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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Sir William Hunter McCrea FRS (1904-1999) VOLUME | Introduction Section A: Biographical Section C: Research Section D: Publications Section B: University career NCUACS catalogue no.138/3/05 by Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Compiled by: Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell Date of material: 1890-2004 Deposited in: Extent of material: 186 boxes, ca 3,900 items Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of William Hunter McCrea FRS, (1904-1999), astronomer NCUACS catalogue no. 138/3/05 © 2005 National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath The Archives, Royal Holloway University of London Reference code: GB 0505 PP46 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists is supported by the following societies and organisations: Biochemical Society Friends of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics Institute of Physics Royal Society Salters’ Company St John’s College Cambridge Trinity College Cambridge Royal Astronomical Society Royal Society of Chemistry Royal Holloway University of London Wellcome Trust W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS COLLECTION MAY YET BE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: THE ARCHIVIST ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION B UNIVERSITY CAREER SECTION C RESEARCH SECTION D PUBLICATIONS SECTION E LECTURES A.1-A.228 B.1-B.298 C.1-C.301 D.1-D.733 E.1-E.531 SECTION F SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS F.1-F.620 SECTION J G.1-G.260 H.1-H.465 J.1-J.483 SECTION H SECTION G CORRESPONDENCE VISITS AND CONFERENCES HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 GENERAL INTRODUCTION PROVENANCE The papers were received for cataloguing from Royal Holloway University of London in 2004. OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF WILLIAM HUNTER McCREA William Hunter McCrea was born on 13 December 1904 in Dublin but moved to Chesterfield, Derbyshire before he was three. Here he was educated at the Central (elementary) School and the Grammar School, from which he won an entrance scholarship in Mathematics to Trinity College, Cambridge. He read for the Mathematical Tripos, becoming a Wrangler 1926, and after graduating began research with R.H. Fowler. Recognition came early with a Cambridge University Rayleigh Prize, a Trinity College Rouse Ball Senior Studentship, a Sheepshanks Exhibition and an Isaac Newton Studentship. After spending the year 1928-1929 at Gottingen University he moved to a succession of academic appointments: Lecturer in the Mathematics Department at Edinburgh University (headed by E.T. Whittaker) in 1930, Reader at Imperial College London in 1932 and observational evidence. Theoretical Astronomy at the recently established Sussex University. McCrea and University best known for his work on relativity and cosmology. The following brief account of some of his Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s University Belfast in 1936. In 1943 he was given leave from Royal Greenwich Observatory staff, effectively put Sussex on the world astronomy map. 1944 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Royal Holloway University of London, an he took up his last appointment as Science Research Council supported Research Professor of Belfast to undertake Operational Research in the Admiralty in the team led by P.M.S. Blackett and in appointment he took up at the end of the war. McCrea remained at Royal Holloway until 1966 when Professor R.J. Tayler, with the support of the Astronomer Royal R.v.d.R. Woolley and other senior McCrea’s research covered many areas of mathematics, physics and astronomy, but he is probably He had a particular interest in star formation and developed an innovative principal interests draws on the obituary by Robert Smith and Leon Mestel in The Observatory Magazine. McCrea was an advocate, along with E.A. Milne, of the use of a Newtonian framework to interest in relativity led to a contentious dispute with Herbert Dingle on the famous ‘twin paradox’. During the same period he was one of the few people to take seriously the steady-state theory developed by H. Bondi, T. Gold and F. Hoyle, showing how to treat the theory within the mathematical framework of general relativity, though he later accepted that the theory was ruled out by provide simple derivations of the expanding universe models of general relativity. In the 1950s his W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 (though not widely supported) model for the origin of the solar system. He was the first to make a quantitative study of the rate of formation of hydrogen molecules on the surfaces of dust grains in space, a process crucial to many reactions in interstellar chemistry. He was quick to realise in the 1960s that the newly postulated phenomenon of mass transfer in close binaries could be used to explain the presence of ‘blue stragglers’ which occupied the extended main sequence of some globular clusters. McCrea wrote some 280 scientific papers and a number of books including Relativity Physics (1935), Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions (1942) and the less technical Physics of the Sun and Stars (1950). McCrea played a major role in British astronomy. From 1944 he spent many years on the Admiralty’s Board of Visitors of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and on its Science Research Council successor. He was very actively involved in the RGO’s Tercentenary celebrations (1675-1975), writing an historical review for the occasion which was published by the HMSO. In 1985 he served on a Science and Engineering Research Council (GSERC) Astronomy Working Group (chairman J.F.C. Kingman) which reviewed arrangements for ground-based astronomy. McCrea strongly dissented from the subsequent decision of the SERC (announced March 1986) to move the RGO from Herstmonceux in Sussex. His work for scientific societies was extensive, including, for example, serving on key Royal Society committees with respect to astronomy and space science. However, it was his contribution to the Royal Astronomical Society that was unique, having held all four offices Institute of Technology, Cleveland in 1964, and often travelled as an exchange visitor under Royal Society auspices, for example to the USSR in 1960 and 1968, India in 1976 and Egypt in 1981. He continuously from 1936 to 1980. He was frequently asked to be visiting professor for long or short periods, for example at the University of California, Berkeley in 1956 and 1967 and at the Case was the first British scientist to make an official visit, also under the Royal Society auspices, to Argentina after the Falklands War. As a great admirer of Georges Lemaitre, he was particularly In his extensive overseas commitments over many years he was almost an ambassador for British pleased to be the first occupant of the Georges Lemaitre Chair at the University of Louvain in 1969. (President, Secretary, Treasurer and Foreign Correspondent), and serving on its Council almost died in Lewes, Sussex on 25 April 1999 aged 94. including election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1952, the award of the Gold Medal of the In 1933 he married Marian Nicol Core who died in 1995. They had one son and two daughters. He astronomy. His distinction in research and services to astronomy were recognised by many honours and awards Royal Astronomical Society in 1976 and a knighthood in 1985. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION The papers are presented in the order given in the list of contents. They cover the period 1890-2004. Section A, Biographical, presents significant material relating to McCrea’s education and career, honours and awards. There are obituaries, interviews and biographical and autobiographical writings. The autobiographical writings consider some of his principal areas of research activity such as ‘statistical physics’, ‘quantum physics’, ‘Dirac’s Large Number hypothesis (LNh) and cosmology’, ‘solar system problems’ and ‘Relativity’. Of especial interest for the beginning of his career are the folders of notes made and the 37 notebooks kept by him as an undergraduate and research student at Trinity College Cambridge, 1923-1929, including the period at Géttingen in 1928-1929. Amongst the lecturers and topics represented are P.A.M. Dirac (Modern Quantum Mechanics), A.S. Eddington (Stellar Astronomy), R.H. Fowler (Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Gases), D.R. Hartree (Physics of the Quantum Theory), H. Jeffreys (Operational Methods), J.E. Littlewood (Analysis Theory of Series) and F.J.M. Stratton (Stellar Physics). Also presented here are a series of ‘personal’ scrapbooks beginning with no. 3 ‘1960-1967 with a few earlier items’ and continuing to the end of his life with no.17 ‘1993-1997’. The scrapbooks document McCrea’s career in photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes of meetings, invitation cards, table plans, etc. A series of seven ‘general’ scrapbooks cover the period 1960-1997 and contain principally press-cuttings, especially obituaries. Astronomical Society. Sussex. There is correspondence relating to his early career at Imperial and Belfast, 1934-1944, correspondence and papers relating to Royal Holloway including the Mathematics Department and menu cards, seating plans and similar. Many relate to academic occasions, especially in the University of London or scientific occasions, for example at the Royal Society and the Royal Section B, University Career, documents a succession of university positions at Edinburgh, Imperial College London, Queen’s University Belfast, Royal Holloway University of London and University of other matters, aspects of the work of the Astronomy Centre, 1966-1989. However, the largest group There is also a great deal of other personal memorabilia in the form of invitation cards, programmes, continuing after his departure for Sussex, 1945-1984, while the Sussex material documents, amongst Belfast. in 1956 and 1967 and Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio in 1964. Also presented here are McCrea’s notes on the university teaching of others (subsequent to his own undergraduate and postgraduate education), including E.T. Whittaker and C.G. Darwin at Edinburgh and J. Todd at earlier part of his career at Edinburgh, Imperial and Belfast and continues at Royal Holloway. There is also teaching material for a number of his Visiting Professorships: University of California, Berkeley of university material relates to McCrea’s teaching which is a particularly valuable record for the W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Section C, Research, is predominantly the contents of McCrea’s titled folders which may include manuscript working, drafts, correspondence and off-prints. from 1928 to the 1980s and are presented in chronological order as far as possible. The folders cover an extended period Folder topics include, amongst many others, relativity, ‘Milne Theory’, stellar models, interstellar molecules and continual creation. Folder titles may also indicate an association with the work of collaborators, for example ‘Kermack - McCrea Problems’ in the 1930s, and with that of research students, especially at Royal Holloway. Some of the folders contained drafts for identifiable publications and lectures and assignment amongst the sections of the catalogue was not straightforward. Section D, Publications, presents a major chronological sequence of drafts and related material for McCrea’s publications, covering the exceptionally long period of seventy years, 1928-1997. The non- availability of a reliable bibliography of McCrea's publications, especially for the period after 1970, meant that the designation of drafts as intended for publication was sometimes tentative. A separate sequence of reviews by McCrea covers the period 1949-1995. Publications correspondence documents McCrea in a number of advisory roles including journal editor. The largest group of papers relates to the Cambridge University Press, 1964-1991 where McCrea was an editor of the Press's General Relativity series and of the Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics from the conception of the series in 1972. Correspondents include fellow editor D.W. Sciama. Of particular interest is a much shorter sequence of correspondence and papers relating to The 1939. Observatory Magazine. McCrea became an editor in 1935 and is referred to as a former editor in McCrea's public and invitation lectures, 1931-1993. The sequence documents the great variety of T.G. Cowling and E.A. Milne, and offering a paper ‘as an outsider’ J.B.S. Haldane. Correspondents include fellow editor R.v.d.R. Woolley and contributors S. Chandrasekhar, 1936 to Brioni, Croatia in 1990. Also presented here are a small group of lectures by other scientists and a duplicated typescript copy of a lecture on the meaning of wave mechanics given by Erwin Whittaker, possibly at an occasion at Queen’s University Belfast while McCrea was professor there, topics on which McCrea talked and the range of his audiences in Britain and overseas from Oslo in including a notebook used for McCrea’s notes of lectures by A.C. Aitkin, W.O. Kermack and E.T. Section E, Lectures, presents a major chronological sequence of drafts and related material for McCrea’s British Association papers cover an extended period 1934-1983 including an early period Studies, a proposed UK Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), Royal Society and the UK Science Research Council (SRC) / Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC). Section F, Societies and organisations, presents records of McCrea’s association with twenty-five UK and international organisations including the British Association, Dublin Institute for Advanced Schrédinger in Dublin in 1952. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 from 1934 to the beginning of the Second World War when he was involved in various capacities with the work of the Committee of Section A (Mathematical and Physical Sciences). Although the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies material covers a very short period 1940-1942, this represents the founding of the Institute. McCrea was a member of the Governing Board of the School of Theoretical Physics from 31 October 1940. There is significant documentation of the proposed UK Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, 1960-1966, possible locations being Cambridge (its eventual home) and Brighton. McCrea was a member (later Chairman) of the Subcommittee of the British National Committee for Astronomy which considered the proposed Institute. IAU papers principally relate to its general assemblies and symposia, 1955-1988, the 1935 Paris General Assembly being represented by historical reflections written by McCrea in 1988. Astronomical Society is documented by one of the largest components of the archive. McCrea’s long association with the Royal There is a good record in correspondence and other papers of his Presidency, 1961-1963 and of the RAS Club, of which McCrea was President for many years. The most substantial group of RAS papers relates to the history of the Society, McCrea contributing a chapter on the 1930s in the second volume of its history (published 1987) covering the period, 1920-1980. McCrea also had a very long association move. He corresponded with politicians and colleagues and a number of colleagues copied their letters to him. He also wrote on a number of occasions to The Times which published an article by the RGO from Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex. McCrea was a very active campaigner against the him on 23 April 1986. He attended a meeting of Fellows at the Royal Society, 23 May 1986, and a meeting convened by Patrick Moore, 6 June 1986, to express and to co-ordinate opinions that opposed the SERC's decision. with the Royal Greenwich Observatory which is extensively documented. There are records of the Admiralty Board of Visitors and its successor, the SRC RGO Committee and of the celebrations of the RGO Tercentenary (1675-1975) in which McCrea took a leading role. He prepared an historical review of the Observatory which was published by the HMSO in 1975, gave a number of papers on the RGO's history and wrote an article for the tercentenary exhibition catalogue. The most significant of his RGO papers, however, are probably those which relate to the decision of the SERC to move Records of McCrea’s Royal Society committee service illuminate developments in British astronomy and space science in the decades following the Second World War. There are also papers relating to two discussion meetings he helped organise: the origin and early evolution of the galaxies in 1979 and the constants of physics in 1983. Finally, McCrea’s SRC / SERC material, 1966-1985, provides further documentation relating to British astronomy and space science and the future of the RGO. He was a Section G, Visits and conferences, provides a useful but incomplete record of McCrea’s travel in the UK and overseas to attend all kinds of scientific meetings and conferences. The papers cover the period 1954-1989 and include his Visiting Professorships at University of California, Berkeley in 1956 and 1967, University of Cairo in 1973 and University of Otago, Dunedin, in 1979 and his visits as Royal Society Exchange Visitor to the USSR in 1960 and 1968 and to Egypt in 1981. