By Jeannine Alton, Harriot Weiskittel and Julia Latham-Jackson
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.
Thanks are also due to those correspondents who made available copies or originals of letters from Taylor which appear in Section D.
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was born on 7 March 1886, the son of Edward Ingram Taylor and his wife Margaret, who was the daughter of the mathematician George Boole. He was admitted to Trinity College Cambridge in 1905 where he read first Mathematics and then Natural Sciences and was awarded first a Scholarship and then a Fellowship which he held from 1910 to his death, with a short gap during the First World War when he joined many other Trinity scientists at the RAF factory at Farnborough where he worked on problems in aerodynamics.
Before the war he had joined an expedition to observe the flow of icebergs in the wake of the Titanic disaster which led him to the study of turbulence, which he was able to pick up again on his return to Cambridge in 1919. Over the next 3 decades he produced a series of seminal articles which transformed understanding of the subject. In 1923 he was appointed Royal Society Yarrow research professor, a post he held until 1952. During the Second World War he spent some time working with the staff of the Los Alamos project. After his retirement from the chair he continued to research at the Cavendish Laboratory. He died in 1975.
Published
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 He had the help of his technician, Walter Thompson, and a room in the Cavendish Laboratory, originally made available by Rutherford, who described Taylor as being 'paid provided he does no work'. This lack of formal establishment obligations, though ideal for Taylor's research, meant that he had no office or secretarial help. He worked with rough notes and drawings, often on any piece of paper that came to hand; even when he used a notebook of more conventional kind, the content is somewhat heterogeneous and lacks dates or headings (see B.2, B.3, for examples). Several of the official committee reports in Section C originally took the form of personal letters which were then typed out in a more 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 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 Memoir (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22, 1976), p.597
Perhaps I should explain here that, so far as I know, at no time in his life did Taylor employ a secretary or have his letters typed. The documentary evidence of what he did throughout his life consists wholly of incoming letters and papers (including, of course, his own in published form), and since his filing system was rudimentary, and dependent more on his wife's wish to contain the papers in one room than on his need to find something later, I am sure there are some gaps. He did make an effort to retain one copy of every published paper in a set of boxes, but typed or 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. Periodically Stephanie had a clearing-up operation which led to some documents being thrown out in order to make room for new ones, and few of the letters and documents that come in before about 1960 have survived.
The result is that very little now survives by way of notebooks, experimental records or laboratory observations to document Taylor's scientific research (see Section B). In order to supplement these scanty resources, Batchelor assembled from some of Taylor's correspondents copies of letters which might permit the reconstruction of a collaborative piece of research, joint publication or substantial scientific discussion. Successful examples of this enterprise are enumerated in the introduction to Section D and itemised in the relevant entries. Because of the paucity of surviving material by Taylor himself, a list of all items in that Section which include his letters or draft replies to correspondents is also given in the introduction to Section D. In addition, Batchelor assembled many of the reports and committee papers by Taylor, and these, together with other drafts and papers found in the collection, constitute the considerable body of unpublished work brought together in Section C.
A word may be said here about Taylor's handwriting. Although he wrote a fairly standard legible hand until about 1913 (see the manuscript of the Adams Prize Essay in C.2), the `Scotia' notebook of the same year (see B.1) is in the characteristic script, resembling the waves and eddies it often describes, of most of his subsequent letters and papers. It has certain similarities with his mother's hand, especially in her later years, and is not easy to read. Most of the recipients of his letters had typed copies made.
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 a sanatorium with a lung infection (see A.17 - A.23), and a considerable amount of 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). The numerous photographs in E.1 - E.15 are a useful additional record of Taylor's family, career, travels and 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.
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.
This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.
The main reference throughout is to the Memoir written by Batchelor (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22, 1976, pp.565-633) and is given in the form: Batchelor, Memoir, p...
References to The scientific papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor, ed. G.K. Batchelor, IV vol., C.U.P. are given in the form (SP....).
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Almost all Taylor's scientific papers, published and unpublished, have been reprinted in four volumes with the title The scientific papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, published by Cambridge University Press. The designation SP IV, 1 in the list below indicates that a paper has been reprinted in volume IV and is paper no. 1 within that volume.
1909 Interference fringes with feeble light. Proc. Camb. phil. Soc. 15, 114-115 (SP IV, 1)
1910 The conditions necessary for discontinuous motion in gases. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 84, 371-377. (SP III, 1)
1914 Report on the work carried out by the s.s. Scotia, 1913, pp. 48-68. London: H.M.S.O.
1915a Eddy motion in the atmosphere. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 215, 1-26. (SP II, 1)
b The use of fin surface to stabilize a weight towed from an aeroplane. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 184. (SP III, 2)
c Report on the accuracy with which temperature errors in determining heights by barometer may be corrected. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 239.
1916a Skin friction of the wind on the earth's surface. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 92, 196-199. (SP II, 2)
b Conditions at the surface of a hot body exposed to the wind. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 272. (SP II, 3)
c On the dissipation of sound in the atmosphere. Paper for Advis. Comm. Aeronaut. (SP II, 4)
d (With C. J. P. CAVE) Variation of wind velocity close to the ground. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 296, part 1. (SP II, 5)
e Pressure distribution round a cylinder. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 191. (SP III, 3)
f Pressure distribution over the wing of an aeroplane in flight. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 287. (SP III, 4)
g Phenomena connected with turbulence in the lower atmosphere. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 304.
1917a (With A. A. GRIFFITH) The use of soap films in solving torsion problems. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 333, and Proc. Inst. mech. eng., pp. 755-789. (SP I, 1)
b (With A. A. GRIFFITH). The problem of flexure and its solution by the soap-film method. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 399. (SP I, 2)
c The formation of fog and mist. Q.Jl R. met. Soc. 43, 241-268. (SP II, 6)
1917d Observations and speculations on the nature of turbulent motion. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 345. (SP II, 7)
e Phenomena connected with turbulence in the lower atmosphere. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 94, 137-155. (SP II, 8)
f Motion of solids in fluids when the flow is not irrotational. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 93, 99-113. (SP IV, 2)
g Fog conditions. Aeronaut. J. 21, 75-90.
1918a (With A. A. GRIFFITH) The application of soap films to the determination of the torsion and flexure of hollow shafts. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 392. (SP I, 3)
b On the dissipation of eddies. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 598. (SP II, 9)
c Skin friction on a flat surface. Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no. 604. (SP II, 10)
1919a Tidal friction in the Irish Sea. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 220, 1-93. (SP II, 11)
b On the shapes of parachutes. Paper for Advis. Comm. Aeronaut. (SP III, 5)
1920a Tidal friction and the secular acceleration of the moon. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 80, 308-309. (SP. II, 12)
b Navigation notes on a passage from Burnham-on-Crouch to Oban. Yachting Monthly.
1921a Tidal oscillations in gulfs and rectangular basins. Proc. Lond. math. Soc. 20, 148-181. (SP II, 13)
b Diffusion by continuous movements. Proc. Lond. math. Soc. 20, 196-212. (SP II, 14)
c Tides in the Bristol Channel. Proc. Camb. phil. Soc. 20, 320-325. (SP II, 15)
d Scientific methods in aeronautics. Aeronaut. J. 25, 474-491. (SP III, 6)
c The `rotational inflow factor' in propeller theory. Rep. Memo. Aeronaut. Res. Comm., no. 765. (SP III, 7)
f Experiments with rotating fluids. Proc. R. Soc. Land. A 100, 114-121. (SP IV, 3)
g Experiments with rotating fluids. Proc. Camb. phil. Soc. 20, 326-329.
1922a A relation between Bertrand's and Kelvin's theorems on impulses. Proc. Lond. math. Soc. 21, 413-414. (SP I, 4)
b Notes on Mr Glauert's paper, `An aerodynamic theory of the airscrew'. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Comm. (SP III, 8)
c The motion of a sphere in a rotating liquid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 102, 180-189. (SP IV, 4)
1923a (With C. F. ELAM) The distortion of an aluminium crystal during a tensile test. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A. 102, 643-667. (SP I, 5)
b The decay of eddies in a fluid. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Comm. (SP II, 16)
c Stability of a viscous liquid contained between two rotating cylinders. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 223, 289-343. (SP IV, 5)
d. The motion of ellipsoidal particles in a viscous fluid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 103, 58-61. (SP IV, 6)
e On the decay of vortices in a viscous fluid. Phil. Mag. 46, 671-674. (SP IV, 7)
f Experiments on the motion of solid bodies in rotating fluids. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 104, 213-218. (SP IV, 8)
1924a The singing of wires in a wind. Nature, Lond. 113, 536. (SP III, 9)
b Extracts from the log of Frolic. R. Cruising Club. J., pp. 85-105.
1925a (With W. S. FARREN) The heat developed during plastic extension of metals. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 107, 422-451. (SP I, 6)
b (With C. F. ELAM) The plastic extension and fracture of aluminium crystals. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 108, 28-51. (SP I, 7)
1925c Notes on the `Navier effect'. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Comm. (SP I, 8)
d Note on the connection between the lift on an aerofoil in a wind and the circulation around it. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 225, 238-245. (SP III, 10)
e (With C. T. R. WILSON) The bursting of soap-bubbles in a uniform electric field. Proc. Camb. phil. Soc. 22, 728-730. (SP IV, 9)
f Experiments with rotating fluids. Proc. 1st Int. Congr. Appl. Mech., Delft, 1924, pp. 89-96.
g Versuche mit rotierenden Flüssigkeiten. Z. angew. Math. Mech. 5, 250-253.
1926a (With W. S. FARREN) The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression. I. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 111, 529-551. (SP I, 9)
b (With C. F. ELAM) The distortion of iron crystals. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 112, 337-361. (SP I, 10)
1927a The distortion of single crystals of metals. Proc. 2nd Int. Congr. Appl. Mech., Zürich, 1926, pp. 46-52. (SP I, 11)
b The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression. II. Distortion by double slipping and changes in orientation of crystal axes during compression. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 116, 16-38. (SP I, 12)
c The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression. III. Measurements of stress. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 116, 39-60. (SP I, 13)
d An experiment on the stability of superposed steams of fluid. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 23, 730-731. (SP II, 17)
e Turbulence. Q. Jl R. met. Soc. 53, 201-211.
f Across the Arctic circle in Frolic, 1927. R. Cruising Club J., pp. 9-26.
