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Authorised form of nameStokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)
SurnameStokes
ForenamesGeorge Gabriel
Dates1819 - 1903
NationalityBritish
Dates and placesBirth:
Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland (13 August 1819)
Death:
Cambridge (01 February 1903)
Burial:
Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge
ActivityResearch Field:
Physics
Education:
MA
Career:
Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
Honours:
Bt 1889
Royal Society activityMembership:
Fellow
Election Date:
5/06/1851
Medals/Prizes:
Rumford Medal 1852; Copley Medal 1893
Council:
Sec 1854-1885; PRS 1885-1890; VP 1890-1892
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 199-216, plate, signed by H
References:
Frank A J L James, 'The Conservation of Energy, Theories of Absorption and Resonating Molecules, 1851-1854: G G Stokes, A J Angstrom and W Thomson' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 79-107
Marie Boas Hall, 'The Royal Society in Thomas Henry Huxley's Time' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 153-158
W V Farrar, 'Edward Schunck, FRS. A Pioneer of Natural Product Chemistry' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 273-296
John R Levene, 'Sir George Biddell Airy, FRS (1801-1892) and the Discovery and Correction of Astigmatism' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 180-199
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
W Hayes, 'Physics as well as poetry. Physicists of Ireland, edited by M McCartney and A Whitaker' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 245-246
R Iliffe and J Young, 'Report. Newton on the net: first and prospective fruits of a Royal Society grant' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 83-88
P Fara, 'Lucasian Professors. From Newton to Hawking: a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics, ed K C Knox and R Noakes' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 312-313
G Ferrari and A McConnell, 'Robert Mallet and the 'Great Neapolitan earthquake' of 1857 in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 45-64
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/73899541
Royal Society codeNA8283
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/17/128Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to Herbert Rix6 September 1882
MM/21/64Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to Herbert N Flewker7 July 1890
MS/377/1/130Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, 4 Windsan Terrace to William Fletcher Barrett 26 September 1884
AP/31/18Supplement to a paper on the theory of certain bands seen in the Spectrum 1848
MS/377/1/129Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to William Fletcher Barrett11 March 1882
EC/1851/13Stokes, Sir George Gabriel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/14/156Letter from Donald MacFarlane, Glasgow, to George Gabriel Stokes9 January 1872
MM/16/48Letter from Henry Toynbee, Meteorological Office, to George Gabriel Stokes9 September 1878
MS/377/1/127Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Observatory, Armagh, to William Fletcher Barrett11 September 1880
MS/843/21Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to William Sharpey27 October 1864
IM/004414Stokes, Sir George Gabriel1892
MM/19/84Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary, Royal Society to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society15 July 1863
MM/19/116Notes on the Huyghens object glassc.1855
MM/17/72Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society11 December 1894
MM/17/2Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to HE Roscoe17 October 1892
MM/14/153Letter from CW Thompson, Belfast, to George Gabriel Stokes15 Feb
MM/14/154Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to August Dupre 18 May 1868
MM/15/8Letter from GJ Romanes to George Gabriel Stokes20 June 1881
AP/38/13On the Mathematical Theory of the Stability of Earthwork and Masonry18 February 1856
MM/17/73Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society15 December 1894
MS/766/6Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to [William Sharpey]c1868
MM/15/28Draft of a letter or memorandum about the Meteorological Office 19th century
MM/14/161Letter from John Spiller, Highbury New Park, to George Gabriel Stokes10 December 1872
MM/16/50Letter from Henry Toynbee, Meteorological Office, to George Gabriel Stokes18 September 1878
MM/14/155Letter from Warren de la Rue, 110 Bunhill Row, to George Gabriel Stokes1 June 1868
MM/16/157Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Royal Society, to Sir John Herschel10 October 1856
MM/19/82Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary, Royal Society to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society16 July 1863
MM/16/47Letter from Henry Toynbee, Meteorological Office, to George Gabriel Stokes14 August 1878
MM/19/80Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary, Royal Society to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society4 June 1864
MM/17/1Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to HE Roscoe17 October 1892
MM/19/81Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary, Royal Society to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society9 November 1868
AP/46/5On Magnesium1864
MM/17/74Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society4 May 1899
MM/12/88Report of the Standards Office Committee, signed by G B Airy, AR Clarke and George Gabriel Stokesc.1882
MM/19/114Letter from Warren de la Rue to George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary, Royal Society19 February 1855
MM/14/162Letter from August Dupre, Westminster Hospital, to George Gabriel Stokes12 December 1872
MS/373/1/9Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Thomas Edward Thorpe6 December 1879
AP/37/35On a Simple Geometrical Construction, Giving a Very Approximate Quadrature of the Circle1855
AP/70/13The Asymmetrical Probability Curve1894
IM/004412Stokes, Sir George Gabrielnd
AP/37/22On the Theory of Electric Telegraph28 October 1854
AP/39/10On the Photography of the Moon1856
MS/377/1/126Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Fletcher Barrett27 July 1875
AP/38/3On the Existence of Multiple Proportion in the quantities of Heat produced by the Chemical Combination of Oxygen and other bodiesNovember 1855
MS/377/1/128Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to William Fletcher Barrett30 January 1882
MS/377/1/125Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to William Fletcher Barrett15 July 1867
AP/38/34On the Existence of multiple proportion in the quantities of heat produced by the Chemical Combination of Oxygen with other bodies1856
AP/51/7On the Behaviour of Thermometers in a Vacuum1869
AP/60/15Extension of the value of E to 735 places of decimals; and of log 2, log 3 and log 5 to 310 decimals25 September 1878
AP/36/19Letter from William Bird Herapath to George Gabriel Stokes
on compounds of Iodine & Strychnine 		20 June 1855
AP/58/4Variation in Rainfall in connection with Variation in Sunspots 1876
AP/69/9On the Metallurgy of Lead1893
MM/15/69Letter from J A Broun to George Gabriel Stokes4 June 1877
MM/15/67Letter from AE Fridell, National Photo Mezzo Tint Gallery, to George Gabriel Stokes4 July 1873
AP/37/11On the determination of the dew-point by means of the wet and dry bulb thermometers10 September 1855
AP/38/14Letter from James P Joule, Manchester, to George Gabriel Stokes 21 February 1856
MS/743/1/76Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to John Hall Gladstone16 June 1871
AP/59/2On Magneto-Electric Induction in Liquid and Gaseous conductors. Part I - Production of induced currents in Electrolytes1877
MS/743/1/78Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to John Hall Gladstone6 April 1872
MS/743/1/75Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, The Atheneum, to John Hall Gladstone15 June 1871
MS/743/1/87Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Athenaeum Club and Cambridge, to [John Hall] Gladstone26-29 November 1875
MM/16/49Letter from Henry Toynbee, Meteorological Office, to George Gabriel Stokes13 September 1878
MM/14/157Letter from A C L G Gunther, British Museum, to George Gabriel Stokes24 March 1871
IM/005231Royal Society Officers circa 1895-1900nd
MM/14/163Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter, University of London, to George Gabriel Stokes20 January 1872
IM/004409Stokes, Sir George Gabrielnd
IM/Maull/004410Stokes, Sir George Gabriel1890
RR/4/5Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield1 July 1862
NLB/66/899Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to R. D. German, Esq. Cardiff11 September 1924
