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Authorised form of nameStrutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Dates1842 - 1919
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLangford Grove, Maldon, Essex, England
Date of birth12 November 1842
Place of deathTerling Place, Witham, Essex
Date of death30/06/1919
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Eton; at home; private school at Wimbledon; Harrow School (1857); private school with the Reverend George Townsend Warner who took pupils privately in Torquay (1857); Trinity College, Cambridge (1861). BA (1865, Senior Wrangler and 1st Smith's Prizeman)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1866-1871); managed his estate of Terling Place, before succeeding to the barony (1873) and passing the job to his brother (1876); Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge succeeding James Clerk Maxwell (1879-1884); Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution, London (1887-1905); had a private laboratory at Terling Place, where his work on producing diffraction gratings by photgrpahic reduction of hand drawn rulings led to the production of the earliest known so-called Fresnel zone plates - an entry in his notebook in 1871 predates by four years a paper by Soret, previously thought to be the first report of this two dimensional lens, later to find application in Polaroid cameras and used for focusing synchroton radiation. Privy Councillor (1905); discovered argon
President of a Government Committee on Explosives; Scientific Advisor to Trinity House; Lord Lieutenant of Essex (1892-1901); Chancellor of Cambridge University
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1904
Honours:
OM (1902)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1873
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Sec 1885-1896; PRS 1905-1908
Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1914; Royal Medal 1882; Copley Medal 1899
Lectures:
Bakerian 1902
RelationshipsEldest son of John James Strutt and his wife Clara Vicars; married (19 July 1871) Evelyn Georgiana Mary, sister of Arthur James, Earl Balfour (FRS 1888); succeeded as 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1873); father of Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (FRS 1905)
PublishedWorks'The Theory of Sound'
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1920-1921 vol 98 pp i-l, plate, by Arthur Schuster
References:
Mary Nixon, 'The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource at the Royal Society: A Work in Progress' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 183-186, plate
A A Mills and R Hall, 'The Production of a Plane Surface. As Illustrated by Specula From Some Early Newtonian Telescopes' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 147-166
John R Levene, 'Nevil Maskelyne, FRS, and the Discovery of Night Myopia' in NR 1965 vol 20 pp 100-108, plate
Sir Harold Hartley, 'The Ramsay Centenary' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 71-80
Derek J Price, 'The Cavendish Laboratory Archives' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 139-147
Lord Rayleigh, OH: Nobel Laureate in Science [exhibition catalogue] Harrow School Old Speech Room Gallery 13th October -22nd November 1992
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
' The Acoustical Experiments of Lord Rayleigh. Exhibition Guide and biographical sketch by Professor Edward A Davis' Whipple Museum of the History of Science. 2011 Part of the 'Local Heroes' initiative of the Royal Society as part of their 350th anniversary.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/32059492
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MS/769/102Note from Lord Rayleigh to [Walter White]nd
EC/1873/15Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleigh: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/769/97Letter from Lord Rayleigh, 5 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge, to [Walter White]26 March 1882
MS/769/100Letter from Lord Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to [Walter White]28 December 1884
MS/769/96Letter from Lord Rayleigh, 5 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge, to [Walter White]29 October 1881
IM/004428Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Thomson, Sir Joseph John1898
NLB/12/337Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society31 January 1896
MM/15/108Memorandum to Lord Rayleigh, President of the Royal Society, concerning a memorial from the Society of Antiquarians calling for the appointment by the Government of an Inspector of Ancient Monuments2 January 1907
MM/14/167Letter from WH Price, GPO London, to Sir Alfred Ewing 20 June 1890
MM/21/56Letter from John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, to Mr Edwards5 March 1886
MM/16/3Letter from GC Foster to Lord Rayleigh12 April 1892
MM/16/2Letter from Hugo Miller to Lord Rayleigh30 March 1892
MM/17/85Letter from GH Darwin to Lord Rayleigh27 October 1892
MM/17/108Letter from Lord Rayleigh, to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society13 November 1895
MM/17/80Letter from Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Oxford, to Lord Rayleigh, Secretary, Royal Society7 July 1895
MM/17/84Letter from JH Worrall to Lord Rayleigh8 November 1897
MM/17/54Letter from Karl Pearson to Lord Rayleigh, Secretary, Royal Society22 November 1895
MS/373/1/22Letter from Lord Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to Thomas Edward Thorpe27 April 1895
MS/769/101Letter from Lord Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to [Walter White]22 January 1885
MS/769/99Letter from Lord Rayleigh, 5 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge, to Walter White24 January 1884
NLB/35/84Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society14 April 1907
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NLB/10/941Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Dr John Joly11 March 1895
NLB/10/986Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Reverend W R Westropp Roberts, Trinity College, Dublin18 March 1895
NLB/9/141Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to P L Gray, Mason College, Birmingham5 April 1894
NLB/9/162Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society7 April 1894
NLB/9/242Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society20 April 1894
NLB/11/209Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]14 May 1895
NLB/11/8Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, Fellow of the Royal Society2 April 1895
NLB/10/1043Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]28 March 1895
NLB/9/278Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Edward Ayrton, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1894
NLB/11/2Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society2 April 1895
NLB/9/272Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Monsieur Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Observatoire de Meudon, Seine et Cise, France[24 April 1894]
NLB/11/153Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Thomas Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1895
NLB/9/249Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society[20 April 1894]
NLB/11/14Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, Fellow of the Royal Society3 April 1895
NLB/11/98Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]20 April 1895
NLB/11/79Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]11 April 1895
NLB/9/409Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society, Terling Place, Witham, Essex16 May 1894
NLB/11/184Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society10 May 1895
NLB/11/165Copy letter from Herbret Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society7 May 1895
NLB/11/141Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to H M Vernon, Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth29 April 1895
NLB/9/599Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society12 June 1894
NLB/11/321Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] 1 June 1895
NLB/11/263Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Monsieur chef du Secrétariat de l'Institut de France, Paris21 May 1895
NLB/9/457Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society, Terling Place, Witham, Essex21 May 1894
NLB/12/61Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Dr Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society30 November 1895
NLB/11/1014Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society15 November 1895
NLB/11/282Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Crookes, Fellow of the Royal Society24 May 1895
NLB/11/668Copy letter from Theodore E James, to R J Lloyd, 4 Halkyn Avenue, Sefton Park, Liverpool8 September 1895
NLB/11/309Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Walter Noel Hartley, Euston Hotel, London, W.C.30 May 1895
NLB/11/329Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]5 June 1895
NLB/11/476Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Fellow of the Royal Society10 July 1895
NLB/11/473Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 July 1895
NLB/11/401Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]21 June 1895
NLB/11/466Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] 8 July 1895
NLB/9/996Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 August 1894
NLB/13/270Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Editor, 'Electrician'17 July 1896
NLB/11/449Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster3 July 1895
NLB/11/514Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Crookes, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1895
NLB/11/501Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 July 1895
NLB/9/602Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Joseph Larmor, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1894
NLB/11/543Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1895
NLB/11/533Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society17 July 1895
NLB/11/562Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]24 July 1895
NLB/9/745Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph Norman Lockyer, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1894
NLB/9/176Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society10 April 1894
NLB/9/639Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Sylvanus Thompson, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1894
NLB/11/841Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]16 October 1895
NLB/11/828Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, N.B.12 October 1895
NLB/11/660Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to [Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt]2 September 1894
NLB/11/701Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Percy Anderson, the Foreign Office, Whitehall, S.W.19 September 1895
NLB/11/659Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society4 September 1895