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 regular visitor to the University of Liege, Belgium to attend international astrophysical symposia and to the USA to attend Texas Symposia on relativistic astrophysics. Meetings held under IAU and Royal Society auspices are also to be found in Section F. Section H, History of science and scientific biography, represents a major interest and commitment of McCrea. He wrote and lectured on historical and biographical aspects of areas of his scientific interest, especially associated with major anniversaries. He also wrote many obituaries and the Royal Society biographical memoirs of H.H. Plaskett and R.v.d.R. Woolley. There are particularly large accumulations of material relating to Einstein, R.H. Fowler, E.A. Milne, Plaskett, E. Schrédinger and Woolley. Records of his principal historical writing on the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Greenwich Observatory are to be found in Section F. Section J, Correspondence, is extensive and important and is presented in a number of alphabetical and chronological series suggested by McCrea’s own arrangement. It covers the period 1942-1996. There is correspondence with colleagues and others relating to all aspects of his work including research, publications, lectures and visits and conferences. There are many examples of correspondence and papers from members of the public and amateur scientists on such topics as cosmology and relativity theory. Furthermore, there is significant correspondence in other parts of the archive, for example in association with his publications work and his professional affiliations with Unsdld, G.J. Whitrow, A.W. Wolfendale and R. v.d.R. Woolley. There is also an index of correspondents. with most of the major scientific figures in his areas of interest and the following list of principal J.A. Jacobs, A.C.B. Lovell, R.A. Lyttleton, S.K. Runcorn, D.W. Sciama, J.L. Synge, R.J. Tayler, A. correspondents is therefore highly selective: H. Bondi, S. Chandrasekhar, T.G. Cowling, H. Dingle, scientific societies and organisations. Taking the archive as a whole, there is correspondence of note Bath 2005 Peter Harper W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL, A.1-A.228 1890-2004 A.1 OBITUARIES A.2-A.40 BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL A.41-A.79 EDUCATION A.80-A.118 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS A.119-A.142 SCRAPBOOKS A.143-A.200 OTHER MEMORABILIA A.201-A.211 PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE A.212-A.220A MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS A.221-A.228 PHOTOGRAPHS W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 OBITUARIES Daily Telegraph The Independent by Leon Mestel The Observatory Magazine by Robert Smith and Leon Mestel The Times by R.C. Smith BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 1947-1992 Interviews Transcript of taped interview for American Institute Physics with correspondence manuscript related notes of and 1978-1985 1978-1979 1984-1985 1991-1992 transcripts, manuscript notes, Three folders. ‘1984 P. Dolan Interviews’ The interview was carried out by Robert Smith of the Merseyside County Museum on 22 September 1978. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: photocopied papers. ‘W.H. McC 1991 M.S. not xeroxed’ Manuscript and photocopied manuscript drafts relating to McCrea’s research interests Autobiographical writings 1991-1992 A.10-A.14 A.10-A.13 Four folders. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Contents of folder so inscribed: miscellaneous shorter manuscript drafts notes on involvement with RGO, parentage etc. including A.15-A.21 Biographical articles 1947-1967, n.d. of folder Contents reference: reference to McCrea and his work. divided published chiefly into articles seven for that ease include of a At A.19 are manuscript notes headed and ‘WHMcC 1966 May 16’. ‘Tennis problem’ A.22-A.25 Entries for biographical directories 1966-1990 Four folders. A.26-A.35 Lists of publications of lists, A.35 are file 1972 and 1970 and A.36-A.40 Ten folders. At list unpublished writings, 1978 found with publications lists. At A.33 is the contents of folder inscribed ‘List of reprints on shelves’ There does not appear to be a complete list of McCrea’s publications. Includes lists organised chronologically, by topic and by publication type. 1971-1972 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. For the McCrea’s publications see Section D. principal chronological sequence of ‘Original MSS’ drafts for W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 A.41-A.79 EDUCATION 1923-1929 University of Cambridge notes and notebooks. McCrea was an undergraduate student and research student at Trinity College, Cambridge. A.41-A.42A Undergraduate notes 1925, 1929 A.41, A.41A ‘Elliptical functions S. Pollard Easter Term’ Contents of envelope of envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes, April-May 1925 A.42, A.42A ‘Dirac Michaelmas 1929’ A.43-A.79 Undergraduate and postgraduate notebooks Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes, softback notebook inscribed front cover with McCrea’s name and Cambridge College and ‘Modern Quantum Mechanics Michaelmas 1929’. inside Chesterfield Grammar School notebook inscribed ‘English Essays’, ‘VI Lower and ‘1919’ on front cover. The Chesterfield Grammar School work has been torn out. Remaining notes Trinity College Cambridge. 1923-1929 Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Applied Maths Mr Birtwistle and Mr Dean’ Inscribed on first page ‘Mr Birtwistle Pembroke Applied Math’. 1p notes only dated in ‘26.10.23’. relate to McCrea’s work at Used from ‘12.11.23’. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Infinitesimal Calculus Mr Pollard’ and on first page with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Analysis. Mr Pollard (Trin) Michaelmas 1923’ Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Electricity Mr Birtwistle 1923’ Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘1923 Solid Geometry Mr Welsh’ Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and College and ‘1923 Algebraic Solid Geometry II’ Used for solutions to examples from ‘24.11.23’ Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Electricity’ and inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Electricity - Mr Birtwistle’ and ‘Electron Theory - Mr Cunningham’ First page of notes headed ‘Electron Theory’. In use Lent, Easter and Michaelmas Terms 1924. Loose papers enclosed. Notebook inscribed in ink on first page with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Lent Term 1924 Dynamics Mr Dean’ and in pencil ‘Easter Term Mr Birtwistle’ and ‘Mr Pars’ Mr Littlewood Lent Term 1924’ Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Lent Term 1924. Differential Geometry Mr Welsh’ Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and on first page ‘Analysis Theory of Series W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Thermodynamics Mr Fowler Easter Term 1924 Mr Milne Michaelmas Term 1924 7 lectures in Lent Term 1925’ 1924-1925 First page of thermodynamics notes Loose papers enclosed. dated ‘24.4.24’. Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Michaelmas Term 1924 Electron Theory Mr Cunningham’. First page of electron Loose papers enclosed. theory notes dated ‘17.11.24’. Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Hydrodynamics. Mr Birtwistle’ First page of hydrodynamics notes headed ‘Michaelmas 1924 14.10.24’. Loose papers enclosed. First page of enclosed. notes dated ‘17.1.25’. Loose papers First page of notes dated ‘16.1.25’. Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and ‘Thermodynamics B. (contd in Lent Term 1925)’ inside front cover with McCrea’s name and Inscribed College and ‘Lent Term 1925 Volume & Surface Integrals. Mr Pollard’ Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Lent Term 1925 Volume & Surface Integrals. I] Mr Pollard’ Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Kinetic Theory of Gases Mr Fowler Mich. 1925’ First page of notes dated ‘17.10.25’. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and Jeffreys Michaelmas Term 1925’ ‘Operational Methods College and Mr Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Lent 1926 Mr Francis Algebra’ Loose papers enclosed. Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Mr Dirac Easter 1926’ First page of notes headed ‘ Einstein-Burgers Stat. Mechs’ and dated ‘27.4.26’. Loose papers enclosed. Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘May 1926. Mr Cunningham Crystal Lattices’ (contd)’. First page of notes dated ‘26.5.26’. First page of notes dated ‘17.1.27’. Used by McCrea for notes on the literature. Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Statistical Mechanics’ Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Mr Fowler. Lent 1927’ First page of notes headed ‘New Quantum Mechs’ and dated ‘18.1.27’. Loose pages enclosed. [? 1926] Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Lent 1927 Mr Hartree - Physics of the Quantum Theory’ Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Lent 1927’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Also inscribed inside front cover with ? German address ‘Kreuz bergweg 8’ [? Gottingen]. the are front /nternal From Constitution of the Stars. Eddington’s book of this title was published 1926. There are also notes from the back beginning with questions in German. Eddington’s notes on Notebook Inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Easter Term 1927 Prof. Eddington’ First page enclosed. of notes dated ‘23.3.27’. Loose papers Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College Used for manuscript notes from ‘30.4.27’. Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College latest Used for manuscript notes from ‘13.10.27’. Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and ‘Dirac’ Used from both ends for notes on the literature, bibliographic references, 1927. Loose papers enclosed. and College and on first page with ‘Mr Stratton Stellar Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Easter Term 1928’ and on first page ‘Prof. Eddington Stellar Astronomy’. Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name In use from ‘21.2.28’. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Physics Easter Term 1928’ Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name Used for manuscript working, manuscript draft in German, ‘Ubungen, 23.1.29’. Notebook used from both ends for notes on the literature, manuscript working etc from October 1929 Notebook Inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Géttingen Kurze Geismar Strasse 13/14’ From the front manuscript notes on ‘Prof. Milne’s Papers on Chromosphere etc’. Latest bibliographical reference 1929. Loose papers enclosed. Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Turbulence [G.I.] Taylor Eddy Motion’ to McCrea’s teaching duties Used for notes on the enclosed. Latest bibliographical reference 1929. literature. Loose papers found Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and College and ‘Dec. 1929’ Contents may relate at Edinburgh University where he was mathematics lecturer, 1930-1932. 1942-1944 McCrea was of University Belfast, 1936-1944. Professor Queen’s University Belfast / Second World War CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS 1939-2004 1939-1993 A.80-A.118 A.80-A.94 Mathematics at Queen’s ‘Queen’s Univ. Air Squadron’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence and papers re McCrea’s role in the the Queen’s University Air Squadrons generally. Branch, University Air Squadron Volunteer Teaching Reserve RAF and The papers at A.83 were found in principal folder inscribed ‘R.A. and R.E. courses’. a folder within the A.84-A.92 ‘War’ 1939-1946 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into nine for ease of reference: principally correspondence and papers re wartime service and civil defence in Belfast. At A.88 is booklet on ‘Die Panzerfaust’ inscribed ‘Found in T.V.A. Eckernférde 1945 May’, at A.90 are target shooting score cards and at A.92 are envelopes from Japan and France ‘Posted shortly before the fall of Paris 1940’. ‘War Record’ reply to circular MJ. with letter from university information Election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society Correspondence director, manuscript notes re gathering material for a book to mark the 150th Anniversary of Queen’s University McCrea’s Boyd, Department of Latin, Queen’s University, Belfast re war record of university departments, the nature of war service of those given leave of absence from the university, part- time war service etc. 1991-1993 introductory addresses for McCrea and fellow Honorary degree, National University of Ireland Notice in Nature, 29 March 1952, p.525. Printed graduands. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Visiting Cleveland, Ohio 1964 Professorship, Case Institute of Technology, 1961-1963 Invitations from Cleveland and related correspondence. McCrea was unable to accept an initial invitation because of Royal Astronomical Society, 1961-1963. his Presidency of the A.98-A.100 University of Sussex 1965-1966 McCrea was Professor of Theoretical Astronomy, 1966- 1972 Correspondence and papers re appointment. Papers include ‘Interim application for funds to support research in theoretical astronomy at the University of Sussex’ and Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux’. ‘Collaboration with the Three folders 1967-1970 A little later material re the College is at A.102. Honorary degree, Trinity College Dublin A.104-A.105 “Retirement”, 1972 July 25’ A.101, A.102 Election to Fellowship, Imperial College London 1967 McCrea’s speech on behalf of the honorary graduands, 6 July 1972. Correspondence and papers re McCrea’s election, formal presentation of Fellows, etc 1972-1973 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: correspondence and re meeting in McCrea’s honour, 25 July 1972. Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society papers Letters of congratulation. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Honorary degree, University of Sussex Correspondence and papers including McCrea’s speech of thanks. 80th birthday Includes notice for Royal Astronomical Society / University of Sussex meeting to celebrate McCrea’s 80th birthday. A.109-A.111 Knighthood 1985 1985-1998 Includes letters of congratulation and papers re Imperial Society of Knight Bachelor. Three folders. Founder member European Astronomical Society Dinner Centenary Lecture, Royal Holloway University of London William McCrea occasion the the Sir on of ‘Records’ 1942-1988 A.114-A.118 Certificate only. Signed table plan and menu. Photocopies. Contents of two folders so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: shorter correspondence and papers re career, honours and awards. subsequent Irish connexions. Includes letters of thanks for service, invitations to accept honours, etc. Papers at A.114 relate to McCrea’s time in Belfast and W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 A.119-A.142 SCRAPBOOKS 1923-1997 McCrea kept two series of scrapbooks: ‘Personal’ and ‘General’. A.119-A.135 ‘Personal’ scrapbooks 1923-1997 first The scrapbook cataloguing was no.3 in the series. personal made available for The scrapbooks include photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes of meetings, invitation cards, table plans, etc. ‘Index to Personal Scrapbook W.H. McCrea’ Contents of ringbinder so labelled. ‘Book 3 1960-67 (personal) with a few earlier items’ 1952-1967 1962-1971 small earlier front cover. Loose items Loose items enclosed. ‘Book 3A W.H. McCrea 1966-68 Personal’ Scrapbook so inscribed on enclosed. Scrapbook so inscribed on front cover. The first item is a page from the Cambridge University Reporter 30 July 1952 including notice of McCrea’s election to a Comyns Berkeley Bye-Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College. 1923-1970 Scrapbook so inscribed on enclosed. ‘Book 4 W.H. McCrea 1967 Nov - 1970 Feb (Personal)’ inscribed Contents Scrapbook predominantly 1967-1970 but at the back of the book are a items from Chesterfield School, Trinity College Cambridge etc. significantly number of ‘Book 5 W.H. McCrea 1970-1971 June (Personal)’ front cover. Loose items so on front cover. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 ‘Book 6 W.H. McCrea 1971 May - 1972 Sep.’ 1960-1972 so Scrapbook Content predominantly 1971-1972. A few earlier items at the back of the book. Loose items enclosed. inscribed cover. front on ‘Book 7 W.H. McCrea 1972 Sep - 1975 (Personal)’ 1972-1975 Contents enclosed. of scrapbook so enclosed. Loose items ‘Book 8 W.H. McCrea 1975 - 1976 Nov’ 1975-1976 Scrapbook so inscribed on enclosed. front cover. Loose items ‘Book 9 W.H. McCrea 1976 Dec - 1977 Dec Dec - 1977 Jan’ India 1976 1976-1977 Loose items 1977-1980 1979-1983 1984-1986 Contents enclosed. of scrapbook so enclosed. ‘Book 11 W.H. McCrea 1979-82’ ‘Book 10 W.H. McCrea 1978 Jan - 1980’ Scrapbook so inscribed on front cover. Scrapbook so inscribed on the front cover. enclosed. 