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The British Interplanetary Society was formed in 1933 and during the course of the first 12 months of the organisation's existence monthly reports were issued to the members by Society Secretary Leslie J. Johnson. The monthly report was enlarged into the slightly larger Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society which may have first appeared as early as July 1934, although the "official" first edition was in October, and was also edited by Johnson. Perhaps five of the informal and numbered issues combined, appeared before the name was changed by committee vote on December 28th 1934 for one issue in January 1935 to "The New Columbus." In his biography Johnson claimed that New Columbus was never circulated officially, although he sent several copies to Edward John Carnell in London. Publication seems to have been suspended until March 1937 during which time the BIS moved its operations from Liverpool to London. Carnell began a new series of Bulletins from London. Carnell edited ten issues before handing it over to Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson. Clarke would edit the Bulletin for 17 issues until just before the outbreak of World War II. The last pre-war edition appearing in August 1939. There is some evidence in Clarke's diary that he was still mailing some form of Bulletin to his colleagues from his evacuation billet in Colwyn Bay North Wales as late as January of 1941. During the war those interested in following astronautics in Britain turned to the Manchester Interplanetary Society journal "Spacewards" edited by Eric Burgess and Trevor Cusack. Cusack was killed in action in 1940 but Burgess would continue to edit Spacewards until the end of the war, completing 20 more issues. The Bulletin of the BIS returned in January 1946 and ran until May 1947 before merging with the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.

Date Issue Author-Editor Subject
October 1934 Vol 1 No 1 Bulletin of the BIS (New Series)
Leslie J. Johnson Our First Anniversary
Ing Guido von Pirquet Letter
Colin Askham Radio in Interplanetary Communication
James Godwin Strong Letter urging name change of Society
Leslie J. Johnson Report on Society Meetings of Oct 5 and Oct 19
November 1934 Vol 1 No 2 Bulletin of the BIS
Leslie J. Johnson Scientifiction and Interplanetary Travel
Indian Rocket Mail
C.H.L. Askham The Growing Interest in Matters Interplanetary
Notes and News
Eric Frank Russell The Astronaut (A Poem)
Interesting Literature
Reports of Recent Meetings
New Members
January 1935 Vol 1 No 1 The New Columbus
Leslie J. Johnson Editorial
Society Publications (Name change)
Interesting Literature
Thanks Wonder Stories
Eric Frank Russell Reason and Emotion
Sense and Nonsense
Air Mail Rocket (Zucker)
A Space Suit (Haldane and Davies)
Life on the Moon
Eric Frank Russell Meetings of the Society
Correspondence
The Society Library
Apr 4 1937 Vol 1 No 1 Bulletin of the BIS (New Series 2)
Edward John Carnell Editorial about Society move to London
Officers for 1937
Bulletin and Journal update
Hon General Secretary address update
Treasurer update
Librarian update
Members Representative update
Next Monthly Meeting details
Formation of Technical Committee
Apr 25 1937 Vol 1 No 2 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell The Last Monthly Meeting
The Next General Meeting
Recent Manchester Rocket Experiment
Inaugurating Design Competitions
John Happian Edwards Special Request to Members
May 20 1937 Vol 1 No 3 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell Editorial Note
May Monthly Meeting
The Next Meeting
S.H. Smith Rocketry in India
Jun 24 1937 Vol 1 No 4 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell Notes from last meeting
July Monthly Meeting
William J. Lovejoy A Three Year Old Mystery
Jul 29 1937 Vol 1 No 5 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell Special Notice to London Members
Notes and News
Manchester Interplanetary Society
Aug 26 1937 Vol 1 No 6 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell Special Request to London Members