1928a The deformation of crystals of beta-brass. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 118, 1-24. (SP I, 14)
b Resistance to shear in metal crystals. Trans. Faraday Soc. 24, 121-125. (SP I, 15)
c A manometer for use with small Pitot tubes. Proc. Camb. phil. Soc. 24, 74-75. (SP III, 11)
d The energy of a body moving in an infinite fluid, with an application to airships. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 120, 13-21. (SP III, 12)
e The forces on a body placed in a curved or converging stream of fluid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 120, 260-283. (SP III, 13)
f (With C. F. SHARMAN) A mechanical method for solving problems of flow in compressible fluids. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 121, 194-217. (SP III, 14)
g The force acting on a body placed in a curved and converging stream of fluid. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Comm. no. 1166.
h Report on progress during 1927-8 in calculation of flow of compressible fluids and suggestions for further work. Rep. Memo. aeronaut Res. Comm. no. 1196.
1929a The criterion for turbulence in curved pipes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 124, 243-249. (SP II, 18)
b Waves and tides in the atmosphere. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 126, 169-183. (SP II, 19)
c The air wave from the great explosion at Krakatau. 4th Pacific Science Congr., Java, 1929, vol. II B, 645-655.
1930a The application of Osborne Reynold's theory of heat transfer to flow through a pipe. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 129, 25-30. (SP II, 20)
b The flow of air at high speeds past curved surfaces. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Comm. no. 1381. (SP III, 15)
1930c Some cases of flow of compressible fluids. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Comm. no. 1382. (SP III, 16)
d Recent work on the flow of compressible fluids. J. Lond. math. Soc. 5, 224-240. (SP III, 17)
e Tour in the East Indies. Proc. R. Instn 26, 209.
f Stroömung um einen Korper in einer kompressiblen Flüssigkeit. Z. angew. Math. Mech. 10, 334-345.
1931a (With H. QUINNEY) The plastic distortion of metals. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 230, 323-362. (SP I, 16)
b Effect of variation in density on the stability of superposed streams of fluid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 132, 499-523. (SP II, 21)
c Internal waves and turbulence in a fluid of variable density. Rapp. P.-v. Réun. Cons. perm. int. Explor. Mer 76, 35-42. (SP II, 22)
d The flow round a body moving in a compressible fluid. Proc. 3rd Int. Congr. Appl. Mech., Stockholm, 1930, vol. I, 263-275.
e Round Ireland in Frolic. R. Cruising Club J., pp. 213-225.
1932a (With H. QUINNEY) The distortion of wires on passing through a draw-plate. J. Inst. Metals 49, 187-199. (SP I, 17)
b Note on the distribution of turbulent velocities in a fluid near a solid wall. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 135, 678-684. (SP II, 23)
c The transport of vorticity and heat through fluids in turbulent motion. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 135, 685-705. (SP II, 24)
d The resonance theory of semidiurnal atmospheric oscillations. Mem. R. met. Soc. 4, 43-51. (SP II, 25)
e Applications to aeronautics of Ackeret's theory of supersonic aerofoils moving at speeds greater than that of sound. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Comm. no. 1467. (SP III, 18)
f The viscosity of a fluid containing small drops of another fluid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 138, 41-48. (SP IV, 10)
g Note on review by Davies and Sutton of the present position of the of the theory of turbulence. Q. Jl R. met. Soc. 58, 61-65.
1933a The buckling load for a rectangular plate with four clamped edges. Z. angew. Math. Mech. 13, 147-152. (SP I, 18)
b (With J. W. MACCOLL) The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds. I. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 139, 278-297. (SP III, 19)
c (With J. W. MACCOLL) The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds. II. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 139, 298-311. (SP III, 20)
d (With J. W. MACCOLL) L'onde ballistique d'un projectile à téte conique. Mém. de l' Art. Franç. 12, 651-683.
1934a (With H. QUINNEY) The latent energy remaining in a metal after cold working. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 143, 307-326. (SP I, 19)
b Faults in a material which yields to shear stress while retaining its volume elasticity. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 145, 1-18. (SP I, 20)
c The mechanism of plastic deformation of crystals. I. Theoretical. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 145, 362-387. (SP I, 21)
d The mechanism of plastic deformation of crystals. II. Comparison with observations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 145, 388-404. (SP I, 22)
e The strength of rock salt. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 145, 405-415. (SP I, 23)
f A theory of the plasticity of crystals. Z. Kristall. A 89, 375-385. (SP I, 24)
g The formation of emulsions in definable fields of flow. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 146, 501-523. (SP IV, 11)
h The holding power of anchors. Yachting Monthly and Motor Boating Mag. (SP IV, 12)
1935a Lattice distortion and latent heat of cold work in copper. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Comm. (SP I, 25)
b Turbulence in a contracting stream. Z. angew. Math. Mech. 15, 91-96. (SP II, 26)
c Statistical theory of turbulence. I. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 151, 421-444. (SP II, 27)
d Statistical theory of turbulence. II. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 151, 444-454. (SP II, 28)
e Statistical theory of turbulence. III. Distribution of dissipation of energy in a pipe over its cross-section. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 151, 455-464. (SP II, 29)
f Statistical theory of turbulence. IV. Diffusion in a turbulent air stream. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 151, 465-478. (SP II, 30)
g Distribution of velocity and temperature between concentric rotating cylinders. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 151, 494-512. (SP II, 31)
h (With J. W. MACCOLL) The mechanics of compressible fluid. Section H of Aerodynamic theory, vol. III (ed. W. F. Durand), pp. 209-250. Berlin: Springer.
1936a The mean value of the fluctuations in pressure and pressure gradient in a turbulent fluid. Proc. Camb. phil. Soc. 32, 380-384. (SP II, 32)
b Statistical theory of turbulence. V. Effect of turbulence on boundary layer. Theoretical discussion of relationship between scale of turbulence and critical resistance of spheres. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 156, 307-317. (SP II, 33)
c The oscillations of the atmosphere. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 156, 318-326. (SP II, 34)
d Correlation measurements in a turbulent flow through a pipe. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 157, 537-546. (SP II, 35)
e Fluid friction between rotating cylinders. I. Torque measurements. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 157, 546-564. (SP II, 36)
f Fluid friction between rotating cylinders. II. Distribution of velocity between concentric cylinders when outer one is rotating and inner one is at rest. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 157, 565-578. (SP II, 37)
g Well established problems in high speed flow. R. Accad. Ital. Att.: 5, Conv. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat., pp. 198-214.
1937a (With H. QUINNEY) The emission of the latent energy due to previous cold working when a metal is heated. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 163, 157-181. (SP I, 26)
b (With A. E. GREEN) Mechanism of the production of small eddies from large ones. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 158, 499-521. (SP II, 38)
c Flow in pipes and between parallel planes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 159, 496-506. (SP II, 39)
d The statistical theory of isotropic turbulence. J. aeronaut. Sci. 4, 311-315. (SP II, 40)
e The determination of drag by the Pitot transverse method. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Comm. no. 1808. (SP III, 21)
f The determination of stresses by means of soap films. Article in The mechanical properties of fluids, pp. 237-254. London: Blackie.
1938a Plastic strain in metals. J. Inst. Metals 62, 307-324. (SP I, 27)
b Analysis of plastic strain in a cubic crystal. Timoshenko 60th anniv. vol., pp. 218-224. (SP I, 28)
c Production and dissipation of vorticity in a turbulent fluid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 164, 15-23. (SP II, 41)
d The spectrum of turbulence. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 164, 476-490. (SP II, 42)
1938e Measurements with a half-Pitot tube. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 166, 476-481. (SP IV, 13)
f Turbulence. Chap. 5 of Modern developments in fluid dynamics, vol. I (ed. S. Goldstein), pp. 191-233. Oxford University Press.
g Method of deducing F(n) from the measurements. Appendix to paper by L. F. G. Simmons and C. Salter, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 165, 87-89.
1939a (With A. E. GREEN) Stress systems in aeolotropic plates. I. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 173, 162-172. (SP I, 29)
b Determination of the pressure inside a hollow body in which there are a number of holes communicating with variable pressures outside. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Comm. (SP III, 22)
c The propagation and decay of blast waves. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP III, 23)
d Some recent developments in the study of turbulence. Proc. 5th Int. Congr. Appl. Mech., Camb., Mass., 1938, pp. 294-310. Wiley.
