Frederick Hanley Seares Papers: Finding
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Frederick Hanley Seares Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1909-1945
Bulk dates: 1909-1940
Collection Number: mssSeares papers
Creator:
Seares, Frederick Hanley, 1873-1964.
Extent:
Approximately 10,000 items in 21 boxes
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Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Frederick Hanley Seares (1873-1964), a staff astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory
known for his photometric studies and his editorial work.
Language: English.
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Provenance
Deposit, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, 1988.
Approximately fifty additional separate collections form the Mount Wilson Papers of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington and are available for research in the Huntington Library.
Processing/Project Information
Cataloging of the papers was completed in 1989 prior to their transfer to the Huntington.
Biographical Note
Frederick Hanley Seares (1873-1964), 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
The collection consists of the correspondence files and manuscripts, notes, and notebooks of American astronomer Frederick
Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the
remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's
research activities.
Correspondents represented in the collection include: Walter S. Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, Edward Emerson Barnard, William
Wallace Campbell, Gustav Fock, Edwin Brant Frost, Henry Gordon Gale, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Walter M. Gilbert, George
Ellery Hale, Ejnar Hertzprung, Edwin Powell Hubble, J.C. Kapteyn, Armin Otto Leuschner, C.E. Kenneth Mees, John C. Merriam,
Charlotte Emma Moore, John Adelbert Parkhurst, Francis Gladheim Pease, Edward C. Pickering, P.J. van Rhijn, Frank E. Ross,
Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Otto Struve, and Edwin Bidwell Wilson.
Corporate and organizational organizations represented in the collection include: American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Carnegie Institution of Washington, William H. Guild & Company, International
Astronomical Union, International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Mount Wilson Observatory and the University of
Chicago Press.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following series:
1. Correspondence, 1909-1945. (Boxes 1-18)
This series contains both incoming and carbons of outgoing correspondence. They are
arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent.
2. Manuscripts, notes, and notebooks. (Boxes 19-21)
The manuscripts are arranged in alphabetical order by the first keyword in the title.
Seares's papers have been arranged, with only minor changes, according to the manner in
which they had been found in the attic of Mt. Wilson.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Seares, Frederick Hanley, 1873-1964 -- Archives.
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Mount Wilson Observatory -- History -- Sources.
Astronomers -- California, Southern -- Archives.
Astronomers -- Correspondence.
Astronomical photometry.
Astronomy -- Research.
Forms/Genres
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century.
Manuscripts -- 20th century.
Notebooks -- 20th century.
Notes -- 20th century.
Alternate Authors
Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956.
Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951.
Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1857-1923.
Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938.
Fock, Gustav, 1893-1974.
Frost, Edwin Brant, 1866-1935.
Gale, Henry Gordon, 1874-1942.
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979.
Gilbert, Walter M.
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938.
Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967.
Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953.
Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
Leuschner, Armin Otto, 1868-1953.
Mees, C. E. Kenneth (Charles Edward Kenneth), 1882-1960.
Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945.
Moore, Charlotte Emma, 1898-1990.
Parkhurst, John Adelbert, 1861-1925.
Pease, F. G. (Francis Gladheim), 1881-
Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919.
Rhijn, P. J. van (Pieter Johannes), 1886-
Ross, Frank E. (Frank Elmore), 1874-1960.
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957.
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Stebbins, Joel, 1878-1966.
Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964.
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
William H. Guild & Company.
International Astronomical Union.
International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research.
University of Chicago. Press.
Note
The following descriptions list the folder number, folder title, years of material in the
folder (when relevant), and the number of items in the folder (in brackets). If a further
description of the folder contents is necessary, this will follow on the next line. If
the word "folded" appears in the description, this indicates the presence of oversize
materials in a folded condition.
- c.ltr: copy of a
letter
- EPH: Edwin Powell Hubble
- FHS: Frederick H.
Seares
- GEH:George Ellery Hale
- incl.: includes
- ltr.: letter
- tlgrm: telegram
- WSA: Walter Sydney Adams
Folder 1
Charles Greeley ABBOT
1915, 1921, 1924, 1929-30, 1935
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{includes ltr FHS ? Miss Frances L. St. John}
Folder 2
Giorgio ABETTI
1911, 1929-30, 1938
Physical Description: [11]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr GA ? WSA}
Folder 3
Sir William de Wiveleslie ABNEY
1912-13
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 4
ABSTRACTS
1921-22
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{material dealing with preparation of abstracts for the Astrophysical Journal}
Folder 5
Leason Heberling ADAMS
1934-36
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 6
Walter Sydney ADAMS
1926-27, 1932-33, 1935-36, 1938
Physical Description: [23]
Folder 7
Robert Grant AITKEN
1910-13, 1916
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr Julius T. Stone -> D. S. Richardson}
Folder 8
Robert Grant AITKEN
1917-23
Physical Description: [33]
Folder 9
Robert Grant AITKEN
1928-32, 1935, 1937-39
Physical Description: [39]
Folder 10
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
1936-38, 1940
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}
Folder 11
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.
