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GHQ, Forces in Britain, Horse Guards, London SW1. 10th December 1918. Military anti-gas training; lack of scientific knowledge amongst army officers. TS 9 ff; duplicated.

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Letter from: Henry Cecil Lowther, Forces in Great Britain. 11th December 1918. To: Charles Harrington. Forwards a document by AS; comment on ignorance of. science amongst the military. TS . 2 ff; Carbon copy.

1918

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Undated letter to Arthur Smithells from: Robert John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh); 69 Cadogan Square, London SW. 7th December [ ]. Criticism of his work by E A T Tiede; will delay publishing a book until after the war. MS 2 ff. c.1914-1918.

1860-1950

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Letter to Arthur Smithells from: Margaret Ramsay.; Beechcroft, Hazlemere, Bucks. 3rd June [?1917]. Letters from Sir William to AS will be forwarded [to(?) Sir William's biographer]; presses AS to write account of their meeting in Leeds in 1890. MS. On mourning paper; cf. W A Tilden, Sir William Ramsay (1918), p117.

1917

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Arthur Smithells correspondence and papers

Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)

1875-1955

Arthur Smithells (1860-1939) was born at Bury in Lancashire. He graduated in chemistry at Owen's College, Manchester, in 1881 (BSc, London) and subsequently continued his training in Heidelberg, under...

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Memorandum on anti-gas training, in form of a letter to General Henry Cecil Lowther. 1918. TS

National Council for Domestic Science.

Memorandum of my connection with the Great War by AS No date TS 17 ff; hiatus in the text between ff 12 and 13; dated after 1918.

Letter to Arthur Smithells from: John Henry Montagu Manners (Marquess of Granby); Vice-Regal Lodge, Dublin. 15th August 1918. Acknowledges photographs of a letter. MS.

'Rhymes for the times; the science brigade.' Unidentified press-cutting. Begins: 'They're not much use at squad drill'; verses refer to the employment of scientists in the war effort, 1914-1918.

Considerations relating to the continuance of gas warfare, a memorandum. c. 1918. TS 6 ff; no statement of authorship; refers (p 5, paragraph 14) to 'the present war'; Carbon copy.

Letter from: Frederick George Donnan, 23 Woburn Square, London WC 12th December 1918. To: William Henry Perkin junior Election of Harold Hartley to Royal Society. MS Annotated by Perkin.

Letter from Arthur Smithell to: Henry Cecil Lowther; GHQ, Forces in Britain, Horse Guards, London SW1. 10th December 1918. Military anti-gas training; lack of scientific knowledge amongst army officers. TS 9 ff; duplicated.

Letter from: Henry Cecil Lowther, Forces in Great Britain. 11th December 1918. To: Charles Harrington. Forwards a document by AS; comment on ignorance of. science amongst the military. TS . 2 ff; Carbon copy.

Undated letter to Arthur Smithells from: Robert John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh); 69 Cadogan Square, London SW. 7th December [ ]. Criticism of his work by E A T Tiede; will delay publishing a book until after the war. MS 2 ff. c.1914-1918.

Arthur Smithells correspondence and papers