File A68-A69 - Meteorological Office

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