Correspondence of Sir Edward Sabine, together with two volumes of correspondence on Terrestrial Magnetism by Sir Edward Sabine, Reverend Humphrey Lloyd and others.
Sabine , Sir , Edward , 1788-1883 , Knight , General and geophysicistCorrespondence and papers relating to the Royal Society relations with the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), current files contain:
a) British National Committee for Geodynamics (BNC Geodynamics) 8 files, 1970-1980
b) International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) 24 files, 1963-1980
c) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) loose papers, 1980-1982
d) International Union of Radio Science (URSI) 6 files, 1968-1976
e) International Biological Programme (IBP) 4 files, 1970-1975 (but a much larger collection of IBP papers from the Society's modern records centre has been microfilmed between 2001-2005 and the originals destroyed because of their poor physical condition). The archive holds mateial relating to the International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957-1958, particularly the establishment, administration and scientific results from the Royal Society Base at Halley Bay, Antarctica.
International Council of Scientific UnionsThesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ion the University of London, 1940, 'The glacial deposits west of the Taff, South Wales' by John Cedric Griffiths.
Griffiths , John Cedric , fl 1940