Inventory of the Frederick Hanley Seares Papers, 1909-1945
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Inventory of the Frederick Hanley Seares Papers, 1909-1945
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Frederick Hanley Seares Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1909-1945
Creator:
Seares, Frederick Hanley
Extent: Number of containers: 21 boxes (ca 6,200 pieces)
Repository: The
Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Administrative Information:
There is no evidence that Seares passed on his literary rights to anyone. The Carnegie
Observatories, as part of the 1987 letter of agreement, have given the Huntington Library
the right to provide permission to publish from the papers.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Placed on permanent deposit in the Huntington Library by the Observatories of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection. This was done in 1989 as part of a letter
of agreement (dated November 5, 1987) between the Huntington and the Carnegie
Observatories. The papers have yet to be officially accessioned. Cataloging of the papers
was completed in 1989 prior to their transfer to the Huntington.
Access
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In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials,
researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the Library Director. In
most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical property
rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary
rights In some instances, the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the
physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate curator for further
information.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Frederick Hanley Seares Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Biographical Note
Frederick Hanley Seares, staff astronomer at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, was involved in
most of the administrative and research activities of the Observatory. Highly regarded
for his photometric studies and his editorial work, Seares was a prominent figure in
astronomy during the first half of the twentieth century. The papers in this collection
begin in 1909, when he arrived at Mt. Wilson, and end in 1945, when he ended his
affiliation with the Observatory.
Seares was born on May 17, 1873, on a farm near Cassopolis, in the southwest corner of
Michigan. In 1878, his parents, Isaac Newton Seares and the former Ella Ardelia
Swartwout, moved the family to Iowa. They moved again in 1887 to Pasadena, California,
where Isaac Seares became involved in the real estate and insurance business. Frederick
Seares enrolled at the new Pasadena High School where he was one of its first six
graduates in 1890. Seares then matriculated at the University of California in Berkeley
and studied under Armin Otto Leuschner. Graduating in 1895 with a B. S. degree (with
honors), Seares remained at Berkeley as a Fellow and then Instructor. While at Berkeley,
Seares met and on May 28, 1896, married Mabel Urmy, a teacher at Miss Head's School for
Girls. In 1899, Seares went to Europe to continue his studies, a practice common among
young American scientists of this time. He was accompanied by his wife and they spent one
year at the University of Berlin and a second year at the Sorbonne in Paris. Seares's
only child, Richard Urmy Seares, was born while the couple resided in Paris. They
returned to the United States in 1901, and Seares quickly obtained a position as
Professor of Astronomy at the University of Missouri and Director of the Laws Observatory
in Columbia. For the next eight years, Seares updated the equipment at the Laws
Observatory and engaged in a rich program of astronomical research.
The major turning point in Seares's career came in 1909 when George Ellery Hale invited
him to join the staff of the Mt. Wilson Observatory. The new 60-inch reflecting telescope
had just come into use on Mt. Wilson, greatly expanding the scope of the Observatory's
research. With Walter Sydney Adams being promoted to the head of the new Department of
Stellar Spectroscopy, Seares replaced Adams as head of the Computing Division. In
addition, Seares was given editorial charge of the Observatory's publications as well as
telescope time on the 60-inch to pursue research in stellar photometry.
Mt. Wilson's Computing Department consisted almost entirely of women. Most of them were
college-educated with training in mathematics and some experience at their college
observatories. Their work consisted of tedious measuring of the wavelengths of spectral
lines, stellar positions, or stellar brightness (magnitudes). Located exclusively at the
Observatory's office building in Pasadena, the computers' work was so involved that they
were often given joint authorship in the astronomers' published papers. Occasionally, a
promising young male with a Ph.D. in astronomy would be hired as a computer so that he
could be available when a staff position would be created. The men might also be a
computer in order to have a summer job between school years. As head of the Department,
Seares corresponded greatly with potential computers and this material is in eleven
folders separated from his general letters. Included in this section are letters of
recommendation from various individuals.
From 1904 to 1948, Mt. Wilson Observatory issued its astronomers' published papers as
Contributions from the Mount Wilson [Solar] Observatory.Even though these
papers were published elsewhere (mostly in the Astrophysical Journal or Publications of
the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific),Hale felt the necessity of having
a separate identity for his observatory's publications. As a consequence, he wanted to
have one person take care of editing his staff's papers in order to provide some type of
consistency. This became Seares's job, and he was highly praised by his colleagues in his
ability to turn their work into polished scientific papers, in some cases practically
re-writing them to do so. Seares would then submit the papers to the various journals and
then correct the proofs. In addition, in 1927 he became a Collaborating Editor and in
1934, Associate Editor, of the
Astrophysical Journal.In his papers,
therefore, there is a great deal of correspondence with the other editors of this
journal, Edwin Brant Frost, Henry Gordon Gale and Otto Struve. There is also a large
amount of correspondence with the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's
Division of Publications and Edwin Bidwell Wilson, the editor of the publications of the
National Academy of Sciences. Along similar lines, Seares was given the task of building
up the Observatory's library. Much of his Miscellaneous correspondence consists of his
efforts in obtaining material for the library as well as requests from others for copies
of the Observatory's publications. In recognition of his administrative abilities, Adams,
Mt. Wilson's second Director, appointed Seares Assistant Director in 1925. Until his
retirement in 1940, Seares would be in charge of the observatory whenever Adams was away
(which was not that often) and some of his correspondence reflects this position.
While about one-half of Seares's papers deals with administrative matters, the remainder
covers his scientific work. At the Laws Observatory, Seares had gained experience in the
field of photometry (measuring the brightness of stars and other celestial bodies). Upon
his arrival, he became involved in the photometric research planned for the new 60-inch
telescope. The central figure in Mt. Wilson's photometric plans was the Dutch astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn. Kapteyn was the leading authority in the field of statistical
astronomy. In statistical astronomy, the astronomer worked with a selected statistical
sample of stars. Since the stars were too numerous to deal with one at a time, an
astronomer would concentrate on a manageable number of stars and extrapolate results for
all the stars based on his or her sample. In this way, a research program could be
completed within an astronomer's lifetime. In 1906, Kapteyn proposed a scheme of
selecting 252 "Selected Areas" spread out over regular intervals across the sky. With
international cooperation, the stars in these areas could be studied in detail in order
to gain knowledge about the entire Milky Way. When the 60-inch telescope entered service
in 1909, it was the most powerful telescope in the world at the time. Kapteyn persuaded
Hale to devote some of its time to taking photographs of the 139 Selected Areas within
its reach. These photographic plates would then be sent to Kapteyn at Groningen where
they could be analyzed. Since the 60-inch telescope would reveal stars fainter than any
previously measured, Seares studied the telescope's photographic characteristics in order
to develop a proper measurement of stellar magnitudes. After comparisons with other
standards of stellar brightness measurements, Seares realized that the prevailing methods
of measuring stellar magnitudes were not able to provide him with the accuracy and
consistency that he demanded. Starting from scratch, Seares undertook the Herculean task
of defining the proper methods and standards of in-focus photographic photometry. He was
soon able to establish a common ground for his results and the Harvard North Polar
Sequence (a list of magnitudes for stars near the North Celestial Pole. These stars were
used since they were always visible to any Northern Hemisphere observatory). Seares began
measuring the magnitudes of the stars in the Selected Areas with the assistance of other
astronomers at Mt. Wilson and Groningen. By meticulously comparing the stars in one Area
to those in nearby Areas and in the North Polar Sequence, they accurately measured the
positions and magnitudes of 67,941 stars. The entire process took nine years and the
results were published in 1930 as the
Mount Wilson Catalogue of Photographic
Magnitudes in Selected Areas 1-139,
by Seares, Kapteyn, and Pieter Johannes van
Rhijn (the latter taking over for Kapteyn who died in 1922), assisted by Mary Cross
Joyner and Myrtle L. Richmond. The
Catalogue set new standards for
accuracy and faintness. The technical accomplishments involved were acknowledged as
extraordinary. The only one not totally satisfied was Seares himself. As a final effort,
he developed a new, more accurate, set of magnitudes for stars in the North Polar Region.
With the aid of Joyner and the astronomer Frank Elmore Ross, their work culminated in
1941 with the publication of
Magnitudes and Colors of Stars North of +80°.This work replaced the previous standards which had been adopted internationally
in 1932. To document these photometric studies, Seares's papers contains a good deal of
correspondence with Kapteyn, van Rhijn, Ross, and Edward Charles Pickering. The
manuscripts for the two aforementioned publications are also included in the collection.
Seares's early photometric research gained him enormous respect from his colleagues. This
resulted in his being elected President of the Commission on Stellar Photometry
(Commission #25) of the new International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1922. Formed in
1919 out of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, the IAU provided
a forum for astronomers of all nations and in various specialties to coordinate their
research. Seares served as President of his Commission for sixteen years. In that
capacity, he was able to organize a comparison of magnitudes of North Polar stars in
seven different catalogues (including Harvard, Yerkes, Greenwich, and Potsdam's
measurements) which led to the IAU adopting a homogeneous system as an international
standard in 1932. It was this standard which was later surpassed by Seares, Ross, and
Joyner's 1941 work (see above). Seares's IAU correspondence is contained in ten folders
in the collection. Related material can also be found in the correspondence with Bertil
Lindblad, Cecilia Helena Payne (-Gaposchkin), and Harlow Shapley.
Although photometry accounted for most of Seares's scientific work he was also involved
in other fields of investigation. These include: (1) studying the structure of the Milky
Way based on star counts; (2) the importance of star colors; (3) attempts to measure the
magnetic field of the sun; (4) determination of the masses of binary stars. The amount of
material on these subjects in the collection is sparse when compared to that on
photometry, however.
1940 proved to be a significant year in Seares's life. In that year he retired from the
staff at Mt. Wilson. To enable him to continue to do research at the Observatory,
however, he was appointed a Research Associate for the next five years. Very few items in
Seares's papers are from this period, most being from his active period from 1909 to
1940. In 1940 he also became Director of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (until
1946) and was awarded the Society's Bruce Gold Medal. In giving Seares the award, the
Society cited him in the following way:
Dr. Seares's most important
contributions to the science of astronomy pertain to the nature, brightness, and
distribution of the stars. His investigations in these and allied subjects are
fundamental, and in this field he is recognized as an outstanding authority.... His
painstaking work in determining fundamental standards over the whole range of observable
photographic magnitudes is recognized by photometric observers the world over as an
achievement of the highest importance to astronomy. It was also in 1940 that Seares's
wife passed away. Two years later, Seares married his long-time colleague at Mt. Wilson,
Mary Joyner.