RR/8/114Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches in spectrum analysis in connection with the spectrum of the sun' by Joseph Norman Lockyer11 March 1878
NLB/1/136Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Secretary to the Admiralty24 June 1886
NLB/4/424Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1890
NLB/2/29Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society10 December 1887
NLB/1/178Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Sir Reginald Earle Welby10 August 1886
NLB/2/98Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society14 January 1888
NLB/1/49Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Anselmo Ferreira Pinto Basto, Consul General for Portugal, Linsfield Cottage, Cambridge2 January 1886
NLB/1/519Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society18 July 1887
NLB/2/35Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, Principal of the Royal Society14 December 1887
NLB/1/77Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Secretary of Admiralty 24 February 1886
NLB/1/100Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Secretary of the Admiralty1 April 1886
NLB/1/128Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Walter Joseph Sendall, Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands12 June 1886
NLB/1/135Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Permanent Under Secretary of State for War, the War Office24 June 1886
NLB/1/141Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Secretary of Admiralty 26 June 1886
NLB/1/159Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Secretary to the Admiralty15 July 1886
NLB/2/232Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society6 March 1888
NLB/4/48Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes 27 January 1890
NLB/2/994Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society23 January 1889
NLB/1/608Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society5 October 1887
NLB/2/596Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, Glasthute Lodge, Kingston, Ireland22 September 1888
NLB/4/52Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes28 January 1890
NLB/4/613Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1890
NLB/4/586Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1890
NLB/4/108Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to F Howard Collins12 February 1890
NLB/4/40Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1890
NLB/2/764Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Member of Parliament1 November 1888
NLB/4/256Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society28 March 1890
NLB/4/276Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society9 April 1890
NLB/4/461Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes6 June 1890
NLB/4/953Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1890
NLB/2/1031Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, [President of the Royal Society]4 February 1889
NLB/4/472Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes9 June 1890
NLB/2/986Copy letter from [Herbert Rix], to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society21 January 1889
NLB/4/761Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society17 October 1890
NLB/3/256Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society24 April 1889
NLB/3/201Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society10 April 1889
NLB/4/858Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1890
NLB/4/940Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society3 December 1890
NLB/3/645Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society29 July 1889
NLB/3/617Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society24 July 1889
NLB/4/912Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society24 November 1890
NLB/3/571Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society15 July 1889
NLB/3/612Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society23 July 1889
NLB/3/793Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society9 October 1889
NLB/3/769Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society5 October 1889
NLB/3/899Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society7 November 1889
NLB/3/880Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society1 November 1889
NLB/6/427Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretary, Royal Astronomical Society11 May 1892
NLB/3/986Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society2 December 1889
NLB/3/938Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society18 November 1889
NLB/7/856Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Reverend G E Watts, Kensworth Vicarage, Dunstable10 May 1893
NLB/5/156Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1891
NLB/5/760Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1891
NLB/7/96Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes28 November 1892
NLB/7/829Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society5 May 1893
NLB/5/725Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society28 September 1891
NLB/5/1004Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1891
NLB/5/1193Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1892
NLB/10/552Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1894
NLB/10/152Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1894
NLB/11/13Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society3 April 1895
NLB/8/472Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society2 November 1893
NLB/8/474Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Honorable Sir C W Fremantle2 November 1893
NLB/10/278Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1894
NLB/8/740Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1893
NLB/10/510Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]7 December 1894
NLB/10/666Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society15 January 1895
NLB/10/438Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society24 November 1894
NLB/10/522Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1894
NLB/10/549Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1894
NLB/10/689Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Horace Lamb, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1895
NLB/10/700Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society22 January 1895
NLB/10/691Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1895
NLB/10/750Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer 30 January 1895
NLB/9/464Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society22 May 1894
NLB/11/504Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], Fellow of the Royal Society15 July 1895
NLB/11/501Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society13 July 1895
NLB/11/676Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society11 September 1895
RR/15/59Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Lines of Induction in a Magnetic Field' by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw and Alfred Hay7 July 1900
RR/15/158Second letter from William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose to Robert Frederick William Harrison10 June 1901
RR/15/156Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose6 June 1901
NLB/2New Letter Book volume 2, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration30 November 1887-9 February 1889
RR/3/81Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the phenomenon of relief of the image formed on the ground glass of the camera obscura' by Antoine Jean Francois Claudet30 November 1857
NLB/21/320Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1900
NLB/4New Letter Book volume 4, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration14 January 1890-12 February 1891
NLB/16/500Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir G G Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1898
NLB/23/2/76Copy telegram from Sir Michael Foster, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield, Cambridge6 June 1901
NLB/19/733Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society7 December 1899
NLB/18/759Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor [A] Michelson9 May 1899
NLB/22/278Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [George Gabriel] Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society3 April 1901
NLB/15/175Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord [Joseph] Lister, Sir John Evans, Sir Edward Frankland, Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir George Stokes, Lord Rayleigh, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Huggins, and Robert Bellamy Clifton, Fellows of the Royal Society[8 July 1897]
