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Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1864-1895.

Twenty-three A.L.S., 3 A. postcards S., and 4 L.S. to various correspondents including Browning, Flower, Herschel, Hooker, Huggins, Weismann, and Wilde.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10344765 View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Typewritten letter signed, dated : [London] July 6 1897, to Sir Alexander [Mackenzie], 1897 July 6.

Title: Typewritten letter signed, dated : [London] July 6 1897, to Sir Alexander [Mackenzie], 1897 July 6.

Saying he would be very pleased to meet Mackenzie's friend Mr. Aitken.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270666493 View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Paper.

Title: Paper. [1881?]

A. paper (June 7) concerning a paper on Uranus and Saturn read at the Royal Society, signed with initials W.H.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10255904 View

Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.L56-ead.xml View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Papers, 1854-1900.

Title: Papers, 1854-1900.

Correspondence and papers, including 12 sheets of drawings of Jupiter; 285 letters to officers of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1854-1900; and 11 concerning the solar eclipse of 1870.

ArchivalResource: 308 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78440560 View

THOMPSON, Professor Silvanus Phillips (1851-1916), 1828-1951

Title: THOMPSON, Professor Silvanus Phillips (1851-1916) 1828-1951

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb98-b/thompson View

Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973, 1772-1973

Title: Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973 1772-1973

A miscellaneous collection of letters, mainly of English scientists, written to various people. There are mostly one or two letters, except for those of John Peter Gassiot, William Huggins, Edwin R. Lankester, James Mackintosh, David Prain, and William Whewell.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 300 items

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Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Typewritten letter signed, dated : [London] July 12 1897, to an unidentified recipient, 1897 July 12.

Title: Typewritten letter signed, dated : [London] July 12 1897, to an unidentified recipient, 1897 July 12.

Listing some books on the southern skies, and expressing the hope that the recipient will enjoy his trip to Australia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270666498 View

Rawlins, Ray E. D., 1917-1979,. Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973.

Title: Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, mainly of English scientists, written to various people. There are mostly one or two letters, except for those of John Peter Gassiot, William Huggins, Edwin R. Lankester, James Mackintosh, David Prain, and William Whewell.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489472 View

Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908. Selected papers [microform], 1849-1908.

Title: Selected papers [microform], 1849-1908.

Correspondence and miscellaneous materials. Primarily in-coming letters of a professional, scientific, and personal nature documenting his career and interest in astronomy and solar eclipses. Topics include solar spectroscopy, solar eclipses, solar rotational velocity, and spectroscopic application to planetary observation. Miscellaneous materials include vitae, clippings, manuscripts, and obituaries. Correspondents include Edward E. Barnard, Seth C. Chandler, W.H.M. Christie, Alvin Clark, Agnes M. Clerke, Edwin B. Frost, B.A. Gould, Edward S. Holden, William Huggins, Norman Lockyer, Simon Newcomb, Edward C. Pickering, A. Cowper Ranyard, and Arthur Schuster.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82908055 View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Correspondence, 1865-1908.

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1908.

17 letters to J. F. W. Herschel; 214 letters to Joseph Larmor; ca. 80 letters to the Royal Society.

ArchivalResource: 377 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79715496 View

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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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml 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)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153565 View

Sir William Huggins collection, 1901-1903

Title: Sir William Huggins collection 1901-1903

ArchivalResource: Correspondence (circa 5 leaves)

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University of Oxford. Observatory, 1875-. Records, 1873-ca. 1930.

Title: Records, 1873-ca. 1930.

Records (incomplete) of the Observatory, including original architects' plans and drawings (from 1873), early account books, some papers and correspondence of Charles Pritchard, some limited records of observations and reductions of observational data, and miscellaneous notes. There is also a collection of photographs, engravings, and lantern slides (though not the Observatory's archive of observational photographs). Several non-internal documents acquired by the Observatory are also included, notably a notebook of Sir William Herschel, and the sunspot observations of the American astronomer C.H.F. Peters. Pritchard's correspondents include: John Couch Adams, Sir W.H.M. Christie, B.M. Cowie, A.M.W. Downing, A.S. Farrar, Sir William Huggins, Benjamin Jowett, Edward B. Knöbel, George Knott, Sir Donald MacAlister, J.R. Magrath, S.J. Perry, Sir Joseph Prestwich, A. Cowper Ranyard, J.E. Sewell, Charles Piazzi Smyth, C.A. Swainson, J.J. Sylvester, Charles Taylor, J.F. Tennant, G.L. Tupman.

ArchivalResource: Small.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81001306 View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1872-1902.

Five A.L.S. to various correspondents including Thompson, and 2 D.S., one to Knight.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10284646 View

Ramsay, William, 1852-1916. Papers, 1870-1916.

Title: Papers, 1870-1916.

