THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HESTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Report on scientific and family correspondence and papers of
SIR GEOFFREY INGRAM TAYLOR (1886-1975) OM,
FRS
aerodynamicist
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deposited in Trinity College Library,
Cambridge
Reproduced for the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre
1979
Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lanc,
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
(CSAC 67/5/79)
by
London WC2A
HP
CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES
British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
under the guidance of the Royal Society’s
Catalogue of the papers of
SIR GEOFFREY INGRAM TAYLOR, OM, FRS
(1886 - 1975)
Harriot Weiskittel
Julia Latham- Jackson
Compiled by: Jeannine Alton
Deposited in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1979
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Pages
SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL °
A.1 - A.174
;
°
A.]
A.12
A. 54
A. 65
A.79
Biographical & autobiographical
material
Career and appointments
Honours and Awards
Letters of congratulation
Family papers & correspondence
(the Taylor family, A.79 - A. 104)
(the Boole family,
A.105 - A.134)
SECTION B
SECTION C
SECTION D
o> B10
Cul = E481
A.135-
A.174_
Personal correspondence
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE = D.1- D.105
NOTEBOOKS, WORKING NOTES,
PATENTS
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ADDRESSES,
PAPERS
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
SECTION E
PHOTOGRAPHS, FILM, TAPE
Et ere
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
The material was received from Professor G.K. Batchelor, Taylor's scientific
executor.
It had been assembled over a period of time from various sites in
'Farmfield', Taylor's home in Cambridge, and from colleagues and friends;
it
represents all that remains of Taylor's personal and professional papers.
DESCRIPTION
These surviving records are variable - even capricious -
in content and time-
span, for reasons inherent in Taylor's temperament, interests and methods of work.
For most of his career he held research posts, especially the Yarrow Research
Professorship of the Royal Society, to which he was appointed in 1923;
he was thus
almost wholly absolved from routine teaching, administrative, departmental or
institutional tasks, and free to pursue whatever research suggested itself,
or was
suggested to him.
He had the help of his technician, Walter Thompson, and a
room in the Cavendish Laboratory, originally made available by Rutherford, who
acceptable official style (see, for example, C.37, C.41, C.42, C.45, C.49,
C.50).
Conversely, several letters in Section D are statements of research in
office or secretarial help. | He worked with rough notes and drawings, often on
described Taylor as being 'paid provided he does no work'.
This lack of forma!
(see B.2,B.3, for examples).
Several of the official committee reports in Section
any piece of paper that came to hand;
even when he used a notebook of more con-
C originally took the form of personal letters which were then typed out in
a more
ventional kind, the content is somewhat heterogeneous and lacks dates or headings
establishment obligations, though ideal for Taylor's research, meant that he had no
Memoir Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22, 1976), p.597:
progress, and were typed up and used as such by the recipients.
Furthermore, it
should be remembered that Taylor did much work at home at 'Farmfield', whence
most of the surviving letters are addressed.
The general consequences of these conditions of work are often mentioned in
biographical articles about Taylor, and are best summarised by Batchelor in his
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life
| know, at no time
Perhaps | should explain here that, so far as
in his life did Taylor employ a secretary or have his letters typed.
The documentary evidence of what he did throughout his
consists wholly of incoming letters and papers (including, of course,
his own in published form), and since his filing system was rudi-
mentary, and dependent more on his wife's wish to contain the
papers in one room than on his need to find something later,
sure there are some gaps.
copy of every published paper in
duplicated reports, by him or by someone else, often remained in
the envelopes in which they were delivered, and incoming letters
were collected in large brown-envelopes marked only with the
year,
which led to some documents being thrown out in order to make
room for new ones, and few of the letters and documents that
came in before about 1960 have survived.
Periodically Stephanie had a clearing-up operation
He did make an effort to retain one
a set of boxes, but typed or
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The result is that very little now survives by way of notebooks, experimental
records or laboratory observations to document Taylor's scientific research (see
In order to supplement these scanty resources, Batchelor assembled
Section B).
from some of Taylor's correspondents copies of letters which might permit the re-
construction of a collaborative piece of research, joint publication or substantial
scientific discussion.
Successful examples of this enterprise are enumerated in
Because of
work brought together in Section C.
in the introduction to Section D.
In addition, Batchelor assembled many of the
A word may be said here about Taylor's handwriting.
Although he wrote a
the paucity of surviving material by Taylor himself, a
list of all items in that
the introduction to Section D and itemised in the relevant entries.
Section which include his letters or draft replies to correspondents is also given
fairly standard legible hand until about 1913 (see the manuscript of the Adams
reports and committee papers by Taylor, and these, together with other drafts
and papers found in the collection, constitute the considerable body of unpublished
recipients of his letters had typed copies made.
characteristic script, resembling the waves and eddies it often describes, of most
Prize Essay in C.2), the 'Scotia' notebook of the same year (see B.1) is
hand, especially in her later years, and is not easy to read,
Most of the
of his subsequent letters and papers,
It has certain similarities with his mother's
in the
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The personal material in Section A includes documents relating to a little
known episode in 1911 when Taylor was obliged to spend several months in
sanatorium with a lung infection (see A.17 - A.23), and a considerable amount of
a
information relating to Taylor's family, and particularly to the Boole connection.
Taylor's mother, Margaret, was the second of the five daughters of George Boole,
and Taylor both inherited and contributed to a sense of family continuity (see
especially A.79 - A.135 and introductory note).
E.1 - E.15 are auseful additional record of Taylor's family, career, travels and
The numerous photographs in
interests.
Probably the most widely known of Taylor's achievements is the CQR anchor.
Material relating to this can be found in A.157, A.160, B.6, C.22, C.23, C.79,
D.26, D.63, E.14.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
As will be clear from the foregoing, the essential debt is owed to G.K.
Batchelor.
The assembling, ordering and identification of many of the items in
the collection are primarily due to his expert knowledge, and his personal affection
for Taylor.
REFERENCES
originals of letters from Taylor which appear in Section D.
(Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , 22, 1976, pp. 565-633)
and is given in the form: Batchelor, Memoir, p...
The main reference throughout is to the Memoir written by Batchelor
Thanks are also due to those correspondents who made available copies or
IV vol., C.U.P. are given in the form (SP....).
References to The scientific papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor, ed. G.K. Batchelor,
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.1- A.174
A.1
A.11
Biographical and autobiographical
material
Career and appointments
Honours and Awards
Letters of congratulation
Family papers and correspondence
(the Taylor family, A.79 - A.104)
(the Boole family,
A.105 - A.134) eT
Personal correspondence
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Biographical and personal
Biographical and autobiographical material
Manuscript and published articles, notes and information
about G.|. Taylor, presented in chronological order.
'The Hintons visit English relatives’,
23 pp. typescript account by Carmelita Hinton (Taylor's
cousin by marriage, see index) with a ms. note ‘Written
for friends for Xmas 1924', and ams. note by Batchelor
"Sent to Stephanie Ravenhill.
Part 2 describes a cruise
on "Frolic with G.1.T.
as skipper'
The party included 'Aunt Maggie’ (Taylor's mother),
‘another cousin Ursula’ [Nettleship, see A.1617,
a'Dr. Adrian'LE.D. Adriand and 'The O'Malleys' [see
A.163].
'Sir Geoffrey Taylor! (Monthly Science News, 1945).
9 pp. ms. biographical notes on Taylor (to c. 1945) by
Stephanie Taylor, 1954.
to do what
'Close-up.
Sir Geoffrey Taylor' (Trinity Review, 1964).
a profile’, by T. Griffiths (Trinity Review,
'The man who was paid to do no work' (Preliminary notice
'G.|. Taylor.
(Surveys
in Mechanics, C.U.P., 1956).
Abiographical note’, by R.V. Southwell
‘Sir Geoffrey Taylor.
His life's rule:
interests him' (New Scientist, 1957).
‘An Interview with Sir Geoffrey Taylor', by D.B. Spalding
(The Chartered Mechanical Engineer, 1962).
1975.
of Scientific Papers, ed. G.K. Batchelor, C.U.P., 1971).
'G.1. Taylor -
1972).
See also A.11.
Obituary, The Times, 1975.
Order of Memorial service,
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Biographical and personal
'An unfinished dialogue with G.1. Taylor', by
G.K. Batchelor (J. Fluid Mech., 1975).
'Geoffrey Ingram Taylor', by G.K. Batchelor Bio-
graphical Memoirs of Fellows
of the Royal Society,
Pay N9EGy.
'G.1. Taylor as
(Advances
in
| knew him', by G.K. Batchelor
Applied Mechanics, 1976).
Press-cuttings about Taylor and his activities.
Not sorted or indexed.
Autobiographical notes and writings.
Taylor's 'Green Book’ (Personal records of Fellows of the
Royal Society), with entries by him and by Lady Taylor
(last entry 1973).
extracts compiled by Taylor mainly from his father's
Ms,
diaries (indicated as 'EIT') but occasionally from his
mother's (‘MT') referring to family affairs and especially to
the early years of Geoffrey (nicknamed 'B') and Julian ('b').
Some comments or notes have been added by Taylor.
The entries cover the period 1889-1908.
Misc. requests for biographical information, interviews, etc.
Includes correspondence with:
Ms. autobiographical account by Taylor of his family,
childhood, school and student period, and early sailing
adventures, up to 1913.
3
pp. ms. account by Taylor of his main scientific research
interests, 1919-34; written for Science and Humanity Year-
book, 1971.
M. Slocombe (BBC Sound Archives)
M. Deacon (taped interviews with Taylor)
T. Griffiths (his profile of Taylor, see A.4)
J. Hanson (history of Royal Acronautical
J.1. Beck
J.S. Bunt (Taylor's bequest of his portrait to
1969
Glenn Vivian Art Gallery,
Swansea)
Establishment, etc.)
R. MacLeod (Taylor's papers)
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Biographical and personal
Career and Appointments
A.12-A.14
University College School, London (Taylor attended
the school, then in Gower Street, 1899-1905).
A.12
Testimonials to Taylor, 1905,from:
H.J. Spenser, H. Sydney Jones, A. Kahn (all
University College School) and J.L. Paton (formerly
of the school, but later High Master, Manchester
Grammar School).
Four letters from J.L. Paton to Taylor's parents, about
Julian and Geoffrey Taylor, 1899-1910.
One letter to Taylor, congratulating him on his scholar-
ship at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1905.
(The letter
is addressed to 'Dear Herr Kapit&n', and all the corres~
pondence is warm and affectionate. )
Letters from A. McFadyean with reminiscences of the
school, 1965, 1969 (2 letters).
Letter from headmaster, 1973.
A.17-A.23
Correspondence and papers, April-July 1911.
He received many letters from his
Letter from N.B. Michell to Taylor's parents, on his
prospects of obtaining a Fellowship at Trinity, 1909.
Letter of congratulation to Taylor on his election to a
Prize Fellowship at Trinity, from 'Your respectful
Paw',
1910.
Award of B.Sc. (External), with First Class Honours in
Mathematics, University of London (Certificate only),
1908.
(signed 'Missus'), aunt Alice Stott, cousin Mary Stott.
Taylor spent several months in Linford Sanatorium, Ringwood,
with a lung infection.
family and friends, mainly personal, but some including
news of Cambridge.