NLB/18/770Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George G Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society10 May 1899
NLB/19/26Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1899
NLB/18/246Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir G G Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge11 February 1899
NLB/19/729Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1899
NLB/18/385Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J W Clark, Registry of the University, Cambridge2 March 1899
NLB/18/662Copy letter from [Arthur William] Rucker, to [Professor J A] Ewing, Cambridge[18 April 1899]
NLB/19/482Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society12 October 1899
NLB/19/693Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society 24 November 1899
NLB/19/808Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society1 January 1900
NLB/20/134Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society9 February 1900
NLB/20/203Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Registrar of the University of Cambridge22 February 1900
NLB/20/454Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society27 April 1900
NLB/20/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1900
NLB/20/347Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Godfrey29 March 1900
NLB/20/730Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society26 June 1900
NLB/20/652Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1900
NLB/21/250Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society10 October 1900
NLB/20/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1900
NLB/22/359Copy letter from Arthur [William] Rucker, to Sir [George Gabriel] Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1901
NLB/23/2/302Copy letter sent from Sir William Huggins, to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge12 February 1903
NLB/23/1/722Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society10 January 1902
NLB/24/190Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Lensfield, Cambridge19 March 1902
RR/5/39Letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain developable surfaces' by Arthur Cayley30 January 1863
MS/427/2Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieut Gen. [Henry Frederick] Ponsonby6 November 1879
RR/6/262Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Allen Miller, regarding a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.—No. XI' by Edward Sabine17 July 1868
NLB/10New Letter Book volume 10, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration17 August 1894-1 April 1895
RR/3/83Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the theory of the gyroscope' by Reverend William Cook1857
RR/2/5Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by George Biddell Airy30 January 1855
RR/3/104Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes on a paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity - thirtieth series' by Michael Faraday20 December 1855
RR/2/26Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by James Booth3 May 1852
RR/3/6Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Account of experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Bissell Airy13 March 1856
RR/3/124Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt1856
RR/3/159Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the thermal effects of compressing fluids' by James Prescott Joule27 December 1857
RR/4/116Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the properties of electro-deposited antimony (concluded)' by George Gore1 July 1862
RR/4/267Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the motions of camphor on the surface of water' by Charles Tomlinson11 March 1862
RR/3/261Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Elements of a mathematical theory of elasticity' by William Thomson18 July 1856
RR/2/203Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the theory of waves' by Andrew John Robertson12 January 1853
RR/2/231Referee's report by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, on a paper 'On the change of refrangibility of light. No. II' by George Gabriel Stokes28 July 1853
RR/2/230Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On the change of refrangibility of light' by George Gabriel Stokes21 June 1852
RR/2/254Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller and George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On a general law of density in saturated vapours' by John James Waterston30 October 1851
RR/5/3Letter from George Biddel Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy16 June 1863
RR/5/4Letter from George Biddel Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the strains in the Interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy22 February 1863
RR/4/53Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the relations between the elastic force of aqueous vapour, at ordinary temperatures, and its motive force in producing currents of air in vertical tubes' by W D Chowne1860
RR/5/79Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Researches on the refraction, dispersion, and sensitiveness of liquids' by John Hall Gladstone and T P Dale29 April 1863
RR/5/14Second letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the structure and formation of the so-called apolar, unipolar, and bipolar nerve-cells of the frog' by Lionel Smith Beale11 August 1863
RR/7/26Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the pre-carboniferous flora of Northeastern America' by Dawson15 November 1870
MS/928/2/154Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 8 November 1890
MS/928/2/168Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 25 December 1897
RR/5/61Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the functions of the cerebellum' by William Howship Dickinson13 April 1864
MS/928/2/153Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 7 November 1890
MS/928/2/163Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 29 November 1897
MS/928/2/159Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 3-4 December 1890
RR/5/60Letter from William Howship Dickinson, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the functions of the cerebellum' by William Howship Dickinson11 April 1864
RR/4/262Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the long spectrum of electric light' by George Gabriel Stokes16 July 1862
MS/928/2/162Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 26-27 November 1897
RR/5/100Telegram from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Further inquiries concerning the laws and operation of electrical force' by William Snow Harris to George Gabriel Stokes22 December 1864
MS/928/2/160Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 6 December 1890
MS/928/2/169Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 27 December 1897
RR/5/82Letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Second part of the supplement to the two papers on mortality published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1820 and 1825' by Benjamin Gompertz8 December 1864
MS/928/2/161Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 3 November 1897
MS/928/2/158Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 2 December 1890
MS/928/2/166Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 6 December 1897
RR/4/263Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On the long spectrum of electric light' by George Gabriel Stokes8 July 1862
MS/928/2/165Figure, section of a sound bore, from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 4 December 1897
MS/928/2/170Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 27 December 1897
RR/5/106Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the reflexion of polarized light from polished surfaces, transparent and metallic' by Samuel Haughton30 June 1862
MS/928/2/173Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 30 March 1900
MS/928/2/171Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 20 March 1900
RR/11/161bisReferee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the colour of the leaves of plants and their Autumnal changes' by Arthur Hill Hassall13 July 1892
RR/5/156Third letter from Robert McDonnell, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the amyloid substance of the liver, and its ultimate destination in the animal economy' by Robert McDonnell2 July [1864]
RR/5/154Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Robert McDonnell, regarding a paper 'On the amyloid substance of the liver, and its ultimate destination in the animal economy' by Robert McDonnell26 June 1863
RR/5/129Letter from Joseph Henry Gilbert, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the amyloid substance of the liver, and its ultimate destination in the animal economy' by Robert McDonnell29 June 1863