1940a Propagation of earth waves from an explosion. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP I, 30)
b Notes on possible equipment and technique for experiments on icing on aircraft. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Comm. no. 2024. (SP III, 24)
c Generation of ripples by wind blowing over a viscous fluid. Paper for Chem. Defence Res. Dept. (SP III, 25)
d Notes on the dynamics of shock-waves from bare explosive charges. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP III, 26)
e Pressures on solid bodies near an explosion. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP III, 27)
f The stagnation temperature in a wake. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Comm. (SP III, 28)
1941a Calculation of stress distribution in an autofrettaged tube from measurements of stress rings. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP I, 31)
b The propagation of blast waves over the ground. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP III, 29)
c Analysis of the explosion of a long cylindrical bomb detonated at one end. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP III, 30)
d The pressure and impulse of submarine explosion waves on plates. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP III, 31)
1942a The plastic wave in a wire extended by an impact load. Paper for Civil Defence Res. Comm. (SP I, 32)
b (With R. M. DAVIES) The mechanical properties of cordite during impact stressing. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP I, 33)
c The distortion under pressure of an elliptic diaphragm which is clamped along its edge. Paper for Co-ord. Comm. Shock-waves. (SP I, 34)
d The dispersion of jets of metals of low melting point in water. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 32)
e The motion of a body in water when subjected to a sudden impulse. Paper for Co-ord. Comm. Shock-waves. (SP III, 33)
f (With H. JONES) Note on the lateral expansion behind a detonation wave. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 34)
g (With R. M. DAVIES) The effect of the method of support in tests of damage to thin-walled structures by underwater explosions. Paper for Co-ord. Comm. Shock-waves. (SP III, 35)
h The vertical motion of a spherical bubble and the pressure surrounding it. Paper for Co-ord. Comm. Shock-waves. (SP III, 36)
1943a (With R. M. DAVIES) The motion and shape of the hollow produced by an explosion in a liquid. Paper for Co-ord. Comm. Shock-waves. (SP III, 37)
b (With R. M. DAVIES) Experiments with 1/76th scale model of explosions near ½-scale Asset target. Paper for Admiralty Undex Panel. (SP III, 38)
c A formulation of Mr Tuck's conception of Munroe jets. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 39)
d (With H. JONES) Blast impulse and fragment velocities from cased charges. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 40)
e Note on the limiting ranges of large rockets. Paper for Ministry of Defence. (SP III, 41)
1944a (With H. JONES) The bursting of cylindrical cased charges. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 42)
b Air resistance of a flat plate of very porous material. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Coun. no. 2236. (SP III, 43)
c The fragmentation of tubular bombs. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 44)
d (With R. M. DAVIES) The aerodynamics of porous sheets. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Coun. no. 2237. (SP III, 45)
1945a (With A. E. GREEN) Stress systems in aeolotropic plates. III. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 184, 181-195. (SP I, 35)
b Pitot pressures in moist air. Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Coun. no. 2248. (SP III, 46)
1946a The testing of materials at high rates of loading. J. Instn Civ. Eng. 26, 486-518. (SP I, 36)
b The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 186, 273-292. (SP III, 47)
c Note on R. A. Bagnold's empirical formula for the critical water motion corresponding with the first disturbance of grains on a flat surface. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 187, 16-18. (SP IV, 14)
d Some model experiments in connection with mine warfare. Trans. Instn nav. Archit., pp. 165-166.
1947 A connection between the criterion of yield and the strain ratio relationship in plastic solids. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 191, 441-446. (SP I, 37)
1948a The formation and enlargement of a circular hole in a thin plastic sheet. Q.Jl Mech. appl. Math. 1, 103-124. (SP I, 38)
b The use of flat-ended projectiles for determining dynamic yield stress. I. Theoretical considerations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 194, 289-299. (SP I, 39)
c The mechanics of swirl atomizers. Proc. 7th Int. Congr. Appl. Mech. London, 1948, part 1, 280-285. (SP III, 48)
d Eiver 1948. R. Cruising Club J., pp. 194-200.
e (With G. BIRKHOFF, D. P. MACDOUGALL and E. M. PUGH) Explosives with lined cavities. J. appl. Phys. 19, 563-582.
1949a (With G. K. BATCHELOR) The effect of wire gauze on small disturbances in a uniform stream. Q.Jl Mech. appl. Math. 2, 1-26. (SP III, 49)
b The shape and acceleration of a drop in a high-speed air stream. Paper for Advis. Coun. Sci. Res. Tech. Devel. (SP III, 50)
c Aerodynamic properties of gauze screens. Appendix to Rep. Memo. aeronaut. Res. Coun. no. 2276.
1950a The dynamics of the combustion products behind plane and spherical detonation fronts in explosives. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 200, 235-247. (SP III, 51)
1950b (With R. M. DAVIES) The mechanics of large bubbles rising through extended liquids and through liquids in tubes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 200, 375-390. (SP III, 52)
c The formation of a blast wave by a very intense explosion. I. Theoretical discussion. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 201, 159-174. (SP III, 53)
d. The formation of a blast wave by a very intense explosion. II. The atomic explosion of 1945. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 201, 175-186. (SP III, 54)
e The boundary layer in the converging nozzle of a swirl atomizer. Q. Fl Mech. appl. Math. 3, 130-139. (SP III, 55)
f The instability of liquid surfaces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes. I. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 201, 192-196. (SP III, 56)
g The path of a light fluid when released in a heavier fluid which is rotating. Paper for Aeronaut. Res. Coun. (SP IV, 15)
h The 7th International Congress for Applied Mechanics. Nature, Lond. 165, 258-260.
i Similarity solutions to problems involving gas flow and shock waves. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 204, 8-9.
1951a Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 209, 447-461. (SP IV, 16)
b The mechanism of eddy diffusivity. Proc. General Discussion on Heat Transfer, pp. 193-194. London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1952a Distribution of stress when a spherical compression pulse is reflected at a free surface. Research 5, 508-509. (SP I, 40)
b The action of waving cylindrical tails in propelling microscopic organisms. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 211, 225-239. (SP IV, 17)
c Analysis of the swimming of long and narrow animals. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 214, 158-183. (SP IV, 18)
d A scientist remembers. Hitchcock Lecture at the University of California.
1953a Formation of a vortex ring by giving an impulse to a circular disk and then dissolving it away. F. appl. Phys. 24, 104. (SP IV, 19)
b An experimental study of standing waves. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 218, 44-59. (SP IV, 20)
c Dispersion of soluble matter in solvent flowing slowly through a tube. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 219, 186-203. (SP IV, 21)
d Dispersion of salts injected into large pipes or the blood vessels of animals. Appl. Mech. Rev. 6, 265-267.
e William Cecil Dampier 1867-1952. Obit. Not. Fell. R. Soc. Lond. 9, 55-63.
1954a The dispersion of matter in turbulent flow through a pipe. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 223, 446-468. (SP II, 43)
b The use of a vertical air jet as a windscreen. Mémoires sur la méchanique des fluides (Riabouchinsky Anniversary Volume), pp. 313-317. (SP III, 57)
c Conditions under which dispersion of a solute in a stream of solvent can be used to measure molecular diffusion. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 225, 473-477. (SP IV, 22)
d The two coefficients of viscosity for a liquid containing air bubbles. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 226, 34-39. (SP IV, 23)
e Diffusion and mass transport in tubes. Proc. phys. Soc. Lond. B 67, 857-869.
f George Boole 1815-64. Proc. R. Ir. Acad., pp. 66-73.
1955 The action of a surface current used as a breakwater. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 231, 466-478. (SP IV, 24)
1956a Strains in crystalline aggregates. Proc. Colloq. Deformation and Flow of Solids, Madrid, 1955, pp. 3-12. Berlin: Springer. (SP I, 41)
b (With J. C. P. MILLER) Fluid flow between porous rollers. Q.Jl Mech. appl. Math. 9, 129-135. (SP IV, 25)
c Fluid flow in regions bounded by porous surfaces. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 234, 456-475. (SP IV, 26)
d (With B. R. MORTON and J. S. TURNER) Turbulent gravitational convection from maintained and instantaneous sources. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 234, 1-23. (SP II, 44)
e George Boole, F.R.S. 1815-64. Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 12, 44-52.
1957a (With P. G. SAFFMAN) Effects of compressibility at low Reynolds number. J. aeronaut. Sci. 24, 553-562. (SP III, 58)
b Fluid dynamics in a papermaking machine. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 242, 1-15. (SP IV, 27)
1958a Flow induced by jets. J. Aero/Space Sci. 25, 464-465. (SP II, 45)
b (With P. G. SAFFMAN) The penetration of a fluid into a porous medium or Hele-Shaw cell containing a more viscous liquid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 245, 312-329. (SP IV, 28)
1959a A note on the motion of bubbles in a Hele-Shaw cell and porous medium. Q.Jl Mech. Appl. Math. 12, 265-279. (SP IV, 29)
b The dynamics of thin sheets of fluid. I. Water bells. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 253, 289-295. (SP IV, 30)
c The dynamics of thin sheets of fluid. II. Waves on fluid sheets. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 253, 296-312. (SP IV, 31)
d The dynamics of thin sheets of fluid. III. Disintegration of fluid sheets. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 253, 313-321. (SP IV, 32)
e (With P. G. SAFFMAN) Cavity flows of viscous liquids in narrow spaces. Proc. 2nd Symp. on Naval Hydrodynamics, Wash., 1958, pp. 277-291. Washington: Office of Naval Research.
1960a Formation of thin flat sheets of water. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 259, 1-17. (SP IV, 33)
b Deposition of a viscous fluid on a plane surface. J. Fluid Mech. 9, Fluid Mech. 9, 218-224. (SP IV, 34)
c Similarity solutions of hydrodynamic problems. Article in Aeronautics and Astronautics (Durand anniv. vol.), pp. 21-28. Pergamon.
1961a Deposition of a viscous fluid on the wall of a tube. J. Fluid Mech. 10, 161-165. (SP IV, 35)
b Interfaces between viscous fluids in narrow passages. Article in Problems of Continuum Mechanics (Muskhelishvili anniv. vol.), pp. 546-555. Philadelphia: Soc. Indus. and Appl. Math.
c Fire under influence of natural convection. Publication 786, Nat. Acad. Sci.--Nat. Res. Coun., Washington, pp. 11-31.
1962a On scraping viscous liquid from a plane surface. Miszellaneen der angewandten Mechanik (Festschrift Walter Tollmien), pp. 313-315. (SP IV, 36)
b Standing waves on a contracting or expanding current. J. Fluid Mech. 13, 182-192. (SP IV, 37)
c Gilbert Thomas Walker 1868-1958. Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. Lond. 8, 167-174.
1963a Cavitation of a viscous fluid in narrow passages. J. Fluid Mech. 16, 595-619. (SP IV, 38)
b Memories of Kármán. J. Fluid Mech. 16, 478-480.
c Scientific diversions. Article in Man, Science, Learning and Education (ed. S. W. Higginbotham), pp. 137-148. Rice Univ. Semicent. Publ.
d Sir Charles Darwin (1887-1962). Am. phil. Soc. Y., pp. 135-140.