There are no surviving letters from
Taylor for this period.
Letters from Taylor's parents, E.1. Taylor (usually dated)
and M. Taylor (undated, signed 'M').
Letters from Taylor's family: grandmother, Mary Boole
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Biographical and personal
Jetters from E.D. Adrian, May-June 1911
4
Tripos, and misc. news from Cambridge).
(on Adrian's
Letters from friends and colleagues at Cambridge:
M. Brophy
T. Knox Shaw
J. Meek
H.V.T. Thompson (2 letters)
C.T.R. Wilson
M. Wynne-Jones
Letters from N.B. Michell.
Misc. letters from friends (not itemised or indexed).
'The Treasure of Linford’.
XVII and XVIII of a humorous story written
Chapters I,
by Taylor and others during his illness at Linford Sanatorium.
(Chapters | and XVII are in Taylor's hand, Chapter XVIII
in another's.)
Misc. items of biographical interest, 1911.
Includes:
‘ Letter from shipyard at Ipswich re Taylor's boat
'Elaine' (with photographs).
Misc. invitations, social engagements, etc.
Misc. items of biographical interest, 1914-1918.
Letter of appointment as Sublector in Physics,
Trinity College, Cambridge, and letter re
Taylor's rooms.
of Soap Films in Engineering’, 19 April).
Letter announcing award of Adams Prize to Taylor,
1710.
See
Notice of Friday Discourses at the Royal Institution,
1918 (Major G.I. Taylor lectured on 'The Use
Includes:
Notice of course of lectures on Meteorology
given by Taylor at the Cavendish Laboratory, 1914.
also C.2.
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Biographical and personal
Scientific and personal correspondence, 1915, from:
J.W. Bush
H. Lamb
H. Ayrton
R.A. Herman (fragment only)
Misc. documents relating to First World War.
Includes:
'Captain Paine came in just after you
Letter from War Office, 6 August 1914.
This reads:
left and tells me that you have considerable
experience in scientific instruments - you could
probably help us a good deal at the Royal Aircraft
Factory* where there is plenty of very interesting
scientific work going on’.
See Batchelor, Memoir, pp.574-575.
* renamed Royal Aircraft Establishment from
April 1918.
Taylor's Commission in Royal Flying Corps,
1915.
Particulars of his training as pilot,
‘but has not
passed in Gunnery, or in Certificate A', 1917.
Letter of demobilisation, with rank of Major, 1920.
A. 28
Bill of Sale to Taylor of 'Frolic',
correspondence, 1921, and re_
1923, and some related
salvage claim, 1924.
A. 28- A, 30
Misc. items on sailing, 1921-68.
See A.1 for a-description of a cruise in 'Frolic' in 1923
and her running aground at Coll.
Included here is ams. copy of a poem by Ivor
Gurney 'To Certain Comrades (E.S. and J.H.)'
(not in Taylor's hand).
19724
Includes correspondence with Eleanor Megaw (daughter of
Sir William Hardy) 1960, 1967-68, and with Rose Bell
(daughter of Sir George Thomson) re commemorative Volume
for Thomson's 80th birthday, to which Taylor contributed,
Also included is
a note byBatchelor 'probably after their cruise to the
Lofoten Islands in 1927'.
a letter to Stephanie Taylor, n.d., with
Later correspondence on 'Frolic' and on recollections of
sailing companions, especially the 'Coddy' of Barra.
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Biographical and personal
A.30
Misc. items re boat servicing and equipment for boat
hired by Taylor, 1964.
A.31-A, 37
Journey to Borneo, 1929 (and later material).
Taylor was invited to represent H.M. Government at the
4th Pacific Science Congress in the Netherlands East
Indies in May 1929.
He and Stephanie Taylor took the opportunity to
explore the interior of Borneo.
Pp
See Batchelor, Memoir, p.585.
See E.16 for film of visit to Japan, made on the same
occasion.
Ms. lecture on journey, by Taylor, to be accompanied
by slides and film.
9 pp. + 4 pp. notes on slides.
Included here is letter of invitation to attend Congress
as H.M. Government representative, and letters of
invitation from friends in Japan, 1929,
Ms. talk on journey, by Stephanie Taylor.
1964.
film
A.35 includes (loose) signed photograph of Rajah of Sarawak.
Misc. later material on volcanic explosions.
'A journey through Borneo', talk by Stephanie Taylor.
1] pp. typescript and ms.
Paginated 2-18, but talk begins on p.2 and there
is no missing page.
3 notebooks containing diary and photographs of journey
all
in Stephanie Taylor's hand.
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Folder includes ms., translation of Pliny's letters on the
eruption of Vesuvius, made for Taylor by the Archbishop
of New Zealand, 1947, and brief correspondence re
of Tristan da Cunha eruption,
Taylor's interest in long gravity waves was aroused by a
visit to Krakatau during the 1929 Congress (see Batchelor,
Memoir, p.585).
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Biographical and personal
Misc. items of biographical interest,
grag
1930.
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Includes:
Letter of appointment as H.M. Government's
representative, Third International Congress of
Applied Mechanics, Stockholm, 1930.
Letter re 'supply of metallurgists’.
Nomination to Council cf Royal Society.
Also includes a letter from a friend to Stephanie Taylor.
'Farmfield'.
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lived for the remainder of their lives.
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Includes:
Final itemised account for building of house, 1931.
Correspondence re sale of Taylor's previous
house to J.A. Ratcliffe, 1930.
Account for sale of part of J.E. Lennard- Jones's
garden to Taylor, 1934.
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Later correspondence re alterations,
etc., 1964, 1967.
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Journey to Canada, 1933.
Misc. items of biographical interest, 1934-35, 1943.
Letter from J.L. Paton, addressed to 'Dear
Geoffrey of yore’,
1934.
Includes correspondence re arrangements for exploration in
the Rocky Mountains, and a letter from Taylor to his mother,
written on board ship (mainly re visit to Liverpool for Hon.
Degree).
Taylor for Petroleum Warfare Department in 1943,
Letter from Director-General, Petroleum Warfare
Departmént, informing Taylor of the first successful
use of the device FIDO to disperse fog on airfields,
and thanking him for his work which was 'a major
factor', December 1943.
Letters from E.H. Lamb, and W.R.M. Lamb,
thanking Taylor for his obituary notice of their
father, Sir Horace Lamb, in Nature, 1935,
See Batchelor, Memoir, p.604 for later applications
of this work.
See C.39-C.43 for reports and papers prepared by
Letter from H.E. Wimperis, 1935.
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Biographical and personal
Taylor's 70th birthday, March 1956.
Arrangements and seating plan for dinner in Taylor's
honour, at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Letters and telegrams of congratulation (not indexed).
Only a relatively small number have survived.
Misc. financial matters.
Correspondence re
grants, 1963-64, 1973.
Taylor's Royal Society research
The correspondence in 1963-64 refers to Mr. W.E. Thompson,
who had been Taylor's assistant and technician since 1923.
See Batchelor, Memoir, p.581.
Misc. letters re fees and consultancies, 1965-73.
See also D.97.
Correspondence re bequests to Trinity College, Cambridge,
1965.
Taylor's own calculations, che ques, ‘Valuations’ of
his and his wife's estate at various dates.
Misc. receipts, fees, royalties, etc.
Includes a photocopy of Taylor's will.
Correspondence with Peters, Elworthy & Moore (Taylor's
accountants), 1965-75.
Correspondence with Francis & Company (Taylor's solicitors)
re wills, annuities, Power of Attorney held during Stephanie
Taylor's illness, 1964-74.
1968-75.
Correspondence with H.
& R. Wagner (Taylor's stockbrokers),
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Biographical and persona
Mise. later items of biographical interest.
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Correspondence re
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Telegram of greet ing from conference
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Group letter of greeting for birthday, 19
Letter from Taylor to Bertha Jeffreys, which begins:
'Thank you so much for coming in and relieving my bore-
dom for an hour today', and continuing with a
scientific speculation on hydraulic resistance.
The letter tails off, and was never sent.
is undated,
but may be one of the last he wrote and is characteristic
of Taylor's unquenchable scientific curiosity and his
fight against increasing physical disability.
It
Misc. correspondence and documents, mainly medical.
Misc. invitations, social engagements and shorter personal
correspondence (not indexed).
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Biographical and personal
Honours and Awards
Letters, documents, printed matter, etc. re honours, awards
and medals.
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The material is listed chronologically, and corres-
pondents are
indexe
A list of Taylor's honours, compiled
by G.K. Batchelor:for his Memoir and with many later
additions in his hand, is enclosed with A.54;
it should be
noted that documentation has not always survived and the
entries below do not constitute a complete account of the
many honours and awards received by Taylor.
D.Sc. University of Liverpool
(programme of events)
University of British Columbia
(programme of events)
See also E.9
(letter of election)
(letter of election)
King's Silver Jubilee Medal
D.Sc. University of Oxford
Knighthood
(correspondence)
Royal Medal, Royal Society
(letter of award, citation)
(programme of events, oration, press~cuttings)
Hon. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
(letter and press-cutting)
Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
Copley Medal, Royal Society
(press~cutting)
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Biographical and personal
Correspo onc
lant, Académie des Sciences, Paris
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(lc atter of election)
D.Sc. University of London
(programme of events, citation)
U.S. Medal for Merit
(citation, printed material, correspondence re
(presentation)
Hon. Member, Institute of Metals
(letter to Stephanie Taylor, 1955)
Hon. Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society
(letter of election)
Hon. Member, Calcutta Mathematical Society
(letter to Stephanie Taylor, 1955)
Hon. Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
D.Sc. University of Birmingham
(programme of events)
LI.D. University of oe
(Laureation Addresses)
Gold Medal, Royal Aeronautical Society
Exner Medal, Osterreicher Gewerbeverein
(letter of election)
Member, American Philosophical Society
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(letter of election)
Hon. Member, Institution of Civil Engineers
lodkesohaarica re election and presentation)
Hon. Degree, University of Cambridge
(programme of events, citation)
Foreign Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
(letter of election and Taylor's draft letter of
acceptance)
of thank s)
Timoshenko Medal; American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
(correspondence re election and presentation, citation)
This was the first award of the Panetti Prize.
(correspondence re award and presentation, citation,
published Report of Proceedings with laylor's speech
Panetti Prize and Medal, Academia delle Scienze, Turin
D.Sc. University of
Br istol
(programme of events)
(letter of award)
Kelvin Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers
1959
1959
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Biographical and personal
A.60
Hon. Degree, University of Paris
(citation)
Trasenter
Medal, University of Lié
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(letter of award, citation)
Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
(citation, published Report of Proceedings, photographs
of the award showing Taylor, W. Lepage (President,
Franklin Institute), W. von Braun (Director, Space
Flight Center).
Another photograph is
in E.12.
Albert Sauveur Achievement Award, American Institute
of Metals
1962
(copy of Metals Review with details and interview
with Taylor,
The award was presented via Telstar.
See also E.12.)
