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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Cecil Reginald Burch, CBE FRS (1901-1983) including material relating to George James Burch FRS (1852-1914) and Francis Parry Burch (1899-1933)

Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of CECIL REGINALD BURCH, CBE FRS (1901-1983) including material relating to GEORGE JAMES BURCH FRS (1852-1914) and FRANCIS PARRY BURCH (1899-1933)

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Reference	CSAC 110.1.86
Covering dates	ca 1852-1983
Held by	University of Bristol Special Collections
Extent	385 files
Conditions of access	NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION IS YET AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: THE LIBRARIAN WILLS MEMORIAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL.

Source of acquisition	The material was received at various dates via the Physics Department, University of Bristol, from T.E. Allibone FRS who had assembled it while preparing his Memoir for the Royal Society.
Creators	Burch, Cecil Reginald, 1901-1983, scientist, physicist and engineer
Related information	The prototype Ultra-Violet Reflecting Microscope, made by Burch c.1946 for use with short wavelength ultra-violet radiation and used by R. Barer in the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford, is in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. The grinding and polishing machinery used in the manufacture of the aspherical mirror for the microscope is in the Science Museum, London. The tape-recording of Burch's lecture 'MetroVick Memories' is held at the Royal Society, London. Additional biographical material relating to George James Burch, including letters of condolence to Mrs. Burch, is in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
Bibliography	A full account of Burch's career and research can be found in the memoir by T.E. Allibone written for the Royal Society and published in 1984 (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 30, 3-42), a copy of which is enclosed at A.1. References to this work are given in the catalogue in the form (Memoir, p. ...). Published works listed in the accompanying Bibliography are given in the form (Bibliog. ...). For ease of reference, a photocopy of the Bibliography is included, with permission, on pp.62-65.
Note	Complied by Jeannine Alton, Peter Harper and Margaret Erskine The work of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, and the production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following societies and institutions: The Biochemical Society The Charles Babbage Foundation for the History of Information Processing The Institute of Physics The Institution of Electrical Engineers The Institution of Mechanical Engineers The Nuffield Foundation The Rhodes Trustees The Royal Society of London The Wolfson Foundation ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our main debt is to T.E. Allibone FRS for retrieving the material, for help and information, particularly on the history of the screen-grid valve, and for permission to include a copy of the Bibliography of Burch's writings. We are also grateful to Dr. G.L'E. Turner and Mr. A.V. Simcock of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, for information.

Administrative history:

b.1901 Oxford
educ. 1907-14 Dragon School, Oxford
1914-19 Oundle School
1919-22 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
1922-33 Research Department, Metropolitan-Vickers Company
1933 Death of Francis Parry Burch
1933-35 Leverhulme Fellow in Optics, Imperial College, London
1936 Research Associate (Fellow from 1944), H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol University
1937 Marriage to Enid Grace Morice (d.1981)
1943 Award of Duddell Medal of the Physical Society
1944 Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society
1948-66 Royal Society Warren Research Fellow in Physics, Bristol University
1954 Award of Rumford Medal, Royal Society
1958 Conferral of C.B.E.

Contents:

SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL A.1-A.74
SECTION B RESEARCH List of contents B.1-B.200
SECTION C LECTURES AND TALKS C.1-C.18
SECTION D PUBLICATIONS D.1-D.45
SECTION E CORRESPONDENCE E.1-E.48
The material is presented in the order shown in the list of contents. Although it includes documentation of all aspects of Burch's career and scientific activity, the coverage is uneven and sometimes regrettably scanty.
This is in part attributable to Burch's temperament and preferred way of working. His early life (academic upbringing, public school and Cambridge) might suggest a conventional establishment figure, yet he was in fact a 'loner', working idiosyncratic hours and holding research posts or personal appointments largely independent of departmental structures and bureaucracies. In addition, his career was subject to abrupt changes of direction, often for personal reasons of which the best documented was his decision to leave the Metropolitan-Vickers Company after the distressing death of his brother Francis in 1933. The changes were rarely permanent however, and Burch often returned to a research topic (e.g. optics) after a break. He was himself aware of psychological complications in his life, sometimes attempting to describe them more or less obscurely (see, e.g. A.25, B.122 - B. 125) but generally preferring to look forward with new ideas for continuing research, as he did to the very end of his life (see, e.g. A.3A). The drawbacks of such a personality and career pattern are the lack of administrative discipline in dating or paginating notes and drafts, and Burch's failure to maintain correspondence files in favour of using the backs of letters - even those in current use - for notes. There are thus serious gaps in all sections of the documentation, and problems in assigning more than tentative dates or descriptions to much of the technical material.
Section A (Biographical) reflects Burch's modest and unassuming personality in that the record of his own career is outweighed by records of his family. In particular, there is biographical and scientific material relating to his father George James Burch and his work on optics, as well as various documents relating to his brother Francis. His older brother Raymond, who was responsible for the name 'Bill' which quickly replaced Burch's forenames and who was killed in the Royal Flying Corps in France in 1918, is represented by brief correspondence (A.63). His mother Constance Emily was also a remarkable character, not least for her friendship with C.L. Dodgson (A.54). As well as this family pietas, Burch's awareness of his own contributions to science, and his prolific '"Capital" of Research Ideas' can be found at A.3, A.3A.
Section B (Research) is the most substantial and covers many of Burch's areas of research in varying degrees of detail, the fullest being those on mineral dressing and on medical matters. The material on optics as originally received was disappointing for this important area of Burch's work, but was much strengthened by the arrival of additional papers when the catalogue was already in draft: the 'new' material now appears as an Addendum (B. 186-B.200). The surviving material for the period at the Metropolitan-Vickers Company is almost wholly concerned with the work of his brother Francis which Burch was especially anxious to have adequately remembered. Explanatory notes are provided to accompany the separate topics in this Section.
Section C (Lectures), though extending widely in time (1932-81), is nevertheless somewhat scanty. Burch's university appointments did not entail regular teaching and lecturing. Thus the surviving lectures were conference talks or invitation lectures such as the Parsons Memorial Lecture in 1959, the Royal Society Review Lecture 'University physics - the challenge of technology' in 1965, and the 'Optics 78' Conference at Bath. Although some of the lectures (such as those mentioned above) were subsequently published, it would seem that Burch adopted an informal, even colloquial, lecturing style; this, combined with his haphazard filing methods, may mean that by no means all his talks are documented.
Section D (Publications) is similarly uneven. Very little survives from the MetroVick period and only one article, '"Squeeze" Significance tests', with I.T. Parsons, is fully documented with correspondence, drafts, calculations and diagrams. There are however several undated writings (D.32 - D.44) possibly intended for publication.
Section E (Correspondence) has probably suffered most from Burch's working methods. There is one relatively substantial sequence of letters on aspects of mineral dressing and mining (E.19 - E.24), but much of the remaining material consists of Burch's manuscript drafts, carbons or photocopies of his outgoing letters. Replies, if they were received, may have been used for research notes and calculations and thus lost to view.

SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL CSAC 110.1.86/A.1 - A.74 [n.d.]

Contents:

A.1 OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES
A.2 -A.5A AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
A.6-A.22 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS
A.23-A.29 MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS
A.30-A.71 PERSONAL AND FAMILY
Personal correspondence A.30
George James Burch A.31-A.52
Constance Emily Burch A.53-A.55
Francis Parry Burch A.56-A.64
Irene Constance Burch A.65, A.66
Enid Grace Burch A.67-A.70
Cecil Hicks A.71
A.72-A.74 PHOTOGRAPHS

OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES CSAC 110.1.86/A.1 [n.d.]

Obituaries and Tributes CSAC 110.1.86/A.1 1983-1984

Contents:

Obituary from The Times, 5 August 1983.
Memoir by T.E. Allibone (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 30, 1984).

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CSAC 110.1.86/A.2-A.5A [n.d.]

Autobiographical CSAC 110.1.86/A.2 1965-1978

Contents:

Autobiographical article for McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Letter from editor, ms. and typescript drafts, proofs and copy of published article; also later letter from Burch to McGraw-Hill (1978) declining to write on his own work but enclosing a list of published papers 'in order of recall'.
Proof of Burch's entry for 1967 edition of Debrett with covering letter.
Carbon of Burch's letter to Senior Executive Secretary, Bristol University, 1975, suggesting he should be described as 'Hon. Physicist-in-ordinary'. Relates to his 'Who's Who in America' entry.
Invitation (declined by Burch) to write the history of his years at Metropolitan-Vickers, 1976.

Autobiographical CSAC 110.1.86/A.3 n.d. and 1976-1981

Contents:

Correspondence with G.E.H. Foxon re early work on 'phase-contrast' micrography, 1976.
Correspondence with A.Q. Morton, Royal Scottish Museum, re development of Apiezon oils and greases at Metropolitan-Vickers, 1978.
Letter to Vice-Chancellor, Southampton University, 1978, concerning his honorary post at Bristol after his retirement.
Letter to F.G. Smith, 1981, re testing and refiguring telescope mirrors at Imperial College, London.
Summary of Burch's influence over his colleagues and successors, shown in diagramatic form, 1p. n.d.
Single page of autobiographical account by Burch, n.d.

Autobiographical CSAC 110.1.86/A.3A n.d. and 1966-1975

Contents:

A sequence of documents illustrating Burch's interest in developing new research ideas after his official retirement in 1966.
'The "Capital" of Research Ideas of C.R. Burch, 1966'.
4pp. typescript, probably a summary of Burch's intended areas of research after his retirement, listing and describing 17 topics of active interest.
'Note on Non-Contact Testing of Lens Surfaces', 1973.
6pp. typescript with 1p. ms. diagram on project to develop a test 'for radius of curvature as well as for sphericity'.
'Interferometry of Large Autostigmatic Systems', 1973.
6pp. typescript (with photocopy), outlining a student project.
'Preheat Torches', 1974.
8pp. typescript outlining a possible Ph.D. project to design a gas torch using various types of gas.
Includes 1p. typescript of 'Separation of Methane from Marsh gas', also described as a possible student project.
Letter to Vice-Chancellor, Bristol, 1975, on the threat to Ph.D. work by the SRC Working Party report on postgraduate training, with specific examples of successful research projects at Bristol.
Another copy is at CSAC 110.1.86/E.29.
'A Preferred Variant of Bates' Inverting Interferometer', n.d.
1p. typescript, outlining a student project.
'Dust Core Filter Bridges', n.d.
2p. typescript, outlining a student project.

'Autobiographical Notes' written by Burch for the Royal Society, 1981. CSAC 110.1.86/A.4 1980-1982

Related information: For correspondence with the Nuffield Foundation, 1949-51, see CSAC 110.1.86/B. 192-B. 197.

Contents:

Ms. and typescript drafts, with related correspondence, June 1980-July 1982, and envelope annotated by T.E. Allibone.
These notes are chiefly concerned with the development of the aspheric reflecting microscope and include details of involvement of A.M. Tyndall in the joint production and research project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Burch dwells upon his reaction to Tyndall's forgery of his signature on the application and the stress, physical and mental, he suffered as a result (Memoir, p.28). The notes conclude with his family and education, with particular reference to his brother Francis's work and early death.

