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Authorised form of nameStrutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh; experimental physicist
Dates1875 - 1947
NationalityBritish
Place of birthTerling Place, Witham, Essex, England
Date of birth28 August 1875
Place of deathTerling, Essex, England
Date of death13/12/1947
Occupationexperimental physicist
Research fieldChemical physics
Experimental Physics
Physics
ActivityEducation:
Eton College (1889-1894); Trinity College, Cambridge (1894-1898)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1900-1906); Professor of Physics, Imperial College, London (1908-1919); emeritus professor (1920); chairman of the governing body of the college (1936-1947); died of a heart attack.
Memberships:
Physical Society of London (President 1934–6)
Royal Institution (President 1945)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1905
Age at election30
ProposerWilliam Fletcher Barrett
Richard Threlfall
Joseph John Thomson
Hugh Frank Newall
John Henry Poynting
William Crookes
William Thompson [Lord Kelvin]
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
For Sec 1929-1934; VP 1930-1934
Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1920
Lectures:
Bakerian 1911 and 1919
RelationshipsParents: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (FRS 1873) and Evelyn Georgiana Mary, sister of Arthur James Balfour (FRS 1888)
Uncle: Arthur James Balfour (FRS 1888); Francis Maitland Balfour (FRS 1878); succeeded as 4th Baron (1919).
Spouse: 1) (05 July 1905) Lady Mary Hilda Clements, daughter of Robert Clements 4th Earl of Leitrim (she died 1919); 2) (1920) Kathleen Alice Cuthbert, daughter of John Coppin-Straker of Northumberland.
Children: Two daughters and three sons from his first marriage, and one son from his second marriage.
Published worksRCN R65422
RCN R80840
RCN 21840
General contextDiscovered active nitrogen.
The first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.
Known for Rayleigh scattering.
Investigated the age of minerals and rocks by measuring their radioactivity and helium content.
Investigated electrical discharges in vacuo; the Becquerel rays; optical contact; the glow of phosphorus; iridescent colours in nature; the bending of marble and glass; the formation of pebbles, pallasites, and red sandstones.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1948-1949 vol 6 pp 503-538, plate, by A C Egerton
References:
Vanity Fair 21 December 1899 - "Argon"
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/92285179
Royal Society codeNA7877
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1905/14Strutt, Robert John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HWT/33/2H W Thompson's personal correspondence as Foreign SecretaryJanuary - June 1966
NLB/66/32Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS12 February 1924
IM/007141Group photograph1911
IM/004432Strutt, Robert John, 4th Baron Rayleighnd
NLB/63/645Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS23 November 1922
IM/004431Strutt, Robert John, 4th Baron Rayleigh1999
NLB/32/663Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]2 May 1906
NLB/23/2/33Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Honorable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society5 March 1901
NLB/64/453Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS17 April 1923
RR/15/112Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'The conducitivity of gases under the becquerel rays' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJanuary 1901
RR/17/307Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The emission and transmission of Rontgen rays' by George William Clarkson KayeJuly 1908
NLB/65New Letter Book volume 65, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration12 July 1923-31 January 1924
RR/16/346Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Newtons Rings formed by metallic reflection' by Richard C Maclaurin October 1905
RR/16/361Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The pressure of explosions: experiments on solid and gaseous explosives' by Joseph Ernest Petavel19 September 1905
MDA/A/22/8Copy letter from [Ronald Winckworth] Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]12 May 1934
RR/16/313Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Colours in metal glasses, and in metallic films & metallic solutions. II.' by J C Maxwell Garnett5 June 1906
NLB/20/100Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane31 January 1900
NLB/19/678Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Robert John Strutt, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 November 1899
NLB/22/58Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1901
NLB/29/27Copy telegram from Joseph Larmor, to Robert John Strutt, Terling Place, Witham [June 1904]
NLB/29/35Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1904
NLB/38/272Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1908
NLB/58/412Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Robert John Strutt, FRS3 May 1920
NLB/30/288Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Honorable Robert John Strutt, [Fellow of the Royal Society][28 February 1905]
NLB/30/282Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Honourable Robert John Strutt, [Fellow of the Royal Society]24 February 1905
MC/21/596Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, Sunnyside, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison[March 1906]
NLB/42/398Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 June 1910
NLB/35/567Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to the Honorable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1907
NLB/38/396Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sunnyside, Cambridge29 July 1908
NLB/41/293Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honourable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1909
NLB/63/759Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS11 December 1922
NLB/45/611Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Hon. R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS12 April 1912
NLB/44/62Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor The Honourable R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS 1 May 1911
NLB/44/97Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor The Honourable R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS 3 May 1911
