- Jeffreys/F1-F25/F5-F13/F5
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- 1959
New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau publication with 'detailed itinerary' for Sir Harold and Lady Jeffreys at the front. The Jeffreys arrived in Auckland on 29 June and left from Wellington 8 July.
New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau publication with 'detailed itinerary' for Sir Harold and Lady Jeffreys at the front. The Jeffreys arrived in Auckland on 29 June and left from Wellington 8 July.
Visit to Columbia University, New York, 1964
Correspondence and papers re award and arrangements.Jeffreys was awarded a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist Fellowship for a period of five months at Columbia.
Sir Harold and Lady Jeffreys arrived in Australia in July and stayed through October. Jeffreys went to Australia at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellors of Australia and spent three and a half months visiting the ten universities. Amongst his engagements was a course of lectures in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney on the problems with the internal structure of the earth and planets, the elastic and plastic properties of rocks, probability and scientific inference, and mathematical analysis. Amongst Lady Jeffreys's engagements was a course of lectures at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Sydney on advanced dynamical theory. See F.12.
Videotape of Jeffreys in conversation with D.V. Lindley re his work as probabilist and statistician
With manuscript note 'Sir Harold Jeffreys c/o Prof Freeman Maths TBC corrected from Umatic 30/8/83'. See A.23-A.25.
Videotape of after dinner speech by V.S. Huzurbazar
The occasion was a meeting held in the summer after Jeffreys died and dedicated to his honour.
Vetlesen Prize, Columbia University, New York
Includes photographs of Jeffreys with fellow recipient F.A. Vening Meinesz and newspaper-cuttings.
Vetlesen Prize for Earth Science Achievement
Typescript speech by Jeffreys on the occasion of the award of the Vetlesen Prize for Earth Science Achievement; Includes 3 page manuscript draft.
'Various postcards sent to H.J. circa 1920'
Contents of envelope so inscribed by Lady Jeffreys divided into five for ease of reference.
Includes Jeffreys's [US] Social Security Account Card.