Correspondence and papers, including 10 laboratory notebooks, ca. 1879-1915; notes of lectures attended and given 1870-1906; correspondence and notes, 1868-1916 (16 vols.); manuscripts of his 'Elements and Electrons' (1912); and lists of his own published papers, 1872-1912. Bound volumes contain letters to Ramsay, with a few early letters from him. They relate to student days at Glasgow and Tübingen Universities; Ramsay's short period at University College Bristol, 1881-1887; work on the rare gases at University College London (with Travers and R. Whytlaw-Gray) with copies of published papers by Ramsay and Travers, photographs of laboratories, apparatus, etc.; and work on radium with Frederick Soddy. The collection also includes Ramsay's laboratory notebooks, which give accounts of the discovery of argon and helium, neon, krypton and xenon, and of work with Soddy on radon. There are notes of lectures Ramsay attended when a student at Glasgow, and of lectures he gave when Professor at University College London. Correspondents include: Marcellin Berthelot, 1894-1899; Sir W. Crookes, 1894-1895; Emil Fischer, 1895-1914; R. Fittig, 1877-1902; G.F. Fitzgerald, 1884-1895; W. Huggins, 1895-1905; T.H. Huxley, 1887-1894; K.S. Olszewski, 1894-1895; W. Ostwald, 1887-1910; Lyon Playfair, 1885-1899; F.M. Raoult, 1891-1900; Sir G.G. Stokes, 1880-1893; J.H. van't Hoff, 1888-1910.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82743733 View

Lick Observatory. Records, 1873-1966.

Title: Records, 1873-1966.

Early letters and diaries record the founding, building and equipping of the observatory. In 1876 Captain Floyd, President of the Lick Trust, spent a year in Europe visiting observatories, instrument makers, and astronomers. It was a critical time in the development of the reflecting telescope and the letters of David Gill, Howard Grubb, and William Huggins present the way of thinking of that perod. The correspondence of C. Feil, Alvan Clark, John Brashear, Ambrose Swasey, Simon Newcomb and others documents in detail the planning and construction of the 36-inch refractor. Includes the diary of Thomas E. Fraser (superintendent of construction) written while the Observatory was being built, and correspondence between Lewis Boss, George E. Hale, and W.W. Campbell (members of the Committee on Southern and Solar Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) and William J. Hussey, relating to their report of 1903. Includes correspondence of early directors of the observatory, E.S. Holden (Director, 1888-1897, 60 vols.); J.M. Schaeberle (Act. Director, 1897-1898, 3 vols.); J.E. Keeler (Director, 1898-1900, 6 vols.); W.W. Campbell, Director, 1900-1904). Also included in the early staff were Richard Tucker, Edward Barnard, and S.W. Burnham. Their letters record the pioneer work of the observatory, such as a meridian circle program, radial velocity work, and nebular photography. Tucker's letters also give. Interesting accounts of his nine years at the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba and three years in charge of the Southern Station of the Carnegie Institution at San Luis. Continuing material includes correspondence of Directors Robert G. Aitken (1930-1935), William H. Wright (1935-1942), Joseph H. Moore (1942-1945), C. Donald Shane (1945-1958), and Albert E. Whitford (1958-1968).

ArchivalResource: 350 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81933660 View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Letters to A. B. Kempe, 1894-1905.

Title: Letters to A. B. Kempe, 1894-1905.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80170558 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)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0496b 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 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)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574346 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIi, 1897

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIi 1897

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932

Title: Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932 1784-1932

These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet, 196 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P212-ead.xml View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Diaries, 1856-1900.

Title: Diaries, 1856-1900.

The diaries consist of 6 notebooks which are logs of the author's routine observations of the planets and stars and which document progress in his significant work on the spectra of stars. One contains notes on the spectra of laboratory sources and another contains clippings and notes from the work of other people in stellar spectroscopy.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83949157 View

Whelpley, Albert W. Albert W. Whelpley Autograph Collection.

Title: Albert W. Whelpley Autograph Collection.

Contains letters (many to astronomer Richard Anthony Proctor) with envelopes from prominent figures including many scientists: John Couch Adams, John Louis Rodolfe Agassiz, Sir George Biddell Airy, Edward Emerson Barnard, John William Draper, Edward Hackett, Sir William Huggins, Simon Newcomb, Richard Anthony Proctor, Petro Angelo Secchi, Johann Bernhard Stallo, and John Tyndall, among others.

ArchivalResource: 2.76 cu. ft. (6 containers, 1,162 documents).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77679036 View

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910. Letters from Sir William Huggins, with related material.

Title: Letters from Sir William Huggins, with related material. 1876-1883.

Comprises 3 autograph letters from Sir William Huggins to Jabez Hogg dated 7 March 1876, 21 September 1882, and 7 April 1883 (with transcripts), and 1 portrait photograph of Huggins without a caption. The bound volume includes a biography of Huggins which is briefer than that contained in the Dictionary of National Biography.

ArchivalResource: 3 letters (4 ff. with 2 ff. conjoined) and 1 port. photograph, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript and photograph.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54874626 View