NLB/43/562Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honourable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society11 February 1911
NLB/44/538Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor the Honourable R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS 31 July 1911
NLB/46/121Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor the Honourable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1912
NLB/45/610Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Hon. R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS12 April 1912
NLB/45/651Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor the Hon R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS19 April 1912
NLB/45/767Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor the Hon. R [Robert] J [John] Strutt FRS4 May 1912
NLB/46/674Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society15 October 1912
NLB/63/290Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS03 August 1922
NLB/10New Letter Book volume 10, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration17 August 1894-1 April 1895
NLB/63/320Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Right Honourable, Lord Rayleigh, FRS22 August 1922
NLB/48/307Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honourable [Robert John] Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society13 June 1913
NLB/51/224Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Robert John Strutt FRS16 January 1915
NLB/50/700Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honourable [Robert John] Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society15 October 1914
NLB/51/151Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to the Honourable Robert John Strutt FRS21 December 1914
NLB/51/747Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to the Honourable Robert John Strutt FRS16 June 1915
NLB/56/211Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert John] Strutt, FRS17 December 1918
RR/17/55Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, and additional letter to Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On retardation of the discharge of an electroscope by means of certain radio-active ad other substances' by Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow30 March 1906
NLB/52/752Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor the Honorary Robert John Strutt, FRS22 February 1916
RR/18/166Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'Note on the iridescent colours of birds and insects' by Henry Reginald Arnulph MallockOctober 1911
NLB/52/763Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Honorary Robert John Strutt, FRS24 February 1916
RR/29/29Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The photometric matching field' by L C MartinJune 1923
NLB/52/750Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons22 February 1916
RR/18/185Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, on a paper 'On the anode and cathode spectra of various gases and vapours' by G SteadMarch 1911
RR/21/97Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the ionization produced by gas reactions' by S J Kalandyk[June 1914]
NLB/62/561Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS10 March 1922
NLB/54/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 February 1917
NLB/54/282Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS 21 March 1917
RR/27/112Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the fluorescence of aesculin' by John Cunningham McLennan and F M CaleAugust 1922
RR/25/40Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The absorption of X-rays' by E A Owen[April 1918]
RR/21/157Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An application of electrolytically produced luminosity, forming a step towards telectroscopy' by L H Walter[May 1914]
RR/27/128Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The molecular scattering of light in vapours and in liquids and its relation to the opalescence observed in the critical state' by K R RamanathanJuly 1922
RR/24/87Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The theory of decay in radioactive luminous compounds' by J W T Walsh[May 1917]
NLB/54/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert John] Strutt, FRS22 August 1917
MS/928/6/2/31Letter from Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Chelmsford, Essex, to Geoffrey Vernon Boys7 September 1944
RR/27/100Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Pleochroic haloes of various geological ages' by John JolyDecember 1922
RR/27/91Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'An investigation of the colour vision of 527 students by the Rayleigh test' by R A HoustounAugust 1922
RR/28/28Referee's report by Robert Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The influence of frequency of current on the electrical ignition of gases' by William Mandell Thornton[1922]
RR/26/127Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'A superior limit to the age of the earth's crust' by Henry Norris Russell[1921]
RR/31/63Referee's report by Robert Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the effect of temperature on the anomalous reflection of silver' by M de Selincourt[November 1924]
NLB/63/800Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 December 1922
RR/27/111Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the absorption of wavelength = 5460.97 A. by luminous mercury vapour' by John Cunningham McLennan, D S Ainslie and F M CaleJuly 1922
NLB/56/480Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert John] Strutt, FRS20 February 1919
RR/33/79Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Investigations on gaseous explosions. Part I' by William Edward Garner and S W SaundersApril 1926
RR/18/186Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on an unnamed paper by Robert John Strutt20 March 1911
NLB/56/586Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honorary [Robert John] Strutt, FRS21 March 1919
RR/9/128Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the changes which take place in the deviations the standard compass in the iron armour-plated, iron, and composite-built ships of the Royal Navy, on a considerable change of magnetic latitude' by Ettrick William Creak13 April 1883
RR/23/43Referee's report by Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'A theory of colour vision' by R A HoustounApril 1916
NLB/56/844Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Honorary [Robert John] Strutt, FRS13 June 1919