Model Airplane Contest
July Meeting
Books Recommended
Friedrich Schmiedl Limitations of Space Travel
Sep 23 1937 Vol 1 No 7 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell October Meeting
Model Airplane Contest
Notes From September Meeting
Oct 25 1937 Vol 1 No 8 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell October Meeting Debate
November Meeting
Definition of the Technical Committee
Nov 29 1937 Vol 1 No 9 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell November Meeting Report
December Meeting
Friedrich Schmiedl The Temperature of Space
Jan 27 1938 Vol 2 No 1 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell Apologies and Regrets
Annual General Meeting
The Journal
Feb 21 1938 Vol 2 No 2 Bulletin of the BIS
Edward John Carnell Annual General Meeting Feb 1 1938
Next Meeting
Mar 21 1938 Vol 2 No 3 Bulletin of the BIS
General Meeting Mar 1 1938
Next General Meeting
Apr 21 1938 Vol 2 No 4 Bulletin of the BIS
General Meetings
Personal Assistance
May 21 1938 Vol 2 No 5 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke General Meeting May 3 1938
Next General Meeting
Important Notice
Jul 7 1938 Vol 2 No 6 Bulletin of the BIS
General Meeting Jun 14 1938
Next General Meeting
Affiliation with MIS
August 1938 Vol 2 No 7 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Report of July Meeting
Monthly Notes


September 1938 Vol 2 No 8 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Agenda of October Meeting
The 1875 Explosives Act
Monthly Notes
William F. Temple Chingford Chiaroscuro
News Items
October 1938 Vol 2 No 9 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Report of October Meeting
Spaceships and Sounding Rockets
Ralph A. Smith The BIS Experimental Policy
Agenda of November Meeting
November 1938 Vol 2 No 10 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Rocketry and the Law
Report of November Meeting
The December Meeting
Correspondence
December 1938 Vol 2 No 11 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Research Progress
An Appeal by the Member’s Representative
The Last General Meeting
The January Meeting
Photographic Rockets
January 1939 Vol 3 No 1 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Who’s Who at Headquarters
The BIS Proving Stand
Annual General Meeting
The January Meeting
A Spot of Publicity
February 1939 Vol 3 No 2 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
The Next Meeting
The Annual General Meeting
More Publicity
Announcements
Some Criticisms
March 1939 Vol 3 No 3 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
The March General Meeting
The BIS Research Programme
Announcements
The Manchester Interplanetary Society
Publicity Staggers On
Rear Containers for Rockets
April 1939 Vol 3 No 4 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
The Interplanetary Approach
Trade Follows the Rocket
The Next General Meeting
Notes and News
Lunar Vegetation
May 1939 Vol 3 No 5 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
Lunar Changes
Our Contemporaries
The Next General Meeting
An Outside at a Technical Meeting
The MAA
The BIS Library
June 1939 Vol 3 No 6 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
The June General Meeting
The Carver Concentric Feed
Atomic Power
The History of the Step Rocket
Books in the Library
The Next general meeting
Notes and News
MAA Report
July 1939 Vol 3 No 7 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
The July General Meeting
New Members
Astronautics at the World’s Fair
Additions to the BIS Library
August 1939 Vol 3 No 8 Bulletin of the BIS
Arthur C. Clarke Editorial
The Planet Mars
Can Rockets Fly Today?
Correspondence
News Items
The Next General Meeting
New Members
Emergency Arrangements (Possible suspension of BIS)
August 1939 Vol 1 No 1 Spacewards
Trevor Cusack & Eric Burgess Editorial
Interplanetary Travel
Stratosphere Flight
Appeal to members
Notes and News
Details of the Association
Astronautical Terms
January 1940 Vol 1 No 2 Spacewards
Trevor Cusack & Eric Burgess Diagram of a Stratoplane
Editorial
The MAA Stratoplane
L.S.D.