Platinum Medal, Institute of Metals
(press-cutting)
Hon. Fellow, Institute of Physics and the Physical Society
(letter of election)
Hon. Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico,
Milan
(letter of election)
Foreign Member, Academia delle Scienze, Turin
(letters of election)
Hon, Member, Mathematical Society of Cork
(letter of election, referring to George Boole)
James Watt International Gold Medal, Institution of
Mechanical Engineers
letter from Taylor)
Hon. D.Sc. University of Michigan, as part of a program
'The Voices of Civilization’ to mark 150th anniversary
of university
(letter)
See also D.99.
(list of Members)
See A.69-A.77 for correspondence re this honour.
Von Karman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers
1969
Foreign Member, USSR Academy of Sciences
1966
(telegrams)
Order of Merit
(letter of award, citation)
(correspondence, including ms.
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D.Sc. Colorado State
(letter of award)
University
Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
(letters of award and congratulation, and re Taylor's
lecture at
See also C.80.
a symposium
in Poland).
Von Karman Prize,
Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied
1972
(letter of award, citation and biographical material)
Taylor was the first recipient of the Von Kérm4Gn Prize.
See also A.78
Paul Bergsge Medal, Danish Metallurgical Society
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(letter)
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A.65-4A.78
Letters of congratulation
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are only a partial and random sample of Taylor's original postbhag.
The remaining leiters, however, testify to the esteem and
affection in which he was held, and his unassuming approach
to honours and awards.
The Royal Medal, Royal Society
1933
In alphabetical order, with some unidentified at end.
Hon, D.Sc. Oxford
(one letter only)
The Copley Medal, Royal Society
Order of Merit
(one letter only)
The Symons Medal, Royal Meteorological Society
Correspondence with Buckingham Palace re award
and presentation of Order
Taylor's ms. list of those who had sent congratulation,
and carbons of his replies to some.
separately by Taylor from the letters he received,
some of which are in the folders below.
W - Z and unidentified.
These were kept
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Folder includ ss correspondence re award of Prize
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letters of congrat
See also A. 64,
G. Le Taylor
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Biographical and pe
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Family papers and correspondence
Taylor was descended, through his mother, from George Boole,
thor
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whose five daughters maintained a strong sense of family.
Taylor
inherited this,
as well as various documents, mementos and
photographs, including some
relating to his father's family (A.80).
He became, in the course of time,
holder of documents concerning
various family estates on the death of relations (A.117-A. 122)
and contributed to various celebrations of
Boole which occurred
during his own lifetime (A.107-A.113, E.17).
The many letters
from nephews and nieces of varying degrees, and of more remote
cousinage (esp. A.100, A.103, A.104, A.123-A.134) indicate
his wish to keep in touch with his family, and the mutual affection
and understanding felt by and for people of very different
generations and background.
A.79-A.104
A.105-A.134
The material is presented as follows:
A plan of the paternal lineage of Taylor,
kindly furnished by G.K. Batchelor, is
included as a guide (A.79).
Material relating to the Taylor family,
including Taylor's paternal relations, his
parents and brother, and his wife Stephanie
(née Ravenhill).
and Taylor families.
Material relating to the Boole family,
and to various financial and property affairs
of members of the Boole family (including
Taylor's mother) in which Taylor was concerned,
A family tree of the descendants of William
and Alice Boole (photocopy supplied by G.K.
Batchelor) is included as a guide (A. 105)
See also E.1, E.2 for photos graphs of members of the Boole
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Biographical and persona
Paternal lineage of Taylor.
(Photocopy supplied by G.K. Batchelor)
Misc. documents re Taylor family.
bur
Birth, marriage, death,
Photographs of Taylor's grandparents (some identified
Ores.
ce
1
by Stephanie Taylor on verso).
(Earliest date 1777)
Misc. documents relating to James Taylor, paternal grand-
father of Taylor;
of the information was obtained by G.K. Batchelor from the
Foundling Hospital, now called the Thomas Coram Foundation
for Children, London.
James Taylor was a foundling and some
(These are photocopies of the original documents,
which are now held by the Thomas Coram Foundation. )
Misc. family correspondence.
Includes:
Various letters exchanged between Taylor's
parents, some dated by Batchelor, 1893,
1895.
Letter from Alice Stott (née Boole), 1895, to
her sister, Margaret Taylor.
2 letters from Trinity, c.1905.
A.84-A, 100
Material relating to Stephanie Taylor.
Letter re Geoffrey Taylor, 1913.
Includes:
Very early letter about sailing, n.d., c.1896.
2 letters from M. Hinton to Margaret Taylor,
1895, 1896
3 letters written from S.S. 'Scotia', June-July 1913.
Letters from H.J. Spenser re Julian Taylor's
education, 1906.
Letters exchanged between Taylor and his parents, various
dates, c. 1896-1925.
August 1925.
The marriage was very happy, Stephanie Taylor sharing
her husband's interests in sailing and travel.
She died
in 1967 after three years of increasing incapacity during
which Taylor helped care for her, and accepted many
restrictions on his own activity (see A.98),
Taylor married Grace Stephanie Francis Ravenhill in
1925, when he was 39.
Letters from Taylor to Stephanie Ravenhill, August 1924=
Other misc. letters and greetings,
1919,
1925.
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Letters from Stephanie Ravenhill to Taylor, October 1924-
August 1925.
The last letter:
immediately before
A.86-A.97
Letters from Tay
Mainly written when he was away at confer nces or symposia,
They
ne sonal and scientific information
contain
PS
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headed 'Frolic' or other boats.
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1727,
1930,
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934, 1935
1944, 1945
(all from various addresses in USA)
1942,
1946
1948 (lecture tour in USA)
1948 (visit to Australia, etc.)
1957
1958
1959 (USA)
195i
1952 (USA, Guernsey, Istanbul)
1953, 1954 (sailing on 'Guiding Light')
1955 (Madrid)
1956 (final cruise on 'Guiding Light’)
ao:
1960 (New Mexico)
1961 (France)
1962 (USA)
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(not indexed).
Biographical and
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1967
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declining
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of his wife
excep
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a Pugwash Conference because
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The letter concludes: 'In fact
sIfilling an engagement in 1965 which | had
invitation to
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Letters from Lewis and Dolly Graham (friends of Stephanie
Taylor), 1964-72.
Mainly personal.
.
Included here its
the Grahams by Stephanie Taylor
seriously ill.
a
[i
oe letter writfen December 1964 to
before she be
Letters to and from Bess Rosenthal (Stephanie
Taylor's sister) and her family (son Michael,
m. Molly, and their children, and daughter
Margaret), c. 1951-73.
Bess Rosenthal died in 1971 but the family
continued to write to 'dear Uncle G'.
uv
Fine Art Society
Includes correspondence from:
(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
M. Hardie (Victoria and Albert Museum), 1931-33
C. Dodgson (Dept. of Prints and Drawings, British Museum)
Material relating to Edward Ingrem Taylor (Toylor's futher)
je
Mainly letters to Margaret Taylor re presentation of
drawings and paintings by her husband to various museums
and galleries, 1931-35.
1961.
Press~cuttings, and order of Memorial Service
after death of Julian Taylor,
Material relating to Julian Taylor (Taylor's brother
A curriculum vitae of Edward Taylor is also included.
Letters to Taylor from Julian, 1919, 1956-61
Letter to Julian from W.B.L. Trotter,
Includes:
1914
G.1|. Taylor
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A.103, A.104
Material relating
nephews).
_
to Simon and James Taylor (Taylor's
é
Taylor's sons),
their wives
and other interested parties, c.1961-73.
Simon and
James Taylor (Julian
e
the
Some of
years, and
and education
abor
letters
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1 information about
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Taylor's last
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A.103
re Simon Taylor and f
See also D.91
re James (Jim) Taylor
Family tree of the descendants of William ond Alice Boole.
(Photocopy supplied by G.K. Batchelor)
Misc. genealogical
notes on the Boole family (to 1879).
Includes:
Misc. items relating to George Boole.
2 autograph signatures of George Boole.
Notes of various items relating to Boole in the
possession of the Taylor family.
Notes for a family tree by Taylor, with ams. footnote 'notes
of talk between GIT and E.L. Voynich, May 1952'.
Boole.
List of items relating to Boole left at 'Farmfield'
at Taylor's death, and their disposition (compiled
by G.K. Batchelor).
List of material presented by Taylor to the Royal
Irish Academy, May 1954,
Press-cuttings re
G.1. Taylor
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Biographical and personal
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Centenary of publication of Boole
ae
ae
's 'The Laws of Thought',
1954.
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2
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Material relating to the celebration of the occasion ot
the
Royal Irish Academy, at which Taylor gave a talk 'George
Boole and his family connexions'.
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Includes:
Invitation to attend, programme of events.
Letter from W.C. Kneale on Boole's poetry.
Letter from H.B. Hartley re Taylor's article.
A.108-A.113
Centenary of death of Boole, 1964.
Misc. material relating to the event, and especially to
celebrations at Lincoln (Boole's birthplace), at which Taylor
gave an address on 'The Life of George Boole’.
The meeting, held on 7 November 1964 at the City School,
Lincoln, was a joint meeting of the Mathematical Association,
Lincolnshire Branch and the Lincolnshire Local History Society;
an exhibition of Booleana was shown at the Central Library,
7-21 November.
See also C.63 for a manuscript of Taylor's address, and E.17
for a tape recording.
A.108
A.111
A.110
A.109
J.C. Faull (City School, Lincoln).
D. Traviss (Mathematical Association, Lincolnshire Brdfich).
Taylor's lecture, journey to Lincoln, loan of Booleana, etc. from:
A.108-A.110 Preliminary correspondence re meeting, arrangements for
Misc. enquiries re
in preparation for his biographical talk at Lincoln, 1964.
Boole's life and family made by Taylor
F.T. Baker (City of Lincoln Libraries) (one of these letters has
ms. notes and calculations by Taylor on verso).
1964 and 19
Photographs of unveiling of commemorative plaque by
Taylor, and of members of the Boole family assembled for the
occasion (identified on verso by Gabrielle Boole).
Correspondence re_
by Taylor on the occasion of the Centenary, 1964, with:
portraits or drawings of Boole, presented
Programme of events at Boole Centenary Celebrations (2 copies).
E.F. O'Docherty (University College, Dublin)
J.O'Malley (Royal Irish Academy)
M.A. MacConaill (University
Dts Piper (National Portrai
(not indexed)
College, Cork)
patter
G.I. Taylor
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:
Correspondence from A.P. Rollett,
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of iotte
1968, a task was taken over y his son,
correspondence continues to Decembe
which Rollett was writing. af
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1964-67,
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a biography
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M. Rollett, and
Some of the letters from J.M. Rollett bear ms. annotations
re material,by G.K. Batchelor
Misc. correspondence re George Boole and his family.
1962-67
Includes ms.
Professor Schoute
letter
Letters from
K. Murray
N.T. Gridgeman (writings on Boole)
B. Harrison (with photographs of Booleana)
H.W. Gould
G.F. Heaney (on Robert Everest)
by Taylor)
K. Lonsdale
W.B. Lewis
Photocopy.
1969-74
H.S.M. Coxeter)
E. Avak (Mary Boole)
R.H. True (Alice Stott)
exhibition of Alice Stott's models
J.H.H. Merriman (new letters of George Boole)
M.G. Kendall (request for article on Boole to be written
Correspondence addressed to Margaret Taylor and Alice Stott .