NLB/66/698Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 June 1924
NLB/58/115Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 March 1920
RR/40/62Referee's report by Herbert Jackson, on a paper 'The iridescent colours of birds and insects' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJune 1930
RR/18/41Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The distribution of velocity in the ß-rays from a radioactive substance' by J A GrayMay 1910
MS/928/4/1/20Letter from Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Chelmsford, Essex, to Mrs G V Boys, St Mary Bourne, Andover, Hampshire 2 August 1945
NLB/68/306Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 June 1925
RR/38/119Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Observations on the band spectra of mercury' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighMay 1928
NLB/63/291Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS04 August 1922
RR/32/51Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The effect of infra-red radiation upon the rate of combustion of inflmmable gaseous mixtures' by W T DavidApril 1925
NLB/66/664Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS16 June 1924
RR/17/373Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow15 June 1909
NLB/59/16Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS10 July 1920
NLB/60/48Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS4 December 1920
NLB/55/110Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, O.M., Chairman of the Physics War (Sectional) Committee and FRS07 December 1917
RR/52/86Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Fluorescent radiation from N2O' by P K Sen GuptaMay 1934
NLB/63/184Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS11 July 1922
RR/34/77Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the densities of particles in smokes' by Hubert Sutton Patterson and Robert Whyltlaw Gray[October 1926]
RR/38/83Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The adsorption of hydrogen on the surface of an electrodeless discharge tube' by M C JohnsonFebruary 1929
NLB/63/512Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS02 November 1922
NLB/61/728Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS19 October 1921
RR/41/14Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The green flash at sunset' by T Y Baker24 June 1930
MS/928/6/2/17Letter from Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, 69 Cadogan Square, to Charles Vernon Boys20 March 1935
NLB/59/703Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS4 November 1920
RR/50/106Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The bending of marble' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighDecember 1933
NLB/62/682Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS6 April 1922
RR/17/330Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The perception of the direction of sound' by Charles Samuel Myers and Harold Albert WilsonJanuary 1908
RR/40/64Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper 'Absolute intensity of the aurora line in the night sky, and the number of atomic transitions required to maintain it' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh1930
RR/36/49Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Studies on the mercury band-spectrum of long duration' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleighnd [1927]
RR/32/108Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The structure of molecules in relation to their optical anisotropy.—Part II—Benzene and cyclohexane' by K R RamanathanSeptember 1925
NLB/60/199Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS22 December 1920
RR/14/240Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the least potential difference required to produce discharge through various gases' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh21 October 1899
RR/15/111Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a papet 'The conductivity of gases under the becquerel rays' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJanuary 1901
RR/21/122Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Attempts to produce the rare gases by electric discharge' by Thomas Ralph Merton[1914]
RR/18/101Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The decrease of velocity of the ß-particles on passing through matter' by William WilsonMay 1910
NLB/65/269Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS1 October 1923
NLB/60/637Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS8 March 1921
RR/17/15Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a mineral chich retards the rate of discharge of an electroscope' by E H Büchner[April 1906]
NLB/60/504Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 February 1921
NLB/62/833Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS17 May 1922
RR/46/72Referee's report by Herbert Jackson, on a paper 'On a large scale crystalline structure in certain glasses of exceptional composition' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh[May 1932]
NLB/65/77Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS24 July 1923
NLB/58/822Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS23 June 1920
NLB/57/12Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor RJ [Robert John] Strutt, FRS30 June 1919
NLB/60/786Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS6 April 1921
RR/54/95Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The dark interval in mercury fluorescence' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh1934
NLB/62/897Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS31 May 1922
RR/50/107Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Beryllium and helium. I.—The helium contained in beryls of varied geological age' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJuly 1933
NLB/62/57Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS24 November 1921
NLB/59/887Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS25 November 1920
NLB/63/433Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS13 October 1922
NLB/60/93Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer and Vice President of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigj, FRS10 December 1920
RR/53/89Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'Spectrum of the afterglow of sulphur dioxide' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon[June 1934]
