Series 53 - Societies


ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton

Inventory Listing

File of correspondence, etc relating to ISSMFE European Conference
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC40
Date range Nov 1974 - Jan 1975
The Royal Society, Year Book
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC1
Date range 2001
Notes, correspondence, etc relating to history of Smeatonian Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC30
Date range c. June 1974 - c. Apr 1981
File of notes on honorary members, 1793 -
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC29
Date range No date
Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian) 1771 to 1888
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC28
Date range 1888
MS of The Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1771-1971 with biographical notes on the early members by Skempton
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC27
Date range No date [post 1971]
MS list of members of the Smeatonian Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC26
Date range No date [post 1971]
File of notes on members of the Smeatonian Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC25
Date range No date
Typescript and MS biographies of members of Smeatonian Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC24
Date range No date [c 1975]
Smeatonian Society: notes on minor honorary members
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC7
Date range No date
Miscellaneous notes on Smeatonians 1864 - 1948
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC32
Date range No date
File of notes, etc relating to Géotechnique
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC41
Date range No date
File of documents on history of Smeatonian Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC33
Date range No date
File on Institution of Civil Engineers: Soil Mechanics & Foundations Committee; Research Committee; Council minutes
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC39
Date range Dec 1945 - Nov 1974
File relating to Institution of Civil Engineers: notes, copies of documents, correspondence, etc
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC38
Date range c. Jan 1973 - c. Nov 1975
NUMBER NOT USED
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC5
Papers relating to tracts
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC4
Date range No date
Various items relating to the Institution of Civil Engineers
Societies

Printed booklet containing charter, bye-laws, rules, etc, Dec 1953; presidential address, 1974; copy of letter from to rector of Imperial College about proposed system of ‘student counsellors’, 18 Dec 1975; Civil engineering photography: the first 50 years, 1839-1889, 1989; MS list of first 100 members; agendas, minutes and correspondence relating to meetings of historical engineering works panel, archives panel and library committee (which Skempton chaired or was a member of), Mar 1983 - May 1992, etc

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC3
Date range Dec 1953 - May 1992
File of notes, copies of documents, etc relating to Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Irish Academy and Geological Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC37
Date range No date
File of notes, copies of documents, etc relating to Royal Society of Arts
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC36
Date range No date
File relating to Royal Society: notes, copies of documents, etc
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC35
Date range No date
Various items relating to the Royal Society
Societies

Brochure relating to events celebrating the tercentenary of the granting of a royal charter, 17 July 1962; programme for Royal Society/English Heritage/British Academy discussion meeting on ‘Science and Stonehenge’, Mar 1966; brochure relating to the opening of premises by the Queen, 21 Nov 1967; charter and bye-laws, 1969; prospectus, 1970-71; programme for discussion meeting on ‘Valley slopes and cliffs in southern England: morphology, mechanics and quaternary history’, 5 June 1975; candidates 1996, with separate list of selected candidates and copy of letter from Skempton supporting John Burland’s nomination, 14 Nov 1995

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC2
Date range July 1962 - Nov 1995
Various items relating to Smeatonian Society
Societies

Copy of first meeting minutes, 15 Mar 1771; lists of members (some photographs and photocopies), 1786-1989; AGM papers, Dec 1973; note for president’s committee on method of electing new members, 1 Dec 1981; agenda and minutes of meetings, Nov 1972 - Mar 1991; letter to Skempton from Jim Wiltshire, asking him to reconsider resigning from Society, 12 Jan 1993; other correspondence, Jan 1980 - Feb 1981, etc

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC6
Date range Mar 1771 - Feb 1981
File on early history of British Geotechnical Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC43
Date range Nov 1974
Copy typescript and covering letter by R M Wynn Edwards, ‘The Reason why Professor Terzaghi came to Chingford’
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC46
Date range 10 Apr 1970
Typescript notes on Terzaghi Library Fellowship
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC23
Date range No date
Papers relating to Skempton’s election as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering (USA) Related inventory ID: SKEM/PER25
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC22
Date range Feb 1976 - June 1976
National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America: Directory of Members and Foreign Associates
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC21
Date range July 1983
File of correspondence, etc relating to International Society of Rock Mechanics
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC45
Date range June 1962 - Oct 1968
Papers relating to the British branch of the International Society of Rock Mechanics
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC20
Date range Feb 1969 - Dec 1969
Correspondence between the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers, relating to the minutes of a meeting
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC19
Date range Sept 1965 - Oct 1965
Centre for the History of Technology, Science and Society [University of Bath]: jubilee report 1964 - 1989
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC18
Date range 1989
Papers relating to Newcomen Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC17
Date range Oct 1971 - Oct 1975
Photocopy of account book of Smeatonian Society (1771-1807)
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC31
Date range No date
File on British Geotechnical Society: typescript and illustration [of history]
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC44
Date range Nov 1974 - Dec 1974
File of copies of army and navy lists
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC42
Date range 1829 - 1912
Papers relating to British Geotechnical Society, including papers for informal meetings, BSICOLD and BGS, 9 Dec 1970; introductory note for talk by M A Stroud on ‘The control of groundwater’
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC15
Date range Nov 1964 - Oct 1995
Various items relating to Quaternary Research Association
Societies

Correspondence, Jan 1963 - Nov 1975; sketches of quaternary of Pegwell Bay, 1967, and typescript notes on Quaternary Field Study Group, Canterbury; membership lists, Nov 1976 - Feb 1997; list of members visiting Keele for annual field meeting, Apr 1978

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC14
Date range Jan 1963 - Feb 1997
Various items relating to Engineering Group of Geological Society
Societies

List of delegates at regional meeting, Leeds, Sept 1971; symposium on mudflows, Nov 1973 (programme, etc); typescript report of field meeting, May 1974, led by R J Chandler, ‘Lias clay landslides in the east midlands’; leaflet relating to the 3rd Glossop Lecture by Professor Richard Chandler, 3 Nov 1999; typescript draft of proposed outline for 2000 Glossop Lecture

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC13
Date range Sept 1971 - Nov 1999
The Geological Society: list of fellows and junior associates
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC12
Date range 1986
The Royal Academy of Engineering: details of the president’s new year reception and lecture (‘Propping up Pisa’ by Professor John Burland)
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC11
Date range 13 Jan 1997
Typescript draft on paper on co-operation between IGS [Institute of Geological Sciences] and IH [Institute of Hydrology], by R J H Beverton, Sec of IGS
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC10
Date range 23 Sept 1974
Papers relating to the History Study Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers, relating to meetings, etc
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC9
Date range Mar 1993 - Oct 1999
Rules and regulations of the Athenaeum
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC35
Date range No date [1956]
File relating to Smeatonians: membership, signatures, portraits, etc (including correspondence with publishers)
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC34
Date range June 1971 - Nov 1976
Membership lists of Construction History Society
Societies
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control SOC16
Date range June 1999

Published by the ,
HTML edition
Updated 14 December 2004

The template for this finding aid is part of the Heritage Documentation Management System

[ Top of Page | Home | Series | Provenance | Search ]