HUNTINGTON COLLECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

p. 1 of 94 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 3

The Burndy Library 6

Astronomy 6 Civil Engineering 6 Chemistry 10 Color Theory 10 Electricity and Magnetism 10 Geography and Geology 14 Japanese Science 15 Light and Photography 16 Mathematics 18 Medicine and Biology 18 Optics 19 Physics 19 Telegraphy, Telephony, and Sound 21 Burndy Library Manuscript Collections Across Multiple Subjects 22 Miscellaneous Small Collections 25 Monographic Collections 27 Serials 33

Original Huntington Library Materials 34

Mt. Wilson Collection from the Carnegie Institute of Washington 34 Aerospace 43 Astronomy 45 Biology, Botany, and Natural Science 46 Chemistry 50 Civil Engineering and Surveying 51 Geology, Mining, and Petroleum Engineering 56 Mathematics 58 Medicine 58 Physics 61

Medieval Manuscripts 62

Related Items in Other Subjects 65

Printed Works 88

Guide last updated 10/2014 p. 2 of 94 INTRODUCTION

The Huntington Library’s history of science collection is one of the largest in North America. It includes a wealth of material on the western practices of science, medicine, and technology, with strengths in a variety of subdisciplines. For example, incunables in the history of science and medicine are drawn from the Huntington’s larger corpus of incunabula, the second-largest such collection in the United States. Other highlights include the Burndy Library, which is of the highest caliber for printed works and archives related to electricity and magnetism, mathematics, physics, and civil engineering. The body of material related to Isaac Newton, formed primarily by the Babson Newton Collection, includes important manuscripts in and printed volumes annotated by the natural philosopher’s hand. The Francis Bacon Library is the world’s largest collection of material concerning the philosopher and statesman. The Mohr Darwin Collection comprises over 1,600 books, caricatures, engravings and photographs by and about Charles Darwin. Additionally, the Huntington holds the archives of Mount Wilson Observatory, which spans the founding of the institution to its livelihood through the 1960s. It also includes the rare books on astronomy which were previously in the Observatory's library. Our books, photographs, pamphlets and other ephemera related to U.S. civil engineering is almost certainly the world’s finest collection. And items on permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association encompass early medical incunables through twentieth-century American medicine, with particular emphasis on the practice of medicine in Southern California.

This guide serves as a signpost for researchers interested in the specifics of the Huntington’s collections in the history of science, technology and medicine. Its current incarnation divides material between one of two broad categories: The Burndy Library and Older Huntington Materials; within these respective designations, the material is then sorted by subject. Most of these headings are classic subfields in the history of science, whether physics, biology or astronomy. Others cut across disciplines, including color theory and the broader designation “Japanese science.” Throughout the guide we emphasize manuscripts and archives over printed works, as many of the latter appear in the Huntington's online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org).

This guide is not intended to serve as a substitute for actual detailed container lists or inventories of collections. There are no folder-level or item-level inventories herein, nor extensive details about individual collections. However, these are available via other sources. The first of these is the Huntington’s online catalog, which contains several hundred item-level descriptions of manuscripts, and many tens of thousands of records of printed works. The second source, exclusively for manuscript material, is the Online Archive of California (OAC), at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Huntington+Library. Over 250 collections have digital finding aids available on the OAC, out of the Huntington's approximately 1,800 manuscript collections. Legacy finding aids (i.e., those not born digitally) also exist in paper form. A number of these can be viewed as PDFs on the Huntington Digital Library website (www.hdl.huntington.org), others can be paged in person from the Huntington’s Ahmanson Reading Room. Please direct any inquiries regarding the history of science collections to Daniel Lewis, the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science, Medicine & Technology ([email protected]) or Melissa Lo, the Dibner Assistant Curator of Science and Technology ([email protected]).

Formatting of Individual Entries

Collection name and collection starting and ending bulk dates if available.

Collection size (# of pieces, # of boxes, or # of items).

p. 3 of 94 Whether or not a finding aid exists and in what format. If a finding aid is in digital format, please click on the link provided or visit the Huntington Digital Library (http://hdl.huntington.org/), the Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), or the Huntington online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org/).

Description of the collection.

Source of the collection and date acquired (if available).