'Metrovick Memories' CSAC 110.1.86/A.5, A.5A [n.d.]

Administrative history:

Burch was due to give a lecture on this topic at Warwick University, October 1983, but died in July. There are however a number of incomplete drafts and a tape-recording was made in May 1983 (Memoir, p.38).

'Metrovick Memories' CSAC 110.1.86/A.5 1982-1983

Contents:

Correspondence with organiser (F.A. Vick) and former colleague (G. McKerrow), 1982.
Typescript draft paginated 1-13 (lacks p.12) and 10pp. transcript of 'tape of Warwick Lecture recorded May 1983'.
Background material including lists of Burch's published papers.

'Metrovick Memories' CSAC 110.1.86/A.5A n.d. c1983

Contents:

Various incomplete ms. drafts, variously paginated or unpaginated.
Miscellaneous ms. sheets of calculations found with drafts.

CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS CSAC 110.1.86/A.6-A.22 [n.d.]

Certificates CSAC 110.1.86/A.6 1901-1919

Contents:

Birth certificate (date of registration 8 October 1901) and four educational certificates, 1916-19.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/A.7 1918-1981

Contents:

Correspondence re Dragon School and early days in Oxford, 1974-81.
Letter of 7 October 1981 recalls Burch's debt to the headmaster of the Dragon School ('The Skipper') (Memoir, pp.5-6).
Letters and telegram from Oundle School re scholarship and exhibitions, 1918, 1919.
1p. photocopy re science teaching and facilities at Oundle School, 1978.

Correspondence and Testimonials CSAC 110.1.86/A.8 1917-1922

Contents:

Letter and telegram from Caius College re scholarship, 1917, 1918.
Letter from Ewelme Exhibition Endowment, Oxford, re award of exhibition, 1919.
Testimonials, Cambridge, 1922 (includes two from R.A. Peters)

B.A. certificate, University of Cambridge CSAC 110.1.86/A.9 1922

Certificate of exemption from matriculation examination, University of London, 1934, with covering letter. CSAC 110.1.86/A.10 c1934

Fellowship of the Royal Astronomical Society (letter of election). CSAC 110.1.86/A.11 1935

Fellowship, Institute of Physics (certificate) CSAC 110.1.86/A.12 1935

Certificate of Premium awarded to Burch and C. Sykes by The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1935, for joint paper 'Continuously Evacuated Valves and their Associated Equipment' (Bibliog. 42). CSAC 110.1.86/A.13 1935

Ph.D. University of London CSAC 110.1.86/A.14 1932-1936

Contents:

Completed application form, with recommendation by G.P. Thomson, 1932 and abstract of thesis, 1936 (photocopies).
Letter notifying Burch of the award, 1936.

Ph.D. University of London CSAC 110.1.86/A.15 1936

Contents:

Certificate

Award of Duddell Medal, Physical Society (certificate) CSAC 110.1.86/A.16 1943

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/C.2.

Fellowship of the Royal Society, Notification of election. CSAC 110.1.86/A.17 1944

The Royal Society's Rumford Medal, 1954. CSAC 110.1.86/A.18 c1954

Contents:

Letter notifying Burch of the award and 10 letters of congratulation.

The Royal Society's Rumford Medal, 1954. CSAC 110.1.86/A.19 1954

Contents:

Certificate in presentation folder.

Document conferring C.B.E., January 1958. CSAC 110.1.86/A.20 c1958

In original envelope

Contents:

Includes one letter of congratulation.

Certificate of membership, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy CSAC 110.1.86/A.21 1961

Honorary D.Sc., Bristol University, 1966. CSAC 110.1.86/A.22 1966-1981

Contents:

Letter of congratulation; presentation address.
Letter inviting Burch to accept membership of Convocation, Bristol University, 1966.
Certificate of Charter Membership, International Association for Mathematical Geology, 1968.
Letter from British Vacuum Council, 1981, requesting Burch to allow his name to be given to their annual prize, including conditions of entry.
See CSAC 110.1.86/C.16 for Burch's speech on presenting the prize in 1981.

MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS CSAC 110.1.86/A.23-A.29 [n.d.]

Miscellaneous material re personal finances. CSAC 110.1.86/A.23 n.d

Miscellaneous poems, pieces of prose and humour collected by Burch. Includes Kipling and some German texts. CSAC 110.1.86/A.24 n.d

'Radical Psychectomy' - a Fantasy. CSAC 110.1.86/A.25 n.d

Contents:

Various drafts for a script of 'an imaginary colour-film talkie', with a note 'This Fantasy is affectionately dedicated to all my Stoke friends. Bill'.

Card for 80th birthday, signed by staff of 'the Fort', Bristol University, with a photocopy of the signatures. CSAC 110.1.86/A.26 1981

'Taxonomy of Supervisors - Emblazonings' CSAC 110.1.86/A.27 n.d

Contents:

Ms. descriptions and hand-drawn illustrations of coats of arms with humorous intent.

Two unidentified sketches. Bristol University Christmas card, with photograph of scientific equipment CSAC 110.1.86/A.28 n.d

Visit to Egypt, 1981. CSAC 110.1.86/A.29 c1981

Contents:

Typescript pages 7-17 of diary, 1-11 February. No indication of author and probably not by Burch.

PERSONAL AND FAMILY CSAC 110.1.86/A.30-A.71 [n.d.]

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE CSAC 110.1.86/A.30 1931-82

One folder only

Arrangement: In chronological order

Contents:

Not indexed.
Note: Two of these letters may have been addressed to F.P. Burch.

FAMILY CSAC 110.1.86/A.31-A.71 [n.d.]

George James Burch (father) CSAC 110.1.86/A.31-52 (1852-1914)

Biographical material [no ref. or date]

Scrapbook CSAC 110.1.86/A.31 c.1886-c.1911

Contents:

Miscellaneous contents include:
The Oxford University Scientific Club: term cards, 1886-1910, notices of conversazioni 1887, 1905.
Reading Literary and Scientific Society: notice of AGM 1897, pages from a printed report of lectures delivered before the Society including 'The Language of Birds' (1893) and 'The Colour Sense' (1897) by G.J. Burch.
Newspaper cutting, 1899, re paper on 'Spectroscopic Examination of Contrast Phenomena' given by G.J. Burch to the British Association at Dover.
Lecture timetables for Oxford University Extension Summer Meetings, 1895.
'Reports of University Institutions', 1902, 1903, with reference to G.J. Burch's lectures and teaching.
Page from Oxford University Gazette, 1903, with notice of award of D.Sc. to G.J. Burch.
Various newspaper cuttings, 1903-1904, including article on inaugural lecture by G.J. Burch for course of 'evening classes for the people' at University College, Reading, and a report on the prize day of the Oxford Preparatory School, at which Raymond Burch received a prize.
Oxford University Extension Summer Meeting, 1905, newspaper cuttings of photographs and biographies of 'some notable figures', including G.J. Burch, and lecture timetables.
Newspaper cuttings re the Oxford Art Society's annual exhibition, with a reference to I.C. Burch, n.d.
Cutting from Oxford Chronicle, 1908, re 'Foreign Women Students' Vacation Course', with reference to Mrs. Burch's teaching.
Loose enclosures include:
Ms. copy of letter to First Lord of the Treasury from various fellow scientists including J.J. Thomson and J.S. Haldane, requesting a Civil List pension for G.J. Burch and giving details of his financial and familial circumstances, c. 1911.
Newspaper cutting, 1924, re lecture given by D.V. Burch (daughter) on 'The World Below the Water' for the Sunderland Naturalists' Association.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/A.32 c1892-1883

Contents:

Letters from G.J. Burch to his wife, Constance Emily Burch, only one dated (30 March 1892).
Includes ms. of a poem 'The Mower and the Maid' dated 11 May 1883 in another hand.

Newspapers CSAC 110.1.86/A.33 1914

Contents:

Newspaper cuttings of biographical interest, including notice of Civil List pension, and lists of G.J. Burch's publications, probably from Proceedings of the Royal Society.
Photocopy of obituary of G.J. Burch in Nature, 1914.
Copy of The Oxford Magazine, 1914, containing obituary of G.J. Burch.

Notes and drafts [no ref. or date]

Contents:

These manuscript notes, nearly all of which are secured into bundles by tape, are mostly undated and all are unpaginated. The subject-matter is usually optics, with one bundle of notes on the reaction of metals with concentrated acids.
It is probable that these notes were for lectures, some perhaps for the Oxford University Extension Classes, as the topics covered are not specialist.

'Invention of the Telescope'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.34 n.d

Untitled notes on the theory of the telescope. CSAC 110.1.86/A.35 n.d

'Galileo's Telescope'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.36 n.d

'Notabilia for "Light"'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.37 n.d

'Sources of Light' CSAC 110.1.86/A.38 n.d

'To show the Re-composition of White Light from the spectrum'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.39 n.d

'Testing' (of lenses, etc.). CSAC 110.1.86/A.40 n.d

Untitled notes on an experiment with a microscope (1p. only). CSAC 110.1.86/A.41 n.d

'The Colour Sense'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.42 1897

Administrative history:

Lecture delivered before the Reading Literary and Scientific Society, 27 April 1897.

'On the Behaviour of Certain Metals with regard to Concentrated Acids'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.43 1908

Contents:

Abstract of lecture given by G.J. Burch and J.W. Dodgson.
Includes miscellaneous notes, some dated 1908.

Notes described as 'on the Glass workers' cataract research', with forwarding letter from J.G. Malpas, University College, Reading, 12 January 1911. CSAC 110.1.86/A.44 c1911

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/A.48-A.50.

Notes detailing questions to be asked re glass workers' cataract. CSAC 110.1.86/A.45 n.d

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/A.48-A.50.

'On a Perspective Microscope'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.46 1887

Contents:

Reprint only from Proc. Roy. Soc., 42.

'The Departmental Committee on Sight Tests' CSAC 110.1.86/A.47 1912

Contents:

Newspaper cuttings, received via several cutting agencies, on the subject of G.J. Burch's memorandum, published by this Committee, on colour-blindness.

The Royal Society Glass-workers' Cataract Committee CSAC 110.1.86/A.48-A.50 1908-1914

3 folders.

Related information: See also A.44, A.45.

Contents:

These papers chiefly consist of copies of reports, with some minutes and correspondence, made for the Committee. G.J. Burch's name appears on several of these reports, and he gave a paper entitled 'A Confusion Test for Colour Blindness' in March 1912.
CSAC 110.1.86/A.50 includes notification of grant to Burch for research project on optics.