Material relating to the estate and financial affairs of members
of the Boole family, including Margaret Taylor.
Will of Mary Boole (widow of George Boole), 1913.
estate of Alfred Wing Everest
In chronological order
H.G. Hopkins
A.117-A,. 122
Re
1929-34,
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Biographical and personal
Re estate of Edward Ingram Taylor,
1923.
Correspondence addressed
Correspondence re Margaret Taylor's financial
affairs,
1929-34,
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Many of these are annotated by her, or bear a note ‘answered’,
in the manner of Taylor who may have acquired it from his
mother.
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Re estate of Margaret Taylor,
19%
35
A signed passport photograph of Margaret Taylor is included
here.
Re
estate of Wal er
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(widower o
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A. 123-A, 134
Correspondence with members of the Boole family.
The correspondence is presented in alphabetical order, dated
and with a brief indication of any moterial of particular interest.
Some guidance is given about family relationships, especially
where these are obscured by the alphabetical sequence.
Gabrielle Boole, 1962-73
Robert Boole, 1964-65, 1969
A fuller family tree is included in A.105.
Includes 2 letters from Rex Boole (brother of Gabrielle).
(great grand-daughter of William Boole, brother of
George Boole).
All these letters contain some information about members of
the Boole family, past and present, as well as personal news.
One letter only.
(great grandson of Charles Boole, brother of George
Boole)
(grand-daughter of Charles Boole above).
Sister Rosemary (Boole), 1965
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Bi iographic a |
Carmelita Hinton, 1937, 1964-75.
Carmelita (née Chase) was the widow of Sebasi
son of Mary Boole.
Taylor and his close contemporary (b.1890).
Hintor
Hinton,
She was hee a cousin by marriage to
ian
rk
ROK)
The 1937 letter is addressed from Putney, Vermont,
’
but many
Y
others are from her Pennsy!
are from various addresses in China which she
where Mrs. Hinton ran a school;
home,
frequently visited,
'Fanshen' on land reform in China, and her daughter Joan
settled there.
idealistic American family is well illustrated in these letters.
he impact of Chinese culture and ideas on an
and always admired.
Her son William wrote
q
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There is
a letter from Taylor dated 7 May 1969 in the
sequence, and letters from sithied members of es family.
See also A.1, A.127, A.128.
Howard Everest Hinton, 1964, 1972.
(grandson of Mary Hinton, née Boole, daughter of George
Boole)
and Margaret Hinton, 1973.
j
Jean Rosner, 1963-75.
Some fegily papers remain in
Joan Hinton (Han Chun), 1958-72.
that of October 1964 discusses the wide
(daughter of Carmelita Hinton ~ see A. 125)
(daughter of Carmelita Hinton - see A, 125)
H.E. Hinton FRS died in 1977.
charge of Dr. J. Hinton, Department of History, University
of Warwick, to whom enquiries should be addressed.
Letters from China;
readership of E,L. Voynich's novel The Gadfly in China.
letter re poetry of George Boole.
Includes some letters from Steven Rosner (husband), Marni
(daughter) and Ted (son),
E.L. Voynich with ms. annotations by
Mrs. Voynich, and
a pre-publication notice of William Hinton's 'Fanshen: A
documentary of revolution in
Includes also letters from Mary Stott
press~cutting of the obituary of Leonard Stc
a letter from Jean Rosner to
a Chinese Village’, 1966.
(daughter of ‘George Boole)
Alice Stott (née Boole)
a
1954,
1), anda
family grave, n.d.
1
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1
letter only,
re
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A.130
Jean Stott, 1963-73.
(wife of Leonard Stott)
A.131
Ethel Lilian Voynich (née Boole),
(daughter of George Boole)
?
5 APSO.
1954,
F956,
f
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.
£
Letter of 1925 is to Stephanie Ravenhill, with advice and
plans for her and Taylor's garden.
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:
Letters of 1954 contain recollections
George Boole.
Includes also a copy of E.L. Voynich's Wi
cutting on her death in 1960 at the age of
a
/
and a press-
I
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O.
Re
E.L. Voynich,
1960-69.
Includes:
Correspondence with Anne Nill (Mrs. Voynich's
companion) with an account of her death.
Correspondence with Winifred Gaye, 1961-69
(‘who though not legally adopted by me has always
been considered by me as a daughter’ according
g
to Mrs. Voynich's Will).
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Correspondence re Mrs. Voynich's estate and
portrait.
I
Re
Ethel Whittingham, 1965.
Misc. correspondence re
E.L. Voynich, requests for information, etc.
articles or biographies about
E.L. Voynich, 1961-73.
Includes a long letter from Taylor correcting errors in an
article about Mrs. Voynich, published in the Princeton University
Library Chronicle, 1967 (see also A.136).
(descendant of Susanna Chalmer, aunt of George Boole)
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Taylor
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Biographical and personal.
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Personal correspondence
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Most of the letters date from c.1966-74,
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Their survival is due to random chance.
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Much of the correspondence, though relatively trivial,
is not without interest.
It shows Taylor's constant plans for
/
travel and activity, the continuing invitations and social links,
the lifelong affection in which he was held, and - by implication -
his own promptness and lightness of touch in maintaining his
own side of the correspondence.
Because
Taylor did not keep
routine copies of his letters, however,
the
items below consist
of incoming letters only,
7
some of them bearing ams. note ‘ans.'
uv
indicating that a reply had been made.
The material is presented alphabetica
a brief indication of any information of particular biographical
1973
folders.
Adams, H.M.
Allibone, T.E.
or historical interest.
in the Index of Correspondents.
The names of all identified correspondents appear
Shorter exchanges are grouped together in the folders;
more substantial correspondence has been placed in individual
n.d. probably 1968
1969, 1973 (Jubilee of Taylor's
1970 (re Mikhail Voynich)
Bakerian Lecture)
See also D.83
Barker, N.J.
Anderson, T.
Borryy: RE. fi
Bowden, M.
1972
Bird,
1969
1964
A.
G.1. Taylor
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Brown, V.
1969-73 (includes rec
Sir William
yt lec
*¢
arren
Burkill, J.C.
Busemann, A,
n.d.
1974
(and a letter
70th birthday celebration)
1971 re Buseman
See also E.13
Cadbury, L.J.
IFzs
Cars hi. 0
oa.
1971-73
Carrier, G.F.
1967
Chabot, €. J:
1971 (recollections of work at Farnborough)
Cherry, O.
1949 (to Stephanie Taylor), 1964-74
Olive Cherry was the widow of Sir Thomas Cherry FRS
(d.1964), and the correspondence includes recollections
of their long friendship with the Taylors, and of other
scientists.
Clarke, H.T.
Clarke, F.
1963-70
1971-74
in 1970
Also included is correspondence 1973 with Clarke's
sister Rebecca Friskin,
Clarke's experiments with tear gas.
on early recollections of
)
'
He became ill
See also A. 159.
Hans Clarke had been a schook fellow of Taylor at
University College School.
and died in 1972, _ the correspondence being
continued by his wife Flora,
Biology, Philadelphia.
Note:
A collection of Clarke's notebooks, papers
and correspondence (including ¢.30 letters from Taylor
1955-72) is deposited at the American Philosophical
Society Library, Philadelphia.
An outline description
of the collection can be found in the Survey of Sources
Newsletter, May 1977, pp.12-13, of the Survey of ;
Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular
G.1. Taylor
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(recollec
of L.V. King
Conway,
Corrsin;,
5
Grickp Rsk :C,
Darwin, K.
Davidson, K.
Davidson, A.
and
De Navarro, T.
1974
Den Hartog, J. and
Den Hartog,
E.
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1971-74
Evans,
U.R.
1965, 1973-74
Farren, M.A.
1967-73
Gardner, M.
1972
Goldschmidt, V.W.
Gordoh.. 5,
Hansard, D.
1972
1972
na,
1967
1974
Hoff N.J.
Granfield, M.
Hawthorne, E.
Hill, M. and
Thompson, H.
1965-74 (re material for a projected
biography of Geoffrey Hill;
includes early photographs of
sailing in 'Frolic', c.1931)
Includes correspondence 1972 with D. Cole.
Ella Knight was the widow of A.H. J. Knight
colleague of Taylor at Trinity College, anc
sailor,
1971 (book on aeronautical history)
Kennedy, L.A.
Holttum,
R.E.
f
Keenan, J.H.
1969
1965
1972
Knight, E.
1965-75
G.1.
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Biographical and
Koiter, W.T.
Kovasznay,
Lapthorn, M.
Mabel Lapthorn stuc
been a stron
ATAacMMenr perween
nl
tt
em in eal ‘ly yea ars,
and Miss Lopth orn remained a faithful and assiduous
oul
i re seems te ete
correspondent, though it will be seen that only a small
proportion of ha
letters survives.
X
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1
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1915 (includes a letter from Mrs. G.M. Lapthorn (mother
of Mabel), September 1915)
1961-69
970-75
Ledesma, E.M. de
1972 (recollections of early flying)
Lloyd, D
1972
1959-64
Levetus, J.
McKerrow, G.
Jill Levetus was an old family friend,
pondence refers to the portrait of E.L. Voynich in
her possession.
and the corres-
Y
r
1933 (one letter), 1962-75
George McKerrow had collaborated with Taylor and
Farren in The 'CQR' Anchor company, in which he
was mainly responsible for manufacture and marketing.
He was also a keen sailor, and on retirement from
Metropolitan-Vickers he settled at Glencaird and
maintained a regular correspondence with Taylor whom
he addressed as 'Skipper'.
'Jock'.
pondence on his side, but none of his letters are preserved.
VafzZ, 974
The ioe letter discusses the manufacture and testing
of the
'CQR' Anchor, and there are references to this
and ace matters passim in the later corre: spondence
is clear that Taylor kept up the corres~
His own letters are signed
MacPhail, D.C.
MacCready, J.
1924
It
Maclean,
Cc. I
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1972
G. te
Taylor
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Biographical
‘
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Middlet on,
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Dora Middleton was the sister
of H.T. Clarke
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(see A, 142) Qna WIGOW OF
ld
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Tatra oon
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/ ier al Vervase
Morgan, M.
Morris, J.H.C.
Mott, N.F.
Nettleship,
Pr
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24
(mainly
see A.1), 1962
re
¥
cruise on 'Frolic!
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Oatley, C.W.
Oliphant, M.L.E.
O'Malley, M.
1924-75
Lady O'Malley published extensively under the
name Ann Bridge.
'My dear Skipper' and signed ‘Mary Anne'.
Her letters to Taylor are addressed
?
the last
friend of Taylor.
y
g
Sir Owen served at the
a poem (1924) in praise of Taylor's
And last | praise the Frolic
That academic boat!
Her lockers alcoholic
The O'Malleys had been on the 1924 cruise in 'Frolic!
(see A.1) and Mrs. (later Lady) O'Malley remained a
lifelong
British Legation, Peking, and letters of 1926 contain
descriptions of life and travel in China.
Included also is
Royal Society Yarrow Research Professorship;
‘stanza runs:
Part Nee N.
The crews she keeps afloat!
Worthy, though comically manned
For ever may she be
Of G., Sir Alfred Yarrow and
The Royal Society!
