Seismological Society of America correspondence, [ca. 1911-1973]

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Seismological Society of America correspondence, [ca. 1911-1973]

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Correspondence and related papers, mostly to and from the secretary S.D. Townley and Perry Byerley; some by Townley in his capacity as editor of the Society's Bulletin and his involvement with Stanford University's Branner Seismological Station.

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Byerley, Perry.

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Stanford University Branner Seismological Station.

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Seismological society of America

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Townley, Sidney D. (Sidney Dean), 1867-1946

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Astronomer. Studied at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, and at the Universities of Berlin and Munich. Before becoming a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Stanford Unviersiy in 1907, Townley taught at U.C. Berkeley and was Astronomer at the International Latitude Observatory in Ukiah, California. He became Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Geodesy at Stanford in 1932. In addition to practical astronomy, his research interests included asteroids, comets and variable stars, latit...