Galley-proofs of article on optics by Sir William Crookes CSAC 110.1.86/A.51 n.d

Reprints of four articles on human eye-sight CSAC 110.1.86/A.52 1912, 1913

Constance Emily Burch (mother) CSAC 110.1.86/A.53-A.55 (1855-1937)

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/A.53 n.d and 1925

Contents:

Letters from the Burch children to their mother (includes one letter from Irene to her father), n.d.
Letter from Burch to his mother, 1925, re attempts to publish a joint paper with N.R. Davis with the help of C.G. Darwin (see Memoir, p.10 and Bibliog. 14).
Includes some personal news.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/A.54 1971

Contents:

Photocopies of letters from C.L. Dodgson to Mrs. Burch, 20 May, 2 July, 13 December 1893, 3 May 1896, and correspondence 1971 re sale of these letters from N.R. Davies, C.R. Burch and D.V. Burch (Dorothy Violet, b. 1889, testifying to Dodgson's freedom from impediment in his speech when in the company of children).

Bibliography: The letters of 20 May and 2 July 1893, and of 3 May 1896 are reproduced in The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. M.N. Cohen and R.L. Green, 2 Vols. London 1979, but that of 13 December 1893 does not appear. See especially Vol. II, pp.955-6, where the editors describe Dodgson's relations with Mrs. Burch and her daughters Irene and Violet and express the view that they are 'one instance where his friendship with the mother surpassed that with the daughters'.

'Rules' of Norham Hall. CSAC 110.1.86/A.55 n.d

Administrative history:

This establishment was a finishing school for foreign young ladies run by Mrs. Burch until August 1914 (see Memoir, p.5).

Francis Parry Burch (brother) CSAC 110.1.86/A.56-A.64 (1899-1933)

Certificates and Testimonials CSAC 110.1.86/A.56 1899-1915

Contents:

Birth certificate, 1899.
School Certificate, 1914.
Testimonials from Winchester College and the Oxford Preparatory School, 1915

List of staff and boys of Winchester College. CSAC 110.1.86/A.57 1917

Roll

Francis Party Burch CSAC 110.1.86/A.58 1917-1920

Contents:

Testimonial from Winchester College, n.d. ?1917 or later
Permit book for Military Area, Harwich (Memoir, p.7).
Certificate of exemption from military service, 1918.
List of successful candidates for the Goldsmiths' Company's exhibitions to Cambridge, 1920.
Letter informing F.P. Burch of his Goldsmiths' Company's exhibition at Cambridge, 1920.
Certificate, Cambridge O.T.C., 1920.

B.A. certificate, University of Cambridge CSAC 110.1.86/A.59 1922

Francis Party Burch CSAC 110.1.86/A.60 1922-1932

Contents:

Testimonials from Caius and Clare Colleges, Cambridge, 1922.
Letter of appointment from Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Limited, and Employment Agreement, 1922.
Testimonial from the Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, 1922.
Certificate confirming F.P. Burch's degree, 1932.

'F.P. Burch, Caius' CSAC 110.1.86/A.61 n.d

Contents:

Undergraduate notebook: dynamical theory of gases, thermionics, etc.

Page, probably from undergraduate notebook CSAC 110.1.86/A.62 26 November 1920

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/A.63 1929-1930

Contents:

2 Letters from Raymond Burch, one enclosing a 'rather unique' aerial photograph of Winchester and one from France dated '2 May' shortly before he was killed in action.
2 Letters from G. McKerrow (a colleague at Metropolitan-Vickers), 1929, 1930.

'On Potential Dividers for Cathode Ray Oscillographs'. CSAC 110.1.86/A.64 n.d

Contents:

Photocopy of published paper communicated by J.J. Thomson

Irene Constance Burch (sister) CSAC 110.1.86/A.65, A.66 [n.d.]

'5 copies of the Christmas Card for 1910, designed by Irene C. Burch. To be kept. G.J. Burch' CSAC 110.1.86/A.65 1910

In original envelope

Administrative history:

Irene was an active member of the Oxford Art Society.

Two letters to Raymond Burch CSAC 110.1.86/A.66 n.d

Enid Grace Burch (née Morice) (wife) CSAC 110.1.86/A.67-A.70 [n.d.]

Teacher's Diploma, University of London CSAC 110.1.86/A.67 1924

B.A. and M.A. certificates, (Girton College) University of Cambridge CSAC 110.1.86/A.68 1929

Miscellaneous financial items. CSAC 110.1.86/A.69 n.d

Health CSAC 110.1.86/A.70 1975

Contents:

Includes letter from C.R. Burch to his wife's doctor, detailing experimental treatment with oral B12 and asking for comment (probably never sent)

Document granting Cecil Hicks 'the exclusive right of Burial and Interment' in the South Metropolitan Cemetery CSAC 110.1.86/A.71 1852

Administrative history:

(A distant relative on maternal side.)

PHOTOGRAPHS CSAC 110.1.86/A.72-A.74 [n.d.]

Miscellaneous photographs of Burch, including 3 taken at Metropolitan-Vickers. CSAC 110.1.86/A.72 n.d

Miscellaneous photographs, probably Burch family and friends. CSAC 110.1.86/A.73 n.d

Framed photograph of unidentified member of Burch family. CSAC 110.1.86/A.74 n.d

SECTION B RESEARCH CSAC 110.1.86/B.1 - B.200 [n.d.]

Contents:

LIST OF CONTENTS
B.1 -B.17A METROPOLITAN-VICKERS COMPANY
B.18 -B.58 and B.186-B.200 OPTICS
B.59 -B.86 MINERAL DRESSING AND RELATED SUBJECTS
B.87 PYTHAGORAS PATTERNS
B.88 -B.92 WEIRS
B.93 -B.95 HOT-BLAST TORCH DEVELOPMENT
B.96 -B.110 STATISTICS
B.111-B.165 MEDICAL AND PSYCHOMEDICAL
B.166-B.185 MISCELLANEOUS

METROPOLITAN-VICKERS COMPANY CSAC 110.1.86/B.1-B.17A [n.d.]

Administrative history:

Burch was associated with Metropolitan-Vickers for 11 years, joining the research department in 1922 with his elder brother, Francis. It was the death of this brother, in extremely distressing circumstances in 1933, that precipitated Burch's departure from MetroVick and his return to academic research (at Imperial College under G.P. Thomson). Burch continued to be associated with the company for many years as a consultant.
Given the circumstances of Burch's departure from MetroVick it is unlikely to be an accident that almost all the surviving research material from this period relates to the work of his brother, Francis. In the autobiographical notes written for the Royal Society in 1982, Burch asked his future biographer to make reference to his brother's work at MetroVick (Memoir, pp. 16-17).

Research Notebook CSAC 110.1.86/B.1 1928

Contents:

Research notebook of Francis Parry Burch labelled on flyleaf 'Drying No.2'. In use c. June-July 1928. Some loose pages.

Internal MetroVick correspondence for the attention of various persons including F.P. and C.R. Burch CSAC 110.1.86/B.2 October 1930-March 1932

Administrative history:

These documents are F.P. Burch's copies and were presumably kept by his brother for that reason.

Work on valves by F.P. Burch, kept together as a unit by C.R. Burch. CSAC 110.1.86/B.3-B.12 c.1931-33

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.3 c1931-1932

Contents:

'An Account of the Erecting, Conditioning and Testing of Two Oscillator Valves to be supplied to the G.P.O. for Oscillation in Push-Pull on 15 metres Wavelength'.
18pp. typescript signed by L.H.J. Phillips but with F.P. Burch's name above the title.
'500 KW Demountable Valve Tests - Rugby. Summarised Log of Tests from 19 August to 16 September 1931'.
6pp. typescript dated 5 May 1932.

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.4 1932-1984

Contents:

Research Department Report on Continuously Evacuated Screen-Grid Valves', May 1932. By F.P. Burch.
Photocopy of 'Library File Copy'.
Folder also includes envelope annotated by T.E. Allibone, February 1984.

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.5 c1931-1932

Contents:

Charts, graphs and blueprints. Some dated in 1931 and 1932.

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.6-B.9 n.d

4 folders.

Contents:

Ms. notes and narratives

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.10 n.d

Contents:

Ms. drafts for papers, One on transmitting values.

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.11 n.d

Contents:

'Hartmann test by Redman'
Ms. notes by C.R. Burch (1p. by F.P. Burch).

Work on values CSAC 110.1.86/B.12 n.d

Contents:

Notes and narratives in German, mainly on historical topics and including account of Gallipoli by Compton Mackenzie.
No scientific content but found with preceding. May represent F.P. Burch's attempts to learn German at this time.

Metropolitan-Vickers Research Department Report on Filaments for Small Demountable Valves CSAC 110.1.86/B.13 April 1932

Screen-grid value CSAC 110.1.86/B.14 n.d

Contents:

Later historical account of screen-grid valve, its development and use (to 1943). n.d. or author but part of larger history written for the record after the war.
Included in the folder is a comment on the account and its possible date and authorship, taken from a letter sent to the compilers of the catalogue by T.E. Allibone, 19 October 1985.

Four Metropolitan-Vickers blueprints CSAC 110.1.86/B.15 1933

Contents:

'Degasser & Condenser for Pretreatment, Type P.3 Still', 'Arrgt of Oil Pump Unit for Type P.3 Still', 'Preheater for Type P.3 Still', and one unidentified.

Metropolitan-Vickers blueprints (rotors), with covering letter CSAC 110.1.86/B.16 9 July 1942

Photographs of distillation apparatus, valves, pumps, etc. CSAC 110.1.86/B.17 1927-33

Contents:

Some with ms. identifications on verso by T.E. Allibone.

Furnaces CSAC 110.1.86/B.17A 1938-1943

Contents:

Photographs of furnaces, etc., some with ms. identifications on verso.
Photostat of paper on 'a new high temperature furnace on the surface combustion principle' (translated from the German).
1p. from The Metropolitan-Vickers Gazette, April 1938.
Letter from Metropolitan-Vickers re furnaces, 31 March 1943.

OPTICS CSAC 110.1.86/B.18-B.58 [n.d.]

Related information: For early work on optics at Metropolitan-Vickers and Imperial College see CSAC 110.1.86/B.186, CSAC 110.1.86/B.187, and for work at Bristol see CSAC 110.1.86/B. 188 et seq.

Administrative history:

After Burch's return to university life (first at Imperial College and then, from 1936, at Bristol) optics became his main field of research 'especially in the figuring of aspheric surfaces to extremely high degrees of accuracy, leading to the production of reflecting microscopes of wide aperture' (Memoir, p.4). Most of the following sequence of research material dates from the 1970s, that is, after Burch's official retirement in 1966.

'Optical Notebook No.8' CSAC 110.1.86/B.18 n.d

The notebook is in poor condition, with covers and many pages loose; pages numbered 1-73; notes continue on rear cover and on 2 loose pages at rear.