1964a Disintegration of water drops in an electric field. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 280, 383-397. (SP IV, 39)
b Cavitation in hydrodynamic lubrication. Article in Cavitation in Real Liquids (ed. R. Davies), pp. 80-101. Elsevier.
c The life of George Boole. Address at the Boole Centenary Celebrations, Lincoln.
1965a (With A. D. MCEWAN) The stability of a horizontal fluid interface in a vertical electric field. J. Fluid Mech. 22, 1-15. (SP IV, 40)
b Note on the early stages of dislocation theory. Article in Sorby Centennial Symposium on the History of Metallurgy (ed. C. S. Smith), pp. 355-358. Gordon and Breach.
1966a Conical free surfaces and fluid interfaces. Proc. 11th Int. Congr. Appl. Mech., Munich, 1964, pp. 790-796. (SP IV, 41)
b The force exerted by an electric field on a long cylindrical conductor. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 291, 145-158. (SP IV, 42)
c The circulation produced in a drop by an electric field. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 291, 159-166. (SP IV, 43)
d Oblique impact of a jet on a plane surface. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 260, 96-100. (SP IV, 44)
e (With A. D. MCEWAN) The peeling of a flexible strip attached by a viscous adhesive. J. Fluid Mech. 26, 1-15. (SP IV, 45)
f When aeronautical science was young. J. R. Aeronaut. Soc. 70, 108-113
1967 Low-Reynolds-number flows. 16 mm. colour sound film, produced by Educational Services Inc.
1968 The coalescence of closely spaced drops when they are at different electric potentials. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 306, 423-434. (SP IV, 46)
1969a Instability of jets, threads and sheets of viscous fluid. Proc. 12th Int. Congr. Appl. Mech., Stanford, 1968, pp. 382-388. (SP IV, 47)
b Motion of axisymmetric bodies in viscous fluids. Article in Problems of Hydrodynamics and Continuum Mechanics (Sedov anniv. vol.), pp. 718-724. Philadelphia: Soc. Indus. and Appl. Math. (SP IV, 48)
c Electrically driven jets. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 313, 453-475. (SP IV, 49)
d Amateur scientists. Michigan Q. Rev. 8, 107-113.
e Aeronautics fifty years ago. Quest: J. City Univ., no. 8, pp. 12-19.
f (With J. R. MELCHER) Electrohydrodynamics: a review of the role of interfacial shear stresses. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 1, 111-146.
1970a The interaction between experiment and theory in fluid mechanics. Bull. Brit. Hydromech. Res. Ass.; and Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 6 (1974), 1-16.
b Some early ideas about turbulence. J. Fluid Mech. 41, 3-11.
1971a A model for the boundary condition of a porous material. I. J. Fluid Mech. 49, 319-326.
b Aeronautics before 1919. Nature, Lond. 233, 527-529; and Bull. Inst. Math. Applic. 10 (1974), 363-366.
c The history of an invention. Eureka 34, 3-6; and Bull. Inst. Math. Applic. 10 (1974), 367-368.
1973a (With D. H. MICHAEL) On making holes in a sheet of fluid. J. Fluid Mech. 58, 625-639.
b Memories of von Kármán. Soc.Indus.Appl.Math.Rev.15, 447-452.
c The stability of a conducting jet in an electric field. Proc. 10th Symp. on Advanced Problems and Methods in Fluid Mechanics, Poland, 1971, pp. 9-16. Polish Academy of Sciences.
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was born on 7 March 1886, the son of Edward Ingram Taylor and his wife Margaret, who was the daughter of the mathematician George Boole. He was admitted to Trinity College Cambridge in 1905 where he read first Mathematics and then Natural Sciences and was awarded first a Scholarship and then a Fellowship which he held from 1910 to his death, with a short gap during the First World War when he joined many other Trinity scientists at the RAF factory at Farnborough where he worked on problems in aerodynamics.
Before the war he had joined an expedition to observe the flow of icebergs in the wake of the Titanic disaster which led him to the study of turbulence, which he was able to pick up again on his return to Cambridge in 1919. Over the next 3 decades he produced a series of seminal articles which transformed understanding of the subject. In 1923 he was appointed Royal Society Yarrow research professor, a post he held until 1952. During the Second World War he spent some time working with the staff of the Los Alamos project. After his retirement from the chair he continued to research at the Cavendish Laboratory. He died in 1975.
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A.1 - A.11 Biographical and autobiographical material
A.12 - A.53 Career and appointments
A.54 - A.64 Honours and Awards
A.65 - A.78 Letters of congratulation
A.79 - A.134 Family papers and correspondence
(The Taylor family, A.79 - A.104)
(The Boole family, A.105 - A.134)
A.135 - A.174 Personal correspondence
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A 23 pp. typescript account by Carmelita Hinton (Taylor's cousin by marriage) with a ms. note 'Written for friends for Xmas 1924', and a ms. note by Batchelor 'Sent to Stephanie Ravenhill. Part 2 describes a cruise on "Frolic" with G.I.T. as skipper.'
The party included 'Aunt Maggie' (Taylor's mother), 'another cousin Ursula' [Nettleship, see A.161], a 'Dr. Adrian' [E.D. Adrian] and 'The O'Malleys' [see A.163].
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'Sir Geoffrey Taylor' (_Monthly Science News_, 1945).
9 pp. ms.biographical notes on Taylor (to c. 1945) by Stephanie Taylor, 1954.
'G.I. Taylor. A biographical note', by R. V. Southwell (_Surveys in Mechanics_, C.U.P., 1956).
`Sir Geoffrey Taylor. His life's rule: to do what interests him' (New Scientist, 1957).
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'An Interview with Sir Geoffrey Taylor', by D. B. Spalding (_The Chartered Mechanical Engineer_, 1962).
'Close-up. Sir Geoffrey Taylor' (_Trinity Review_, 1964).
'The man who was paid to do no work' (Preliminary notice of Scientific Papers, ed. G. K. Batchelor, C.U.P., 1971).
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'G. I. Taylor - a profile', by T. Griffiths (_Trinity Review_, 1972). See also A.11.
Obituary, _The Times_, 1975.
Order of Memorial service, 1975.
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'An unfinished dialogue with G.I. Taylor', by G. K. Batchelor (_Journal of Fluid Mechanics_, 1975).
'Geoffrey Ingram Taylor', by G.K. Batchelor (_Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society_, 22, 1976).
'G.I. Taylor as I knew him', by G. K. Batchelor (_Advances in Applied Mechanics_, 1976).
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Personal records of Fellows of the Royal Society, with entries by G. I. and Lady Taylor.
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Extracts mainly from his father's diaries ('EIT') but occasionally from his mother's ('MT'). Extracts refer 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.
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Covering the years 1919-34; written for _Science and Humanity Year-book_.
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Includes correspondence with:
J. I. Beck, 1969
J. S. Bunt (Taylor's bequest of his portrait to Glenn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea), 1969
M. Deacon (taped interviews with Taylor), 1969
T. Griffiths (his profile of Taylor, see A.4), 1972
J. Hanson (history of Royal Aeronautical Establishment, etc.), 1968
R. MacLeod (Taylor's papers), 1972
M. Slocombe (BBC Sound Archives), 1970
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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).
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About Julian and Geoffrey Taylor, with one letter to Taylor, congratulating him on his scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1905.
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Letter from N. B. Mitchell 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'.
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Taylor spent several months in Linford Sanatorium, Ringwood, with a lung infection. He received many letters from his family and friends, mainly personal, but some including news of Cambridge. There are no surviving letters from Taylor for this period.
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Including Taylor's: grandmother, Mary Boole (signed `Missus'), aunt Alice Stott, cousin Mary Stott.
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Concerning Adrian's Tripos, and miscellaneous news from Cambridge.
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Including M. Brophy, T. Knox Shaw, J. Meek, H.V.T. Thompson (2 letters), C.T.R. Wilson and M. Wynne-Jones
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Chapters I, XVII and XVIII of a humorous story written by Taylor and others during his illness at Linford Sanatorium. (Chapters I and XVII are in Taylor's hand, Chapter XVIII in another's.)
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Includes a letter of appointment as Sublector in Physics, Trinity College, Cambridge, and letter re Taylor's rooms, a letter from shipyard at Ipswich re Taylor's boat `Elaine' (with photographs) and invitations, social engagements, etc.
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Includes a notice of course of lectures on Meteorology given by Taylor at the Cavendish Laboratory, 1914, a letter announcing award of Adams Prize to Taylor, 1914 and a a notice of Friday Discourses at the Royal Institution, 1918 (Major G.I. Taylor lectured on `The Use of Soap Films in Engineering', 19 April).
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Correspondents include J. W. Bush, H. Lamb, H. Ayrton and R. A. Herman (fragment only).
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Including a letter from War Office, 6 August 1914 (this reads: 'Captain Paine came in just after you 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 [renamed Royal Aircraft Establishment from April 1918] where there is plenty of very interesting scientific work going on'), 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. Included here is a MS copy of a poem by Ivor Gurney 'To Certain Comrades (E. S. and J. H.)' (not in Taylor's hand).
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Bill of sale to Taylor of 'Frolic', 1923, and some related correspondence, 1921, and re salvage claim, 1924. Also included is a letter to Stephanie Taylor, n.d., with a note by Batchelor 'probably after their cruise to the Lofoten Islands in 1927'.
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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.
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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.
See Batchelor, Memoir, p.585.
Included here is letter of invitation to attend Congress as H.M. Government representative, and letters of invitation from friends in Japan
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Paginated 2-18, but talk begins on p.2 and there is no missing page.
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A.35 includes (loose) signed photograph of Rajah of Sarawak.
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Taylor's interest in long gravity waves was aroused by a visit to Krakatau during the 1929 Congress (see Batchelor, Memoir, p.585).
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 film of Tristan da Cunha eruption
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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 of Royal Society.Also includes a letter from a friend to Stephanie Taylor.
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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 and later correspondence re alterations, valuation, etc.
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Journey to CanadaIncludes 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).
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Includes a letter from J.L. Paton, addressed to 'Dear Geoffrey of yore', 1934, 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, letter from H.E. Wimperis, 1935, letter from Director-General, Petroleum Warfare Department, 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.