How to search the Online Catalog

The Huntington's online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org) contains the vast majority of the institution's printed materials, approaching one million items. The majority of the catalog entries are for rare and general reference books. To a lesser extent, records for manuscript collections and single-items are also described in the online catalog.

Items Currently on Public Display

The Huntington Library's permanent exhibition, Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, highlights four areas of scientific history: astronomy, natural history, medicine and light. The exhibition was designed to illustrate the beauty of science in a historical context—the elegant breakthroughs, the remarkable discoveries, and the fascinating people and stories behind them. Each gallery focuses on the changing role of science over time, particularly the astonishing leaps in imagination made by scientists over the years and the importance of written works in communicating those ideas. Items on display represent centuries of thought, showing how knowledge has become more refined over time.

The exhibit was designed by the Huntington Library's exhibition developer Karina White and Berkeley-based design firm Gordon Chun Design. In 2008 the exhibition won the American Association of Museums' Grand Prize, for Excellence in Exhibitions—their highest award.

p. 4 of 94 THE BURNDY LIBRARY

The Burndy Library was founded in 1941 to house the growing collection of Bern Dibner, an electrical engineer who developed a passion for collecting materials in the history of science and technology.

The collection currently consists of 67,000 volumes: 47,000 rare books and journals, and approximately 20,000 reference works. In addition to the books, the Library also holds approximately 2,000 linear feet of non- monographic material: manuscript collections, bound manuscripts, photograph collections, and many tens of thousands of offprints.

Bern Dibner was an early pioneer in electrical connector technology, and founded the Burndy Corporation in 1924. The Burndy Library was located for many years in Norwalk, Connecticut, near the Burndy Corporation's headquarters. In 1992 it moved to MIT, where it was housed in a leased campus building for fifteen years. It remained privately owned, despite its presence on the campus, and was funded on an annual basis by the Dibner family. Beginning in 2004, the family began a search for a new home, in anticipation of the forthcoming end of the lease in 2007. After a process involving 16 national finalists, the Huntington Library was selected as the most appropriate home for the materials, and the Library arrived at the Huntington from MIT in November of 2006.

The Burndy owes its particular character both to the interests of its founder as well as other donors, librarians and curators who have played a role in the development of the library. During the MIT years, the collection more than doubled in size, due to a very active acquisitions program. The journal collections in particular remain a great strength of the library, as they include a number of obscure but important titles in the field, many of which have never been (and may never be) available digitally from JSTOR or other aggregators of electronic journals.

Taken as a whole, the Burndy's holdings range from the thirteenth century up into the middle of the twentieth. Mathematics, physics and electricity are the collection's three greatest strengths, but there is much heterogeneity across the collection in other areas, many of which are delineated below. The holdings have proven to be extraordinarily complementary to the Huntington's non-Burndy materials in the history of science. For instance, the Burndy avoided collecting anything in the history of medicine, primarily due to the nearly unrivaled collections at the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School, just blocks from the Burndy in its New England location. However, the Huntington's extant history of medicine holdings – consisting primarily of the rare book collections from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, which came to us in the 1980s -- are very substantial, and are poised to become even more important in the coming years.

Comment on Brandeis and Smithsonian: It should be noted that some of the materials Dibner collected are currently held by Brandeis University and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1974, one quarter of the Burndy Library was donated to the Smithsonian in order to form a research center for the History of Science at the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian was given the Heralds of Science collection, which is a collection of 200 books thought by Bern Dibner to be instrumental in the development of science as we know it. Though the Smithsonian currently has these books as Dibner organized them, the Huntington has early editions of most of the books in Dibner's list. The Smithsonian has cataloged the books and manuscripts from the Burndy Library both in OCLC and in their catalog, SIRIS.

Bern Dibner also donated some of his collections to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. These include the Da Vinci Collection of modern and rare works relating to Leonardo, the Rockwell Kent Collection of Prints, and a more general collection, the Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science, which contains nearly 150 rare texts from the fifteenth to twentieth century. This collection was recently fully cataloged and is available p. 5 of 94 on the Brandeis Library website.