RR/55/58Referee's report by Robert John Stutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The diffusion of hydrogen through copper' by E O Braaten and G F ClarkJuly 1935
NLB/64/420Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS10 April 1923
RR/65/44Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Optical thickness of the transition layer between transparent media' by H D BruceJanuary 1939
RR/38/116Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The production of new radiations by light scattering. Part I' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa KrishnanAugust 1928
NLB/61/907Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS11 November 1921
NLB/62/2Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS12 November 1921
RR/56/93Referee's report by William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'Note on the oxygen afterglow' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh[March 1935]
NLB/64/144Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS8 February 1923
NLB/62/834Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS18 May 1922
NLB/63/350Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS27 September 1922
NLB/63/469Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS24 October 1922
NLB/64/51Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS23 January 1923
NLB/62/542Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS3 March 1922
NLB/55/615Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The [Honourable Robert John] Strutt, FRS 26 June 1918
NLB/62/341Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS27 January 1922
NLB/62/722Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS12 April 1922
NLB/62/409Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS10 February 1922
NLB/62/402Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS9 February 1922
NLB/62/477Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS21 February 1922
RR/63/60Referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'An attempt to detect the passage of helium through a crystal lattice at high temperatures' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh29 September 1937
RR/65/26Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Photographic sensitivity and the reciprocity law at low temperatures' by W F Berg and Kurt Alfred Georg MendelssohnJune 1938
NLB/62/556Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS9 March 1922
NLB/62/672Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS4 April 1922
NLB/62/575Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS15 March 1922
RR/70/237Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Interference studies of diamond faces. A crossed fringe technique' by Samuel Tolansky and W L Wilcock19 February 1947
NLB/62/603Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS 21 March 1922
NLB/62/700Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS7 April 1922
NLB/63/207Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS17 July 1922
NLB/57/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] the Lord Rayleigh, FRS8 July 1919
NLB/62/714Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS10 April 1922
NLB/63/372Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS04 October 1922
RR/65/222Referee's report by Francis William Aston, on a paper 'Nitrogen, argon and neon in the earth’s crust with applications to cosmology' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighFebruary 1939
NLB/64/450Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS14 April 1923
RR/65/233Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The refraction and dispersion of air and dispersion of air for the visible spectrum' by J E Sears and H Barrell June 1938
NLB/63/412Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS09 October 1922
NLB/62New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 November 1921-10 June 1922
NLB/64/111Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS1 February 1923
RR/69/256Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The surprising amount of energy which can be collected from gases after the electric discharge has passed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh 1946
NLB/64/451Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS16 April 1923
NLB/63/623Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS16 November 1922
RR/67/381Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on two papers 'New studies on active nitrogen. I. Brightness of the after-glow under varied conditions of concentration and temperature' and 'New studies on active nitrogen. II. Incandescence of metals in active nitrogen, and quantitative estimates of the energy liberated' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighMay 1940
NLB/64/181Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS20 February 1923
NLB/63/611Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS15 November 1922
NLB/64/255Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS1 March 1923
NLB/63/73Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS21 June 1922
RR/68/406Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Long duration of the Balmer spectrum in excited hydrogen' by Robert John Strutt[1943]
NLB/63/813Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS02 January 1923
NLB/63/493Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh, FRS27 October 1922
NLB/63/474Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS26 October 1922
RR/69/74Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of light from spark discharges' by J D Craggs and J M Meek1945
RR/68/257Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The ultimate shape of pebbles, natural and artificial' by Robert John Strutt[1942]
RR/68/205Second referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt21 August 1941
RR/68/204Referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt8 July 1941
NLB/65/478Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt]6 November 1923
NLB/63/871Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 January 1923
NLB/63/676Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS30 November 1922
NLB/63/720Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS07 December 1922
NLB/65/129Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Editor of The Chemical News; 97 Shoe Lane, E.C.4.7 August 1923
NLB/63/846Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS06 January 1923
NLB/63/882Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS16 January 1923
NLB/63/806Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS22 December 1922