NLB/11/676Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society11 September 1895
NLB/11/718Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society24 September 1895
NLB/11/961Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society9 November 1895
NLB/11/910Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Alfred Hearson, Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, Surrey4 November 1895
NLB/11/722Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to E C Massey, 46 Adelaide Road, Brockley25 September 1895
NLB/11/700Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society19 September 1895
NLB/9/140Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Scott Burdon Sanderson, Fellow of the Royal Society5 April 1894
NLB/11/796Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to E C Massey, 46 Adelaide Road, Brockley, S.E.8 October 1895
NLB/12/49Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Karl Pearson27 November 1895
NLB/9/865Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]20 July 1894
NLB/9/834Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]17 July 1894
NLB/9/876Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]23 July 1894
NLB/11/878Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]25 October 1895
NLB/11/941Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society7 November 1895
NLB/9/1000Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society15 August 1894
NLB/9/666Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary of the Royal Society26 June 1894
NLB/11/943Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1895
NLB/9/331Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1894
NLB/9/854Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]19 July 1894
NLB/11/973Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society12 November 1895
NLB/11/944Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Royal Mint7 November 1895
NLB/9/102Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Colonel A M EgertonApril 1894
NLB/12/184Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society31 December 1895
NLB/9/103Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Major-General Sir Francis W de WintonApril 1894
NLB/9/111Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society3 April 1894
NLB/9/999Copy letter from A H White, to Dr Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society15 August 1894
NLB/9/899Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]25 July 1894
NLB/11/987Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1895
NLB/9/593Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to H Cust, Editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette", 18 Charing Cross Road, W.C.11 June 1894
NLB/12/1Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society16 November 1895
NLB/9/861Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society20 July 1894
NLB/9/647Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]22 June 1894
NLB/9/104Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to His Highness The Duke of Teck [Count Francis von Hohenstein]April 1894
NLB/9/143Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society5 April 1894
NLB/9/734Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society6 July 1894
NLB/9/940Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Dr A G Levy28 July 1894
NLB/12/58Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society29 November 1895
NLB/13/50Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Sir Archibald Geikie, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Geological Committee1 June 1896
MDA/A/22/3Letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] to Paul Gaultier3 May 1932
NLB/12/55Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]29 November 1895
NLB/13/52Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1896
NLB/13/51Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physical and Chemical Committee1 June 1896
NLB/13/48Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botanical Committee1 June 1896
NLB/12/133Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 December 1895
NLB/13/263Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Woolcombe16 July 1896
NLB/12/166Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society23 December 1895
NLB/12/273Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Dr Pavy18 January 1896
NLB/13/259Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Secretary, Royal Society]15 July 1896
NLB/13/260Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society15 July 1896
NLB/13/232Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]8 July 1896
NLB/13/273Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], [Secretary, Royal Society]18 July 1896
NLB/13/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Secretary, Royal Society]23 July 1896
NLB/2/581Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Joseph Norman Lockyer, Fellow of the Royal Society4 September 1888
NLB/13/359Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society31 July 1896
NLB/13/380Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman, Physics and Chemistry Committee8 August 1896
NLB/13/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Edward James Stone, Fellow of the Royal Society17 September 1896
NLB/12/38Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society25 November 1895
NLB/13/470Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society21 September 1896
NLB/12/469Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Victor Horsley, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1896
NLB/12/481Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society25 February 1896
NLB/12/488Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to J L Williams, 30 George Street, Hanover Square, W.26 February 1896
NLB/13/428Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 66 Victoria Street, S.W. [2] September 1896
NLB/13/466Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Elmer G Still, Livermore, Alameda Company, California, United States of America19 September 1896
NLB/13/747Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]16 November 1896
NLB/13/593Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 October 1896
NLB/13/755Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons19 November 1896
NLB/13/589Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Henry Young, Assistant Secretary, Royal Institution, Abermale Street, W. 13 October 1896
NLB/13/692Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Lieutenant Colonel Right Honourable, Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards5 November 1896
NLB/13/693Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Douglas Strutt Galton, British Association for the Advancement of Science5 November 1896
NLB/13/691Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Royal Mint5 November 1896
NLB/13/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant General the Right Hounourable, Sir Fleetwood Edwards, Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, S.W.1 December 1896
NLB/12/98Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society6 December 1895
NLB/12/140Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society16 December 1895
NLB/12/215Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society6 January 1896
NLB/12/111Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]9 December 1895
NLB/35New Letter Book volume 35, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 March 1907-22 July 1907
AP/74/9Unpublished paper, 'On an artificial retina and on a theory of vision' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1900
RR/18/117Letter from John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of a gas constituted of spherically symmetrical molecules' by S Chapman15 August 1911
RR/16/364Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The compressibility of gases between one atmosphere and half an atmosphere of pressure' by John William Strutt, Lord RayleighFebruary 1905
RR/16/365Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The compressibility of gases between one atmosphere and half an atmosphere of pressure' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh3 February 1905
NLB/6/898Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]15 August 1892
RR/15/247Referee's report by Herbert McLeod, on a paper 'A new manometer, and on the law of pressure of gases between 1.5 and 0.01 millimetres of mercury' by John William Strutt, Lord RayleighFebruary 1901
NLB/2New Letter Book volume 2, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration30 November 1887-9 February 1889
NLB/8New Letter Book volume 8, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 June 1893-8 March 1894
NLB/7New Letter Book volume 7, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 November 1892 - 29 June 1893
NLB/14/459Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Galzebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1897
NLB/12New Letter Book volume 12, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration16 November 1895-23 May 1896
NLB/14/470Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 March 1897
RR/16/96Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The acoustic shadow of the sphere, with an appendix by Professor A Lodge giving the values of Legendre's Functions from P0 to P20 at intervals of 5 degrees' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh14 January 1904
NLB/15/405Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Edward Ayrton, Fellow of the Royal Society23 September 1897
RR/16/95Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The acoustic shadow of the sphere, with an appendix by Professor A Lodge giving the values of Legendre's Functions from P0 to P20 at intervals of 5 degrees' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh30 January 1904
NLB/10/945Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Rubert William Boyce, University College, Liverpool 12 March 1895
RR/17/118Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'A new current weigher and a determination of the electromotive force of the normal Weston cadmium cell' by William Edward Ayrton, Thomas Mather and Frank Edward Smith[June 1907]
RR/17/215Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The normal Weston cadmium cell' by Frank Edward Smith[August 1907]
MDA/A/22/8Copy letter from [Ronald Winckworth] Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]12 May 1934
NLB/18/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1899
RR/19/57Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The general theory of colloidal solutions' by William Bate Hardy[March 1912]
NLB/15/401Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1897
NLB/34/42Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society20 November 1906
RR/17/142Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'Cases of colour-blindness, No. VI to No. XVIII, together with eleven selected examples of normal colour sensations' by George James Burch[June 1907]