1912
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 12
Joseph Sweetman AMES
1912, 1915-16
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 13
Clement Walker ANDREWS
1910, 1913-14, 1916, 1919
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs of Charles J. Barr; Félix de Roy}
Folder 14
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
1913, 1916-18
Scope and Content Note
{D. S. Richardson}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 17
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFI
C 1930, 1932
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{C.H.Adams; Max Wolf}
Folder 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}
Folder 19
Walter BAADE
1930, 1932, 1938, 1942
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 20
Horace Welcome BABCOCK
1938
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 21
Jules BAILLAUD
1937-38
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 22
Robert Horace BAKER
1912-14, 1919
Physical Description: [16]
Folder 23
Wilder Dwight BANCROFT
1911, 1913
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 24
Edward Emerson BARNARD
1910, 1912-14, 1917-18, 1920, 1922
Physical Description: [43]
Folder 25
William BARNUM
1920
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 26
Storrs Barrows BARRETT
1910
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 27
Johann Ambrosius BARTH
1911
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 28
Louis Agricola BAUER
1916, 1919
Physical Description: [13]
Folder 29
BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO.
1909
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 30
James G. BIDDLE
1910
Physical Description: [3]
Box 2
Correspondence: Bil - Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Publications (1934)
Folder 31
J. van der BILT
1913-16, 1918-19, 1926
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 1 photo}
Folder 32
BINNER-WELLS CO.
1909-11
Physical Description: [14]
Folder 33
Nicholas Theodore BOBROVNIKOFF
1928-29, 1938
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 34
Bart Jan BOK
1932-34, 1937, 1940
Physical Description: [13]
Folder 35
Benjamin BOSS
1915, 1917, 1919
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 36
Lewis BOSS
1910-11
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 37
Eda C. BOWMAN
1912
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 38
Frank Parkhurst BRACKETT
1914, 1917-18
Physical Description: [8]
Folder 39
JOHN A. BRASHEAR CO., LTD.
1911
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 40
BROCK & FEAGANS JEWELERS
1909, 1925-26
Physical Description: [13]
Scope and Content Note
{25-26 under name Brock & Co. Jewelers}
Folder 41
BRYAN-BRANDENBURG CO.
1917, 1930-35, 1937-38
Physical Description: [21]
Folder 42
Keivin BURNS
1912
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 43
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO.
1910-11, 1917
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 44
Vannevar BUSH
1939-40
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 48
CALENDAR REFORM
1936
Physical Description: [6]
Scope and Content Note
[A. E. Kennelly; World Calendar Association, Inc.; Heber D. Curtis]
Folder 49
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1910-11
Physical Description: [21]
Folder 50
William Wallace CAMPBELL
1909-13
Physical Description: [41]
Folder 51
William Wallace CAMPBELL
1914-18, 1920, 1922-23, 1927, 1930, 1935-38
Physical Description: [63]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 52
Annie Jump CANNON
1912
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 53
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON -- DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS (CIW-DOP)
1925-26, 1928-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}
Folder 54
CIW-DOP
July 1929-June 1930
Physical Description: [63]
Folder 55
CIW-DOP
July 1930-31
Physical Description: [40]
Folder 56
CIW-DOP
1932
Physical Description: [58]
Folder 57
CIW-DOP
1933-34
Physical Description: [73]
Box 3
Correspondence: Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Publications (1935) - CH
Folder 58
CIW-DOP
1935
Physical Description: [47]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 61
CIW-DOP
Jan-June 1937
Physical Description: [66]
Folder 62
CIW-DOP
July-Dec 1937
Physical Description: [45]
Folder 63
CIW-DOP
Jan-June 1938
Physical Description: [37]
Folder 64
CIW-DOP
July-Dec 1938
Physical Description: [78]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 65
CIW-DOP
1939-40, 1942-45
Physical Description: [58]
Folder 66
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON -- PRESS RELEASES
1936-37
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: F. F. Bunker; Walter M. Gilbert}
Folder 67
Edwin Francis CARPENTER
1931, 1934-35, 1937
Physical Description: [15]
Folder 68
James McKeen CATTELL
1910-11, 1913, 1919, 1932, 1935-36, 1938
Physical Description: [31]
Scope and Content Note
{incl copy report "International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Fourth Conference," by Harold Delos Babcock}
Folder 69
CENTURY DICTIONARY
1910-11, 1913
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 70
C. V. L. CHARLIER
1911-14, 1917, 1928
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.
