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Sender: Dingle, Herbert
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Sep 1934
Location: SC MS 416/382
Note: A critical attitude to science necessary.
Sender: Smithells, Arthur
Recipient: Evershed, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Jan 1895
Location: SC MS 391/70
Note: Criticism of a paper submitted by Evershed to Smithells. MS. 4 ff.; carbon copy.
Sender: Schorlemmer, Carl
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 3
Date(s): 6 Jul 1885 - 15 Oct 1891
Location: SC MS 416/21, 25, 59
Note: 1) Testimonials. MS. 2 ff. 2) AS's criticism of chemical
nomenclature; should be published. MS. 2 ff. Date from context. 3) Proposes to send to AS the draft of a new edition of "The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry", for critical comment and improvement of its English style. MS. 2 ff.
Sender: Frankland, Edward
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 2
Date(s): 6 Nov 1894 - 5 Jun 1895
Location: SC MS 416/85, 103
Note: 1) Acknowledgement of complimentary copy of 2nd edition of
Schorlemmer's book. TS. 2) Some criticisms of 2nd edition of
Schorlemmer's book.
Sender: Evershed, John
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 3
Date(s): 27 Oct 1894 - 6 Feb 1895
Location: SC MS 391/8-10
Note: 1) Answers Smithells' criticisms of a paper by J E. 4 ff.
Photography of a spectrum attached. 2) Discusses Smithells'
criticisms of a draft paper by J E. 6 ff. Photograph of a
spectrum attached; paper later published in "Phil. Mag.", vol
39 (1895), pp 460-476. 3) Has repeated his experiments and
revised a paper as Smithells had suggested.
Sender: Bone, William Arthur
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 3
Date(s): 15 Oct 1894 - 30 Sep 1901
Location: SC MS 416/82, 83, 163
Note: 1) Seeks advice on draft paper for "J. Chemical Soc." MS. 2 ff. 2) Discusses AS's criticisms of his draft paper. MS. 4 ff. 3) Decomposition of hydrocarbons at high temperature; considers V.B. Lewes to be in error. MS. 2 ff.
Sender: Ellis, Oliver Coligny de Campfleur
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 5
Date(s): 16 Jun 1930 - 18 Aug 1930
Location: SC MS 416/347-349, 352-353
Note: 1) Asks AS to read his draft history of fire and flame and to
contribute an introduction. MS. 2) Thanks AS for agreeing to
read the draft of his book. MS. 3) Formal note enclosed with
the draft (cf. 348). MS. 4) Thanks AS for criticism; problem
of revision. MS. 5) His book on fire and flame. MS.
Sender: Fitzgerald, George Francis
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 5
Date(s): 13 Dec 1893 - 5 May 1901
Location: SC MS 416/73, 74, 84, 86, 135
Note: 1) Gaseous molecules; criticism of AS's work; absorbtion spectra. MS. 3 ff. 2) Business matters (Taylor & Francis); velocities of molecules. MS. 2 ff. 3) Arrangements for publication of the second part of a paper by AS in "Phil. Mag."; E. Pringsheim. MS. 2 ff. 4) Apologies for taking away AS's bag by accident. MS. 5) Splitting atoms into "corpuscles" by X-rays; structure of atoms. MS. 2 ff.
Sender: Whytlaw-Gray, Robert
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 5
Date(s): 23 Sep 1922 - 9 Nov 1922
Location: SC MS 416/300-304
Note: 1) Will forward an account of his research on smoke; possibility of publication; use of Aitken Counter. MS. 2) Acknowledges loan of an Aitken Dust Counter; replies to AS's criticisms of his paper; use of term "aerosol"; analogy between smoke, as disperse matter, and colloids. TS. 2 ff. 3) Enclosing a list of bibliographical references (missing). MS. 4) Smoke particles from the standpoint of colloids; liquid and gaseous systems. TS. 5) Enquires about whether he should be a candidate to succeed AS at Leeds. MS.
Sender: Evershed, John
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 10
Date(s): 17 Jun [1894] - 5 May 1901
Location: SC MS 416/76, 78, 89-91, 100, 111, 116, 150, 156
Note: 1) His own experiments on spectra of iodine, bromine and chlorine. MS. 4 ff. Dated from references in text. 2) Further to his previous letter. MS. 4 ff. 3) Asks AS to criticise his draft paper on radiation of sodium vapour; possibility of publication in "Astrophysical Journal". MS. 2 ff. 4) Encloses his draft paper for criticism; seeks verification of a reference. 2 ff. 5) Thanks AS and H.R. Procter for reading and criticising his draft paper; will submit it to "Phil. Mag."; discussion of AS's criticisms. MS. 6) Opinion of Professor Fitzgerald about his paper (cf. items 89, 90); copy also sent to Pringsheim. MS. 7) Phosphorescence of sodium and potassium; regrets he missed discussion at Chem. Soc. with V.B. Lewes. MS. 8) Further experiments with sodium; also with thallium. MS. 4 ff. 9) Swan spectrum and carbon monoxide; relevance of solar spectrum; willing to arrange photograph of ultra-violet spectrum of inner cone of Bunsen flame. MS. 4 ff. 10) Agrees to
a meeting; views of Sir William Huggins on Swan spectrum; ultra-violet photography of flame spectra. MS.
Sender: Thorpe, Thomas Edward
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 11
Date(s): 1 Feb 1887 - 13 May 1911
Location: SC MS 391/1-2, 15-17, 21, 34, 44-45, 56-57
Note: 1) A testimonial to Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe from his former
pupils. 2) Paper by Teclu on same field as Smithells is
researching in. 3) Requests opinion on enclosed proof (missing). 4) Thanks Smithells for criticism; colour of CO flame; luminosity of flames. 5) Supply of calcium carbide. 6) Advises Smithells not to pursue a controversy with V B Lewes. 7) Smithells' Royal Institution lecture. 8) Advice and help to place a paper which AS had written. 9) Suggests that AS's paper should be offered to the "Philosophical Magazine"; Royal Society. On black-edged paper headed with embossed royal arms, in official mourning for Queen Victoria. 10) Proposed article and guidance from Thorpe about it; a candidate whom AS has supposted. 11) Acknowledges receipt of
AS's article; problem of its title. MS.
Sender: Dixon, Harold Baily
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 9
Date(s): 13 Feb 1891 - 21 Dec 1926
Location: SC MS 416/55, 61, 63, 68, 79, 80, 115, 278, 331
Note: 1) Comments on his own and AS's experiments on flame and combustion. MS. 2 ff. 2) Unable to chair a meeting; explosion of ethylene. MS. 2 ff. 3) Is refereeing a paper by V.B. Lewes and seeks AS's advice. MS. 2 ff. 4) Seeks AS's criticisms of draft paper on rates of explosion in gases. MS. 2 ff. Cf. "Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc.", A. (1893), vol. 184, pp.97-188. 5) Plans for next British Association meeting; his own work on cyanogen. MS. 2 ff. 6) Confirms he has written his address as president of Section B of the Oxford meeting of the British Association. MS. 7) Candidates for a post at Salford Technical School; cyanogen; burning CS2. MS. 2 ff. 8) Seeks to nominate AS as external examiner. MS. 9) Encloses a fragment on detonation [attached]. MS., diagram. Fragment dated not before 1892.