There is also a letter,
about the death of her parents,
1974, from Jane O'Malle
1963 (on C.G. Darwin)
Pantin, C.F.A,
Parry, V. and
1963-75 (on sailing)
Rossi,
B.
Rosenheim, M.L.
Roskill, S.W.
Rouse, H.
Salt,
G.
Schlapp, R.
Scott, P.A.J.
Sears, W.R.
1972
1966, 1972-75
1972
1972
1968
1970
1973
Sheldon, C. and
Sheldon, P.
1967-74
Carol and Pau! Sheldon were American friends, met
through Kay and Anne Davidson (see
A.145).
Smith, R.
R.V. and
1970-72
Simpson, J.A.
Sutfon, O.G.
Skimmins, S.G,
Stewart, R.W.
Southwell,
Southwell, |.W.W.
] 974
1973 (recollections of the Wedgwooc
Vander Werff, T.J.
Welbourn, D.B.
Wedgwood, C.V.
1970
1966
1954
1972
Nilliams-Ellis
1972,
1973
Wilson, S.C,
1970
Temple, G.
1965,
1974
family)
1972
1970
Turnbull, H.W.
Whiddington, fi
Woo Is,
R °
nt °
from Taylor's idic
> TCO
‘king metho
any piece
at came to hand;
the folder in B.
and many of the letters, committ
in
bear not
in the collection pear nore
‘the collection
vings and calc
sana cai culc
drawit
e458
it
eS
is probable that many other notebooks have not survived.
eg.
oe
:
as
1
®
<
L
yres
} nores,
arawingas and CAICL |
observations on turbulent air
ode
Includes drawings for the tethered kite on the mast
which enabled successful observations to be taker
ine
ay
°4
Se
°
ran
elie
°
Ka
l
.
a
a
Pages have been torn from the rear of the book.
For a description of the work on 'Scotia', see Batchelor,
Memoir, pp.573-574 and references.
For photographs of 'Scotia', see E.4.
Exercise-book, with ms. note by G.K. Batchelor inside
front cover 'Typical working note-book used by G.1.T.
in P21
The contents are described by Batchelor as follows:
2.
‘1.
The first set of work is not dated.
(at other end) Readings for some experiment
involving specimens of solid material’.
Notes on differential equations, source not
stated,
Data and readings in experiments on stability
of flow between rotating cylinders.
The second set begins 15 May and continues at various
dates to 20 December 1921.
See also D.8.
Included here is
1971 on porous discs with a
‘Laboratory record of measurement of K
Folder of miscellaneous jottings and drawings.
(at rear of book) begins 26 October 1921.
a sequence of notes dated 5 November
ms. note by Batchelor
for Beaver's disk’.
The third set
G.1|. Taylor
SAG 67/5/79
Notebooks, working notes, patents
|
t
f
Shorter writings and reports (see
also Section C).
Includes:
Taylor's referee's report on a paper, n.d.
or indication o
imes on concrete kerbs,
1967
»feree's report on degree application,
1970.
Patents and Inventions.
Po a
antiane
inal
Le
Invention for improvement in parachutes.
1920
No.11816/1919.
'A new or improved hawse-piece for a ship, yacht,
flying boat, sea plane or other vessel’.
1936-37
Patent no. 19208/36.
This is the 'C.Q.R. Anchor’.
Patent no. 548/37.
Patent no. 9676/51.
Patent no. 547/37.
Assignment ‘agreement
‘Wet end drainage system for paper machines’.
'A new or improved swimming model or toy’.
‘Improvements in or relating to propelling mechanisms
for swimming toys or models’.
See also C.56, D.43-D.46.
1958
G. Ta Taylor
CAC
Ae. ef FC
CSAC O77, 9/7 y
SECTION C.
REPORTS, ARTICLES,
These consist
of
reports for government and advisory
and typescripts for
Some are photocopies obtained by G.K. Batchelor, and all are
otherwise indicated. When the item is accompanied by corres;
noted in the entry and indexed.
The majority of these papers deal only with scientific research and problems,
but a few of the later addresses include reminiscences and biographical material
of historical interest.
Material published in The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor, ed.
G.K. Batchelor, IV Vol., C.U.P., is indicated in the form (SP....).
With
are unpublished.
A complete set
A photocopy of the list
of publications is reproduced by perinission
of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Oe
of Taylor's published papers 1909-73 is held in the Library
these exceptions, and any others noted in the entries, the items in this Section
from Batchelor, Memoir, on pp.74 - 83.
G.|. Taylor
COAG &// /5/79
Reports, articles
ee
be ee yok
action of crystal rectiriers
ae
4
ow
Autograph ms., pages numbered 3-41, with a
note oe G.K. Batchelor, 'Found in G.I's gc
in a water~stained folder,
Although the pagination
‘Some months ago
he paper begins
Sir ape Sica 1 suggested to me
begins
p.3
try and find some explanation of the action of
he experiments described in this
pig
Seats
i
8s
oe
crystal rectifiers
paper are the results of this suggestion
e
therefore that the missing
1g
include the substance of the paper.
;
EE
.
a)
lt seems
llama
se
ice
pages | and 2 did not
Also included
G.K. Batchelor and
pondence re the paper between
A
. Pippard, 1976.
‘Turbulent motion in fluids'
Typescript with ms. corrections (incomplete), for
the Adams Prize, University of Cambridge, awarded
to Taylor, 19 14.
Part II
e.gis
See also A.25.
'Skin friction on a flat surface’.
'Theory of turbulent motion and fluid friction.
'Flow in pipes’.
Ms. of part of a paper on turbulent flow, not sub-
sequently published in same form.
In his preface headed 'Royal Aircraft Factory,
1914', Taylor explains the
Farnborough, December 28,
haste and difficult circumstances in which i work had
to be completed, and acknowledges the help of his
parents in drawing diagrams and filling in formulae.
Paper T.759 for Advisory Committee for Aerona
Typescript photocopy, with a ms. note by Batchelor
‘Superseded by R & M 604 (SP II,
Paper 1.646 for Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
'On the cooling of acroplane engine cylinders’.
Feb. 1916
10)!
>
\eports,
be
!
“I
Observations and spx
ed
or 5
f
motion’.
20 pp. ms.
+ 2 pp. tables,
Rep. Memo. advis. Comm.
(SP LZ).
paper published a
of
Aeronaut. no. 345
See also D.19.
‘Note on a particular form of eddy'.
March 1919
Paper T.1328 (Mei
for Aeronautics.
Untitled paper
26 pp. ms., with a ms. note by Batchelor,
"Manuscript of a paper on turbulence and skin
friction not subsequently published in the same
form'.
"Statistical representation of turbulence’,
Paper Met.58 for Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics.
On the analysis of the flow of
Jan. 1920
‘Suggestions for making fixed static pressure tubes,
April 1920
‘Notes on T.1421:
an incompressible viscous fluid’.
Paper T.1421d for Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (Taylor's comments on the paper
T.1421 by Cowley and Levy).
The paper has various diagrams, calculations and
‘doodles’ by Taylor, probably made during committee
meeting.
P.1 of paper has many ‘doodles
(A theory of the stalling of aerofoils a
near that of sound.)
Aeronautical Research Committee
Paper T.1636b
Paper Met.66 for Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics.
"Note on Mr. Griffith's report T G86
G.1. Taylor
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9
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Paper t el 696a
Committee.
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a dag soe week
ror Aet OnavUTICat
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A
"Remarks on T.1696b'.
|
Paper T.1696c¢ for Aeronc
Committee.
d experiments in gliding’.
Vv
ec T.1759 for Aeronautical Research
Committee.
'Note on the Prandtl
Theory'
Paper T.1875 for Aeronautical Research
Committee.
‘Note on airscrew vortex theory’.
Paper T.2761 for Aeronautical Research
Committee.
Paper T.1999 (P.33) for Aeronautical Research
Committee.
'The effect of parallel walls on the flow past a
symmetrical aerofoil',
'The conditions which determine plastic flow of
metals’.
‘Note on T. 3046 - "Experiments relating to Steady
Air Flow".
Paper E.F.271 for Aeronautical Research
Committee.
Paper T.3046a (F.M.26a) for Aeronaut
Research Committee.
‘Tests of cet
Paper S.177 (994) for
Committee.
Describes tests with CQR and other
Taylor and W.
'Notes on the C.Q.R. Anchor
Paper T.3595.
$.216
(1449)
for Aeronautical
Research Committee.
Ke
‘Report on Current measurements in the
i
Ouse’.
I
Prepared by Taylor and W.S. Farren for Ely Sugar
Beet Factory.
Typescript (2 copies) + 1p. ms. drawing.
'Notes on Turbulence II'.
20 pp. ms. draft for paper F.M. 206 me 556),
prepared for Aerodynamics Sub-committee.
A copy of the typescript committee paper, dated
February 1935,
is also included.
156, 1936 8 P Il, 33)'. ['Statistical theory of
Paper R.C.12. for Civil Defence Research
Committee, Home Office.
Ms. draft, undated and untitled, pp. 4-10 + 1 un-
numbered. with a ms. note by Batchelor 'Apparently
an early form of the p ee published in Bie Rosh AOC
A,
Forbalere evn
Committee :, Ministry of Home Sex urity.
Paper R.C.36. for Civil Defence Research
iG
'The effect of apertures in an external window
Paper R.C.74. for Civil Defence Research
'Stress-strain relatior nship
in
i impc ict,
Sep. 1939
"Explosion and blast waves’.
ttee,
ommittee,
H
Home
Off
Office.
shutter subjected to blast’.
Ip
ech
3allistic co
cre
ficients
7
Pape AG,
=
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on ocienriric Kesea!
a ee
8
|
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Bx
}ecnnical Vevelop-
eh.
4
-
ment,
XpPlosive ance
Ministry ors J ply.
‘Measurements of pressure near a bare explosive
Paper R.C.110. for Civil Defence Research
Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
ie on de aos
Car
Ct
~e
ae
dig
nie
cr
A
1
Rien eae:
Detonation waves'.
poi D
is
Paper R.C.178. for Civil Defence Researe
Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
With a ms. note by Batchelor ‘Superseded By
PRS 200,
1950' (SP III, 51)
h
‘Summary of work on the physics of explosions’.
Paper R.C.190. for Civil Defence Research
Committee,
Ministry of Home Security.
r
y
)
!
1
I
hoi
ser
April
March
Paper A.C.1247.
Design of Copper crusher gauges’.
o's LS eae
sot tie oi
With a letter from Brown releasing report, 1964.
Paper R.C.190a. for Civil Defence Research
Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
‘Summary of work on the physics of explosions,
Part 2',
‘Report on the possible effect of dust explosions’.
by Taylor and R.C. Brown (part version only),
Ministi y of Supply .
Council on Scientific Research and Technical
‘
Development, Explo
.
Ives Research Committee,
Notes on controlled fragmentation experiments’,
Paper A,C.1328. Phys/Ex.170. for Advisory
on Scientific Research and Technical Develop-
Gun Design Committee, Ministry of
Gn.55. for Advisory Council
ment,
Supply.
Se
eae
*,
:
th
“
:
,
1
,
Sie
rkinc
SETA ST chee BET POTS
AER Peo Bag
working on Tne proptems ana enas
the curves so
Friecas
| may finish this work’.
that
gia oe
Pe
int
ee
.
