1. Rayleigh (4th Baron), Life of John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Augmented edition, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1968, p. 9. Considerable use will be made of this text in following the life of Lord Rayleigh.
2. Rayleigh (4th Baron), Life of John William Strutt, p. 4.
3. John Howard, personal communication.
4. Rayleigh (4th Baron), Life of John William Strutt, p. 13.
5. The author has long maintained that scientific meetings were indeed, meetings, where one met people, rather than merely hearings, where one heard papers. Lord Rayleigh’s experiences well confirm that judgment.