The records comprise minute books, correspondence, staff records, mark books, research notes, lecture notes and texts, inventories of equipment, photographs, press cuttings and printed journal articles and catalogues. They include minutes of staff meetings including arrangements for tutorials and lists of staff publications, 1975-1980; Faculty of Natural Science and Faculty of Education minutes and papers, 1975-1982; correspondence relating to the appointment, training and employment of technical staff by the Dept. of Physics, 1966-1981; correspondence relating to the 150th anniversary of the Dept. including photographs, display captions and off-prints of articles on Professor James Clerk Maxwell, Professor Owen Richardson, and Prof. Edward Victor Appleton, 1978; papers concerning the merger of Queen Elizabeth College with King's College, 1981-1984; papers compiled by Ernest Wilson including correspondence concerning the publication of his research papers and nomination for membership of the Royal Society, and photographs of him and his colleagues (1890-1928); notes, articles, and lectures concerning crystallography, spectroscopy, and X-ray topography, 1978-1981; databook of experiments conducted in the Dept., 1932; databooks describing experiments on resonance, optics and nuclear physics, 1965-1971; references and testimonials for students, 1947-1970; glass slides of traces of elementary particles through bubble chamber, of graphs and diagrams and laboratory equipment, 1950-1970; photographs of students, staff, 1955-1974; photographs of instruments including early electron microscope and model of DNA, 1955, and of offprints of Proceedings of the Physical Society and Proceedings of the Royal Society by Edward Victor Appleton and others concerning ionisation of the earth's atmosphere, the principle of conservation of energy and other topics, 1934-1936; instruction booklets for various pieces of laboratory apparatus including electrical generator and gamma ray detector, 1955-1969.