4
a
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i
;
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°
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Strains in a gun
moving projecti
i
barrel
iat
P
near
5
ei
the driving band of a
tS
c.
March 1942
SA
Paper A.C
on Scientific Research and Technical
ment, Gun Design Committee, Ministry of Supply.
s Council
Develop-
\
/
‘Analysis of the shape and effectiveness of a vertical
wind jet used as a wind shield’.
Dec. 1942
For Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry of
Fuel and Power.
.
‘
*
*
eat
March 1943
'Wind tunnel
source of heat’.
experiments with Cross wind line
!
Written for Petroleum Warfare Department,
Ministry of Fuel and Power.
'Theory of forced jets and convection currents above
sources of heat’.
For Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry
of Fuel and Power.
‘Convection from a line source of heat ina side
wind',
/
C.41 and C.42 are typed copies, prepared for officia
use, of
Paper M.R.P.144 for Petroleum Warfare Department,
Ministry of Fuel and Power.
Convection froma line source of heat ina side
wind’,
For Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry
of Fuel and Power.
letters from Taylor to A.O. Rankine.
report
Taylor $
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expansions
“aper
Pay
sks
Care
sae
on scientitic
ment, Gun Design
SE oe
esearch
ana
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(
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lec hnical Vey\V
CoS
Committee, Ministry of
‘
§
Repe arr on
t ek
-
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‘4
Pv
ro wnicn a sounc
Lt
2t
Z
°
1
°
trate below Fie
ds
changes through ihe critical reflecting value
OI which the wind sp Bea
thie
el
Bier
tie
weston
scsi
Ss
nee
1
>
In the form of a ty
Taylor to H.Q., Royal
|
‘Note on 7482 - F.M.669 - (H.H. Pearcey) "The
Effect of the condensation of atmosphe ric water
vapour on fol 11 head and other mea
Jan,
N.P.L. high speed tunnels
Qh
Sf
Paper 8343.
Committee.
F.M.669a for Aeronautical Research
Typescript for broadcast talk on the first atomic
bomb test at
Los Alamos.
Aug. 1945
Feb. 1946
talk was pub! fi a
Also included is
a photocopy of The Listene
"Notes on ranges of big rockets’.
23 pp. + 5 figs., and 3 pp. Corrigenda dated March 1946.
16 August 1945 in which the
under the title 'Trying out the Bomb'.
‘Model experiments for predicting concentrations of
gas emitted from a chimney'.
Memorandum written for Co-ordinating Committee
on Guided and Propelled Missiles and Projectiles.
C.C.GiP. (45) 15,
letters from Taylor to Sir Harold Hartl We
Document 3/50 B,
Council Working Party B
C.49 and C,50 are typed copies, prepared for official
‘Model experiments on pollution’,
- Atmospheric Pollution.
for above working party.
Electricity rae
Document 6/50 B
Jan. 1950
Feb. 1950
Research
BOW
use,
of
-
.
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.
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+ ae
KY
4
Are
A
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Reports, articles, addresses, papers
Ms. for closing remarks at a meeting of engineers.
6,395
‘Address to the Accademia dei Lincei on the occasion
of the centenary celebration of the birth of Vito
Volterra’.
Typescript with ms. corrections.
Taylor spoke on behalf of the Royal Society,
Cambridge University and the London Mathematical
Society.
‘Recollections of a scientist’.
Typescript of lecture given in Australia.
many parts in common with 'A scientist remembers’.
See C.54 below.
Has
'A scientist remembers',
GC. ly 52
Typescript with ms. corrections, of Hitchcock
Lecture at University of California.
This was the fifth and last of a course of lectures
given in March 1952 at the University of California;
the other lectures were on the mechanics of swimming,
turbulence and rotating fluids.
"Stability of fluid in a vertical tube',
Typescript and ms.
‘An applied mathematician's apology’.
Typescript with ms. corrections of an address of
reply after receiving the De Morgan Medal from
the London Mathematical Society.
Taylor refers in this address to his work on drainage
in paper-making. See also B.10, D.43-D.46.
making industry.
Manuscript of address in reply to presentation of
Kelvin Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Manuscript of address of welcome to a symposium
in Cambridge, on a topic connected with the paper=
Typescript of Davidson Memorial Lecture given
at Stevens Institute of Technology, New York.
‘Speech at Manchester School (sic) of Technology,
after admission as a Honorary Fellow.
Nov.
.
‘ls there still scope for simple methods in science?!
Nov.
11 pp. heavily-corrected manuscript.
Feb.
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
,
.
che
vvaves in TNIN Ss
Ms., and }
al
c
saris
10th.
Inter
Mechan
Ms. of opening ¢
Design and Research
(read by E.J. Richa
illness).
'The Life of George Boole’.
Typescript with ms. corrections of an address
given at the Boole Centenary Celebrations af
Lincoln.
See A. ]08-A.113 for further material relating to
g
this occasion.
See E.17 for a tape-recording of th
'Note on the early stages of Dislocation Theory’.
‘Conical interfaces between two viscous fluids'
Typescript of contribution to 'The Sorby Centennial
Symposium on the History of Metallurgy', ed.
CS Smith,1965,
With a copy of Taylor's letter 1963 forwarding the
article, with some further reminiscences about the
subject.
Ms. so titled, unpublished, but material incor-
porated (in part) in paper
Congress of Applied Mechanics, Munich 1964
(SP IV, 41).
Includes correspona
Typescript with ms. corrections of paper read at
IUTAM Symposium on 'Rotating
Fluid Systems’,
'Motion of solid bodies in rotating fluids'
La Jol lc , California.
ad at
11th International
tnt
smorial volume (not
typescript,
published
March 1966
Je
°
ne
Le
1 DIDTIOG!
ic
{
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Reports, articles, addresses, papers
Review (published in Eureka, February 1968), of
G.K. Batchelor: 'An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics’.
Typescript.
Ms. of untitled lecture on electrohydrodynamics to
the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
July 1968
Ms. of opening remarks at IUTAM Symposium on
'Electrohydrodynamics'.
April 1969
This was the conference at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology which Taylor initiated.
See also D.50.
of Taylor's work on this subject, much of it between
the ages of 78 and 83.
8 pp. ms. talk on A.A. Griffith, September 1969.
Delivered to the Materials Sciences Club, on the
award to Taylor of the A.A. Griffith Medal.
Sep. 1969
Includes correspondence with Chairman re award,
history of club, and arrangements for talk.
'Motion of axisymmetric bodies in viscous fluids’.
13 pp. ms., contribution to Sedov anniversary
volume (SP IV, 48).
‘Amateur Scientists’.
30 pp. ms., and 17 pp. typescript versions for talk
illustrated with slides.
A reduced version was published in Michigan Q.Rev.,
8, 1969.
See also D.7, D.101, E.6.
The Lester Gardner Lecture, given at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
26 pp. ms. draft, and photocopy of typescript
version,
‘Aeronautical Experience before 1919'.
May 1971
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Reports, articles, addresses, papers
‘Some properties of a porous model’,
May 1971
Ms. of lecture at IUTAM Symposium on 'Multiphase
Flow in Porous Media', Calgary (unpublished).
‘Aeronautics before 1920'.
Oct. 197]
Talk to members of Trinity College, Cambridge.
22 pp. ms. draft, and 15 pp. typescript version.
'A model for the boundary condition of a porous
material,
Part I’.
14 pp. ms. draft, for paper published in J. Fluid
Mech. 49, 1971,
Speech given at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a dinner
to commemorate Rutherford's Centenary.
197]
5 pp. ms., with reminiscences of Rutherford,
Kapitza and Taylor's yacht 'Frolic’.
'The history of an invention’.
4 pp. ms.
'On making holes in a sheet of fluid’.
Article on CQR anchor, published in Eureka.
'The stability of a conducting jet in an electric field’.
A revised version was published in the Symposium
Proceedings, 1971.
Ms. of text of a lecture given at 10th Symposium
on Advanced Problems and Methods in Fluid
Mechanics, Poland.
See alsoA.64.
See also D.52, D.60, D.64.
Ms. of a summary
present at the 13th International Congress of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Moscow
PI
in September 1972,
joint paper with D.H. Michael (J.Fluid Mech., 58,
1973,
Congress on behalf of Taylor.
The ms., and the accompanying 3 pp. of laboratory
observations dated 16 March 1972, are in Taylor's
hand, and there is ams. note of background information
by Batchelor on the front page.
y
of the paper Taylor intended to
paper
Tay
pp. 625-39),
PE
’
who presented it at the Moscow
The work was published in a
«
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ass,
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G.1|. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
SECTION D — SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE _D.1 - D.105
The material is presented alphabetically, with dates and a brief indication
of any information of particular interest.
Taylor's undimmed scientific reputation, the high respect he enjoyed, and
the eagerness with which younger scientists continued to seek and accept his advice,
emerge with remarkable clarity from the letters, most of which date from the later
period of his life.
As with the personal correspondence in Section A, only incoming letters
usually survive.
Professor G.K. Batchelor was, however, able to obtain originals
or photocopies of Taylor's letters from some of his correspondents, and thus recon-
struct a relatively complete sequence.
Examples of this can be found at D.7, D.13,
D: 27,20). 43-0. 46,"0,52, .D.60, D.64,°D765;°D.71, .D. 87%
Apart from these more substantial exchanges, some ms. drafts or copies of
Taylor's replies to individual correspondents also survive. . They are noted in the
relevant entries.
A full
list
is anpended below for ease of reference.
D
O77 D.9
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
24,42. 29
, 10% Di 12) D4, -Dal4
21;°0,
30735
D.44
41,
.50,
D.52, D.53
D.64, D.65
.60,
“te
0.72; D4, D.76
.87
91
D
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Scientific correspondence
1968
1964 (electric effects at surfaces)
1965,
1973, 1974
Ackerley, R.
Adam, N.K.
Adrian, E.D.
Adrian had been a contemporary of Taylor at Trinity
and remained one of his closest friends; many of the
personal letters in Section A include references to
meetings, dinners, holidays, etc. shared by the Adrian
and Taylor families.
little correspondence remains.
Because of their close contact,
Folder includes two letters from A.S.F. Gow, 1972,
about Adrian's car accident.
Andrade, E.N.da C.
1928 (results of viscosity experiment
with rotating cylinders)
_ Aranow, R.H.
Atkinson, R.H.
Bacon, F.T.
Bagnold, R.A.
1965
1968, 1974
1973 (fuel cells)
1970 (water 'boils')
Baker, S.
Barenblatt, G.I.
Barreto, E.
Batchelor, G.K.
1968
1970
1968 (see also Kochina, P.)
Batchelor was the editor of The scientific papers of Sir
Geoffrey Taylor,
IV Vols., C.U.P., and author of the
biographical Memoir of Taylor in Biographical Memoirs
of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22, 1976 (see also A.5).
His notes and attributions appear passim in items in the
collection.
D. 101.
Exchanged between Taylor, Batchelor and Van Dyke about a
proposed article 'A Dialogue with G.I. Taylor' to be published
in the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.
The project was not completed, but the material was
incorporated in 'An unfinished dialogue with G.I. Taylor',
of Fluid Mechanics, 70, 1975 (see A.5).