See Batchelor, Memoir, p.604 for later applications of this work.
See C.39-C.43 for reports and papers prepared by Taylor for Petroleum Warfare Department in 1943.
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Arrangements and seating plan for dinner in Taylor's honour, at Trinity College, Cambridge, with letters and telegrams of congratulation, nly a relatively small number have survived.
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The correspondence in 1963-64 refers to Mr. W.E. Thompson, who had been Taylor's assistant and technician since 1923.
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Concerning wills, annuities, and power of Attorney held during Stephanie Taylor's illness, 1964-74. Includes a photocopy of Taylor's will.
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Includes correspondence re portrait of Taylor by Ruskin Spear, to commemorate his 80th birthday, 1965-66, a telegram of greeting from conference at Kyoto, 1966, group letter of greeting for birthday, 1973. Also a draft letter from Taylor to Bertha Jeffreys, which begins: `Thank you so much for coming in and relieving my boredom for an hour today', and continuing with a scientific speculation on hydraulic resistance. The letter tails off, and was never sent. It 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.
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D.Sc. University of Liverpool 1933 (Programme of events), University of British Columbia 1933 (Programme of events), Royal Medal, Royal Society 1933 (Letter of award, citation), King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, D.Sc. University of Oxford 1938 (Programme of events, oration, press-cuttings), Hon. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh 1938 (Letter of election)
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Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences 1940 (Letter of election), Knighthood 1944 (Correspondence), Copley Medal, Royal Society 1944 (Press-cutting), Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences 1945 (Letter and press-cutting)
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Correspondant, Académie des Sciences, Paris 1946 (Letter of election), D.Sc. University of London 1946 (Programme of events, citation), U.S. Medal for Merit 1946 (Citation, printed material, correspondence re (presentation), Hon. Member, Institute of Metals 1947 (Letter to Stephanie Taylor, 1955), Hon. Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society 1948 (Letter of election), Hon. Member, Calcutta Mathematical Society 1948 (Letter to Stephanie Taylor, 1955), Hon. Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 1952
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D.Sc. University of Birmingham 1952 (Programme of events), LI.D. University of Edinburgh 1953 (Laureation Addresses), Gold Medal, Royal Aeronautical Society 1954, Exner Medal, Österreicher Gewerbeverein 1954 (Letter of election and Taylor's draft letter of acceptance)
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Member, American Philosophical Society 1955 (Letter of election), Hon. Member, Institution of Civil Engineers 1955 (Correspondence re election and presentation), Foreign Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences 1955 (Letter of election), Hon. Degree, University of Cambridge 1957 (Programme of events, citation)
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Panetti Prize and Medal, Academia delle Scienze, Turin 1958 (Correspondence re election and presentation, citation) - This was the first award of the Panetti Prize, Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1958 (Letters of award), D.Sc. University of Bristol 1959 (Programme of events), Kelvin Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers 1959 (Correspondence re award and presentation, citation, published Report of Proceedings with Taylor's speech of thanks)
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Hon. Degree, University of Paris 1961 (Citation), Trasenter Medal, University of Liège 1961 (Letter of award, citation)
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Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute 1962 (Citation, published Report of Proceedings, photographs of the award showing Taylor, W. Lepage (President, Franklin Institute), W. von Braun (Director, Space Flight Center), 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.
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Platinum Medal, Institute of Metals 1964 (Press-cutting), Hon. Fellow, Institute of Physics and the Physical Society 1964, (Letter of election), Hon. Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico, Milan 1964 (Letter of election), Foreign Member, Academia delle Scienze, Turin 1964 (Letters of election)
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James Watt International Gold Medal, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1964 (Letter of award, citation), Hon. Member, Mathematical Society of Cork 1965 (Letter of election, referring to George Boole), Hon. D.Sc. University of Michigan, as part of a program `The Voices of Civilization' to mark 150th anniversary of university 1966 (Letter), Foreign Member, USSR Academy of Sciences 1966 (Telegrams), Order of Merit 1968 (List of Members), Von Kármán Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers 1969 (Correspondence, including ms. letter from Taylor)
See A.69-A.77 for correspondence re the Order of Merit.
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50th Anniversary Medal, American Meteorological Society 1970 (Letters re award and presentation, photographs of Taylor taken 1962 when he was elected to Hon. Membership of the Society), D.Sc. Colorado State University 1971 (Letter of award), Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences 1971 (Letters of award and congratulation, and re Taylor's lecture at a symposium in Poland), Von Kármán Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1972 (Letter of award, citation and biographical material), Paul Bergsøe Medal, Danish Metallurgical Society 1973 (Letter)
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These were kept separately by Taylor from the letters he received, some of which are in the folders below.
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Taylor was taken ill and unable to travel to Philadelphia to receive the Prize. Folder includes correspondence re award of Prize in absentia, arrangements for its delivery to Taylor, letters of congratulation, and correspondence with nurses who cared for Taylor during his illness.
See also A.64.
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Photocopy supplied by G. K. Batchelor.
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Birth, marriage, death, burial certificates.
Photographs of Taylor's grandparents (some identified by Stephanie Taylor on verso).
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James Taylor was a foundling and some of the information was obtained by G.K. Batchelor from the Foundling Hospital, now called the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, London.
(These are photocopies of the original documents, which are now held by the Thomas Coram Foundation.)
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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 M. Hinton to Margaret Taylor, 1895, 1896
Letters from H.J. Spenser re Julian Taylor's education, 1906.
Letter re Geoffrey Taylor, 1913.
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Includes: Very early letter about sailing, n.d., c.1896.
2 letters from Trinity, c.1905.
3 letters written from S.S. `Scotia', June-July 1913.
Other misc. letters and greetings, 1919, 1925.
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All from various addresses in USA
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Lecture tour in USA
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Visit to Australia, etc.
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USA, Guernsey, Istanbul
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(Sailing on `Guiding Light')
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Stephanie Taylor's death certificate
Letters of condolence received by Taylor on her death (not indexed).
Enclosed here is a ms. letter from Taylor to J. Rotblat, declining an invitation to a Pugwash Conference because of his wife's incapacity. The letter concludes: `In fact, except for fulfilling an engagement in 1965 which I had made before she was so ill, I have not been away from home for a night since 1964'.
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Included here is a lively letter written December 1964 to the Grahams by Stephanie Taylor before she became seriously ill.
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Bess Rosenthal died in 1971 but the family continued to write to `dear Uncle G'.
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Mainly letters to Margaret Taylor re presentation of drawings and paintings by her husband to various museums and galleries, 1931-35. Includes correspondence from: S. Cockerell (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), C. Dodgson (Dept. of Prints and Drawings, British Museum), M. Hardie (Victoria and Albert Museum), 1931-33, Fine Art Society. A curriculum vitae of Edward Taylor is also included.
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Includes letter to Julian from W.B.L. Trotter, 1914 and letters to Taylor from Julian, 1919, 1956-61. Press-cuttings, and order of Memorial Service after death of Julian Taylor, 1961.
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Family tree of the descendants of William and Alice Boole.(Photocopy supplied by G.K. Batchelor)
Misc. genealogical notes on the Boole family (to 1879).
Notes for a family tree by Taylor, with a ms. footnote `notes of talk between GIT and E.L. Voynich'
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Misc. items relating to George Boole.
Includes: 2 autograph signatures of George Boole.
Notes of various items relating to Boole in the possession of the Taylor family.
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 Boole.
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Material relating to the celebration of the occasion at the Royal Irish Academy, at which Taylor gave a talk `George Boole and his family connexions'. Includes: Invitation to attend, programme of events, a letter from W.C. Kneale on Boole's poetry and a letter from H.B. Hartley re Taylor's article.
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One of these letters has ms. notes and calculations by Taylor on verso
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In preparation for his biographical talk at Lincoln on the centenary of Boole's death
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With 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).
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Presented by Taylor on the occasion of the Centenary. Correspondents include J.O'Malley (Royal Irish Academy), E.F. O'Docherty (University College, Dublin), M.A. MacConaill (University College, Cork), D.T. Piper (National Portrait Gallery)
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The first 15 letters are by A. P. Rollett; the rest are by his son J. M. Rollet, who continued the correspondence after his father's death in July 1968. A few of the letters by J. M. Rollett bear annotations by G. K. Batchelor.
Published
Includes ms. letter from Taylor re Alice Stott's work, and Professor Schoute.
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)
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Correspondents include M.G. Kendall (request for article on Boole to be written by Taylor), H.S.M. Coxeter exhibition of Alice Stott's models, K. Lonsdale exhibition of Alice Stott's models, K. Avak (Mary Boole), J.H.H. Merriman (new letters of George Boole), W.B. Lewis
R.H. True (Alice Stott)
H.G. Hopkins
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Correspondence addressed to Margaret Taylor and Alice Stott.
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Correspondence addressed to Margaret Taylor.
Published
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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A signed passport photograph of Margaret Taylor is included here.
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Includes 2 letters from Rex Boole (brother of Gabrielle).
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Sister Rosemary (Boole), 1965 (Grand-daughter of Charles Boole above).
Published
Carmelita (née Chase) was the widow of Sebastian Hinton, son of Mary Boole. She was thus a cousin by marriage to Taylor and his close contemporary (b. 1890).
The 1937 letter is addressed from Putney, Vermont, where Mrs. Hinton ran a school; others are from her Pennsylvania home, but many are from various addresses in China which she frequently visited, and always admired. Her son William wrote `Fanshen' on land reform in China, and her daughter Joan settled there. The impact of Chinese culture and ideas on an idealistic American family is well illustrated in these letters.
There is a letter from Taylor dated 7 May 1969 in the sequence, and letters from other members of the family.
See also A.1, A.127, A.128.
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And Margaret Hinton, 1973. H.E. Hinton FRS died in 1977. Some family papers remain in charge of Dr. J. Hinton, Department of History, University of Warwick, to whom enquiries should be addressed.