RR/1/234Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on two unnamed papers by George Gabriel Stokes and Baden Powell[c.1848]
RR/5/198Third letter from Jonathan Frederick Pollock, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock10 April 1865
RR/5/203Second letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock4 May [1863]
RR/5/202Letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock3 April [1863]
RR/5/212Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the exact form of waves near the surface of deep water' by William John Macquorn Rankine18 March 1863
RR/5/275Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Contributions to molecular physics.— Being the fifth memoir of researches on radiant heat' by John Tyndall23 March 1863
RR/5/243Letter from John Wood, to George Gabriel Stoke, regarding an unknown paper30 December 1864
RR/5/245Letter from Maxwell Simpson, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the synthesis of tribasic acids' by Maxwell Simpson3 July 1865
RR/5/253Copy of a letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Spottiswoode, regarding a paper 'On the equations of rotation of a solid body about a fixed point' by William Spottiswoode30 July 1863
RR/5/254Letter from William Spottiswoode, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the equations of rotation of a solid body about a fixed point' by William Spottiswoode3 August 1863
RR/7/69Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Certain supra-annual cycles of temperature in the earth's surface crust' to Charles Piazzi Smyth22 December 1870
RR/7/153Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the Philosophical Transactions of the year 1868' by George Biddell Airy23 January 1872
RR/6/25Letter from George Biddell Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the corrections of Bouvard’s elements of Jupiter and Saturn (Paris, 1821)' by Hugh Breen9 June 1869
RR/6/28Letter from Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the structure of the cerebral hemispheres' by William Henry Broadbent17 August 1869
RR/6/87Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the measurement of the luminous intensity of light' by William Crookesnd [1869]
RR/6/86Letter from John Cleland, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'An inquiry into the variations of the human skull, particularly the antero-posterior direction' by John Cleland6 October 1869
RR/6/295Letter from Charles Tomlinson, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On supersaturated saline solutions' by Charles Tomlinson10 December 1868
RR/7/120Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the uniform flow of a liquid' by Henry Moseley29 June 1871
RR/6/165Letter from an Joseph Norman Lockyer, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Spectroscopic observations of the sun.—No. II' by Joseph Norman Lockyer10 February 1869
RR/10/12Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on an untraced paper by Mr Blake19 March 1887
RR/6/219Letter from John Peter Gassiot, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Some experiments with the great induction coil at the Royal Polytechnic' by John Henry Pepper21 July 1869
RR/6/228Letter from James Bell Pettigrew, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the distribution of the fibres in the muscular tunics of the stomach in man and other mammalia' by James Bell Pettigrew19 June 1868
RR/7/41Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons1870
RR/7/56Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the mathematical theory of stream-lines, especially those with four foci and upwards' by William John Macquorn Rankine19 January 1871
RR/6/240Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On waves in liquids' by William John Macquorn Rankine27 June 1868
RR/7/55 Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the mathematical theory of stream-lines, especially those with four foci and upwards' by William John Macquorn Rankine1870
RR/7/110Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the constitution of blood and the nutrition of muscular tissue' by William Marcet to the author12 December 1871
RR/6/223Letter from John Marshall, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the muscular arrangements of the bladder and prostate, and the manner in which the ureters and urethra are closed' by James Bell Pettigrew7 September 1866
RR/6/302Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On Calorescence' by John Tyndall18 January 1866
RR/7/114Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the chemical activity of nitrates' by Edmund James Mills to the author21 February 1871
RR/7/121Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the uniform flow of a liquid' by Henry Moseley1871
RR/6/276Letter from Charles William Siemens, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On uniform rotation' by Charles William Siemens17 October 1866
RR/6/277Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the communication of vibration from a vibrating body to a surrounding gas' by George Gabriel Stokes16 July 1868
RR/6/311Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part V. On the direct measurement of the chemical action of sunlight' by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Henry Enfield Roscoe13 January 1863
RR/6/278Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On the communication of vibration from a vibrating body to a surrounding gas' by George Gabriel Stokes28 July 1868
RR/6/281Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the physical constitution of the sun and stars' by George Johnstone Stoney10 August 1867
RR/8/59Third letter from George John Romanes, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Further observations on the locomotor system of medusae' by George John Romanes10 June 1877
RR/6/108Letter from Peter Martin Duncan, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Palaeocoryne, a genus of tubularine hydrozoa from the Carboniferous formation' by Peter Martin Duncan and H M Jenkins6 September 1869
RR/7/464Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on an unnamed paper by J Redman25 July 1876
RR/6/316Letter from William Ellis, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the relation between the diurnal range of magnetic declination and horizontal force, as observed at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, during the years 1841 to 1877, and the period of solar spot frequency' by William Ellis28 February 1880
RR/8/2Letter from Alexander John Ellis, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet9 April 1877
RR/6/254Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Allen Miller, regarding a paper 'On the chemical intensity of total daylight at Kew and Pará, 1865,1866, and 1867' by Henry Enfield Roscoe1 August 1867
RR/8/4Letter from Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet23 April [1877]
RR/8/45Letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun.— No. V' by Joseph Norman Lockyer23 October 1877
RR/8/103Letter from J E H Gordon, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Measurements of electrical constants. No. II. On the specific inductive capacities of certain dielectrics. Part I' by J E H Gordon17 August 1878
RR/8/49Letter from William Carmichael McIntosh, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the structure of Magelona' by William Carmichael McIntosh24 April 1877
RR/8/50Second letter from William Carmichael McIntosh, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the structure of Magelona' by William Carmichael McIntosh19 May 1877
RR/7/292Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the mathematical expression of observations of complex periodical phenomena; and on planetary influence on the earth's magnetism' by Charles Chambers and Frederick Chambers to the authors 18 February 1874
RR/8/65Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to Mr White, regarding two papers 'On some hitherto undescribed optical properties of doubly refracting crystals.—Preliminary notice' by Henry Clifton Sorby, and 'On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate' by George Gabriel Stokes10 August 1877
RR/8/73Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson30 April 1877
RR/8/100Letter from George Carey Foster, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Measurements of electrical constants. No. II. On the specific inductive capacities of certain dielectrics. Part I' by J E H Gordon4 August 1878
RR/8/104Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to H B Wheatley, regarding a paper 'Measurements of electrical constants. No. II. On the specific inductive capacities of certain dielectrics. Part I' by J E H Gordon24 August 1878