Non-Monographic Collections

The Burndy Library "manuscript" collections—a term used in the library's previous incarnation at MIT, is not entirely accurate. The collections contain many printed items, including tens of thousands of offprints, photocopies, scrapbooks and other print ephemera, as well as photographs and true manuscript (handwritten or typewritten) material. The list below itemizes the numerous subcollections, their extent, the availability of a finding aid or other guide to the collection, and a description of the subject material. When these came to the Huntington in 2006, they were generally unprocessed or very nominally processed. As these holdings are formally cataloged and incorporated into the larger corpus of Huntington manuscript holdings, they will begin to appear in the online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org).

ASTRONOMY

Benjamin Chase Collection (1808-1820)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains handwritten astronomical tables of solar eclipses and mean motions, as well as a manuscript on "Geodoesia or the Art of Surveying and Measuring Land," bound in newspaper. Many of the manuscripts on math and astronomy seem to be exercises done as a student.

Gift of Edward Newell via the New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1998.

Gerald Neugebauer Collection (1932 – present)

3 half-Hollinger, 1 quarter-Hollinger, 3 card boxes, 5 small slide boxes,unprocessed, no finding aid. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Neugebauer is an award-winning American astronomer. He is one of the early investigators of infrared astronomy. He has worked on several NASA projects. During his military service with the U.S. Army, he was stationed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and worked for the Ordnance Corps until 1962. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1962 as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor of physics in 1970. He was named Howard Hughes Professor in 1985 and Chairman of the Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy in 1988. He is currently the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Neugebauer served as the director of the Palomar Observatory from 1980 to 1994.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Until the mid-1990s, the Burndy had only a scattering of books in civil and structural engineering. A series of gifts and purchases has taken the collection from strength to strength, to the point where civil engineering has become one of the most distinguished rare book collections on the subject anywhere. The greatest depth lies in nineteenth-century America, largely due to the bequest of Victor Darnell’s extraordinary collection of books, pamphlets, photographs, manuscripts, and archival material on American bridges. That collection has been supplemented with many purchases of additional American material, as well as complementary books from

p. 6 of 94 Europe and Asia. The Burndy Library's collection alone on American bridges now ranks among the very best, by those at Lehigh University and Cleveland State University.

On the European side, the gift of Robert McKeon’s working collection on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French civil engineering provided the seed for a collection of European civil engineering that has also grown rapidly, though at a less ferocious pace than the American side. Most notably, the acquisition of two large collections of material about Gustave Eiffel has brought the library one of the most extensive collections of Eiffel material outside of France.

Bridges form the core of Burndy’s holdings in civil engineering, and a very important portion of the non-Burndy civil engineering materials, but the Library has also accumulated a formidable body of material on nineteenth- century American water systems. While at MIT, the Burndy purchased the extensive run of nineteenth-century water engineering reports from the Franklin Institute’s collection, and have supplemented that with material on major European systems of water supply and sewerage from the nineteenth century.

See also the general description of civil engineering elsewhere in this guide.

Albert Hamilton Emery Collection (1861-1885)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Albert Hamilton Emery was the Vice President of the Emery Seale Company of Stanford in Fairfield, Connecticut. The collection contains correspondence, documents, and patents relating to his career as an inventor and engineer. Much of the material pertains to ordinance and testing equipment. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Army and Navy departments, 3 British patents, and 1 American patent.

Cabot and West Springfield Bridge Co. (1839-1862)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains specs on construction costs and maintenance costs for a seven span bridge across the Connecticut River from Cabot (now Springfield) to West Springfield, MA.

Purchased by Burndy Library in 2001 and 2003.

Caleb Leach Papers (1787-1940)

225 items, 1 box, has digital finding aid.

Leach (1755-1837) was a skilled lay engineer involved in water-works, mills & aqueduct operation in Tioga County, New York. He is perhaps best known for the invention of a screw auger to permit the true boring of trees to make water pipes. The majority of the collection deals with Leach’s invention of the screw auger, and his various business ventures from 1787 to 1889. The collection includes biographical material, notebooks, business records, personal and professional correspondence, the Gale family correspondence, and manuscript papers.

Purchased by Burndy Library in 2002.

p. 7 of 94 Victor Darnell Collection (unprocessed)

42 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Victor Darnell was a pioneering student of American civil engineering. A 1943 graduate of MIT, Mr. Darnell spent 31 years, most of that time as a chief engineer working for the Berlin Steel Construction Corporation in Connecticut.