NLB/64/806Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh21 June 1923
NLB/63/893Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS18 January 1923
NLB/64/534Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS02 May 1923
RR/68/473Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'A micro-analysis of the helium and neon contents of air' by Eugen Glueckauf[1944]
RR/69/309Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Further interferometric studies with mica. New multiple-beam fringes and their application' by Samuel Tolansky1945
NLB/63/61Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 June 1922
NLB/63/108Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS29 June 1922
RR/34/119Referee's report by Robert Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the sparking potentials of discharge tubes containing carefully purified electrodes' by James Taylor[December 1926]
NLB/63/299Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lord Rayleigh, FRS10 August 1922
NLB/65/152Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Thomas Ralph] Merton, FRS[August] 1923
NLB/68/303Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 June 1925
NLB/65/402Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to M. L. Dunoyer, Secretaire Generale, Societe Francaise de Physique; 48 Avenue de Neuilly, a Neuilly (Seine)26 October 1923
NLB/65/294Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS8 October 1923
NLB/65/158Copy letter from H. W. Robinson, Library Assistant of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS28 August 1923
NLB/65/126Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent7 August 1923
MS/928/6/3/11Letter from Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, Terling Place, Chelmsford, Essex, to Andrew Russell Forsyth17 February 1941
NLB/65/622Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann, FRS30 November 1923
RR/56/121Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The oxygen afterglow' by Eric M Stoddart[August 1935]
NLB/65/736Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS14 December 1923
NLB/64/869Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh5 July 1923
NLB/64/667Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Robert Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS29 May 1923
NLB/64/625Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS16 May 1923
NLB/65/159Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS28 August 1923
NLB/65/223Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS24 September 1923
NLB/66/343Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 April 1924
NLB/65/135Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS8 August 1923
NLB/65/439Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS1 November 1923
NLB/65/504Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS9 November 1923
NLB/66/554Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Alfred] Fowler, FRS, Gayton, St. Leonard's On Sea29 May 1924
NLB/65/570Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS22 November 1923
NLB/65/341Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 October 1923
NLB/65/178Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS8 September 1923
NLB/64/220Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS23 February 1923
NLB/65/123Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS4 August 1923
NLB/65/625Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS30 November 1923
NLB/65/628Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS1 December 1923
NLB/65/650Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS3 December 1923
NLB/64/823Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh26 June 1923
NLB/65/713Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS12 December 1923
NLB/66/73Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS18 February 1924
NLB/66/53Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS14 February 1924
NLB/65/678Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS6 December 1923
NLB/65/662Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS5 December 1923
NLB/66/904Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honorable [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS16 September 1924
NLB/65/103Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS31 July 1923
NLB/67/345Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS8 December 1924
NLB/66/729Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS28 June 1924
NLB/66/220Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh.18 March 1924
NLB/66/294Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy, Secretary] of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh4 April 1924
NLB/65/795Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS4 January 1924
NLB/66/333Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS10 April 1924
NLB/66/528Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Alfred] Fowler, FRS23 May 1924
NLB/66/102Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh22 February 1924
NLB/66/475Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS15 May 1924
NLB/66/347Copy letter from [Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of] the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 April 1924
NLB/66/672Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Institution17 June 1924
NLB/66/283Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS2 April 1924
NLB/66/369Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS23 April 1924
NLB/66/408Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS3 May 1924
NLB/66/622Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS6 June 1924
NLB/69/213Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS2 February 1926
NLB/66/473Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS15 May 1924
NLB/66/422Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS6 May 1924
NLB/66/805Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Thomas Ralph] Merton, FRS11 July 1924
NLB/66/830Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS21 July 1924
NLB/67/244Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS20 November 1924
NLB/66/898Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honorable [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS11 September 1924
NLB/62/260Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS13 January 1922
NLB/68/447Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 July 1925