1986-1990 Scrapbook so inscribed on enclosed. Scrapbook so inscribed on enclosed. ‘Book 12 W.H. McCrea 1984-86’ ‘Book 13 1986-88 W.H. McCrea’ front cover. Loose items front cover. Loose items Loose items W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 ‘Book 14 1988 McCrea’ 1931-1990 so Scrapbook Contents predominantly 1988 but a few earlier and later items are included. Loose items enclosed. inscribed cover. front on ‘15 W.H. McCrea 1989-1995 Personal’ 1929-1995 so Scrapbook on predominantly 1989-1995 but included. Loose items enclosed. inscribed cover. front Contents a few earlier items are ‘16 W.H. McCrea Personal 1995 - ‘ 1960-1995 so Scrapbook Contents predominantly 1995 but a few earlier items are included. Loose items enclosed. inscribed cover. front on ‘17 W.H. McCrea Personal 1993-1997’ 1993-1998 inscribed on front cover. A.136 Principally 1960-1971 1955-1997 A.136-A.142 ‘General’ scrapbooks ‘(B) W.H. McCrea 1971-1977 General’ ‘(A) W.H. McCrea 1960-1971 Cuttings (General)’ Scrapbook so obituaries. Loose items enclosed 1976-1984 Scrapbook so Contents predominantly press-cuttings 1971-1977 but a few earlier items are included. Loose items enclosed. Contents of scrapbook so obituaries. (C) W.H. McCrea Cuttings General 1977-1984’ Includes many 1955-1977 inscribed. inscribed on front cover. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 ‘(D) W.H. McCrea 1984-1989 General’ 1984-1989 Scrapbook so inscribed on front cover. ‘(E) W.H. McCrea 1988-92 General and some personal’ 1988-1992 Scrapbook so inscribed on the front cover. Predominantly many obituaries press-cuttings few invitation cards. Loose items are enclosed. including with a ‘(F) General 1992-5’ 1992-1995 Scrapbook so inscribed on front cover. obituaries. Includes many ‘(G) General 1995-Dec ‘97’ 1995-1997 Scrapbook so inscribed on enclosed. front cover. Loose items invitation especially in the A.143-A.200 OTHER MEMORABILIA Many relate University A chronological sequence with a separate sequence of newspapers and press-cuttings at A.188-A.198. At A.199- A.200 are small group of Second World War civil defence booklets. cards, programmes, menu cards, Principally to academic seating plans and similar. of London or occasions, scientific occasions, for example at the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, etc. 1890-1992 1936, 1938 a 1925-1929 1930-1931 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 1938 material relates to Cambridge. British Association meeting at 1945 Re centenary celebrations of Imperial College London. A.147, A.148 1946 Includes papers re celebration of tercentenary of Newton’s birth (A.147) and centenary of the discovery of Neptune (A.148). Two folders. A.149, A.150 1947 Includes papers re centenary of (A.149). the Chemical Society Two folders. 1948 Three folders. A.151-A.153 Two folders. A.157-A.158 1952 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 A.159-A.161 1953 Three folders. A.162, A.163 1954 Two folders. At A.163 is a little memorablia relating to the International Congress of Mathematicians, Amsterdam, 1954. A.164-A.167 1955 Four folders. At A.165 is memorabilia re general assembly of International 1955. Astronomical the September Dublin, Union, A.168-A.170 1956 Three folders. the A.171-A.173 1957 A.174-A.176 1958 Three folders. Visiting Professorship at Includes memorabilia re University of California (A.168, A.169). Three folders. Three folders. Three folders. A.180-A.182 1960 A.177-A.179 1959 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 1972, 1977 1981-1984 1990-1992 A.188-A.198 Newspapers and press-cuttings 1890-1991 Eleven folders. 1939-1940 A.199-A.200 A.201-A.211 A.201-A.204 Two folders. 1930-1992 1965-1969 ‘Personal 1966/67 Closed’ PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE Second World War civil defence booklets Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: includes personal invitations, letters of thanks, miscellaneous greetings. 1966-1968 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of of thanks, miscellaneous greetings. reference: includes personal invitations, letters A.205-A.207 ‘Personal (1967/68)’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 ‘Personal 1969/70/71’ 1966-1972 Contents invitations, letters of thanks, miscellaneous greetings. inscribed: includes folder so of personal ‘1991 April (operation-time) Letters to W.McC..’ Contents of folder so inscribed. A.210-A.211 Miscellaneous personal correspondence 1930-1992 Two folders. A.212-A.220A MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS 1929-1988 A.212-A.215 ‘Subscription’ 1966-1972 etc ‘Howlers’ 1937, n.d. Lists of ?things to do c.1938, 1970- 1982 Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript and printed material. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence, receipts for McCrea’s subscriptions to a number of organisations, principally scientific. 1929-1930 Small format softbacked notebook used for accounts. Covers loose, with three addresses for McCrea at Trinity College Cambridge, in Chesterfield and in Géttingen. Loose items enclosed include letter from Junior Bursar, Trinity College Cambridge, 30 September to 1929, Fellowships of questioning you on the subject of your theses’. mathematical to an ‘The anxious one inscribed Electors opportunity Account book beginning are have W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Black hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’ s personal address in London and the date ‘1935’ Used for ‘Diary of Work’ May to September 1935 Softback ‘Exercise Book’ inscribed on front cover ‘W.H. McCrea 1973 Feb 1 TOPICS’ Used ?for topics of prospective lectures and publications. Small format jotter 1975-1987 Used from both ends for lists numbers etc. of things to do, telephone Small format jotter Used for lists of things to do, miscellaneous jottings. A.221-A.228 PHOTOGRAPHS McCrea and S. Chandrasekhar of photograph of McCrea and S. Chandrasekhar Print taken by D. Shoenberg, December 1935. Photographs of McCrea and colleagues are to be found in the scrapbooks at A.119-A.135. With covering letter, 22 May 1991. Group photograph including McCrea at society of former pupils of Chesterfield School commemoration 1935, 1975 print The Chandrasekhar, with a covering letter. McCrea, sent was to 21 April 1975, by W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Biographical, A.1-A.228 Three postcard format photographs Includes group photograph ? with McCrea. Group McCrea photograph of scientific colleagues including ?photograph taken at Sussex university. Two photographs two scientific colleagues, one taken at Herstmonceux Two astronomical photographs ? 1931, 1974 Includes eclipse...Einstein experiment’. 1974 print inscribed on verso ‘Sobral Two photographs of Halley’s comet ‘Films’ With covering letter from M.S. Longair, 30 January 1986 Contents of Kitt Peak National Observatory envelope so inscribed: film strips ?recording a visit to Kitt's Peak where McCrea was consulting astronomer 1965 and 1975. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 SECTION B UNIVERSITY CAREER, B.1-B.298 1934-1990 B.1-B.125 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS B.126-B.298 TEACHING B.1-B.125 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS 1934-1990 [Imperial ‘IC London] University Belfast] ~ 1934 - 1942’ College and QUB [Queen's 1934-1944 Contents of folder so inscribed. McCrea was Reader in Mathematics, University of London Imperial College of Science, and Assistant Professor, 1932-1936, of Queen’s University of Belfast, 1936-1944. Mathematics, Professor and 1934 1940 1938 1936-1937 1939 January - June Includes correspondence re resignations from Zentralblatt fur Mathematik. Includes correspondence re resignations from Zentralblatt fur Mathematik. Includes Government’ 1939 July - November Elections of Secretary ‘Federal Union article by on J.H. Humphreys, and the W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 Proportional Representation Society,. McCrea ‘for acceptance ... January 1940. This was sent to for Federal Union News’, 4 1943-1944 N.d. Includes manuscript and typescript notes. B.11-B.67 Royal Holloway University of London 1945-1984 B.11-B.14 Contents of folder so inscribed. Three folders. B.11-B.13 Correspondence with College Secretary ‘Royal Holloway College Secretary and Registrar 1948-58’ 1947-1958 McCrea was London (Royal Holloway College), 1944-1966. Professor of Mathematics, University of At B.12 are papers for meeting of Sub-Committee on Awards, October 1950. The sequence includes papers relating to the University of London more generally (B.25-B.67). 1950-1984 B.15-B.19 Royal Holloway College Mathematics Department Correspondence with College Registrar 1948-1956 1947-1958 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.15-B.17 ‘W.H. McCrea Some examining 1950-1964’ 1950-1964 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: printed, manuscript and duplicated typescript material. Correspondence and papers 1955-1984 Includes photograph (B.18) and estimates for 1967-1972 quinquennium prepared 1965 and papers subsequent to McCrea’s departure from Royal Holloway in 1966. Two folders. B.20-B.24 Miscellaneous correspondence and Holloway affairs papers re Royal 1945-1984 Five folders. are B.22 papers At dinner presentation including drafts of McCrea’s speech. retired in Mathematics Department in 1980. Bradburn Lecturer Senior Mary from post and She the re her as 1945-1960 B.25-B.38 B.25-B.59 ‘Board of Studies 1945/58’ University of London Board of Studies in Mathematics A sequence of minutes of meetings so labelled presented by year. At B.23 are papers re merger of Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges. 1945-1958 1945 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.39-B.59 1944-1960 disorder Correspondence and papers Two folders. These considerable tentative. their presentation Studies and 1944-1945 found here in is Board of papers were B.40, B.41 1946 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 1949 Two folders. B.46-B.48 1950 Three folders. 1951, 1953 1957-1958 Three folders. Five folders. B.60-B.67 B.55-B.59 1960 B.52-B.54 1959 quinquennium 1957-1962. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease of re policy establishment of documents re and ‘University of London Computing Unit 1957-59’ correspondence the ‘Computer Unit’ and_ papers” including 1952-1957 reference: quinquennium 1951-1959 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.68-B.125 University of Sussex 1959-1990 McCrea was Theoretical Astronomy at Sussex, 1966-1972 and Director of the Research Group in Theoretical Astronomy. Professor of B.68-B.70 ‘Vice-Chancellor’ 1970-1990, n.d. Contents of folder so inscribed: correspondence with Vice- Chancellors and other senior Sussex colleagues. 1981-1990, n.d. B.71 1966-1989 1986 ‘Working Party on Astronomy (1966/7)’ B.71-B.111 Astronomy Centre Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: correspondence and papers. Manuscript notes by McCrea on Sussex, Astronomy and the Royal Greenwich Observatory headed ‘written 1986’ and ‘Not used’ 1966-1967 The working party was set up to decide how astronomy could be introduced into the undergraduate curriculum. The course was jointly organised by Sussex and the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux. ‘M.Sc. Course in Astronomy (1966-67) Duplicated course outlines etc. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.75-B.79 ‘1966 Oct — “Cosmology” Seminar’ 1966-1967 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: at seminars, typescript drafts, printed material etc. manuscript McCrea taken notes by B.80-B.84 ‘M.Sc. Examination’ 1966-1972 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of duplicated reference: examination revision exercises etc. manuscript, questions, typescript practice questions, and B.85-B.88 ‘Postgraduates - General’ 1966-1974 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: re postgraduate students, M.Sc. course etc. duplicated typescript papers and Group in B.90-B.91 Grant for Research Group Grant for 1965-1972 Theoretical B.89-B.100 Science Research Council supported research group in theoretical astronomy ‘S.R.C. Astronomy (1967)’ ‘S.R.C Research Astronomy 1966 (and previous)’ Copies of correspondence and papers re establishment of a research group in theoretical astronomy at Sussex. 1965-1968 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: papers _ including manuscript and typescript versions of annual report on the work of the research group. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of including ‘Theoretical Astronomy - notes on present position from ‘S.R.C. Astronomy (1968)’ correspondence correspondence Theoretical and papers Theoretical Grant for Research Group in in and_ B.92-B.94 reference: W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 W.H. McCrea’ and ‘Theoretical Astronomy: work done during the past two years with support from the S.R.C. - note from W.H. McCrea’, both dated 20 January 1968, and McCrea’s annual report on the work of the research group, 29 May 1968. ‘S.R.C. Astronomy (1969)’ Grant for Research Group in Theoretical Contents of papers. folder so inscribed: correspondence and ‘S.R.C. Group - Annual Report 1969’ Contents of papers. folder so inscribed: correspondence and B.97-B.100 ‘SRC Annual Report 1969-70 1970-71 1971-72’ 1970-1972 [1967] folder so on correspondence and_ papers __ 1p typescript list. ‘Notes Visiting Professors 1969’ Contents of ?seminars given by visitors to Astronomy Centre. inscribed: manuscript notes Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: including manuscript drafts. ‘Seminars and Colloquia - Astronomy Centre, 1966/67 Outside Speakers’ 1969-1989 Miscellaneous astronomy centre and astronomy at Sussex correspondence Lists of seminars and lectures and papers re the Seven folders. 1970-1972 B.103, B.104 B.105-B.111 Two folders. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.112-B.125 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers re Sussex affairs 1959-1986 B.112-B.120 Committee on Physics Courses for Mathematicians 1970-1972 Correspondence and papers. Nine folders. McCrea chaired the Committee. Arts Science Seminar Manuscript notes by McCrea. B.122, B.123 Howard Society 1975-1986 At B.123 is manuscript draft of Society, 16 November 1976. a talk by McCrea to the The organ of Sussex University and notes official Copy correspondence enclosed. SIGMA’ of with manuscript 1972-1979, n.d. SIGMA Mathematics Society The Howard Society is described as being affiliated to the Union of Catholic Students. McCrea was President of the Society in 1976. 1959-1974 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.126-B.298 TEACHING B.126-B.288 Teaching by McCrea B.126-B.278 Notes and drafts B.126-B.130 ‘Curves and Curve-tracing’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript notes. period These notes may have been prepared and used over an extended are complicated by the use of both sides of many papers for different Latest bibliographical reference 1942. Questions purposes different dating times. time. at _ of of B.131-B.148 ‘W.H. McCrea Complex Variable included c.1929-1974 c.1929-1974 c.1929-1974 c.1929-c.1942 1930-1944 Final Honours Tutorials General Analysis notes Some lecture B.131-B.133 ‘Lecture Notes’ ‘Complex Variable’ Lent 1931 QUB 1939 1941’ Contents of folder so inscribed. Papers enclosed within wrapper so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. First page headed ‘Function of a Complex Variable’ clipped together: Groups of found ‘Analytic continuation’, ‘The Gamma_ Function’, ‘Bessel Coefficients’, ‘Legendre functions’, ‘The Fourier Integral’, ‘Further deductions for Cauchy's Th[eorem].’, ‘Complex Variable Theory’, ‘Elliptic functions’, untitled. Manuscript notes so titled found clipped together B.135-B.139 manuscript Five folders. notes W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.140-B.148 ‘Examples’ Papers enclosed within wrapper so inscribed divided into nine for ease of reference: includes notes headed ‘Final honours’ for dates in October-November 1930, ‘General Analysis’ for dates in December 1930, ‘Complex Variable’ for December 1938 and 1939, ‘Honours Analysis’ for November-December 1941. B.149-B.151 ‘Elementary Conics’ 1930-1931 of Queen’s Contents into inscribed divided manuscript notes ‘Conics’ on ‘Analytical Geometry’, n.d. and date ‘14.5.30’. University three for Belfast ease envelope of so reference: dated ‘Summer 1931’, ‘The Ellipse’, including B.152-B.155 ‘Notes on Quantum Theory / Metals Molecules’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: ? predominantly re teaching by McCrea but includes his notes on colloquiums by R.L. Rosenberg dated ‘28.2.34’ and ‘7.3.34’. ‘Approximate solutions of Wave Equations’ B.156-B.161 ‘Course | Algebra’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript notes. The original folder was also inscribed with McCrea’s name and addresses at Imperial College (crossed out) and Queen’s University Belfast. McCrea moved to Imperial in 1932 and Belfast in 1936. Papers enclosed within wrapper so inscribed: includes manuscript notes headed ‘Potential’, ‘Molecular optics’ and ‘Wave Mechanics’. Contents of Imperial College of Science and Technology envelope so inscribed: manuscript notes. ‘Remainder of Exx / Rest loaned to S.C. June 1935’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.164-B.168 ‘Projective Looked at 1972’ Geometry Exx and Solutions ~ 1936-9. 