Typescript notes found interleaved in his personal copy of the 1924 edition of his biography of his father "Life of Lord Rayleigh," and abstracts of some of RJS's scientific writings, [ca. 1945].

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Typescript notes found interleaved in his personal copy of the 1924 edition of his biography of his father "Life of Lord Rayleigh," and abstracts of some of RJS's scientific writings, [ca. 1945].

The abstracts pertain primarily to Lord Rayleigh's writings on atmospheric optics. The transcript is biographical.

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Rayleigh, Robert John Strutt, baron, 1875-1947

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