Seares ended his affiliation with Mt. Wilson and the Astrophysical Journal in 1945. He
and his wife soon moved to Santa Barbara, California, then later to Honolulu, Hawaii,
where Seares died on July 20, 1964. It is ironic that most of Seares's photometric work
was soon surpassed by new technical developments. The introduction of photoelectric
devices into photometry after World War II made most photographic photometry techniques
obsolete. This is perhaps the major reason why Seares is not thought of today as an
important figure in astronomy's history. It would be wrong, however, to underestimate his
contributions to the astronomy of his period merely because his techniques are not
generally practiced today.
Scope and Content Note
(Boxes 1-18)
1. Correspondence, 1909-1945.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains both incoming and carbons of outgoing correspondence. They are
arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent.
(Boxes 19-21)
2. Manuscripts, notes, and notebooks.
Scope and Content Note
The manuscripts are arranged in alphabetical order by the first keyword in the title.
Container List
BOX 1: Correspondence: A - Bid
Box-folder 1.1
Charles Greeley ABBOT 1915,21,24,29-30,35
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{includes ltr FHS ? Miss Frances L. St. John}
Box-folder 1.2
Giorgio ABETTI 1911,29-30,38
Physical Description: [11]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr GA ? WSA}
Box-folder 1.3
Sir William de Wiveleslie ABNEY 1912-13
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 1.4
ABSTRACTS 1921-22
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{material dealing with preparation of abstracts for the Astrophysical Journal}
Box-folder 1.5
Leason Heberling ADAMS 1934-36
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 1.6
Walter Sydney ADAMS 1926-27,32-33,35-36,38
Physical Description: [23]
Box-folder 1.7
Robert Grant AITKEN 1910-13,16
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr Julius T. Stone -> D. S. Richardson}
Box-folder 1.8
Robert Grant AITKEN 1917-23
Physical Description: [33]
Box-folder 1.9
Robert Grant AITKEN 1928-32,35,37-39
Physical Description: [39]
Box-folder 1.10
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 1936-38,40
Physical Description: [42]
Scope and Content Note
{Correspondents are: Henry B. Ward; Earle H. Clapp; Harlan T. Stetson; F. R. Moulton;
Austin H. Clark; Paul W. Merrill; Ian Campbell}
Box-folder 1.11
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. 1912
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 1.12
Joseph Sweetman AMES 1912,15-16
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 1.13
Clement Walker ANDREWS 1910,13-14,16,19
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs of Charles J. Barr; Félix de Roy}
Box-folder 1.14
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 1913,16-18
Scope and Content Note
{D. S. Richardson}
Box-folder 1.15
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC Jan-June 1929
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{Charles Hitchcok Adams; Robert Grant Aitken; Ernest W. Brown; Arthur G. Vestal; Armin
Otto Leuschner; Frank Schlesinger}
Box-folder 1.16
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC July-Dec 1929
Physical Description: [32]
Scope and Content Note
{R.G.Aitken; A.G.Vestal; C.H.Adams; Ernest C. Watson; Frank Mergenthaler; Frederick C.
Leonard}
Box-folder 1.17
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFI C 1930,32
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{C.H.Adams; Max Wolf}
Box-folder 1.18
A -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [35]
Scope and Content Note
{C. E. Adams; Hans Christian Adamson; Agence de Libraire et de Publications; Dinsmore
Alter; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Astronomical Society [Raymond
Smith Dugan]; American Council on Education; American Mathematical Society [Marc H.
Ingraham]; American Offset Printers; American Telescope Laboratories, Inc.; Genevieve
Arduin; Merle Armitage; Associated Press; Association of Colleges and Universities of the
Pacific Southwest [Charles T. Fitts; Ernest J. Jaqua]; J. Attarablas; Audiphone Co.;
Automobile Club of Southern California. folded}
Box-folder 1.19
Walter BAADE 1930,32,38,42
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 1.20
Horace Welcome BABCOCK 1938
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 1.21
Jules BAILLAUD 1937-38
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 1.22
Robert Horace BAKER 1912-14,19
Physical Description: [16]
Box-folder 1.23
Wilder Dwight BANCROFT 1911,13
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 1.24
Edward Emerson BARNARD 1910,12-14,17-18,20,22
Physical Description: [43]
Box-folder 1.25
William BARNUM 1920
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 1.26
Storrs Barrows BARRETT 1910
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 1.27
Johann Ambrosius BARTH 1911
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 1.28
Louis Agricola BAUER 1916,19
Physical Description: [13]
Box-folder 1.29
BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. 1909
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 1.30
James G. BIDDLE 1910
Physical Description: [3]
BOX 2: Correspondence: Bil - Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Publications, 1934
Box-folder 2.31
J. van der BILT 1913-16,18-19,26
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 1 photo}
Box-folder 2.32
BINNER-WELLS CO. 1909-11
Physical Description: [14]
Box-folder 2.33
Nicholas Theodore BOBROVNIKOFF 1928-29,38
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 2.34
Bart Jan BOK 1932-34,37,40
Physical Description: [13]
Box-folder 2.35
Benjamin BOSS 1915,17,19
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 2.36
Lewis BOSS 1910-11
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 2.37
Eda C. BOWMAN 1912
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 2.38
Frank Parkhurst BRACKETT 1914,17-18
Physical Description: [8]
Box-folder 2.39
JOHN A. BRASHEAR CO., LTD. 1911
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 2.40
BROCK & FEAGANS JEWELERS 1909,25-26
Physical Description: [13]
Scope and Content Note
{25-26 under name Brock & Co. Jewelers}
Box-folder 2.41
BRYAN-BRANDENBURG CO. 1917,30-35,37-38
Physical Description: [21]
Box-folder 2.42
Keivin BURNS 1912
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 2.43
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO. 1910-11,17
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 2.44
Vannevar BUSH 1939-40
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 2.45
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (Backlund-Barrows)
Physical Description: [48]
Scope and Content Note
{J. O. Backlund; Solon Irving Bailey; L. D. Bailiff; Baker & Taylor Co.; Bakersfield
Californian; E. F. van de Sande Bakhuyzen; Ruth S. Bakker; A. C. Balch; Ralph R. Baldwin;
P. Barrachi; Martha Barnum; John Barrett; Albert Lloyd Barrows}
Box-folder 2.46
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (Barthet's-Bliss)
Physical Description: [46]
Scope and Content Note
{Barthet's Laboratory & Observatory; Raymond Bartholomew; William H. Barton, Jr.; Bautzen
Observatory; Ernest H. Beattie; Wilhelm Becker; Otto Behrens; Belgium, Royal Observatory
of; S. Beljawsky; Bell System Technical Journal; F. A. Bellamy; Andrew P. Beltran; Raine
Bennett; Junior B. Benton; Berlin University Observatory; E. Bianchi; Claude R. Bird;
Raymond Thayer Birge; Charles Bittinger; Vilhelm Bjerknes; Philip E. Bliss}
Box-folder 2.47
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (Bohlin-Burns)
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{Karl Bohlin; N. Boneff; M. Thérèse Bonney; Andrew R. Boone; Henry Borsook; H.
Bourget [incl ltr GEH ? HB]; Frederick Edward Brasch; Charles Breasted; Virginia Brenton
[ltr Helen B. Pryor ? Monroe E. Deutsch; ltr FHS ? MED]; Alfred Brill; British
Astronomical Association [W. Alfred Parr]; William Robert Brooks; W. Sterry Brown; Emile
Bruguierel; Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan; George J. Burns}
Box-folder 2.48
CALENDAR REFORM 1936
Physical Description: [6]
Scope and Content Note
[A. E. Kennelly; World Calendar Association, Inc.; Heber D. Curtis]
Box-folder 2.49
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1910-11
Physical Description: [21]
Box-folder 2.50
William Wallace CAMPBELL 1909-13
Physical Description: [41]
Box-folder 2.51
William Wallace CAMPBELL 1914-18,20,22-23,27,30,35-38
Physical Description: [63]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 2.52
Annie Jump CANNON 1912
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 2.53
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON -- DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS (CIW-DOP 1925-26,28-June 1929
Physical Description: [52]
Scope and Content Note
{Correspondents in this & following CIW-DOP folders are: Irving M. Grey; Frank F. Bunker;
Esther Dodge; Alan McElligott; Ruth C. Shipman; Maya R. Grodskaya [Mrs. V. A. Grodsky].
folded}
Box-folder 2.54
CIW-DOP July 1929-June 1930
Physical Description: [63]
Box-folder 2.55
CIW-DOP July 1930-31
Physical Description: [40]
Box-folder 2.56
CIW-DOP 1932
Physical Description: [58]
Box-folder 2.57
CIW-DOP 1933-34
Physical Description: [73]
BOX 3: Correspondence: Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Publications, 1935 - Ch
Box-folder 3.58
CIW-DOP 1935
Physical Description: [47]
Box-folder 3.59
CIW-DOP Jan-June 1936
Physical Description: [47]
Scope and Content Note
{incl copy ms. "Evidence for an Expanding Universe," by Milton Lasalle Humason}
Box-folder 3.60
CIW-DOP July-Dec 1936
Physical Description: [63]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr ? Edwin P. Hubble ? J. C. Merriam; copies ms. "The Observational Approach to
Cosmology," (Nov. 1936) based on EPH Oxford lectures; ltr EPH ? FHS w/ copies of ms. of
EPH's 3 Oxford lectures (see above); ltr FHS ? EPH}
Box-folder 3.61
CIW-DOP Jan-June 1937
Physical Description: [66]
Box-folder 3.62
CIW-DOP July-Dec 1937
Physical Description: [45]
Box-folder 3.63
CIW-DOP Jan-June 1938
Physical Description: [37]
Box-folder 3.64
CIW-DOP July-Dec 1938
Physical Description: [78]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 3.65
CIW-DOP 1939-40,42-45
Physical Description: [58]
Box-folder 3.66
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON -- PRESS RELEASES 1936-37
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: F. F. Bunker; Walter M. Gilbert}
Box-folder 3.67
Edwin Francis CARPENTER 1931,34-35,37
Physical Description: [15]
Box-folder 3.68
James McKeen CATTELL 1910-11,13,19,32,35-36,38
Physical Description: [31]
Scope and Content Note
{incl copy report "International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Fourth
Conference," by Harold Delos Babcock}
Box-folder 3.69
CENTURY DICTIONARY 1910-11,13
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 3.70
C. V. L. CHARLIER 1911-14,17,28
Physical Description: [17]
BOX 4: Correspondence: Co - D
Additional Note
The following folders 4.71-4.81 are applications from potential computers. These folders
also contain various applicant's letters of reference. In some cases, Seares wrote to the
applicant's professors requesting information about the person. These letters are filed
under the name of the applicant. The correspondence in the first ten folders is arranged
in alphabetical order by the last name of the applicant and mainly covers the period from
1909-1922. The last folder (4.81) is labeled "Recent" and has letters of application in
alphabetical order received during the period 1922-1931.