1936-1940 Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into ease of reference: manuscript notes, duplicated papers. five for B.169-B.199 Sequence of notes found together N.d., 1932-1935 Predominantly undated. ‘Approx. of Wenizel-Brillouin applied to potential barrier after the manner of Gamov’ Manuscript notes so titled. ‘Special Relativity Early Notes in E.M.’ Manuscript notes so labelled. Manuscript notes so labelled. ‘Molecular Optics’ Manuscript notes so labelled. ‘Potentiality of a cone’ Manuscript notes so titled. so titled. Includes _ bibliographical Manuscript reference, 1933. notes ‘Some notes from Lorentz Theory of Electrons’ Manuscript notes so labelled. ‘Remainder of Notes on Elementary Quantum Theory others included in notes on Electromagnetic Theory’ ‘Remainder of Notes on Electromagnetic Theory ...’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.176-B.178 ‘Miscellaneous Notes’ Papers enclosed in wrapper so inscribed divided three for ease of reference: manuscript notes. into ‘Electron Theory’ Manuscript notes so titled. B.180-B.186 ‘Elasticity’ Sequence of manuscript notes so paginated 1-160. suggest notes prepared before 1936. Undated. titled on first page, Bibliographical references Seven folders. Manuscript examples grouped together under titles ‘Plate’, Strain’, ‘Viscous fluid’, etc. Latest date ‘London 1935’. so _ titled. Include _ bibliographical Papers enclosed in wrapper so inscribed. Manuscript references, 1933. notes ‘Some problems in the mathematical theory of elasticity’ ‘Examples. Oddments which need checking or working out’ Imperial Coll. of Science 1934-5 (Third time of delivery)’ ‘Thermodynamics Lectures in |.C.S. [Imperial College of Science] 1932-1933 1st half session W.H. McCrea’ Manuscript notes including ‘Thermodynamics Lectures at 1932-1933 1934-1935 Manuscript notes so titled. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 ‘Theory of Radiation’ 1932-1933 Manuscript notes including papers dated ‘20.12.32’ and AOA288% ‘Some miscellaneous notes on heterogeneous systems, including method of cycles / elementary treatment of osmotic pressures / general criteria of equilibrium in terms of F etc’ Manuscript notes so titled. B.194-B.199 Manuscript notes on thermodynamics, etc Includes undated. Latest bibliographical reference, 1935. notebook softback (B.196). Predominantly Six folders. Course III A.A. 1938. B.201-B.204 Incl. Solutions of examples. ‘Albert Algebra _ Algebra’ ‘Algebra Chiefly Cartan Spinors etc’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of Elie Cartan published his reference: manuscript notes. ‘Lecons sur Latest bibliographical reference, 1939. la theorie des spineurs’ in Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes. Albert's Higher Modern Algebra was published in 1937. 1941-1943 Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into three for reference: ease duplicated Includes duplicated papers for ‘R.A.F. Pre-Entry papers. Course’, 1943. The envelope was addressed to McCrea at Queen’s University Belfast. ‘Conics Elementary Examples ‘ B.205-B.207 of manuscript notes and W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.208-B.213 ‘Air Training Corps War Time Air Navigation’ 1941-1942 of envelope so Contents notes, duplicated papers and three Royal Air Force soft-backed exercise books. manuscript labelled: Six folders. B.214-B.217 ‘Mathematics and Natural Philosophy’ 1947-1948 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript notes, etc for McCrea’s course of lectures London Intercollegiate Lectures in Mathematics, 1947-1948. University topic this for on of Includes at B.217 on verso of teaching notes manuscript draft by McCrea for Royal Holloway College Colloquium on 3 ‘The origin February 1948. of fundamental problems in physics’, B.218-B.223 ‘Theories of Relativity Autumn 1954’ 1951-1954 on this topic for ‘Special Theory; reference: of proposed lecture University Relativity’, B.224-B.231 ‘W.H. McCrea 1956 Feb-June Berkeley Notes for Lectures Interaction between Stars and Interstellar Matter’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease course, of outline manuscript notes etc by McCrea at University of California, Berkeley as Visiting Professor. for course given Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript notes etc for McCrea’s course of London lectures of Intercollegiate Lectures in Mathematics 1954-55. Include ‘Newtonian ‘General Relativity’, etc. 1953-1956 At preliminary communication by McCrea on ‘Motions of stars through clouds - accretion’ for IUTAM-IAU symposium, July 1953. ‘Differential Geometry Elementary Lecture Notes ~ 1956 No Permanent Value’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes. B.232-B.234 duplicated typescript of B.227 is W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.235-B.237 ‘Postgraduate problems’ 1958-1962 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease notes of including latest bibliographical reference 1962. manuscript problems’, 1958-1961; ‘Postgrad reference: 1p off-prints, headed B.238-B.241 ‘Relativity Lectures and Examples’ 1958-1963 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript notes, etc. B.242-B.246 McC. ‘W.H. 1962-3 Lectures’ Electromagnetism and Special Relativity 1962-1963 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: typescript outline of lecture course, manuscript notes, etc. 1961-1965 1963-1964 B.249, B.250 ‘Cosmology Lectures 1963’ ‘Cosmol. Misc Notes ~ 1964’ Contents of folder so inscribed: printed papers. Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes. ‘Relativity Some Questions (U. of London) 1963-5’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. 1959-1965 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease of reference: manuscript notes, typescript, duplicated and printed papers. ‘Electromagnetism Examples’ B.251-B.258 and Special Relativity 1964-5 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 B.259-B.267 ‘Cosmology Lectures Case 1964 Kitt Peak (some) 1965’ 1960-1965 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into nine for ease of reference: includes manuscript notes for course of lectures on cosmology at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio as Visiting Professor. He was consulting astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, 1965. B.268-B.271 ‘1967 Berkeley Seminar Cosmology Topics by students’ Notes by WHMcC Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript notes, etc. McCrea Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1967. Professor Visiting was the in Astronomy B.272-B.277 W.H. McCrea 1973 after Cairo Cosmology Lecture Notes Micellaneous’ 1965-1973 1972-1974 ‘RA 1974 Feb 9’ Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes, printed papers etc. McCrea was Royal Society Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Cairo University, 1973. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript notes for University of Sussex M. Sc. 1967 -1970-71, ‘Kitt Peak 1965 July’., etc. McCrea’s 1967 notes for the Sussex course have his later (1973) comments on them. 1930-1957 McCrea contributed to a one day special relativity course at Sussex ‘Special Relativity as background to school courses’, 9 February 1974. These notebooks were not always easy to assign but probably relate more to teaching than research or other activities. B.279-B.288 Notebooks W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and address ‘Math. Edinburgh’ and dated ‘1930 January’ Inst. Used ?for McCrea’s mathematical teaching at Edinbugh. Loose papers enclosed. Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and address University _ of Department Edinburgh’ and dated ‘Easter Term 1930’ ‘Mathematical First page of notes headed ‘Geometries without a matrix’ and dated ‘22.4.30’ Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name and address University _ of Edinburgh’ and dated ‘5.6.30’ ‘Mathematics Department Used for Loose papers enclosed. ?teaching notes on relativisitic cosmology. ‘Determinism’, Used for ?mathematical teaching notes. Notebook inscribed on first page ‘W.H. McCrea’ Notebook inscribed on front cover with McCrea’s name and address ‘Mathematical Dept University of Edinburgh’ Used for notes ?for teaching notes on ‘The Uncertainty Principle’, Q[uantum] Mechanics’, etc., October-December 1931 and ‘Lent Term 1932’. 1931-1932 Notebook inscribed inside front cover with McCrea’s name and address ‘Dept of Math. University of Edinburgh’ ?teaching of Paths’, Used for ‘Principle ‘ “Instantaneous space” ’, etc., January-March 1932. Loose pages enclosed. notes equivalence’, ‘Quasi-uniform ‘Geometry of field’, ‘Prediction in on W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 Notebook inscribed on first page ‘W.H. McCrea’ Used for ?teaching notes on ‘Null geodesics’, ‘Doppler Effect in General Relativity’, etc, April-May 1932. Notebook with address label on front cover with McCrea’s name and address ‘Holmwood, Sunninghill, Berkshire’ 1948-1949 Used for records of external examining in Ireland. Britain and Notebook with address label on front cover ‘Holmwood, Larch Avenue, Sunninghill, Berks’ inscribed with McCrea’s name, ‘Cosmology’ and date ‘22.7.49’ Used ?for teaching notes on cosmology. enclosed. Loose papers Notebook inscribed with McCrea’s name inside front cover 1930-1937 B.289-B.294 by others part of that formed B.289-B.298 Notes and drafts McCrea’s at A.41- Teaching by others Used from both ends ?for mathematical teaching notes. Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate education is A.79. 1930 ‘Complex Variable Theory Contents of envelope of reference: ‘The Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable. Being Notes for Lectures delivered in 1935 at The Queen’s University of Belfast John Todd 1935’. (Final Hons)’. six notes for ease entitled Notebook Michaelmas 1930 Lectures by Prof Whittaker’ inscribed page first on ‘W.H. so inscribed divided into B.295-B.298 duplicated manuscript Notebooks 1930-1937 B.295 McCrea W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 University career, B.1-B.298 Notes begin with ‘Heisenberg’s Principle of Imperfect [?]’, 14 October 1930. Notebook inscribed Edinburgh Lent Lectures’. 1931 inside front ‘W.H. McCrea Professor Whittaker Research cover Loose papers enclosed. Notebook inscribed on first page with McCrea’s name Used for notes on lectures of [C.G.] Darwin on Wave Mechanics, etc. No location or date is given but the notebook was purchased in Edinburgh and Darwin was Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh from 1924 until he was elected Master of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1936. front cover ‘W.H. McCrea 1936-1937 Notebook inscribed Queen’s University Belfast’ inside Used for notes by McCrea of lectures by R. Cooper on Complex Variable Autumn 1936 and J. Todd on Alegebra 1937 January-March. Duplicated sheets enclosed at the back of the book. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 SECTION C RESEARCH, C.1-C.301 1928-1987 ‘Sundry calculations on continuous spectra of stars’. Contents of large envelope so inscribed divided into eight for ease of reference: includes notebook (without covers) used from both ends, mostly unused; manuscript working enclosed loose in notebook including 76pp paginated sequence divided into five for ease of reference (C.2-C.6); manuscript duplicated folded typescript includes envelope addressed to McCrea in Gottingen and postmarked in 1928. enclosed N.d. (in German). with but working ‘W.H. McCrea. 1. The mechanics of the corona and chromosphere. 2. With Researches on the outer regions of the sun and stars. 3. The quantum theory of molecules with special reference to the specific heats of gases. Problem of ionised gases’ preface theses. other to 4. N.d., c.1929 Contents of cardboard container so inscribed divided into thirteen for ease of reference: 4 typescript thesis-type documents re McCrea’s research, possibly assembled as his latest bibliographical reference 1929. submission. Cambridge D.Sc. N.d., the Smith’s and It Rayleigh C.22-C.24 C.16-C.19, Prizes, The essay on the quantum theory of gases, was submitted for December 1927. The original folder for the typescript on the problem of ionised gases is retained as C.21. is inscribed ‘Come & talk to me about this RHF[owler]’. ‘W.H. McCrea Early attempt to study perturbation of Einstein universe ~ 1930 | sent draft to McVittie We published a different paper | do not know what became of my draft Never seen again’ Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into three for ease Includes sequence headed ‘Modified Einstein World’ paginated 1- 17. Contents with McCrea’s name and address ‘University of Edinburgh ‘Astrophysics Notes’ manuscript C.25-C.30 reference: inscribed, inscribed of folder so working. also of W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 Dept’, Maths. reference: manuscript working, latest bibliographical reference 1931, letters from G.C. McVittie and offprints, 1931. for ease of divided into six C.31-C.44 ‘Relativity Relativity’ Various notes & calculations on Special 1930-1934 red Contents of Queen’s University of Belfast envelope so inscribed divided into fourteen for ease of reference: variously titled manuscript working and calculations, some with comments in Includes contents of folder inscribed ‘Some rough notes on questions of relativity 1934’ (C.34-C.36); manuscript draft of paper by McCrea on ‘A “cubical” universe’ (Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. Series 2. 2 158-163), ‘Received 20 Sept 1930’ (C.43) and manuscript notes titled ‘Mass condensations & the size of the Universe’ (C.44) for ? lecture at ‘Glasgow 5.12.30’. ink. A number of references to chapters suggest that some at least to McCrea’s 1935 book Relativity Physics. material relates the of divided into four 1931. so_ Orbits includes inscribed C.45-C.48 1930 and K.M. and Whitt. ‘Quantum Theory (jottings)’ Contents of Imperial College of Science and Technology envelope latest bibliographical reference, 1932 manuscript inscribed: ‘W.H. McCrea Relativity (jottings) in expanding universe’ Contents of Imperial College of Science and Technology envelope so for ease of reference: Latest offprints bibliographical reference 1932. 1930-c.1932 Contents of McCrea’s envelope so inscribed divided into four: includes manuscript working, notes for lecture on ‘Rotational Sp. Heats and the two forms of H2’ for Physics Colloquium, Edinburgh ‘4.3.32’. ‘Quantum Theory Various notes & abstracts related chiefly to line widths. Rotational sp. heats and two forms of H2 ‘ C.50-C.53 notes, W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 ‘Kermack - McCrea Problems’ 1931-1934 so folder Contents of later ‘Kermack and McCrea c.1932’, divided into two for ease of reference: includes ‘Notes for Kermack & McCrea III’ and off-prints. inscribed, inscribed also C.56-C.77 ‘Notes for various papers by Kermack and McCrea’ large envelope so Contents of into twenty-two for ease of reference: variously paginated and unpaginated sequences of manuscript notes, calculations, etc. Principally undated but includes reference to ‘new m.s. sent to K 9.10.32’ (C.69). inscribed divided ‘Operators c 1932’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: includes manuscript working, manuscript draft ‘On integral transforms and their inverses’ and off-prints. 1931-1933, 1954 inscribed divided into three of Collog. C.84-C.86 Includes ‘Outline ‘W.H. McCrea Notes on width of spectral lines’ ‘W.H. McCrea Rotation in an Electromagnetic Field’ Contents of Imperial College of Science and Technology envelope so inscribed. Includes offprint 1932 Contents of Imperial College of Science and Technology for ease of envelope so reference. on Widths of Spect. Lines R.C.S. 7.2.33’. N.d., 1932 Contents of Imperial College of Science and Technology envelope reference: manuscript working with additional comments in red ink. Two papers by McCrea and R.A. Newing on boundary conditions for the wave equation were published in 1933. ‘Old notes on McCrea and Newing etc’ divided into two for ease of W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 C.89-C.100 ‘Projection Relativity & Unified Field Theories’ 1928-1934 Content of hard back binder so inscribed divided into twelve for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts, correspondence, off-prints, etc. relate papers The his contribution to a British Association discussion on unified field theories in physics, September 1934. preparation McCrea’s for to The papers at C.91 were found enclosed in the off-print at C.90. The original binder was also inscribed with McCrea’s name with address at Edinburgh (crossed out) replaced and with ‘Maths Dept Royal College Science’. C.101-C.104 ‘Chandra etc’ 1934-1935 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: 1935, manuscript notes, off-prints. S. Chandrasekhar, letters from 2 reference: drafts and that C.105-C.116 includes correspondence and ‘Milne Theory’ and ‘Statistical Mechanics’ Although there is significant identifiable material relating to both publication and teaching it was felt best to keep the contents of the folder together in the order in which it was found most appropriate place to do this. the Research section was the Contents of folder so inscribed divided into twelve for ease of for unpublished paper ‘The Geometrical Representation of Milne’s Kinematical Relativity’, manuscript material for ‘Statis Mechs (proposed course of lectures)’, variously titled sequences of manuscript notes etc. 1937. N.d. ? 