Records of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 1884-1960 (inclusive).

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Records of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 1884-1960 (inclusive).

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Contains general office files and correspondence of Observatory directors, including Alexander McAdie, Charles Franklin Brooks, and Richard M. Goody. Also includes library correspondence and building plans, drawings, and related records, and photographs of buildings and expeditions. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Ferguson, Sterling P.

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Goody, Richard M.

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Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory

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The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory was established by Abbott Lawrence Rotch in 1885 to investigate weather patterns and maintain weather records. The administration of the Observatory was combined with that of Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics in 1959, at which time the U.S. Weather Bureau assumed the responsibility for conducting routine weather observations at the Blue Hill station. The University's lease of the Blue Hill facility from the Metropolitan Dist...

McAdie, Alexander, 1863-1943

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McAdie (1868-1943) graduated from Harvard in 1885 and taught meteorology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alexander G. McAdie, 1915-1948 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973106 ...

Brooks, Charles Franklin, 1891-1958

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Brooks graduated from Harvard in 1911 and taught meteorology at Harvard. From the description of Letters from Harvard undergraduate Charles Franklin Brooks to his parents, 1908-1910. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77067776 Charles Franklin Brooks (1891-1958) earned his Harvard AB in 1911, his AM in 1912, and his Ph.D. in 1914 and taught meteorology at Harvard. He was born on May 2, 1891 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Morgan Brooks and Frona Marie Brooks. His Harvard Ph...