NLB/15/144Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society, Terling Place, Witham, Essex6 July 1897
NLB/26/682Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society11 May 1903
NLB/16/102Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons31 January 1898
NLB/15/455Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1897
NLB/19/133Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Rooks Evelyn Bell Crompton, [Fellow of the Royal Society]27 June 1899
NLB/3/336Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Victor Herbert Veley, University College, Oxford13 May 1889
NLB/15/472Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society11 October 1897
NLB/17/345Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Sir Andrew Noble, Sir John Wolfe Wolfe-Barrey, Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Dr Thomas Edward Thorpe, [Fellows of the Royal Society]15 October 1898
NLB/17/723Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society]12 December 1898
NLB/17/768Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society]18 December 1898
NLB/19/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professors Joseph John Thomson and Professor Arthur Schuster, [Fellows of the Royal Society]2 August 1899
NLB/19/445Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society5 October 1899
NLB/19/722Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society, Terling Place, Witham, Essex4 December 1899
NLB/20/7Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur William Rucker, Secretary, Royal Society12 January 1900
NLB/20/92Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society 30 January 1900
NLB/20/554Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society21 May 1900
NLB/20/611Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, [Fellow of the Royal Society]31 May 1900
NLB/24/94Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1902
NLB/20/762Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society][3 July 1900]
NLB/20/806Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the editor, 'Chemical News'12 July 1900
NLB/21/345Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Fellows of the Royal Society] and Sir Courtenay Boyle2 November 1900
NLB/21/404Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1900
NLB/21/524Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Fellow of the Royal Society]3 December 1900
NLB/23/2/174Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1902
NLB/23/2/58Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society26 March 1901
NLB/23/1/524Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1901
NLB/34/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable The Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society2 January 1907
NLB/27/504Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1903
NLB/29/258Copy letter from Theodore E James, to The Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society24 August 1904
NLB/30/47Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1905
NLB/30/217Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society14 February 1905
NLB/30/211Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]14 February 1905
NLB/30/309Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Kelvin [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society2 March 1905
NLB/36/815Copy telegraph from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome[19 December 1907]
NLB/28/507Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1904
NLB/28/538Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society25 March 1904
NLB/31/818Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1905
NLB/38/785Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Colonel Sir A M Egerton4 November 1908
NLB/36/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society3 August 1907
NLB/29/565Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [John William Strutt], Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1904
NLB/32/99Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society3 January 1906
NLB/29/861Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society23 December 1904
NLB/31/474Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society]25 September 1905
NLB/32/544Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to [John William] Strutt, [President, Royal Society]29 March 1906
MDA/A/22/2Letter from Paul Gaultier to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Revue Bleue & Revue Scientifique, 286 Boulevard Saint-Germain15 April 1932
NLB/32/745Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh], President, Royal Society19 May 1906
NLB/38/53Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh, to His Grace the Duke of Argyll4 June 1908
NLB/33/802Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Sir A M Egerton6 November 1906
NLB/35/174Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society29 April 1907
NLB/33/209Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society16 July 1906
NLB/32/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society24 March 1906
NLB/29/871Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society3 January 1905
NLB/33/618Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society10 October 1906
NLB/32/567Copy letter from John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom6 April 1906
NLB/32/602Copy letter from [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, to the Duke of Teck [Adolphus Cambridge]11 April 1906
NLB/32/726Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Lieutenant Forbes Manson Grantt Tulloch17 May 1906
NLB/32/698Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Henri Moissan, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Faculte des Sciences a la Sorbonne, Paris [France]2 May 1906
NLB/32/687Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge7 May 1906
NLB/33/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society5 October 1906
NLB/33/537Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society26 September 1906
NLB/33/780Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society2 November 1906
NLB/33/858Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society14 November 1906
NLB/35/10Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society27 March 1907
NLB/33/828Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society9 November 1906
NLB/33/833Copy letter from the President of the Royal Society [John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh], to His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn [Arthur William Patrick Albert, Fellow of the Royal Society]9 November 1906
NLB/34/83Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable The Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society23 November 1906
NLB/36/98Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society10 August 1907
NLB/36/234Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society26 September 1907
NLB/35/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society10 July 1907
NLB/38/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Lord Rayleigh, President of the Royal Society21 July 1908
NLB/38/55Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh, to Major M Murray24 June 1908
NLB/34/542Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable The Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society5 February 1907
NLB/38/51Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh, to Major James Evan Baillie Martin4 June 1908
NLB/38/52Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur J Bigge4 June 1908
NLB/38/54Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh, to Colonel Lord William Cecil4 June 1908
NLB/36/816Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Academie des Sciences, Paris[19 December 1907]
NLB/34/775Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Reginald McKenna MP, President of the Board of Education7 March 1907
NLB/36/806Copy letter from John William Strutt, President of the Royal Society, to Lord Knollys19 December 1907
NLB/34/913Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society25 March 1907
NLB/37/602Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh to His Highness, the Duke of Teck, GCVOApril 1908
NLB/36/807Copy letter from John William Strutt, President of the Royal Society, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge19 December 1907
NLB/37/335Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Right Honorable The Lord Rayleigh, OM, President of the Royal Society3 March 1908
NLB/37/599Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh to Colonel Sir A M Egerton, KCVO, CBApril 1908
NLB/38/463Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society7 August 1908
NLB/36/877Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society6 January 1908
NLB/39/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr G Arbour Stephens27 November 1908
NLB/37/507Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Right Honorable The Lord Rayleigh OM, President of the Royal Society31 March 1908
NLB/37/600Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh to Lieut[enant]-Col[onel], Sir Arthur J Bligge, GCVC, KCBApril 1908
NLB/37/580Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Archibald Geikie, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society8 April 1908
NLB/39/198Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons9 December 1908
NLB/39/29Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The President and Council of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society16 November 1908
NLB/39/128Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Sir J [James] Dewar1 December 1908
NLB/39/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr R W Leftwich11 January 1909
NLB/38/786Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge4 November 1908
NLB/40/269Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Right Honorable The Lord Rayleigh OM, FRS17 May 1909
NLB/41/795Copy letter from [Secretary of the Royal Society], to the Right Honorable [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory26 February 1910
NLB/43/559Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh [John Wiliam Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society11 February 1911
NLB/51/95Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to the Right Hon. The Lord Rayleigh OM, FRS11 December 1914
NLB/50/232Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, to The Right Honourable, Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society[May 1914]
NLB/50/804Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, to The Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1914
RR/19/58Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The tension of composite fluid surfaces and the mechanical stability of films of fluid' by William Bate Hardy[March 1912]
NLB/52/776Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Few & Co.; 19 Surrey Street, the Strand, W.C.25 February 1916
NLB/52/633Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Few & Co.; 19 Surrey Street, the Strand, W.C.1 February 1916