Box-folder 4.71
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: A-B
Physical Description: [67]
Scope and Content Note
{Charlotte Bushnell Abbott; Julia Andrews; Dorothy Bach; Ruth E. Barnett; Della L. Bens;
Mrs. Betty Trier Berry; Ronnie Best; Dorothy W. Block; Martha C. Borton; Anita Brown;
Inez Mitchell [Mrs. S. M.] Brown; Keith Brown; Carolyn D. Burns [see also folder 48, A.
J. CANNON]; Helen O. Burns}
Box-folder 4.72
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: C-E
Physical Description: [51]
Scope and Content Note
{Mabel Chilberg; Laura E. Christman; Edith Clarke; Frances Conder; Elizabeth Cooley;
Marguerite Crowe; Park Davidson; Mary A. Davies; Helen Davis; Margaret Davis; Lois E.
Denton; J. A. Duerksen; M. Margaret Elmer; Inez Ensign}
Box-folder 4.73
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: F-H
Physical Description: [54]
Scope and Content Note
{Priscilla Fairfield; Bertrice Adelia Farrall; Elbertie Foudray; Mary Stuart Fretz;
Caroline E. Furness; Alva Gardner; Louise Gellerman; C. D. Griffin; May Gundersen;
Philippi H. Harding; Florence E. Harpham; Harriet Haskell; Julia M. Hawkes; Phyllis
Hayford; Elva Henry; Adelaide M. Hobe; Myra D. Hoge; Sue W. Holland; Mary Howe; H. van
Huijstee; Blanche Hulbert}
Box-folder 4.74
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: J-K
Physical Description: [16]
Scope and Content Note
{Louise Freeland Jenkins [+ photo]; Elizabeth T. Jones; Lois M. Keener; Harriet Knudsen}
Box-folder 4.75
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: L-M
Physical Description: [66]
Scope and Content Note
{Agnes Leek; Sophia Levy; Mary J. Lilly; Edna Lockridge; Gladys L. Long; Merl McClees;
Florence MacCreadie; Marjorie Butterick Macgowgan; Christine McMartin; Maud W. Makemson;
Isabel E. Martin; Beatrice W. Mayberry; Mary Maynard; Addie Miller; Mabel M. Miller; Anna
Molander; Mrs. George S. Monk}
Box-folder 4.76
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: N-P
Physical Description: [35]
Scope and Content Note
{Ina M. Nelson; Hildur Österberg; Hannah Steele [Mrs. Edison] Pettit; Annie Pickles;
Phoebe Poole; Katherine Prescott}
Box-folder 4.77
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: R
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{Ruth Ransom [+ photo]; Kathryn M. [Mrs. G. F.] Ray; Florence E. Rice; Myrtle L.
Richmond; Gretchen Mary Ritchie}
Box-folder 4.78
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: S
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{E. B. Schumacher; Wanda Sheldon [Nichols]; Jessie M. Short; Caroline H. Smedley; Anita
M. Squires;Florence J. Stocker; Ethel N. Stone; Ruth Atherton Stone [Robinson]}
Box-folder 4.79
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: T-V
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{Ardis E. Thomas; Lucile Upson; Elva Utzinger; Mabel Van Deusen}
Box-folder 4.80
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: W
Physical Description: [51]
Scope and Content Note
{Laura S. West; Mary H. Wilson; Lucile Winn; Edith H. Witherell; Coral Wolfe; Doris M.
Wood}
Box-folder 4.81
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: RECENT
Physical Description: [47]
Scope and Content Note
{Dorothy Applegate; Mae Benson; --Brant; Helen E. Chapin; Margaret Cunningham; Mabel E.
Harrington; Mary Howe; Phoebe H. Leavens; Hazel Marie Losh; Elizabeth MacCormack; Mabel
McCurdy; Maud Worcester Makemson; Wanda Sheldon [Mrs. E. C.] Nichols; Helen J. Roper;
Dorothy L. Schwan; Marion E. Vosburgh}
Box-folder 4.82
COPYRIGHT 1938-39
Physical Description: [17]
Scope and Content Note
{Concerns FHS wanting to copyright an article which appeared in Isis in 1938. Corresp:
George Sarton; Léon Guinet; Frank F. Bunker; C. L. Bouvé}
Box-folder 4.83
R. T. CRAWFORD 1910,14,16
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 4.84
R. H. CURTISS 1912
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 4.85
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (California-Christiania)
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{California State Library; José da Silveira Camerino; Francis A. Campbell;
Léon Cap; R. Stanley Capon; Ellsworth Carpenter; F. E. Carr; Carter Observatory
[R. C. Hayes]; S. Chapman; Rev. Stanislaus Chevalier, S.J.; Christian Science Monitor
[Robert K. Shellaby]; Christiania University Observatory}
Box-folder 4.86
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (Cirera-Coffman)
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{Fr. R. Cirera, S.J.; Cpt. P. Civalleri, R.I.N.; Civic Bureau of Music and Art of Los
Angeles; Claremont Colleges; Nell Ray Clarke; --Clasen; Gerald Coffman}
Box-folder 4.87
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (Collard-Cuffey)
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{Aug. Collard; T. Collodi; F. Barrows Colton; Commission for Russian Scientists; A.
Pribar de Conill; Duvall Cooper; Copernicus 450th Anniversary; Corning Glass Works; A. L.
Cortie, S.J.; Robert Coughran; G. Cramer Dry Plate Co.; R. T. Crawford; Henry Crew;
Raymond E. Crowtherb [Kodak, London]; James Cuffey}
Box-folder 4.88
Felix L. DAMES, Bookseller 1911
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 4.89
F. W. DYSON 1913-16,21-22
Physical Description: [8]
Box-folder 4.90
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (Davis-Dickson)
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{Dorothy N. Davis; Dartmouth College, Baker Memorial Library; L. P. Delsasso; Denver
Public Library; Debrecen University Physical Institute; Rev. C. E. Deppermann, S.J.;
Detroit Public Library; Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft; Deutsches Museum; L. E.
Dickson}
Box-folder 4.91
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (Dingle-Dustheimer)
Physical Description: [32]
Scope and Content Note
{Herbert Dingle [lecture & notes by FHS on "Science and the Unobservable"]; Harold B.
Dirks; Roberta Lloyd [Mrs. Hugh T.] Dobbins [re S. Pike's grave]; Dorpat University
Meteorological Observatory; E. Doublet; John C. Duncan; R. S. Dugan; Theodore Dunham,
Jr.; Theodore Dufur; O. L. Dustheimer}
BOX 5: Correspondence: E - F
Box-folder 5.92
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY 1916,20,25,27-29,31,38
Physical Description: [20]
Box-folder 5.93
Arthur Stanley EDDINGTON 1920,25
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 5.94
Albert EINSTEIN 1926
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 5.95
ESCHENBACH PRINTING COMPANY 1920-22,24-25
Physical Description: [25]
Scope and Content Note
{re printing of Communications to the NAS}
Box-folder 5.96
EXHIBIT HALL -- DEDICATION 1937
Physical Description: [101]
Scope and Content Note
{includes folded newspaper clippings; letters of acceptance/regrets}
Box-folder 5.97
EXHIBITS 1938
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{folded. layouts & descriptions of exhibits on supernovae; sunspots, & Jupiter's moons}
Box-folder 5.98
EXHIBITS, ETC.
Physical Description: [24]
Scope and Content Note
{Incl. CIW-MWO exhibit, Dec. 1931}
Box-folder 5.99
E -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [42]
Scope and Content Note
{C. Easton; J. M. Eder; Frank K. Edmondson; W. S. Eichelberger; Greta Ekelöf;
Ferdinand Ellerman [ltrs re FE's death: George E. Johnson ? FHS; FHS ? GEJ]; C. T. Elvey;
Pio Emanuelli; Encyclopaedia Britannica [W. L. Dalton]; S. Enebo; Wilhelm Engelman,
Publisher; Eugene H. Eyster}
Box-folder 5.100
Charles FABRY 1920,38
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 5.101
E. A. FATH 1912-14,25,28
Physical Description: [18]
Scope and Content Note
{Incl typed ms. "A Study of Nebulae"}
Box-folder 5.102
John Adam FLEMING 1934-36
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.2 ltr JAF ? J. C. Merriam; c.ltr JAF ? S. B. Nicholson}
Box-folder 5.103
Gustav FOCK, Bookdealer 1909-12
Physical Description: [34]
Box-folder 5.104
Gustav FOCK, Bookdealer 1913-14,24
Physical Description: [29]
Box-folder 5.105
Frederick E. FOWLE 1931
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 5.106
Philip FOX 1912-14,16-17,29-30,40
Physical Description: [36]
Box-folder 5.107
Florence FREEMAN 1906,11
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 5.108
Edwin Brant FROST 1919-21
Physical Description: [25]
Box-folder 5.109
Edwin Brant FROST 1922-23,25
Physical Description: [27]
Box-folder 5.110
Edwin Brant FROST 1926-27
Physical Description: [44]
Box-folder 5.111
Edwin Brant FROST 1928-29
Physical Description: [34]
Box-folder 5.112
Edwin Brant FROST 1930
Physical Description: [23]
Box-folder 5.113
Edwin Brant FROST 1931-32
Physical Description: [32]
Box-folder 5.114
Caroline E. FURNESS 1910,12,14
Physical Description: [11]
Scope and Content Note
{re potential computers}
Box-folder 5.115
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (Farnsworth-Forsythe)
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{Alice H. Farnsworth; Max Farrand; V. L. Fasschel; Anna Mary Felker; Ann Walker [Mrs.
James B.] Field; P. H. Field; Howard Finley; John Forsyth; W. E. Forsythe}
Box-folder 5.116
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (Fracassini-Fulcher)
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{Cesare Serafini Fracassini; Franklin Institute; French Consul, San Francisco; Gordon S.
