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Authorised form of nameDixon; Harold Baily (1852 - 1930)
Dates1852 - 1930
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth11 August 1852
Place of deathLytham, Lancashire
Date of death18/09/1930
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; Christ Church Oxford (1875, 1st Class Natural Science)
Career:
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; Millard Lecturer on Physics, Trinity College, Oxford (by 1885); Duke of Bedford's Lecturer on Chemistry, Balliol College, Oxford (by 1885); Professor of Chemistry, Owen's College, Manchester (1885?)
Honours:
CBE 1918
Memberships:
FCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1886
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1913
Lectures:
Bakerian 1893
RelationshipsYounger son of William Hepworth Dixon.
Married: 1) (1885) Olive Beechey, daughter of Edward Martin Hopkins of Montreal (she died 1917); 2) Muriel Kinch of Yelverton, Devon
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1932 vol 134 pp i-xvii, plate, signed by H B B and W A B
References:
Edmund J Bowen, 'The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford 1853-1940' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 227-236
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/58898903
CodeNA8203
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1886/05Dixon, Harold Baily: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/001169Dixon, Harold Bailynd
IM/Maull/001168Dixon, Harold Baily1893
NLB/71/506Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Harold Baily] Dixon, C.B.E., FRS19 June 1928
NLB/6/1024Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings5 October 1892
NLB/6/1026Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company5 October 1892
NLB/6/846Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1892
NLB/6/771Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1892
NLB/6/995Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]29 September 1892
NLB/6/1051Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company11 October 1892
NLB/6/985Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings28 September 1892
NLB/6/1003Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Collings1 October 1892
NLB/6/1052Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon11 October 1892
NLB/6/912Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]10 September 1892
NLB/6/984Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society28 September 1892
NLB/6/1060Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company17 October 1892
NLB/6/1057Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society[October 1892]
NLB/7/203Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Bailey Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1892
NLB/6/1192Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1892
NLB/7/9Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society11 November 1892
NLB/7/363Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society28 January 1893
NLB/11/142Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Henry Hardinge Samuel Cunynghame, Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.29 April 1895
NLB/12/600Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Harold Baily Dixon, Rev Frederick John Smith and Professor William Cawthorne Unwin20 March 1896
RR/16/8Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The combination of Hydrogen and Chlorine under the influence of light' by Mr P V BevanApril 1903
RR/15/319Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The movements of the flame in the explosion of gases' by Harold Baily DixonJune 1902
RR/15/320Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'The movements of the flame in the explosion of gases' by Harold Baily DixonJuly 1902
RR/22/114Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The reaction between gas and pole in the electrical ignition of gaseous mixtures' by W M ThorntonJuly 1915
RR/17/22Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'On a new Iron carbonyl, and on the action of light and of heat on the Iron carbonyls' by James Dewar and Humphrey Owen Jones[January 1907]
RR/16/300Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on a paper 'The atomic weight of chlorine: An attempt to determine the equivalent of chlorine by direct burning with hydrogen' by Professor Harold Baily Dixon and E C Edgar26 May 1905
NLB/23/2/228Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1902
NLB/19/585Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 November 1899
NLB/24/615Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Henry Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society9 June 1902
NLB/25/223Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society24 September 1902
NLB/26/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society7 April 1903
NLB/31/202Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society and E C Edgar8 July 1905
NLB/27/301Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society4 August 1903
NLB/27/616Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Harlod Bailey Dixon, [Fellow of the Royal Society]29 October 1903
NLB/27/219Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society21 July 1903
NLB/26/562Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society21 April 1903
NLB/26/501Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society1 April 1903
NLB/26/649Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Beechey House, Victoria Park, Manchester5 May 1903
NLB/28/209Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs the Swan Electric Engraving Company30 January 1904
NLB/28/192Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons28 January 1904
NLB/28/346Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society20 February 1904
NLB/28/422Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to the Vice Chancellor, University, Oxford3 March 1904
NLB/30/591Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society14 April 1905
NLB/30/654Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1905
NLB/30/698Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1905
NLB/31/759Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1905
