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Includes several ms. letters from Taylor, on viscous liquid/porous medium interface.

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.

Correspondence with Hans Iben, 1966, A. T. Ippen and Y-H Chu, 1971, J P Jacobsen, 1931 and John R. Jeffrey, 1973, 1974. Includes a typescript report on the hydrographic scientific meeting, Copenhagen, 27 March 1931, in which Taylor took part.

Jerome and Alice Hunsaker were old friends of Taylor. The correspondence includes scientific and personal material, recollections, etc. Includes a letter from Taylor to Hunsaker, 1940.

Includes draft of Taylor's reply to Chao-piao Huang. C. J. Hughes, 1962.

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.

Correspondence with P V Hobbs, 1972 (contact angles) and H G Hopkins, 1969, 1973, 1975

Correspondence with T T Hay, 1970 (Japanese watermills), R Herczynski, 1966, J O Hirshfelder, 1968 and G S Hislop,1939, 1973

R Granger, 1974, R G Greening, 1967 (anchors) and A S Gupta, 1972

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.

Correspondence with T F Gaskell, 1964, 1968; StI Gheorghitza, 1969 (includes Taylor's letter on boundary conditions in a porous medium) N L Ghosh, 1972, William Nelson Gill, 1970 and H Gortler,1966 (Symposium on electrohydro-dynamics)

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'.

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.

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.18, 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

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

Correspondence with G. Birkhoff, 1963, D. Blanchard, 1966-67 (bubble collapse, includes photographs and article) and Martin H. Bloom, 1967 (includes Taylor's reply).

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. Includes letters from H. M. Barkla, W. J. M. Borthwick, Sir Cecil Bouchier, and John Morwood.

Correspondence with Gordon S. Beavers, 1971-72 (porous disc experiment), Muriel Benher, n.d., T. B. Benjamin, 1963, 1969, T. G. Owe Berg, 1966 (work on water drops) and R. W. Besant, 1969

S. J. Davies, 1928; G. T. Dawson, 1949; N A De Bruyne, 1957-58 ('peeling strength' of adhesives); and L. N. J. De Jong, 1964.

Correspondence with Gilbert Y. Chin, J. A. Cole, 1957, S. A. Colgate, 1966, T. A. Coombs, 1964, Brian G. Cox, 1964

Relating to particulate clouds.

Horacio A. Caruso, 1964 ('Liquid Bell') and S. Chapman, 1970.

With letters from Taylor, Keith Moffatt, and Eugene W. Bierly.

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 Burgers' 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.

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. Includes a letter from G. P. Thomson.

Includes correspondence exchanged on vibrations of a falling sheet of water

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',