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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.
Sender: Smithells, Arthur
Recipient: Dixon, Harold Baily
Letters: 4
Date(s): 12 Feb 1891 - 18 Nov 1897
Location: SC MS 416/425, 426, 428, 432
Note: 1) AS's current research on flames. MS. 4 ff.; AS's file copy. 2) Current research on flames; their cooperation. MS. 2 ff.; AS's file copy. 3) Would like to see the results of Dixon's experiments on C2H4. TS. 4) Sends a draft paper to Dixon for comment. MS. Dixon's comments added in pencil.