Three page photocopy.

Photocopy. Published in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 7, 1950-1951.

Typescript draft obituary, by G.J. Whitrow, with manuscript additions and notes by A.G. Walker, intended for a joint publication. With a manuscript letter by Walker apologising for delay, February 1955. Also includes a 2pp. incomplete list of Milne's publications.

Contains (fols. 36-37) E.D. Adrian - on the incidence and effects of Milne's attack of epidemic encephalitis, 3 November 1950 (fols. 38-42) A.V. Hill - Milne's career in the 1914-1918 war, and his return to Cambridge, 2 November 1950 (fol. 43) L.J. Mordell - Milne's family, and his career at Manchester, 21 November 1950 (fol. 44) Ordnance Board - Milne's…

Manuscript autobiographical notes by Milne, describing the principal phases of his career and those who had influenced him. Attached to the manuscript is an additional short note, perhaps intended as a covering letter.

Includes some reference to the early part of Milne's work with A.V. Hill and R.H. Fowler at the Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section, Munitions Inventions Department, though Milne writes that the information should be 'kept squat'.

All letters addressed from H.M.S. Excellent, Portsmouth. Milne was commissioned as a Lieutenant R.N.V.R. in order to ensure against his being conscripted and perhaps transferred from his naval work. This is referred to (to be kept 'perfectly squat') in letters of 8 and 24 May. Letters of July and August describe 'stalling turns' and his early experience of flying.

All letters addressed from H.M.S. Excellent, Portsmouth. Milne's letters of 30 October and 11 November discuss the problems of anti-aircraft defence, and the value of his department's research, in view of criticisms by the popular press.

The letter of 23 March is 2pp., lacking both beginning and end, and has a note 'To G.M. from E.A.M. 23 March 1930' in the hand of Mrs. K. Milne. The letter of 23 November is one sheet only. The letters are mainly concerned with Milne's work on stellar structure and his controversy with Eddington.

The letter of 10 August is last sheet only (numbered 15) of a letter, with a note 'To G.M. 10 August 1932' in the hand of Mrs. K. Milne. The letter of 27 November is from the Einstein Institute, Potsdam and lacks the lower half of the last page. The letter is mainly concerned with Milne's work on kinematic relativity. He gives some account of the Potsdam Institute and scientists working there. Milne was in Germany on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation.

The letter of 13 May is incomplete (2pp. only); the letter of 28 July is incomplete (2pp. only); the letter of 10 April is 1p. only, lacks beginning and end and has a note 'From E.A.M. to G.M. 10th Ap. 1936' in the hand of Mrs. K. Milne. The letter of 13 May describes controversial meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society; the letter of 28 July describes Milne's new ideas on 'structure of dynamics'; the letter of 19 April refers to his papers on the inverse square law of…

Letter of 15 September is incomplete (3pp. only). The letters are mainly concerned with the outbreak of the Second World War, air-raids and the departure of Milne's two eldest children, Eleanor and Margaret, to America. The letters of 4 September 1939 and 3 July 1940 are concerned with Beatrice Renwick whom Milne married as his second wife in June 1940 after her adventurous journey from New York through Italy and France during the German advance.

One letter only, written from from H.M.S. Excellent, on research and personnel at Postsmouth. Heseltine was a pilot and apparently a family friend. See MS. Eng. misc. b. 423/A.14 for references to various flying tests as part of his pilot's training.

2 March. Describes flight in 'Fighting Experimental' aircraft, and research under Fowler with his 'bristling manner'; also refers to George Heseltine (see MS. Eng. misc. b. 423/A.13).

All addressed from H.M.S. Excellent though the letter of 9 March refers to work at Orfordness. Letters also refer to air defence of London, Milne's father's illness, and the war on the Western Front where Geoffrey Milne was then stationed.

19 June (from Essex); 25 July (from Portsmouth).

11, 22 September, both from the First Army Anti-Aircraft Defences, B.E.F. France. General reflections on conditions and the progress of the war.

12 October; 9, 23 November, all from Trinity College, Cambridge. The letter of 12 October describes the ceremonies of Milne's election as Fellow of Trinity, an offer to him by H.F. Newall of a post at the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge personalities, research, etc. The letters of 9 and 23 November describe customs and life at Trinity, mathematical meetings and research with Rutherford, etc.

Cambridge news, details of the post at the Solar Physics Observatory, teaching, lecturing, research, and social occasions.

Letter to Milne's father from A.V. Hill, expressing his admiration of Milne and his work, and the hope that 'he will become one of the great scientists of the day'.