W N Shaw, 1914, 1917 (re Taylor's note (enclosed) of his recent results on wind velocities)
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
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
Includes: Correspondence with Anne Nill (Mrs. Voynich's companion) with an account of her death.
Correspondence with Winifred Gaye, 1961-69 ('who though not legally adopted by me has always been considered by me as a daughter' according to Mrs. Voynich's Will).
Correspondence re Mrs. Voynich's estate and portrait, including a letter from Emma Seilheimer.
S B Sample, 1972, D A Saville, 1970, B K Sen-Gupta, 1972 and K L Singh, 1964
Letters from V. G. Nabar, Jim and Annie Nistkin, S. R. Nockolds, Noel E. Odell, J. G. Oldroyd, Peggie Phipps, Eric Pitts, Nansi Pugh, A. G. Pugsley, Jack Ratcliffe, Ernest F. Relf, Marcus Rex, Eric K. Rideal, R. Robson, J. M. Rollett, Sir Max Rosenheim, Bess Rosenthal, George E. Ross, Gladys Ross, and N. M. V. Rothschild.
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.
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.
R E Rosenweig, 1967 and M Roy, 1930
MacCready, John. 1924
Maclean, C.H.F. 1972
MacPhail, Donald C. 1972, 1974
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)
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
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
J. E. Reeve, 1970 and Carl J. Remenyik, 1970
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.
O M Phillips, 1968, R G Pindell, 1973 and Platt, 1973 (CQR anchor)
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).
Pick, Edith E. 1966
Prosser, Lionel E. 1972
Raven, John 1974
Richardson, L.F. 1944
Rossi, Bruno 1974
Christopher Nicholl, 1970 and W. Ornstein, 1969, 1972
Letters from Bertha Jeffreys, Harold Jeffreys, Geoffrey Keynes, T. Knox-Shaw, Dietrich Küchemann, N. Kurti, David Lane, Jill Levetus, Casimir Lewy, James Lighthill, Ben Lockspeiser, Andrew McFadyean, George McKerrow, David Martin, D. Meksyn, Eleanor Megaw, Dora Middleton, Keith Moffatt, and Morien Morgan.
G Palmer, 1973, R E Peierls, 1966 and C L Pekeris
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'.
Letter and calculations commenting on Taylor's rotating cylinder experiment and paper.