Guide to A Solstician Adventure, December 21, 1978
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
May 2011
Stanford, California
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Call Number: SCM0068
Creator:
Leighton, Philip Albert, 1897-1983.
Title: A Solstician Adventure, December 21, 1978
Dates: 1978-1981
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear feet (1 folder)
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Gift of the Stanford Historical Society, 1982.
Includes original introduction by Richard H. Eastman, 1981, photocopy of biography of Leighton by Douglas A. Skoog, c. 1981,
and photocopy of Leighton's manuscript, 1978, which concerns his viewing of the sunset from Point Arguello (Santa Barbara
County), with a brief history of the exploration of California.
Leighton joined the Stanford University Dept. of Chemistry in 1928; he became a full professor in 1937 and served as executive
head of the Department from 1939 until his retirement in 1954.
Stanford University. Department of Chemistry. Faculty.
Stanford University. Department of Chemistry. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Point Arguello (Santa Barbara County, Calif.)
Winter solstice.
Box 1
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