Royal Society, Burlington House, London	13 February 1919
MS/525/6/6/1/26	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	20 January 1915
MS/525/6/8/10	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	22 May 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/10	'Re. Tidal mine', note by Joseph Ernest Petavel	[10 February 1915]
MS/525/6/6/2/6	'Tidal mine', note by Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester	5 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/1	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Bertram Hopkinson, Admiralty, London	1 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/9	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	10 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/29	'Creeper - draft no 4': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel	15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/31	[Creeping mine] 'Draft no 6': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Andrew Robertson	15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/30	[Creeping mine] 'Draft no 5': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Andrew Robertson	15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/2/5	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to [Dugald] Clerk	5 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/11	'Further suggestions for tidal mine': engineering drawing by James Ernest Petavel	20 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/18	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, Lukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey	5 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/25	'Tidal mines': drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel, C H Lander and Andrew Robertson	11 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/13	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	24 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/13	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields	23 June 1915
MS/525/6/8/1	Joseph Ernest Petavel, The Victoria University of Manchester, to the Secretary of the Engineering Subcommittee of the Royal Society War Committee, Burlington House, London	30 January 1915
MS/525/6/11/7	'Notes on the propulsion of vessels by waterjets', by Joseph Ernest Petavel	27 January 1916
IM/003531	Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest	nd
NLB/36/639	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	23 November 1907
RR/15/234	Second referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	18 February 1901
RR/15/235	Referee's report by John Joly, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	March 1901
RR/17/421	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The stresses producing elastic breakdown in mild steel' by W Mason	22 January 1910
RR/16/361	Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The pressure of explosions: experiments on solid and gaseous explosives' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	19 September 1905
RR/17/187	Committee report to Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel	30 July 1907
NLB/17/128	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	22 July 1898
NLB/17/61	Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	8 July 1898
NLB/19/410	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney, Rathmore Lodge, Bolton Gardens South, Earl's Court, S.W.	25 September 1899
NLB/19/578	Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 34 Abingdon Mansions, Kensington, W.	3 November 1899
NLB/23/2/55	Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Granville House, Anson Road, Victoria Park, Manchester	26 March 1901
NLB/33/14	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The Victoria University, Manchester	15 June 1906
NLB/32/206	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, University, Manchester	26 January 1906
NLB/35/592	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society, University, Manchester	17 June 1907
NLB/35/697	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	5 July 1907
MC/32/198	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, London	2 January 1917
NLB/37/448	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to A Stanley Fose, The Cotton Powder Co Ltd, Faversham	20 March 1908
NLB/37/178	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS	8 February 1908
NLB/43/502	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society	30 January 1911
NLB/42/127	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel	7 April 1910
NLB/41/198	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society	29 October 1909
NLB/41/649	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society	29 January 1910
NLB/44/464	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS	14 July 1911
NLB/43/326	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 December 1910
NLB/44/441	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS	11 July 1911
NLB/43/681	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society	9 March 1911
MC/20/277	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly	16 August 1905
NLB/60/101	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	10 December 1920
NLB/48/15	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society	25 April 1913
NLB/58/337	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	22 April 1920
NLB/61/493	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	12 July 1921
NLB/64/7	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	19 January 1923
NLB/58/400	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	30 April 1920
NLB/58/128	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	17 March 1920
NLB/55/79	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	27 November 1917
NLB/69/164	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Petavel, K.B.E, FRS	22 January 1926
NLB/59/467	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	5 October 1920
NLB/64/664	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel FRS	29 May1923
NLB/59/856	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	22 November 1920
NLB/59/835	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	19 November 1920
RR/14/84	Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	7 June 1898
RR/45/34	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The combustion of colloidal propellants' by A D Crow and W E Grimshaw	[August 1931]
RR/24/44	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Internal ballistics' by Albert George Hadcock	29 November 1917
RR/18/174	Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'Experimental work on a new standard of light' by W A Harwood and Joseph Ernest Petavel	January 1911
NLB/60/8	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	2 December 1920
RR/14/224	Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	nd [October 1899]
RR/14/223	Referee's report by William de Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	25 September 1899
RR/47/131	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Further history of a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and Alfred John Dawson	February 1932
NLB/62/189	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	21 December 1921
NLB/61/79	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	5 May 1921
NLB/61/260	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	9 June 1921
