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Manuscripts/MS Add.8075 contains:
1-12 Notes and correspondence, mainly on meteorological subjects
13-17 Miscellaneous drafts and notes, mainly on mathematical subjects
18-20 Work on meteors
21 Correspondence of John Welsh
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Francis John Welsh Whipple: Notes and Papers

Title Notes and correspondence, mainly on meteorological subjects
Reference MS Add.8075/1-12
Covering Dates 1912–1943
Manuscripts/MS Add.8075/1-12 contains:
1 Obituary notice of Francis John Welsh Whipple, reprinted from Proceedings of the Physical Society, Vol. LV. 1943
2 Patent No. 19055, 20 August 1912, 'Improvements in indicators'. 1912
3 Folder of notes, diagrams and drafts on the 'Mechanism of Cyclones'. 1917
4 Correspondence with L.F. Richardson and Gilbert D. West on Thermal transpiration. 1919–1922
5 Folder, 'Meteorological Office - Articles on Ice Pinnacles and Ice Crystals'. Contains notes, diagrams and drafts for articles; correspondence with Sir William Bragg on the structure of ice crystals. 1922–1924
6 Notes and correspondence 'on rainbow colours'; notes and correspondence on 'dissipation coefficient for small ions in air free from Aitken nuclei'. 1926–1940
7 Notebook, 'Cloud Observation at Kew Observatory; MS, 'Cloud Diagrams and Comparisons with Cloud Photographs'. 1929
8 Folder of notes on 'The Colour and spectrum of lightning' and 'The intensity of sky-radiation during twilight' by Whipple and others. 1929
9 Folder, 'Effect of Grass on Earth Temperature at Kew', with related correspondence. 1931–1938
10 Folder, 'Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research - Request for information regarding Atmospheric Pollution'. Contains notes and observations, 'The part played by foreign particles in the production of fog', and correspondence with Sir Frank Smith. 1937
11 Folder of seismological observations, with correspondence on equipment. 1939
12 Correspondence and notes on mathematics with T.W. Chaundy. 1943

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