1930s Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes headed on on [Symbol not ‘Prof. reproducible] n? = P*’, A manuscript draft letter from McCrea to E.A. Milne, 24 August 1937, is at C.105. See D.28-D.31 for material re related 1938 publication. ‘Symbol not reproducible] n* = P? ‘. Rankine’s notes first page W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 C.118-C.124 ‘Stellar Structure preparation for report that was never written’ Mostly misc. notes made 1946-9 in 1946-1949 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: manuscript notes, calculations, notes on the literature, correspondence etc. C.125-C.128 ‘Stellar models by successive approximations Some notes & calculations An account of such work was given in M.Sc. thesis by Kathleen M. Stephens ~ 1947’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. C.129, C.130 ‘Mikhail’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript drafts of work sent to McCrea by F.1. Mikhail, 1951. ‘Binaries’ etc. (C.146) of Titles of Mikhail’s drafts include ‘Boundary conditions on a surface a cohesive rotating as reckoned by two different observers, between the two events of their parting company and meeting again’. ‘Boundary conditions and discontinuity, system’ interval, ‘The time for 1951-1955 C.131-C.152 For joint publication see D.103-D.116. 1954-1955 Contents of bundle so labelled: manuscript notes, drafts, calculations, off-prints, Includes letters from K.N. Dodd, 1951-1952 (C.148), notes for ?talk on ‘Accretion & binaries’, Cambridge, 20 February 1952 and to Cambridge ‘Notes on binary-star problem’ ?for talk Observatory Club, 19 May 1952 (C.149). The papers at C.139-C.144 were found clipped together. The papers at C.151, C.152 were found in a folder inscribed ‘Stellar rotation Binary systems’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease ‘Compressible Flow ~ 1955’ C.153-C.155 22 folders. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 of reference: manuscript notes, manuscript working, etc. Includes notes headed ‘Amsterdam 1954 Sept 8’ and ‘RHC [Royal Holloway College]1955 Nov 29’ (C.153). ‘Synthesis Burbidge et al 1955’ of nuclei in stars’ and ‘Nucleosynthesis Contents of folder so inscribed: includes correspondence with G.R. Burbidge re paper sent by Burbidge to McCrea for comment. C.157-C.171 ‘T. Ramesan’ 1955-1960 reference: Contents of folder so inscribed divided into fifteen for ease of notes, correspondence, etc re Ramesan’s thesis work on model stellar atmospheres. manuscript typescript drafts, C.172-C.174 Star Formation Notes from 1956 Berkeley 1956, 1960 ‘W.H. McC (with M.S. Roberts)’ ?’ are C.175-C.178 ‘Negative mass’ at C.175 and correspondence with The papers at C.176-C.178 were found in Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts; also includes letter from F. Kahn, 22 April 1960. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. a smaller folder inscribed ‘Gravitational Mass 1957’ which was found in the larger folder. ‘McNally’s notes of talk by Gold C.G. Darwin and typescripts by Darwin on ‘The Clock Paradox in Relativity 1957 are at C.176 and C.178. 1956-1957 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of calculations reference: etc. drafts, Includes draft inscribed ‘Some focal points of conics’. Folder also inscribed W.H. McC 1972’. manuscript ‘Conics and Triangles 1958 Feb.’ C.179, C.180 notes, W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 C.181-C.186 ‘Crampin J ~ 1958 Gravitating Spheres’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts by ?Joan Crampin ?McCrea’s PhD student. Includes papers dated in April, May and July 1958. C.187-C.189 ‘Energy tensor 1959’ 1957, 1959 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript drafts entitled ‘Energy - tensor’, ‘The cosmical constant in relativity’ and ‘The interpretation of general relativity’, also off-prints, 1957. C.190-C.194 ‘Star formation 1959’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript notes, drafts, calculations etc in Includes letter, 1 August 1957. a number of hands. 1957, 1959 ‘Time 1959’ 1956-1959 C.196-C.201 ‘Interstellar molecules 1962 -’ folder so Contents of off-prints, 1956-1958, letter from C.G. Darwin, 30 January 1959 and manuscript draft reply from McCrea. inscribed: Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: includes typescript draft from D.McNally based on his thesis work ‘Some problems connected with the free expansion of gas into vacuum’, correspondence from McNally, 1961-1962. 1961-1962 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: includes manuscript notes and drafts dated February-March 1964. ‘W.H. McCrea 1964 and Calculations’ Continual Creation Rough Notes C.202-C.205 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 C.206, C.207 ‘W.H. McC 1964 Quasars Early notes’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: includes manuscript draft of letter from McCrea to A.R. Sandage and typescript draft of paper ‘Quasi- stellar _I.P. Williams. radio-sources’ McDowell M.R.C. and by C.208-C.211 ‘W.H. McC 1964 Cleveland QSR 1964’ 1954-1965 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: off-prints, correspondence including carbon of letter from McCrea to Sandage, 13 May 1964, manuscript notes, data, off-prints, 1954-1965. ‘Variational J. Stauffer 1964 —’ Manuscript notes so titled, found clipped together. C.216-C.220 ‘Tucson 1965 QSS QSQ W.H. McC’ C.213-C.215 ‘W.H. McC 1965 QSR’ ‘McCrea 1965 Sandage - Veron objects’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript notes and data, July-August 1965. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: off-print, 1963, manuscript notes and data including work from Cleveland, March, April 1964. 1963-1965 Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript data including sheet dated ‘1965 Sept 11’. Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes and data. ‘W.H. McCrea 1965 Further problems QSS etc.’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 ‘W.H. McCrea 1965 Empirical properties of QSS’ Contents of folder so inscribed: includes manuscript data and photocopied letter from McCrea at S. Chandrasekhar, 20 September 1965. Kitt Peak to C.224-C.226 ‘W.H. McCrea 1965 Kitt Peak’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: miscellaneous papers re McCrea’s time at Kitt Peak including manuscript notes and photocopied letter re paper on ‘Empirical properties of quasi-stellar sources’, 25 September 1965. C.227, C.228 ‘1965 Nov Special Rely’. Cain". Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes, drafts including draft date stamped ‘Oct 17 1965’ and titled ‘Observations of quasi- stellar sources interpreted by special relativity’. Folder also inscribed ‘Cosmo! 1965 Sp. Rel. U.’ C.229-C.232 ‘W.H. McCrea / 1966 QSS / Misc Notes Reprints’ ‘Partial eclipse’ C.234-C.237 ‘1967 June W.H. McC work to carry’ Manuscript data so headed on first page and dated ‘1967 May 5’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. 1963-1967 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence, off-prints, manuscript notes, etc. Folder also labelled ‘Visiting Professorship-University of California, Berkeley. April/June 1967’. ‘Theoretical astronomy - notes on present position from W.H. McCrea’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 and notes Manuscript typescript astronomy, January 1968 draft ‘Theoretical astronomy: work done during the past two years with support from the S.R.C. - note from W.H. McCrea’, 20 January 1968. McCrea’s typescript drafts found of with ‘W.H. McCrea Background Radiation 1970’ 1968-1970 Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes, off- prints, etc. C.240, C.241 ‘1970 Nuclei of Galaxies’ 1969-1970 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: off-prints by others, etc. C.242, C.243 ‘WHMcC 1970-1 Moon’ 1962-1970 C.244-C.246 C.247, C.248 1970-1971 1967-1969 ‘1971 Galaxies Miscellaneous’ ‘W.H. McCrea 1971 QSOs Misc. Notes’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: off- prints etc manuscript notes, newspaper cuttings, Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: pre-prints, off-print etc. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes, off-prints etc. 1967-1971 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: duplicated material and typescript by McCrea ‘Quasi-stellar objects: what are they?’, 16 April 1971. ‘1971 September QSOs Misc Notes Reprints’ C.249, C.250 manuscript notes, printed and W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 C.251-C.253 ‘1971 W.H. McCrea Solar System Misc. Notes’ 1960-1969 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes, data, off-prints, etc C.254, C.255 ‘1972 Clusters of Galaxies’ 1966-1972 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: untitled manuscript draft and background material. October dated, 1972, letter 26 ‘1972 — Ideas’ Contents of folder so inscribed: includes manuscript note on ‘Nuclear abundances’, 29 August 1972. ‘1972 Cosmology Misc.’ 1964-1965 C.258-C.264 1968-1976 Folder also inscribed ‘Solar System Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript note, background material. letter, ‘1972 Solar System Manuscript Notes and Questions’ ‘1972 Solar System Notes on papers by Dole [not found] Cameron [not found] Urey etc’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease off-prints, manuscript notes, M.Sc. project, of reference: etc. / Ashton G. Cleveland 1972 notes / Diagrams and tables / Essay / Papers by Lyttleton Dole etc’. 1971-1975 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript notes, calculations, graphs, tables, figures, off-print. Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes, prints. Folder also inscribed ‘Various papers S-S’. ‘1972 Solar System Graphs and Tables’ 1970-1971 off- C.266-C.269 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 ‘1973 Variational Principles’ 1957-1972 Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes, off- prints. C.271-C.273 ‘Asteroids’ 1974-1983 reference: Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of duplicated Manuscript draft letter material assembled by McCrea. from McCrea to R.A. Lyttleton, 2 December 1978, is at C27: predominantly printed and ‘Galaxies / Spiral Structures Seyferts 1975’ 1975-1976 inscribed: manuscript notes, Contents of envelope so background material. Includes 2pp manuscript notes possibly for lecture headed ‘1975 June 12 Sy. phenom. And QSO phenom.’ Found clipped together. C.276-C.279 copies 1976-1977 1982, 1984 C.280, C.281 ‘1984 Life’ ‘~1982 Oort Comet Cloud’ Manuscript notes, off-print re globular clusters Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: of correspondence between S.V.M. Clube and J.H. Oort, 1982 (C.276), manuscript notes on ‘Cometary Origin’ and ‘Oort Cloud’, off-prints, etc. 1984-1985 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: printed and duplicated material, manuscript notes headed ‘Hoyle 1984 Aug 13’ and photocopy of letter from McCrea to N.C. Wickramasinghe, 3 November 1984. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into thirteen for C.282-C.294 ‘1984 Time’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Research, C.1-C.301 ease of reference: manuscript notes, correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts, printed and duplicated material. C.295, C.296 ‘1987 Condensation’ 1983-1987 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of star reference: formation on fragmentation’, off-prints etc. manuscript ‘from typescript ‘Thoughts including 1985’, notes notes draft on C.297, C.298 Miscellaneous shorter notes 1964-1978, n.d. Predominantly manuscript 2 folders. C.299-C.301 Notebooks 1930s-1949 inscribed with McCrea’s Imperial Used for ‘Problems with References’. Softback ‘Exercise Book’ used for data McCrea was based at Imperial College, 1932-1936. Hardback notebook College address inside front cover. ends, latest bibliographical reference 1949. Hardback address (Sunninghill, Berks) inside front covers. Used for manuscript notes on literature from both McCrea’s private notebook inscribed with the W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 SECTION D PUBLICATIONS, D.1-D.733 1928-1997 D.1-D.628 DRAFTS D.629-D.733 CORRESPONDENCE RE PUBLICATIONS D.1-D.628 DRAFTS 1928-1997 A chronological sequence of drafts and related material for McCrea’s publications. Because of the non-availability of a reliable bibliography of McCrea’s publications, especially for the period after 1970, the designation of drafts as intended for publication is sometimes tentative. For lists of McCrea’s publications see A.26-A.35. There is also at A.36-A.40 a group of ‘Original MSS’ 1971-1972 kept together by McCrea. ‘Problems of the Solar Chromosphere’ Also Paper “The equilibrium of the The contents of the original folders are presented in the order found. Typescript retained in original folder so labelled. inscribed ‘M.N.R. Astrom. Soc. Oct. 1928’. A sequence of drafts of reviews by McCrea, 1949-1994, is presented at D.583-D.628. 1931-1933 The typescript ?thesis was presented in two parts ‘The Hydrogen Chromosphere’ and ‘A note on Dr P.A. Taylor's Paper ‘The equilibrium of the Calcium Chromosphere’. ‘A note on the hydrogen chromosphere’ was published in Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol 24, 438, and ‘A note on Dr P.A. Taylors Calcium Chromosphere” ’ appeared in Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. vol 88, 729-740. ‘On Professor Whittaker’s solution of differential equations by definite integrals: Part | (with W.O. Kermack). Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. Vol. LI. Pt.ll (no.22). January 1931’ Off-print of paper with manuscript notes and drafts found enclosed within it: W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 Manuscript draft titled ‘A Formal Solution of D.E.’s by series of functions’. A paper of this title was published by the Philosophical Magazine, September 1932. Manuscript identities’. Mathematical Gazette, February 1933. draft titled A paper of ‘Operation this some title was published by the proofs of Manuscript draft titled ‘Extension of Whittaker’s Th[eore]m to evaluation of [illegible] or [illegible] of D.E.s by series of functions’. Manuscript draft titled ‘Operation proofs of some identities April, 1931. C. Maths. Soc. 1.5.31.’ 5 folders. ‘Model Stellar Atmospheres’, Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. vol. 91 no.8. June 1931 1930-1931 ‘Calculations for Model Stellar Atmospheres’. Contents of Royal Society, Edinburgh envelope so inscribed: includes manuscript draft of paper on stellar atmospheres. 7 folders. 27pp manuscript draft. ‘On nets of polygons occurring in Nature’, Math. Notes. Edinb. Math. Soc. no.28, 8-12 1933 ‘On properties of null geodesics, and their application to the theory of radiation’ (with W.O. Kermack and E.T. Whittaker). Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. 531. pt.1. (no.4). December 1932 1932-1933 Imperial College of ‘Nets inscribed: Science manuscript and typescript drafts of paper, letter on its unsuitability for publication in Annals of Mathematics and referee’s report, 1931. ‘On compatible differential equations and the orthogonal properties of their solutions’ (with W.O. Kermack), Quart. Journal of Mathematics. no.14. March 1933 of Polygons’. Contents of Oxford Series. vol.4. and Technology envelope so _ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 D.18-D.21 Publications, D.1-D.733 Manuscript and typescript drafts. 2 folders. Milne’s Theory of ‘On (with Kermack), Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. vol. 93. no.7. 1933 Structure’ World W.O. May ‘Some notes on Milne’s Theory of World Structure with notes for Kermack & McCrea _ on the subject’. Contents of folder so inscribed: includes manuscript and typescript drafts for the joint paper, April 1933. 4 folders. D.22-D.26 ‘On the interpretation of Einstein’s Unified Field Theory’, Philosophical Magazine, vol 16, ser. 7. September 1933 Some notes on Unified Field Theories’. Contents of folder so inscribed: includes manuscript drafts of McCrea’s 1933 paper. 5 folders. D.28-D.31 folder so inscribed: 1948, 1952 See also C.31-C.44. ‘Special correspondence etc arising from 2nd edition. Contents of Relativity. Relativity Physics. London: Methuen Co & Ltd, 1935 (2nd edition 1947, 3rd edition 1949, 4th edition revised 1954, reprinted 1962). 