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 74
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: J-K
Physical Description: [16]
Scope and Content Note
{Louise Freeland Jenkins [+ photo]; Elizabeth T. Jones; Lois M. Keener; Harriet Knudsen}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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]}
Folder 79
COMPUTERS' APPLICATIONS: T-V
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{Ardis E. Thomas; Lucile Upson; Elva Utzinger; Mabel Van Deusen}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 83
R. T. CRAWFORD
1910, 1914, 1916
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 84
R. H. CURTISS
1912
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 88
Felix L. DAMES, Bookseller
1911
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 89
F. W. DYSON
1913-16, 1921-22
Physical Description: [8]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 92
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
1916, 1920, 1925, 1927-29, 1931, 1938
Physical Description: [20]
Folder 93
Arthur Stanley EDDINGTON
1920, 1925
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 94
Albert EINSTEIN
1926
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 95
ESCHENBACH PRINTING COMPANY
1920-22, 1924-25
Physical Description: [25]
Scope and Content Note
{re printing of Communications to the NAS}
Folder 96
EXHIBIT HALL -- DEDICATION
1937
Physical Description: [101]
Scope and Content Note
{includes folded newspaper clippings; letters of acceptance/regrets}
Folder 97
EXHIBITS
1938
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{folded. layouts & descriptions of exhibits on supernovae; sunspots, & Jupiter's moons}
Folder 98
EXHIBITS, ETC.
Physical Description: [24]
Scope and Content Note
{Incl. CIW-MWO exhibit, Dec. 1931}
Folder 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}
Folder 100
Charles FABRY
1920, 1938
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 101
E. A. FATH
1912-14, 1925, 1928
Physical Description: [18]
Scope and Content Note
{Incl typed ms. "A Study of Nebulae"}
Folder 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}
Folder 103
Gustav FOCK, Bookdealer
1909-12
Physical Description: [34]
Folder 104
Gustav FOCK, Bookdealer
1913-14, 1924
Physical Description: [29]
Folder 105
Frederick E. FOWLE
1931
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 106
Philip FOX
1912-14, 1916-17, 1929-30, 1940
Physical Description: [36]
Folder 107
Florence FREEMAN
1906, 1911
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 108
Edwin Brant FROST
1919-21
Physical Description: [25]
Folder 109
Edwin Brant FROST
1922-23, 1925
Physical Description: [27]
Folder 110
Edwin Brant FROST
1926-27
Physical Description: [44]
Folder 111
Edwin Brant FROST
1928-29
Physical Description: [34]
Folder 112
Edwin Brant FROST
1930
Physical Description: [23]
Folder 113
Edwin Brant FROST
1931-32
Physical Description: [32]
Folder 114
Caroline E. FURNESS
1910, 1912, 1914
Physical Description: [11]
Scope and Content Note
{re potential computers}
Folder 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}
Folder 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)
Folder 117
WILLIAM GAERTNER & COMPANY
1910-11
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{+photo}
Folder 118
Henry Gordon GALE
1910-12
Physical Description: [38]
Folder 119
Henry Gordon GALE
1913
Physical Description: [56]
Folder 120
Henry Gordon GALE
1914
Physical Description: [47]
Folder 121
Henry Gordon GALE
1915-16, 1920
Physical Description: [32]
Folder 122
Henry Gordon GALE
1921-25, 1931, 1935
Physical Description: [63]
Folder 123
Andreas GALLE
1910-12
Physical Description: [30]
Scope and Content Note
{re purchase of J. Galle's Library}
Folder 124
Boris P. GERASIMOVI
C 1928-30, 1932-33
Physical Description: [8]
Folder 125
James T. GEROULD
1909-10, 1913, 1925
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 126
Walter M. GILBERT
1910-June 1913
Physical Description: [31]
Folder 127
Walter M. GILBERT
July 1913-June 1914
Physical Description: [38]
Folder 128
Walter M. GILBERT
