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1) Mayor Family Photograph Album I - with original images of John Grote and family. Photographs labelled, often with elaborate hand-drawn frames. Numerous illustrations in ink and watercolour of churches, houses, landscapes etc relevant to the figures whose photographs are pasted to the illustrated page.

2) Mayor Family Album II - mostly cartes de visite of Victorian national figures. Order of re-opening service to commemorate restoration of Acton Church, 25 Aug. 1898 at front. Includes foreign and British royalty and nobility, American Civil War figures, academics, writers, clergy, politicians, etc. Includes 2ff of carte de visite sized reproductions of portrait prints of Dutch notables. Loose photographs towards back of book: Dr Carpenter; Parnell; Bradlaugh; two with names not yet made out; Gambetta; G. H. Lewes; photograph labelled 'Giove, detto di Verospi... [Jupiter Verospi]. Reproduction of brass from tomb of Sir Roger de Trumpington pasted in at end

3) File of single photographs of the Mayor family: unidentified silhouette (drawing, not photograph); Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (2 copies, both labelled 'Grandpapa' on back, one incorrectly labelled 'Joseph B. Grote - by John Gibbins?); Alexandrina Mayor (labelled Mrs J. B. Grote on back), with imprinted image identified by John Gibbins as Leslie Stephen; John Barber Lightfoot, bishop of Durham; H. J. Roby; Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (as younger man). Originally in red file supplied by John Gibbins, removed as this was too small.

4) Grey folder of images used in the production of John Gibbins' biography of John Grote. Many of the photographs have notes of identity and ages by Gibbins. Glassine envelope labelled EDC 1160, containing photographs as follows: 'Mrs Joseph Grote; photograph of portrait of Selina Peckwell (later 'Mrs George Grote') by Lawrence; Alice Mayor; Robert Mayor; Robert and Caroline Mayor; Maria Grote (wife of Andrew Macdonald Grote); Isabella Grote (nee Moore, wife of Charles Grote); Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (two photographs, one a vignette of the second); photographs of J. B. Mayor and his wife Alexandrina backing each other on 1 sheet; J. B. Mayor; Robert John Grote Mayor, aged 2, with his father J. B. Mayor; Alice Mayor; Alexandrina Mayor; Lady Affleck. All the preceding carte de visite size. Mix of larger photographs and cartes de visite: Alexandrina Mayor; Brook Foss Westcott, bishop of Durham; John Grote, Alexandrina Grote, and Charlotte La Trobe; W. Wharton [?]; J. B. Mayor; John Grote; John Grote. Larger, loose photographs: George Grote; Benjamin Jowett; Mrs Cameron; bust of George Grote [at Trinity]; unidentified; photograph labelled 'Thomson master of Trinity', identified by Gibbins as 'Joseph Mayor Esq., St. John's College'; Sketch of Francis Grote; H. J. Roby; Leslie Stephen; engraving from sketch portrait of George Grote by Lowes Dickinson.

5) Contents of black box file, now discarded. Daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet [in leather case, believed by John Gibbins to be Andrew Grote, but Andrew Grote the elder died in 1835 and Claudet's studio at King William St did not open until 1844]. Brown envelope labelled 1-13a, containing two photographs of Alexandrina Grote/Mayor, 'A. G. Grote'/'Mrs George Grote', George Grote (all cartes de visite size), photographic reproduction of etching from 'Cambridgeshire Collection' (Cambridgeshire Libraries) showing 'Trumpington Church, Cambridge, Funeral of Mr Fawcett', sheet of paper with photocopies of this and three other images from the Cambridgeshire Collection, large portrait of Joseph Bickersteth Mayor with photograph labelled 'Rome. Models' on back (page from photograph album?). Brown envelope labelled 26-25, containing photographic postcard of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, photographic reproduction of Selina Peckwell portrait, photographs of Andrew Grote (jr?), George Grote, Alexandrina Mayor (Mrs Joseph Mayor), Arthur Grote, Joseph Grote, J. E. B. Mayor, J. B. Pearson, and a photographic reproduction of portrait of George Grote sr. Brown envelope labelled 64-75, containing photograph of Alice [Mayor], photograph of Alexandrina Mayor with her son Robin as a baby, Robin Mayor, three figures (un-named), Alice and Robin Mayor, Robin and Henry Mayor, 'Dr Hart', Sir John Seeley, four photographs (all of Joseph Mayor? only one labelled as such). Small brown envelope labelled 'John Grote (Photos)', containing photographs of Joseph Bickersteth Mayor and one of Harold Browne.