NLB/69/252Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS11 February 1926
NLB/69/671Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 July 1926
NLB/71/546Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor of 'Nature'6 July 1928
NLB/71/378Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Thermal Syndicate, Ltd., Neptune Bank, Wallsend-on-Tyne26 April 1928
NLB/70/950Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS18 November 1927
NLB/71/416Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the [Right Honourable, Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS8 May 1928
RR/36/85Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a photoelectric theory of sparking potentials' by James Taylor[October 1927]
NLB/72/453Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS30 October 1929
NLB/71/992Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the [Right Honourable, Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS7 January 1929
NLB/72/78Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS19 February 1929
NLB/72/720Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS19 March 1930
NLB/73/196Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A. D. C. Parsons Esq., SW119 February 1931
NLB/64/732Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society;[Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh11 June 1923
NLB/65/16Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 July 1923
NLB/65/525Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 November 1923
NLB/65/557Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS20 November 1923
NLB/65/823Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS11 January 1924
NLB/65/928Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS31 January 1924
NLB/66/255Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh27 March 1924
NLB/66/133Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh.28 February 1924
NLB/66/717Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS25 June 1924
NLB/66/686Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS19 June 1924
NLB/63New Letter Book volume 63, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 June 1922-19 January 1923
NLB/65/54Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS19 July 1923
NLB/40/781Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane, WC17 August 1909
NLB/28/32Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company22 December 1903
NLB/52/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Honorary Robert John Strutt, FRS1 March 1916
RR/34/22Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Investigations on paramagnetism at low temperatures. — Part II' by L C Jackson[June 1926]
RR/30/49Referee's report by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The spectrum of silicon at successive stages of ionisation' by Alfred Fowler[January 1925]
RR/32/96Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the origin of the auroral green line 5577 Å, and other spectra associated with aurora borealis' by John Cunningham McLennan and G M Shrum1925
RR/39/24Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The magnetic anisotropy of naphthalene crystals' by S Bhagavantam[March 1929]
RR/60/30Referee's report by Robert John Stutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'Spectroscopic identification and manometric measurement of artificially produced helium' by Friedrich Adolf Paneth, E Glückauf and H LoleitJune 1936
NLB/61/709Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of Government Grant Committee, Board B, FRS14 October 1921
NLB/62/879Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS25 May 1922
RR/36/19Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a new effect in the electric discharge' by Thomas Ralph Merton[December 1927]
NLB/57/701Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society [?]; to Admiral Sir Henry B [Braderwine] Jackson, FRS, GCB20 January 1920
RR/68/405Referee's report by Edward Battersby Bailey, on a paper 'Pebbles, natural and artificial, Their shape under various conditions of abrasion' by Robert John Strutt[1943]
RR/31/20Referee's report by Robert Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The interaction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the corona due to alternating currents of high frequency' by R Winstanley Lunt[December 1924]
NLB/66/387Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS30 April 1924
NLB/66/549Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS29 May 1924
NLB/66/610Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS5 June 1924
NLB/66/445Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS9 May 1924
NLB/64/677Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS31 May 1923
NLB/65/43Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS17 July 1923
NLB/65/140Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS10 August 1923
NLB/65/604Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS27 November 1923
NLB/66/318Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh8 April 1924
IM/GA/Russell/16995Strutt, Robert John, 4th Baron Rayleighnd
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
NLB/62/771Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS4 May 1922
NLB/66/506Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 May 1924
NLB/66/829Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James Hopwood] Jeans esq., Secretary of the Royal Society21 July 1924
NLB/66/878Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS1 August 1924
NLB/66/811Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS15 July 1924
NLB/66New Letter Book volume 66, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 February 1924-25 September 1924
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
NLB/64/712Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh7 June 1923
NLB/65/766Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS21 December 1923
NLB/66/841Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS24 July 1924
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
VF/33Portrait of John William Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, by Frederick Thomas Dalton 21 December 1899
RR/29/28Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Of gas-grown skins. Some of their properties and effects' by [John Job] ManleyMay 1923
RR/32/54Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The photometric matching field. Part II. The effect of peripheral stimulation of the retina on the contrast sensibility of the fovea' by S A Emerson and L C MartinApril 1925