Correspondence, 1971-72.
published in Journal
General correspondence,
problems, visits, publication of Taylor's papers, etc.
consists mainly of ms. letters from Taylor.
1949-74,
re scientific research
fine
P
’
Folder
See also C. 7A, D. 87,
G.1. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Scientific correspondence
Beavers, G.S.
1971-72 (porous disc experiment
Benher, M.
Benjamin, T.B.
Berg, 1 O70.
Besant, R.W.
See also B.3
Wud;
1963,
1969
1966 (work on water drops)
1969
Binnie, A.M.
‘1947-72 (includes correspondence
exchanged on vibrations of a
falling sheet of water)
Birkhoff, G.
Blanchard, D.
1963
1966-67 (bubble collapse, includes
photographs and article)
Bloom, M.H.
1967 (includes ms. of Taylor's reply)
Brabazon of Tara, J.T.C.
1953-56 (formation, constitution,
membership, records of early
meetings of The Yacht Research
Council.
Taylor was a founder
member of the Council, and
Chairman of the Committee on
Sail Design.
Includes related
correspondence, and a copy of
a brochure on the Council's work,
1961)
1950-51
The 1973
Re proposed 'Science Centre’ on the South Bank, where
the Royal Society would have had premises in 'New Burlington
House’.
folder includes ms. letters sent by him to Fellows and Officers
of the Society.
Taylor was strongly opposed to the idea, and the
Bullard, E.C. and others
scientists.
General correspondence on research in fluid dynamics,
publications, conferences and visits.
The letters for
1929 refer to the Taylors’ journey through Dutch East
Indies (see A, 31~A. 37) and also Taylor's trip in R101.
Letters for 1945 refer to Burgers's journey to England
to learn scientific developments, etc. during the period
of the German occupation of Holland.
correspondence is mainly recollections of visits and of other
Burgers, J.M.
1920-48, 1973
G.|. Taylor
CSAC 67/5/79
Scientific correspondence
Carstoiu, J. and others
1966-67 (with Taylor's ms. letters)
Caruso, H.A.
Chapman, S.
See also D.89
1964 (‘Liquid Bell’)
1970
Chemical Warfare Committee
1921 (particulate clouds)
Chin,: G.¥,
Cole, J.A.
Colgate, S.A.
Coombs, T.A.
Cox, 2: Gy
Davies, S.J.
Dawson, G.T.
APCS
1957
1966
1964
1964
1928
1949
de Bruyne, N.A.
1957-58 (‘peeling strength’ of
adhesives)
de Yong, LN. J.
1964
Dines, W.H.
iwie7ic
Dobson, G.M.B.
1917
Includes a note by Dobson 'Note on R & M. 345. Turbulent
Motion in the Air', commenting on Taylor's report no.345
to the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (see C.6).
On turbulence, with sketches and photographs of observations.
The correspondence, sent from the Meteorological Office
Observatory at Benson and addressed to ‘Major Taylor’,
relates to Taylor's work as meteorological adviser to the
Royal Flying Corps (see Batchelor, Memoir, pp.576-577).
See also D.74.
1956
Dombrowski, N.
Drummond, J.E.
1972
G.I. Taylor
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Ekman, V.W.
1927
Taylor
Ekman was a Swedish meteorologist whose work in 1905
on turbulent flow had partly anticipated Taylor's papers
on eddy motion published in 1914 and 1915.
had not known of Ekman's work until 'some years later'
than his own papers, and Ekman for his part remained
unaware of Taylor's ‘independent solution of the problem
of gradient currents (1915) ... which has important
advantages as compared to my own previous solution’.
After a meeting at a conference in Zurich, Ekman
initiated correspondence with Taylor on differences in
their solutions;
the letters run May-November 1927,
Taylor's being ms. drafts, some with tentative dating
by G.K. Batchelor.
For ELAM, C.F., see under Tipper.
Di 22
D.23
Forrest, J.S.
1960-66
Fraenkel, L.E.
1967, 1968
Correspondence in 1968 calls attention to an error in
Taylor's paper contributed to the Sedov Anniversary
Volume (on 'Motion of axisymmetric bodies in viscous
fluids', see C.72).
Friedman, J.R.
1965
Gaskell, T.F.
1964, 1968
1972
1970
Ghosh, N.L.
Gill, W.N.
Gértler, H.
Gheorghitza, St.1.
1969 (includes Taylor's letter on
boundary conditions in a porous
medium)
visit by Gran to Berlin, 1939.
Tryggve
navigator of the Handley Page bomber entered for the
Daily Mail prize contest for the Atlantic air crossing (won
by Alcock and Brown in
a Vickers machine) (see Batchelor,
Memoir, p.577).
Folder includes a letter from Gran, and related correspondence
from colleagues, researchers, etc., and a photocopy of a
telegram from the U.S. Minister in Norway re a purported
Gran was a Norwegian explorer who had been
Gran, T. and others
1973-74
1966 (Symposium on electrohydro-
dynamics)
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
Granger, R.
Greening, R.G.
Gupta, A.S.
Hey, i.
Herezynski, R.
Hirshfelder, J.O.
Hislop, G.S.
1974
1967 (anchors)
1972
1970 (Japanese watermil Is)
- 1966
1968
1939, 1973
Hobbs, P.V.
1972 (contact angles)
Hopkins, H.G.
1967; 1973, 1975
Howarth, L.
1969-73
Correspondence in 1969 is
on boundary conditions at a viscous liquid/porous medium
interface, and on effect on flow of a high-resistance
septum.
a detailed exchange of views
Huang, C-P.
1966 (includes ms. draft of Taylor's
reply)
Taylor to Hunsaker, 1940
Iben, H.
Jacobsen, J.P.
1966
1971
193]
Hughes, C.J.
1962
1956-74 and including a letter from
Ippen, A.T. and
Chu, Y-H.
Hunsaker, J.C. and
Hunsaker, A.P.
Jerome and Alice Hunsaker were old friends of Taylor.
The correspondence includes scientific and personal material,
recollections, etc.
Folder includes a letter from Sir Melvill Jones, 1969.
Includes typescript report on the hydrographic scientific
meeting, Copenhagen, 27 March 1931,
in which Taylor
took part.
Geoffrey Melvill Jones was the son of Sir (Bennett) Melvill
Jones, one of Taylor's oldest friends, nicknamed ‘Bones’.
Jeffrey, J.R.
‘
1973)°.1974
Jones, G.M,.
1962-67, 1969
Johnson, N.K.
1727
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
DE CLERMEG, COLE SPOnOelICe’
Joseph, D.D.
1969-73
Includes several ms. letters from Ta
lor
‘
Ys
on viscous
liquid/porous medium interface.
Kapitza, P.L. and
Kapitza, A,
1963-73
Mainly social and personal correspondence;
includes
arrangements and guest list for dinner given by Taylor
in Trinity College for the Kapitzas on their visit to
Cambridge, 1966
For photographs of Taylor and Kapitza, taken in 1966,
see E. 12,
Kearton, C.F. and
Cotterill, E.
Keller, J.B.
Kelly, A.
1967 (on triangular cloth)
1967
1967
Kitig, Loy.
1915-18 (correspondence on research
problems and papers, especially
on sound-waves and fog signals)
Latham, J.
Lewis, W.B.
Kochina, P.
1961, 1969-71.
See also D.5,
Krasucki, Z.
1965
Liepmann, H.W.
Barenblatt, G.I.
Lemanezyk, G.
are missing), 1974.
some of Taylor's ms. draft replies.
1965-70 (some letters in this sequence
Includes
1971
Mannheimer, R.J.
1974
1972-73
1966-67
1969-71
1972
McEwan, A.
Magyar, L.
G.1. Taylor
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D.43-D.46
Mardon, J.
1955+ 70
Scientific correspondence
Jasper Mardon, who had known Taylor in Cambridge,
worked for various paper and pulp manufacturing firms
in Canada and USA and used Taylor as a consultant.
The correspondence deals with miscellaneous problems
on which Taylor was consulted, including related reports
and calculations and patents arising.
from firms' addresses are all dated, but some of Mardon's
ms. letters from his private houses are undated and are
assigned an approximate place in the sequence based on
their content.
it
engaged on a project.
is clear that he was a punctual correspondent when
The letters sent
Very few of Taylor's letters survive though
A folders as follows:
D.43
D.44
D.45
D.46
1955-58
1959-61
1962-65
1966-75 (This includes scientific, personal
and social correspondence from
Mardon and his wife (Babs) to Taylor)
See also B.10, C.56.
Mason, G.
1964-67
1966
1964-65
1966-74
Matisse, P.
Mason, S.G.
Meadley, C.K.
Melcher, J.R.
1969 (‘water bells’)
1957
Much of the correspondence 1966-67 relates to a symposium
on electrohydrodynamics held at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1969 and includes some correspondence with
H. Gértler (see also D.24, D.87);
there is also reference
to the review-article on electrohydrodynamics by Taylor
and Melcher for the first volume of Annual Review of Fluid
Mechanics, 1969, and an undated ms. letter
of comment by
Taylor on a paper by Melcher.
Meksyn, D.
Meyer, H.
1972
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
ps
Michael, D.H.
>
1971=73
Mainly correspondence relating to the research and
publication of a joint paper 'On making holes in
of fluid', J. Fluid Mech., 58, 1973.
pondence runs July 1971-April 1973, and consists of
the originals of Michaei's letters to Taylor, and photo-
copies of Taylor's letters to Michael, kindly made
available by Michael.
The corres-
a sheet
This was one of Taylor's last pieces of research, which
he had hoped to present at the 13th International Congress
for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Moscow,
September 1972.
and the paper was read for him by Michael.
In the event, he was unable to attend
See Batchelor, Memoir, pp.620-621.
Michael's index to the letters is included in the folder,
and indicates where moterial has not survived.
Other research problems and papers are also discussed
in the course of the correspondence.
See also C.81, D.60, D.64.
Milgram, J.H.
1972
calculations by Taylor)
Orowan, E.
Millsaps, K.
Muller, A.
1926
National Committee for Fluid
Mechanics Films
1964-67
State University, etc.)
See also A.64, E.13
Miller, JoC:P;
1963, 1968 (includes letter and
1970-74 (Taylor's visit to Colorado
1962, 1969
Mainly arrangements to incorporate Taylor's 1923 experiment
on the motion of bodies in rotating fluids in
'Fluid Motion in Rotating Systems';
a film of undulatory movement from Sir James Gray.
a film entitled
includes a postcard re
Nicholl, C.
Ornstein, We
1970
1969, 1972
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
Orr, W.McF.
1923
Letter and calculations commenting on Taylor's rotating
cylinder experiment and paper.
Padday, J.F.
1971-74
This is a sequence of letters, some original and some photo-
copies, kindly made available by Padday, who has also
provided a short account (1976), included in the folder, of
The material comple-
the substance of the correspondence,
ments the correspondence with D.H. Michael on the stability
of holes in liquid (D.52).
concludes:
which is complete stimulated each investigator to seek for
the singularity which represented the criteria for stability’.
‘There can be no doubt that this correspondence
Padday's explanatory note
See also C.81, D.52, D.64
Palmer, G.
Peierls, R.E.
Pekeris, C.L.
