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IMS Bulletin, vol 18, no.3, 1989. By Arnold Zellner. Journal of Ecology, 1989. By John SheailJ.R. Statist. Soc. A, 152, pt 3, 1989. By D.V. Lindley. Nature, 1989. By S.K. Runcorn.

Obituary by Frank Smithies.Text as published; manuscript and typescript notes by Lady Jeffreys.

Contents of folder so labelled by Lady Jeffreys.

Contents of folder so inscribed by Lady Jeffreys divided into two for ease of reference. Correspondents include E.W. Burn, B.W. Gilbert, C.B. Rootham and T.H. Sharp (A.55), and M.H.A. Newman (A.56). 1990 item (A.55) is note from College Archivist identifying correspondent (Sharp).

Programmes of the St John's College Musical Society and of other musical events associated with the College.

At A68 a copy of a reference from Sir Napier Shaw, 19 December 1921, in support of application by Jeffreys for professorship of Mathematics at King's College London, explains Jeffreys's association with the Meteorological Office: 'Dr Jeffreys joined the staff of the Meteorological Office in the later years of the war on my recommendation in order that he might help in dealing with certain difficult questions in gunnery which came to us from the Services and which involved the solution of difficult mathematical problems. He was retained after the armistice in virtue of his capacity for dealing with the application of mathematics to problems of the atmosphere'. Jeffreys went to the Meteorological Office in 1917 and returned to Cambridge in 1922 as College lecturer in mathematics. 1990 item (A69) is letter from the Librarian, National Meteorological Library to Lady Jeffreys.

In addition to Jeffreys's association with St John's College he was appointed to a university lectureship in 1926. He was Reader in Geophysics from 1931 and was elected to the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in 1946, retiring in 1959.

Official documentation, press-cutting, etc.

Correspondence, citation, photographs etc. The medal was presented to Jeffreys in Cambridge