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Letters from China; that of October 1964 discusses the wide readership of E.L. Voynich's novel The Gadfly in China.
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Includes some letters from Steven Rosner (husband), Marni (daughter) and Ted (son), a letter from Jean Rosner to E.L. Voynich with ms. annotations by Mrs. Voynich, and a pre-publication notice of William Hinton's `Fanshen: A documentary of revolution in a Chinese Village', 1966.
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Includes also letters from Mary Stott (daughter) 1954, a press-cutting of the obituary of Leonard Stott (son), and a letter re poetry of George Boole.
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Letter of 1925 is to Stephanie Ravenhill, with advice and plans for her and Taylor's garden. Letters of 1954 contain recollections and anecdotes of George Boole. Includes also a copy of E.L. Voynich's Will, and a press-cutting on her death in 1960 at the age of 96.
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Includes: Correspondence with Anne Nill (Mrs. Voynich's companion) with an account of her death.
Correspondence with Winifred Gaye, 1961-69 (`who thought not legally adopted by me has always been considered by me as a daughter' according to Mrs. Voynich's Will).
Correspondence re Mrs. Voynich's estate and portrait.
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Misc. correspondence re articles or biographies, requests for information, etc.
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).
Published
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Adams, H.M. 1973
Allibone, T.E. 1969, 1973 (Jubilee of Taylor's Bakerian Lecture)
Anderson, T. 1972
See also D.83
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Barker, N.J. 1970 (re Mikhail Voynich)
Barry, R.E. 1964
Bird, A. 1969
Bowden, M. n.d. probably 1968
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Brown, V. (includes recollections of Sir William Farren)
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Burkill, J.C. n.d.
Busemann, A. 1974 (and a letter 1971 re Busemann's 70th birthday celebration)
Cadbury, L.J. 1973
See also E.13
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Carr, F.G.G.
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Carrier, G.F. 1967
Chabot, C.J. 1971 (recollections of work at Farnborough)
Published
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.
Published
Hans Clarke had been a school-fellow of Taylor at University College School. He became ill in 1970 and died in 1972, the correspondence being continued by his wife Flora.
Also included is correspondence 1973 with Clarke's sister Rebecca Friskin, on early recollections of Clarke's experiments with tear gas.
Note: A collection of Clarke's notebooks, papers and correspondence (including c.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 Biology, Philadelphia.
See also A.159.
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Conway, W.G. 1970
Corrsin, S. 1970 (recollections of L.V. King and others)
Crick, F.H.C. 1972
Darwin, K. 1963, 1964
Published
Davidson, K. and Davidson, A.
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De Navarro, T. 1974
Den Hartog, J. and Den Hartog, E. 1971-74
Evans, U.R. 1965, 1973-74
Farren, M.A. 1967-73
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Gardner, M. 1972
Goldschmidt, V.W. 1972
Gordon, S. 1972
Granfield, M. n.d.
Hansard, D. 1967
Hawthorne, E. 1974
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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)
Hoff N.J. 1971 (book on aeronautical history)
Holttum, R.E. 1969
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Keenan, J.H. 1965
Kennedy, L.A. 1972
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Ella Knight was the widow of A.H.J. Knight, a colleague of Taylor at Trinity College, and a keen sailor.
Includes correspondence 1972 with D. Cole.
Published
Koiter, W.T. 1973
Kovasznay, L.S.G. 1973
Published
Includes a letter from Mrs. G.M. Lapthorn (mother of Mabel), September 1915.
Mabel Lapthorn studied art under Taylor's father. Her portrait drawing of Taylor hung in his room at `Farmfield' (a copy is in E.5). There seems to have been a strong attachment between them in early years, and Miss Lapthorn remained a faithful and assiduous correspondent, though it will be seen that only a small proportion of her letters survives.
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Ledesma, E.M. de 1972 (recollections of early flying)
Lloyd, D. 1972
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Jill Levetus was an old family friend, and the correspondence refers to the portrait of E.L. Voynich in her possession.
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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. His own letters are signed Jock. It is clear that Taylor kept up the correspondence on his side, but none of his letters are preserved.
The 1933 letter discusses the manufacture and testing of the CQR Anchor, and there are references to this and related matters passim in the later correspondence.
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MacCready, J. 1924
Maclean, C.H.F. 1972
MacPhail, D.C. 1972, 1974
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Dora Middleton was the sister of H.T. Clarke (see A.142) and widow of Admiral Gervase Middleton.
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Morgan, M. 1972, 1973
Morris, J.H.C. n.d. (sailing, CQR anchor)
Mott, N.F. 1972
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Published
Oatley, C.W. 1974
Oliphant, M.L.E. 1974
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Lady O'Malley published extensively under the name Ann Bridge. Her letters to Taylor are addressed My dear Skipper and signed Mary Anne.
The O'Malleys had been on the 1924 cruise in Frolic (see A.1) and Mrs. (later Lady) O'Malley remained a lifelong friend of Taylor. Sir Owen served at the British Legation, Peking, and letters of 1926 contain descriptions of life and travel in China.
Included also is a poem (1924) in praise of Taylor's Royal Society Yarrow Research Professorship; the last stanza runs:
There is also a letter, 1974, from Jane O'Malley about the death of her parents.
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On C G Darwin
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Pick, E.E. 1966
Prosser, L.E. 1972
Raven, J. 1974
Richardson, L.F. 1944
Rossi, B. 1974
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Rosenheim, M.L. 1972
Roskill, S.W. 1966, 1972-75
Rouse, H. 1972
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Salt, G. 1972
Schlapp, R. 1968
Scott, P.A.J. 1970
Sears, W.R. 1973
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Carol and Paul Sheldon were American friends, met through Kay and Anne Davidson (see A.145).
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Simpson, J.A. 1972
Skimmins, S.G. 1963, 1965
Smith, R. 1973
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Published
Stewart, R.W. 1970
Sutton, O.G. 1966
Temple, G. 1965, 1974
Turnbull, H.W. 1954
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Vander Werff, T.J. 1972
Wedgwood, C.V. 1973 (recollections of the Wedgwood family)
Welbourn, D.B. 1972
Whiddington, R. 1970
Williams-Ellis, B.C. 1972, 1973
Wilson, S.C. 1970
Woods, R.S. 1974
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The paucity of material in this Section is regretted. It derives in part from Taylor's idiosyncratic working methods which led him to make random jottings on any piece of paper that came to hand; the folder in B.3 is characteristic, and many of the letters, committee papers and other documents in the collection bear notes, drawings and calculations of this kind. Even so, it is probable that many other notebooks have not survived.
Published
Exercise-book, with ms. note by G.K. Batchelor inside front cover 'Notebook used by G.I.T. on `Scotia' in 1913'. Contains notes, drawings and calculations on anemometer observations on turbulent air, 8 May-27 July 1913. Includes drawings for the tethered kite on the mast-head which enabled successful observations to be taken.
Some pages have been torn from the rear of the book.
Published
Exercise-book, with ms. note by G.K. Batchelor inside front cover `Typical working note-book used by G.I.T. in 1921'.
The contents are described by Batchelor as follows:
1. Notes on differential equations, source not stated.
2. Data and readings in experiments on stability of flow between rotating cylinders.
3. (At other end) Readings for some experiment involving specimens of solid material'.
The first set of work is not dated, the second set begins 15 May and continues at various dates to 20 December 1921, the third set (at rear of book) begins 26 October 1921.
Published
Included here is a sequence of notes dated 5 November 1971 on porous discs with a ms. note by Batchelor `Laboratory record of measurement of K for Beaver's disk'.
See also D.8.
Published
Includes: Taylor's referee's report on a paper, n.d. or indication of journal, a letter to The Times on concrete kerbs, 1967, press cuttings and Taylor's referee's report on degree application, n.d. but after 1970.
Published
Published
'A new or improved hawse-piece for a ship, yacht, flying boat, sea plane or other vessel'.
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Published
Published
Published
See also C.56, D.43-D.46.
Published
These consist of reports for government and advisory committees, drafts and typescripts for talks, addresses and papers, etc., presented chronologically. Some are photocopies obtained by G.K. Batchelor, and all are typescript unless otherwise indicated. When the item is accompanied by correspondence, this is 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 these exceptions, and any others noted in the entries, the items in this Section are unpublished.
A photocopy of the list of publications is reproduced by permission from Batchelor, Memoir, on pp.74 - 83.
A complete set of Taylor's published papers 1909-73 is held in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Published
Autograph ms., pages numbered 3-41, with a note by G.K. Batchelor, 'Found in G.I's garage in a water-stained folder, July 1976'.
Although the pagination begins p.3, the paper begins `Some months ago Sir J.J. Thomson suggested to me to try and find some explanation of the action of crystal rectifiers, and the experiments described in this paper are the results of this suggestion'. It seems therefore that the missing pages 1 and 2 did not include the substance of the paper.
Also included is correspondence re the paper between G.K. Batchelor and A.B. Pippard, 1976.
Published
Typescript with ms. corrections (incomplete), for the Adams Prize, University of Cambridge, awarded to Taylor, 1914.
In his preface headed `Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, December 28, 1914', Taylor explains the haste and difficult circumstances in which the work had to be completed, and acknowledges the help of his parents in drawing diagrams and filling in formulae.
See also A.25.
Published
Ms. of part of a paper on turbulent flow, not subsequently published in same form.
Published
Paper T.646 for Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Typescript photocopy, with a ms. note by Batchelor `Superseded by R and M 604 (SP II, 10)'.
Published
Paper T.759 for Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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20 pp. ms. + 2 pp. tables, of paper published as Rep. Memo. advis. Comm. Aeronaut. no.345 (SP II, 7).
See also D.19.
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Paper T.1328 (Met.40) for Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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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'.
Published
Paper Met.58 for Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Published
This became 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.
Published
Paper Met.66 for Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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A theory of the stalling of aerofoils at speeds near that of sound. This became paper T.1636b for Aeronautical Research Committee.
P.1 of paper has many `doodles' by Taylor.
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This became paper T.1636d for Aeronautical Research Committee.