July 1914-1915
Physical Description: [37]
Folder 129
Walter M. GILBERT
1916
Physical Description: [38]
Folder 130
Walter M. GILBERT
1917
Physical Description: [28]
Folder 131
Walter M. GILBERT
1918
Physical Description: [19]
Folder 132
Walter M. GILBERT
Jan-June 1919
Physical Description: [29]
Folder 133
Walter M. GILBERT
July-Dec 1919
Physical Description: [19]
Folder 134
Walter M. GILBERT
1920
Physical Description: [34]
Box 7
Correspondence: Gilbert (1921)- Hai
Folder 135
Walter M. GILBERT
1921
Physical Description: [46]
Folder 136
Walter M. GILBERT
1922
Physical Description: [47]
Folder 137
Walter M. GILBERT
1923
Physical Description: [28]
Folder 138
Walter M. GILBERT
1924
Physical Description: [57]
Folder 139
Walter M. GILBERT
1925
Physical Description: [18]
Folder 140
Walter M. GILBERT
1926
Physical Description: [20]
Folder 141
Walter M. GILBERT
1927-28
Physical Description: [34]
Folder 142
Walter M. GILBERT
1929-30
Physical Description: [38]
Folder 143
Walter M. GILBERT
1931-33
Physical Description: [24]
Folder 144
Walter M. GILBERT
1934-40, 45
Physical Description: [65]
Folder 145
Sir David GILL
1909-10
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 146
George W. GRAY
1936-37
Physical Description: [21]
Folder 147
Jesse Leonard GREENSTEIN
1935, 1938
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 148
Clementina deForest GRIFFIN
1910-11, 1918
Physical Description: [15]
Folder 149
GRIMES-STASSFORTH STATIONERY COMPANY
1910-11, 1918
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 150
WILLIAM H. GUILD & COMPANY
1909-11
Physical Description: [25]
Folder 151
WILLIAM H. GUILD & COMPANY
1912-13
Physical Description: [37]
Folder 152
WILLIAM H. GUILD & COMPANY
1914-17, 1920
Physical Description: [47]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 155
Rev. J. G. HAGEN, S.J.
1912, 1919, 1922
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 156
Jessica May HAINES
1909-10, 1913
Physical Description: [18]
Box 8
Correspondence: Hal - IAU (July 1919)
Folder 157
George Ellery HALE
1910, 1912-16
Physical Description: [40]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 158
George Ellery HALE
1917-21
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr W. J. Hanna ? FHS}
Folder 159
George Ellery HALE
1922, 1925-26, 1928, 1931-32, 1934-36
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{incl notes on "Cost Estimate for Expedition to Southern Hemisphere," c. June, 1922.
folded}
Folder 160
HAMBURG OBSERVATORY
1910, 1935, 1937-38
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 161
E. S. HAYNES
1910, 1912, 1914-15, 1917, 1919-23, 1925, 1928
Physical Description: [24]
Folder 162
W. HEFFER & SONS, LTD.
1912-13, 1915-17
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 163
A. HERMANN ET FILS Libraire Scientifique
1910-11, 1913-14
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 164
Ejnar HERTZSPRUNG
1911-12, 1914-15, 1917, 1919-23, 1925, 1928
Physical Description: [38]
Folder 165
Helen Elizabeth HIGH
1912, 1915
Physical Description: [14]
Folder 166
Bernard HOFFMANN
1916, 1923, 1927
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 167
Edward Singleton HOLDEN
1912
Physical Description: [8]
Folder 168
Sture HOLM
1933-34
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 169
Janet HOWELL
1916-17
Physical Description: [13]
Folder 170
Edwin Powell HUBBLE
1924, 1926
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 171
Leon HUFNAGEL
1931-32
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 175
ILFORD, LTD.
1912-13
Physical Description: [9]
Scope and Content Note
{F. F. Renwick; re photographic emulsions}
Folder 176
INSURANCE -- CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 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}
Folder 178
IAU (Meeting in Brussels,
July 1919
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Box 9
Correspondence: IAU (September 1919-1937)
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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
The following six folders, Folders 189-194, 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.