Contents:

Hard-cover notebook, inscribed inside front cover with name, address (Bristol) and title 'Reflecting Microscope'; presumably one of a sequence, of which no.2 is the only other one surviving (CSAC 110.1.86/B.187).
The work consists of observations, calculations and narratives, in pencil and in red and black ink, none dated. The main work probably dates from Burch's earliest days at Bristol (Memoir, p.22) but Burch seems to have returned to the book in the 1970s, filling in the originally blank contents page with references to specific work on Schwarzschild equations and spheres, adding notes and queries in red ballpoint and interleaving a 1p. typescript note 'OSC of approximations to Schwarzschild curves. Present position - July 1974'.
The main content is a series of drafts and calculations on the design of microscopes with spherical and aspherical mirrors, ellipses, astigmatics, convex and concave mirrors, polishing techniques, 'see-saw' diagram, etc.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.19 1940s

Contents:

'Tortuous Templates for Pseudo-Planes. An Essay in Aspherising Technique'. n.d. but c. 1942 or later (see reference to 'See-saw diagram' (Bibliog. 59.).
14pp. ms. draft of 'preliminary note', perhaps intended for submission to Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc.
Folder also includes 'A Study of Schmidt Camera Plates (Project No.440-2), Walter S. Adams for Theodore Dunham, Jr., Official Investigator, Progress Report, November 1, 1941'.
2pp. carbon copy with photograph, stamped 'Scientific Research and Experiment Department Admiralty'.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.20 c1945

Contents:

Large format notebook (lacks covers) with draft of 1945 paper 'Flat-fielded singlet aplanats' (Bibliog. 66), calculations.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.21 c1963

Contents:

2 Diagrams for 1963 paper (with M.R. Tubbs) 'Interference testing of reflecting objectives' (Bibliog. 91).

Research on Reflecting Microscopes. CSAC 110.1.86/B.22, B.23 [n.d.]

Administrative history:

In 1972 Professor C. Andrew, then Professor of Applied Mechanics at Bristol, asked Burch to join him in applying to the Paul Instrument Fund for a grant to make 'the best possible reflecting microscope, N.A. = 0.95 (1.42 with oil), to prove its accuracy interferometrically and demonstrate its performance'. The grant was not made. However, shortly afterwards Burch was approached by the Czechoslovak Embassy for a formal agreement of collaboration with M. Maly of the Czech Academy of Sciences to develop 'the best possible doubly aspheric Schwarzschild aplanat'. A student came from Czechoslovakia to learn about aspherising (Memoir, pp.36-37.)

Research on Reflecting Microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.22 1970s

Contents:

'Evolution of the Angle-Control Aspherising Machine', 1970.
Unpublished 21pp. typescript note listed by Royal Society memorialist as Bibliog. 97.
Burch's purpose in writing the note was to describe how he came to evolve his 'various angle-control aspherising machines, and to point out some further steps in the development which cry aloud to be done'.
'Personal Note on Reflecting Microscope Grant Application'.
Photocopy of the 5pp. typescript note attached by Burch to his and Professor Andrew's grant application, April 1972. In a section on health (p.2) Burch refers to a recovery in his mathematical ability sufficient to spot an error in a 1947 paper (Bibliog. 68). See also CSAC 110.1.86/B. 24.
This copy of the personal note was found attached to the copy of Bibliog. 97 above.

Correspondence re Burch's formal collaboration with Czechoslovak scientists on their reflecting microscope development programme CSAC 110.1.86/B.23 1972-75

Contents:

Includes copy of letter from Burch to B.H. Flowers, 28 June 1973, outlining proposed collaboration and enquiring about SRC policy in such a case.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.24 1972

Contents:

'Zonal coma of semi-aplanat reflecting microscope' (with P.N. Murgatroyd), J.Phys., 1972 (Bibliog. 99).
This 'Letter to the Editor' arose when, 'in the process of planning a research in the manufacture of doubly-aspheric Schwarzschild-aplanat reflecting microscopes, C.R. Burch noted that his calculation (Burch 1947) of the offence against the sine condition of the simpler singly-aspheric semi-aplanat design, was invalidated by an algebraic mistake'. The letter 'corrects the algebra and gives computer-tabulated plots of the offence against the sine condition (OSC) for some semi-aplanats of infinite tube length'.
Draft of paper, figures and covering letter; reprint with ms. corrections.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.25 c1973-1974

Contents:

'Semi-Aplanat Reflecting Microscope with Elliptic Convex'.
2pp. ms. and typescript note, 2 January 1973, probably intended for J. Phys. as a follow-up to Bibliog. 99. (Not in Bibliog.)
Ms. notes and calculations possibly related to preceding. Some dated in 1974.
Reprint of Bibliog. 99, with ms. additions.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.26-B.31 n.d. and c1974

Five folders.

Contents:

Ms. notes and drafts ('Schwarzschild Curves', 'Schwarzschild Aplanats', etc.), graphs and calculations. Some papers are dated in 1974 and relate to work in collaboration with I.T. Parsons.

'Wave Front Shearing Interferometer'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.32 c.1976

Contents:

Ms. and typescript drafts for unpublished paper, graphs, etc.

'Knife-Edge Testing Aspheric Astigmatic Systems'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.33 1976 or later

Contents:

Notes, graphs, etc., Perhaps related to Bibliog. 106.

'Burch Flat Field 4 Mirror Anastigmatic Telescope, July 1978' CSAC 110.1.86/B.34 1978

4 pp

Typescript

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.35, B.36 c.1978

2 folders.

Contents:

Ms. and typescript notes and drafts, calculations, etc. on 'Double Purpose Telescope', '4 mirror Telescope', 'Bird watching', etc., Possibly for lecture.

'Inverting Interferometer'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.37 c.1978

1 p

Typescript

Contents:

Diagrams, etc

'Concentric Mirror Pair' CSAC 110.1.86/B.38 c.1978

4 pp

ms. draft

Papers relating to work on the Charterhouse-on-Mendip Observatory mirror CSAC 110.1.86/B.39, B.40 1978

Papers relating to work on the Charterhouse-on-Mendip Observatory mirror CSAC 110.1.86/B.39 n.d. and 1978

Contents:

'First Report on 18" Telescope Mirror' in form of 3pp. draft letter to P. Armitage (Avon Education Authority); photocopy of report as sent 13 November 1978; letters of thanks, December 1978.
'An Astigmatic Telescope Mirror, and its Correction', n.d.
5pp. draft paper (with P. Armitage and J. Chard); second draft with amended title and additional author (N. Robson).

Papers relating to work on the Charterhouse-on-Mendip Observatory mirror CSAC 110.1.86/B.40 n.d

Contents:

Notes, drafts, figures, photographs re Charterhouse Observatory mirror, work on astigmatism.

Notes, drafts, figures, computer programs relating to 'Scatter-fringes of Doughnut' 'Scatter-Fringe Shape of a Paraboloid', etc.; also 'Note on Bates' tests on the 74" Pretoria Mirror'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.41-B.43 c.1979

3 folders.

Ms. and typescript drafts, notes and narratives on various aspects of optics, with special reference to telescopes and reflectors. CSAC 110.1.86/B.44-B.49 c1970s

Contents:

Many apparently intended for publication, but none listed in Bibliography. None dated, but probably late 1970s.

'Obstruction-Free Cassegra in-Type Telescopes'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.44 ?c1970s

Contents:

Typescript drafts with ms. additions and corrections; clean copy.

'On the Use of Astigmatism in Strip-Testing Telescope Mirrors'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.45 ?c.1970s

Contents:

Photocopy of ms. drafts; typescript drafts.

Notes and narratives on various aspects of optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.46 ?c.1970s

Contents:

'On the Use of Astigmatism in Testing Telescope Mirrors' (with D.F. Gibbs).
Ms. and typescript drafts, notes and figures.
'Strip-Test - S-curves'.
1 Diagram.

Notes and narratives on various aspects of optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.47 ?c. 1970s

Contents:

'Plate Diagram of a Tilted Mirror System'.
4pp. ms.
'Plate Diagram Theory'.
Ms. drafts.
'The Schmidt plates of Schmidt plates'.
3pp. draft.
'Skewed Schmidt Plate: Meridional Section'.
2pp. draft.

'Note on Two-Beam Interferometer Design'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.48 ?c. 1970s

3 pp

draft.

'Microscopy of Unstained Specimens'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.49 ?c. 1970s

5 pp

draft.

Miscellaneous ms. notes, calculations, diagrams and graphs, none dated, probably late 1970s, on various aspects of optics. CSAC 110.1.86/B.50-B.52 [n.d.]

Sequences of notes, etc. kept together by Burch. CSAC 110.1.86/B.50, B.51 ?late 1970s

2 folders.

Loose pages. CSAC 110.1.86/B.52 ?late 1970s

Miscellaneous data, photographs, notes by others CSAC 110.1.86/B.53-B.56 n.d

'A new Interference Microscope'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.53 n.d

Contents:

Photographs by D. Gabor and W.P. Goss.

Photographs, notes and graphs from J.M. Burch. CSAC 110.1.86/B.54-B.56 n.d

3 folders.

Four patents by others on aspects of optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.57, B.58 1942-48

2 folders.

MINERAL DRESSING AND RELATED SUBJECTS CSAC 110.1.86/B.59-B.86 [n.d.]

Related information: For further material related to Burch's interest in Mineral Dressing, see Section E, especially CSAC 110.1.86/E.3-E.5 and CSAC 110.1.86/E.19-E.24.

Administrative history:

In the 1950s there was a marked shift in Burch's research interests which he discussed in a lecture he gave to the Diamond Conference in 1955:
'Two years ago I decided to start some research on Mineral Dressing, a subject of which I had absolutely no previous knowledge. It all began in Cornwall. I was shown the methods they use in the South Crofty Mine to separate tin oxide from quartz and mica and all the other gangue materials with which it has pleased God to mix it in earth. Considered as a gravity separation problem it seemed comparable with that of separating speculum metal ([delta] = 8.5) from carborundum ([delta] = 3.2) with which I was very familiar.'*
* As quoted in Memoir, pp.31-32. See C.3.

Contents:

The surviving material is far more representative than that for Burch's earlier research interests. It covers the period 1953-80 and includes notebooks, research notes and drafts, and correspondence.

'Mineral Dressing' CSAC 110.1.86/B.59 1953-1965

Contents:

Hard-cover notebook entitled 'Mineral Dressing' and dated November 1953. Paginated 1-145, with contents list. Miscellaneous loose papers including notes, graph and letters dated in 1965.

'Mineral Dressing' CSAC 110.1.86/B.60 1954-1968

Contents:

Hard-cover notebook entitled 'Mineral Dressing' and dated October 1954. Paginated 1-96, with contents list. Miscellaneous loose papers including certificate of analysis and correspondence, 1962-68.

'Some Experiments in Gravity Concentration' CSAC 110.1.86/B.61 1956

Contents:

12pp. duplicated typescript of lecture to the Cornish Institute of Engineers, 1956, 'recaptured from memory'.

Mineral Dressing and Related Subjects CSAC 110.1.86/B.62 1956

Contents:

'Draft No. 2. Full Scale Underground Gasification, using Blind Boreholes'.
5pp. + 3pp. appendix by C.A. Masterman, 1956.
'The Tedman Separator'.
Letter from manufacturers, 18 January 1956; sketch and photographs of the equipment; Burch's ms. notes, etc.

Work at or for the South Crofty Mine, Cornwall. CSAC 110.1.86/B.63-B.69 [n.d.]