1938-1940 Contents of folder so inscribed divided ‘Milne’s Theory’. into four for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript notes and drafts including typescript draft and proof of 1938 paper. ‘The geometrical foundations of certain relativity theories’, Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. Series 2 5, 211-219. 1938. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript working, drafts and off-prints. ‘E-numbers & Quarternions’ D.32-D.36 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 McCrea published a number of papers on Eddington’s E- numbers and quarternions, 1938-1940: the representation ‘On matrices’, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. 35, pt 1. 1938. Eddington’s E-numbers by October of ‘A theorem concerning Eddington’s E-numbers’, Journal of the London Math. Soc. vol. 13. November 1938. ‘On matrices of quarternions and the representation of Eddington’s E-numbers’, Proc. Roy. Irish Academy vol. 45, Sect. A. August 1939. ‘Quarternion Philosophical Mag. ser. 7. vol. 30. October 1940. wave-tensor analogy of calculus’, D.37-D.39 ‘Expanding Universe’ section of Cosmogony article for Encyclopaedia Britannica 1945-1946 so Contents of ‘ “Astronomy” for Encyclopaedia Britannica’. folder of reference: correspondence, November 1945-April 1946; manuscript and typescript drafts, April 1946. inscribed divided three ease into for 31 typescript, December 1948 + _ bibliographical ‘Fundamental Magnetisation’ See also D.466-D.470, D.473, D.474. 5pp references. Unpublished. ‘The size of interstellar clouds’, Observatory vol 70 100- 103, 1950 1960, 1969 Although McCrea worked on a revised version of his 1950 book ten years later, a second edition does not appear to have been published. ‘W.H. McCrea 1950 Interstellar Matter’. Contents of folder so inscribed: typescript draft, manuscript notes, letter from E.M. Burbidge, 23 February 1950. Physics of the Sun and Stars, London, 1950 D.42-D.59 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.42-D.46 ‘W.H. McCrea ~ 1960 Book Physics of Sun & Stars Revision MANUSCRIPT’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript drafts. D.47-D.51 ‘Book 1960’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript drafts. D.52-D.58 ‘Book 1960 Revision’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: typescript drafts, manuscript notes. Correspondence with publisher re microfilm reproduction. D.60-D.66 1949-1957 See also D.69. ‘The clock paradox in relativity theory’, Nature vol 167, 680. 1951 ‘Clock Paradox’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: manuscript working, manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence with G.J. Whitrow, off-prints. 1949-1957. Includes ‘rough’ manuscript draft ‘A time-keeping problem connected with the gravitational red-shift’, ‘completed’ 5 July 1955. Helvetica Physica Acta Supplementum \V Basel, 121-124. 1956. relativity theory (D.69). See also D.60-D.66. ‘J.E. Hogarth & Rotating disks’. inscribed manuscript manuscript working, etc. three McCrea divided draft ‘The relativistically rigid Camb. Phil. Soc. vol 48, 616-624. 1952 Includes manuscript draft of paper on the clock paradox in J.E. Hogarth). Proc. Contents of folder so reference: paper, Hogarth ease of and into of for D.67-D.69 rod’ (with W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.70-D.73 ‘The Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction-some paradoxes and their resolutions’. Sci. Proc.Roy.Dublin Soc vol 26, 27-36. 1952. c.1951-1957 of reference: manuscript ‘Relativity / Rotating ring Kilmister Dublin-Fitzgerald McC Ives’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease headed of McCrea’s ‘C.W.Kilmister ~ typescript initialled ‘H.E.I[ves]’ on ‘The Fitzgerald paper, Contraction’, 1951, typescript paper ‘An Irish Pioneer in Science’ given at a Royal Dublin Society meeting to mark the centenary of G.F. Fitzgerald’s birth in 1851. 1957, manuscript drafts bibliographical reference notes latest D.74-D.76 ‘Binaries Dodd). stars with massive components’ (with K.N. Manuscript and typescript drafts dated 28 March 1953. ?Not published. 3 folders. latest D.78-D.81 1953-1958 manuscript bibliographical ‘General Relativity’ ‘Forces in a deformable dielectric’ Duplicated draft, reference, 1953. ?Not published. Contents of untitled folder divided into four for ease of reference: agreement between McCrea and H. Bondi and Cambridge University Press for a book of this title, 1953; correspondence with Bondi and the University Press, 1953-1958; manuscript and typescript notes and drafts including outline of proposed book. 1953-1954 ‘Red Shift’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease of reference: includes typescript draft of McCrea’s paper, manuscript notes on Freundlich’s work, typescript of paper by E.M and G.R. Burbidge, manuscript ‘Astrophysical considerations regarding Freundlich’s red- shift’, Phil. Mag. ser. 7, vol 45, 1010-1018. 1954 The project was abandoned. D.82-D.89 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 draft by B.E.J. Pagel, correspondence with M.G. Adam, A. Beer, by Freundlich etc. Burbidge, Sciama, off-print G.R. and D. Also (at D.89) contents of smaller folder (found within the larger folder) inscribed ‘Red-shift A122 A124 Freundlich & Born 1953 July Reports’: referee’s reports by McCrea on papers and manuscript draft of letter from McCrea to Born, 3 July 1953. Freundlich typescript carbon and by D.90-D.102 ‘Newtonian Cosmology’ 1954-1955 manuscript and reference: etc Contents of folder so inscribed divided into thirteen for ease of drafts, correspondence McCrea’s published in 1955: ‘Newtonian Cosmology’, Nature vol 175, 925; ‘On the significance of Newtonian Cosmology’, Astro. ‘On Newtonian Frames of Reference’, Math. Gaz. vol 39, 2877-291. no.7 271-274; and typescript papers three 60, vol re of J. D.103-D.116 (with F.I. 1940-1955 ‘Vector-tetrads the Mikhail) Proc. Roy.Soc. A and creation vol 235, 11-22. 1956. matter’ of D.106-D.111 D.103-D.105 ‘Quadruplet fields McC. & Mikhail Various drafts’ ‘Vector tetrads and creation of matter McC. and Mikhail Drafts’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts. 1952 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts of papers by ‘Orthogonal McCrea and quadruplets relativity’, ‘Orthogonal quadruplets in relativity theory’, ‘Orthogonal quadruplets and the creation of matter’; also typescript by Mikhail ‘Quadruplet Spaces and the Generalization of Relativity latest bibliographical reference, 1954. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of ‘Orthogonal reference: ‘Orthogonal quadruplets (with F.1. Mikhail)’ Mikhail extensions D.112-D.116 1940, 1951- manuscript variously F.I. and Theory. undated general drafts paper drafts titled The are for of W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 quadruplets manuscript correspondence, off-prints. relativity for in notes theory’, talk at manuscript Imperial working, College, D.117-D.121 ‘Relativity and space travel, Nature. April 1956 1955-1956 Contents of folder so inscribed ‘Clock Paradox Dingle’. manuscript divided working, typescript drafts, correspondence with Nature, H. Dingle and G.P. Thomson, 1955-1956, off-prints. reference: ease into five for of ‘A problem in relativity theory: reply to H. Dingle’, Proc. Phys. Soc. A vol 69, 935. 1956 at the head of 4pp typescript, dated ‘1956 August 11’ with manuscript inscription first page ‘Withdrawn because Dingle had altered his article & because Phys. Soc. wanted some changes’. When he withdrew the paper, McCrea submitted a shorter two paragraph note of the same title. the of letters by Nature copies others, received D.123-D.136 ‘W.H. McCrea 1972 Clock Paradox Misc Notes : Letters Historic Interest!’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into fourteen for ease of reference: includes typescript drafts and proof of longer version of ‘A problem in relativity theory: reply to H. Dingle’, typescript draft of shorter version, Proc. Phys. Soc. A vol 69, 935, 1956, typescript draft of ‘Relativity and Space Travel’, Nature, 1956, correspondence with Dingle and in response to articles by McCrea and Dingle, manuscript draft ‘Clock Paradox’, 10 March 1953, manuscript notes for lecture on ‘Time and Space-travel’, Birmingham, 1957, typescript drafts on the clock paradox by W. Cochran, 1957, off-prints, etc. 1953-1960 ‘Shock waves in steady radial motion under gravity’, Astrophys. J. vol 124, 461-468. 1956 Manuscript and typescript drafts, typescript draft having manuscript note of the date received ‘March 2. 1956’. ‘Shock waves in steady radial motion under gravity’ D.137-D.142 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.138-D.142 Professor W.H. McCrea ‘1972 gravity Old notes ~ 1956’ Shock waves under Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript working, typescript drafts including one with manuscript inscription ‘This is longer version Curtailed version accepted for pubn’, etc ‘Relativisitic ageing’, Nature vol 179, 909-910, 1957 4pp typescript dated ‘1957 January 24’. D.144-D.147 ‘Hertzian electromagnetic potentials’, Proc. Roy. Soc. A vol 240, 447-457. 1957 1955-1957 ‘W.H. McCrea Hertzian Related Theory’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for manuscript working, correspondence, off-prints, etc. reference: Potentials typescript draft, ease E-M and of 1957’. Contents of folder D.151-D.157 D.148-D.150 ‘Observable relations in P.S. Florides). Zeits. fur Astroph. vol 48, 52-71. 1959 relativisitic cosmology III’ ‘The Formation of Population | Stars. Contraction’. 1957 Part |. Gravitational Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. vol. 117 no.5. May ‘Isothermal Sphere c so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: includes manuscript draft of paper on formation of population | stars. 1958-1959 ‘A class of transformations in special relativity’ (with J. Crampin and D. McNally). Proc. Roy. Soc. A vol 252, 156- 176. 1959 Contents of folder inscribed ‘Relativity Trans 1959’ divided into four (D.158-D.161), and two untitled folders divided D.168) into Manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence, off- print. (D.162-D.166) D.158-D.168 7 folders. (with five and two (D.167, W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 respectively: manuscript and typescript drafts, manuscript working. The three folders were found together. D.169-D.179 ‘Rotational Distortion and break-up of a Star’ this title appears to have been written by A paper of McCrea for publication (with J. Crampin) but remained unpublished. Typescript draft ‘Rotational Distortion and break-up of Star’ with correspondence a D.170-D.177 ‘Rotational distortion and break-up McCrea ~ 1956’ 1956-1959 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease of calculations, manuscript drafts including ‘First draft’, correspondence. manuscript reference: notes and _ D.180-D.182 1959-1960 D.178, D.179 1959-1960 typescript notes ‘Rotational Breakup 1960-’ Correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: draft, and calculations, correspondence. manuscript ‘Formation of stars from interstellar matter’, Les Congrés et Colloques de |’Université de Liége, vol 16, 332-341. 1960 1959-1960 ‘The origin of the solar system’. Proc. Roy. Soc. A vol 256, 245-266. 1960 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript drafts, manuscript working. D.183-D.187 ‘Origin of SS RS paper’ 3 folders. D.183-D.189 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.188, D.189 ‘The origin of the solar system’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: correspondence, typescript paper marked up for printers. copy of D.190-D.199 Publications on cosmology. 1960 1951-1962 ‘The papers a number of on McCrea published of cosmology, cosmology including of cosmology: Nature, Comment on Nature 186 by W. Davidson and reply by W.H. McCrea, Nature, vol 187, 583; and ‘Cosmology: a reassessment. Times Science Review no. 37, 5-6. interpretation Interpretation 1035; 1960 186, vol in D.190-D.195 ‘Cosmology 1960 Bonnor Times EM theory EM energy Roman SS’ 1951-1962 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: includes typescript drafts for paper or papers on the interpretation of cosmology, offprints. D.195 is a rough D.196-D.198 ‘Cosmology’ manuscript draft ‘Remarks on Typescript draft of article for Times Science Review. At Lyttleton & Bondi’s theory’, 16 January 1961. Contents of untitled folder divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript notes and drafts on cosmology including typescript of ‘The interpretation of cosmology’ ‘Mol. Hydrogen H2’. divided manuscript molecular hydrogen. ‘Lectures delivered University of Liege 1960 March 30, April 1, 4’. Contents of folder so inscribed includes for ease on manuscript of d'Astrophysique At D.200 is manuscript draft in The formation of molecular hydrogen in interstellar matter’ (with D. McNally). Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 121 238-251. 1960 of working D.200-D.204 five draft, reference: Institut into for paper the W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.205-D.207 ‘Star formation with stellar clusters’. Proc. Roy. Soc. A vol 260, 152-159. 1961 1959-1960 ‘Star formation with special reference to stellar clusters’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of drafts, typescript correspondence, 1959-1960. manuscript reference: and D.208, D.209 ‘Examples of gravitational mass in general relativity’ Contents of folder so ‘Gravitational mass (& rotation)’. inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: includes manuscript draft on gravitational mass in general relativity ? intended for publication but not published. At D.208 are manuscript notes on headed notepaper of ‘Conference Gravitation, Warszawa - Jablonna 25-31 July 1962 R’. Relativistic Theories on of D.210-D.225 ‘Electromagnetic effects in cosmology’ (with P. Dolan) 1962-1969 folder so of revision of the 1962-1963 referees and D.211-D.221 ‘Electronic effects in Cosmology’ ‘Fundamental identity etc with P. Dolan’ A paper of this title appears to have been submitted to the Royal Society for publication but was later withdrawn and not published. It may have gone through more than one version before being finally withdrawn. Contents of inscribed: correspondence with collaborator P. Dolan, H. Bondi and R. Lyttleton whose work the paper discusses and the Royal Society re comments paper, typescript and manuscript notes 4 folders. Manuscript notes and drafts, etc found loose at the front of divider Contents of filing cabinet divider so labelled. At D.211 is referee’s report on the paper. D.211-D.214 1962-1969 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.215, D.216 ‘1965 Fundamental identity of electrodynamics in general relativity P. Dolan W.H. McCrea’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts ?by Dolan, 1965; typescript ‘Second copy’ of paper by Dolan and McCrea with manuscript inscription ‘This paper withdrawn’. ‘W.H. McC P.D. “Variational” Treatments 1963-’ Contents of folder so inscribed: includes referee’s report. D.218, D.219 ‘Variation. Rough Notes’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: Includes manuscript notes headed ‘1962 May 31 Cambridge’. manuscript drafts. notes and D.220, D.221 N.d., 1969 2 folders. ‘Dolan & McC rough notes’ Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript drafts. Papers loose at rear of divider: typescript draft and off- prints ‘Fundamental identity relativity Draft by P. Dolan W.H. McCrea (1963)’ in Electrodynamics and General Contents of folder so inscribed: typescript draft. At D.224 are manuscript notes dated in March 1969. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: includes typescript draft of Dolan and McCrea’s cosmology’, paper with in manuscript ‘Note to printer’ attached. The first page of the typescript has a manuscript addition ‘Received 11 April 1962’. ‘1969 W.H. McCrea Conservation of Mass’ D.224, D.225 1962, 1969 ‘Electromagnetic effects W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘Some current problems in Cosmology’. Proc. Math. Soc. Univ. Southampton vol 5, 15-21. 1962 Typescript draft dated ‘1962 March 22’. D.227-D.233 ‘A suggested process of formation of planetesimals and terrestrial planets’ (with |.P. Williams) Unpublished. D.227-D.232 ‘Condensation of Planets 1963’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript paper, Typescript draft of manuscript working , off-prints, etc. paper, 5 April 1963, is at D.229. At D.231 is manuscript draft of lecture by McCrea to the London Mathematical Society, Reading, 16 May 1963. drafts of of a a D.234-D.236 70th divided Contents ease for birthday)’. into three with Typescript draft manuscript inscription at the head of the first page ‘Not published’. 6 September 1963, paper, ‘The interpretation of the Schwarzschild metric and the release of gravitational energy’ Astrophysica Norvegica vol 9, 89-94. 1964 ‘Astrophys. Norv. Vol. X, 1964 Article (to celebrate Svein folder Rosseland’s so reference: inscribed correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts. At letter from C.G. Darwin, 6 October 1961, D.235 is enclosing 1p a gravitational field’. 