Fulcher}
BOX 6: Correspondence: G - Gilbert, 1920
Box-folder 6.117
WILLIAM GAERTNER & COMPANY 1910-11
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{+photo}
Box-folder 6.118
Henry Gordon GALE 1910-12
Physical Description: [38]
Box-folder 6.119
Henry Gordon GALE 1913
Physical Description: [56]
Box-folder 6.120
Henry Gordon GALE 1914
Physical Description: [47]
Box-folder 6.121
Henry Gordon GALE 1915-16,20
Physical Description: [32]
Box-folder 6.122
Henry Gordon GALE 1921-25,31,35
Physical Description: [63]
Box-folder 6.123
Andreas GALLE 1910-12
Physical Description: [30]
Scope and Content Note
{re purchase of J. Galle's Library}
Box-folder 6.124
Boris P. GERASIMOVI C 1928-30,32-33
Physical Description: [8]
Box-folder 6.125
James T. GEROULD 1909-10,13,25
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 6.126
Walter M. GILBERT 1910-June 1913
Physical Description: [31]
Box-folder 6.127
Walter M. GILBERT July 1913-June 1914
Physical Description: [38]
Box-folder 6.128
Walter M. GILBERT July 1914-1915
Physical Description: [37]
Box-folder 6.129
Walter M. GILBERT 1916
Physical Description: [38]
Box-folder 6.130
Walter M. GILBERT 1917
Physical Description: [28]
Box-folder 6.131
Walter M. GILBERT 1918
Physical Description: [19]
Box-folder 6.132
Walter M. GILBERT Jan-June 1919
Physical Description: [29]
Box-folder 6.133
Walter M. GILBERT July-Dec 1919
Physical Description: [19]
Box-folder 6.134
Walter M. GILBERT 1920
Physical Description: [34]
BOX 7: Correspondence: Gilbert, 1921 - Hai
Box-folder 7.135
Walter M. GILBERT 1921
Physical Description: [46]
Box-folder 7.136
Walter M. GILBERT 1922
Physical Description: [47]
Box-folder 7.137
Walter M. GILBERT 1923
Physical Description: [28]
Box-folder 7.138
Walter M. GILBERT 1924
Physical Description: [57]
Box-folder 7.139
Walter M. GILBERT 1925
Physical Description: [18]
Box-folder 7.140
Walter M. GILBERT 1926
Physical Description: [20]
Box-folder 7.141
Walter M. GILBERT 1927-28
Physical Description: [34]
Box-folder 7.142
Walter M. GILBERT 1929-30
Physical Description: [38]
Box-folder 7.143
Walter M. GILBERT 1931-33
Physical Description: [24]
Box-folder 7.144
Walter M. GILBERT 1934-40, 45
Physical Description: [65]
Box-folder 7.145
Sir David GILL 1909-10
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 7.146
George W. GRAY 1936-37
Physical Description: [21]
Box-folder 7.147
Jesse Leonard GREENSTEIN 1935,38
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 7.148
Clementina deForest GRIFFIN 1910-11,18
Physical Description: [15]
Box-folder 7.149
GRIMES-STASSFORTH STATIONERY COMPANY 1910-11,18
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 7.150
WILLIAM H. GUILD & COMPANY 1909-11
Physical Description: [25]
Box-folder 7.151
WILLIAM H. GUILD & COMPANY 1912-13
Physical Description: [37]
Box-folder 7.152
WILLIAM H. GUILD & COMPANY 1914-17,20
Physical Description: [47]
Box-folder 7.153
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (Gabba-Gilder)
Physical Description: [39]
Scope and Content Note
{L. Gabba; Galileo Portrait [Charles E. Lewis]; Joaquín Gallo; H. A. Garfield; Willard H.
Garrett; G. N. Garrison; General Petroleum Corp. of California; Georgia Astrophysical
Observatory; F. Louise Gianetti; Henry L. Giclas; Millicent Gilder}
Box-folder 7.154
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (Gillette-Guth)
Physical Description: [38]
Scope and Content Note
{Halbert P. Gillette; Curvin H. Gingrich; F. Gonnessiat; Katharine Gordon; W. B. Gordon;
Göttingen Observatory/Library; Lucien Gougy; L. Grabowski; Carlos Graef [Fernández];
K. Graff; John Grant; Graphic Arts Press [J. Stuart Lynch]; W. de Groot; George R. Grose;
H. Grouiller; Frederick O. Grover [re extra-terrestrial life]; F. A. Guth}
Box-folder 7.155
Rev. J. G. HAGEN, S.J. 1912,19,22
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 7.156
Jessica May HAINES 1909-10,13
Physical Description: [18]
BOX 8: Correspondence: Hal - IAU, July 1919
Box-folder 8.157
George Ellery HALE 1910,12-16
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 8.158
George Ellery HALE 1917-21
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr W. J. Hanna ? FHS}
Box-folder 8.159
George Ellery HALE 1922,25-26,28,31-32,34-36
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{incl notes on "Cost Estimate for Expedition to Southern Hemisphere," c. June, 1922.
folded}
Box-folder 8.160
HAMBURG OBSERVATORY 1910,35,37-38
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 8.161
E. S. HAYNES 1910,12,14-15,17,19-23,25,28
Physical Description: [24]
Box-folder 8.162
W. HEFFER & SONS, LTD. 1912-13,15-17
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 8.163
A. HERMANN ET FILS Libraire Scientifique 1910-11,13-14
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 8.164
Ejnar HERTZSPRUNG 1911-12,14-15,17,19-23,25,28
Physical Description: [38]
Box-folder 8.165
Helen Elizabeth HIGH 1912,15
Physical Description: [14]
Box-folder 8.166
Bernard HOFFMANN 1916,23,27
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 8.167
Edward Singleton HOLDEN 1912
Physical Description: [8]
Box-folder 8.168
Sture HOLM 1933-34
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 8.169
Janet HOWELL 1916-17
Physical Description: [13]
Box-folder 8.170
Edwin Powell HUBBLE 1924,26
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 8.171
Leon HUFNAGEL 1931-32
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 8.172
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (Hagemann-Hassenstein)
Physical Description: [35]
Scope and Content Note
{F. G. Hagemann; H. M. Hall; J. Halm; Hamburg Seewarte; Richard Hamer; W. J. Hanna; E.
Hartwig; Georg Hartwig; Harvard College Observatory; Herbert Harvey; Margaret Harwood; W.
Hassenstein}
Box-folder 8.173
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (Havens-Hirsch)
Physical Description: [25]
Scope and Content Note
{W. H. Havens; Alan S. Hawksworth; E. R. Hedrick; Paul Helbronner; Rollin D. Hemans; St.
Hempel; Abel Heywood and Son; "Herschel Portrait" [A. O. Leuschner; Louis J. Carmel];
Elsie Isabel Hill; F. W. Hinrichs, Jr.; Shiu Hirayama; E. Hirsch}
Box-folder 8.174
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (Hodam-Hutchins)
Scope and Content Note
{Joseph A. Hodam; C. Hoffmeister; Helen Sawyer Hogg; Melvin J. Hoirch; Hong Kong Royal
Observatory; Inga Howard; Herbert A. Howe; J. Huizinga; Beatrice M. Humason; W. J.
Hussey; Robert Maynard Hutchins}
Box-folder 8.175
ILFORD, LTD. 1912-13
Physical Description: [9]
Scope and Content Note
{F. F. Renwick; re photographic emulsions}
Box-folder 8.176
INSURANCE -- CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 8.177
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION (IAU) March-July 17, 1919
Physical Description: [39]
Scope and Content Note
{Concerns meeting of American section of proposed IAU in March 1919 & preparations for
Brussels meeting of proposed IAU on July 18, 1919. Corresp: Joel Stebbins; S. I. Bailey;
F. C. Jordan; J. A. Parkhurst; W. W. Campbell}
Box-folder 8.178
IAU (Meeting in Brussels, July 1919
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
BOX 9: Correspondence: IAU, September 1919 - IAU, 1937
Box-folder 9.179
IAU Sept, 1919-Dec, 1920
Physical Description: [26]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: A. Fowler; Joel Stebbins; W. W. Campbell; J. A. Parkhurst; H. Leavitt; H. H.
Turner; J. Halm; P. J. Melotte; Frank Dyson}
Box-folder 9.180
IAU 1921
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: A. Fowler; H. Spencer-Jones; Henrietta S. Leavitt; Harlow Shapley; R. A.
Sampson; Joel Stebbins; W. W. Campbell; Frank Dyson; J. A. Parkhurst; J. Baillaud; P. J.
Melotte; H. H. Turner. folded, oversize}
Box-folder 9.181
IAU 1922
Physical Description: [44]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: Harlow Shapley; A. Fowler; J. A. Parkhurst; H. H. Turner; J. G. Hagen; H.
Spencer-Jones; J. Baillaud; A. S. Eddington; R. A. Sampson; J. Halm; J. Stebbins; W. W.
Campbell. folded}
Box-folder 9.182
IAU (Reports & Printed matter) 1922
Physical Description: [17]
Scope and Content Note
{Material from U.S. section meeting on April 1922 & Rome meeting on May 1922. One with
brass paper fasteners. folded}
Box-folder 9.183
IAU 1924-25
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: A. Fowler; P. J. van Rhijn; R. A. Sampson; W. Dziewulski; J. G. Hagen; Robert
H. Baker; Joel Stebbins; Harlow Shapley; Ejnar Hertzsprung; H. Spencer-Jones; J. A.
Parkhurst. One thick item with 3 staples. folded}
Box-folder 9.184
IAU 1931-32
Physical Description: [75]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: F. J. M. Stratton; P. J. van Rhijn; A. Bemporad; R. A. SAmpson; P. J. Melotte;
H. L. Vanderlinden; Bertil Lindblad; H. Plaskett; Östen Bergstrand; W. M. H.
Greaves; Raymond S. Dugan; Harlow Shapley; Charles Fabry; Cecilia H. Payne; W.
Hassenstein; J. Hellerich; K. Graff; Ejnar Hertzsprung; H. Spencer-Jones; A. Pannekoek;
H. von Zeipel; K. G. Malmquist; W. K. Green; Gilbert Rougier. folded}
Box-folder 9.185
IAU 1933-37
Physical Description: [30]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: F. J. M. Stratton; J. H. Oort; Jules Baillaud; P. J. van Rhijn; H. Shapley; Jan
Schilt; W. Hassenstein; Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; S. A. Mitchell}
BOX 10: Correspondence: IAU, 1938 - Kapteyn, 1914
Additional Note
The following six folders, 10.189-10.194, contain correspondence relating to the 1910
IUCSR meeting in Pasadena. The material is arranged in alphabetical order by named
correspondent. Most of the letters are acceptances/regrets, but there are some that
detail the organizing plans.
Box-folder 10.186
IAU 1938
Physical Description: [29]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: WSA; E. Hertzsprung; J. H. Oort; Bertil Lindblad; Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Several ltrs to FHS are incorporated in a draft ms. for the Commission 25 report of 1938;
these are from: W. Baade; Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; P. Guthnick; B. Lindblad; Yngve
Öhlman; F. E. Ross; J. Schilt; H. Shapley; B. Sternberk; P. J. van Rhijn; K. Graff;
J. Hellerich; K. G. Malmquist; S. A. Mitchell. folded & oversize.}
Box-folder 10.187
INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL TABLES 1923-25,31
Physical Description: [35]
Box-folder 10.188
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CO-OPERATION IN SOLAR RESEARCH (IUCSR) Pasadena meeting, 1910
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{Concerns 4th IUCSR meeting held at Mt. Wilson from Aug. 29 to Sep. 6, 1910. Contains
programs, lists of attendees, etc.}
Box-folder 10.189
IUCSR Correspondence (Bailey-Byrne)
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{S. I. Bailey; M. J. Balcello; Robert S. Ball; Carl Barus; Louis Agricola Bauer; A.