1973
1966
1969
1968
1973
1973 (CQR anchor)
1957-60, 1962, 1972
Penney, W.G.
1969, 1972
Pit, G4.
Pitts, E.
Phillips, O.M.
Pindell, R.G.
The correspondence August 1957-April 1958 consists
of a detailed exchange of information and results on the
flow of liquid over rotating rollers.
are usually typed copies of his originals;
copies.
folder).
Almost all the letters, by both correspondents, are photocopies,
kindly assembled by G.K. Batchelor, who also compiled a
chronological list of the correspondence (included in the
Prandtl was Director, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fUr Stromungs-
forschung, Gdttingen.
The correspondence is mainly scientific, on turbulence, but
includes a little personal material.
See also C.81, D.52, D.60.
Taylor's letters
some are photo-~
Prandtl,
L.
1923, 19277; 1930-68
G.1|. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
Proudman, J.
1916, 1919
Quarterly Journal of Mechanics
and Applied Mathematics (O.U.P.)
Includes letter, 1946, re founding of journal (Taylor
was a Trustee), and later matters re control and policy
of journal, 1964-68 (many of these are circular or
copy letters).
Rayleigh, see under Strutt, J.W.
Reeve, J.E.
Remenyik, C.J.
1970
1970
Richardson, L.F.
1979;.. 1933
Rosenweig, R.E.
Roy, M.
1967
1930
Rothschild, N.M.V.
1950-S0":1962;" 1270
Bidder used to write to me
*
See
Batchelor, Memoir, p.613.
See also D.75
It relates to Taylor's study of the swimming
The letters of 1970 are on the trajectory of golf balls.
The correspondence 1950-51 consists of photocopies
of Taylor's letters to Rothschild, kindly made available
by him.
of microscopic organisms and his papers on the subject.
Though this work had its immediate origin in an enquiry
from Rothschild about the movement of spermatozoa,
Taylor says in his letter of 24 April 1951: 'l had thought
about this problem long before you mentioned it in
connection with your work.
about it'.
Cambridge and had dining rights at Trinity between the wars.
Correspondence 1970-71 is on porous disc experiments and
boundary layers.
Correspondence 1956-57 and 1963 is re collaborative papers
by Taylor and Saffman;
period survive here.
none of Saffman's letters for this
Scientific and personal correspondence.
are photocopies kindly made available by Saffman.
Taylor's letters
*
George Parker Bidder (1863-1953) was a marine biologist, who lectured at
Saffman, P.G.
1956-74
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
Sample, S.B.
Saville, D.A.
Sen- Gupta, B.K.
Singh, K.L.
1972
1970
1972
1964
Shaw, Sir (William) Napier
'
1914 (ventilation currents)
1917 (re Taylor's note (enclosed) of his
recent results on wind velocities)
See also D.19 and D.78
Sleigh, M.A.
1964 (on swimming of flagellae)
Smith, C.S.
Sneddon, I.N.
Spalding, D.B.
See also D.71
1968
1962
1972, 1975 (includes draft of Taylor's
letter 1972 protesting to
USSR Academy of Sciences al
dismissal of B. Levich)
Stanton, T.E.
1923-30
Baron Rayleigh
3 letters, 1910, 1915, 1916
is clear that he sent prompt and careful
Sir Thomas Stanton was Superintendent of the Engineering
Department, National Physical Laboratory, whence all
these letters were sent.
Correspondence, sometimes accompanied by photographs,
graphs and calculations, on various problems of eddy
currents, velocity, etc.
Very few of Taylor's letters
survive, though it
replies to Stanton's letters and enquiries.
Taylor, ¢.1937)
The letter of 1916 (March 12) is addressed 'Dear Shaw'
(perhaps Sir Napier Shaw, see D.74).
acknowledges the correctness of
Taylor's views and thenks him for
his ‘educational efforts’)
1967 (on electrostriction;
Stuetzer
n.d.
(on a wind-tunnel made b
y-
Swiatecki, W.J.
1967
Thomson,
G.P.
’
Stewartson, K.
1967-68
Strutt, John William, Third
Stuetzer, O.M.
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
Thomson, J.J.
1919, 1938
Letter of 1919 informs Taylor of his election to a
Lecturership in Mathematics at Trinity College,
Cambridge, for 3 years from October 1919.
Tipper, Constance F.
(née Elam)
1924, 1927, 1961-75
Constance Elam, working at the Royal School of Mines,
‘inspired' Taylor's interest in studying the deformation
of crystalline materials, and collaborated with him in
various studies on the subject, and on the Bakerian
Lecture of the Royal Society in 1923.
the letters (all from the Royal School
The early correspondence refers to these collaborative
studies and papers;
of Mines) give the date of the month, but not the year
and are tentatively assigned to 1924 and 1927.
of 'November 9th' (?1924) describes her tough interro-
gation at a Royal Society meeting and sends 'Many thanks
for standing up for me at the R.S.
squashed’.
| really felt horribly
é
The letter
Turner, R.
1967
1967-75
1954
Vaisey, J.
Tuck, FO;
See also A.135.
The letters 1961-75 are mainly personal, with reminiscences
and recollections, and include arrangements for a
commemorative dinner of the Royal Society Dining Club
on 14 June 1973, 50 years after the Bakerian Lecture by
Taylor and Elam.
Dr. Tipper was present, but Taylor's
health prevented him from attending.
under whose supervision the work was done.
Includes tables and calculations on 'Sir Geoffrey's
dispersion problem', and some ms. notes by R.V. Southwell
G.1|. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
Van Dyke, M.
1965-75
The correspondence covers various research problems in
fluid mechanics; visits by Van Dyke to Cambridge and
by Taylor to USA and in particular to Stanford University,
California (1971);
publications; conference on electro-
review-article by Taylor and Melcher
hydrodynamics;
for Annual Review of Fiuid Mechanics; declaration of
'G.1. Taylor Day' by Department of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, Stanford University, in honour of Taylor's
85th birthday, etc.
Correspondence January-April 1971 refers to the novel A Random
State by Thomas McMahon, which Van Dyke drew to Taylor's
attention as conveying misleading but identifiable pictures of
Taylor and other distinguished scientists who worked at Los
Alamos on aspects of the atomic bomb project.
to the publishers of the English edition (Macmillan) and received
apologies from them and from the author.
Taylor complained
Some of the letters,
kindly made available by Professor Van Dyke.
or parts of letters, are photocopies
See also C.74, D.7, D.101
Volterra, Enrico
1964-73
Wager, L.R.
Wallis, B.N.
1964 (one letter only, on lava flow)
1956-74
Vonnegut, Bernard
1966-69
See also D.14, D.93
Personal and scientific correspondence, including:
Includes some letters from Volterra's family, following
his death in 1973, continuing the correspondence to
1974,
Very little survives of Taylor's contribution to the correspondence.
1972 re any surviving diaries of Sir Charles
Craven d.1944 (in his letter Wallis
mentions his own lifelong suffering from
migraine);
(Taylor's great-nephew) at Christ's
Hospital (see also A. 103);
1968 on submarine jet
(in this letter Wallis
mentions that a flood has destroyed
many of his files and wartime films);
correspondence
1956 on gyroscopes, and spin of a ball;
1971 re Wallis's sponsorship of Julian Taylor
1974 re R.100, designed by Wallis.
G.1. Taylor
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Whipple, R.T.P.
White, C.M.
Williams, A.S.
Wilson, C.T.R.
1954
1954
1970
1955
One ms.
strikes on trees, written after Taylor had had a narrow
escape.
age of 86,
Wilson also refers to his recent flight,
in an RAF aircraft.
letter only, from Wilson 1955, on lightning
at the
The folder includes photocopies of 2 letters,
Wilson to B. Vonnegut, on electric storms.
1956, from
Wynn, A.H.A,
Nih; CoS:
Zuckerman, S.
1954
1968-75
1773
Unattributed letters with pages missing, first-name signatures
only, etc.
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Misc. correspondence on committees and consultancies.
See also A. 44.
Includes:
Taylor's resignation from Undex Panel [Underwater
explosions J, Royal Naval Scientific Service, 1964.
In his letter accepting Taylor's resignation, R.H.
Purcell, Chairman of the Undex Panel, writes:
‘| am very sorry indeed to hear you find it necessary
is
to resign from the Undex Panel and Sub-Panel.
with much hesitation that | acknowledge your official
severance from Undex.
It
‘You were the fountain head in so many ways of
the big advances made in the field of underwater
explosions since 1939.
Your papers on shock wave
theory and on the damage processes led to important
advances;
also your paper on the vertical motion of
the bubble was the foundation of bubble theory.
In
addition, in the early days of Undex you inspired
people like Penney, Temperley, Fox and Bryant (to
name only a few) who in turn made their contributions.
In every respect your guidance on both Undex Panels
has been of immense value. '
There is a similar letter from A.N. Harrison, Director
of Naval Construction.
See Batchelor, Memoir, pp.603~605.
1966-69
Taylor's resignation from Naval Construction and
Research Group.
1964
Visit to Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell
(Reactor Group).
1964
Aeronautical Research Council (re various
grants to Taylor from the 'Thousand Pound Fund
for Individual Investigators').
1969
Boeing International Corporation (NASA program
on fluid systems at low gravity).
1966
Taylor's resignation from Electricity Supply
Research Council and acceptance of consultancy.
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Scientific correspondence
D.98-D.101
Invitations to attend conferences, visit laboratories, give
lectures, etc.
1962-75
Presented chronologically:
Conference on aeronautical engineering, Southampton.
See also C.62
Tenth International Congress, International Association
for Hydraulic Research, London.
Fire Research Station.
Conference at University of Auckland.
Institute for the study of metals, University of Chicago.
Talk to Royal Aeronautical Society, Bedford Branch.
1963
1963
1964
1965
1965
Sesquicentennial celebrations, University of Michigan.
1966-67
Visit to Harvard University.
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Seventh International Shock Tube Symposium, Toronto.
Visit to California Institute of Technology.
1967
1967
1967
1968
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Visit to Fort Collins, Colorado State University.
Third Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics
(CANCAM 71).
California.
fluid science.
1969
1970
1970
1971
1971
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Eighth Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Pasadena,
British Hydromechanics Research Association: talk on
D.101 continued
Taylor delivered the Lester Gardner Memorial Lecture,
which encouraged G.K. Batchelor and M. Van Dyke
to propose a ‘Recorded dialogue with G.1. Taylor'
to take further some of the ideas expressed.
Invitation to Jubilee Session, USSR Academy of Sciences,
Invitation to Second Congress of Polish Science, Warsaw.
See also C.74, D.7, E.6,
Moscow.
1969-70
1971
1972
G.1. Taylor
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Scientific correspondence
continued
150th Anniversary of Franklin Institute.
Congress on 'Advanced Problems in Mechanics', and
Panetti Centenary, Turin.
250th Anniversary celebrations, Academy of Sciences,
Moscow.
Invitations to write articles, furnish biographical
information, etc.
(not indexed),
Requests for reprints, permission to reproduce or quote
from Taylor's publications (not indexed).
Requests for references, nominations for awards, etc.
(not indexed).
Shorter correspondence on articles forwarded by Taylor
for publication (not indexed).
G.1. Taylor
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