1961-1964 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: typescript draft of paper with manuscript addition ‘Received 1963 September 4’, manuscript and ‘Extended Mon.Not. R. Astr.Soc. vol 128, 147-155. 1964 main sequence of some stellar ‘Extended main sequence of some stellar clusters’ typescript note ‘Rays D.237-D.240 D.237-D.239 of of of light in clusters’. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 |.P. typescript notes and drafts including typescript by Williams ‘Possible spread in the ages of stars in a stellar cluster’, referee’s report, and typescript draft with same title as published paper headed ‘1963 November 8 R.A.S.’ for talk at a Royal Astronomical Society meeting. Typescript draft of paper found separately. D.241, D.242 ‘Continual Creation’, Mon. Not. R. Ast. Soc. vol 128, 335- 344. 1964 1955-1964 ‘Creation 1964’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: typescript draft, referee’s report, manuscript notes, off-prints, 1955-1964. March-April 1964, ‘Why are all electrons alike?’. 1964 Nature vol 202, 537-538. 6pp typescript dated ‘1964 February 29. D.245-D.262 radio (with I.P. Oct’. of materials in cosmology 1964 of materials of folder properties of in cosmogony’ so inscribed: manuscript drafts ‘Segregation Contents of tables. ‘Empirical sources’, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 78. 1965 and ‘Interpretation of observations of quasi- stellar objects’, Astrophys. J. vol 144, 516-533. 1966. quasi-stellar ‘Segregation Williams), Proc. Roy. Soc. A vol 287. 1965. Contents of McCrea’s folder divided into seventeen for ease drafts, figures, manuscript notes headed ‘Berkeley 1965 Sept 23’, September, November 1965. ‘Empirical properties of quasi-stellar radio sources’ manuscript additions and Two typescript drafts with manuscript and typescript correspondence, of reference: D.245-D.261 referee’s report, W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 comment, September 1965. D.263, D.264 ‘Age distribution of galaxies’, Proc. Fifth Berkeley symp. on math. statistics and probability, vol. 3, 19-21. 1966 1965, 1966 Cosmology ‘1965 Nov Age Distribution of Galaxies’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: typescript draft, manuscript working. D.265, D.266 ‘Cosmical Physics’, Advancement of Science, vol 23 1966-1967 Figures, captions, pre-print This was the published version of McCrea’s Presidential Address to British Association Section A. See also E.87- E.92: 2 folders. D.267-D.270 suggested ‘A for Quasars’, Nature, 21 January 1967 mechanism Radio-Galaxies and 4 folders. Not listed in 1967 Jan 10’. ‘Cosmological Speculation’ Manuscript and typescript drafts including typescript draft ‘Sent to Nature 1966 Nov 21’. Typescript and duplicated typescript inscribed ‘as sent to Science McCrea’s Bibliography. Folder also includes manuscript draft headed ‘The Mach problem’. Manuscript and typescript drafts, 24 February 1967. publication. ‘Inertial frames and Mach’s principle’ See also D.337-D.339. ? for W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘Surprises in Astronomy’, The Times, 7 April 1967 1966-1967 ‘1966 “Times” New Objects’. inscribed: correspondence with and typescript drafts. Contents so The Times, manuscript folder of ‘Quasars: rapid light fluctuations’, Science vol 157, 400- 402, July 1967 Typescript drafts, correspondence arising, off-print. D.274-D.278 ‘University class-lists’ Article submitted to The Times, July 1967, but not used: manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence etc. 5 folders. D.279-D.284 ‘Why the special theory of relativity is correct’, Nature vol 216, 122-124, 1967 and ‘Definitions and Realities’, letter to The Listener, 4 September 1969 1956-1969 six for ease of into divided M. Born, ‘Cosmic Physics’, Physics Education vol 3, 27-32, 1968 Correspondents include H. Dingle, R.A. Fisher, H. Jeffreys, D.G. King-Hele and M.J. Lighthill. Blackett, P.M.S. ‘W.H. McCrea Clock Paradox 1967-68-69’ and ‘Special theory of relativity - paper by WHM’. Contents of folder so inscribed reference: correspondence, drafts, etc. Typescript draft, figures, manuscript data. ‘Quasar-stellar objects with absorption lines’, Nature vol 218, 257-258. 1968 Typescript draft ‘For Physics Education sent 1966 Nov 30’. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.287-D.290 ‘Cosmology after half a century, Science vol 160, 1295- 1299. 1968 divided folder so ‘1968 Cosmology Typescript’. inscribed reference: manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence arising etc. At D.289 are manuscript notes for talk at Sussex, 31 May 1968. Contents of of ease four into for D.291-D.302 microwave background ‘The interpretative. counts’. Bombay: Tata Institute of Fund. Res. 1969. 218-230, 311-312, 354-358. radiation. Problem of helium abundance. Cosmic Rays Studies (ed R.R. Daniel et Quasars- Source al) Pp. 142-150, 1966-1970 D.291-D.296 ‘W.H. McCrea 1968 Background radiation’ 1967-1969 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts, background material etc re paper on microwave background radiation. Includes ‘1968 November 13’ (D.291). typescript dated draft (with tensors’ quotient theorem D.297-D.302 ‘Background Radiation 1969’ Typescript draft, 22 August 1969, etc. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: typescript draft, manuscript notes, off-prints etc. Folder also inscribed ‘Background and He’. ‘Generalized R. Pavelle) (V.V. Narlikar felicitation volume), Progress of Mathematics vol 3, 1-6. 1969 1966-1970 ‘The moon and Mars’, Nature vol 223, 253-254, 1969 2pp manuscript December 1968. race’, New Scientist vol 41, 15 (1969). note 30 ?Published as ‘Science and the Moon ‘Apollo 8 comment’ for New Scientist Typescript draft, 6 June 1969, etc. typescript dated for and 1p W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘Densities of the terrestrial planets’, Nature vol 224, 28-29, 1969 Typescript draft, etc. D.307-D.310 ‘The New Cosmos’. Translation into English of A. Unsdld Der neue Kosmos 1967. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer Verlag 1969 1966-1970 D.307, D.308 ‘Translation (Legal Side)’ 1966-1970 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: correspondence with Unsdld and the publisher. ‘The New Cosmos (Business & legal matters)’ 1969-1970 Contents of papers re royalties, tax, etc folder so inscribed: correspondence and Reviews 1969-1970 for Sigma series; D.311, D.312 ‘Louvain and Sussex’ Correspondence, typescript draft, photocopy of ?published text. publicity leaflet ‘Cosmology’. Survey on Cosmology for Francis Hodgson Ltd Sigma Science Surveys, 1969. eee 4pp typescript with manuscript inscription at the head of the first page ‘Sent to “Focus” but apparently not used’, December 1969; brief correspondence, December 1969 - January 1970. ‘Planetary fission events - reply to J.M. Bailey’, Nature vol 225, 49, January 1970 Focus was a University of Sussex publication. 2 folders. 1969-1970 1969-1970 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 Typescript draft and off-print D.315, D.316 ‘A philosophy for big-bang cosmology’, Nature vol 228, 21-24. 1970 Manuscript and typescript drafts etc. 2 folders ‘Non-Doppler Redshift and Clusters of Galaxies’ (with J. Jackson). Submitted to Nature, August and withdrawn November 1970. Typescript draft, correspondence, etc. D.318-D.331 ‘W.H. McCrea 1970 Planets and satellites’ 1969-1971 labelled Contents of folder also ‘Solar System 1970’: manuscript and typescript drafts for major ? publication titled notes, into further calculations, correspondence, etc., labelled and unlabelled folders, loose papers at rear of principal folder. manuscript divided satellites’, ‘Planets and_ D.318-D.322 D.323-D.325 See also D.332-D.335. ‘W.H. McCrea 1970 Planets and Satellites’ ‘1971 Planets MANUSCRIPT and calculations’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: includes 114pp manuscript draft of ‘Planets and satellites’ the moon and terrestial planets Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes, typescript draft ‘Solar system: and “Planets empirical’, Satellites’, off-prints. Contents of untitled folder divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes including notes for talks on manuscript draft D.326, D.327 1969-1970 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 D.329-D.331 Publications, D.1-D.733 Contents of untitled folder: manuscript notes, newspaper- cutting found Papers folder: correspondence, manuscript notes, typescript ‘first draft of a proposed letter to Nature’ by A.A. Mills, etc principal loose rear of at 3 folders D.332-D.335 ‘Planets and Satellites’ Typescript draft of ?publication. 4 folders. See also D.318-D.331, D.344. D.336-D.339 ‘Doubts about Mach’s principle’, Nature vol 230, 95-97 1971 1969-1970 1961-1972 1961-1972 1967-1971 D.337-D.339 See also D.271A. ‘Mach’s Principle 1971 W.H. McCrea’ Typescript draft of Nature article; off-prints. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: typescript drafts of Nature article; off-prints. At D.339 is a typescript by McCrea ‘Inertial frames and Mach’s principle’, 24 February 1967, found with papers for the 1971 publication. 1952-1972 ‘The cosmical constant’, Quart.J. R. Astr. Soc., vol 140-153. 1971 ‘Rotating relativistic ring’. Nature vol 234, 399-401. 1971 Typescript draft, 20 February 1971. D.341, D.342 12, W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘RRR’ 1970-1971 Contents of folder so inscribed: typescript draft dated 31 August 1971, proof, manuscript notes, etc. Correspondence, off-prints etc re McCrea’s paper. Found separately 1952-1972 ‘Quasi-stellar published objects: some recent theories’. ?Not Typescript draft, 1 March 1971. ‘Solar ?Unpublished system: origin of planets and _ satellites’. Typescript draft, 10 March 1971. Typescript dated 16 April 1971. D.346-D.348 1970-1972 D.349-D.358 ‘Quasi-stellar objects: what are they?’ ?Not published ‘Relativistic Beaming’, Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 1972 ‘Energy Sources in Galaxies and Quasars’, McGraw-Hill Year Book of Science and Technology. 1972 Contents of folder divided into three for ease of reference: typescript and manuscript drafts, letter accepting article for publication, referee’s report, etc. quasars’, etc. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: photocopy of 1971 M.Sc dissertation ‘Quasi- stellar objects: some notes’, typescript and manuscript and drafts of paper on energy sources in galaxies D.349-D.353 ‘1971 QSO Energy problems’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.354-D.356 ‘W.H. McCrea 1971 Quasars (McGraw Hill with longer version)’ Energy Sources in Galaxies and Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: typescript drafts. D.357, D.358 Typescript drafts found separately Two folders. ‘Origin Theories’, 1972. of the Solar System Review of Concepts and Photocopied typescript. ‘Refereeing and editing at an end’ 3pp typescript in the form of a letter ?to the editor of scientific journal, 23 August 1972. a D.360-D.369 1971-1976 D.370-D.372 1972-1973 ‘Moon-making’ 3pp typescript, 24 August 1972. ‘Sirius - a conjecture and an appeal’ J. Brit. Astron. Assoc, vol 84, 63-64. 1973 Contents of folder inscribed ‘1973 Sirius’ divided into ten for ease of reference: correspondence and papers re McCrea’s article and arising. text, Contents of folder so inscribed ‘Attention 1972 Dec.’ divided into three for ease of reference: Includes letter from Nature, 1 December 1972 and manuscript drafts of article, including ‘2nd draft’ date stamped Jan 7 1973’ ‘The problem of Cosmology now, edited by Laurie John. 1973 galaxies’. the ‘Relativisitic motion and visual forms’, ?Nature. 1973 photocopy of published Typescript drafts, D.373-D.376 McCrea’s chapter for 1972-1974 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 correspondence with editor, etc. 4 folders. ‘First stars’ Manuscript draft, n.d., bibliographic reference 1973. D.378-D.393 ‘Universe, Britannica, 1974 structure and properties of’, Encyclopaedia 1970-1974 D.378-D.387 ‘W.H. McCrea 1970 Britannica MANUSCRIPT and Drafts of some passages discarded in re-writing’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into ten for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts. Papers at D.378-D.380 were found in a folder (within the principal folder) inscribed ‘Original’. D.388-D.392 ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ 1970-1974 Typescript and proof 1970, 1973 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: correspondence, typescript, proofs. Review of: The Red Shift Controversy by G.B. Field, H. Arp and J.N. Bahcall. 1974 ‘1974 Redshift’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes, drafts, off-prints etc. ‘Ice ages and the galaxy’, Nature vol. 255, 19 June 1975 Manuscript draft account of conference contribution dated ‘York 1975 March 26’. ? prepared for publication D.394-D.396 1972-1974 D.398-D.400 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.398, D.399 ‘1975 Ice ages’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts, letter arising, etc.. At D.399 are manuscript of Comets’, York, 26 March 1975. notes for ‘Origin talk on Letter from editor of Science News with photocopy of McCrea’s Nature article. D.401, D.402 ‘Classical relativity in an up-to-date context’, Nature vol 253, 236-237. 1975 1974-1975 Letter from Nature, manuscript drafts of article etc. 2 folders. the ‘On Observatory, vol 95, 13-15. 1975 vacuum-matter symmetry of gravitation’, D.405, D.406 Manuscript drafts, etc ‘Mach in detail’, Nature, 1975 ‘Satellite Species and their Origins’ with abstract dated ‘Tucson, June 5, Photocopied manuscript draft, 14 August 1975; off-print. Typescript draft 1975’; manuscrupt notes and drafts. Akademie Leopoldina vol 42, 135-144. 1975 ‘Why is the universe like what it is?’, /rish Astr. J., vol 12, 95-102. 271975 Manuscript and typescript drafts, 26 August 1975. Planetssystems’, D.407, D.408 2 folders. D.409-D.413 ‘Die Entstehung des Nova Acta W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 English, manuscript and typescript Manuscript draft drafts in German, etc. in 5 folders. McCrea lectured on the ‘Origin of the Planetary Systems’ at Halle in October 1973. The paper was subsequently published by the Leopoldina. See also F.67. ‘Satellites to the fore’ Manuscript notes and draft, photocopied manuscript draft, 30 August 1975. D.415-D.420 ‘Solar neutrinos and galactic contamination’ (with Auman), Nature, 1976 J.R. ‘1976 Accretion’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence, background material. D.421-D.423 ‘Glaciation and dense interstellar clouds’, Nature vol 263, September 1976 3 folders. Manuscript and typescript drafts including typescript dated ‘1976 May 17, abbreviated June 15’, typescript paper sent to McCrea by M.R. Rees for comment, etc. ‘Models, laws and the universe’. Chapter VI, Cosmology, History and Theology, edited by Wolfgang Yourgrau and Allen D. Breck c. 1976 See also D.427, D.445, D.450, D.451-D.465. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript drafts for ?7McCrea’s chapter ‘The formation of the Solar System: a protoplanet theory’. Correspondence with ?proof copy with McCrea’s corrections signed and dated by McCrea, ‘1976 Sept 30’. publisher and D.425, D.426 ‘W.H. McCrea 1976 NATO Book’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘Foreword by the Scientific Director’ ?proof copy dated ‘1976, September 17’. McCrea was Scientific Director of the [NATO Advanced Studies] Institute and as such was invited ‘to contribute an introduction to the book’. See also D.425, D.426. D.428, D.429 ‘Seyfert Nuclei: A Tentative Theory’, 1977 1975, 1977 Manuscript draft and typescript drafts dated ‘1975 July 7 Tucson’; letter from Royal Greenwich Observatory, 28 January 1977, re publication of paper. McCrea was based at Arizona while writing the paper. the Kitt National Observatory, 2 folders. D.430-D.441 ‘The Frequency of Nearby Supernovae, and Climate and Biological Clark F.R. Stephenson). Nature vol 265, 318-319, 1977 Catastrophe’ (with D.H. and 1975-1977 1975-1977 D.430-D.440 See also D.475-D.477. ‘W.H. McCrea 1976 S-S and Galaxy The frequency of nearby supernova, climactic and biological catastrophes with D.H. Clark and F.R. Stephenson Nature’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eleven for ease of reference: off-prints and typescripts of papers by others, 1975-1976, correspondence re publication, 1976- 1977, etc. 1975-1978 Contents of filing cabinet divider so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: correspondence, off-prints, etc. Includes correspondence re McCrea’s 1977 Nature paper with Clark and Stephenson (D.444). Photocopy of manuscript draft publication; correspondence. by Clark for proposed D.442-D.444 ‘77 Supernovae’ W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.445, D.446 ‘Origin of Earth, Moon and Planets’ in The encyclopaedia of ignorance edited by Ronald Duncan and Miranda Weston-Smith, Oxford: Pergamon, 1977 1972-1977 Contents of McCrea’s untitled folder divided into two for ease and publisher, etc. reference: correspondence with editors of See also E.406. D.447-D.449 ‘1977 Asteroids’ reference: Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of of paper on ‘Asteroids: a possible origin’ and photocopied manuscript ‘First draft’ titled ‘Asteroids: the problem of their origin’. includes manuscript draft ‘W.H. McCrea 1977 Asteroids: a possible origin / The formation of the solar system / Origin of the earth moon and planets’ for ease of reference: manuscript D.451-D.465 ‘T S-S 1977’ See also D.425, D.426. Contents of folder so inscribed: photocopied typescript titled ‘The formation of the solar system: a protoplanet theory’, dated ‘1976 August 1’; manuscript notes. Contents of filing cabinet divider so labelled divided into fifteen notes, manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence, off- print, transparencies, etc. c.1972-1977 titled Solar Includes System: Ignorance thereof’, 16 January 1976, ‘Planets and satellites’, n.d., latest bibliographical reference 1972 (manuscript addition at the end of the typescript list of references), ‘Origin of the Earth, Moon and Planets’, 29 January 1976 and ‘The formation of the Solar System: a protoplanet theory’, 1 August 1976. This assemblage brings together material for publications and lectures on the formation of the solar system. at Manuscript notes for University of British Columbia, University College London and ‘Tata’, 1976. include those lectures typescript drafts ‘Origin of the given W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 Papers at D.452-D.455 were found in a folder inscribed ‘Solar Syst / Gen’ and papers at D.456-D.459 in a folder inscribed ‘T 1977 SS Formn’. D.466-D.470 ‘77 Fundamental Magnetism’ 1948-1979 Contents of filing cabinet divider so labelled divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript notes, typescript drafts, correspondence, etc. With the exception of 1979 material at D.466 all papers were found in Magnetism 1948 Dielectrics’ the a folder inscribed ‘Fundamental Papers appear to relate to 1948 typescript ‘Fundamental Magnetisation’ publication ‘Magnetism and rotation: Blackett’s speculation of 1947’ (D.473, D.474). 