Belopolsky; A. Bemporad; Pietro Blaserna; Henry Bourget; H. R. Boynton; H. Buisson; J. J.
Byrne}
Box-folder 10.190
IUCSR Correspondence (Chamberlin-Goldhammer)
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{T. C. Chambelin; C. A. Chant; G. A. Clark; W. W. Coblentz; A. Cotton; R. T. Crawford;
Henry Crew; J. Danne; Arthur L. Day; H. Deslandres; A. Donner; F. W. Dyson; H. Ebert;
Mrs. W. P. Fleming; E. Gehrcke; H. M. Goodwin; D. Goldhammer}
Box-folder 10.191
IUCSR Correspondence (Hallock-Küstner
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{William Hallock; B. Harkányi; M. Harny; Karl Haussmann; Arthur R. Hinks; W. P. Hoge;
Eliza P. Houghton; W. J. Humphreys; R. J. A. Innes; David Starr Jordan; Edward Bell
Knobel; Otto Knopf; Friedrich Küstner}
Box-folder 10.192
IUCSR Correspondence (Lampland-Pickering)
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{C. O. Lampland; E. Percival Lewis; Frank B. Littell; Percival Lowell; H. G. Lyons;
Maryland [Hotel]; E. Miller; G. Millochau; A. A. Nijland; Johann Palisa; Louis A.
Parsons; J. E. Petavel; E. C. Pickering [incl c.2 ltrs S. W. Manning Fletcher ? S. I.
Bailey; c.ltrs ECP ?? P. Lowell]}
Box-folder 10.193
IUCSR Correspondence (Plaskett-Schuster)
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{J. S. Plaskett; E. Pringsheim; Hugh B. Rice, Co.; A. Lawrence Rotch; C. Runge; J. R.
Rydberg; Fernando Sanford; J. A. B. Scherer; Arthur Schuster [incl ltr Mrs. Schuster ?
FHS]}
Box-folder 10.194
IUCSR Correspondence (Schwarzschild-Wiedemann)
Physical Description: [30]
Scope and Content Note
{Karl Schwarzschild; Arthur Searle; Frederick Slocum; Southern California Academy of
Sciences [Holdridge O. Collins]; Ormond Stone; Tiffany & Co.; University Club of Pasadena
[R. I. Howe; Esward L. Mayberry]; Felipe Valle; J. Violle; E. Warburg; A. B. Wills; A.
Wolfer; E. Wiedemann}
Box-folder 10.195
I -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [32]
Scope and Content Note
{Ibérica; Indian Academy of Sciences [M. N. Saha]; Institut d'Astronomique
Pratique, Warsaw, Poland; Institut d'Optique; Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris [Ch.
Maurain]; Institute of International Education; International Catalogue of Scientific
Literature; International Education Board [re grant for AAVSO]; International Magazine
Co.; International Press Service; Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Co.; Dorothea Isaac-Roberts}
Box-folder 10.196
James H. JEANS 1927
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 10.197
J -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [35]
Scope and Content Note
{J. Jackson; Harold Jacoby; Hamilton M. Jeffers; Frank B. Jewett; N. Jewdokimow; Johns
Hopkins Press/University; William Templeton Johnson; Robert Jonckheer; T. T. Jones Co.;
Frederick C. Jordan; L. V. Julihn [incl ltr F. G. Cottrell ? FHS]; W. Junk, Publishers}
Box-folder 10.198
Waldemar KAEMPFFERT 1929,36-38
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{See also New York Times}
Box-folder 10.199
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN 1909-10
Physical Description: [17]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 2 photos}
Box-folder 10.200
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN 1911-14
Physical Description: [38]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 2 ltrs FHS ? Mr. Zernicke}
BOX 11: Correspondence: Kapteyn, 1915 - Mag
Box-folder 11.201
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN 1915-16
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr JCK ? GEH; c.ltr R. J. A. Innes ? JCK; ltr FHS ? William Barnum; ltr WB ?
FHS}
Box-folder 11.202
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN 1917-18
Physical Description: [22]
Box-folder 11.203
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN 1919-22
Physical Description: [27]
Box-folder 11.204
Arthur S. KING 1915, 17-18
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 11.205
Edward S. KING 1913,16
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 11.206
William H. KNIGHT 1911-12,16
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 11.207
Peter Paul KOCH 1913-14
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 11.208
Arnold KOHLSCHÜTTER 1925
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 11.209
E. KÖNIG 1914
Physical Description: [1]
Scope and Content Note
{re dyes for photographic plates}
Box-folder 11.210
Karl KOSTERSITZ 1913-17,23-24,26,28-30,34
Physical Description: [25]
Box-folder 11.211
E. A. KREIKEN 1921,30-31,36-37
Physical Description: [14]
Box-folder 11.212
Gerard Peter KUIPER 1938,41
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 11.213
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (Kammerlingh-Keystone)
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{--Kammerlingh-Onnes; "Kapteyn Cottage"; B. Karpov; Katherine P. Kaster; Kasan University
Astronomical Observatory; Katherine P. [Mrs. H. B.] Kaster; J. Kater; Heinrich Kayser; C.
H. Kelley; Hugh J. Kelly; Roy J. Kennedy; Norton A. Kent; Frederick P. Keppel; M. de
Kerolyr; Keystone View Co. of New York, Inc. [F. Lorenz]}
Box-folder 11.214
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (Kienle-Kuhlmann)
Physical Description: [32]
Scope and Content Note
{H. Kienle; M. F. Kimball; Mrs. W. L. Kinney; Otto Knopf; H. Knox-Shaw; Kobe Imperial
Marine Observatory; K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium; --Konkoly; Kosmos; Kranseder & Co., Gmbh;
Jan Krassowski; --Krater; Adolf Krause; C. J. Krieger; Hillier Krieghbaum; A. F. Kuhlman}
Box-folder 11.215
H. E. LAU 1917
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 11.216
Henrietta S. LEAVITT 1914-15
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 11.217
Oliver J. LEE 1925,33,35
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 11.218
Frederick C. LEONARD 1923,27,32-33,36
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 11.219
Armin Otto LEUSCHNER 1910-13,16
Physical Description: [18]
Box-folder 11.220
Armin Otto LEUSCHNER 1928,30,35-36,38-39
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs Nora Moylan ?? FHS}
Box-folder 11.221
LIBRARIAN APPLICATIONS 1916
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{Elizabeth Connor; Belle Blend; Frederick E. Brasch; Irene de Camp; Eva W. Graves;
Frances H. Kahl; Rebecca S. MacNair; Victor E. Marriott; Glyde Maynard; Fanny L. Parker;
Elizabeth A. Riesner; I. Serrurier; Helen D. Weingarth}
Box-folder 11.222
LIBRARY BUREAU 1909-11
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 11.223
LIFE Magazine 1937-38,40
Physical Description: [17]
Box-folder 11.224
Bertil LINDBLAD 1934-38
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 11.225
William J. S. LOCKYER 1909-10
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 11.226
Knut LUNDMARK 1932-34
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 11.227
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (Lal-Liebisch)
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{G. B. Lal; Lancaster Press, Inc. [O. J. Smith, Jr.]; Hugo Landi; R. J. Lang; Sir Joseph
Larmor; Jennie B. Lasby; Latvia University Astronomical Observatory, Riga [S.
Slaucitajs]; G. Lecointe; H. Lehmann; Lemcke & Buechner; George H. Lepper; Sophia H.
Levy; Lick Observatory; Bernhard Liebisch}
Box-folder 11.228
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (Limes-Lwow)
Physical Description: [30]
Scope and Content Note
{Charles L. Limes; E. M. Lindsay; Charles B. Lipman; Charles G. Little; L. C. Lonyo;
Rafael Obregon Loria; Los Angeles Board of Park Commissioners; Los Angeles Civic Bureau
of Music and Art; Los Angeles Times [G. L. Goodmansen]; Hazel Marie Losh; Katheryn Lowe
[incl ltr Irving M. Grey ? FHS]; Percival Lowell; Robert L. Lucas; --Luppo-Cramer; Lwow
Astronomical Institute}
Box-folder 11.229
Adriaan van MAANEN 1910,12
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{incl memo GEH ? AvM; memo AvM ? E. Wilhoit; tlgrm FHS ? GEH}
Box-folder 11.230
MACK PRINTING CO. 1926-29,33
Physical Description: [9]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: Cyrus S. Fleck}
Box-folder 11.231
Robert Raynolds McMATH 1935,37-39
Physical Description: [32]
Box-folder 11.232
MAGNITUDES AND COLORS OF STARS NORTH OF +80? -- Correspondence 1940-42
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{folded. Corresp: Dorothy R. Swift; Mrs. V. A. Grodsky; Bart J. Bok}
BOX 12: Correspondence: Mar - Mz
Box-folder 12.233
MARSHALL-JACKSON CO. 1911
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 12.234
MASSON & CIE., Editeurs 1912-13
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 12.235
Nicholas Ulrich MAYALL 1929,32
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 12.236
MAYER & MüLLER 1911-14
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 12.237
Charles Edward Kenneth MEES 1914-16,22,30,32,35
Physical Description: [44]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 12.238
MERIDIEN GRAVURE CO.
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{incl "Full-Tone Collotype for Scientific Reproduction," Supplements 6-13; reprint of
"Photographic Studies of Nebulae," by John Charles Duncan w/ samples of photo collotype}
Box-folder 12.239
John Campbell MERRIAM 1921-23,25,28
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{incl tlgrms J. L. Wirt ?? D. S. Mulvin}
Box-folder 12.240
John Campbell MERRIAM 1931-33,35
Physical Description: [26]
Box-folder 12.241
John Campbell MERRIAM 1936
Physical Description: [16]
Box-folder 12.242
John Campbell MERRIAM 1937-39
Physical Description: [44]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.tlgrm WSA ? JCM; c.tlgrm F. E. Wright ? D.W. Pierce, Jr.}
Box-folder 12.243
Albert Abraham MICHELSON 1928-29,35
Physical Description: [11]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs FHS ?? Alhambra Foundry Co., Ltd.}
Box-folder 12.244
A. MIETHE 1912
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 12.245
MILLIONAIRE CALCULATING MACHINE 1910-11,17,21-23,32
Physical Description: [45]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: W. A. Morschhauser; Business Equipment Sales Co., Inc.; J. P. Warren [Felt &
Tarrant Mfg. Co., later the Annotator Manufacturing Co.]; E. L. Hoffman}
Box-folder 12.246
Henri MINEUR 1930-31,33
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 12.247
Samuel Alfred MITCHELL 1916,22-23,37,39-40
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.brief by Raymond M. Hughes on the Administration of the U. S. Naval Observatory
[1939]}
Box-folder 12.248
George Spencer MONK 1916-17
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr Ardis T. [Mrs. G. S.] Monk}
Box-folder 12.249
Charlotte Emma MOORE [Sitterly] 1929-34,37-39
Physical Description: [45]
Box-folder 12.250
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (McArthur-Marquis)
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{Albert Chase McArthur; Macbeth Daylighting Co., Inc. [Norman Macbeth]; Lucena McBride;
Phoebe Merl McClees [ltrs M. E. Churchill ?? FHS; FHS ? Fisk Teachers' Agencies]; Frank
McCoy; E. C. MacDowell; Anita Newcomb McGee; McGill University; Dean B. McLaughlin;
MacMillan Co. Publishers [Rose Levy]; Mrs. John McMillan; Maud W. Makemson; E.