MS/928/2/177Letter from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to Charles Vernon Boys 4 July 1894
RR/17/201Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper [attributed] 'Space described in a given time by a projectile moving in air' by Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallock1 March 1907
NLB/52/742Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS21 February 1916
MS/928/2/178Letter from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to Charles Vernon Boys 25 May 1899
RR/17/217Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The silver voltameter' by Frank Edward Smith, Thomas Mather and Thomas Martin Lowry[August 1907]
RR/24/81Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Experiments with mercury jets' by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith and H Moss[1917]
RR/22/33Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'On the kinetic theory of a gas. Part II - A composite monatomic gas: diffusion, viscosity, and thermal conduction' by S Chapman[October 1915]
MS/928/2/179Letter from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to Charles Vernon Boys 19 September 1918
RR/9/83Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On ether and it's relation to matter' by John Scott Russell13 December 1882
MS/928/2/176Letter from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to Charles Vernon Boys 3 December 1893
RR/21/115Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Fog signals. Areas of silence and greatest range of sound' by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock[October 1914]
AP/79/2Unpublished paper, 'Note on the motional electromotive force in insulators' by S J Barnett1914
RR/25/24Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'A statistical survey of colour vision' by R A Houstoun[May 1918]
NLB/53/154Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, O.M., FRS11 May 1916
RR/9/253Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the changes produced by magnetisation in the length of rods of iron, steel, and nickel' by Shelford Bidwell1885
RR/11/13Letter from Albert Barnard Basset, on his paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society1 July 1891
RR/8/90Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' by George Howard Darwin20 July 1878
RR/8/236Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the induction of electric currents in infinite plates and spherical shells' by Charles Niven4 June 1880
RR/8/154Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on two papers 'On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the remote history of the Earth' and 'Problems connected with the tides of viscous spheroid' by George Howard Darwin13 June 1879
RR/10/133Letter from Thomas Carnelley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A new method of determining the number of micro-organisms in air' by Thomas Carnelley and Thomas Wilson22 March 1888
RR/9/402Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a supplement to a paper 'On the clark cell as a standard of electro-motive force' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh11 January 1886
RR/13/185Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the action of light on diastase, and its biological significance' by Joseph Reynolds GreenFebruary 1897
RR/9/87Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the specific resistance of mercury' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh and H Sidgwick10 November 1882
RR/9/182Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The limiting thickness of liquid films' by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rücker1883
RR/9/323Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Colour photometry' by William de Wivelesile Abney and Edward Robert Festing1886
RR/9/39Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Experiments on the value of the ohm' by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, J M Dodds and E B Sargant1882
RR/9/311Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the constant of electromagnetic rotation of light in bisulphide of carbon' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh6 April 1885
RR/10/394Letter from Arthur William Rucker, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the asymmetrical distribution of terrestrial magentism' by Henry Wilde17 February 1891
RR/8/336Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the electrical resistance of thin liquid films, with a revision of Newton’s table of colours' by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rucker27 April 1881
RR/8/338Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The wave of translation and the work it does as the carrier wave of sound' by John Scott Russell4 June 1881
RR/9/240Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the electro-chemical equivalent of silver, and on the absolute electromotive force of clark cells' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh and Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick5 August 1884
RR/9/344Letter from E P Culverwell, on his paper 'On the discrimination of maxima and minima solutions in the calculus of variations' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh15 December 1886
RR/10/137Letter from Edward John Routh, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree15 October 1888
RR/10/174Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the specific resistance of mercury' by Richard Tetley Glazebrook and T C FitzpatrickAugust 1888
RR/18/130Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The discrimination of colour' by F W Edridge-GreenApril 1911
RR/10/138Letter from Alfred George Greenhill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree3 November 1888
RR/11/120Letter from James Thomson Bottomley, on his paper 'Thermal radiation in absolute measure' to John William Strutt, Secretary of the Royal Society25 September 1892
NLB/57/55Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lady Rayleigh7 July 1919
RR/10/255Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'Some observations on the amount of light reflected and transmitted by certain kinds of glass' by John Conroynd [1889]
RR/11/31Letter from H J Chaney, on his paper 'Re-determination of the mass of a cubic inch of distilled water' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society24 February 1891
RR/12/10Letter from Frederick William Pavy, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The glucoside constitution of proteid matter' by Frederick William Pavy22 November 1893
RR/10/13Letter from John Tyndall, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On radiation from dull and bright surfaces' by James Thomson Bottomley6 July 1887
RR/11/56Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, on his paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society21 December 1891
RR/12/93Letter from Stanley Dunkerley, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the whirling and vibration of shafts' by Stanley Dunkerley22 December 1893
RR/12/347Letter from Ernest William Hobson, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On certain functions connected with tesseral harmonics, with applications' by A H Leahy24 April 1895
RR/12/367Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields9 August 1895
RR/12/292Letter from J W Capstick, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the ratio of the specific heats of some compound gases' by J W Capstick17 May 1895
RR/12/94Second letter from Stanley Dunkerley, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the whirling and vibration of shafts' by Stanley Dunkerley27 January 1894
RR/13/208Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the theory of the magneto-optic phenomena of iron, nickel, and cobalt' by J G Leathem31 May 1897
RR/12/370Letter from Augustus Edward Hough Love, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The complete system of the periods of a hollow vortex ring' by Henry Cabourn Pocklington13 June 1895
RR/13/98Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by E P Perman, William Ramsay and J. Rose-Innes1896
RR/12/313Letter from Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, regarding his paper with Lucy Everest Boole 'An enquiry into the nature of the vesicating constituent of croton oil' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh25 January 1896
RR/12/381Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarization of light in liquids.—Part I. Carbon bisulphide and water' by J W Rodger and William Watson27 June 1895
RR/12/258Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The action of light on bacteria.—III' by Harry Marshall Ward16 April 1894
RR/12/336Letter from William Edward Ayrton, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Alternate current dynamo-electric machines' by John Hopkinson and E Wilson22 July 1895
RR/15/372Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The law of the pressure of gases between 75 and 150 millimeters of mercury' by John William Strutt, Lord RayleighFebruary 1902
RR/14/161Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the application of fourier's double integrals to optical problems' by Charles Godfrey27 November 1899
RR/15/24Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of planetary atmospheres. Part I' by George Hartley BryanJune 1900
RR/10/163Letter from Arthur Cayley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth7 June 1888
RR/9/187Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Experiments, by the method of Lorentz, for the further determination the absolute value of the British Association Unit of Resistance, with an appendix on the determination of the pitch of a standard tuning-fork' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh and Nevil Vincent Sidgwick17 February 1883
RR/15/371Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The law of the pressure of gases between 75 and 150 millimeters of mercury' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh28 February 1902
RR/17/110Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The impulses of compound waves and their mechanical transmission through the ear' by Sir Thomas Wrightson[January 1907]
RR/18/79Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The extinction of sound in a viscous atmosphere by small obstacles of cylindrical and spherical form' by C J T SewellFebruary 1910
RR/8/357Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Experimental determination of the velocity of white and of coloured light' by James Young and George Forbes[1881]
RR/10/118Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Colour photometry.—Part II. The measurement of reflected colours' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing[1888]
RR/14/256Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The diffusion of ions into gases' by John Sealy Edward Townsendnd [May 1899]
RR/24/38Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The Rankine trochoidal wave' by Alfred George Greenhill[June 1917]
