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Dated at the Robert A. Millikan Library, California Institute of Technology.

(Pasted inside the back cover is a statement of Eddington’s account with the Clarendon Press in respect of sales of Stars and Atoms during the year ending 31 Mar. 1944.)

(The accompanying list of attendees (C2/1b) is subscribed ‘Lemaître [one of the attendees] 1924’, which may indicate the year in which the lectures were given.)

These papers are both in Eddington’s own hand.

(The words ‘Broadcast—Calcutta’ have been added above the title and struck through. Cf. Douglas, pp. 105-6. Two lectures of the same title are listed in D2/3.)

(This paper includes a description of Eddington’s visit to the Laboratory in Oct. 1934. W. E. Burcham described the circumstances of its composition as follows: ‘towards the end of 1934 Sir Arthur Eddington wrote a pamphlet describing the Cavendish and its achievements to form the basis of ‘an appeal to the friends of science and of Cambridge’. The pamphlet was published in Feb. 1935, and privately circulated to possible benefactors both within and outside Cambridge. See ‘The Cavendish High-voltage Laboratory 1935-39’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. liii, pp. 121-2. (The title appears under the heading ‘Miscellaneous’ in D2/3.))

(The latest publication referred to in this paper is from 1923.)

(This is an early version of part of a report to the Royal Society by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee. The latest date mentioned in it is 14 July 1919, and the report was received by the Society on 30 October and read on 6 November.)

(Folios 13–15, which are wanting, may have been discarded intentionally; see the note on f. 12.)

These papers are all in Eddington’s own hand. None is explicitly dated.

University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy.—Describes the contents of the second of two boxes of Eddington papers formerly in the possession of Noel B. Slater.