RR/8/102Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Measurements of electrical constants. No. II. On the specific inductive capacities of certain dielectrics. Part I' by J E H Gordon12 August 1878
RR/8/149Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivity of water' by James Thomson Bottomley20 May 1879
RR/8/127Second letter from Edward Lawton Moss, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Observations on arctic sea-water and ice' by Edward Lawton Moss10 July 1878
RR/8/122Second letter from J S Lombard, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Experimental researches on the temperature of the head' by J S Lombard26 July 1878
RR/8/120Letter from Arthur Gamgee, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Experimental researches on the temperature of the head' by J S Lombard15 June 1878
RR/8/126Letter from Edward Lawton Moss, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Observations on arctic sea-water and ice' by Edward Lawton Moss3 July 1878
RR/8/136Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of the central nervous system vertebrate animals' by Alfred Sanders18 July 1878
RR/8/140Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the spectra of metalloids— Spectrum of Oxygen' by Arthur Schusternd [1878]
RR/8/151Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the illumination of lines of molecular pressure, and the trajectory of molecules' by William Crookes15 January 1879
RR/7/378Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on two papers 'On the tides of the Arctic Seas. - Part IV. On the tides of Northumberland sound, at the Northern outlet Wellington channel' and 'On the tides of the arctic seas. - Part V. On the tides of refuge cove, wellington channel' by Samuel Haughton2 February 1875
RR/8/180Letter from John Stenhouse, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'An account of experiments on the influence of colloids upon crystalline form, and on movements observed in mixtures of colloids with crystalloids' by William Miller Ord12 July 1879
RR/9/169Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'A new theory of tidal evolution' by James Nolan15 August 1883
RR/8/193Third letter from Osborne Reynolds, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds21 August 1879
RR/8/192Second letter from Osborne Reynolds, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds18 August 1879
RR/8/194Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds3 September 1879
RR/8/195Second letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds10 September 1879
RR/8/214Letter from George Gabriel Stoke, to Dr Wagner, regarding an untraced paper by Dr Wagnernd [1879]
RR/8/242Letter from Richard Owen, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the ova of the Echidna hystrix' by Richard Owen9 September 1880
RR/8/267Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Crawford Williamson, regarding a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part XI' by William Crawford Williamson30 October 1880
RR/8/294Letter from William Grylls Adams, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing4 May 1882
RR/8/339Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The wave of translation and the work it does as the carrier wave of sound' by John Scott Russell19 July 1881
RR/8/349Letter from William Henry Dallinger, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Trichophyton tonsurans (the fungus of ringworm)' by George Thin12 November 1881
RR/8/330Second letter from J S Lombard, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Experimental researches on the propagation of heat by conduction in bone, brain-tissue, and skin' by J S Lombard13 September 1881
RR/8/356Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Experimental determination of the velocity of white and of coloured light' by James Young and George Forbes19 July 1881
RR/10/8Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on an untraced paper 'On the absorption of light by the atmosphere' by William de Wiveleslie Abneynd [1887]
RR/9/133Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the relations of particular structural features' to David Douglas Cunningham7 July 1883
RR/9/233Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Evidence of a large extinct monotreme (Echidna Ramsayi, Ow.) from the Wellington Breccia Cave, New South Wales' by Richard Owen to the author16 May 1884
RR/9/232Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Description of parts of a human skeleton from a pleistocene (palaeolithic) bed, Tilbury, Essex' by Richard Owen to the author22 March 1884
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/9/259Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On radiant matter spectroscopy.—Part II. Samarium' by William Crookes26 August 1884
RR/8/297Letter from W Galloway, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway1 November 1881
MS/928/2/172Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 23 March 1900
MS/928/2/157Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 14 November 1890
RR/9/270Letter from George Gore, on his paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' to the George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society4 January 1886
RR/10/117Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Colour photometry.—Part II. The measurement of reflected colours' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing5 July 1888
RR/10/216Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Contributions to the chemistry of chlorophyll. No. III' by Henry Edward Schunck3 July 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/12/207Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the dynamical theory of incompressible viscous fluids and the determination of the criterion' by Osborne Reynolds31 October 1894
RR/11/132Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Researches on turacin, an animal pigment containing copper.-II' by Arthur Herbert Church7 May 1892
RR/11/164Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the colouration of leaves of plants' by Arthur Hill Hassall25 November 1892
RR/11/267Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the metallurgy of lead' by J H Hannay to the Secretary of the Royal Society14 April 1893
RR/13/82Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Experiments on fluid viscosity' by A Mallock3 August 1895
RR/12/268Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the temperature of the carbons of the electric arc; with a note on the temperature of the Sun. Experiments made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath' by William Edward Wilson and J P Gray13 February 1894
RR/12/259Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The action of light on bacteria.—III' by Harry Marshall Ward16 April 1894
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/8/244Second letter from Richard Owen, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding two papers 'On the ova of the Echidna hystrix' and 'Description of some remains of the gigantic land-lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen), from Australia.—Part II' by Richard Owen17 September 1880
RR/2/198Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines' by William John Macquorn Rankine29 April 1854
RR/8/167Letter from Joseph Henry Gilbert, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land.—Part I' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert18 November 1879
RR/12/378Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the dynamical theory of incompressible viscous fluids and the determination of the criterion' by Osborne Reynoldsnd [1895]
RR/8/281Letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On toroidal functions' by William Mitchinson Hicks, and two untraced papers by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher24 June 1881
RR/8/152Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Contributions to molecular physics in high vacua. Magnetic deflection of molecular trajectory. - Laws of magnetic rotation in high and low vacua. - Phosphorogenic properties of molecular discharge' by William Crookes22 April 1879
RR/12/398Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'An instrument for cutting, grinding, and polishing section-plates and prisms of mineral or other crystals accurately in the desired directions' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton12 February 1895
RR/5/114Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On the simultaneous distribution of heat throughout superficial parts of the earth' by Henry Hennessy to George Gabriel Stokes19 November 1862