Folder 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.}
Folder 187
INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL TABLES
1923-25, 1931
Physical Description: [35]
Folder 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.}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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]}
Folder 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]}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 196
James H. JEANS
1927
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 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}
Folder 198
Waldemar KAEMPFFERT
1929, 1936-38
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{See also New York Times}
Folder 199
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN
1909-10
Physical Description: [17]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 2 photos}
Folder 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
Folder 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}
Folder 202
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN
1917-18
Physical Description: [22]
Folder 203
Jacobus Cornelius KAPTEYN
1919-22
Physical Description: [27]
Folder 204
Arthur S. KING
1915, 17-18
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 205
Edward S. KING
1913, 1916
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 206
William H. KNIGHT
1911-12, 1916
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 207
Peter Paul KOCH
1913-14
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 208
Arnold KOHLSCHÜTTER
1925
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 209
E. KÖNIG
1914
Physical Description: [1]
Scope and Content Note
{re dyes for photographic plates}
Folder 210
Karl KOSTERSITZ
1913-17, 1923-24, 1926, 1928-30, 1934
Physical Description: [25]
Folder 211
E. A. KREIKEN
1921, 1930-31, 1936-37
Physical Description: [14]
Folder 212
Gerard Peter KUIPER
1938, 1941
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 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]}
Folder 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}
Folder 215
H. E. LAU
1917
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 216
Henrietta S. LEAVITT
1914-15
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 217
Oliver J. LEE
1925, 1933, 1935
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 218
Frederick C. LEONARD
1923, 1927, 1932-33, 1936
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 219
Armin Otto LEUSCHNER
1910-13, 1916
Physical Description: [18]
Folder 220
Armin Otto LEUSCHNER
1928, 1930, 1935-36, 1938-39
Physical Description: [27]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs Nora Moylan ?? FHS}
Folder 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}
Folder 222
LIBRARY BUREAU
1909-11
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 223
LIFE Magazine
1937-38, 1940
Physical Description: [17]
Folder 224
Bertil LINDBLAD
1934-38
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 225
William J. S. LOCKYER
1909-10
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 226
Knut LUNDMARK
1932-34
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 229
Adriaan van MAANEN
1910, 1912
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{incl memo GEH ? AvM; memo AvM ? E. Wilhoit; tlgrm FHS ? GEH}
Folder 230
MACK PRINTING CO.
1926-29, 1933
Physical Description: [9]
Scope and Content Note
{Corresp: Cyrus S. Fleck}
Folder 231
Robert Raynolds McMATH
1935, 1937-39
Physical Description: [32]
Folder 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}
Folder 233
MARSHALL-JACKSON CO.
1911
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 234
MASSON & CIE., Editeurs
1912-13
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 235
Nicholas Ulrich MAYALL
1929, 1932
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 236
MAYER & MüLLER
1911-14
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 237
Charles Edward Kenneth MEES
1914-16, 1922, 1930, 1932, 1935
Physical Description: [44]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 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}
Folder 239
John Campbell MERRIAM
1921-23, 1925, 1928
Physical Description: [21]
Scope and Content Note
{incl tlgrms J. L. Wirt ?? D. S. Mulvin}
Folder 240
John Campbell MERRIAM
1931-33, 1935
Physical Description: [26]
Folder 241
John Campbell MERRIAM
1936
Physical Description: [16]
Folder 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.}
Folder 243
Albert Abraham MICHELSON
1928-29, 1935
Physical Description: [11]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs FHS ?? Alhambra Foundry Co., Ltd.}
Folder 244
A. MIETHE
1912
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 245
MILLIONAIRE CALCULATING MACHINE
1910-11, 1917, 1921-23, 1932
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}
Folder 246
Henri MINEUR
1930-31, 1933
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 247
Samuel Alfred MITCHELL
1916, 1922-23, 1937, 1939-40
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.brief by Raymond M. Hughes on the Administration of the U. S. Naval Observatory
[1939]}
Folder 248
George Spencer MONK
1916-17
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr Ardis T. [Mrs. G. S.] Monk}
Folder 249
Charlotte Emma MOORE [Sitterly]
1929-34, 1937-39
Physical Description: [45]
Folder 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.}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 253
Jason John NASSAU
1935, 1937
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 254
NATURE
1925-27, 1932
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 255
NAVAL OBSERVATORY, U.S.