Over the years, Mr. Darnell assembled a collection documenting the practice of structural and civil engineering in nineteenth-century America--one of the most complete such collections in private hands anywhere. In 1993 he generously offered the Burndy Library the bulk of his collection after completing his own research projects using the material. After his death in 1999, his books and papers were added to the collection.

Numbering in the thousands of items, the collection is one of remarkable richness and depth, in both primary and secondary books, including such essential resources as a nearly complete run of Engineering News from its founding in 1874 to 1920. The collection also contains much ephemera and unique material. Its main focus is on American bridges and engineering, but there is a substantial amount of material from Britain and continental Europe as well. Of equal value for scholars of engineering are Mr. Darnell's files and notes, which he generously included in the gift. In the course of preparing A Directory of American Bridge-building Companies, 1840-1900, Mr. Darnell assembled comprehensive documentation of over sixty years of American civil engineering. Among the research materials necessary for that work, and now present at the Burndy, are copies of nearly all American bridge patents through 1900, with a calendar and index of patentees. Since Mr. Darnell continued adding new information to his notes and files long after the book was published, the files are an essential supplement to the printed book.

Edward Gagel Collection (1913-24)

1 quarter Hollinger, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Gagel was the Chief Engineer of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad from 1913-1924. Much of the correspondence, maps, and blueprints in this collection relate to the weights of the new Mikado class steam engines and the ability of bridges and rights-of-way to tolerate the new, large engines.

Gift of David Guise, 2002.

E. Pilkington Notebooks (approx. 1912-1916)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection consists of two notebooks relating to the design, construction, and testing of the Western Union underwater cable that stretched from Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, to England. Pilkington was an engineer at Bay Roberts. The notebooks contain problems and solutions for design of relays and other parts of the cable system. They include some drawings, blueprints, and photographs, as well as text and formulae.

Gift of Bern Dibner.

p. 8 of 94 John Leadley Collection (1831-1940)

5 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. Also includes 4 boxes, processed, no finding aid. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The first collection contains books and pamphlets on civil engineering, electricity, and economic development. The second collection contains research materials and notebooks on the history of magnetism, Agricola, and Franklin.

Lemuel Liscom Collection (1860-1878)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains papers relating to Liscom's work as a bridge engineer in New England. Most of the collection relates to work with or for D.H.Andrews of Boston, or the Boston Bridge Co. Includes correspondence, a diary, accounts, stress calculations, and one bridge blueprint.

Gift of Victor Darnell.

Levin C. Handy Panama Collection of Glass Lantern Slides (1909-1913)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Levin Handy is known for his photographs of architectural and civil engineering works, particularly his work documenting the construction of the Capitol building in Washington. This collection consists of 50 glass lantern slides taken during the construction of the Panama Canal, which opened in 1914. The slides are numbered non- consecutively with numbers ranging from 7-464.

Provenance before Burndy collection is unknown, originally mixed with the W.J. Hammer Collection.

Michigan Public Utilities Commission (1919)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains 8 volumes of a 10 volume set of books of the Michigan Public Utilities Commission. Volumes 7 and 8 concern the PUC mission. The books treat the appraisal of the holdings of the company, from cars to transmission lines.

Niagara Power Projects (1961, 1964)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains historical notes, documents and correspondence relating to the development of hydropower on the Niagara River, especially the Adams Hydroelectric Station. It is housed in the Electrochemical Hall of Fame papers.

p. 9 of 94 Civil Engineering Photographic Materials

The collection includes an important group of postcards of bridges (about 2,000) given by Victor Darnell (also see entry under Darnell Collection within the printed materials section for the Burndy Library). The Darnell Collection also includes 100 early stereo views of bridges, as well as a group of about 75 large-scale photographs of bridges and bridge construction from the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Complementing these are a group of two dozen large-scale photograph albums documenting large construction projects and engineering works from the period between 1870 and 1940; these include documentation of individual factory buildings as well larger projects such as the first raising of the Aswan Dam in the early 20th c, the Suez Canal, and the Panama Canals (see the Levin C. Handy Panama Collection of Glass Lantern Slides).

CHEMISTRY

Ernst Cohen Collection (1908-1918)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Cohen (1869-1944) was a physical chemist and historian of science at the University of Utrecht. This collection includes correspondence, notes, notebooks, images, and clippings concerning his research on the Dutch anatomist and physician Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738).

