Tait, Peter Guthrie, (1831-1901), mathematician and physicist

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Surname:	Tait
Forenames:	Peter Guthrie
Gender:	Male
Date:	1831-1901
Biography:	ODNB link for Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831-1901), mathematician and physicist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P135524 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P27892 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Peter Guthrie Tait

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1869-91: corresp and lecture notes	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	Coll/234
2	1850-92: corresp and papers as secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.10000
3	1893-94: letters received	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.1004
4	MS treatise on the dynamics of a particle	Cambridge University: Peterhouse Library		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
5	1859-79: corresp with James Clerk-Maxwell (167 items)	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7655	NRA 24528 Clerk-Maxwell
6	1860-67: letters (13) to James David Forbes	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	msdep7	NRA 13132
7	1858-64: letters (c100) to Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Trinity College Dublin	MS 1492	NRA 20076 Hamilton
8	1861-1901: corresp with Lord Kelvin (169 items)	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7342, 7656	NRA 20700 Stokes
9	1858-98: corresp with Lord Kelvin (103 items)	Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department	MS Kelvin	NRA 10032
10	1891-1902: letters to Lord Rayleigh (16)	United States Air Force Academy, McDermott Library	MS 63/4	NRA 18694 See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
11	1860-99: corresp with Sir George Stokes (151 items)	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7342, 7656	NRA 20700 Stokes