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Rayleigh, The Lord (1885)

Address by the Rt. Hon. Lord Rayleigh. In: Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Montreal in August and September 1884. London: John Murray: 3-23.
In his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lord Rayleigh, a British physicist, observed that “the work that deserves most credit is that in which not only are new facts presented, but their relation to old ones is pointed out”.

The editors are grateful to:

The Wellcome Trust for making available the portrait of The Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) (1842-1919).

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