1909-12, 1916
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 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}
Folder 257
NEW YORK TIMES
1930, 1935, 1938
Physical Description: [12]
Scope and Content Note
{--Markel; Waldemar Kaempffert; C. M. Graves; V. W. Talley; Edwin L. James}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 261
Jan Hendrik OORT
1936-37, 1939
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 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}
Folder 263
Johann PALISA
1910, 1912
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 264
John Adelbert PARKHURST
1910-11, 1913-15, 1921, 1923
Physical Description: [38]
Folder 265
Cecilia Helena PAYNE (-GAPOSCHKIN)
1931, 1933, 1935, 1938
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 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}
Folder 267
Edison PETTIT
1927, 1934
Physical Description: [5]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 268
Edward Charles PICKERING
1909-June 1910
Physical Description: [24]
Scope and Content Note
{incl material by Henrietta S. Leavitt}
Folder 269
Edward Charles PICKERING
July-Dec 1910
Physical Description: [23]
Scope and Content Note
{+ 9 photos; Incl material by H. S. Leavitt}
Folder 270
Edward Charles PICKERING
1911
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{incl material by Henrietta S. Leavitt}
Folder 271
Edward Charles PICKERING
1912-13
Physical Description: [30]
Folder 272
Edward Charles PICKERING
1914-17
Physical Description: [25]
Scope and Content Note
{Incl material by H. S. Leavitt}
Folder 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}
Folder 274
John Stanley PLASKETT
1922, 1932, 1935-36
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 275
H. C. PLUMMER
1917
Physical Description: [10]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 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}
Folder 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]}
Folder 278
Albert William RECHT
1932, 1934
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 279
L. A. REDMAN
1924-25, 1928-29
Physical Description: [49]
Scope and Content Note
{incl A. W. Redman. LAR was debunker of Einstein}
Folder 280
Georg REIMER, Verlagsbuchhandlung
1910, 1912, 1914-15
Physical Description: [17]
Folder 281
Martha RENNER
1910-11
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 282
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN
1912-16
Physical Description: [31]
Folder 283
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN
1917-20
Physical Description: [36]
Folder 284
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN
1921-23
Physical Description: [35]
Folder 285
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN
1924-26
Physical Description: [24]
Folder 286
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN
1927-30
Physical Description: [28]
Folder 287
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN
1931-35, 1938
Physical Description: [15]
Scope and Content Note
{1 ltr torn in 4 pieces}
Folder 288
RILEY-MOORE ENGRAVING CO.
1911-14
Physical Description: [28]
Folder 289
RILEY-MOORE ENGRAVING CO.
1915-16
Physical Description: [26]
Folder 290
Franklin Evans ROACH
1936, 1938
Physical Description: [11]
Folder 291
Frank Elmore ROSS
1926, 1928-29
Physical Description: [21]
Folder 292
Frank Elmore ROSS
1930
Physical Description: [28]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 293
Frank Elmore ROSS
1931-32
Physical Description: [32]
Folder 294
Frank Elmore ROSS
1933
Physical Description: [58]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 295
Frank Elmore ROSS
1934
Physical Description: [32]
Folder 296
Frank Elmore ROSS
1935
Physical Description: [38]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 297
Frank Elmore ROSS
1936, 1938-40
Physical Description: [22]
Box 15
Correspondence: Row - Sha
Folder 298
Joseph C. ROWELL
1909-16
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{JCR was UCal-Berkeley Librarian}
Folder 299
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
1911, 1922-25, 1939
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 300
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN
1911, 1914-15, 1924
Physical Description: [16]
Folder 301
Carl RUNGE
1924
Physical Description: [2]
Folder 302
Henry Norris RUSSELL
1921, 1924-28
Physical Description: [27]
Folder 303
Henry Norris RUSSELL
1929, 1931-32, 1934
Physical Description: [37]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltrs FHS ?? Henrietta Young; c.ltr HNR ? O. Struve}
Folder 304
Henry Norris RUSSELL
1935-40
Physical Description: [24]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 308
Charles Edward SAINT JOHN
1912-13, 1916, 1918, 1924, 1926, 1935-36
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.}
Folder 309
R. A. SAMPSON
1917-18
Physical Description: [3]
Folder 310
Roscoe F. SANFORD
1916
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 311
George SARTON
1933
Physical Description: [22]
Scope and Content Note
{Re Sarton's lecture at CalTech}
Folder 312
Jan SCHILT
1926, 1934, 1941
Physical Description: [11]
Folder 313
Frank SCHLESINGER
1912-13, 1923-26, 1931, 1941
Physical Description: [20]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr FHS ? David White}
Folder 314
Karl SCHWARZSCHILD
1910-11, 1913-14
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 315
SCIENCE SERVICE
1928-30, 1934-35, 1937-38
Physical Description: [27]
Folder 316
SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES
1935-39
Physical Description: [12]
Folder 317
SECURITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK
1925-31, 1933-34
Physical Description: [35]