NLB/35/7Copy letter from A H White, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chemical Department, the University, Manchester27 March 1907
NLB/35/116Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society17 April 1907
NLB/36/291Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Manchester8 October 1907
NLB/34/601Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1907
NLB/35/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1907
NLB/36/383Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society22 October 1907
NLB/34/458Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1907
NLB/35/629Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1907
NLB/41/276Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1909
NLB/40/317Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Harold] B [Baily] Dixon FRS 24 May 1909
NLB/40/350Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to M C W Askling, Handverkaregatan 51, Norrkoping, Sweden26 May 1909
NLB/44/125Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Harold] B [Baily] Dixon FRS 12 May 1911
NLB/41/763Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1910
NLB/41/823Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society3 March 1910
NLB/43/355Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1910
NLB/43/255Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society1 December 1910
NLB/46/416Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Aubrey] Strahan, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Tyndall Mining Bequest Committee27 July 1912
NLB/50/250Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1914
NLB/51/150Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Harold Baily Dixon FRS21 December 1914
NLB/52/676Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Harold Bailey Dixon, FRS11 February 1916
RR/22/118Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by impulsive electrical discharge' by W M ThorntonDecember 1915
RR/22/119Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The electrical ignition of gases below atmospheric pressure' by W M ThorntonJune 1915
NLB/57/381Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HB [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS, CBE,29 October 1919
RR/26/14Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part II. — The explosion of hydrogen-air and carbon monoxide-air mixtures' by William Arthur Bone and William Arthur Haward[1921]
RR/32/23Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part V' by William Arthur Bone, Dundley Maurice Newitt and T A TownsendMay 1925
RR/30/25Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The union of hydrogen and oxygen in presence of silver and gold' by David Leonard Chapman, J E Ramsbottom and C G Trotman[October 1924]
RR/11/140bisReferee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'The rate of explosion in gases' by Harold Baily Dixon20 August 1892
RR/9/202Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Conditions of chemical change in gases: hydrogen, carbonic oxide, and oxygen' by Harold Baily Dixon15 August 1884
RR/33/23Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper New experiments upon the combustion of well-dried carbon monoxide and oxygen mixtures. Part I' by William Arthur Bone and Frank R WestonFebruary 1926
RR/38/154Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Ignition of gases' by W M Thornton5 November 1928
NLB/60/586Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS6 February 1921
NLB/58/813Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS21 June 1920
RR/12/366Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields3 July 1895
NLB/57/415Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HB [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS4 November 1919
RR/41/87Referee's report by Harold Bailey Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion in electric discharges. Part V.-A spectrographic examination of the cathodic combustion of carbonic oxide' by George Ingle Finch and H H ThompsonAugust 1930
NLB/61/661Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS4 October 1921
NLB/60/640Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS6 March 1921
RR/25/54Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Influence of reduced pressure on the electrical ignition of gases' by W M Thornton2 March 1918
NLB/61/216Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS, Colin Campbell Esquire, A. Parker Esquire2 June 1921
NLB/61/252Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS8 June 1921
NLB/61/284Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS16 June 1921
RR/32/58Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at medium pressures. Part I. —Carbon monoxide air explosions in a closed vessel. Part II. —Methane-air explosions in a closed vessel' by R W FenningSeptember 1925
NLB/62/687Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS6 April 1922
RR/11/140Referee's report by Frederick Augustus Abel, on a paper 'The rate of explosion in gases' by Harold Baily Dixon29 July 1892
NLB/64/265Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS1 March 1923
RR/9/201Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'Conditions of chemical change in gases: hydrogen, carbonic oxide, and oxygen' by Harold Baily Dixon29 July 1884
NLB/65/589Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS23 November 1923
NLB/65/675Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS6 December 1923
RR/21/24Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures' by William Arthur Bone, Hamilton Davies, H H Gray, Herbert H Henstock and J B Dawson[February 1915]
NLB/65/695Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS10 December 1923
NLB/65/606Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS27 November 1923
NLB/66/57Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS.14 February 1924
NLB/65/804Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS4 January 1924
NLB/66/21Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS7 February 1924
NLB/69/740Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to W. G. Shilling Esq., East London College, Mile End Road, E.122 September 1926