RR/19/59Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The influence of chemical constitution upon interfacial tension' by William Bate Hardy[November 1912]
NLB/57/143Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. A [Professor Sir Arthur] Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society29 July 1919
RR/24/28Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The behaviour of scattering media in fully diffused light' by H J Channon, F F Renwick and B V Storr[April 1917]
NLB/62/462Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Assistant Secretary of the British Association17 February 1922
RR/7/138Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'On the theory of resonance' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh20 January 1871
NLB/57/884Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Editor of the Times [Henry Wickham Steed]26 February 1920
RR/9/86Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Experiments to determine the value of the British association unit of resistance in absolute measure' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh23 April 1882
NLB/57/220Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ray Lankester, FRS, KCB; 44 Oakley Street, Chelsea, SW 35 September 1919
RR/12/190Letter from William Henry Mahoney Christie, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the photographic spectrum of the great nebula in Orion' by Joseph Norman Lockyer7 November 1894
RR/12/185Second letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, oh his two papers 'On the photographic arc spectrum of electrolytic iron' and 'On the photographic arc spectrum of iron meteorites' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh26 June 1894
RR/12/120Letter from Joseph Reynolds Green, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Researches on the germination of the pollen grain and the nutrition of the pollen tube' by Joseph Reynolds Green28 February 1894
RR/16/182Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Colours in metal glasses and metallic films' by J C Maxwell GarnettMay 1904
RR/10/168Second letter from Arthur Cayley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth29 November 1888
RR/10/389Letter from Henry Wilde, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the causes of terrestrial magnetism' by Henry Wilde2 July 1890
RR/12/84Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon7 August 1894
NLB/65/404Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John Scott] Haldane, FRS26 October 1923
NLB/68/263Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to R. H. Murray Esq.; Broughton Rectory, Huntingdon8 June 1925
MS/427/281Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr. E. Harris (Clerk to Rugby School)23 June 1883
NLB/72/774Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Viscount Knutsford, K.P.; Manfield Lodge, Dufftown11 April 1930
CD/13/3Letter from Arthur Ponsonby, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President of the Royal Society10 April 1906
MS/427/156Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkins and Dr. [John] Hopkinson21 January 1882
MS/427/223Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Leiut Gen. Sir [Henry] Ponsonby K.C.B3 November 1882
MS/427/352Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the University of Edinburgh24 March 1884
NLB/9New Letter Book volume 9, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration8 March-17 August 1894
NLB/11New Letter Book volume 11, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration2 April 1895-15 November 1895
RR/9/264Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Experimental researches in magnetism' by James Alfred Ewing17 February 1885
NLB/13/405Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Secretary, Royal Society]21 August 1896
MM/16/10Letter from Sir Frederick Abel to Lord Rayleigh23 November 1892
MM/17/51Letter from Karl Pearson to Lord Rayleigh, Secretary, Royal Society28 January 1895
MM/16/4Letter from Dr Hermann Sprengel to Lord Rayleigh3 June 1892
MM/16/12Letter from GC Foster to Lord Rayleigh24 December 1892
MM/16/8Letter from Dr Hermann Sprengel to Lord Rayleigh16 November 1892
IM/004429Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleighnd
NLB/15/768Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Reverend J H S Moxley, Chaplain's House, Royal Hospital, Chelsea6 December 1897
NLB/11/985Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor James Alfred Ewing, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1895
PP/13/26Paper, 'Note on the free vibrations of an infinitely long cylindrical shell' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1889
NLB/1/727Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, John Evans, Michael Foster, and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Marquess of Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil17 November 1887
NLB/2/48Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary to the Royal Society20 December 1887
NLB/2/904Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]14 December 1888
NLB/1/652Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]21 October 1887
NLB/2/392Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]28 May 1888
NLB/2/412Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Whitaker Hulke, Fellow of the Royal Society8 June 1888
NLB/1/528Copy letter from John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, to Henry Francis Blanford, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1887
NLB/1/623Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]10 October 1887
NLB/1/624Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]10 October 1887
NLB/4/73Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]3 February 1890
NLB/2/112Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh20 January 1888
NLB/2/905Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]14 December 1888
NLB/2/678Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Emerson Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1888
NLB/3/376Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]24 May 1889
NLB/4/905Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society22 November 1890
NLB/4/871Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]17 November 1890
NLB/4/936Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] 2 December 1890
NLB/4/1025Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]23 December 1890
NLB/3/620Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [John] Hopkinson, Fellow of the Royal Society25 July 1889
NLB/3/544Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society, 42 Halfmoon Street8 July 1889
NLB/6/211Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society25 March 1892
NLB/6/336Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 April 1892
NLB/3/1063Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] the Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]3 January 1890
NLB/6/532Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Dr Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel, Fellow of the Royal Society, Terling Place Witham, Essex29 May 1892
NLB/3/1028Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edwin Bailey Elliott, Queen's College, Oxford16 December 1889
NLB/6/483Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]20 May 1892
NLB/6/1008Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society3 October 1892
NLB/7/4Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to James Thomson Bottomley10 November 1892
NLB/7/884Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Honorary Secretary, British Institute of Preventive Medicine, 19 Iddesleigh Mansions, S.W.22 May 1893
NLB/13/398Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Sir Joseph Fayrer, Dr William Huggins, William Crookes 18 August 1896
NLB/10/401Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Victor Alexander Haden Horsely, Fellow of the Royal Society19 November 1894
NLB/10/269Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint, Tower Hill, E.2 November 1894
NLB/13/495Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh, [John William Strutt], [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 September 1896
NLB/10/328Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Galton, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1894
NLB/10/241Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster29 October 1894
NLB/10/624Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society4 January 1895
NLB/10/394Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society17 November 1894
NLB/10/426Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Henry Wilde, Fellow of the Royal Society22 November 1894
NLB/10/751Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster29 January 1895
NLB/10/956Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Hugh Frank Newall, Trinity College, Cambridge13 March 1895
NLB/9/135Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society4 April 1894
NLB/9/223Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1894
NLB/9/507Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph Norman Lockyer, Fellow of the Royal Society20 May 1894
NLB/9/161Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Joseph Norman Lockyer, Fellow of the Royal Society8 April 1894
NLB/11/108Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Henry Preece, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1895
NLB/11/342Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1895
NLB/9/581Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society9 June 1894
NLB/9/106Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh, to G F BambridgeApril 1894
NLB/9/686Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society28 June 1894
NLB/11/895Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Alfred Hearson, Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Staines29 October 1895
NLB/11/945Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Keeper of the Privy Purse, Buckingham Palace7 November 1895
NLB/9/883Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]24 July 1894
NLB/11/962Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster9 November 1895
NLB/9/877Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W Graham Greene, Admiralty, Whitstable24 July 1894
NLB/13/49Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Chairman of the Zoological Committee1 June 1896
NLB/13/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1896
NLB/13/186Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Ambrose Fleming, Fellow of the Royal Society, University College, Gower Street, W.C.26 June 1896
NLB/13/474Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society23 September 1896
NLB/13/322Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society24 July 1896
NLB/13/573Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Thomas Heycock, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1896
NLB/13/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 October 1896
