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Correspondence with G.A. Hole of Brighton and R.W. Ditchburn of the J.J. Thompson Physical Laboratory, Reading, among others, regarding the Royal Society.

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Miscellaneous correspondence relating to the Royal Society, including correspondence concerning the Gassiot Committee; correspondence with D.C. Martin of the Royal Society; invitations to various functions; correspondence with the Agricultural Research Council; correspondence with P.M.S. Blackett, President of the Royal Society; and a biographical memoir by Sir Richard Woolley on Charles Rundle Davidson, 1875-1970.

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Correspondence regarding the Royal Society relating to papers submitted and the retirement of officers, including Charles Sherrington's retirement as President of the Royal Society and from its Board of Visitors and his replacement by Ernest Rutherford.

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Correspondence with the London Mathematical Society, Dr Hunter and others regarding the cost of publishing papers by the Royal Society, 1949-1952, including a list of Polish publications of 1873-1948 and reference tables in astronomy. There is also correspondence concerning the Cheltenham Magnetic Observatory, 1951.

Scope and Contents (1) Correspondence regarding general committee business of the Royal Society, including the following items:Correspondence concerning agenda, minutes and other matters relating to the meetings of various committees, 1928-1947, including the Gassiot Committee, Soiree Committee, International Relations Committee, British National Committee, Newton Tercentenary Committee, Meteorological Research Committee, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, National Committee for Astronomy and the...

Scope and Contents General correspondence relating to the Royal Society, including the following items:Correspondence, minutes of meetings and reports to committees, including the National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics, 1948; Defence Services Research Committee, 1948-1949; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, 1948; National Committee for Astronomy, 1948; Gassiot Committee, 1948; International Relations Committee, 1948; British Council, 1949; Travelling Expenses Committee, 1949; and Soiree...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous correspondence regarding the annual activities of the Royal Society, covering the year book, the Fellows' visits overseas list, Royal Society Research Professorships appointments, papers contributed to the Bradley celebrations, visits abroad, Royal Society Medals, travel grants, International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 20, the grant for the I.A.U. colloquium at Herstmonceux, the exchange of research workers between the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. and the Royal...

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Correspondence relating to the Royal Society and U.N.E.S.C.O., including letters concerning the setting up of the Field Science Co-operation Office in Cairo, 1948, and correspondence with Sir George Darwin, National Physical Laboratory, on the determination of the interval of time, 1946.

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Correspondence relating to the Royal Society Catalogue Committee regarding the formation of an International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including lists of members of the committee and of astronomers, meteorologists and geologists selected to help make the catalogue; a draft of the proposed general subject index; a list of accepted headings; various comments on the scheme; and the proposed classification of gravitational astronomy.

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Correspondence regarding committee meetings, agenda and minutes, and reports regarding candidates and applications for the Royal Society's Rutherford Scholarship, with papers concerning lectures.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the results of the total solar eclipse, 21-22 December 1870. The papers include the 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society', observations of the eclipse and the observations of Lord Lindsay's party in Sicily. There is a paper by E.J.A. Gautier, with coloured plates on the observation; correspondence with the Treasury and the Royal Society, including letters from J.R. Hind, G.G. Stokes and W. Huggins; and a correspondence with Sir J.N. Lockyer and A.C....

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to the transit of Venus, 1874. The correspondents include the Treasury; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Colonial Department; the Agents General of New South Wales, Victoria and Southern Australia; the War Office; the Post Office; the Science and Arts Department; the Royal Society; the Royal Astronomical Society; the Nautical Almanac Office; and the Board of Visitors. There is also a report by Airy to the Treasury on telescopic observations of the transit of...