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.63 1960-69

'Report on Visit of Mr Hamilton and Mr Cruickshank to Crofty'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.64 n.d

7 pp.

Ms.

'South Crofty Hydrosizer'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.65 1962 - 1963

Contents:

4pp. of results, 1962.
'Screen Analysis'.
3pp. of results, 1963.

Tables of figures and graphs CSAC 110.1.86/B.66-B.69 c.1966-73

4 folders.

'Electrolysis of Slurries'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.70 November 1964

2 pp.

Typescript

Contents:

Draft by Burch.

'Theory of Og Places'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.71 10 May 1965

3 pp

Ms. draft

Contents:

By Burch

Mozley Concentrators at the Geevor Slime Plant'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.72 c.1967

5 pp

Typescript

Ms. notes and graphs CSAC 110.1.86/B.73 1968-1969

Contents:

'Helicoidal Mineral Concentrating & Sizing Units August 1968-August 1969', 'Kildonan Burn, Panned Gold', 'Suisgill Panned Gold', etc.

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.74 n.d and 1965

Contents:

'Re-examination of Gold Occurrences, Strath Kildonan, Sutherland, Scotland'.
Field examination for the Geological Survey of Great Britain, n.d.
Brief correspondence from Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1965.

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.75, B.76 c.1969

2 folders.

Contents:

Graphs, tables, notes, etc., probably related to paper on the normality of some frequency distributions of elements in the Dartmoor Granite, (Bibliog.)

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.77 n.d

Contents:

Graphs re Dartmoor Granite. (Probably related to Bibliog. 96).

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.78 c1969

Contents:

Burch's comments on C. Lepeltier's 1969 paper 'A Simplified Statistical Treatment of Geochemical Data by Graphical Representation'; 1p. 'further comments' by P.N. M[urgatroyd]; photocopy of Lepeltier's paper.
Material may relate to Burch and Murgatroyd's joint paper on broken-line and complex frequency distributions. (Bibliog. 98.)

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.79 n.d. and c1970-1971

Contents:

'Lognormal and Poisson distributions compared'.
Calculations, tables, graphs, c.1970-71.
'Notes on Post-Sampling Statistics'.
4pp. ms.

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.80 1971

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/D.7-D.10.

Contents:

Reprint of paper by A. Volborth; 7pp. typescript draft and graphs re 'Volborth-Andesite' and 'Volborth-Basalt'.
Material relates to unpublished joint paper with P C. Rickwood. 1 graph dated December 1971.

Mineral Dressing and Related Subject CSAC 110.1.86/B.81, B.82 c.1971

2 folders.

Contents:

Notes, drafts, graphs, etc.
Includes 3pp. 'Note on justifying the discard of observed values' and course notes 'Computer methods for geologists' (not given by Burch but some annotated by him).

'Professor Young's data' CSAC 110.1.86/B.83 January 1974

Contents:

Graphs, tables of results, etc.

'Mineral Concentration - a hydraulic problem' CSAC 110.1.86/B.84 c.1980

Contents:

Ms. draft, notes and graphs.

Miscellaneous notes, graphs, tables of results, etc., re mineral dressing, frequency distribution of minerals. CSAC 110.1.86/B.85, B.86 n.d

2 folders.

PHYTHAGORAS PATTERNS CSAC 110.1.86/B.87 [n.d.]

Contents:

Letter from Nuffield Foundation Mathematics Teaching Project organiser, 13 September 1967, examples of pythagoras patterns, Burch's ms. notes and calculations.

WEIRS CSAC 110.1.86/B.88-B.92 [n.d.]

Administrative history:

Burch assisted two colleagues in the Bristol University Civil Engineering Department (W.H.H. Banks and T.L. Shaw) with the mathematics of fluid flow over a weir. This resulted in the publication of their 1967 paper 'The design of proportional and logarithmic thin-plate weirs' (Bibliog. 95). See Memoir, p.35.

Weirs CSAC 110.1.86/B.88 c1967

Contents:

Ms. and typescript drafts of a paper (with W.H.H. Banks) 'On the Design of Weirs'. Perhaps early drafts of Bibliog. 95.

Weirs CSAC 110.1.86/B.89-B.92 c1967

4 folders.

Contents:

Ms. notes, calculations, graphs, background material; also letter from Banks 'enclosing the entire weir flow papers'.

HOT-BLAST TORCH DEVELOPMENT CSAC 110.1.86/B.93-B.95 [n.d.]

Administrative history:

In Burch's Royal Society Review Lecture of 1965 (Bibliog. 92), he explained how in 1952 'wanting a good brazing torch without added oxygen' he made a hot-blast torch. In the mid-1970s he sought to further development of the torch, approaching both the South Western Gas Company at Bristol and the Midlands Research Station of British Gas at Solihull. He also proposed the development of a large hot-blast torch as a project for third year Bristol Physics students.

Hot-Blast Torch Development CSAC 110.1.86/B.93 1960-1976

Contents:

Ms. and typescript drafts of statement on the development of the torch; photocopy of extract from Review Lecture; draft and carbons of Burch's letters to Sir Charles Ellis, South Western Gas and Research Division, British Gas Corporation, 1976.
Folder also includes one earlier (1960) letter re torch.

Hot-Blast Torch Development CSAC 110.1.86/B.94 n.d

Contents:

Notes and calculations.

Hot-Blast Torch Development CSAC 110.1.86/B.95 n.d

Contents:

Photographs.

STATISTICS CSAC 110.1.86/B.96-B.110 [n.d.]

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/D.15-D.27.

'Howarth Ranked Data' CSAC 110.1.86/B.96 c.1979

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/B.109.

Contents:

Contents of an envelope so inscribed.

'Non-parametric statistics' CSAC 110.1.86/B.97, B.98 c.1980-82

2 folders.

Contents:

Notes, calculations, graphs.

'Random numbers' CSAC 110.1.86/B.99, B.100 c1982

2 folders.

Contents:

Tables, graphs, computer print-out. 1p. dated 17 May 1982.

'Random 4 Fig Numbers (0000 - 9999)' CSAC 110.1.86/B.101 n.d

Contents:

Contents of envelope so inscribed.

'Notes on Frequency Distributions and Random Sample Sets' CSAC 110.1.86/B.102 n.d

14 pp

Typescript draft

'Further Notes on Post-Sampling Deviation Statistics' CSAC 110.1.86/B.103 n.d

Ms. draft

Statistics CSAC 110.1.86/B.104 n.d

Contents:

'Statistical References'
2pp. ms.
'Vistelius' Significance test - said to be for Normality'
3pp. ms.

'Note on Confidence Limits for Normal Deviates' CSAC 110.1.86/B.105 n.d

7 pp

Typescript

'Dr. Henley's Cold Series', etc. CSAC 110.1.86/B.106 n.d

Contents:

Graphs, notes, etc.

Statistics CSAC 110.1.86/B.107 n.d

Contents:

'Statistics of Linear Assays' n.d.
4pp. ms.
'Stirling's Theorem', n.d.
2pp. ms.

'KKW2 (Computer Program) CSAC 110.1.86/B.108 c.1977

Contents:

Ms. notes, graphs, print-outs. May relate to work with I.T. Parsons.

'Ian Howarth-Rank ordering of data' CSAC 110.1.86/B.109 n.d

Contents:

Contents of envelope so inscribed.

'Kolmogorov-Smirnov Statistic' CSAC 110.1.86/B.110 n.d

Contents:

Ms. notes, graphs, etc.

MEDICAL AND PSYCHOMEDICAL CSAC 110.1.86/B.111-B.165 [n.d.]

Administrative history:

Burch's interest in medical questions was technological (stethoscopes and pumps used in heart surgery), biochemical (Vitamin B-group therapy and inositol) and psychological (stress, and in particular Burch's response to a mugging incident).

Contents:

Almost all the surviving material, which is extensive, comes from Burch's last years 1975-82 and relates to biochemical interests. There is however correspondence, 1962-63, with J.M. Sanderson re the heart surgery pump and drafts of Burch's paper 'A Stress Situation - the story of a hold-up' which he sought (unsuccessfully) to have published by various medical journals and finally deposited with the Royal Society. Burch's work on an improved stethoscope is represented in the collection by drafts for a published article at D.5.
Burch's biochemical interests are represented by his drafts on the treatment of sinusitis and gingivitis with B-group vitamins and on inosital deficiency, and by correspondence with doctors and scientific colleagues including R.A. Peters who had been Burch's director of studies at Cambridge. One paper on the treatment of sinusitis and gingivitis was published in The Medical Journal of Australia in 1977 (Bibliog. 102).

Drafts CSAC 110.1.86/B.111-B.128 [n.d.]

Treatment of Nasal Sinusitis by Lavage with B-group Vitamins' CSAC 110.1.86/B.111 [1967]

Contents:

Typescript drafts; brief correspondence including ms. draft of letter to editor of The Lancet.

'Treatment of Gingivitis by Massage with Riboflavin' CSAC 110.1.86/B.112 1976

Contents:

Typescript drafts including 'skeleton draft of letter to Lancet and/or British Dental Journal'.

'Treatment of Sinusitis and Gingivitis', The Medical Journal of Australia, 28 May 1977 (Bibliog. 102). CSAC 110.1.86/B.113, B.114 c1977

2 folders

Contents:

Ms. and typescript drafts; copies of printed article (in form of letter to editor).
Correspondence with editor; correspondence arising from publication.

'Pharmaceutical Notes on Nasal Lavage with B-Group Vitamins', 9 July 1977'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.115 c1977

Contents:

Ms. and typescript notes.

'Inosital Deficiency'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.116-B.119 1978

'Inosital Deficiency' CSAC 110.1.86/B.116, B.117 c1978

2 folders

Ms. and typescript drafts.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.118, B.119 1978

Contents:

Correspondence with doctors and colleagues, note of telephone conversation with R.A. Peters, January 1978.
B.118 covers B - D B.119 covers M - P

'Inositol Deficiency and Epilepsy', 1978. CSAC 110.1.86/B.120 c1978

Contents:

(Unpublished but listed by memorialist as Bibliog. 109'Note sent to the Royal Society').
2 Typescript drafts; brief correspondence.

'Inositol Supplementation and Epilepsy', 1978. CSAC 110.1.86/B.121 c1978

Contents:

2 Typescript drafts; brief correspondence.

'A Stress Situation - the story of a hold-up' CSAC 110.1.86/B.122, B.123 May 1978

Contents:

(Unpublished but listed by memorialist as Bibliog. 104 'Paper sent to the Royal Society').

'A Stress Situation - the story of a hold-up' CSAC 110.1.86/B.122 c1978

Typescript drafts

Correspondence with editors of journals and others CSAC 110.1.86/B.123 1978-82

'A Stress Situation. Sequel' CSAC 110.1.86/B.124 n.d

Ms. and typescript drafts.

Drafts CSAC 110.1.86/B.125 n.d. and 1979-1980

Contents:

'On Optimal Release from Past Experience' n.d. (Unpublished but listed by memorialist as Bibliog. 107 'Paper sent to the Royal Society'.)
Ms. and typescript drafts; correspondence with Bristol colleague and editors of journals, 1979-80.