NLB/13/654Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1896
NLB/3New Letter Book volume 3, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 February 1889-13 January 1890
NLB/14/401Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, Secretary, Royal Society5 March 1897
NLB/17/485Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to the members of the National Physical Laboratory Committee as nominated4 November 1898
NLB/20/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Right Honourable, Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society, Terling Place, Witham, Essex16 May 1900
NLB/21/744Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society22 January 1901
NLB/36/611Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society19 November 1907
NLB/39/127Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to W D Barber, Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Admiralty1 December 1908
RR/22/1Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The threshold of vision for different coloured lights' by William de Wiveleslie Abney and W WatsonJune 1915
RR/8/76Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the tides at Malta' by George Biddell Airy14 January 1878
RR/9/271Letter from George Gore, on his paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' to the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh8 February 1886
RR/9/266Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' by George Gore1885
RR/9/346Letter from Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the discrimination of maxima and minima solutions in the calculus of variations' by E P Culverwell to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh28 December 1886
RR/10/211Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On certain mechanical properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen4 August 1888
RR/10/336Letter from H J Chaney, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Re-determination of the mass of a cubic inch of distilled water' by H J Chaney23 December 1890
RR/11/3Letter from William Grylls Adams, on his paper 'Comparison of simultaneous magnetic disturbances at several observatories' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, the Secretary of the Royal Society16 November 1891
RR/10/16Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a perspective microscope' by George James Burch[1887]
RR/12/211Letter from Osborne Reynolds, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the dynamical theory of incompressible viscous fluids and the determination of the criterion' by Osborne Reynolds19 February 1895
RR/12/177Letter from Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayliegh, regarding a paper 'A research into the elasticity of the living brain and the conditions governing the recovery of the brain after compression for short periods' by A G Levy15 January 1895
RR/12/249Letter from William Napier Shaw, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Researches on the electric properties of pure substances.—No. I. The electrical properties of pure sulphur' by Richard Threlfall, Joseph Henry Drapier Brearley and Mr Allen13 February 1895
RR/12/199Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Reptiles from the Elgin sandstone.—Description of two new genera' by Edwin Tulley Newton10 February 1894
RR/12/96Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The asymmetrical probability curve' by F Y Edgeworth15 May 1895
RR/12/117Letter from Richard Tetley Glazebrook, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On a method of determining the thermal conductivity of metals, with applications to copper, silver, gold, and platinum' by James H Gray14 December 1894
RR/12/394Letter from Samuel George Shattock, on his paper with Charles A Ballance 'An attempt to cultivate parasitic protozoa from malignant tumours, vaccinia, molluscum contagiosum, and certain normal tissues, together with infection experiments carried out with the culture media, and a note on the treatment of cancer' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh24 June 1895
RR/10/83Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. - I. On Protoronsaurus speneri (von Meyer)' by Harry Govier Seeley21 April 1887
NLB/12/366Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]7 February 1896
MM/21/57Letter from John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh24 June 1900
NLB/4/1158Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]2 February 1891
NLB/3/956Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]23 November 1889
NLB/6/852Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]22 July 1892
NLB/7/27Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1892
NLB/10/124Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society3 October 1894
NLB/10/234Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1894
NLB/10/625Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Richard Threlfall, Sydney, Australia3 January 1895
NLB/10/778Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society4 February 1895
NLB/11/817Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society10 October 1895
NLB/9/212Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society16 April 1894
NLB/15/352Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]18 August 1897
NLB/19/718Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society1 December 1899
RR/15/98Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The kinetic accumulation of stress, illustrated by the theory of impulsive torsion' by Karl PearsonJuly 1900
NLB/36/76Copy letter from [Joseph Larmor], to Professor Arthur Schuster, Professor Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], and Sir Archibald Geikie, Fellows of the Royal Society3 August 1907
RR/12/176Letter from John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A research into the elasticity of the living brain and the conditions governing the recovery of the brain after compression for short periods' by A G Levy19 July 1894
NLB/38/469Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] and [Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie], President of the Royal Geographical Society, to The AdmiraltyAugust 1908
RR/21/92Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The dispersion of a light pulse by a prism' by R A Houstoun[February 1914]
RR/24/5Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a new method of driving off poisonous gases' by Hertha Ayrton[November 1917]
RR/10/161Second letter from James Joseph Sylvester, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth5 May 1888
RR/10/160Letter from James Joseph Sylvester, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth29 April 1888
NLB/5New Letter Book volume 5, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration13 February 1891-5 February 1892
NLB/13New Letter Book volume 13, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 May 1896-7 December 1896
RR/10/359Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the determination of the specific resistance of mercury in absolute measure' by John Viriamu Jonesnd [1890]
RR/12/250Letter from Richard Tetley Glazebrook, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The effect of mechanical stress and of magnetisation on the physical properties of alloys of iron and nickel and of manganese steel' by Herbert Tomlinson14 July 1894
RR/12/87Second letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon17 August 1894
RR/12/121Second letter from Joseph Reynolds Green, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Researches on the germination of the pollen grain and the nutrition of the pollen tube' by Joseph Reynolds Green2 March 1894
RR/12/158Letter from Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the effects produced on the circulation and respiration by gun-shot injuries of the cerebral hemispheres' by S P Kramer and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley20 August 1894
RR/12/131Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The differential covariants of twisted curves, with some illustrations of the application to quartic curves' by R F Gwyther7 November 1894
RR/12/279Letter from Herbert Rix, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The rubies of Burma and associated minerals: their mode of occurrence, origin, and metamorphoses. A contribution to the history of corundum' by C Barrington Brown and John Wesley Judd17 June 1895
RR/12/327Letter from William Esson, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson24 June 1895
RR/10/164Second letter from James Joseph Sylvester, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth12 June 1888
RR/19/147Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the influence of the condenser on the working of a ruhmkorff coil, together with a practical outcome thereof' by W H Wilson[March 1912]
P/0108Portrait of Strutt, John William; 3rd Baron Rayleigh1903
RR/12/215Letter from Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A magnetic survey of the British Isles for the epoch January 1, 1891' by Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe28 January 1895
RR/10/3Letter from Ralph Abercromby, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the relation between tropical and extra-tropical cyclones' by Ralph Abercromby31 March 1887
RR/9/339Letter from Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' by Charles Chambers to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh19 October 1886
RR/10/65Letter from William Henry Flower, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Description of a newly-excluded young of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen17 November 1887
RR/10/162Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth21 May 1888
RR/10/167Letter from Alfred George Greenhill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth17 November 1888
RR/11/12Third letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society22 June 1891
RR/12/22Letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The variation of molecular surface-energy with temperature' by William Ramsay and John Shields3 June 1893
RR/12/195Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A certain class of generating functions in the theory of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon28 December 1893
RR/12/79Second letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison29 October 1894
RR/12/157Letter from Michael Foster, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the effects produced on the circulation and respiration by gun-shot injuries of the cerebral hemispheres' by S P Kramer and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley16 August 1894
RR/12/183Letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, on his two papers 'On the photographic arc spectrum of electrolytic iron' and 'On the photographic arc spectrum of iron meteorites'to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh6 April 1894