NLB/68/585Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS8 September 1925
NLB/70/167Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C. I. Kelly Esq.; Anglo-American Oil Co., Purefleet, Essex19 January 1927
MS/427/364Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury2 June 1884
NLB/65/525Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 November 1923
NLB/65/928Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS31 January 1924
NLB/66/38Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 February 1924
NLB/24/540Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Owens College, Manchester31 May 1902
NLB/11/159Copy letter from Dr Michael Foster, to Henry Cunningham, Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.4 May 1895
NLB/11/132Copy letter from Michael Foster, to; Professor James Dewar, Professor William Cawthorne Unwin, Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Reverend Frederick John Smith and Harold Baily Dixon, Fellows of the Royal Society26 April 1895
RR/15/401Letter from Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Chemical dynamics and statics in light' by Meyer Wilderman to Joseph Larmor17 March 1902
RR/16/254Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Explosions of mixtures of coal-gas and air in a closed vessel' by Leonard Bairstow and A D Alexander5 March 1905
RR/16/253Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Explosions of mixtures of coal-gas and air in a closed vessel' by Leonard Bairstow and A D AlexanderFebruary 1905
NLB/33/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1906
NLB/52/470Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor Charles Herbert Lees, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS17 December 1915
RR/33/22Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'New experiments upon the combustion of well-dried carbon monoxide and oxygen mixtures. Part II' by William Arthur Bone, R P Fraser and Dudley Maurice NewittFebruary 1926
RR/38/8Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The electrical condition of hot surfaces during the adsorption of gases. Part II. —A nickel surface at temperatures up to 850°C' by George Ingle Finch and J C Stimson25 June 1928
RR/26/31Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'On the velocity of sound in gases at high temperatures, and the ratio of the specific heats' by Harold Baily Dixon, Colin Campbell and A Parker16 June 1921
NLB/66/20Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS7 February 1924
NLB/65/899Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS24 January 1924
NLB/67/101Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS21 October 1924
NLB/65/604Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS27 November 1923
RR/26/13Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Researches upon brown coals and ignites. Part I.— Heat treatment at temperatures below 400° C. as a possible method for enhancing their fuel values' by William Arthur Bone[February 1921]
NLB/65/766Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS21 December 1923
NLB/66/54Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS14 February 1924
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/38/9Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combusion in electric discharges. Part III.-The cathodic combustion of dry carbonic oxide detonating gas' by George Ingle Finch and D L HodgeApril 1929
AP/74/8Unpublished paper, 'Researches in absolute mercurial thermometry' by S A Sworn1899
RR/15/399Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Chemical dynamics and statics in light' by Meyer WildermanMarch 1902
RR/41/86Referee's report by Harold Bailey Dixon, on two papers 'Gasesous combustion in electric discharges. Part VI.—The effect of diluents upon the cathodic combustion of carbonic oxide “detonating gas”' and 'Gasesous combustion in electric discharges. Part VII.—The effect of dilution with hydrogen on the cathodic combustion of carbonic oxide—oxygen mixtures' by George Ingle Finch and W L PatrickAugust 1930
RR/15/405Second referee's report by Harold Bailey Dixon, on a paper 'Chemical dynamics and statics in light' by Meyer Wilderman19 April 1902
RR/16/301Referee's report by Alexander Scott, on a paper 'The atomic weight of chlorine: An attempt to determine the equivalent of chlorine by direct-burning with hydrogen' by Harold Baily Dixon and E C EdgarJune 1905
RR/21/148Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The electrical ignition of gaseous mixtures' by W M Thornton[February 1914]
RR/23/100Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Ignition of gases at reduced pressure by continuous current break sparks' by W M Thornton7 April 1916
RR/28/65Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part III.-The energy absorbing function and activation of nitrogen in the combustion of carbon monoxide' by William Arthur Bone, Dudley Maurice Newitt and Donald T A Townend[March 1923]
RR/28/123Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'On the velocity of sound in gases and vapours, and the ratio of the specific heats' by Harold Baily Dixon and Gilbert Greenwood[December 1923]
RR/30/12Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part IV.—The influence of varying initial pressures upon the rate of pressure development and the activation of nitrogen in carbon monoxide-air explosions' by William Arthur Bone, Dudley Maurice Newitt and D T A Townend11 February 1924
RR/35/17Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part IX.—The influence of pressure upon the "explosion limits" of inflammable gas-air, etc., mixtures' by William Arthur Bone, Dudley Maurice Newitt and C M Smith2 December 1927
RR/35/73Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The electrical condition of hot surfaces during the adsorption of gases. Part I.-Gold and silver surfaces at temperatures up to 850°C' by George Ingle Finch and J C StimsonJune 1927
MC/16/215Letter from Harold [Bailey] Dixon, The Owens College, Manchster, to Professor [Michael] Foster17 May 1895
MC/16/281Letter from Harold [Bailey] Dixon, The Owens College, Manchester, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]28 January 1896
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