RR/12/382Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, 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 Watson16 July 1895
RR/2/35Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Further experiments on light' by Henry Lord Brougham8 June 1852
RR/2/25Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by James Booth31 March 1852
RR/2/48Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the attraction of ellipsoids considered geometrically' by Matthew Collins5 August 1854
RR/8/79Copy of a letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to John Casey, regarding a paper 'On the equations of circles. (Second memoir.)' by John Casey1 July 1878
RR/5/80Letter from Benjamin Gompertz, on a paper 'A supplement to two papers published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, "On the science connected with human mortality;" the one published in 1820, and the other in 1825' by Benjamin Gompertz to George Gabriel Stokes21 December 1862
RR/5/260Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'An account of experiments on the change of the elastic force of a constant volume of atmospheric air, between 32° F. and 212° F., and also on the temperature of the melting-point of mercury' by Balfour Stewart20 July 1863
RR/5/105Report by Samuel Haughton, on his paper 'On the reflexion of polarized light from polished surfaces, transparent and metallic' [1862]
RR/6/196Letter from Peter Martin Duncan, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the genera heterophyllia, battersbyia, palæcyclus, and asterosmilia; the anatomy of their species, and their position in the classification of sclerodermic zoantharia' by Peter Martin Duncan25 July 1867
RR/5/264Letter from Balfour Stewart, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding two papers 'Researches on solar physics. Heliographical positions and areas of sun-spots observed with the Kew photoheliograph during the years 1862 and 1863' and 'Researches on solar physics.—No. II. The positions and areas of the spots observed at Kew during the years 1864, 1865, 1866, also the spotted area the sun's visible disk from the commencement of 1832 up to May 1868' by Warren De La Rue, Balfour Stewart and Benjamin Loewy5 July 1865
RR/6/152Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Further observations on the spectra of some the stars and nebulae, with an attempt to determine therefrom whether these bodies are moving towards or from the earth, also observations on the spectra of the sun and of comet II., 1868' by William Hugginsnd [1868]
RR/8/58Second letter from George John Romanes, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Further observations on the locomotor system of medusae' by George John Romanes7 May 1877
RR/6/204Letter from Philip Lutley Sclater, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On fossil remains of equines from central and South America referable to Equus conversidens, Ow., Equus tan, Ow., and Equus arcidens, Ow' by Richard Owen23 March 1869
RR/6/221Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the muscular arrangements of the bladder and prostate, and the manner in which the ureters and urethra are closed' by James Bell Pettigrew21 August 1866
RR/8/132Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On a method of using the balance with great delicacy, and on its employment to determine the mean density of the Earth' by John Henry Poynting30 October 1878
RR/8/97Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'An experimental determination of the values of the velocities of normal propagation of plane waves in different directions in a biaxal crystal, and a comparison of the results with theory' by Richard Tetley Glazebrooknd [1878]
RR/8/185Letter from Joseph Prestwich, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period' by Joseph Prestwich11 September 1879
RR/8/203Second letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to George West Royston-Pigott, regarding a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott7 November 1879
RR/13/174Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the change of absorption produced by fluorescence' by John Burke13 July 1897
RR/8/321Letter from William Mitchinson Hicks, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On toroidal functions' by William Mitchinson Hicks21 July 1881
RR/14/112Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The colour sensations in terms of luminosity' by William De Wiveleslie Abneynd [June 1899]
RR/6/195Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the genera heterophyllia, battersbyia, palæcyclus, and asterosmilia; the anatomy of their species, and their position in the classification of sclerodermic zoantharia' by Peter Martin Duncan21 October 1867
RR/14/162Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the application of fourier's double integrals to optical problems' by Charles Godfreynd [February 1900]
RR/3/224Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the magnetic induction of crystals' by Julius Plücker19 December 1857
RR/3/106Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light' by Michael Faraday28 May 1857
RR/4/149Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the theory of the polyedra' by Thomas Penynton Kirkman2 June 1862
RR/7/350Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the atmosphere as a vehicle of sound' by John Tyndall2 March 1874
RR/7/134Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the measurement of the chemical intensity of total daylight made at Catania during the total eclipse of Dec. 22nd, 1870' by Henry Enfield Roscoe and Thomas Edward Thorpe12 July 1871
RR/9/184Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes 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 Reynolds19 April 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/9/282Memorandum by George Gabriel Stokes, Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster and John Evans, on a paper 'On beds of sponge-remains in the lower and upper greensand of the South of England' by George Jennings Hinde 1885
RR/5/125Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Samuel Haughton, regarding a paper 'On the reflexion of polarized light from polished surfaces, transparent and metallic' by Samuel Haughton24 July 1862
RR/8/121Letter from J S Lombard, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Experimental researches on the temperature of the head' by J S Lombard16 July 1878
RR/8/64Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on two papers 'On some hitherto undescribed optical properties of doubly refracting crystals.—Preliminary notice' by Henry Clifton Sorby, and 'On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate' by George Gabriel Stokes8 August 1877
RR/8/249Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker30 July 1880
RR/8/292Letter from James Alfred Ewing, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing11 February 1882
MS/427/53Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Under Secretary of State for India4 September 1880
MS/426/475Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Herschel 8 November 1852
MS/426/344Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes Esq15 November 1848
MS/426/451Note of a letter from [the Secretaries of] the Royal Society; to various individuals20 June 1851
M/210Stokes, George Gabriel
MM/10/17Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to RH Scott8 June 1879
IM/Maull/004413Stokes, Sir George Gabrielnd
MS/743/1/80Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [John Hall] Gladstone26 July 1872
IM/004408Stokes, Sir George Gabriel2002
MM/16/32Letter from William Thomson, 1st Lord Kelvin, Glasgow University, to George Gabriel Stokes15 April 1882
MM/16/57Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, Glenlair, to George Gabriel Stokes2 September 1879
MM/14/158Letter from DT Ansted, 33 Brunswick Square, to George Gabriel Stokes5 April 1871
MM/15/7Letter from Walter E Smith to George Gabriel Stokes, with reply1880
MM/14/160Letter from A Macalister, Trinity College Dublin, to William Sharpey2 January 1871
P/0126Portrait of Stokes, Sir George1891
MM/16/54Letter from T H Huxley, Marlborough Place, to George Gabriel Stokes14 July 1881
IM/Maull/004411Stokes, Sir George Gabrielnd
RR/15/161Referee's report by the Secretaries of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder BoseJune 1901
NLB/1/33Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Sir Reginald Earle Welby18 December 1885
NLB/1/368Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Secretary, the Treasury25 January 1887
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/2/56Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society 21 December 1887
NLB/1/174Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to R D Awdry, Admiralty17 September 1886