6) Typed transcript of Robin John Grote Mayor's diary for 1892 covering a trip to Greece with friends. Two copies, each 109 ff. Second copy has typed poem, 'There is a Knowing', at end, 1 f.

7) Beatrice Mayor's autobiographical work, 'One Family of Ten'. Typescript, [5 ff.] + 75 ff., foliated.

The correspondence in this section is presented as follows:

J/1-J/341: Alphabetical by correspondent, 1927-1994.
J/342-J/412: Shorter scientific correspondence, 1936-1993. Presented in chronological order; indexed.
J/413-J/422: Requests for off-prints, 1940-1990. Presented in alphabetical order; not indexed.
J/423-J/443: References and recommendations, 1948-1985 and undated. Further subdivided as follows:
J/423-J/424: Grants and funding, 1948-1976
J/425-J/430: Higher degrees, 1950-1980
J/431-J/435: Royal Society, 1951-1985
J/436-J/437, Honours and awards, 1951-1983
J/438-J/442: Appointments and promotions, 1954-171
J/443: Requests for advice
Note that some recommendations etc appear in the files of correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent, J/1-J/341.

H/1-H/14: Scientific correspondence. H/1-H/6 comprise principal correspondents, in alphabetical order; H/7-H/14 comprise shorter scientific correspondence, in chronological order.

H/15-H/36: General correspondence, mostly arranged in chronological order. H/32-H/35 comprise the contents of a folder inscribed 'Letters to JJ from distinguished people and others'; H/36 is a bundle of telegrams.

The material covers twenty-four UK and overseas organisations with which Synge was involved, c 1936-1993. These are presented alphabetically, as follows:

H/1: Aberdeen Biochemical Association
H/2-H/26: Agricultural Research Council
H/27-H/42: Association of Scientific Workers
H/43-H/55: Biochemical Society
H/56-H/58: British National Committee for Biochemistry
H/59-H/67: British Nutrition Foundation
H/68: Cambridge University Natural Science Club
H/69-H/70: Chemical Society
H/71: Chemical Structure Association
H/72: Haldane Research Centre, India
H/73-H/74: Joint Consultative Organisation for Research and Development in Agriculture and Food
H/75: Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine
H/76: Medical Research Council
H/77-H/79: Nutrition Society
H/80: Ray Club
H/81-H/82: Royal Institute of Chemistry
H/83-H/95: Royal Society
H/96-H/101: Royal Society of Chemistry
H/102: Royal Society of Edinburgh
H/103: Société de Chimie Biologique
H/104: Society for Analytical Chemistry
H/105-H/109: Society for General Microbiology
H/110: United Kingdom Council for Food Science and Technology
H/111: Wallace & Tiernan Ltd

Printed material (reports etc) produced by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and British School at Rome, and reports of excavations in Cyprus published by the Journal of Hellenic Studies.

The material is presented as follows:

F/1-F/118: Publications (1940-1992). This material is further divided as follows:
Drafts, F/1-F/7. A chronological sequence of material relating to publications, or to the intention to publish. Where applicable reference has been made to the bibliography of Synge's published work in the Royal Society memoir of Synge (A/1) in the form Bibliog. .. (1940-1992)
Translations, F71-F/90, (c 1940-1977)
Editorial correspondence, F/91-F/118. Arranged alphabetically by publisher or journal title (1940-1992)

F/119-F/171: Lectures (1942-1984)

F/172-F/176: Broadcasts (1947-1961)

F/177-F/192: 'Unpublished Etc' (c 1938-1979). Contents of Synge's two folders so inscribed. The second folder was found inside the first. Chiefly drafts by Synge, including book-reviews.