Mallinckrodt, Jr.; Marburg University Library; Marchaut Calculating Machine Co. [folded];
W. L. Marcy; Marina, Instituto y Observatorio de; Marquis, A. N. & Co.}
Box-folder 12.251
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (Marsh-Miller)
Physical Description: [50]
Scope and Content Note
{Donald G. Marsh; Hannah Mary Marsh; Thomas Marshall, Jr. [folded]; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Library; Masson and Co.; T. M. Martin; T. Matukama; A. S. D.
[Mrs. T. F.] Maunder; Thomas Frid Maunder; Oscar Maurer; R. Newton Mayall; Edward L.
Mayberry; Carroll B. Merritt; W. F. Meyer; A. A. Michailovsky; G. R. Miczaika; Dayton C.
Miller; Freeman D. Miller; H. L. Miller; John A. Miller; Mrs. John Miller}
Box-folder 12.252
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (Millikan-Mundt)
Physical Description: [59]
Scope and Content Note
{R. A. Millikan; Monroe Calculating Machine Co. [folded. incl Calculator Equipment
Corp.]; Montevideo, Observatory of the University of [folded]; Monthly Weather Review;
Joseph Monti; K. Moór [?]; Ernest C. Moore; Morava Construction Co.; D. W. Morehouse
[incl ltr H. Shapley ? DWM]; D. P. Moreton; G. W. Morey; --Moriceau; T. H. Morgan;
Sylvanus G. Morley; W. D. Morrison; Albert G. Mowbray [incl memo EPH ? FHS]; F. R.
Moulton; Z. Müller; Carlos S. Mundt}
BOX 13: Correspondence: N - Q
Box-folder 13.253
Jason John NASSAU 1935,37
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 13.254
NATURE 1925-27,32
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 13.255
NAVAL OBSERVATORY, U.S. 1909-12,16
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 13.256
NEWTON CELEBRATION 1927
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{Concerns Bi-centenary of Newton's death, celebrated at Columbia University on Nov. 1927.
Corresp: Frederick E. Brasch; A. O. Leuschner; E. W. Brown; W. W. Campbell}
Box-folder 13.257
NEW YORK TIMES 1930,35,38
Physical Description: [12]
Scope and Content Note
{--Markel; Waldemar Kaempffert; C. M. Graves; V. W. Talley; Edwin L. James}
Box-folder 13.258
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (Nantucket-National)
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association; A. L. Narayan; National Broadcasting Co., Inc. [J.
G. Strang]; National City Bank of New York; National Economic League [J. W. Beatson];
National Geographic Society; National Library of Peiping [T. L. Yuan]; National Research
Council [M. Stambaugh]; National Research Council of Japan [H. Honda]; National Tsing Hua
University}
Box-folder 13.259
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (Neuner-Nijland)
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{The Neuner Co.; New Hampshire, University of [George N. Bauer]; News Chronicle [Robert
Waithman]; Newton & Co., Ltd. [A. J. Batchelor]; New York Public Library [R. J. Lingel];
New York State Library [Gladys T. Jones]; Mrs. Wanda Sheldon Nichols; Seth Barnes
Nicholson; A. A. Nijland}
Box-folder 13.260
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (Nikolayev-Noyes)
Physical Description: [17]
Scope and Content Note
{Nikolayev Astronomical Observatory [L. Semenov]; Nixdorf Observatory; Charles A. Noble;
Gladys Noon; H. Nort; Norwegian Meteorological Institute [folded]; Werner Nowachi; Arthur
A. Noyes}
Box-folder 13.261
Jan Hendrik OORT 1936-37,39
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 13.262
O -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{Oberlin College [F. E. Carr; Emma L. Frank]; Sir Frederick O'Connor; J. Ogden; R. M.
Ogden; Yngve Öhlman; Eleanor Olney; John Ohlsson; William Tyler Olcott [& G. H.
Lutz]; Charles P. Olivier; P. Th. Oosterhoff; Earle L. Ovington}
Box-folder 13.263
Johann PALISA 1910,12
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 13.264
John Adelbert PARKHURST 1910-11,13-15,21,23
Physical Description: [38]
Box-folder 13.265
Cecilia Helena PAYNE (-GAPOSCHKIN) 1931,33,35,38
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 13.266
Francis Gladheim PEASE 1938-39
Physical Description: [41]
Scope and Content Note
{Concerned with matters following Pease's death and with his widow. Corresp: George E.
Johnson [TIAA]; Mrs. Caroline Pease; George M. Furness; Anne Kneeland [Mrs. J. C.]
Swinson; William A. Furness}
Box-folder 13.267
Edison PETTIT 1927,34
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 13.268
Edward Charles PICKERING 1909-June 1910
Physical Description: [24]
Scope and Content Note
{incl material by Henrietta S. Leavitt}
Box-folder 13.269
Edward Charles PICKERING July-Dec 1910
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{+ 9 photos; Incl material by H. S. Leavitt}
Box-folder 13.270
Edward Charles PICKERING 1911
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{incl material by Henrietta S. Leavitt}
Box-folder 13.271
Edward Charles PICKERING 1912-13
Physical Description: [30]
Box-folder 13.272
Edward Charles PICKERING 1914-17
Physical Description: [25]
Scope and Content Note
{Incl material by H. S. Leavitt}
Box-folder 13.273
Sidney R. PIKE 1928
Physical Description: [12]
Scope and Content Note
{ltrs concern the sudden illness of Pike, an International Education Board Fellow at Mt.
Wilson, which led to his death. Corresp: WSA; Trevor R. Arnett [IEB]; Wallace Lund}
Box-folder 13.274
John Stanley PLASKETT 1922,32,35-36
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 13.275
H. C. PLUMMER 1917
Physical Description: [10]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 13.276
P -- MISCELLANEOUS (Pacific-Pendray)
Physical Description: [35]
Scope and Content Note
{Pacific Electric Railway Co. [incl to/from GEH]; Pacific Geographic Society [Humphrey
Read]; Pan American Scientific COngress [José J. Bravo]; Paris Observatory; Const.
Parvule; J. Newton Parker; Sir Charles Parsons; Pasadena Association; Pasadena High
School and Junior College [Ida E. Hawes]; Pasadena Vocation Bureau [Marion de Paar]; A.
W. Pawlow; Fred Pearson; Peckham Bros.; George B. Pegram; Walter M. Pegram; Peking
Central Observatory; G. Edward Pendray}
Box-folder 13.277
P, Q -- MISCELLANEOUS (Perez-Quarrie
Physical Description: [54]
Scope and Content Note
{Felix M. Perez [Sanchez]; T. P. Perkins; Nicolas Perrakis; C. D. Perrine; Max Petersen;
John E. Pfeiffer; Philadelphia Inquirer [John Miller]; "Pinacyanol" [advert from Lucius &
Brüning Farbwerke]; Harry Hemley Plaskett; Poggendorff's Biographisch-Literarisches
Handwörterbuch; Popular Astronomy; Popular Science Monthly [Sumner Blossom]; M. A.
Porcabeuf; J. G. Porter; Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory [H. von Klüber; E. F.
Trondlich]; Poulkovo Observatory; N. R. Powley; Poznan Observatory [Joseph Witkowski];
Irwin G. Priest; Henry S. [& Mrs.] Pritchett; S. Procopin; W. S. Prosser; Herbert Putnam;
G. P. Putnam's Sons; W. F. Quarrie & Co. [S. E. Farquhar]}
BOX 14: Correspondence: R - Ros
Box-folder 14.278
Albert William RECHT 1932,34
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 14.279
L. A. REDMAN 1924-25,28-29
Physical Description: [49]
Scope and Content Note
{incl A. W. Redman. LAR was debunker of Einstein}
Box-folder 14.280
Georg REIMER, Verlagsbuchhandlung 1910,12,14-15
Physical Description: [17]
Box-folder 14.281
Martha RENNER 1910-11
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 14.282
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1912-16
Physical Description: [31]
Box-folder 14.283
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1917-20
Physical Description: [36]
Box-folder 14.284
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1921-23
Physical Description: [35]
Box-folder 14.285
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1924-26
Physical Description: [24]
Box-folder 14.286
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1927-30
Physical Description: [28]
Box-folder 14.287
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1931-35,38
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{1 ltr torn in 4 pieces}
Box-folder 14.288
RILEY-MOORE ENGRAVING CO. 1911-14
Physical Description: [28]
Box-folder 14.289
RILEY-MOORE ENGRAVING CO. 1915-16
Physical Description: [26]
Box-folder 14.290
Franklin Evans ROACH 1936,38
Physical Description: [11]
Box-folder 14.291
Frank Elmore ROSS 1926,28-29
Physical Description: [21]
Box-folder 14.292
Frank Elmore ROSS 1930
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 14.293
Frank Elmore ROSS 1931-32
Physical Description: [32]
Box-folder 14.294
Frank Elmore ROSS 1933
Physical Description: [58]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 14.295
Frank Elmore ROSS 1934
Physical Description: [32]
Box-folder 14.296
Frank Elmore ROSS 1935
Physical Description: [38]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 14.297
Frank Elmore ROSS 1936,38-40
Physical Description: [22]
BOX 15: Correspondence: Row - Sha
Box-folder 15.298
Joseph C. ROWELL 1909-16
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{JCR was UCal-Berkeley Librarian}
Box-folder 15.299
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 1911,22-25,39
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 15.300
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN 1911,14-15,24
Physical Description: [16]
Box-folder 15.301
Carl RUNGE 1924
Physical Description: [2]
Box-folder 15.302
Henry Norris RUSSELL 1921,24-28
Physical Description: [27]
Box-folder 15.303
Henry Norris RUSSELL 1929,31-32,34
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs FHS ?? Henrietta Young; c.ltr HNR ? O. Struve}
Box-folder 15.304
Henry Norris RUSSELL 1935-40
Physical Description: [24]
Box-folder 15.305
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (Reese-Richey)
Physical Description: [24]
Scope and Content Note
{Herbert Meredith Reese; F. P. Reilly; M. dos Reis; W. Reiter; Remeis Observatory,
Bamberg; Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Library; Republic Productions, Inc. [John T.