1978 _ D.40) (see and ‘Variable G’, Observatory, April 1978 1977-1978 19’ which on Gaseous Core’, D.473, D.474 Contents of folder so inscribed: letter re including with manuscript Comment by ‘Earth’s Catastrophist Geology, December 1978 McCrea Typescript draft and copy of December 1978 issue of Catastrophist McCrea’s comment appears. Geology in ‘Variable G’. publication, manuscript and typescript drafts typescript draft dated ‘1977 Sept. annotation ‘Proof corr. 1978 Feb. 6’. Contents of filing cabinet divider so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts, referee’s report, brief correspondence with editor, Speculations in Science and Technology, July-August 1978. ‘Magnetism and rotation: Blackett’s speculation of 1947’. c.1978 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.475-D.477 ‘1978 Climatic History’ and ‘Mostly out of date 1980’ 1977-1978 Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes and drafts, correspondence, off-print etc. ?relates in part to McCrea’s 1977 Nature paper with Clark and Stephenson. See D.430-D.441. At D.476 is manuscript draft for seminar at Sussex, 6 October 1978. ‘The origin and early evolution of the galaxies’, Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 23, 173-183. 1979 13pp typescript dated ‘May 21 1979 Dunedin’. This paper is Society February 1979. a report of the proceedings of discussion meeting under this title, a Royal 14-15 also includes typescript Folder A ‘Introduction’ to the discussion dated ‘1979 Feb.13’. revised version of McCrea’s introductory remarks was published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A., 1979. photocopied 8pp_ D.480-D.490 D.480-D.489 1968-1980 Letter to the press ‘Tunguska Comet Rendezvous’ 1p typescript dated ‘1979 August 8’. ‘W.H. McCrea Tunguska 1979 —’ ‘Commonwealth Communication’. ?The Times A paper of this title was submitted to Nature in 1979 but not published by them. 1968-1980 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into ten for ease of and reference: drafts, ‘Tunguska correspondence, referee’s report Comet-Rendezvous’; ‘Tunguska event of 1908 June 30 : the cometary hypothesis’, 23 October 1976; and background material. Photocopied typescript of McCrea’s paper with referees’ reports re paper draft manuscript typescript also typescript W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 D.491-D.495 Publications, D.1-D.733 Review of: Hughes, Dent: December 1979 The Star of Bethlehem Mystery by David 6 Nature vol. London, 1979. 282, Manuscript and typescript drafts, photocopy of review as published, correspondence. 5 folders. D.496-D.517 ‘Atomic and gravitational metrics in cosmology’ (with W. Davidson), Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A vol 374, 447-459. 1981 1979-1981 The work was done while McCrea was William Evans Visiting New Zealand. University Professor Otago, the of in Manuscript ‘Revision of May 1980’. draft dated ‘1981 March 17’; typescript 1980-1981 D.497-D.507 ‘Atomic and gravitational metrics in cosmology’ 1979-1980 his on the atomic co-author Davidson, 1976-1982 D.508-D.517 ‘Constants of Physics 1979’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into ten for ease of reference: correspondence with W. Davidson, co-author of the atomic and gravitational metrics paper and others, typescript draft and proofs of paper, off-prints etc. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into eleven for ease of reference: correspondence between McCrea and W. and gravitational metrics paper and others, manuscript and typescript drafts, manuscript notes, etc. January 1981. ‘Quasar Probabilities’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: includes five manuscript drafts ‘Quasar statistics’, Includes (D.511) correspondence with Davidson about his draft paper ‘Cosmological Implications of Dirac’s Large Numbers Hypothesis’. ‘Quasar statistics’ D.518-D.520 of ‘note’ titled W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘Expansion of the universe’ ?Proof copy with manuscript inscriptions in red ink ‘1981’ and in pencil ‘Unpublished?’ ‘Relativity’ 3pp typescript, 19 February 1983, with manuscript note at the head of the first page ‘Not used. D.523, D.524 ‘Asteroids: the problem of their origin’ ‘83 Aster’ds’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript ‘First draft’ so titled with related letter from colleague and pre-print, 1983. Article Bulletin, January 1984 1983 on Physics Nobel Prizewinners, Physics ‘The Early Universe’ ‘Earth origin - tentative model’ ‘Quantum Jumps and the Cosmos’ D.527, D.528 ‘Physics and cosmology’ Manuscript draft dated ‘1984 January 10’ Correspondence, manuscript drafts, 1983. ‘1984 W.H. McCrea’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts dated ‘1984 January 20’. Photocopied typescript, 8 November 1984. Typescript draft dated ‘1984 August 4’. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘Non-island Universes’ Typescript draft, with manuscript inscription at the head of the first page ‘1986’. D.532-D.535 ‘Energy and mass in physics’ (with G. Dombey and J. Rousseau), Physics Bulletin, July 1987 ‘Energy/Mass 1987’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence, drafts, proof, related papers, etc. ‘Man’s Science Reviews Future: Facing the Challenge’, /nterdisciplinary Typescript correspondence etc, October-November 1989. February dated ‘1989 draft 27’, proof, in volume on General relativity, divided into so inscribed 1989-1990 D.537-D.544 astrophysics proposed Article Relativity, Astrophysics and Quantum Theory in honour of Nathan Rose. 1990 ‘1989 Mathematical Physics Nathan Rose vol’. Contents for ease of of folder reference: editors and variously titled manuscript drafts. eight includes correspondence with and general Developments in a jubilee volume in honour of Nathan quantum theory : Rosen was edited on behalf of the Israel Physical Society by F.I. Cooperstock, L.P. Horwitz, J. Rosen and published in 1990. 1989-1992 When he replied to the invitation to contribute, May 1989, (D.542) McCrea indicated that he was thinking about aspects of the foundations of mathematical physics: ‘I have be ‘Mathematical physics - why is it?’ Manuscript notes ?for publication, including manuscript draft titled ‘A new Parliament and beyond’ with manuscript inscription to Times 21.4.92’. draft before copying and ‘W.H. McCrea / Recent thoughts and idea’ a firm title to propose, but it might posting not ‘Final W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 ‘The Royal Astronomical Society’ Manuscript and typescript drafts, August 1990. See also F.199. D.547-D.553 ‘Cosmology’ Bundle of papers so labelled divided into seven for ease manuscript drafts on topics in cosmology, of reference: June-November possible publication in mind. ?Prepared 1992. with ‘Telepathy?’ Manuscript draft of letter to New Scientist re cover story on telepathy in the New Scientist of 15 May 1993, with formal acknowledgement of receipt been reference: D.561-D.564 D.555-D.564 D.555-D.557 D.558-D.560 typescript drafts, ‘Universities for SPA’ ‘SPA Universities 1993 July’ ‘SPA and the Universities’ was McCrea’s title. The article may have title ‘Research Pyramid’. under the published ‘SPA and the Universities’, Science & Public Affairs, 1993 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of May- August 1993, letter, 18 August 1993. manuscript and 1991, 1993 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: includes correspondence 1991 with A.W. Wolfendale re his article for Nature on ‘The support of science in small universities’; manuscript drafts of article Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of drafts, background material, January - March 1993. ‘21st May ‘93 S.P.A.’ and ‘Early 1993’ reference: manuscript and _ typescript W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 articles or February 1993. for SPA including ‘Universities and SPA’, D.565-D.570 ‘SPA [Science & Public Affairs] Aug ‘95’. 1994-1995 Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: letter from SPA, 27 January 1995 re possible article; variously titled manuscript drafts in the area of the computer age and public affairs, background material. D.571-D.575 ‘Technology // June ‘96—’ Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript drafts of ?articles for periodical of that name, possibly for a ‘Topic of our time’ feature. Titles include ‘The human and his mathematics’, ‘Energy and dated between June and October 1996. ‘Whither technology’ power’ and and are ‘Q 1997’ 6 folders. for including 1995-1997 ?prepared publication D.577-D.582 Publication by H.W. Kroto Miscellaneous notes and drafts ?re publications Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript and typescript drafts ‘William McCrea: Time, Vacuum and Cosmos (Note added 1995 December)’ and ‘Questions’. 1960-1992, n.d. Typescript draft of article by Kroto ‘Interstellar Molecules and by McCrea beginning ‘Three aspects of ISM in the present galaxy’, 15 July 1978. manuscript draft Primordial Chemistry’ with W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.583-D.628 Reviews 1949-1994 A chronological sequence of drafts and related material for McCrea’s reviewing. also D.394-D.396, See D.687-D.689, D.696, D.699, D.701, D.711-D.713, D.715, D.716, F.179, G.191, Gd6, E122) J:307, 3-308; J316"J.317. D.491-D.495, 1949 Includes undated material found with 1949 reviews. D.585-D.588 1951 Four folders. 1952 Two folders. D.589, D.590 At D.490 is undated material found with 1952 reviews. Two folders. D.594, D.595 1968 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.596, D.597 1969 Two folders. 1971-1972 D.600-D.602 1974 Three folders. D.604, D.605 1976 Two folders. 1979 D.608-D.610 Three folders. Two folders. D.613, D.614 1983 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.616, D.617 c.1987 Two folders. D.618-D.621 1988 Four folders. D.622, D.623 1989 Two folders. J. to be Much of McCrea’s publications correspondence is found in the series of scientific correspondence in Section Alphabetical sequence by publisher or journal title. CORRESPONDENCE RE PUBLICATIONS At D.729-D.733 correspondence. are sequences of shorter scientific D.629-D.733 1935-1996 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd 1970-1976 Adam Hilger Ltd 1977-1985 Correspondence 1977-1979 relates to Adam Hilger Ltd’s interest history of cosmology from McCrea. a book on the in Folder also chapter of a philosophy of science text, 1985. includes McCrea’s comments on sample D.631, D.632 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1969, 1972 Includes referee’s reports. Two folders. Astrophysical Journal 1965, 1981 Athlone Press 1952-1955 Three folders. D.634-D.636 See also D.729. Cambridge Philosophical Society Principally re proposed book ‘Astrophysical Quantities’ by C.W. Allen and proposed new mathematical journal. 1964-1991 McCrea was an editor of the Press’s General Relativity series on Mathematical Physics from its conception in 1972. Correspondents include fellow editors, J.C. Polkinghorne and Dennis Sciama and authors. Cambridge University Press paper Re Proceedings of the Society on behalf of the authors. submitted McCrea to Mathematical D.638-D.686 and of the Cambridge Monographs’ by W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 1964-1970 Includes copy of Causality and Cosmology by G.F.R. Hawking, 1967. editorial agreement for Singularities, S.W. Ellis and The book was published as The /arge scale structure of space time in 1973. See also D.649. D.639, D.640 1971 Two folders. D.641-D.645 1972 Includes McCrea’s comments on proposed book by W.G. Dixon (D.642). Five folders. 1973 1974 1976 Three folders. D.646-D.648 Includes papers re book by F.G. Friedlander The wave equation on a curved space-time (D.647, D.648). Includes copy of agreement for paper back edition of The large scale structure of space time by G.F.R. Ellis and S.W. Hawking Includes royalty statement. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.655, D.656 1980 Includes synopsis of proposed book by T.W.B. Kibble and royalty on Mathematical Physics situation report (D.656). Monographs statements (D.655) and Two folders. 1981 Includes situation report and book proposal. D.658, D.659 1982 Two folders. D.660-D.669A 1983 Eleven folders. Includes situation reports and book proposals. Includes copies of series correspondence sent to McCrea by the Press, book proposals and status reports. Two folders. Includes copies of series correspondence, book proposals and status report. Includes book proposals. D.683, D.684 1985 D.670-D.682 1984 Thirteen folders. W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 1987-1991 Includes book proposal. D.687-D.689 Contemporary Physics 1973-1975 Includes reviews by McCrea. Three folders. See also J.316, J.317. D.690-D.693 D. Reidel Publishing Company 1971, 1984 D.690 EYAL Three folders. European Spectroscopy News D.691-D.693 1984 Papers relate to McCrea’s advice on book proposal. Invitation to McCrea to write report on Royal Society ‘Molecules in Interstellar Space’ meeting, with manuscript draft of McCrea’s report. articles offered by others. In 1975 McCrea joined the editorial board of this new journal (first published 1976). His principal correspondent is the editor A. R. Michaelis. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews The sequence includes drafts written by McCrea for the journal and his articles and reviews reports on of D.695-D.703 1975-1996 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 1977-1979 1981 Manuscript drafts of reviews by McCrea. 1982-1983 1984-1989 Re refereeing etc. 1990-1991 1992-1996 Journal of Physics, Section A Includes manuscript drafts by McCrea. 1962-1964 Includes reviews by McCrea for Nature and his referee’s reports on papers by others. D.705-D.716 Nature 1962-1981 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 1963-1964 D.707, D.708 1965 Two folders. 1968-1969 Includes correspondence re supply of Nature to Russian astronomers. 1935-1978 Includes McCrea’s correspondence with editors including R.v.d.R. Woolley, and contributors including S. Chandrasekhar, T.G. Cowling and E.A. Milne, and ‘as an The letter accepting McCrea became an editor in 1935. McCrea’s resignation is undated but he is addressed as a former editor in 1939. fellow 1977-1981 D.717-D.724 The Observatory W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 outsider’ J.B.S. Haldane. D1 3D.718 1935 Two folders. D.719-D.721A 1936 At D.721A are press-cuttings reporting on a course of ten lectures ‘Through Science to Philosophy’ given by Herbert Dingle at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Four folders. 1937-1939 1935-1936 1974-1978 Two folders. D.729, D.730 Physics Today 1971-1972 D.726, D.727 Royal Astronomical Society Re article on the clock paradox by Mendel Sachs. Two folders. Shorter correspondence with publishers, editors etc. D.729-D.733 Shorter publications correspondence 1964-1991 1964-1991 University of Massachusetts Press Includes McCrea’s assessment of book. 1962, 1990 W.H. McCrea NCUACS 138/3/05 Publications, D.1-D.733 D.731-D.733 Requests for off-prints of McCrea’s publications 1973-1991 Three folders. Unindexed.