Item A47-A49 - 'Prof. [H.F.] Baker Periodic Orbits etc Lent 1914'

Contents of folder inscribed by Jeffreys divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes. With additional inscription on envelope by Lady Jeffreys, August 1990: 'H.F. Baker 1866-1956 January 1914 became Lowndean Professor of Astronomy & Geometry. R.S. Biographical Memoirs 1956 vol.2 by W.V.D. Hodge. P.52 "his first action as professor was to offer in addition to the courses on pure mathematics which he had been scheduled to give as a university lecturer, a course on periodic orbits, thereby making it clear that he regarded himself as professor both of astronomy and of geometry" (BJ. August 1990)'.