Hooker Electrochemical Company (1911-14)

1 quarter Hollinger box, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Hooker Electrochemical Co. was in operation from 1906 until it was purchased by Occidental Petroleum Corp. in 1968. It was renamed Occidental Chemical Corp. in 198 and was later referred to as OxyChem. The collection contains correspondence relating to the company's work with Farbenfabriken vorm Friedr. Bayer and Co. to develop and install equipment for the manufacture of chlorine at Bayer's plant in Germany. Baekelite Gesellschaft and Leo Baekeland were also involved in the correspondence and discussions.

COLOR THEORY

In addition to its strong core holdings in optics, the Burndy collection holds a major collection of works on color theory. The material takes in all aspects of the question from high theoretical matters of the nature of light to practical guides to the mixing of colors and color nomenclature. When taken in conjunction with the non-Burndy materials at the Huntington, the collection of works on color and color theory is probably in the same approximate same league as the great Birren collection at Yale (which served as the model for the Burndy collection), and contains much extremely rare material that is not otherwise available in one place except in the Birren collection.

p. 10 of 94 ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

The Burndy holds one of the major collections in the history of electricity. The holdings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material, on both theoretical and practical aspects of electricity, are rich and deep, with only a few serious rivals in this country (most notably the Bakken Library and Museum in Minneapolis, the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian, and the New York Public Library, host to the Wheeler Gift). Particular strengths include a large group of books owned by Alessandro Volta, as well as a rich and wide-ranging assemblage of popular, trade, and ephemeral literature of the later nineteenth century. The addition in recent years of the surviving corporate records of the Weston Electric Instrument Company and the collection of Richard and Mary Fagan (both of which see details for below) have extended the collection’s strength in electrical measurement and electric lighting. The Library also holds the remaining corporate records of the Burndy Corporation, as well as some of Bern Dibner’s original ribbon patents.

Arthur Kaufman Collection (undated)

141 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains offprints, pamphlets, books, journals, calculations, notes, some electrical instruments, light bulbs. It is dedicated to the history of Xerography and other forms of non-impact printing. A gift of Arthur Kaufman, the collection is rich in unpublished research reports as well as advertising ephemera, technical manuals, and other company literature on nearly every aspect of the design and manufacture of photocopy machines and laser proofing technology. Apart from the collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Kaufman Collection comprises the most substantial resource on the technical history of non-impact printing, one of the key, if underappreciated, technologies of the twentieth century, available to researchers.

Edward Weston Collection (undated)

19 Hollinger boxes & 1 clamshell box, draft handwritten finding aid in process as of December 2010, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Weston (1850 - 1936) was an English chemist. He developed an electrochemical cell. In 1888 he founded the Weston Electrical Instrument Company. The collection contains company papers and records.

Edwin Stoddard Lincoln Collection (1879-1970)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

E.S. Lincoln was an inventor and author, who maintained an electrical laboratory in Waltham for part of his life. This collection contains office information, photos, correspondence, and research material. It also contains his detailed proposal for a complete museum of electrical history and practice, with photos.

Elihu Thomson Collection (1924-1969)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

p. 11 of 94 Thomson was a prolific American inventor who secured 696 patents in his life. The company he co-founded, Thomson-Houston, later combined with Edison General to become General Electric. Unlike Edison, Thomson preferred alternating current over direct current. He was largely responsible for the adoption of alternating current as the U.S. standard. The collection contains letters written by J.A. McManus to Thomson, along with materials related to Thomson's inventions and research about him conducted by E.S. Lincoln. Also included are photographs of Thomson and the Ford Exhibit.

Fagan Collection of Electrical Trade Catalogues

34 boxes, consisting primarily of trade catalogues; container list with dates in box 34, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The Richard F. and Mary L. Fagan Collection provides one of America's most comprehensive sources of information on the history of electric lighting. An informed and dedicated collector, Richard Fagan gathered all kinds of material relevant to the history of electric lighting in America. Nearly every kind of literature needed by someone writing about the revolution in electrical lighting between 1870 and 1950 is represented.

The collection includes the theoretical literature that preceded the invention of the light bulb, technical journals such as the Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, and popular literature such as Park Benjamin's The Age of Electricity (1886), as well as trade publications like Juice and ephemera such as Architecture of the Night, published by General Electric to advertise and celebrate the lighting effects achieved by Art Deco architects and lighting designers.