RR/12/346Letter from William Mitchinson Hicks, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On certain functions connected with tesseral harmonics, with applications' by A H Leahy18 February 1895
RR/12/248Letter from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, to Richard Threlfall, regarding a paper 'Researches on the electric properties of pure substances.—No. I. The electrical properties of pure sulphur' by Richard Threlfall, Joseph Henry Drapier Brearley and Mr Allen3 January 1895
RR/12/254Second letter from Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding two papers 'An instrument for grinding section-plates and prisms of crystals of artificial preparations accurately in the desired directions' and 'An Instrument of precision for producing monochromatic light of any desired wave-length, and its use in the investigation of the optical properties of crystals' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton3 February 1894
MC/15/250Letter from Osborne Reynolds, 23 Lady Barn Road, Fallowfield, Manchester, to Lord Rayleigh2 January 1892
MC/10/31Letter from Lord Rayleigh, Terling Place, Witham, to the Royal Society28 October 1873
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MS/427/355Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society; to J. W. Underhill, Hydrogr[aphic] Department, Admiralty3 April 1884
MS/427/134Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel [John] Donnelly1 November 1881
RR/7/73Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'On the values of the Integral 1 0 Qn Qn' dµ, Qn, Qn' being Laplace's coefficients of the orders n, n', with an application to the theory of radiation' by John William Strutt13 August 1870
RR/9/40Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On some effects of transmitting electric currents through magnetised electrolytes' by George Gore1882
RR/9/272Letter from George Gore, on his paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' to the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh3 January 1887
RR/10/38Letter from George Robert Milne Murray, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Studies on some new micro-organisms obtained from air' by Percy Faraday Frankland7 April 1887
AP/65/5Unpublished paper, 'On the direct application of first principles in the theory of partial differential equations' by J [Joseph] Larmor1887
RR/12/82Letter from Charles Davison, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the Leicester earthquake of August 4, 1893' by Charles Davison15 July 1894
RR/12/161Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A dynamical theory of the electric and luminiferous medium' by Joseph Larmor9 February 1894
RR/12/376Letter from William Mitchinson Hicks, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The complete system of the periods of a hollow vortex ring' by Henry Cabourn Pocklington21 July 1895
RR/13/48Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the capacity and residual charge dielectrics as affected by temperature and time' by John Hopkinson and E Wilson1896
AP/73/16Unpublished paper, 'Some differences in the behaviour of real fluids from that of the mathematical perfect fluid' by A [Henry Reginald Arnulph] Mallock4 May 1898
AP/73/16/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Some differences in the behaviour of real fluids from that of the mathematical perfect fluid' by A [Henry Reginald Arnulph] Mallock4 May 1898
AP/74/13Unpublished paper, 'On the continuity of effect of electric radiation and light on matter and on the molecular strain theory of photographic action' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1900
RR/15/379Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The formation of definite figures by the deposition of dust' by William James RussellFebruary 1903
NLB/9/981Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society1 August 1894
PP/2/38Paper, 'On the dark plane which is formed over a heated wire in dusty air' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1882
PP/3/30Paper, 'On curves circumscribing rotating polygons with reference to the shape of drilled holes' by A [Arnulph] Mallock1883
PP/4/39Paper, 'On the electro-chemical equivalent of silver, and on the absolute electromotive force of Clark cells' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1884
PP/8/12/1Manuscript, 'Observations on the radiation of light and heat from bright and black incandescent surfaces' by Mortimer Evans1886
PP/9/7Letter, 'Note on a paper entitled "On a new form of stereoscope"' from A Stroh to the Secretary of the Royal Society [John William Strutt]27 September 1886
PP/8/12Paper, 'Observations on the radiation of light and heat from bright and black incandescent surfaces' by Mortimer Evans1886
PP/8/20Paper, 'On a new form of stereoscope' by A Stroh1886
PP/8/13Paper, 'On a thermopile and galvanometer combined' by George Forbes1886
PP/8/31/1Manuscript, 'On the lifting power of electromagnets and the magnetisation of iron' by Shelford Bidwell1886
PP/8/31Paper, 'On the lifting power of electromagnets and the magnetisation of iron' by Shelford Bidwell1886
PP/9/9Paper, 'A theory of voltaic action' by John Brown1886
RR/9/394Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the theory of lubrication and its application to Mr. Beauchamp tower’s experiments, including an experimental determination of the viscosity of olive oil' by Osborne Reynolds1886
PP/9/19Paper, 'Captain Darwin's report' by Captain Darwin1886
PP/10/49Paper, 'On the composition of water by volume' by Alexander Scott1887
PP/10/15Paper, 'A thermal telephone transmitter' by George Forbes1887
PP/10/49/1Manuscript, 'On the composition of water by volume' by Alexander Scott1887
PP/18/27/1Manuscript, 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen. II' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1892
PP/13/5/1Manuscript, 'Determination of the viscosity of water' by [Arnulph] Mallock1888
PP/13/5Paper, 'Determination of the viscosity of water' by [Arnulph] Mallock1888
PP/6/26Paper, 'Note on an experiment by [Ernst] Chladni' by Charles Tomlinson1885
PP/17/25/1Manuscript, 'On the bisulphite compounds of alizarin-blue and coerulin as sensitisers for rays of low refrangibility' by George Higgs1891
PP/15/21Paper, 'On the tension of recently formed liquid surfaces' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1890
PP/17/29Paper, 'Some measures of Young's modulus for crystals, &c' by A [Arnulph] Mallock1891
PP/15/1Paper, 'Remarks on Mr A W Ward’s paper "On the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarisation of light in doubly refracting bodies"' by O Weiner and W Wedding1889
PP/15/31/1Manuscript, 'On a pneumatic analogue of the Wheatstone bridge' by William Napier Shaw1890
PP/17/34Paper, 'Note on the instability of India-rubber tubes and balloons when distended by fluid pressure' by A [Arnulph] Mallock1891
PP/15/31Paper, 'On a pneumatic analogue of the Wheatstone bridge' by William Napier Shaw1890
PP/13/24Paper, 'On the composition of water' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1889
MS/421/3Register of Papers submitted to the Royal Society, 1885-19051885-1905
PP/17/34/1Manuscript, 'Note on the instability of India-rubber tubes and balloons when distended by fluid pressure' by A [Arnulph] Mallock1891
PP/16/13/1Manuscript, 'Experiments with Lord Rayleigh's colour box' by Arthur Schuster1890
PP/16/13/2Diagram, experimental observations by Arthur Schuster1890
PP/21/6Paper, 'On the densities of the principal gases' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1893
PP/17/14Paper, 'On the sensitiveness of the bridge method in its application to periodic electric currents' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1891
PP/17/29/1Manuscript, 'Some measures of Young's modulus for crystals, &c' by A [Arnulph] Mallock1891
PP/16/13Paper, 'Experiments with Lord Rayleigh's colour box' by Arthur Schuster1890
PP/16/12Paper, 'On the superficial viscosity of water' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1890
PP/18/27Paper, 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen. II' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1892
PP/18/27/2Diagrams, experimental equipment by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1892
PP/17/25Paper, 'On the bisulphite compounds of alizarin-blue and coerulin as sensitisers for rays of low refrangibility' by George Higgs1891
PP/9/8Paper, 'On the intensity of light reflected from certain surfaces at nearly perpendicular incidence' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1886
PP/24/6Paper, 'Measurements of the absolute specific resistance of pure electrolytic copper' by Joseph Wilson Swan and J Rhodin1894
RR/10/79Second letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young23 May 1887
RR/12/31Letter from J S Risien Russell, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'An experimental investigation of the nerve roots which enter into the formation of the lumbo-sacral plexus of Macacus rhesus' by J S Risien Russell3 July 1893
RR/12/95Third letter from Stanley Dunkerley, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the whirling and vibration of shafts' by Stanley Dunkerleynd [1894]
RR/12/159Second letter from Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the effects produced on the circulation and respiration by gun-shot injuries of the cerebral hemispheres' by S P Kramer and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley30 March 1895
RR/15/248Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'A new manometer, and on the law of pressure of gases between 1.5 and 0.01 millimetres of mercury' by John William Strutt, Lord RayleighFebruary 1901
PP/2/1Paper, 'On the formation of ripplemark' by Arthur Roope Hunt1882
RR/8/251Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the determination of the constants of the cup anemometer by experiments with a whirling machine—part II' by Thomas Romney Robinson2 August 1880
RR/8/346Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'Experiments to determine the value of the British Association unit of resistance in absolute measure' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh15 April 1881
RR/9/183Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels' by Osborne Reynolds30 March 1883
RR/9/188Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Experiments, by the method of Lorentz, for the further determination the absolute value of the British Association Unit of Resistance, with an appendix on the determination of the pitch of a standard tuning-fork' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh and Nevil Vincent Sidgwick20 February 1883
RR/9/269Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' by George Gore to John Wiliam Strutt, Lord Rayleigh13 December 1885
RR/9/335Letter from Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' by Charles Chambers to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh17 June 1886
RR/9/337Letter from Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' by Charles Chambers to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh30 June 1886