Published
This became paper T.1696a for Aeronautical Research Committee.
Published
This became paper T.1696c for Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Paper T.1759 for Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Paper T.1875 for Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Paper T.1999 (P.33) for Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Paper T.2761 for Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Paper E.F.271 for Aeronautical Research Committee.
Published
Paper T.3046a (F.M.26a) for Aeronautical Research Committee.
Published
Paper S.177 (994) for Aeronautical Research Committee.
Describes tests with CQR and other anchors, by Taylor and W.S. Farren.
Published
Paper T.3595. S.216 (1449) for Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Prepared by Taylor and W.S. Farren for Ely Sugar Beet Factory.
Typescript (2 copies) + 1 p. ms. drawing.
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20 pp. ms. draft for paper F.M. 206 (1656), prepared for Aerodynamics Sub-committee.
A copy of the typescript committee paper, dated February 1935, is also included.
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Ms. draft, undated and untitled, pp. 4-10 + 1 unnumbered. with a ms. note by Batchelor `Apparently an early form of the paper published in Proc.Roy.Soc. A, 156, 1936 (SP II, 33)'. [`Statistical theory of turbulence V'.]
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Paper R.C.12. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Home Office.
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Paper R.C.36. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Home Office.
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Paper R.C.74. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
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Paper A.C.79. Phys/Ex.9. for Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Explosive and Research Committee, Ministry of Supply.
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Paper R.C.110. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
Published
Paper R.C.178. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
With a ms. note by Batchelor `Superseded by PRS 200, 1950' (SP III, 51).
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Paper R.C.190. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
Published
Paper R.C.190a. for Civil Defence Research Committee, Ministry of Home Security.
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With a letter from Brown releasing report, 1964.
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Paper A.C.1247. Gn.55. for Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Gun Design Committee, Ministry of Supply.
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Paper A.C.1328. Phys/Ex.170. for Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Explosives Research Committee, Ministry of Supply.
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Paper A.C.1724. Gn.96. for Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Gun Design Committee, Ministry of Supply.
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'.Paper A.C.1851. Gn.104. for Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Gun Design Committee, Ministry of Supply.
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For Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
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Written for Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
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For Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
C.41 and C.42 are typed copies, prepared for official use, of letters from Taylor to A.O. Rankine
Published
For Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
C.41 and C.42 are typed copies, prepared for official use, of letters from Taylor to A.O. Rankine.
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Paper M.R.P.144 for Petroleum Warfare Department, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
The report is dated 7 September 1943 and refers to Taylor's letter to Rankine of 3 September (C.41 above).
Published
Paper A.C.5270. Gn.315 for Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Gun Design Committee, Ministry of Supply.
Published
.In the form of a typed version of a letter by Taylor to H.Q., Royal Artillery (Sound Ranging).
Published
Paper 8343. F.M.669a for Aeronautical Research Committee.
Published
Also included is a photocopy of The Listener, 16 August 1945 in which the talk was published under the title `Trying out the Bomb'.
Published
Memorandum written for Co-ordinating Committee on Guided and Propelled Missiles and Projectiles. C.C.G.P. (45) 15.
23 pp. + 5 figs., and 3 pp. corrigenda dated March 1946.
Published
Document 3/50 B, Electricity Supply Research Council Working Party B - Atmospheric Pollution.
C.49 and C.50 are typed copies, prepared for official use, of letters from Taylor to Sir Harold Hartley.
Published
Document 6/50 B for above working party.
C.49 and C.50 are typed copies, prepared for official use, of letters from Taylor to Sir Harold Hartley.
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Published
Typescript with ms. corrections.
Taylor spoke on behalf of the Royal Society, Cambridge University and the London Mathematical Society.
Published
Typescript of lecture given in Australia. Has many parts in common with `A scientist remembers'.
See C.54 below.
Published
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.
Published
Typescript and ms.
Published
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.
Published
Typescript of Davidson Memorial Lecture given at Stevens Institute of Technology, New York.
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11 pp. heavily-corrected manuscript.
Published
Published
Published
Ms., and published summary, of lecture given at 10th International Congress for Applied Mechanics, Stresa, Italy, 1960.
Published
This was read by E.J. Richards in G.I.T.'s absence due to illness.
See also D.98.
Published
Typescript with ms. corrections of an address given at the Boole Centenary Celebrations at Lincoln.
See A.108-A.113 for further material relating to this occasion and E.17 for a tape-recording of the address.
Published
Typescript of contribution to `The Sorby Centennial Symposium on the History of Metallurgy', ed. C.S. Smith, 1965.
With a copy of Taylor's letter 1963 forwarding the article, with some further reminiscences about the subject.
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Ms. so titled, unpublished, but material incorporated (in part) in paper read at 11th International Congress of Applied Mechanics, Munich 1964 (SP IV, 41).
Published
Typescript with ms. corrections of paper read at IUTAM Symposium on `Rotating Fluid Systems', La Jolla, California.
Published
2 pp. typescript, published in memorial volume (not listed in Bibliography of Memoir).
Includes correspondence.
Published
Published
See Batchelor, Memoir, pp.618-620 for an account of Taylor's work on this subject, much of it between the ages of 78 and 83.
Published
This was the conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology which Taylor initiated.
See also D.50.
Published
Delivered to the Material Sciences Club, on the award to Taylor of the A.A. Griffith Medal.
Includes correspondence with Chairman re award, history of club, and arrangements for talk.
Published
.13 pp. ms., contribution to Sedov anniversary volume (SP IV, 48).
Published
30 pp. ms., and 17 pp. typescript versions for talk illustrated with slides.
A reduced version was published in Michigan Q.Rev., 8, 1969.
Published
The Lester Gardner Lecture, given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
26 pp. ms. draft, and photocopy of typescript version.
See also D.7, D.101, E.6
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Ms. of lecture at IUTAM Symposium on 'Multiphase Flow in Porous Media', Calgary (unpublished).
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Talk to members of Trinity College, Cambridge.
22 pp. ms. draft, and 15 pp. typescript version.
Published
14 pp. ms. draft.
Published in J.Fluid Mech. 49, 1971
Published
5 pp. ms., with reminiscences of Rutherford, Kapitza and Taylor's yacht `Frolic'.
Published
Article on CQR anchor, published in Eureka.
4 pp. ms.
Published
Ms. of text of a lecture given at 10th Symposium on Advanced Problems and Methods in Fluid Mechanics, Poland.
A revised version was published in the Symposium Proceedings, 1971.
See also A.64.
Published
Ms. of a summary of the paper Taylor intended to present at the 13th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Moscow in September 1972. The work was published in a joint paper with D.H. Michael, who presented it at the Moscow 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 a ms. note of background information by Batchelor on the front page.
See also D.52, D.60, D.64.
Published in J.Fluid Mech., 58, 1973, pp.625-39
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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 reconstruct a relatively complete sequence. Examples of this can be found at D.7, D.13, D.29, D.43-D.46, D.52, D.60, D.64, D.65, 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 appended below for ease of reference.
D.6, D.7, D.9
D.10, D.12, D.13, D.14
D.21, D.24, D.29
D.30, D.35
D.41, D.44
D.50, D.52, D.53
D.60, D.64, D.65
D.71, D.72, D.74, D.76
D.87
D.91
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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. Because of their close personal contact, little correspondence remains.
Folder includes two letters from A.S.F. Gow, 1972, about Adrian's car accident.
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Bacon, F.T. 1973 (fuel cells)
Bagnold, R.A. 1970 (water `boils')
Baker, S. 1968
Barenblatt, G.I. 1968 (see also Kochina, P.)
Barreto, E. 1970
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General correspondence, re scientific research problems, visits, publication of Taylor's papers, etc. Folders consists mainly of ms. letters from Taylor.
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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',
See also C.74, D.87, D.101.
Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 70, 1975 (see A.5).
Published
See also B.3
Published
Includes correspondence exchanged on vibrations of a falling sheet of water
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Published
Concerns the 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
Published
Re proposed 'Science Centre' on the South Bank, where the Royal Society would have had premises in 'New Burlington House'. Taylor was strongly opposed to the idea, and the folder includes ms. letters sent by him to Fellows and Officers of the Society.
Published
General correspondence on research in fluid dynamics, publications, conferences and visits. The letters for 1929 refer to the Taylors' journey through Dutch East Indies and also Taylor's trip in R 101. Letters for 1945 refer to Burger's journey to England to learn scientific developments, etc. during the period of the German occupation of Holland. The 1973 correspondence is mainly recollections of visits and of other scientists.
For Taylor's journey through the Dutch East Indies see A.31-A.37
Published
See also D.89
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
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
Dobson, G.M.B. 1917
Includes a note by Dobson `Note on R and M. 345. Turbulent Motion in the Air', commenting on Taylor's report no.345 to the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
See also D.74.
(see C.6).
Published
Published
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. Taylor 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.
Published
Forrest, J.S.
Published
Correspondence with Fraenkel 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'.
Published
Published
Tryggve Gran was a Norwegian explorer who had been 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)
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 visit by Gran to Berlin, 1939.
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Published
Published
Published
Correspondence in 1969 is a detailed exchange of views on boundary conditions at a viscous liquid/porous medium interface, and on effect on flow of a high-resistance septum.
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Published
Jerome and Alice Hunsaker were old friends of Taylor. The correspondence includes scientific and personal material, recollections, etc.
Published
Includes a typescript report on the hydrographic scientific meeting, Copenhagen, 27 March 1931, in which Taylor took part.
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Published
Geoffrey Melvill Jones was the son of Sir (Bennett) Melvill Jones, one of Taylor's oldest friends, nicknamed `Bones'. Folder includes a letter from Sir Melvill Jones, 1969.
Published
Includes several ms. letters from Taylor, on viscous liquid/porous medium interface.
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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.
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Published
Correspondence on research problems and papers, especially on sound-waves and fog signals
Published
See also D5
Published
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Includes some of Taylor's ms. draft replies.
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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. The letters sent 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. Very few of Taylor's letters survive though it is clear that he was a punctual correspondent when engaged on a project.