Bourke]; D. J. Rhederg; E. W. Rice; Hugh S. Rice; C. R. Richards; Harold Richards; L. J.
Richardson; R. G. D. Richardson; K. M. Richey}
Box-folder 15.306
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (Ridgway-Robertson)
Scope and Content Note
{John L. Ridgway; A. E. Riemer; T. K. Riggen; Philip S. Riggs; Augusto Righi; William E.
Ritter; G. B. Rizzo; W. F. Roberts Co., Inc. [B. H. Roberts. folded]; H. P. Robertson}
Box-folder 15.307
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (Robinson-Ryves)
Physical Description: [24]
Scope and Content Note
{Clara Robinson; Ruth Stone [Mrs. C. C.] Robinson; Rev. Luis Rodés, S.J.; Guy
Rose; H. Rosenberg; Royal Institution, London; Royal Society of Edinburgh; Royal Society
of London; Walter Russell; Ryerson Physical Laboratory; P. M. Ryves}
Box-folder 15.308
Charles Edward SAINT JOHN 1912-13,16,18,24,26,35-36
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{Some material concerns estate of St. John. Corresp: 1st Trust and Savings Bank of
Pasadena, California; Frances L. St. John; Universum Book Export Co., Inc.}
Box-folder 15.309
R. A. SAMPSON 1917-18
Physical Description: [3]
Box-folder 15.310
Roscoe F. SANFORD 1916
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 15.311
George SARTON 1933
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{Re Sarton's lecture at CalTech}
Box-folder 15.312
Jan SCHILT 1926,34,41
Physical Description: [11]
Box-folder 15.313
Frank SCHLESINGER 1912-13,23-26,31,41
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr FHS ? David White}
Box-folder 15.314
Karl SCHWARZSCHILD 1910-11,13-14
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 15.315
SCIENCE SERVICE 1928-30,34-35,37-38
Physical Description: [27]
Box-folder 15.316
SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES 1935-39
Physical Description: [12]
Box-folder 15.317
SECURITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK 1925-31,33-34
Physical Description: [35]
Box-folder 15.318
Thomas Jefferson Jackson SEE 1921,23,25
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 15.319
M. A. SEED DRY PLATE CO. 1910
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 15.320
Henry O. SEVERANCE 1910,15-17
Physical Description: [11]
Box-folder 15.321
Harlow SHAPLEY 1912-14,16
Physical Description: [29]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 15.322
Harlow SHAPLEY 1921-24
Physical Description: [29]
Box-folder 15.323
Harlow SHAPLEY 1925-28,30
Physical Description: [30]
Box-folder 15.324
Harlow SHAPLEY 1931-35,37-39,44
Physical Description: [39]
Scope and Content Note
{incl tlgrm FHS ? F. F. Bunker; tlgrm WSA ? HS; c.ltr HS ? W. H. Christie; c.ltr HS ?
Fritz Zwicky}
BOX 16: Correspondence: She - S (Miscellaneous to Sch
Box-folder 16.325
M. Wanda SHELDON 1911
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 16.326
Willem de SITTER 1922,32-33
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 16.327
Bancroft W. SITTERLY 1930-31
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 16.328
Vesto Melvin SLIPHER 1919,28,30
Physical Description: [4]
Box-folder 16.329
Lois T. SLOCUM 1928-29
Physical Description: [13]
Box-folder 16.330
Henry SOTHERAN & Co., Booksellers 1909,12-18
Physical Description: [16]
Box-folder 16.331
Harold SPENCER-JONES 1924-25,28-31
Physical Description: [15]
Box-folder 16.332
Joel STEBBINS 1915,17,19-23,25-27,31-34
Physical Description: [30]
Box-folder 16.333
Joel STEBBINS 1936
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr FHS ? A. E. Whitford. folded}
Box-folder 16.334
Joel STEBBINS 1937,39,41-43
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 1 photo}
Box-folder 16.335
Harlan True STETSON 1919-20,24,28
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 16.336
O. M. STEWART 1910
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 16.337
Carl STÖRMER 1916-17
Physical Description: [8]
Box-folder 16.338
F. J. M. STRATTON 1920,28,32
Physical Description: [7]
Box-folder 16.339
Otto STRUVE 1927,32
Physical Description: [20]
Box-folder 16.340
Otto STRUVE 1933
Physical Description: [37]
Box-folder 16.341
Otto STRUVE Jan-June 1934
Physical Description: [30]
Box-folder 16.342
Otto STRUVE July-Dec 1934
Physical Description: [21]
Box-folder 16.343
Otto STRUVE Jan-May 1935
Physical Description: [30]
Box-folder 16.344
Otto STRUVE June-Dec 1935
Physical Description: [28]
Box-folder 16.345
Otto STRUVE Jan-May 1936
Physical Description: [32]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? John Strong; c.ltr OS ? Philip Fox; ltr Watson Davis ? OS; c.ltr OS ? W.
Davis; c.ltr Leigh Page ? OS; ltr R. J. Kennedy ? FHS}
Box-folder 16.346
Otto STRUVE June-Dec 1936
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? L. Page; c.ltr L. Page ? OS}
Box-folder 16.347
Otto STRUVE 1937
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? C. J. Krieger}
Box-folder 16.348
Otto STRUVE 1938
Physical Description: [33]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? J. C. Duncan; c.ltr OS ? Rollin D. Hemens; c.ltr RDH ? OS; c.ltr OS ? P.
W. Merrill; c.ltr OS ? Jahn & Ollier Engraving Co.}
Box-folder 16.349
Otto STRUVE 1939-40,42,44
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? A. E. Whitford; c.ltr R. C. Tolman ? OS; c.ltr OS ? Donald P. Bean;
c.ltr OS ? Mary Alexander; c.memo OS ? R. D. Hemens}
Box-folder 16.350
Glen Levin SWIGGETT 1916
Physical Description: [7]
Scope and Content Note
{re 2nd Pan American Scientific Congress}
Box-folder 16.351
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Salto-Saunders)
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{Salto Observatory; Sanborn, Vail & Co.; San Diego Business and Professional Women's
Club; San Diego County Planning Commission; San Diego Scientific Library; E.
Sanger-Sheppherd; W. W. Sargeant; A. P. Saunders; Frederick A. Saunders; George G.
Saunders}
Box-folder 16.352
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Scanlon-Schwassmann)
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{Leo J. Scanlon; William C. Scarritt; Robert O. Schad; Paul W. Schenck; James A. B.
Scherer; Frank H. Schleer; Carl Schleicher & Schüll; Hans W. Schneider; Dorothy E.
Schoof; J. Schroeter; F. Schuerer; L. Schützenberger; A. Schwassmann}
BOX 17: Correspondence: S (Miscellaneous from Sci) - V
Box-folder 17.353
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Science-Sheffield)
Physical Description: [31]
Scope and Content Note
{Science Press; Science Progress; Scientia; Scientific American; Scientific International
Research Service Corp.; E. M. Scofield; Charles Scribner's Sons; N. P. Scudder; H. von
Seeliger; Seismological Society of America; Selznick International Pictures, Inc. [W. E.
McCune]; Service; Geneva Seybold; James A. Shanahan; W. N. Shaw; Barbara Sheffield}
Box-folder 17.354
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Sigma Xi-Slosson)
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{Sigma Xi; L. Silberstein; Edward E. Simonds; Frederick Simpich; Arthur W. Sinclair; A.
de Sitter; W. T. Skilling; Sarah Louise Slaughenhaup; Paul Slavenas; Frederick Slocum; E.
E. Slosson}
Box-folder 17.355
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Smart-Society)
Physical Description: [30]
Scope and Content Note
{W. M. Smart; Albert M. Smith; Ruth Emily Smith; Sinclair Smith; Smith Premier Typewriter
Co.; Smithsonian Institution; Edwin R. Snyder; Sociedad Astronómica de España y
América; Società Astronomica Italiana; Société Astronomique de
France; Société Francaise de Physique; Society of Writers to H. M. Signet}
Box-folder 17.356
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Sofia-Steward)
Physical Description: [25]
Scope and Content Note
{Sofia, University of; South Carolina, University of; Leland Stanford Junior University
Library; Stanford University Press [Jessie Denton Whittern]; Staveley & Co.; William H.
Steavenson; G. E. Stechert & Co.; Morton Stern; Elizabeth Ellen Sternberg [Mulders]; R.
Sternberk; Steward Observatory}
Box-folder 17.357
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (Stoeckle-Synchronome)
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{Clem Stoeckle; Julius F. Stone; P. W. Stoner; Clarence Strachauer; Samuel Wesley
Stratton; George L. Streeter; Paul Stroobant; Georg Struve; Sunset Press; Sun Yatsen
University Observatory; Swarthmore College Library; Eugene Swarzwald; Synchronome Co.,
Ltd}
Box-folder 17.358
Toshio TAKAMINE 1919,36,39
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 17.359
TOCH BROTHERS 1912
Physical Description: [8]
Scope and Content Note
{re photographic emulsions}
Box-folder 17.360
Robert Julius TRUMPLER 1921-22
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 17.361
Herbert Hall TURNER 1915,17,25
Physical Description: [9]
Scope and Content Note
{+ photo}
Box-folder 17.362
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (Tait-Thorwarth)
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{A. O. Tait; Tashkent Astronomical Observatory; A. Tass; Taylor and Francis; Taylor
Instrument Cos.; Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson, Ltd.; Robert J. Teall; Jan Teders; B. G.