RR/34/76Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Densities of ultramicroscopic particles' by Hubert Sutton Patterson and Robert Whyltlaw Gray[October 1926]
RR/21/132Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The occurrence of ozone in the upper atmosphere' by John Norman Pring[February 1914]
RR/40/31Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The structure and electrification of smoke particles' by Hubert Sutton Patterson, Robert Whytlaw-Gray, and W Cawood1929
RR/68/203Memoranda, on two papers 'Further studies on active nitrogen. III. Experiments to show that traces of oxygen or other impurity affect primarily the walls of the vessel, and not the phenomena in the gas space' and 'Further studies on active nitrogen IV. The ionisation associated with active nitrogen' by Robert John Strutt12 September 1941
RR/14/241Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the least potential difference required to produce discharge through various gases' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleighnd [October 1899]
RR/21/99Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of electricity from various substances at high temperatures' by George William Clarkson Kaye and W F Higgins[May 1914]
RR/25/23Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An inverstigation of the ionising power of the positive ions from a glowing tantalum filament in helium' by Frank Horton and Ann Catherine Davies[October 1918]
RR/26/119Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the molecular scattering of light in water and the colour of the sea' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman[November 1921]
RR/27/110Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the structure of the wavelength = 6708 A. of the isotopes of lithium' by John Cunningham McLennan and D S AinslieApril 1922
RR/28/10Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on gravitative attraction' by P E Shaw and N Davy[March 1922]
RR/28/43Referee's report by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the spectrum of hydrogen' by Thomas Ralph Merton and S Barratt[January 1922]
RR/29/42Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The molecular scattering of light in carbon dioxide at high pressures' by Chandrasekhama Venkata Raman and K R RamanthanJune 1923
RR/30/7Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Tabulated data for the examination of the 230 space-groups by homogeneous X-rays' by William Thomas Astbury and Kathleen Yardley[March 1924]
RR/30/45Referee's report by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The colours due to thin films on metals' by Ulick Richardson Evans[June 1924]
RR/30/46Second referee's report by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The colours due to thin films on metals' by Ulick Richardson Evans[August 1924]
RR/31/25Referee's report by Robert Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the luminescence of nitrogen, argon, and other condensed gases at very low temperatures' by John Cunningham McLennan and G M Shrum[June 1924]
RR/32/95Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The formation and composition of Mercury Helide' by [John Job] ManleyJune 1925
RR/36/21Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The coagulation of smokes and the theory of Smoluchowski' by G Nonhebel, James Colvin, Hubert Sutton Patterson and Robert Whytlaw-Gray[July 1927]
RR/38/98Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Investigations on the scattering of light in colloidal solutions and gels. Part I—Agar sol and gel' by K. KrishnamurtiAugust 1928
RR/40/63Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'A photoelectric method of measuring the light of the night sky with studies of the course of variation through the night' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighApril 1929
RR/40/65Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Normal atmospheric dispersion as the cause of the "green flash" at sunset, with illustrative experiments' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh27 November 1929
RR/42/16Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'Fluorescent excitation of mercury by the resonance frequency and by lower frequencies. Further studies' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJanuary 1932
RR/42/99Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'On the absorption of light by gaseous, liquid and solid xenon' by John Cunningham McLennan and R TurnbullJuly 1930
RR/46/73Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Fluorescent excitation of mercury by the resonance frequency and by lower frequencies.—V' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh[December 1932]
RR/67/280Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The quenching of the resonance radiation of sodium' by W MacF Smith and Ronald George Wreyford NorrishJuly 1940
RR/69/257Referee's report by Edward Frankland Armstrong, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh27 July 1945
RR/69/258Referee's report by Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh29 June 1945
RR/69/259Letter from Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton17 August 1945
RR/69/260Letter from Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton17 September 1945
MC/24/177Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, 54 Onslow Square, SW, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]9 March 1909
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/20/412Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison25 May 1905
MC/20/410Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison25 February 1905
MC/28/273Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, 54 Onslow Square, S.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]3 June 1913
MC/29/107Letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]7 June 1914
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/21/597Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, Sunnyside, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison1 April 1906
NLB/32/474Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert John Strutt, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1906
MC/34/169Letter from [Robert John] Strutt, 69 Cadogan Square, S.W.1., to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]28 March 1919
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