Drafts CSAC 110.1.86/B.126 1980-1981

Contents:

'The Consultation' and 'A Story with a Moral'.
Ms. and typescript drafts; covering letter to editor of World Medicine, 19 May 1980.
'Onomatherapy'.
Letter to the editor of The Lancet, 5 October 1981.

Drafts CSAC 110.1.86/B.127 n.d

Contents:

'On the Psychology and Psychotherapy of a Panic Reaction', n.d.
3pp. ms. 'first rough draft'.
'On the Psychology of the Alarm Syndrome and Psychotherapy of its Principal Sequels'.
Ms. draft of essay dedicated to the nursing staff of the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

'Some Topical Applications of Laevoascorbic Acid' CSAC 110.1.86/B.128 n.d

3 pp

Typescript

Contents:

'Not written for publication'

General correspondence on medical and psychological topics CSAC 110.1.86/B.129-B.147 [n.d.]

Arrangement: Presented in an alphabetical sequence.

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.129 1975-1976

Contents:

Aldren, J.T. 1975-76
Bevington, G. 1976
Burch's draft only.

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.130 1976-77

Contents:

Bicknell, P.G.
Sinusitis treatment.

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.131 n.d and 1975-1977

Contents:

Campbell, M.J. n.d.
Burch's draft only.
Cates, J.E. 1975-76
Proposed conference on Vitamin B-group Deficiency and the Ageing Process; treatment of sinusitis and gingivitis.
Chappel, J.B. 1977

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.132 1978, n.d

Contents:

Davis, D.R.

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.133 1978, n.d

Contents:

Davis, R. and others

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.134 1963-1981

Contents:

Eastham, R.D. 1963
Platelet studies.
Edwards, R.G. and P.C. Steptoe 1980-81
Examination of embryos; microscopy.

General Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.135 1977-1978

Contents:

Everett, D.H. 1977
Comfrey.
Finn, R. and H.N. Cohen 1978
Food allergy; treatment of epileptic patients with inositol.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.136 1939-1978

Contents:

Forbes, D.R. 1978
Inositol.
Fry, 1939
Streptococci (carbon only of letter from J.P.P. Stock).

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.137 1962-1980

Contents:

Grant, R.H.E. 1978
Treatment of epileptic patients with inositol (Burch's drafts and photocopies only).
Himsworth, H.P. 1962
Hislop, 1980
Burch's drafts only.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.138 1976-1982

Contents:

Hodgkin, D.C.M. 1976, 1982
Includes ms. and typescript drafts of note by Burch 'On the Genesis of Arthritis'.
Huskisson, E.C. and J. Scott 1978
Treatment of epilepsy; double blind tests (Burch's draft only).
Inglis, B. 1977
Double blind tests.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.139 1962 - 1982

Contents:

McElwain, T.J. 1982
McVey, A.V. 1962
Maendl, A. 1975
Vitamin B therapy (Burch's drafts only).
Medawar, P.B. 1962

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.140 1976-1979

Contents:

Mitchell, J.F. 1976
Mitchell, J.P. and others 1978-79
Mollin, D.L. and others 1977
B12 assays of the blood-serum of amnesiac geriatric patients (Burch's drafts only).

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.141 April-September 1975

Contents:

Peters, R.A.
B-Vitamin therapy.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.142 October, November 1975

Contents:

Peters, R.A.
B-Vitamin therapy.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.143 September-December 1976, January 1978

Contents:

Peters, R.A.
B-Vitamin therapy.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.144 1975

Contents:

Read, A.R. 1975
Proposed conference on Vitamin B-group Deficiency and the Ageing Process (Burch's drafts only).
Richards, M.B. 1975
Imbalance of Vitamin B factors (Burch's draft only).

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.145 1962-63

Contents:

Sanderson, J.M.
Pump used in heart surgery.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.146 1977-78

Contents:

Smith, E.L.
Inositol; Vitamin B12 deficiency.

General correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.147 1962-1981

Contents:

Swann, M. and D.E.M. Taylor 1962
Heart disease and surgery.
Yokovlef, A.A. and others 1981
Use of antioxidants in retinal infections (Burch's draft only).
Yoffey, J.M. 1977
Vitamin B12 deficiency.

Correspondence with drug companies, principally relating to therapeutic uses for B-group vitamins CSAC 110.1.86/B.148 1976-77, 1982

Contents:

1982 Letter is incomplete.

Miscellaneous shorter correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/B.149 1962, 1975-77, 1982 and n.d

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment. CSAC 110.1.86/B.150-B.155 [n.d.]

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment CSAC 110.1.86/B.150 1975-1977

Contents:

'Diet Sheet of C.R. Burch', 23 July 1975.
'Present Medication', 3 August 1977.

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment CSAC 110.1.86/B.151 n.d

Contents:

'Supplementary Report of C.R. Burch'
Contents relate to neurological episodes, 1974-77, relevant history and present medication.

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment CSAC 110.1.86/B.152 20 December 1977

Contents:

'Second Report of Dr. Burch to Dr. Campbell'
Relates to further neurological episodes, present medication, diagnosis, etc.

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment CSAC 110.1.86/B.153 1977

Contents:

Untitled analyses of Burch's medical condition and treatment

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment CSAC 110.1.86/B.154 n.d

Contents:

'An Essay: "On Four Cerebral Episodes"'. Dedicated to Dr. J.E. Cates. By The Poor Bloody Patient'

Analyses of Burch's own medical condition and treatment CSAC 110.1.86/B.155 n.d

Contents:

Miscellaneous ms. and typescript notes including 'Supplementary Report on Severe Hypoglycemic Incident, on Sept 25'.

Appointment cards, correspondence re visits to hospital, etc. CSAC 110.1.86/B.156 n.d

Miscellaneous. CSAC 110.1.86/B.157-B.165 [n.d.]

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.157 n.d

Contents:

Notebook. Principally notes from the literature, bibliographical references. Latest date, 1981.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.158, B.159 n.d

2 folders.

Contents:

Ms. notes and graphs re ages at death of Fellows of the Royal Society.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.160 c.1976

Contents:

Burch's typescript note on A. Davis's Let's eat right to keep fit
Notes relate to vitamin and mineral deficiency, arthritis, etc.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.161 n.d

Contents:

Miscellaneous ms. and typescript notes and drafts.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.162 n.d

Contents:

Background material on epilepsy.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.163 n.d

Contents:

Background material on inositol.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.164 n.d

Contents:

Background material on nutrition.

Miscellaneous CSAC 110.1.86/B.165 n.d

Contents:

2 Papers (1 typescript) on shortwave therapy by J.P.P. Stock.

MISCELLANEOUS CSAC 110.1.86/B.166-B.185 [n.d.]

Various topics in Mathematics and Physics CSAC 110.1.86/B.166-B.168 [n.d.]

Contents:

Three black hard-cover notebooks, none dated, possibly from Burch's undergraduate period at Cambridge; on various topics in mathematics and physics.

Various topics in Mathematics and Physics CSAC 110.1.86/B.166 n.d

Contents:

Notebook with brief list of contents, headed 'Mathematical' inside front cover. Contains miscellaneous notes an acoustics, vectors, circuits, etc., and miscellaneous mathematical calculations. Both ends of book used.

Various topics in Mathematics and Physics CSAC 110.1.86/B.167 n.d

Contents:

Notebook of similar material. No contents page. Includes notes on 'Prof. Milne's Problem' (probably E.A. Milne FRS) and miscellaneous mathematical notes and calculations. A few pages used at rear of book.

Various topics in Mathematics and Physics CSAC 110.1.86/B.168 n.d

Contents:

Notebook of similar material, mainly on linear vector operators, waves, functions. At rear of book, miscellaneous notes and calculations and 3pp. draft 'On Linear Selecting Systems'.

Hard-cover notebook from Bristol period CSAC 110.1.86/B.169 n.d. but probably 1960s, 1970s

Contents:

Contents page. Miscellaneous notes, calculations, tables, bibliographical references re later work on minerals and statistics. Paginated 1-80 and some unnumbered pages. 2 loose sheets.

Photographs of telescope mirrors, lenses, etc. CSAC 110.1.86/B.170, B.171 n.d

2 folders.

Photographs of equipment. CSAC 110.1.86/B.172-B.174 n.d

3 folders.

Miscellaneous photographs. CSAC 110.1.86/B.175-B.177 n.d

3 folders.

Miscellaneous unattributed ms. notes, graphs, calculations, etc. CSAC 110.1.86/B.178-B.180 n.d

3 folders.

Photocopies annotated by Burch. CSAC 110.1.86/B.181, B.182 n.d

2 folders.

Publications with superscripts from authors or acknowledging Burch's help. CSAC 110.1.86/B.183-B.185 n.d

3 folders.

ADDENDUM: OPTICS CSAC 110.1.86/B.186-B.200 [n.d.]

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.186 c1930s

Contents:

Soft-cover notebook, inscribed on front cover (by Burch) 'Optical Work. Daily Progress Log. Starts 9 July 33. C.R. Burch'. The front cover also has later ms. note by T.E. Allibone 'Metro-Vick Note book to Burch's going to Imperial College Sep 20 and one month in Imp Col.' See Memoir, pp.18-19, where the starting date is given as 8 July 1933. The last entry in the log is for 23 October.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.187 n.d

Contents:

Large format hard-cover notebook, inscribed on inside front cover 'C.R. Burch. Imperial College, S. Kensington. Optical Notebook No.(2)' and paginated 1-48. At the front of book is a contents page headed 'On The Production And Testing Of Optical Surfaces'.
This is clearly one of a series of optical notebooks kept by Burch at Imperial College and Bristol of which only nos. 2 and 8 (B.18) survive.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.188 1939 and 1947

Contents:

Photocopies of published notes re Burch's exhibits of reflecting microscopes at Physical Society Exhibitions

'Optical Scraping' CSAC 110.1.86/B.189 n.d. and 1942

Contents:

3pp. typescript note by Burch, n.d. but incorporates reference dated 1942.
Different 5pp. typescript note with same title, n.d.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.190 c1948

Contents:

'Improvements relating to the optical measurement and/or calibration of tubular surfaces'.
Patent application by Burch, M.J. Willcocks and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 30 July 1948 (Bibliog. 72).
10pp. typescript; 1 sheet of figures.

Optics CSAC 110.1.86/B.191 n.d. 1940s

Contents:

2pp. typescript carbon paginated 2 and 3
Subheadings are 'Slit Orientation', 'Integrating Exposure Meter' and 'Gratings and Prisms'.

Photocopies of Burch's letters to Nuffield Foundation re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.192-B.197 1949-51

Administrative history:

The photocopies were made for Burch's Royal Society memorialist T.E. Allibone who provides an account of the development and production of the microscope at Bristol (Memoir, pp.26-30).

Contents:

Burch's letters deal with technical problems and his personal response to being in charge of a production job and reflect on more general questions of research and development.

