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Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930. Papers, 1885-1912.

Title: Papers, 1885-1912.

Letters to officers of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1885-1900; with 29 to its Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, 1902-1912; and 26 concerning expeditions to observe the eclipse of 1889.

ArchivalResource: 519 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80781560 View

Archenhold, F. S. (Friedrich Simon). [Pamphlets on Edmund Halley and Halley's comet].

Title: [Pamphlets on Edmund Halley and Halley's comet]. 1904-1911.

ArchivalResource: 23 pamphlets in 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761327109 View

Adams, Walter Sydney, 1876-1956. Correspondence, 1881-1939.

Title: Correspondence, 1881-1939.

Primarily professional correspondence with Arthur S. Eddington, George Ellery Hale, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Jacobas C. Kapteyn, Hugh Frank Newall, and H.H. Turner.

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86165432 View

Autograph collection, 1816-1917, 1816-1917

Title: Autograph collection, 1816-1917 1816-1917

There are 153 letters in this collection, many addressed to Aubrey Lackington Moore, an English writer who tried to reconcile evolution and traditional Christianity. Some letters discuss scientific questions of the day, while others are formal social notes. Also includes 24 clipped signatures, inlcuding those of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland; Goerge Bentham; H. A. Bruce; S. H. Butcher; Matthewss Duncan; Percy Gardner; George Gritchett; G. Grote; Alfred Cort Haddon; Sir Prescott Gardner Hewitt; William Guyer Hunter; Thomas Henry Huxley; John Lingard; Thomas Babington Macauley; Miss K. Aubrey Moore; Louis Pasteur; Sir John Russell Reynolds, bart.; Thomas Smith; James Leigh Strachan-Davidson; Agnes Strickland; and Arthur Thomason.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet

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Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930. Papers, 1900-1930.

Title: Papers, 1900-1930.

Several small groups of miscellaneous correspondence, mostly on astronomy and history of astronomy; other fragmentary notes and papers, also including some of his assistant F. A. Bellamy; some photogaphs; a small group of papers relating to Turner's interest in the time of sunset. Correspondents include L. A. Bauer, A. E. Donkin, William Ellis, C. R. D'Esterre, A. S. Herschel, H. Kreutz, Percival Lowell, P. Melotte, W. A. Spooner, William Wilson, and Max Wolf.

ArchivalResource: Several files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80830617 View

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939. Papers, 1862-1939

Title: David Peck Todd papers 1862-1939

Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks of David Peck Todd, astronomer and teacher at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers. He was also a fertile inventor, and plans and drawings for many devices, some related to solving technical problems encountered on his expeditions are included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (124 boxes, 1 folio)

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Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930. Correspondence with Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1912-1922.

Title: Correspondence with Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1912-1922.

ArchivalResource: 27 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591226 View

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939. David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Title: David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks of David Peck Todd, astronomer and teacher at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers. He was also a fertile inventor, and plans and drawings for many devices, some related to solving technical problems encountered on his expeditions are included in the papers. As an early enthusiast of aviation, he made a balloon ascent in 1910 and advocated aerial photography for recording eclipses. In Amherst he raised funds to build a new observatory in 1905 and records of this project and of his teaching career are very well documented. Her letters to her husband during her lecture tours provide an insight both into her character and into female social life of the period. The 368 letters that she wrote between 1878 and 1922 are in themselves a significant section of the papers. Todd's correspondents include astronomers and scientists from all over the world as well as public figures in the United States. In 1922 he was declared incompetent and spent his remaining years in institutions. His writings include three textbooks on astronomy and a wide range of scientific and popular articles, copies of which are in the papers. His wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, who was the first to transcribe and publish Emily Dickinson's poems, was an active social force in Amherst andtheir family correspondence offers a vivid picture of the life of the town as well as a remarkably frank picture of their personal relationship. She also lectured extensively, basing her talks on observations made during the eclipse expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear ft. (124 boxes, 1 folio)

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Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939. David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Title: David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks of David Peck Todd, astronomer and teacher at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers. He was also a fertile inventor, and plans and drawings for many devices, some related to solving technical problems encountered on his expeditions are included in the papers. As an early enthusiast of aviation, he made a balloon ascent in 1910 and advocated aerial photography for recording eclipses. In Amherst he raised funds to build a new observatory in 1905 and records of this project and of his teaching career at Amherst are very well documented. His writings include three textbooks on astronomy and a wide range of scientific and popular articles, copies of which are in the papers. His wife, Mabel Loomis Toddd, who was the first to transcribe and publish Emily Dickinson's poems, was an active social force in Amherst and their family correspondence offers a vivid picture of the life of the town as well as a remarkably frank picture of their personal relationship. She also lectured extensively, basing her talks on observations made during the eclipse expeditions. Her letters to her husband during her lecture tours provide an insight both into her character and into female social life of the period. The 368 letters that she wrote between 1878 and 1922 are in themselves a significant section of the papers. Todd's correspondents include astronomers and scientists from all over the world as well as public figures in the United States. In 1922 he was declared incompetent and spent his remaining years in institutions.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear ft. (124 boxes, 1 folio)

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Album materials, 1777-1925

Title: Album materials 1777-1925

Materials removed from albums, of letters and autographs of various persons.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet

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Walter Sydney Adams Papers, 1881-1939

Title: Walter Sydney Adams Papers 1881-1939

An expert in stellar spectroscopy, Walter Sydney Adams (1876-1956, APS 1915) made important empirical contributions to the analysis of the physical conditions of stellar and planetary atmospheres, determining the distances to extragalactic objects, and understanding stellar evolution. Adams succeeded his mentor George Ellery Hale as director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, serving in that capacity from 1923 to 1946. The Adams Papers contains approximately 100 letters addressed to the astronomer Walter Sydney Adams, dating primarily from the period after his move to Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904. Much of the correspondence is relatively perfunctory, however a few letters include interesting scientific content, including Harlow Shapley discussing his photometric study of HV 3435 and interest in Alpha Circini, Arthur Compton's comments on Keener's photoelectric method, Svante Arrhenius on the possibilities of constructing a new observatory for the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Arthur Eddington discussing the implications of the spectrum of the companion to Sirius. Among Adams' other correspondents are J. C. Kapteyn, James H. Jeans, Henry Norris Russell, Elihu Thomson, and Willem de Sitter.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet

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