Folder 318
Thomas Jefferson Jackson SEE
1921, 1923, 1925
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 319
M. A. SEED DRY PLATE CO.
1910
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 320
Henry O. SEVERANCE
1910, 1915-17
Physical Description: [11]
Folder 321
Harlow SHAPLEY
1912-14, 1916
Physical Description: [29]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 322
Harlow SHAPLEY
1921-24
Physical Description: [29]
Folder 323
Harlow SHAPLEY
1925-28, 1930
Physical Description: [30]
Folder 324
Harlow SHAPLEY
1931-35, 1937-39, 1944
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
Folder 325
M. Wanda SHELDON
1911
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 326
Willem de SITTER
1922, 1932-33
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 327
Bancroft W. SITTERLY
1930-31
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 328
Vesto Melvin SLIPHER
1919, 1928, 1930
Physical Description: [4]
Folder 329
Lois T. SLOCUM
1928-29
Physical Description: [13]
Folder 330
Henry SOTHERAN & Co., Booksellers
1909, 1912-18
Physical Description: [16]
Folder 331
Harold SPENCER-JONES
1924-25, 1928-31
Physical Description: [15]
Folder 332
Joel STEBBINS
1915, 1917, 1919-23, 1925-27, 1931-34
Physical Description: [30]
Folder 333
Joel STEBBINS
1936
Physical Description: [14]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr FHS ? A. E. Whitford. folded}
Folder 334
Joel STEBBINS
1937, 1939, 1941-43
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 1 photo}
Folder 335
Harlan True STETSON
1919-20, 1924, 1928
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 336
O. M. STEWART
1910
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 337
Carl STÖRMER
1916-17
Physical Description: [8]
Folder 338
F. J. M. STRATTON
1920, 1928, 1932
Physical Description: [7]
Folder 339
Otto STRUVE
1927, 1932
Physical Description: [20]
Folder 340
Otto STRUVE
1933
Physical Description: [37]
Folder 341
Otto STRUVE
Jan-June 1934
Physical Description: [30]
Folder 342
Otto STRUVE
July-Dec 1934
Physical Description: [21]
Folder 343
Otto STRUVE
Jan-May 1935
Physical Description: [30]
Folder 344
Otto STRUVE
June-Dec 1935
Physical Description: [28]
Folder 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}
Folder 346
Otto STRUVE
June-Dec 1936
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? L. Page; c.ltr L. Page ? OS}
Folder 347
Otto STRUVE
1937
Physical Description: [34]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr OS ? C. J. Krieger}
Folder 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.}
Folder 349
Otto STRUVE
1939-40, 1942, 1944
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}
Folder 350
Glen Levin SWIGGETT
1916
Physical Description: [7]
Scope and Content Note
{re 2nd Pan American Scientific Congress}
Folder 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}
Folder 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
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 358
Toshio TAKAMINE
1919, 1936, 1939
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 359
TOCH BROTHERS
1912
Physical Description: [8]
Scope and Content Note
{re photographic emulsions}
Folder 360
Robert Julius TRUMPLER
1921-22
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 361
Herbert Hall TURNER
1915, 1917, 1925
Physical Description: [9]
Scope and Content Note
{+ photo}
Folder 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}
Folder 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.}
Folder 364
UNION DEUTSCHE VERLAGSGESSELSCHAFT
1910-11
Physical Description: [8]
Folder 365
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1919-20
Physical Description: [29]
Folder 366
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1921
Physical Description: [27]
Folder 367
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1922
Physical Description: [31]
Folder 368
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1923-24
Physical Description: [31]
Folder 369
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1925-26
Physical Description: [19]
Folder 370
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1927
Physical Description: [25]
Folder 371
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1928
Physical Description: [17]
Folder 372
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1929
Physical Description: [28]
Folder 373
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1930
Physical Description: [21]
Folder 374
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
1931-33
Physical Description: [29]
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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.}
Folder 378
Alexander N. VYSSOTSKY
1935, 1940-41
Physical Description: [10]
Folder 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}
Folder 380
Herbert T. WADE
1910
Physical Description: [5]
Folder 381
R. James WALLACE
1909-10
Physical Description: [6]
Folder 382
WAVERLY PRESS
1915-18
Physical Description: [50]
Folder 383
WILLIAM WESLEY & SON
1909-13, 1921
Physical Description: [29]
Folder 384
Albert Edward WHITFORD
1935-36, 1939
Physical Description: [9]
Folder 385
Edwin Bidwell WILSON
1915
Physical Description: [19]
Folder 386
Edwin Bidwell WILSON
1916
Physical Description: [30]
Folder 387
Edwin Bidwell WILSON
1917-18
Physical Description: [26]
Folder 388
Edwin Bidwell WILSON
1919-21
Physical Description: [36]
Scope and Content Note
{incl ltr. FHS ? Waverly Press; ltr h. Shapley ? EBW}
Folder 389
Edwin Bidwell WILSON
1922-25
Physical Description: [25]
Folder 390
Edwin Bidwell WILSON
1926-27, 1929, 1932-36
Physical Description: [32]
Folder 391
John L. WIRT
1914-16, 1922, 1926
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}
Folder 392
Max F. J. C. WOLF
1911, 1914, 1930-32
Physical Description: [8]
Scope and Content Note
{folded}
Folder 393
Robert Simpson WOODWARD
1910-11, 1913-16, 1920
Physical Description: [22]
Folder 394
WRATTEN AND WAINWRIGHT, LTD.