Correspondence and related papers re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.192 1949, March, June, July

Contents:

Folder includes list of letters copied by Allibone. The first item, Burch and A.M. Tyndall to H.T. Tizard, 10 December 1947, was not found.
Burch's letter of 18 March 1949 discusses the allocation of the programme's ten reflecting microscopes; letters of July 1949 relate to proposed National Institute of Optics at Bristol.

Correspondence and related papers re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.193 1949, August, September

Contents:

Folder includes copy of letter to H.H. Plaskett, 5 August, and ms. draft of Burch's report to Warren Committee.

Correspondence and related papers re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.194 1950, June

Contents:

In letter of 9 June, discussing the matter of exhibiting the microscope in the Festival of Britain, Burch refers to the production job as 'a complete nightmare'. In letter of 20 June Burch considers questions of research and development under such headings as 'Value of a University to a Development Organisation', 'Value of a Development Organisation to a University' and 'Psychology of Development & Research'.

Correspondence and related papers re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.195 1950, September, December

Contents:

Ms. draft of Warren Report, September and 12pp. letter setting out programme for speeding up production on the ten microscopes, December.

Correspondence and related papers re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.196 1951, January, April, June

Contents:

Letter of 16 January relates to proposal to accelerate production and the technical situation; letters of 24 April and 6 June relate to a suggested symposium on reflecting microscopes.

Correspondence and related papers re production of reflecting microscopes CSAC 110.1.86/B.197 1951, October, December

Contents:

Includes draft report to Warren Committee which notes that the first microscope had been handed over to the Anatomy Department at Oxford.

Two notes by Burch on the optical work of W.J. Bates. CSAC 110.1.86/B.198 n.d. and 1979

Contents:

One note dated in 1979

'Microscopy of Unstained Specimens'. CSAC 110.1.86/B.199 n.d. and 1980

Contents:

Ms. draft of paper by Burch; photocopy of paper and covering letter for W.J. Bates; letter from Bates, 6 May 1980, enclosing photocopy of extract from his thesis.

Correspondence re Burch's optics research CSAC 110.1.86/B.200 1981 and n.d

SECTION C LECTURES AND TALKS CSAC 110.1.86/C.1 - C.18 [n.d.]

'The technique of the high-speed cathode-ray oscillograph', for Institute of Electrical Engineers, 2 December 1932. CSAC 110.1.86/C.1 C1982

Contents:

5pp. typescript abstract; related correspondence.
The accompanying correspondence is initialled 'F.P.B.' (Francis Parry Burch) and the lecture may have been given by him.

'A technologist looks at the future', delivered when Burch received the Duddell Medal of the Physical Society, 9 April 1943 (Bibliog. 63). CSAC 110.1.86/C.2 c1943

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/A. 16.

Contents:

7pp. typescript draft; reprint of published version.
Includes photocopy of announcement of the award.

'Mineral Dressing', delivered at the Diamond Conference 1955 (Bibliog. 81). CSAC 110.1.86/C.3 c1955

2 typescript drafts, each 10pp

Administrative history:

'Recaptured from memory'

'Aspheric imaging systems', the Parsons Memorial Lecture delivered 22 October 1959. (Bibliog. 85.) CSAC 110.1.86/C.4 c1959-1971

Contents:

Reprint copy; brief correspondence.
Folder also includes copy of R.V. Jones's 1971 article 'Complementarity as a way of life', referring to Burch's expanded version of the lecture given in Aberdeen (Memoir, p.33).

'Research, creativeness and universities', talk given to the Forum in the Senior Common Room, Bristol University, 17 March 1960 (Bibliog. 86). CSAC 110.1.86/C.5 c1960

Contents:

2 Typescript drafts, 15pp., 12 pp.; brief correspondence.

'Aspheric reflecting microscopes and their future', address to the Royal Microscopical Society, May 1961 (Bibliog. 88). CSAC 110.1.86/C.6 c1961

Ms. draft; typescript draft; reprint.

'University physics - the challenge of technology', Royal Society review lecture, delivered 25 March 1965 (Bibliog. 92). CSAC 110.1.86/C.7-C.12 [n.d.]

Six folders.

15pp. ms. draft, with a few notes of references. CSAC 110.1.86/C.7 c1965

Two typescript drafts, 16pp. and 17pp., with a few ms. sheets and 2 typescript lists of slides. CSAC 110.1.86/C.8 c1965

Brief correspondence, chiefly with the Royal Society. CSAC 110.1.86/C.9 c1965

Contents:

Proofs with ms. corrections, reprint of published version.

Original photographs and diagrams. CSAC 110.1.86/C.10-C.12 c1965

3 folders.

'Application of the plate diagram to reflecting telescope design' CSAC 110.1.86/C.13-C.15 [n.d.]

Administrative history:

Delivered at 'Optics 78' Conference organised by the Institute of Physics at Bath University, 20-23 September 1978. Burch's talk was regarded as 'one of the highlights' of the conference (Bibliog. 105).

'Application of the plate diagram to reflecting telescope design' CSAC 110.1.86/C.13 c1978

10 pp

Typescript draft

'Application of the plate diagram to reflecting telescope design' CSAC 110.1.86/C.14 c1978

Contents:

Shorter notes and drafts; diagrams.

'Application of the plate diagram to reflecting telescope design' CSAC 110.1.86/C.15 c1978

Contents:

Reprint of verbatim report; conference programme and list of participants; letter from organiser.

Address given on the occasion of presenting the first British Vacuum Council 'C.R. Burch' Prize CSAC 110.1.86/C.16 1981

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/A.22.

Contents:

Verbatim report, printed in Vacuum, 30, 10-12.

Lecture on statistics, probably for a university audience CSAC 110.1.86/C.17 n.d

4 pp

Ms. draft.

Lectures and Talks CSAC 110.1.86/C.18 n.d. and 1964-1980

Contents:

Invitation to lecture on 'The Separation of Ores' by the Queen Mary College (University of London) Physical Society, 1964.
Invitation to lecture on 'Microscopes and Microscopy' by the Bristol University Microbiological Society, 1980 (declined).
Fragmentary drafts for lectures.

SECTION D PUBLICATIONS CSAC 110.1.86/D.1 - D.45 [n.d.]

Publications CSAC 110.1.86/D.1 1928-1932

Contents:

'An introduction to the theory of eddy-current heating', with N.R. Davis, 1928 (Bibliog. 19; Memoir, p.1).
Publisher's blurb only.
'Een radioontvanger met brugfilter', with F.L. Smallpiece, 1932 (Bibliog. 36).
Photocopy of Dutch text; typescript of re-translation.

'Improvements in apparatus for short-wave therapy and the like', with C.H. Walker and Metropolitan-Vickers Company Limited, 1940 (Patent, Bibliog. 56, see also Memoir, p.23). CSAC 110.1.86/D.2 1940

Typescript draft.

'Improvements relating to upward current classifiers', with F. Bannister, 1955 (Patent, Bibliog. 80). CSAC 110.1.86/D.3 c1955

Contents:

Copy of complete specification with covering letter.

'Molecular streaming in a circular tube' CSAC 110.1.86/D.4 n.d., c.1960

Contents:

4pp. typescript draft; 5pp. notes and calculations.

'Improvements relating to apparatus for separating solid materials in liquid suspensions' (Patent, Bibliog. 87.) CSAC 110.1.86/D.4A c1960

Contents:

Duplicated typescript, August 1960, with ms. note by T.E. Allibone 'Probably never granted'.

'A new "diaphragmatic" stethoscope', with J.P.P. Stock, 1961 (Bibliog. 89). CSAC 110.1.86/D.5 c1961

Contents:

Typescript drafts of portions of text.

'Contribution to the discussion on paper by I.R.M. Chaston, Gravity concentration of fine cassiterite', 1962 (Bibliog. 90). CSAC 110.1.86/D.5A c1962

Contents:

Proofs only.

'Tests of the normality of frequency distributions of Na, K, SiO2 and CI in the Dartmoor granite', 1969-70 (Bibliog. 96). CSAC 110.1.86/D.6 c1969-1970

Contents:

25pp. typescript draft, 6pp. photocopied graphs.

'Joint paper with P.C. Rickwood' discussing 'the inference of rock composition from twin assays of replicate samples of the same specimen'. Unpublished. CSAC 110.1.86/D.7-D.10 1971-72

4 folders.

Related information: See also CSAC 110.1.86/B.80.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/D.7 October 1971-March 1972

Contents:

Typescript drafts of letters to P.C. Rickwood, with accounts of work in hand.

Drafts CSAC 110.1.86/D.8 1971-1972

Contents:

11pp. typescript of first draft November 1971
5pp. photocopied draft January 1972

Drafts CSAC 110.1.86/D.9 February 1972

Contents:

8pp. typescript of third draft
4pp. typescript of 'Statistical Treatment'.

Miscellaneous notes, calculations and graphs. CSAC 110.1.86/D.10 n.d

Sampling CSAC 110.1.86/D.11 1973

Contents:

Contributed remarks on a paper 'Sampling distribution in South Crofty Tin Mine, Cornwall', by B. Kuseric, T.L. Thomas and J. Pemberly (I.M.M. Transactions, 1973).
Typescript drafts; one graph; photocopy of published text (not listed in Bibliog.).
Folder also includes 3pp. typescript draft 'South Crofty Sampling Problem', 1973.

Tuition in Mathematics CSAC 110.1.86/D.12 n.d. and 1975 or later

Contents:

'A Course of Tuition in Mathematics', a "Note" describing tuition given to a candidate hoping to take the Honours B.Sc. course in mining at Cambourne, n.d., 1975 or later.
4pp. typescript draft.
'A Course of Mathematical Tuition', n.d. Expanded, later version, of the above.
10pp. photocopied draft.

'A physicist's introduction to calculus' CSAC 110.1.86/D.13 n.d., c.1976

Contents:

Unfinished draft for a proposed book
10pp. notes and calculations; 8pp. typescript draft.

'Artificial star design', 1976 (Bibliog. 100). CSAC 110.1.86/D.14 c1976

2 typescript drafts, 5pp. and 9pp., 11 graphs, 3pp. calculations.

'"Squeeze" Significance Tests', with I.T. Parsons, 1976 (Bibliog. 101). CSAC 110.1.86/D.15-D.27 [n.d.]

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/D.15, D.16 1974-77

2 folders.

Contents:

Principally with I.T. Parsons and the editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Reprint of paper as published CSAC 110.1.86/D.17 c. 1976

'"Squeeze" Significance Tests' CSAC 110.1.86/D.18 c 1976

8 pp

Typescript.

'"Squeeze" Significance Tests for Certain Parameter-free Univariate Distributions'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.19, D.20 c 1976

3 typescript drafts, 8pp., 13pp. and 17pp.; 8pp. graphs not included in third draft; 9pp. ms. draft; 2 folders.

'On a Class of Non-Parametric Test Statistics' CSAC 110.1.86/D.21 1973

2 typescript drafts, 10pp. and 5pp.; 8pp. photocopied draft; 4pp. typescript.

Miscellaneous notes and narratives, variously titled CSAC 110.1.86/D.22, D.23 n.d

2 folders.