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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. The letters sent 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. Very few of Taylor's letters survive though it is clear that he was a punctual correspondent when engaged on a project.
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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. The letters sent 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. Very few of Taylor's letters survive though it is clear that he was a punctual correspondent when engaged on a project.
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(This includes scientific, personal and social correspondence from Mardon and his wife (Babs) to Taylor)
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. The letters sent 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. Very few of Taylor's letters survive though it is clear that he was a punctual correspondent when engaged on a project.
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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. Görtler (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.
see also D.24 and D.87
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Mainly correspondence relating to the research and publication of a joint paper `On making holes in a sheet of fluid', J. Fluid Mech., 58, 1973. The correspondence runs July 1971-April 1973, and consists of the originals of Michael's letters to Taylor, and photocopies of Taylor's letters to Michael, kindly made available by Michael.
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. In the event, he was unable to attend and the paper was read for him by Michael.
See Batchelor, Memoir, pp.620-621.
Michael's index to the letters is included in the folder, and indicates where material 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.
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See also A.64, E.13
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Mainly arrangements to incorporate Taylor's 1923 experiment on the motion of bodies in rotating fluids in a film entitled 'Fluid Motion in Rotating Systems'; includes a postcard re a film of undulatory movement from Sir James Gray.
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Letter and calculations commenting on Taylor's rotating cylinder experiment and paper.
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Padday, J.F.
This is a sequence of letters, some original and some photocopies, kindly made available by Padday, who has also provided a short account (1976), included in the folder, of the substance of the correspondence. The material complements the correspondence with D.H. Michael on the stability of holes in liquid (D.52). Padday's explanatory note concludes: `There can be no doubt that this correspondence which is complete stimulated each investigator to seek for the singularity which represented the criteria for stability'.
See also C.81, D.52, D.64
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The correspondence August 1957-April 1958 consists of a detailed exchange of information and results on the flow of liquid over rotating rollers. Taylor's letters are usually typed copies of his originals; some are photocopies.
See also C.81, D.52, D.60
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Prandtl was Director, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Stromungs-forschung, Göttingen.
The correspondence is mainly scientific, on turbulence, but includes a little personal material.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 folder).
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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).
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The correspondence 1950-51 consists of photocopies of Taylor's letters to Rothschild, kindly made available by him. It relates to Taylor's study of the swimming 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: `I had thought about this problem long before you mentioned it in connection with your work. Bidder used to write to me about it'. George Parker Bidder (1863-1953) was a marine biologist, who lectured at Cambridge and had dining rights at Trinity between the wars.
The letters of 1970 are on the trajectory of golf balls.
See also D.75
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Scientific and personal correspondence. Taylor's letters are photocopies kindly made available by Saffman.
Correspondence 1956-57 and 1963 is re collaborative papers by Taylor and Saffman; none of Saffman's letters for this period survive here.
Correspondence 1970-71 is on porous disc experiments and boundary layers.
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See also D.19 and D.78
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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 is clear that he sent prompt and careful replies to Stanton's letters and enquiries.
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The letter of 1916 (March 12) is addressed `Dear Shaw' (perhaps Sir Napier Shaw, see D.74).
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On electrostriction; Stuetzer acknowledges the correctness of Taylor's views and thanks him for his 'educational efforts'
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Letter of 1919 informs Taylor of his election to a Lecturership in Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, for 3 years from October 1919.
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Tipper, Constance F.
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 early correspondence refers to these collaborative studies and papers; the letters (all from the Royal School of Mines) give the date of the month, but not the year and are tentatively assigned to 1924 and 1927. The letter of `November 9th' (?1924) describes her tough interrogation at a Royal Society meeting and sends `Many thanks for standing up for me at the R.S. I really felt horribly squashed'.
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.
See also A.135.
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Includes tables and calculations on 'Sir Geoffrey's dispersion problem', and some ms. notes by R.V. Southwell under whose supervision the work was done.
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.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-hydrodynamics; review-article by Taylor and Melcher for Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics; declaration of 'G.I. 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. Taylor complained to the publishers of the English edition (Macmillan) and received apologies from them and from the author.
Some of the letters, or parts of letters, are photocopies kindly made available by Professor Van Dyke.
See also C.74, D.7, D.101
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Includes some letters from Volterra's family, following his death in 1973, continuing the correspondence to 1974.
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See also D.14, D.93
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Personal and scientific correspondence, including:
Correspondence 1956 on gyroscopes, and spin of a ball
1968 on submarine jet (in this letter Wallis mentions that a flood has destroyed many of his files and wartime films)
1971 re Wallis's sponsorship of Julian Taylor (Taylor's great-nephew) at Christ's Hospital (see also A.103)
1972 re any surviving diaries of Sir Charles Craven d.1944 (in his letter Wallis mentions his own lifelong suffering from migraine)
1974 re R.100, designed by Wallis.
Very little survives of Taylor's contribution to the correspondence.
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One ms. letter only, from Wilson 1955, on lightning strikes on trees, written after Taylor had had a narrow escape. Wilson also refers to his recent flight, at the age of 86, in an RAF aircraft.
The folder includes photocopies of 2 letters, 1956, from Wilson to B. Vonnegut, on electric storms.
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Includes: Taylor's resignation from Undex Panel [Underwater explosions], Royal Naval Scientific Service, 1964. In his letter accepting Taylor's resignation, R.H. Purcell, Chairman of the Undex Panel, writes: 'I am very sorry indeed to hear you find it necessary to resign from the Undex Panel and Sub-Panel. It is with much hesitation that I acknowledge your official severance from Undex.
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.
Visit to Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell (Reactor Group). 1964
Taylor's resignation from Naval Construction and Research Group. 1964
Aeronautical Research Council (re various grants to Taylor from the `Thousand Pound Fund for Individual Investigators'). 1966-69
Boeing International Corporation (NASA program on fluid systems at low gravity). 1966
Taylor's resignation from Electricity Supply Research Council and acceptance of consultancy. 1969
See also A.44.
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Conference on aeronautical engineering, Southampton. 1962
Tenth International Congress, International Association for Hydraulic Research, London. 1963
Fire Research Station. 1963
Conference at University of Auckland. 1964
Institute for the study of metals, University of Chicago. 1965
Talk to Royal Aeronautical Society, Bedford Branch. 1965
See also C.62
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Sesquicentennial celebrations, University of Michigan. 1966-67
Visit to Harvard University. 1967
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1967
Seventh International Shock Tube Symposium, Toronto. 1967
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Visit to California Institute of Technology. 1968
Eighth Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Pasadena, California. 1969
British Hydromechanics Research Association: talk on fluid science. 1969-70
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1970
Visit to Fort Collins, Colorado State University. 1970
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Third Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (CANCAM 71). 1971
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1971
Taylor delivered the Lester Gardner Memorial Lecture, which encouraged G.K. Batchelor and M. Van Dyke to propose a 'Recorded dialogue with G.I. Taylor' to take further some of the ideas expressed.
Invitation to Jubilee Session, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 1971
Invitation to Second Congress of Polish Science, Warsaw. 1972
150th Anniversary of Franklin Institute. 1973
Congress on 'Advanced Problems in Mechanics', and Panetti Centenary, Turin. 1975
250th Anniversary celebrations, Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 1975
See also C.74, D.7, E.6.
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Photographs in E1-15 are presented chronologically as far as possible. Many of them have identification on verso in the hands of Taylor, Margaret Taylor, Stephanie Taylor, Batchelor, Gabrielle Boole, and others.
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Includes a group photograph of Mary Everest Boole, with her five daughters, and her Taylor, Stott and Hinton grandchildren
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Some of these are originals, some are copies made in 1969 with captions by Batchelor, and a ms. letter from Taylor mentioning points of special interest.
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See A.152-A.154.
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Envelope of photographs of early aircraft (originals and copies) with a ms. note by Taylor `Photos for lecture on Aeronautics before 1919'. (Lecture published in Nature and Bull.Inst.Math.Applic., see Batchelor, Memoir, p.632, 1971b)
See also C.74.
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Includes Taylor with Rutherford; skiing with I.A. Richards; making parachute jump at Girton; with Stephanie Taylor at Lofoten Islands.
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Photograph by the Commercial Photo Service, Vancouver, B.C.
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Includes photograph of Taylor and P.A. Sheppard, 1958.
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Includes Taylor with W. Von Braun at presentation of the Franklin Medal 1962; Taylor receiving Faraday Award via Telstar 1962; Taylor with P. Kapitza in Cambridge 1966; Taylor and colleagues at Stanford Congress, 1968.
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Includes photographs (all identified on verso) of Taylor's visit to Colorado State University 1971, and a passport photograph endorsed `I certify that this is a true likeness of Sir Geoffrey Taylor. Adrian 10.1.74.' (intended for Taylor's planned visit to USA which his failing health obliged him to cancel).
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Includes photographs, of sailing, skiing with friends, and of Taylor at `Farmfield', with a model of the CQR anchor.
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Misc. photographs of Taylor, colleagues and friends at meetings, lectures, degree ceremonies, etc.
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See also A.108-A.113, C.63.
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Produced by the National Committee on Fluid Mechanics Films, and filmed in Nov. 1965. Accompanied by ten letters from Ascher H. Shapiro, John R. Friedman, and G. K. Batchelor about the film.
Gift of G. K. Batchelor
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A group of black and white portrait photographs, with 7 of the same pose by Howard Coster in 1945, 3 of them signed, some mounted, some loose, accompanied by two letters from Coster dated 23 May 1945 and 15 Apr. 1954. These photographs are accompanied by a mounted photograph by Elliott & Fry, Ltd., c. 1952 or 1953, two mounted prints of the same pose by Bassano Ltd. c. 1955, two glossy photographs identified on the versos as from the General Motors Symposium 1962, and another glossy photograph identified as one of the last portraits taken.
Found in TAYL box E in March 2023 with no reference numbers evident.
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Found inside a rolled-up photograph, TAYL E9 in March 2023.
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Found in TAYL box E in March 2023 with no reference numbers evident.