NLB/2/44Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Right Honorable Henry Matthews, MP [Member of Parliament]17 December 1887
NLB/2/247Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society10 March 1888
NLB/1/160Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Under Secretary of State, the Colonial Office15 July 1886
NLB/1/127Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to the Under Secretary of State, the Colonial Office11 June 1886
NLB/1/332Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Sir Reginald Earle Welby28 December 1886
NLB/1/387Copy letter from George Gabiel Stokes, to Frank Mowatt4 February 1887
NLB/2/584Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society, Glasthule Lodge, Kingstown [Ireland]18 September 1888
NLB/4/918Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1890
NLB/3/491Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society24 June 1889
NLB/10/751Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster29 January 1895
RR/8/269Letter from Joseph Dalton Hooker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part XI' by William Crawford Williamson28 September 1880
NLB/3New Letter Book volume 3, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 February 1889-13 January 1890
NLB/14/430Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor [James] Dewar, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 March 1897
NLB/15/165Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, and Sir Edward Frankland, Fellows of the Royal Society7 July 1897
NLB/19/703Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1899
RR/6/313Letter from Frederick Guthrie, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the thermal resistance of liquids' by Frederick Guthrie23 June 1869
RR/6/147Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes [attributed], on a paper 'On the spectra of some of the fixed stars' by William Huggins and William Allen Millernd [1864]
RR/5/132Letter from Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the theory of the polyedra' by Thomas Penyngton Kirkman24 September 1863
MS/928/2/167Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 22 December 1897
MS/928/2/164Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 29 November 1897
RR/5/97Letter from William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On some new phenomena of residuary charge, and the law of exploding distance of electrical accumulation on coated glass' by William Snow Harris29 October 1861
RR/5/115Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On the synchronous distribution of temperature over the earth's surface' by Henry Hennessy to George Gabriel Stokes25 June 1864
RR/6/47Letter from Henry Benjamin Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady7 August 1869
RR/5/204Fourth letter from Jonathan Frederick Pollock, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock11 November 1863
RR/5/211Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Theoretical considerations on the conditions under which the (drift) deposits containing the remains of extinct mammalia and flint implements were accumulated, and on their geological age. - On the Loess of the valleys of the South of England, and of the Somme and the Seine' by Joseph Prestwich15 August 1863
RR/6/135Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the refraction-equivalents of the elements' by John Hall Gladstone15 December 1869
RR/6/253Letter from Henry Enfield Roscoe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the chemical intensity of total daylight at Kew and Pará, 1865,1866, and 1867' by Henry Enfield Roscoe12 August 1867
RR/6/282Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the physical constitution of the sun and stars' by George Johnstone Stoneynd [1867]
RR/6/314Second letter from Frederick Guthrie, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the thermal resistance of liquids' by Frederick Guthrie3 August 1869
RR/8/20Letter from John Ambrose Fleming, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On magneto-electric induction in liquids and gases.—Part I. production of induced currents in electrolytes' by John Ambrose Fleming12 November 1877
RR/8/23Letter from Albert Günther, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises.—Parts III. and IV. The races of the aldabra group and mascarene islands' by Albert Günther26 March 1877
RR/8/95Letter from Richard Tetley Glazebrook, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'An experimental determination of the values of the velocities of normal propagation of plane waves in different directions in a biaxal crystal, and a comparison of the results with theory' by Richard Tetley Glazebrook28 June 1878
RR/8/80Report to the Committee from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the equations of circles. (Second memoir.)' by John Casey7 October 1878
RR/8/135Letter from Alfred Sanders, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of the central nervous system vertebrate animals' by Alfred Sanders7 July 1878
RR/8/128Third letter from Edward Lawton Moss, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Observations on arctic sea-water and ice' by Edward Lawton Moss22 July 1878
RR/8/202Letter from George West Royston-Pigott, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott4 November 1879
RR/8/212Second letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe3 December 1879
RR/8/211Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe1 December 1879
RR/8/227Letter from Balfour Stewart, to George Gabriel Stoke, regarding a paper 'On actinometrical observations, made in India at Mussooree and Dehra in October and November, 1879' by John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey26 October 1880
RR/8/293Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Grylls Adams, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing14 April 1882
RR/8/303Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to W Galloway, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway30 January 1882
RR/8/300Fourth letter from W Galloway, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway26 November 1881
RR/8/329Letter from J S Lombard, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Experimental researches on the propagation of heat by conduction in bone, brain-tissue, and skin' by J S Lombard6 September 1881
RR/8/299Third letter from W Galloway, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway19 November 1881
MS/928/2/155Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 11 November 1890
MS/928/2/156Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys 12 November 1890
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/9/268Letter from George Gore, on his paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' to George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society12 September 1885
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/12/209Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Herbert Rix, regarding a paper 'On the dynamical theory of incompressible viscous fluids and the determination of the criterion' by Osborne Reynolds5 December 1894
RR/8/5Second letter from Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet28 April [1877]
RR/6/103Letter from Warren De La Rue, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches on solar physics. Heliographical positions and areas of sun-spots observed with the Kew photoheliograph during the years 1862 and 1863' by Warren De La Rue, Balfour Stewart and Benjamin Loewy5 December 1868
RR/6/209Letter from Henry Benjamin Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding three papers 'On Holtenia, a genus of vitreous sponges' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood-vessels of the frog' by Frederic B Nunneley and 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady1 September 1869
RR/8/201Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to George West Royston-Pigott, regarding a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott31 October 1879
RR/6/44Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches on the structure, physiology, and development of Antedon (comatula, Lamk.) rosaceus. -Part I' by William Benjamin Carpenter20 August 1866
RR/5/153Letter from Robert McDonnell, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the amyloid substance of the liver, and its ultimate destination in the animal economy' by Robert McDonnell25 October 1863
RR/6/310Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and homologies in the mammalia' by John Wood6 August 1869
RR/8/268Letter from William Crawford Williamson, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part XI' by William Crawford Williamson31 October 1881 [1880?]