Teubner; A. David Thackeray; O. Thomas; W. Irwin Thompson; --Thorndike; E. R. Thorwarth}
Box-folder 17.363
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (Tipton-Tuttle)
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{E. H. Tipton; F. M. Tisdel; Richard C. Tolman; Treasury Department [C. W. Pendleton];
Triangle Photo Service [M. R. Rikon]; Karl J. Trübner; W. A. Trumbull; R. H. Tucker;
Turkmenistan Observatory; Spencer D. Turner; Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor, Co.}
Box-folder 17.364
UNION DEUTSCHE VERLAGSGESSELSCHAFT 1910-11
Physical Description: [8]
Box-folder 17.365
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1919-20
Physical Description: [29]
Box-folder 17.366
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1921
Physical Description: [27]
Box-folder 17.367
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1922
Physical Description: [31]
Box-folder 17.368
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1923-24
Physical Description: [31]
Box-folder 17.369
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1925-26
Physical Description: [19]
Box-folder 17.370
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1927
Physical Description: [25]
Box-folder 17.371
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1928
Physical Description: [17]
Box-folder 17.372
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1929
Physical Description: [28]
Box-folder 17.373
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1930
Physical Description: [21]
Box-folder 17.374
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1931-33
Physical Description: [29]
Box-folder 17.375
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1934-36
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: A. C. McFarland; Mary Irwin; Mary D. Alexander; M. W. Parkinson; A. W. Bishop}
Box-folder 17.376
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1937-40
Physical Description: [38]
Scope and Content Note
{folded. Corresp: Mary D. Alexander; Rollin D. Hemens; J. E. McCune; D. S. Passmore}
Box-folder 17.377
U -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [33]
Scope and Content Note
{Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences; USSR Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries [E. Tsubina; I. Korinetz; M. Apletin; E. Leite; M. Milikovsky]; US Civil
Service Commission; US Coast and Geodetic Survey; US Customs Service; US Department of
Commerce; US Geological Survey; US Naval Observatory; US Shipping Board; US Weather
Bureau; Universal Film Manufacturing Co. [M. G. Jonas]; Université Libre de
Bruxelles [R. Sedeyn]; University of California at Los Angeles [Frederick C. Leonard];
University of Utah [Junius J. Hayes]; University of Washington Library [W. E. Henry];
Universum Book Export Co., Inc.}
Box-folder 17.378
Alexander N. VYSSOTSKY 1935,40-41
Physical Description: [10]
Box-folder 17.379
V -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{E. Valenta; George Van Biesbroeck; Marguerite Van Biesbroeck; H. C. Van Buskirk; Mabel
Van Deusen; E. A. Varela; Ventura Abstract Co. [Charles Barnard]; A. Verschaffel; Vienna
II Physical Institute [Georg Stetter]; Vitalait Laboratory, Inc. [Earle L. Ovington]; J.
Voute. folded}
BOX 18: Correspondence: W - Z
Box-folder 18.380
Herbert T. WADE 1910
Physical Description: [5]
Box-folder 18.381
R. James WALLACE 1909-10
Physical Description: [6]
Box-folder 18.382
WAVERLY PRESS 1915-18
Physical Description: [50]
Box-folder 18.383
WILLIAM WESLEY & SON 1909-13,21
Physical Description: [29]
Box-folder 18.384
Albert Edward WHITFORD 1935-36,39
Physical Description: [9]
Box-folder 18.385
Edwin Bidwell WILSON 1915
Physical Description: [19]
Box-folder 18.386
Edwin Bidwell WILSON 1916
Physical Description: [30]
Box-folder 18.387
Edwin Bidwell WILSON 1917-18
Physical Description: [26]
Box-folder 18.388
Edwin Bidwell WILSON 1919-21
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr. FHS ? Waverly Press; ltr h. Shapley ? EBW}
Box-folder 18.389
Edwin Bidwell WILSON 1922-25
Physical Description: [25]
Box-folder 18.390
Edwin Bidwell WILSON 1926-27,29,32-36
Physical Description: [32]
Box-folder 18.391
John L. WIRT 1914-16,22,26
Physical Description: [17]
Scope and Content Note
{incl tlgrm GEH ? JLW; c.2 ltrs H. Kayser ? GEH; c.2 ltrs JLW ? Agence de Libraire et de
Publications; c.ltr A.L.P. ? JLW}
Box-folder 18.392
Max F. J. C. WOLF 1911,14,30-32
Physical Description: [8]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box-folder 18.393
Robert Simpson WOODWARD 1910-11,13-16,20
Physical Description: [22]
Box-folder 18.394
WRATTEN AND WAINWRIGHT, LTD. 1910,12
Physical Description: [6]
Scope and Content Note
{Correp: C. E. K. Mees}
Box-folder 18.395
Frederick Eugene WRIGHT 1931,34-38
Physical Description: [29]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr FEW ? Edison Hoge; c.2 ltrs E.Hoge ? FEW}
Box-folder 18.396
William Hammond WRIGHT 1916,32,35-38
Physical Description: [16]
Box-folder 18.397
Charles Clayton WYLIE 1931,35
Physical Description: [7]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 1 ltr about James Van Allen}
Box-folder 18.398
Arthur Bambridge WYSE 1937
Physical Description: [17]
Box-folder 18.399
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (Wadsworth-Washington)
Physical Description: [29]
Scope and Content Note
{Edna Wadsworth; Heint Walentowsky; Gilbert T. Walker [folded]; O. R. Walkey; War
Department [T. L. Coles; F. W. Coe]; J. G. Ward; Warner & Swasey Co.; Wasco County
Library [Nina M. Moran]; Washburn College [Helen Whitaker]; Washburn Observatory [George
C. Comstock]; Washington Academy of Sciences [Robert B. Sosman]; Washington, State
College of [W. W. Foote]}
Box-folder 18.400
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (Watson-Wilder)
Physical Description: [33]
Scope and Content Note
{Earnest Charles Watson; W. Marshall Watts; H. A. Weersma; Mrs. F. E. Weyerhauser; Mel
Wharton; John Wheldon & Co.; Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd; Fred L. Whipple; James T. White &
Co.; Gordon Whitnall; J. H. Whitney; Walter T. Whitney; "Who's Who" [A. N. Marquis;
Europa Publications, Ltd.]; Gustave P. Wiksell; Marian Wilder}
Box-folder 18.401
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (Wildt-Williams)
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{Rupert Wildt; Edmund Wilkes, Jr. [folded]; E. G. Williams; Henry Smith Williams;
Kathleen Williams; W. Ewart Williams}
Box-folder 18.402
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (Willis-Worthington)
Physical Description: [44]
Scope and Content Note
{C. Addison Willis; H. C. Willis; Carl Wilson; Herbert C. Wilson; H. W. Wilson Co.;
Latimer J. Wilson; Olin C. Wilson; Ralph E. Wilson; Clyde Wolfe; Coral Wolfe; Harry O.
Wood; R. W. Wood; R. v. d. R. Woolley; J. H. Worthington}
Box-folder 18.403
X, Y, Z -- MISCELLANEOUS
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{X Club< [Stoughton Cooley]; Yale University Observatory; Yavapai County Chamber of
Commerce; Robert M. Yerkes; Yerkes Observatory; Carl Zeiss Optical Works; Ernst Zinner;
W. Zonn; Richard Seth Zug; Fritz Zwicky}
Manuscripts, notes, and notebooks
BOX 19: Manuscripts: A - Ma
Box-folder 19.404
ABSORPTION CONSTANT OF WIRE GAUZE SCREEN. c. 1910
Box-folder 19.405
DISTANCE CORRECTION AND FOCUS. c. 1911
Box-folder 19.406
EFFECTIVE WAVE LENGTHS OF STANDARD MAGNITUDES; COLOR TEMPERATURE AND SPECTRAL TYPE -- Notes & calculations. c. 1943
Box-folder 19.407
THE FORM OF THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION. Dec, 1923
Box-folder 19.408
HERSCHEL GAUGES -- Notes. Undated
Scope and Content Note
{Notes & comparisons of William and Sir John Herschel's star counts}
Box-folder 19.409
MAGNITUDES AND COLORS OF STARS NORTH OF +80?. 1941
Box-folder 19.410
MAGNITUDES OF SOUTHERN COMPARISON STARS FOR EROS. Undated
Scope and Content Note
{Includes Notes on "Comparisons with Ross's Magnitudes," & "Comparison of Mount Wilson Pv
with Harvard Visual Magnitudes"}
BOX 20: Manuscripts: Me - R
Box-folder 20.411
MEAN PARALLAXES AND THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION. 1931
Box-folder 20.412
MEAN PARALLAXES OF STARS OF SMALL PROPER MOTION. 1924
Box-folder 20.413
MISCELLANEOUS COMPARISONS OF SCALES. Undated
Box-folder 20.414
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Undated
Scope and Content Note
{includes notes on "Distribution of Stars in Quadrants," "Microscopes for New Measuring
Machines," "Elliptical Polarization of Tower Mirrors," "Orientation of General Magnetic
Field Plates," "Photographic Effects in Fath's Observations," & "Precision of Calcium
Flocculi Measures"}
Box-folder 20.415
MOUNT WILSON CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MAGNITUDES IN SELECTED AREAS 1-139 -- Early version. c. 1928
Box-folder 20.416
MOUNT WILSON CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MAGNITUDES IN SELECTED AREAS 1-139 -- Final version. 1928.
Box-folder 20.417
NEBULAE -- Notes. c. 1934.
Scope and Content Note
{Comparisons of measures by various Mt. Wilson astronomers on internal motions in spiral
nebulae}
Box-folder 20.418
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. Undated
Box-folder 20.419
REDUCTION OF THE HARVARD-GRONINGEN DURCHMUSTERUNG TO THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF MAGNITUDE AND COLOR. 1924
Scope and Content Note
{includes notes on "Color Equation Metcalf Telescope --Comparison of Mt. Wilson Zero
Point with that of Groningen-Harvard Durchmusterung (HA101)"}
Box-folder 20.420
REGRESSION LINES AND THE FUNCTIONAL RELATION -- Notes. c. 1944
Box-folder 20.421
RELATION BETWEEN COLOR INDEX AND EFFECTIVE WAVE LENGTH FROM THE OBSERVATIONS OF HERTZSPRUNG AND VANDERLINDEN -- Notes. c. 1944
BOX 21: Manuscripts: S - Z; Notebooks; Photographs
Box-folder 21.422
SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGNITUDE SCALES. 1924
Scope and Content Note
{includes notes on "Color Equation and Scale Difference, Harvard Visual"}
Box-folder 21.423
SOME STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE GALACTIC SYSTEM. 1927
Box-folder 21.424
THE SUN'S MOTION AND THE MEAN PARALLAXES OF STARS OF DIFFERENT APPARENT MAGNITUDES. 1924
Box-folder 21.425
THE SURFACE BRIGHTNESS OF THE GALACTIC SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM A DISTANT EXTERNAL POINT AND A COMPARISON WITH SPIRAL NEBULAE --
Notes & calculations. c. 1920
Box-folder 21.426
SYSTEMATIC CORRECTIONS TO MAGNITUDES AND AN EXTENSION OF THE POLAR SEQUENCE -- Notes. c. 1932
Box-folder 21.427
SYSTEMATIC DEVIATIONS FROM THE MEAN STELLAR DISTRIBUTION. 1926
Scope and Content Note
{includes notes on "Stellar Distributions from Harvard-Groningen Durchmusterung"}
NOTEBOOK: "Regions Suggested for Photographic Observations at 60 Inch Reflector," [by J. C. Kapteyn]
NOTEBOOK: "Photometric Observations -- Laboratory"
NOTEBOOK: "Photographic Investigations"
Box-folder 21.428
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content Note
{8 photos of celestial objects & Mt. Wilson}