Astronautical Handbook Part 2
April 1940 Vol 1 No 3 Spacewards
Trevor Cusack & Eric Burgess Photo of Stratoplane
Editorial
Stratoplane Launching Rack
Astronautical Handbook Part 3
A Model Spaceship
MAA Sounding Rocket
July 1940 Vol 1 No 4 Spacewards
Trevor Cusack & Eric Burgess Photograph of the President
Editorial
Further Calculations Regarding the MAA Stratoplane
Forms of Terrestrial rocket craft
Astronautical Handbook Part 4
September 1940 Vol 2 No 1 Spacewards
Trevor Cusack & Eric Burgess Editorial
Research
Plan of Stratosphere Model
Raymond Moore Seedcast and Continuity
Diagram of Steamsling
January 1941 Vol 2 No 2 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Photo of the late secretary (Trevor Cusack)
Editorial
Biography of Trevor Cusack
Raymond Moore Seedcast and Continuity Part 2
Diagram Acceleration equals deceleration
The MAA Sounding Rocket
April 1941 Vol 2 No 3 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Rocketry of the Continent
Britain Testing Rocket Plane
MAA Sounding Rocket Part 2
Raymond Moore Seedcast and Continuity Part 3
Continuity of Life Diagram
October 1941 Vol 3 No 1 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Raymond Moore Seedcast and Continuity Part 4
The Early Days
Further calculations on the sounding rocket
Notes on early Manchester Experiments
January 1942 Vol 3 No 2 Spacewards
Eric Burgess
April 1942 Vol 3 No 3 Spacewards
Eric Burgess
October 1942 Vol 4 No 1 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Uranium 235
Mars
Sounding rocket
Kenneth Gatland & Arthur C. Clarke Cosmic Radiation
J.D. Stewart PRS and MIS Experiments
Acceleration
January 1943 Vol 4 No 2 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Sub Atomic Energy
Venus
Memory of a Founder
Stratosphere Flight
MIS and MAA Experiments
Designs of the ADS
Cartridge injector feed
Cosmic rays
April 1943 Vol 4 No 3 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Will Space Ships Evolve?
Rocket Construction
200” Telescope
ADS Stratosphere
Jupiter
Proving Stand
MAA Stratosphere
July 1943 Vol 4 No 4 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Congreve and Hale War rockets
Present and Post War Astronautics
Altitude
October 1943 Vol 5 No 1 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Sounding Rocket
Reaction Propulsion for Aircraft
January 1944 Vol 5 No 2 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Metal Spraying
Post War Policy
Powder Rocket
Reaction Propulsion for Aircraft
Gyro Control
New Constitution
April 1944 Vol 5 No 3 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Astronautical Navigation
Sounding Rocket
Thrust
6” Telescope
July 1944 Vol 5 No 4 Spacewards
Eric Burgess Editorial
Interplanetary Communications
Astronautical Biography
Rockets in War and Peace
October 1944 Vol 6 No 1 Spacewards
Kenneth Gatland & Eric Burgess Editorial
Report of CBAS
Absolute Motion and the Space Vessel compass
A contribution to the fuel problem
Calculations of High Altitude Rocket Trajectories
December 1944 Vol 6 No 9 Supplement to the Official Bulletin of the CBAS
Eric Burgess Report on meeting of E. Burgess and A.C.Clarke
A Further meeting between CBAS and BIS Officers
An appeal
January 1945 Vol 6 No 2 Spacewards
Kenneth Gatland & Eric Burgess Editorial
April-July 1945 Vol 6 No 3 Spacewards
Kenneth Gatland & Eric Burgess Editorial
A.W. Stockey The Space Position Indicator
Arthur C. Clarke The Coming Age of Rocket Power (Review)
A.W. Stockey Why a Space Ship compass?