Miscellaneous ms. calculations. CSAC 110.1.86/D.24 n.d

Miscellaneous ms. graphs CSAC 110.1.86/D.25-D.27 n.d

3 folders.

'It pays to get theory right', 1978 (Bibliog. 103). CSAC 110.1.86/D.28 c1978

Typescript draft.

'An Exposition of the Theory of Relativity' CSAC 110.1.86/D.29 n.d., c.1978

7 pp

Ms. notes

Contents:

Calculations and incomplete draft.

'Newton's Telescope' CSAC 110.1.86/D.29A 1979

Contents:

Typescript draft; photocopy of extract from A. Couder's 'Recherches sur les déformations des grands miroirs employés aux observations astronomiques'; brief related correspondence (Burch's carbons only).

Comments on Thomas R. Kratochwill's 'Single Subject Research-Strategies for Evaluating Change' CSAC 110.1.86/D.30 1980

Typescript, photocopy of ms. draft.

'The knife-edge test for mirrors', 1980 (Bibliog. 106). CSAC 110.1.86/D.30A c1980

Typescript; Burch's carbon of covering letter.

'Responsibility for one date', 1982 (Bibliog. 108). CSAC 110.1.86/D.31 c1982

Typescript draft.

Undated writings CSAC 110.1.86/D.32-D.44 [n.d.]

Contents:

Some of these may be notes or statements of research in progress, for personal clarification or limited circulation. Others are accompanied by a covering letter to a journal or a newspaper editor, or secretary of a scientific body, and were intended for publication. None are listed in the Bibliography and they were probably not published.

'A Solution of the Triangle'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.32 n.d

Contents:

2pp. draft with 1p. of calculations.
Folder also includes 2pp. photocopied draft of 'A Symmetrical Solution of the Triangle'.

'Spherical Triangles' CSAC 110.1.86/D.33 n.d

4 pp

Ms. draft.

'Hydrocyclones' CSAC 110.1.86/D.34 n.d

2 pp

Ms. draft.

Rigid Dynamics CSAC 110.1.86/D.35 n.d

Contents:

'Rigid Dynamics'.
2pp. typescript.
Folder also includes 5pp. ms. entitled 'Dynamics of Rotation of Rigid bodies'.

'Doughnut Height Curve'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.36 n.d

2 pp

Contents:

Photocopy of tables of figures

'On an Extension of Student's Theorem' CSAC 110.1.86/D.37 n.d

3 pp

Ms. draft

'An Estimate of the Volume of a Teaspoon'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.38 n.d

1p. ms. draft, 2pp. photocopied draft.

'A Test of Normality'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.39 n.d

2pp. ms. draft; 1p. typescript calculations.

'Notes and formulae for errors and statistics course'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.40 n.d

7 pp

Typescript draft

'The PseudoScience of Popular Statistics'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.41 n.d

Contents:

1p. ms. draft of a letter to the Institute of Physics Bulletin.

'The significance of significance coefficients'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.42 n.d

Contents:

2pp. ms. draft; ms. draft covering letter to the Secretary, Institute of Physics.

'A story with a moral'. CSAC 110.1.86/D.43 1981

Contents:

3 Versions, all with variations of title, one dated May 1980, and Burch's carbon of related letter, December 1981.

'"Sociology" by "R.C. Bierce"' (Burch's chosen pseudonym). CSAC 110.1.86/D.44 n.d

Contents:

Typescript of poem, written with humorous intent, by Burch, including list of proposed recipients.

Publications of C.R. Burch. CSAC 110.1.86/D.45 1925-1980

Arrangement: In chronological order

Contents:

Reprints and photocopies
Not a complete set.

SECTION E CORRESPONDENCE CSAC 110.1.86/E.1 - E.48 [n.d.]

Contents:

Burch's scientific correspondence is both patchy and scant. There are very few substantial sequences of letters and in many cases only Burch's drafts, carbons and photocopies of outgoing letters survive (and some of these are incomplete). The patchiness of the surviving material is due in part to Burch's practice of using the backs of incoming letters for research notes, calculations, etc. Examples of this practice are to be found throughout the collection and especially in Section B.
The material is presented as follows:
E.1 -E.10 Correspondence on specific topics. In alphabetical order, dated and indexed.
E.11 -E.41 Correspondence with individuals, organisations and firms. In alphabetical order, dated and indexed.
E.42 Shorter unindexed correspondence.
E.43-E.48 References and appointments. In chronological order, unindexed.

TOPICS CSAC 110.1.86/E.1-E.10 [n.d.]

'CW communications'. CSAC 110.1.86/E.1, E.2 1975

2 folders.

Contents:

Correspondence arising from article by R. Skelton 'Some thoughts on CW communications' (Radio Communication, February 1975)
Burch circulated his papers 'On asymmetric telegraphic spectra' and 'Een radioontvanger met brugfilter' (Bibliog. 33 and 36).

'Helicoids'. CSAC 110.1.86/E.3-E.5 1954-69

3 folders.

Contents:

Miscellaneous correspondence re use of helicoids in mineral concentration, various dates

'Helicoids'. CSAC 110.1.86/E.3 1954-57

'Helicoids'. CSAC 110.1.86/E.4 1961

Contents:

Includes results of tests on vibrated helicoid, photographs and diagrams of apparatus.

'Helicoids'. CSAC 110.1.86/E.5 1964, 1966-67, 1969

Measurement of time. CSAC 110.1.86/E.6 n.d

Contents:

Burch's draft letters on this topic; folder also includes Burch's obituary of E.H. Linfoot and brief related correspondence.

Mirror-testing. CSAC 110.1.86/E.7-E.10 1979-81

4 folders.

Contents:

Correspondence re Burch's proposal that the British Astronomical Association set up a mirror-testing advisory group
Burch's concern arose from his work in correcting the defective Charterhouse-on-Mendip Observatory mirror. See CSAC 110.1.86/B.39, CSAC 110.1.86/B.40.

Mirror-testing CSAC 110.1.86/E.7 1979, February-May

Mirror-testing CSAC 110.1.86/E.8 1979, June

Contents:

Includes catalogue of telescope manufacturer 'Fullerscopes'.

Mirror-testing CSAC 110.1.86/E.9 [1979], September

Mirror-testing CSAC 110.1.86/E.10 1980-81 and n.d

Contents:

Includes copy of minutes of the BAA Instruments and Observing Methods Section Committee Meeting, 30 August 1980.

INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND FIRMS CSAC 110.1.86/E.11-E.41 [n.d.]

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.11 1960-1964

Contents:

ARBITER, N. (1963); ARBRA VERKSTANDS AKTIEBOLAG (1960); ASHDOWN, R. (1964).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.12 1954-1978

Contents:

BAGNOLD, R. (1954); BERGNE, J.A'C. (1964); BIRCH, K.G. (1978); BOWLER, C.M.L. (1960).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.13 1951-1982

Contents:

BRISTOL UNIVERSITY (1951); BRITISH TELECOM INTERNATIONAL (1982); BURCH, J.M. (1978-79).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.14 n.d. and 1940-1982

Contents:

CAPPER PASS & SON LIMITED (1965); COMBINED OPTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (1940); COTTLE, B. (1982); CRESSWELL, G. and P.F. NORTON (n.d.)

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.15 n.d. and 1970-1976

Contents:

DRAZIN, (n.d.); EDWARDS, A.W.F. (1970); ELVIS, M. (1976).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.16 1960-1982

Contents:

FABER & FABER LIMITED (1979); FLEMING, M.G. (1960); FLOWERS, T. (1982).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.17 1962-1981

Contents:

HALL, G. (1981); HAMILTON, J. (1962-63); HATFIELD, H.R. (1975).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.18 1955-1981

Contents:

HOWARTH, I.D. (1978-79); HOWARTH, L. (1977); ISAACS, N. (1955-57); JEFFERIES, N. (1981).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.19-E.24 1953-63

6 folders

Contents:

JONES, G.H.
Principally Jones's letters, on many topics related to minerals and mining, chiefly in Cornwall.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.19 1953 (one letter only); 1954, January-May

Contents:

JONES, G.H.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.20 1954, June-December

Contents:

JONES, G.H.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.21 1955

Contents:

JONES, G.H.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.22 1956, 1957

Contents:

JONES, G.H.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.23 1960, 1963

Contents:

JONES, G.H.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.24 n.d

Contents:

JONES, G.H.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.25 1935-1978

Contents:

JONES, R.V. (1974); KING, A.J. (1978); KING, R.W. (1935); KITTO, H.D.F. (1961).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.26 1977-1978

Contents:

LEONARD, T. (1977); LUDLOW, J.H. (1978).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.27 n.d and 1975-1982

Contents:

MACKENZIE, J.K. (n.d.); McKERROW, G. (1975, 1978, 1982).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.28 1954-1973

Contents:

MASON, G. (1973); MATTHEWS, R.G. (1954).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.29 1955-1978

Contents:

MERRISON, A.W. (1975, 1978); MORTON, B.R. (1955); MOZLEY, R. (1967, 1977).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.30 n.d. and 1968-1973

Contents:

ORD, K. (1971, 1973); PILKINGTON BROTHERS LIMITED (1976); PLASKETT, H.H. (n.d.); POWELL, C.F. (1968).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.31-E.37 1964-78

7 folders.

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.
Principally Rickwood's letters from University of Otago, New Zealand, and University of New South Wales, Australia, concerning family, career and matters of scientific interest.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.31 1964-65

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.32 1966-69

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.33 1970-71

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.34 1972-76

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.35 1977-78

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.36, E.37 n.d

Contents:

RICKWOOD, P.C.
Drafts, reprints

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.38 1955-1977

Contents:

RING, J. (1977); ROYAL SOCIETY (1955)

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.39 1960-1977

Contents:

SIAMESE TIN SYNDICATE LIMITED (1960); STANIER, M. (1977); SUISGILL ESTATE COMPANY (1969).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.40 1955-1976

Contents:

THOMSON, G.P. (1955); TUBBS, M.R. (1976); VICKERS LIMITED (1973).

Correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.41 1962-1976

Contents:

WURTZBURGER, B. (1976); YOUNG, J.Z. (1962); YOUNG, P.A. (1974).

Miscellaneous shorter scientific correspondence CSAC 110.1.86/E.42 1954-78, and undated

REFERENCES AND APPOINTMENTS CSAC 110.1.86/E.43-E.48 [n.d.]

Arrangement: In chronological order

References and Appointments CSAC 110.1.86/E.43 1960-65

References and Appointments CSAC 110.1.86/E.44 1966-68

References and Appointments CSAC 110.1.86/E.45 1973-74

References and Appointments CSAC 110.1.86/E.46 1976

References and Appointments CSAC 110.1.86/E.47 1979-80

References and Appointments CSAC 110.1.86/E.48 1981-82

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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of CECIL REGINALD BURCH, CBE FRS (1901-1983) including material relating to GEORGE JAMES BURCH FRS (1852-1914) and FRANCIS PARRY BURCH (1899-1933)

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