F/193-F/197: Off-prints (1937-1992 and undated)

F/1-F/32: Principally drafts and correspondence relating to Thomson's public lectures and speeches, 1890-1938. F/27 is a notebook used by E.P. Adams for typescript notes on lectures by Thomson.
F/33-F/64: Publications by Thomson. F/39-F/46 relate to Conductivity of Electricity through Gases (1903); F/51-F/55 relate to Rays of Positive Electricity and their application to Chemical Analysis (1913).

Notebooks, papers and correspondence documenting the bulk of Synge's research work. The material is presented as follows:

E/1-E/48: Notebooks, 1936-1933. The notebooks document Synge's research from postgraduate studies in the mid 1930s, through work for the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Rowett Research Institute and Food Research Institute, to post-retirement work in the 1990s on electronic storage of chemical information. The bulk of the notebooks are a sequence I-XXVII running from 1938 to c 1979. There are also notebooks used for references from searches of the Science Citation Index. At E/43-E/48 are notebooks used by three collaborators: J.C. Wood (1952-1954); M.A. Youngson (1958-1962); and S. Matai (1968-1969).

E/49-E/101: Research notes, 1938-1987. The material includes: reports on work on proteins for the Wool Industries Research Association (E/49-E/59, 1938-1943); wartime work on grass protein (E/60-E/63, 1939-1943) and gramicidin (E/67, 1944-1946); studies on the nutritive value of by-products of the herring industry (E/75-E80, 1949-1951); papers relating to computer searching for chemical information (E/89-E/94,1981).

The material is very slight and in consequence does not represent the full extent of Thomson's involvement with British and overseas societies and organisations. The best documented body is the Committee on Science in the Educational System of Great Britain, of which Thomson was Chairman.

The material is presented alphabetically, with dates and a brief indication of any information of particular interest.

Taylor's undimmed scientific reputation, the high respect he enjoyed, and the eagerness with which younger scientists continued to seek and accept his advice, emerge with remarkable clarity from the letters, most of which date from the later period of his life.

As with the personal correspondence in Section A, only incoming letters usually survive. Professor G.K. Batchelor was, however, able to obtain originals or photocopies of Taylor's letters from some of his correspondents, and thus reconstruct a relatively complete sequence. Examples of this can be found at D.7, D.13, D.29, D.43-D.46, D.52, D.60, D.64, D.65, D.71, D.87.

Apart from these more substantial exchanges, some ms. drafts or copies of Taylor's replies to individual correspondents also survive. They are noted in the relevant entries. A full list is appended below for ease of reference.

D.6, D.7, D.9

D.10, D.12, D.13, D.14

D.21, D.24, D.29

D.30, D.35

D.41, D.44

D.50, D.52, D.53

D.60, D.64, D.65

D.71, D.72, D.74, D.76

D.87

D.91

The material is not extensive, and is arranged as follows:

D/1-D/12: General correspondence and papers: including papers relating to Synge's appointment; his plan of research; and material relating to Lord Rothschild's 1971 Green Paper 'A Framework for Government Research and Development' (D/5-D/7),

D/13-D/17: Chemistry Division: administrative papers

D/18-D/19: Project reports on Synge's research

The material in this section is very slight. It consists of a few research notes, 1899-1920 and n.d., and photographs from the period 1893-1934.

There is documentation of Synge's appointment: his headship of the Department of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry, including research programmes, equipment and staff; Agricultural Research Council Visiting Groups; and quite extensive administrative material. There is also material relating to the Institute's Strathcona Club of which Synge was a loyal member, and a little memorabilia.

The material is presented as follows:

C/1-C/2: Appointment

C/3-C/56: Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry Department, including: C/3-C/7, research programme and reports; C8-C/20, estimates; C/21-C/37, equipments and supplies; C38-C/45, staffing; C/46-C/52, departmental notices; C/53-C/56, miscellaneous.

C/57-C/63: Agricultural Research Council

C/64-C/78: RRI administrative notices

C/79-C/92: RRI annual reports

C/93-C/96: RRI newletters

C/97-C/100: The Strathcona Club

C/101-C/103: memorabilia