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Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies
Cards re committees to consider formation of an International Union in Radio-Telegraphy, and an International Union in Mathematics.
Deschamps

E/1: Numbered 'I', 1876-1890. Includes complete index
E/2: Numbered 'II', 1891-1905
E/3: Numbered 'III', 1906-1915
E/4: Numbered 'IV', 1916-1935

Part of the 'British Men of Science' series, and published by Nelson 1964. An account of J. J. Thomson and his work, by G.P. Thomson.
D/1: Preface; Chapter 1 and 2 (incomplete)
D/2: Chapter 6
D/3: Chapters 7, 8 and 9 (incomplete
D/4: Chapters 10, 11 and 12; Appendix (incomplete)
D/5: Lists of illustrations

Maurois, A. 1927
Accepting invitation to give Clark Lectures.
Pym, T.W. 1938
Scholfield, A.F. n.d.

With re-cast and re-assigned chapter headings.

With re-cast and re-assigned chapter headings.

Trevelyan, G.M. n.d. (1928?) 1p. only of letter re portrait of his father, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, left to Trinity.
Viscount Ullswater, J.W. Lowther 1924
Unidentified 1931

Includes letters 1918-20 addressed by Thomson to Keys, on experiments with underwater explosions at Shandon (Argyll).

Also includes draft description of G.P. Thomson's work on electron diffraction.

The film bears the caption 'Sir Joseph J. Thomson is welcomed by Bell Telephone Engineers and escorted through their laboratories at the Western Electric Co., New York, March 28 1923'. It is accompanied by a brief letter re the film to G.P. Thomson, 23 October 1962, from H.F. Wickham of Associated Electrical Industries Limited.

The notes are in pencil, blue and red ink or biro, and include short narratives, diagrams, calculations, bibliographical indications, etc. The notebooks are all headed 'J.J. Thomson' but are not dated.
D/13: Notes on J.J. Thomson's papers (some in detail) and those of others, or on history of Cavendish Laboratory. Includes plan for 'Chapter IV'.
D/14: Similar material. Both ends of book used. Includes notes for 'Unplaced possible additions' (on pumps - used as Appendix in book).
D/15: Similar material. Both ends of book used. P.3 is headed 'J.J.T. continued'. Pps. 1 & 2, headed 'Leckhampton', contain a draft proposal for Leckhampton House, the postgraduate campus of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, officially established in 1961 during the Mastership of G.P. Thomson.

Some pages apparently torn from ringback notebooks.

Originally used by G.P. Thomson for mathematical notes on Gamma Functions (c. 1910-12) and continuing with drafts for biography of J. J. Thomson. Includes some loose pages of plans and notes.

Mostly re illustrations.

With printed material consulted by G.P. Thomson for the biography.

Re Thomson's memorandum and research on mines.

Address given by G. P. Thomson at International Conference on the Quantum Interactions of the Free Electron, held 23-25 Apr 1956 at University of Maryland, and published in Physics Today, Aug 1956, which bears a photograph of J.J. Thomson on the cover.

Undated, but refers to G.P. Thomson's experiments on electron waves (1927).

Both ends used, and many notes and diagrams also on cover. Miscellaneous contents, including several drafts for papers referring to G.P. Thomson's experiments (1926-28), de Broglie's theory, structure of the electron, electrodeless discharge, etc.

Manuscript notes; 8 pp. typescript and manuscript draft; correspondence re arrangements.

Manuscript notes; 8 pp. typescript and manuscript draft; correspondence re arrangements.

Talk given on 6 Dec 1956. This version with many corrections and deletions in Thomson's and in another hand, to reduce length to 1500 words.

Corrected manuscript and uncorrected proof; offprint of published version.

Heavily corrected typescript, offprint of published version in Proceedings of the Royal Institution vol 36.

Includes editorial correspondence.