Unknown]]> Pottery]]> University of Otago]]> Photographs]]> University of New Zealand]]> Certificates]]> American Ceramic Society]]> Periodicals]]> Griffin’s Centenary Volume, which states that ‘well over 90 per cent. of the firm’s publications are technical and scientific text-books, manuals and monographs’. Charles Rae Griffin became a director in the company when his father, also Charles, died in 1907. Griffin amicably corresponded with Mellor in the late 1930s regarding the republication of his Treatise on Quantitative Inorganic Analysis. Here Griffin mentions his upcoming trip to South Africa to visit his ‘dear old mother’.]]> Charles Rae Griffin]]> Correspondence]]> George VI and the Central Chancery of Knighthood]]> Medals]]> Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics was published by Longmans, Green and Co., in 1902, the year he completed his doctorate. This work represented the beginning of a long relationship with the firm. In August 1902, Mellor received a letter from Charles Longman (1852-1934), who informed him that the suggestion of a Physical Chemistry series was now a reality, and that Professor Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916) was to be editor. Longman also informed Mellor that Ramsay ‘thinks so well of your book’, which was certainly Mellor’s Higher Mathematics.]]> Charles Longman]]> Correspondence]]> A Treatise on Quantitative Inorganic Analysis (1912). In a statement that would please any author, she was told that ‘the matter has now been corrected in our books and from now onwards you will be paid at the higher rate.’]]> Arthur Downer]]> Correspondence]]> Chemical Statics and Dynamics, which was part of Ramsay’s Physical Chemistry series. Mellor hoped that this ‘Introduction’ (as he termed the book) ‘will enable the neophyte, without mathematical knowledge, to see his way through the ideas involved; and he can take the mathematical operations on trust just as he would if I were to state that 81 is the cube root of 531441.’ Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases (Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon) and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904. His ground-breaking work led to the development of a new section of the periodic table.]]> J. W. Mellor]]> Books]]> Travels of Marco Polo. Nothing is known of this particular plate or how Mellor came to have it in his collection but he was no doubt attracted by its vibrant colour palette.]]> Produced in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China]]> Pottery]]> Unknown]]> Drawing]]> Clay and Pottery Industries (1914) the wide-angle lens used for taking the photographs ‘greatly exaggerate the spaciousness of the interior.’ It is here in his ‘sanctum’ that Mellor taught his students. In 1905 Mellor also became Director of the Research Laboratories of the Federation, and Honorary Secretary of the Ceramic Society (UK) and editor of its journal.]]> Edited by J. W. Mellor]]> Books]]> Clay and Pottery Industries appeared. The papers within reveal the full range of his scientific investigations: from the performance of fire bricks and the nature and behaviour of glazes, to thermal expansions of floor tiles and constituents of clays. During WWI his chief work concerned the improvement of refractory linings of steelmaking furnaces, advising the government when ‘supplies of refractory materials and …many necessary steel alloys were cut off.’ For this work he was offered a peerage, which he refused. No doubt some of the class of 1913 depicted here went on to enjoy the facilities of the new Central School of Science and Technology, built the following year (1914). Mellor was made Head of the new Ceramics Department.]]> Edited by J. W. Mellor]]> Books]]> magnum opus of chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, well before the first volume was published in 1922. In all, over the next fifteen years, sixteen volumes were published, with 16,000,000 words in total, all written by one man – Joseph William Mellor.]]> Joseph W. Mellor]]> Books]]> ]]> University of Otago]]> Photographs]]> Edward Fiddes]]> Correspondence]]> [Joseph W. Mellor]]]> Photographs]]> Comprehensive Treatise. The number of volumes, 16, was not planned at the outset. It was continued until it was finished. Emma says of her husband ‘From a dozen, he simply went on and on and on, very tired of it and far from well.’]]> Emma Mellor]]> Correspondence]]> Ernest Rutherford]]> Correspondence]]> Everett Shorthand Society]]> Certificates]]> A Treatise on Quantitative Inorganic Analysis (1913) and Clay and Pottery Industries (1914). This letter to Mellor confirms the title of a volume, even though there was a slight difference in print. In an earlier letter (1910), Blight highlighted the fact that ‘Booksellers and Librarians like a title easily catalogued and yet suggestive of what the book contains.’]]> Frances James Blight]]> Correspondence]]> Industrial Ceramics in 1963. This letter indicates that Mellor’s humour and cartoons were well received by members of the ceramics community.]]> Felix Singer]]> Correspondence]]> Otago Polytechnic]]> Ceramic industry]]> National Liberal Club]]> Forms (Documents)]]> Francis (Frank) H. Wedgwood]]> Correspondence]]>