The materials gathered by the Fagans will be as valuable for social historians and historians of architecture and interior design as the will for historians of technology. Of particular interest are some two hundred manufacturer's product catalogs, which for the most part have not been collected or preserved in libraries.

Gabriel Kron Collection

1 box, has paper finding aid in box, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Gabriel Kron (1901-1968) was a Hungarian engineer who worked for General Electric from 1934 until his death in 1968. He is perhaps best well known for his Method of Tearing or Diakoptics. This collection contains letters, biographical material, a portrait photo, obituary, and journals. Kron was considered an unconventional and somewhat controversial engineer. Instead of taking a conventional postgraduate degree, Kron went on a two year walking tour around the world. He was responsible for the first load flow (electricity) distribution system in New York.

Andrew Halacsy Collection (1856-1977)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains research materials on transformer materials, including photographs as well as correspondence, patents and copies of primary sources for a paper that Halacsy jointly published with G.H. von Fuchs in 1961 on the invention of the transformer. Not all of the patents and primary source material is extant. What exists in the collection is filed in the order given in the published paper.

p. 12 of 94 John Hopkinson Collection (1898-1906)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Hopkinson (1849-1898) was an electrical engineer who improved automatic switching mechanisms. The collection contains letters and documents relating to his will and the settlement of his estate. A small document relating to the sale of his papers can be found with the finding aid.

Friedrich Kurylo Collection (1960-1965)

6 boxes, 2,009 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Friedrich Kurylo published Ferdinand Braun: A Life of the Nobel Prizewinner and Inventor of the Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope in 1981. Ferdinand Braun made notable contributions to the field of electricity. He invented what is now called Braun’s electrometer before turning his attention to the field of wireless telegraphy. He was one of the first to send electric waves in definite directions. In 1902 he succeeded in receiving definitely directed messages by means of inclined beam antennae. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. The bulk of the collection contains drafts, typescripts, and research materials compiled by Friedrich Kurylo pertaining to Ferdinand Braun for his book. The majority of the collection is in German.

Papers of the Electrical Historical Foundation (1946-1987)

1 record box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The Electrical Historical Foundation was founded in order to conserve and exhibit examples of electrical progress for educational and public relations programs. The papers of the foundation chronicle its origins as an idea through its dissolution in 1987. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence between Foundation members and to potential donors of funds, facilities, and equipment. It also includes meeting minutes, financial documents, and photographs.

Paul Parish Ashworth Collection (1933-1958)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The papers consist of correspondence and typescripts relating to the history of electrification and power distribution in the west and northwest U.S. The primary focus is on Utah and Colorado. Ashworth was a pioneer in this area, and his reminiscences and those of others that he collected are invaluable.

Société des Amis d'André-Marie Ampère Collection (1931-1970)

1 box, has digital finding aid.

The Society of Friends of André-Marie Ampère was founded June 12, 1930 on the initiative of Paul Janet, Academy of Sciences, Director of the Graduate School of Electricity. Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory of Ampère by any means it deems appropriate, including conferences, publications, and scholarships. Its head office is in Poleymieux (Rhone). Bern Dibner became involved with the Société des Amis d'André-Marie Ampère in the 1950s and later started a U.S. chapter. Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as p. 13 of 94 “electrodynamics.” The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is name after him. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence (both originals and copies) regarding the society, their membership, and their activities.

William Joseph Hammer Collection (1874-1935)

61 boxes, several large prints and artwork, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

William Joseph Hammer (1858-1934) was an electrical engineer who began his career in the laboratories of Thomas Edison and went on to a distinguished career as a consultant. The collection consists mainly of glass negatives of varying sizes and glass lantern slides. There are also some papers and photographs. Most of the material relates to Thomas Edison, the history of the electric lamp, radium, international exhibitions, and aviation.

Part of the collection was acquired by Dibner from Edwin S. Lincoln in 1970, and the other from IBM in late 1970 or early 1971.

William McClelland Collection (1934-1964)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains a scrapbook with clippings of photographs and other ephemera relating to the electrification of Belfast, Ireland, and the laying of the Victoria Channel cable. It also includes many photographs and postal cards of the Krupp Works in Essen and other industrial sites.

GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

Harold M. Bannerman Papers (1927-1975)

1 legal box, 1 record box, has paper container list but unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Bannerman (1897-1976) was a geologist, with a PhD from Princeton in 1927, and became a professor of Geology at Dartmouth. In 1968 he began teaching at Wesleyan University. He was also a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and served as its president for a time. The collection contains a significant amount of correspondence of both a professional and a personal nature. Primary correspondents include Marland Bilings, A.F. Buddington, W.H.Collins, Basil Scott White Buffman, Frank C. Foley, James E. Gill, and T.L.Tanton. The collection chronicles Bannerman's work for the Geological Survey of Canada and Ontario and the United States Geological Survey in the Richville Bigelow area of New York.

Julio Popper Collection (1887-1891)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Julio Popper (1857-1893) was a Romanian engineer and explorer. This collection contains a series of mounted photographs taken on The Popper Expedition that explored Tierra del Fuego in search of gold. Included with the eighty photographs is a copy of an 1887 article that describes what Popper wanted to accomplish. p. 14 of 94 Lardner Vanuxem Papers (1838-1842)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Vanuxem (1792-1848), an American geologist, began to work for the Geological Survey of New York upon its institution in 1836. The collection contains Vanuxem’s field notebook, as well as preparatory watercolors, drawings, proofs, and clippings related to his work for the New York State Geological Survey and his 1842 publication, Geology of New York, Third District.

Matthew Fontaine Maury Collection (1890-1913)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains unpublished manuscript corrections to Maury's (1806-1973) The Physical Geography of the Sea made by his relative, Mytton Maury. The collection also includes correspondence, 1904-1913, of Mytton as well as two essays on the Gulf Stream that may or may not have been prepared for the new edition of Physical Geography.

William Crawford Williamson (1850-1895)

1 half Hollinger, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Williamson (1816 - 1895) was an English naturalist and paleo-botanist. He taught at Owen's College in Manchester from 1851 until the early 1890s. The collection contains loose photographs, one book of photographs, a list of scientists whose photos were taken, and correspondence with people attempting to identify the subjects of his photos. It also includes a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, mostly on biology, natural history, and an obituary of Williamson.

JAPANESE SCIENCE

Burndy’s collection of early Japanese material is small but extremely choice. This is a new collecting area for the Huntington, which had, prior to the arrival of the Burndy, focused almost exclusively on British, American and European-produced materials. The pre-1900 Japanese imprints and manuscripts number fewer than 200 items but include some of the most important and rarest books published about Western science in Japan, from the middle of the eighteenth century down to the middle of the twentieth. The early material is of such scarcity that in many cases, Burndy’s is the only copy listed in national databases. Although the collection cannot compete in size with those at the Harvard-Yenching library, the Gest Library at Princeton, or the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library at UCLA, the quality of the material places Burndy’s holdings in their company.

The Burndy also holds about forty-five Japanese woodblock prints. Most are Yokohama-e, images of the curious and peculiar foreigners who took up residence in Yokohama during the 1860s, after the visit of an American fleet under the command of Matthew Perry, but there are also some prints documenting exemplary industrious behavior issued by the Ministry of Education in the 1870s. Rarest and most important are two very important “black ship” prints, made at the time of the arrival of Commodore Perry’s fleet in Edo Bay in 1854.

p. 15 of 94 LIGHT AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Celestial Photography (undated)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains many stereoscopic prints of the moon, "Anthony's Stereoscopic Views," made by E and H.T. Anthony and Co. Each cardboard card contains two images, which, when viewed through a stereoscope, produces a 3D image.

Thomas Edison Collection (1877-1985)

3 boxes (2 legal, 1 large flat), has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931) is probably the best known American inventor of all time. His most famous invention was the light bulb, but he also invented the phonograph, the vitascope, and the first practical storage battery, for a total of 1,093 patents during his lifetime. This collection contains both historical and modern ephemera relating to Thomas Edison, as well as photographs and paintings of him and his inventions. It also contains the originals of several of his patents, as well as some correspondence and articles.

Elias Elliott Collection (1925-1937)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Elliott was a consultant and engineer who specialized in industrial lighting. He assisted The Halophane Company in the development of their widely used unit. The collection includes correspondence, designs, patents, newspaper clippings and manuscripts relating to the development of lighting within industrial buildings as well as experiments of various applications of light to manufacturing. It also contains papers relating to Elliott's development of a method to sort shelled and unshelled almonds by light for Hershey Chocolate Co.