Scope and Contents Official correspondence concerning visitations. There are four volumes of letters, covering the years 1912-1919, 1920-1925, 1926-1929 and 1930-1935 respectively, and one envelope covering 1933-1937. The correspondents include the Admiralty; members of the Board of Visitors; various societies, including the Royal Society and the Physical Society; and catering firms. The letters include arrangements for the visitations, accounts for food and drink consumed, menus, lists of property and...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with J.H. Oort and related papers, including, among other items, correspondence of 18-22 March 1954, containing Oort's comments on the views of the British National Committee of Astronomy on the proposed southern observatory and the belief that the project will fail if Britain does not participate; a copy of a letter in German from O. Heckmann, Hamburg, to Oort, 11 March 1954, commenting on the South African project, enclosed with a letter from Oort to Redman; copies of Oort's...

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Correspondence between Sir Richard Woolley and S.C.B. Gascoigne regarding an observing programme to be undertaken by Gascoigne for Woolley, and concerning the setting up of a Southern Telescope Committee by the Royal Society.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Secretary and members of the Royal Society regarding the provision in London of a science centre and new accommodation for the Learned Societies; the nomination of persons for Fellowships; travel arrangements for persons involved with the Anglo-Australian Telescope; arrangements for the Royal Greenwich Observatory exhibit at the Conversazione marking the quarter-centenary of Galileo's birth on 9 July 1964; travel expenses and grants for Nautical Almanac Office staff...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous correspondence with the Royal Society relating mainly to the re-establishment and expansion of astronomy after the Second World War. The papers include the following items:Correspondence concerning the re-equipping of Cambridge observatories, 1948.Minutes of the meeting of the Gassiot Committee on 31 October 1947, with reports from the Kew and Eskdalemuir Observatories.Correspondence concerning Maskelyne manuscripts, 1947.Correspondence regarding...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Society on a variety of matters, including subscriptions and income tax; medal awards; the circulation of papers; expenditure on the Isaac Newton Telescope; the Royal Society's visit to Czechoslovakia; Mrs Royd's application to the Scientific Relief Fund; the protection of Herschel's house; exchange visits between scientists in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom; the Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth bursaries...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Society on a variety of matters, including the following items:Correspondence with R.H. Stoy concerning H. Spencer Jones' obituary notice, 1961.Correspondence on the Royal Society Tercentenary Appeal, 1961.Correspondence concerning various publications, including biographical data on H. Spencer Jones, 1961.Correspondence on Royal Society medals.Address to the Royal Society.Correspondence...

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General correspondence with, among others, Royal Holloway College, London; the Royal Society; the Royal Radar Establishments; the Royal Aeronautical Society; the Radio and Space Research Station; and Radley College, Oxfordshire. The subjects include the review of books, and there is a copy of one book review by R. Atkinson.

Scope and Contents General correspondence with, among others, the Mount Wilson Observatory; the Palomar Observatory; the University of St Andrews; the Royal Society; G.M. Sisson of Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd; A. Samaha of the Helwan Observatory, Egypt; E.B. Ford of All Souls College, Oxford; the 'Science Journal'; and the Society for Visiting Scientists. The subjects include a proposed visit by Sir Richard Woolley to Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd; Woolley's contribution to a special issue of...

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Correspondence, letters M-W, regarding pendulum experiments at Harton, featuring, among others, Col. E. Sabine, the Revd R. Sheepshanks, W. Simms and Dr W. Whewell. The volume also includes Airy's hotel bills, E. Dunkin's book of expenses and journal, drawings of one of the pendulums as mounted, a printed copy of a memoir of the Royal Society (with map and diagrams), a lecture by Airy given in the Central Hall of South Shields, and an extract from 'Punch'.

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A photocopy of a letter from David Kinnebrook to his father, 28 July 1795, describing the annual visit of the Royal Society. The letter also contains details of rewards offered by Parliament for the discovery of longitude, a discussion of Nevil Maskelyne's view of a question in the Ladies' Diary, and an account of a meeting with some friends.

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Concerning a timepiece for longitude.

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A letter from D.C. Martin, Royal Society, to R. Woolley, 1 December 1960, inviting him to serve on the Committee for the Management of Woolsthorpe Manor, with Woolley's reply accepting the offer, 8 December.