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.
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
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.
10 offprints.
1949a (With G. K. Batchelor) 'The effect of wire gauze on small disturbances in a uniform stream.' Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 2, 1-26. (SP III, 49). With pencil annotation on one page.
c 'Aerodynamic properties of gauze screens. Appendix to Reports and Memoranda, Aeronautical Research Council, Ministry of Supply no. 2276.
1950a 'The dynamics of the combustion products behind plane and spherical detonation fronts in explosives.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, 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.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 200, 375-390. (SP III, 52)
c 'The formation of a blast wave by a very intense explosion. I. Theoretical discussion.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 201, 159-174. (SP III, 53)
e 'The boundary layer in the converging nozzle of a swirl atomizer.' Quarterly Journal of Mechanical and Applied Mathematics 3, 130-139. (SP III, 55)
f 'The instability of liquid surfaces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes. I.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 201, 192-196. (SP III, 56)
i 'Similarity solutions to problems involving gas flow and shock waves.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 204, 8-9. Photomechanical copy
1951a 'Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 209, 447-461. (SP IV, 16)
b 'The mechanism of eddy diffusivity.' Proceedings of General Discussion on Heat Transfer, pp. 193-194. London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Photomechanical copy.
'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).
'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).
A fourth article by Batchelor was added to the file some time after the papers were catalogued by CSAC:
'Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 7 March 1886-27 June 1975', by G. K. Batchelor (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1986).
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.
General correspondence, re scientific research problems, visits, publication of Taylor's papers, etc. Folders consists mainly of ms. letters from Taylor.
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',
Includes letters from H. M. Adams, Percy Andrade, Eric Ashby, John Baker, Basil J. A. Bard, G. K. Batchelor, Patrick Blackett, Egon Bretscher, Sir Vernon Brown, Charles Burkill, Rab Butler, L. Cadbury, J. N. Carruthers, James Chadwick, Joan Charnock, Norman Clarke, Edward Collingwood, L. P. Coombes, and Allan Cottrell.