RR/9/338Letter from Charles Chambers, on his paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh23 September 1886
RR/9/341Letter from John Couch Adams, on a paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' by Charles Chambers to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh6 November 1886
RR/10/7Letter from William de Wiveleslie Abney, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Total eclipse of the sun observed at Caroline Island, on 6th May, 1883' by William de Wiveleslie Abney9 August 1887
RR/10/50Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Some anomalies in the winds of Northern India, and their relation to the distribution of barometric pressure' by S A Hill4 August 1887
RR/10/74Letter from Edward Bagnall Poulton, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'An enquiry into the cause and extent of a special colour-relation between certain exposed lepidopterous pupae and the surfaces immediately surround them' by Edward Bagnall Poulton31 March 1887
RR/10/78Letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 May 1887
RR/10/94Letter from Joseph John Thomson, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena.—Part II' by Joseph John Thomson8 June 1887
RR/10/99Letter from Herbert Tomlinson, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter.—Part I. Elasticity (continued).—The effect of magnetisation on the elasticity and the internal friction of metals' by Herbert Tomlinson16 May 1887
RR/10/139Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree8 November 1888
RR/10/149Letter from Michael Foster, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart[1888]
RR/10/230Letter from Arthur William Rucker, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the electromotive changes connected with the beat of the mammalian heart, and of the human heart in particular' by Augustus Desire Waller8 August 1888
RR/10/312bisLetter from Herbert Tomlinson, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter.— Part III. Magnetic induction (continued).—The internal friction of nickel, and cobalt, studied by means of magnetic cycles of very minute range' by Herbert Tomlinson11 March 1890
RR/10/315Letter from William Crawford Williamson, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the organisation of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part XVI' by William Crawford Williamson27 November 1889
RR/11/10Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society12 March 1891
RR/11/11Second letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society16 March 1891
RR/11/36Letter from William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'Constitution of the terpenes camphors and camphor acid' by John Norman Collie to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society19 November 1891
RR/12/4Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon21 June 1893
RR/12/28Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the thickness and electrical resistance of thin liquid films' by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rucker[1893]
RR/12/46Letter from Henry Martyn Taylor, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On a graphical representation of the twenty-seven lines on a cubic surface' by Henry Martyn Taylor16 October 1893
RR/12/78Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison18 July 1894
RR/12/108Letter from Lazarus Fletcher, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Chemical analysis of the meteoric stone found at Makariwa, near Invercargill, New Zealand, in the year 1886' by Lazarus Fletcher28 February 1894
RR/12/147Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'An estimate of the degrees of legitimate natality as derived from a table of natality compiled by the author from his observations made at Budapest' by Joseph Kórösi24 February 1894
RR/12/210Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the dynamical theory of incompressible viscous fluids and the determination of the criterion' by Osborne Reynolds30 January 1895
RR/12/228Letter from David Salomons, to John William Sturtt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On some phenomena in vacuum-tubes' by David Salomons9 March 1894
RR/12/245Letter from William Napier Shaw, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Researches on the electric properties of pure substances.—No. I. The electrical properties of pure sulphur' by Richard Threlfall, Joseph Henry Drapier Brearley and Mr Allen21 July 1894
RR/12/262Letter from Henry Wilde, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding three papers [attributed] 'On the relations of the secular variation of the magnetic declination and inclination at London, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and Ascension Island, as exhibited on the magnetarium' by Henry Wilde13 March 1894
RR/12/301Letter from Herbert Rix, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the magnetical results of the voyage of H. M. S. "Penguin," 1890-93' by Ettrick William Creak16 December 1895
RR/12/326Letter from Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson23 June 1895
RR/12/364Letter from Edward Alfred Minchin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayliegh, regarding a paper 'On the origin of the triradiate spicules of Leucosolenia' by Edward Alfred Minchin18 July 1895
RR/13/175Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the variation of the electromotive force of different forms of the Clark standard cell with temperature and with strength of solution' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar and Howard Turner Barnes17 March 1897
RR/21/62Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The analysis of gases after passage of electric discharge' by Alfred Charles Glyn Egertonnd [1914]
RR/24/55Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the propagation of sound in the free atmosphere and the acoustic efficiency of fog-signal machinery: an account of experiments carried out at father point, quebec, September, 1913' by Louis Vessot King[May 1917]
PP/24/6/1Manuscript, 'Measurements of the absolute specific resistance of pure electrolytic copper' by Joseph Wilson Swan and J Rhodin1894
PP/24/8/1Manuscript, 'Note on the possibility of obtaining a unidirectional current to earth from the mains of an alternating current system' by Philip Cardew1894
RR/12/186Letter from Herbert Rix, on two papers 'On the photographic arc spectrum of electrolytic iron' and 'On the photographic arc spectrum of iron meteorites' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh28 June 1894
RR/12/395Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh13 February 1895
RR/12/396Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh18 February 1895
PP/8/26Paper, 'Intensity of radiation through turbid media' by [William De Wiveleslie] Abney and [Edward Robert] Festing1886
PP/23/7Paper, 'Insect sight and the defining power of composite eyes' by A [Arnulph] Mallock1893
MC/14/287Letter from [William] Galloway, Cardiff, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Burlington House, London6 February 1888
MC/15/66Letter from [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Ealing, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]19 March 1890
PP/23/25/1Manuscript, 'Experimental determination of Poisson’s ratio' by Charles Edmund Stromeyer1894
PP/23/21Paper, 'On an anomaly encountered in determinations of the density of nitrogen gas' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1894
PP/24/8/3Letter, regarding 'Note on the possibility of obtaining a unidirectional current to earth from the mains of an alternating current system' from Philip Cardew to Lord Kelvin [John William Strutt]7 May 1894
PP/24/8Paper, 'Note on the possibility of obtaining a unidirectional current to earth from the mains of an alternating current system' by Philip Cardew1894
PP/24/20/1Manuscript, 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply' by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold1894
PP/24/19Paper, 'On an instrument for indicating and measuring difference of phase between E M F and current in any alternating current system' by Philip Cardew1894
MC/15/65Letter from [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Ealing, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]19 March 1890
PP/24/20Paper, 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply' by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold1894
PP/23/25Paper, 'Experimental determination of Poisson’s ratio' by Charles Edmund Stromeyer1894
PP/11/23Paper, 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1888
PP/14/24Paper, 'A new form of gas battery' by Ludwig Mond and Carl Langer1889
PP/17/6Paper, 'Note on the present state of the theory of thin elastic shells' by A G H [Augustus Edward Hough] Love[1890-1891]
MC/15/130Letter from [Ernest Howard] Griffiths, 12 Parkside, Cambridge, to Lord Rayleigh17 January 1891
MC/16/281Letter from Harold [Bailey] Dixon, The Owens College, Manchester, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]28 January 1896
MC/16/331Letter from Arthur [William] Rucker, 19 Gledhow Gardens, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]12 October 1896
MC/15/184Letter from Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]13 May 1891
MC/16/129Letter from Joseph [Williams] Lovibond, The Color Laboratories, Salisbury, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Burlington House4 June 1894
MC/16/237Letter from John Joly, Trinity College, Dublin, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]4 July 1895
MC/16/233Letter from [Henry James] Chaney, Board of Trade, Standards Department, 7 Old Palace Park, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]1 July 1895
MC/16/256Letter from [Thomas Alfred Hearson], Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, Surrey, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary of the Royal Society31 October 1895
MC/16/321Letter from [John Ambrose] Fleming, University College, London, Gower Street, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary of the Royal Society12 June 1896
MC/16/197Letter from Courtenay [Edmund] Boyle, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]27 February 1895
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/14/148Letter from George Gore, Institute of Scientific Research, Birmingham, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary of the Royal Society28 August 1886
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
NLB/19/565Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Horace A D Seymour, Royal Mint2 November 1899
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/20/409Letter from [John William Strutt], Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison12 November 1905
MC/20/407Letter from [John William Strutt], Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison16 January 1905
MC/20/408Letter from [John William Strutt], Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to Sir William [Huggins]29 October 1905
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