RR/17/183	Referee's report by Richard Threlfall, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel	[February 1907]
RR/17/185	Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel	4 June 1907
NLB/62/135	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	9 December 1921
NLB/61/283	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	16 June 1921
NLB/61/273	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	13 June 1921
NLB/61/902	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	10 November 1921
NLB/62/54	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	24 November 1921
NLB/62/161	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee, Air Ministry, Kingsway, W.C.2.	13 December 1921
RR/56/13	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Ship waves: The relative efficiency of bow and stern' by Thomas Henry Havelock	[January 1935]
NLB/62/495	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	23 February 1922
NLB/64/52	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee; Air Ministry, Kingsway	23 January 1923
NLB/63/541	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	03 November 1922
NLB/64/67	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	26 January 1923
NLB/57/804	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JE [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	9 February 1920
NLB/57/705	Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor J. E. [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	23 January 1920
NLB/64/78	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	29 January 1923
NLB/63/186	Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	11 July 1922
NLB/64/80	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	30 January 1923
NLB/57/122	Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Research Department	25 July 1919
NLB/57/267	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director, National Physical Laboratory	30 September 1919
NLB/57/754	Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS	31 January 1920
NLB/57/806	Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, KCB	12 February 1920
NLB/64/548	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	03 May 1923
NLB/64/613	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	11 May 1923
NLB/64/691	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel FRS.	4 June 1923
NLB/65/448	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	2 November 1923
NLB/65/181	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	11 September 1923
NLB/65/177	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS	8 September 1923
NLB/64/667	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Robert Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS	29 May 1923
NLB/65/680	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	6 December 1923
NLB/64/626	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk FRS	16 May 1923
NLB/64/849	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director [Joseph Ernest Petavel, FRS] of the National Physical Laboratory	29 June 1923
NLB/65/123	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS	4 August 1923
NLB/64/376	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS	23 March 1923
NLB/66/136	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS.	28 February 1924
NLB/66/467	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	16 May 1924
NLB/66/685	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	19 June 1924
NLB/69/286	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E, FRS	22 February 1926
NLB/66/734	Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	30 June 1924
RR/29/19	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Experiments with the Hopkinson pressure bar' by J W Landon and H Quinney	May 1923
NLB/69/206	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., FRS	29 January 1926
NLB/68/688	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS	14 October 1925
NLB/70/558	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, KBE, FRS	18 May 1927
NLB/72/9	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, KBE, FRS	18 January 1929
NLB/71/924	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., FRS	7 December 1928
CD/62/21	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Director of the National Physical Laboratory; to the Secretary of the Royal Society	20 June 1924
NLB/66/38	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	12 February 1924
NLB/66/686	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	19 June 1924
RR/29/44	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Calorimetry of high explosives' by Robert Robertson and William Edward Garner	May 1923
MS/525/6/6/2/24	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London	11 March 1915
RR/15/233	Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	17 February 1901
NLB/54/149	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS	19 February 1917
RR/17/186	Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson to Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel	2 July 1907
NLB/66/610	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	5 June 1924
NLB/64/677	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS	31 May 1923
NLB/62/148	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS	9 December 1921
RR/17/184	Referee's report by Charles Thomas Heycock, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel	[May 1907]
NLB/66/506	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	20 May 1924
NLB/64	New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	19 January 1923-11 July 1923
RR/14/85	Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel	nd [June 1898]
RR/28/109	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The rate of heat transmission from the working fluid in an internal combustion engine' by A H Gibson	[March 1923]
RR/20/69	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram Hopkinson	4 November 1913
RR/24/34	Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A graphical method of drawing trajectories for high-angle fire' by William Ernest Dalby	17 February 1917
MC/23/350	Letter from Editor, The Chemical Trade Journal, to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Manchester University, Manchester	29 January 1908
MC/23/351	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University of Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London	12 February 1908
MC/23/349	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University of Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London	30 January 1908
MC/21	Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1906
MC/20/278	Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly	21 November 1905
P/0254	Portrait of Petavel, Joseph Ernest	1954
MC/20	Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1905
MC/21/498	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly	29 January 1906
MC/22/317	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Sercetaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London	7 May 1907
MC/22/318	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London	12 June 1907
MC/22/319	Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London	22 November 1907
MC/22	Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1907

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