1910, 1912
Physical Description: [6]
Scope and Content Note
{Correp: C. E. K. Mees}
Folder 395
Frederick Eugene WRIGHT
1931, 1934-38
Physical Description: [29]
Scope and Content Note
{incl c.ltr FEW ? Edison Hoge; c.2 ltrs E.Hoge ? FEW}
Folder 396
William Hammond WRIGHT
1916, 1932, 1935-38
Physical Description: [16]
Folder 397
Charles Clayton WYLIE
1931, 1935
Physical Description: [7]
Scope and Content Note
{incl 1 ltr about James Van Allen}
Folder 398
Arthur Bambridge WYSE
1937
Physical Description: [17]
Folder 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]}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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}
Folder 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
Folder 404
ABSORPTION CONSTANT OF WIRE GAUZE SCREEN.
Approximately 1910
Folder 405
DISTANCE CORRECTION AND FOCUS.
Approximately 1911
Folder 406
EFFECTIVE WAVE LENGTHS OF STANDARD MAGNITUDES; COLOR TEMPERATURE AND SPECTRAL TYPE -- Notes & calculations.
Approximately 1943
Folder 407
THE FORM OF THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION.
Dec, 1923
Folder 408
HERSCHEL GAUGES -- Notes.
Undated
Scope and Content Note
{Notes & comparisons of William and Sir John Herschel's star counts}
Folder 409
MAGNITUDES AND COLORS OF STARS NORTH OF +80?.
1941
Folder 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"}
Folder 411
MEAN PARALLAXES AND THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION.
1931
Folder 412
MEAN PARALLAXES OF STARS OF SMALL PROPER MOTION.
1924
Folder 413
MISCELLANEOUS COMPARISONS OF SCALES.
Undated
Folder 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"}
Folder 415
MOUNT WILSON CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MAGNITUDES IN SELECTED AREAS 1-139 -- Early version.
Approximately 1928
Folder 416
MOUNT WILSON CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MAGNITUDES IN SELECTED AREAS 1-139 -- Final version.
1928.
Folder 417
NEBULAE -- Notes.
Approximately 1934.
Scope and Content Note
{Comparisons of measures by various Mt. Wilson astronomers on internal motions in spiral nebulae}
Folder 418
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS.
Undated
Folder 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)"}
Folder 420
REGRESSION LINES AND THE FUNCTIONAL RELATION -- Notes.
Approximately 1944
Folder 421
RELATION BETWEEN COLOR INDEX AND EFFECTIVE WAVE LENGTH FROM THE OBSERVATIONS OF HERTZSPRUNG AND VANDERLINDEN -- Notes.
Approximately 1944
Box 21
Manuscripts: S - Z; Notebooks; Photographs
Folder 422
SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGNITUDE SCALES.
1924
Scope and Content Note
{includes notes on "Color Equation and Scale Difference, Harvard Visual"}
Folder 423
SOME STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE GALACTIC SYSTEM.
1927
Folder 424
THE SUN'S MOTION AND THE MEAN PARALLAXES OF STARS OF DIFFERENT APPARENT MAGNITUDES.
1924
Folder 425
THE SURFACE BRIGHTNESS OF THE GALACTIC SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM A DISTANT EXTERNAL POINT AND A COMPARISON WITH SPIRAL NEBULAE --
Notes & calculations.
Approximately 1920
Folder 426
SYSTEMATIC CORRECTIONS TO MAGNITUDES AND AN EXTENSION OF THE POLAR SEQUENCE -- Notes.
Approximately 1932
Folder 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"
Folder 428
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
8 photos of celestial objects & Mt. Wilson.