RR/12/256Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on 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 Tutton12 April 1894
MS/426/675Report on the calculating machine recently constructed by W Donkin; to the Registrar General[1 September 1859]
MS/426/672Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes 30 July 1859
MM/10/22Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to RH Scott 13 April 1884
RR/9/45Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The prehensores of male butterflies of the genera Ornithoptera and Papilo' by Philip Henry Gosse to the author24 February 1882
NLB/3/501Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Sir Henry Isaacs, the Right Honorable Lord Mayor, Mansion House, E.C.26 June 1889
RR/15/281Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On a suggested relation between the refractive indices of pure metals and their molecular constants' by W Williams17 April 1901
RR/5/13Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the structure and formation of the so-called apolar, unipolar, and bipolar nerve-cells of the frog' by Lionel Smith Beale10 August 1863
RR/5/68Letter by Henry John Stephen Smith, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Introductory memoir on plane stigmatics' by Alexander John Ellis15 September 1865
RR/5/85Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the molecular mobility of gases' by Thomas Graham[1863]
RR/5/155Second letter from Robert McDonnell, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the amyloid substance of the liver, and its ultimate destination in the animal economy' by Robert McDonnell19 October [1863]
RR/5/263Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'An account of experiments on the change of the elastic force of a constant volume of atmospheric air, between 32° F. and 212° F., and also on the temperature of the melting-point of mercury' by Balfour Stewart25 July 1863
RR/5/195Letter from Jonathan Frederick Pollock, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock17 January 1863
RR/5/197Second letter from Jonathan Frederick Pollock, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock12 April 1865
RR/6/13Letter from George Biddell Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the diurnal and annual inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1858 to 1863; being a continuation of a communication on the diurnal inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 1863. With a note on the lunodiurnal and other lunar inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863' by George Biddell Airy6 May 1869
RR/6/140Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the laws of connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson27 September 1866
RR/6/211Letter from Richard Owen, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding two papers 'On remains of a large extinct lama (Palauchenia magna, Owen) from quaternary deposits in the Valley of Mexico' and 'On the molar teeth, lower jaw, of Macrauchenia patachonica, Ow' by Richard Owen28 September 1869
RR/6/224Letter from James Bell Pettigrew, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the muscular arrangements of the bladder and prostate, and the manner in which the ureters and urethra are closed' by James Bell Pettigrew19 September 1866
RR/6/222Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Edward Sabine, regarding a paper 'On the muscular arrangements of the bladder and prostate, and the manner in which the ureters and urethra are closed' by James Bell Pettigrew22 August 1866
RR/6/304Letter from Henry Enfield Roscoe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the chemical intensity of total daylight at Kew and Pará, 1865,1866, and 1867' by Henry Enfield Roscoe17 August 1867
RR/6/287Letter from Henry B Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding two papers 'On Holtenia, a genus of vitreous sponges' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson and 'On Palaeocoryne, a genus of tubularine hydrozoa from the Carboniferous formation' by Peter Martin Duncan and H M Jenkins3 September 1869
RR/8/57Letter from George John Romanes, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Further observations on the locomotor system of medusae' by George John Romanes5 May 1877
RR/8/101Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Measurements of electrical constants. No. II. On the specific inductive capacities of certain dielectrics. Part I' by J E H Gordon7 August 1878
RR/8/190Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to James Clerk Maxwell, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds3 June 1879
RR/8/191Letter from Osborne Reynolds, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds22 July 1879
RR/8/196Fourth letter from Osborne Reynolds, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds23 October 1879
RR/9/23Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Report of an examination of the meteorites of Cranbourne, in Australia; of Rowton, in Shropshire; and of Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire' by Walter Flight to the author17 March 1882
RR/8/208Letter from William Spottiswoode, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the sensitive state of electrical discharges through rarefied gases' by William Spottiswoode and John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton28 June 1879
RR/9/22Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Report of an examination of the meteorites of Cranbourne, in Australia; of Rowton, in Shropshire; and of Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire' by Walter Flight to the author14 March 1882
RR/8/235Letter from John William Mallet, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Revision of the atomic weight of aluminum' by John William Mallet6 July 1880
RR/8/261Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin to George Gabriel Stokes9 November 1880
RR/8/248Second letter from William Kitchen Parker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker30 July 1880
RR/8/247Letter from William Kitchen Parker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker26 July 1880
RR/8/240Letter from Walter White, to George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Description of some remains of the gigantic land-lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen), from Australia.—Part II' by Richard Owen28 July 1880
RR/8/298Second letter from W Galloway, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway16 November 1881
RR/9/267Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On 'transfer-resistance' in electrolytic and voltaic cells' by George Gore to the author11 July 1885
RR/10/71Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Report of the observations of the total solar eclipse of August 29, 1886, made at the Island of Carriacou' by Stephen Joseph Perry and Lieutenant J Masterman20 August 1887
RR/8/291Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to James Alfred Ewing, regarding a paper 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by James Alfred Ewing12 December 1881
RR/6/121Letter from Joseph David Everett, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Results of observations of atmospheric electricity at Kew Observatory, and at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia' by Joseph David Everett18 May 1868
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