Report of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the CBAS
Robert L. Sternberg Electronic Spacial Rocket
Report of CBAS Meeting on Jun 16 1945
Report of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the CBAS Jun 23 1945
Report of the Ordinary General Meeting of the CBAS Jun 28 1945
March-May 1945 Vol 7 No 1 Official Bulletin of the CBAS
Kenneth W. Gatland Forthcoming London General Meeting
News and Views
Arthur C. Clarke Comment on January Journal
January 1946 Vol 1 No 1 Bulletin of the BIS (New Series 3)
Michael Donne An Editorial Policy
Eric Burgess Progress of Astronautics in Great Britain
Exhibition of German Equipment
C. Fleisher Library Notes
Note to the Bibliography Staff
Robert Hutchings Goddard Obituary
February-March 1946 Vol 1 No 2 Bulletin of the BIS (New Series 3)
Ralph A. Smith Editorial
Review Feb 16 Meeting at Bream House
Review of Arthur C. Clarke Communication in Space
Review of Eric Burgess Principles of Rocket Propulsion
Review of J.G. Strong Met Rocket build
Acknowledgments Library Donations Summary
Announcement Apr 24 BIS display at BAS meeting at Burlington house Piccadilly
Announcement Frank Whittle Apr 25 lecture at Manchester Royal Aeronautical Society
Membership list
Review Sat March 16 Field House Meeting
Review G. Brosnan Stability of Rocket Flight
Review Max Wholey Conditions on the Surface of the Inner Planets
Bibliography process The Documentation of Interplanetary Travel
April 1946 Vol 1 No 3 Bulletin of the BIS
Comment
J.G. Strong A Rocket Fallacy
Announcement Apr 27 1946 meeting at Northampton Arms 205 Goswell Rd Islington to discuss "The Difficulties of Interplanetary Travel"
Announcement Additional List of New Members
Proposal BIS Model Group
"Experiments of the Chemical Warfare Service...America" on the American JB2 Flying Bomb
May 1946 Vol 1 No 4 Bulletin of the BIS
Ralph A. Smith Comment
Eric Burgess An Exhibition of German Aeronautical Developments
June 1946 Vol 1 No 5 Bulletin of the BIS
April Meeting
Library News
Review of Dawn of the Space Age
July 1946 Vol 1 No 6 Bulletin of the BIS
Organisation of Technical Groups
The Firing of Rockets
Research at GALCIT
Arthur C. Clarke Radar and Astronomy
Television Guided Missiles
J.E. Spurr Geology applied to Selenology
L. J. Carter An Easy outline of astronomy
Additions to Membership
August 1946 Vol 1 No 7 Bulletin of the BIS
The End and the Means
H.E. Fielden Tests on Small Resonance Jets
Review of Current Periodicals
Oliver Perry Ferrell Meteoric Impact ionisation
September 1946 Vol 1 No 8 Bulletin of the BIS
Science for the Citizen
H.E. Fielden Tests on Small Resonance Jets (2)
Meetings
German Industrial Developments
Britain Can Make It Exhibition
Reviews
Research Papers
BAA Exhibition
Future Possibilities of Astronomical radar
Interplanetary Travel by Solar Radiation
November 1946 Vol 1 No 9 Bulletin of the BIS
Editorial
Panel of Lecturers
H.E. Ross Air Conditioning Problems of Rocket Travel
Aeronautical Committee Reports and Memoranda
Leslie R. Shepherd The Problem of Interplanetary Propulsion
Two Great Men of Science H.G. Wells and Sir James Jeans
Reviews – Rocket Fuels, The Rocket Power Plant
January 1947 Vol 2 No 1 Bulletin of the BIS
Editorial Technical Groups
L.J. Carter The Physical Condition of Jupiter
H.E. Ross Green Plants as Atmosphere Generators
A. Battersby A Suggested New Unit of Time
Research Papers
Notes and News
J.C. Tanner Planetary Photography in the Ultra Violet and Infra Red
North Western District Centre
P.E. Cleator The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth
Rockets and Orbits
Reviews & Correspondence
February 1947 Vol 2 No 2 Bulletin of the BIS
A.C. Clarke Astronautics and Poetry
D.F. Lawden The Initial Acceleration of a Rocket
L.R. Shepherd Le Moteur Nucléare
H.P. Wilkins, F.R.A.S. Lunar Topography 1
German Industrial Developments
R.A. Smith & H.E. Ross Working Formulae
Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda
Reviews
April 1947 Vol 2 No 3 Bulletin of the BIS
D.F. Lawden, M.A. Some Energy Considerations
A.V. Cleaver Aeronautical Review
Eric Burgess Technical Notes on German Rocket Development
H.P. Wilkins, F.R.A.S. Lunar Topography 2
Radiation Hazards and Radiation Sickness
Publications of Other Societies
Reviews
May 1947 Vol 2 No 4 Bulletin of the BIS
Editorial: Man and the Moon
H.P. Wilkins F.R.A.S. Lunar Topography 3
Eric Burgess Technical Notes on German Rocket Development 2
Arthur C. Clarke A Universal Escape-Velocity Mass-Ratio Chart
The Problem of Atomic Propulsion
Supersonic Research
M.W. Wholey Astronomical Notebook
Aeronautical Research Committee Reports