Purchased in 2005.

George J. Taylor Collection (1939-1988)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

George J. Taylor, recipient of a Masters degree from MIT, was a lifelong employee of General Electric in the Lighting Division. He served as the president of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1958-1959. The collection contains articles and memoirs by Taylor, along with other articles about electrical lighting.

John G. Doughty File (1885-1909)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

p. 16 of 94 Doughty took the first photographs from a hot air balloon over Winsted, Connecticut in 1885. He was an ambrotypist and stereo photographer, as was his father, Thomas M.V. Doughty. This collection includes pictures of and from a hot air balloon, along with an unprocessed manuscript entitled "Balloon Experiences of a Timid Photographer."

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerreotypes

5 folders, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains small daguerreotype portraits and correspondence between Bern Dibner and the Eastman Kodak Co.

Samuel G. Hibben Collection (1905-1971) / Westinghouse-Hibben Historical Lamp Collection

502 items, 7 boxes, has digital finding aid, plus approximately 380 light bulbs within the Westinghouse-Hibben Collection.

Hibben (1888-1972), a pioneer in the field of applied electrical lighting, worked as Director of Applied Lighting with the Westinghouse Corporation. He is best known for his redesigning the illumination of the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, and the interior of the White House. He also proposed the idea of the “brown-out”, a reduction of electrical illumination for homes and businesses as a safety measure during times of war that did not require complete darkness. Hibben was also involved with many national and international lighting committees, and contributed much time and effort to the preservation of the history of the lighting industry through the Electrical Historical Foundation. This collection contains his articles, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera. The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten and printed articles, most written by Hibben. The rest are lighting-related articles kept by Hibben, sent to him by colleagues or through the Westinghouse Company. A significant component of the Hibben materials is the Westinghouse-Hibben Historical Lamp Collection, conveyed to the Burndy Library on May 10, 1965. It consists of nearly four hundred light bulbs from the 1890s to well into the 20th century. The light bulbs are not available for reference or research use, except by special arrangement. Approximately 200 of the bulbs are on display in the "Beautiful Science" exhibit in Dibner Hall at the Huntington.

Winder E. Goldsborough Manuscripts and Notes (1891-1904)

3 folders, 10 bound volumes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Goldsborough (b. 1871) was an electrical engineer who taught at Purdue University as well as a consulting engineer for Edison Electric Illuminating Company. The collection consists of loose papers on family history, transformers, induction motors, and contains notes, sketches, diagrams, tables, and poems all written by Goldsborough. The 10 bound volumes contain reports, notes, and syllabi for teaching electrical engineering.

Gift of Mrs. W. Laird Goldsborough.

p. 17 of 94 MATHEMATICS

Charles Babbage Collection (1791-1958)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains information pertaining to the early development of computing machines, particularly the contributions of Charles Babbage (1791-1871). It includes plans, corporate information, and articles. Babbage was one of the earliest contributors to the field of computing; he originated the idea of a programmable computer, which he called the analytical engine. His other design, the "difference engine" was built in 1991, almost a century after his death.

Dirk Jan Struik Collection (undated)

26 boxes, has paper container lists in each box, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Struik (1894-2000) was a Dutch mathematician and Marxist theorist. He lived in the United States for most of his life, and taught at MIT. This collection contains printed material on mathematics, documents related to his time at MIT, writings by Struik on socialist themes, reprints, and books on math in French and German.

MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Baron Lucien Corvisart Collection (1873-1883)

1 box, no finding aid but processed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains 83 letters, in French, sent to Mr. Colgenson, dealing with a variety of affairs. Corvisart (1824-1882) had been physician to Napoleon III and was well known as a researcher. Many of the letters are from British addresses. Corvisart’s full name is François-Rémy-Lucien, Baron Corvisart. The collection was purchased at auction in Paris in 1973. At some point the envelopes from the letters were discarded; therefore, it is not possible to verify the recipient's name or trace him.

Casimir Funk Collection (undated)

8 boxes (6 file, 1 legal, 1 large flat box), has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Funk (1884-1967) was a Polish-born U.S. biochemist known as the "father of the vitamin" for his work on vitamins. He also performed extensive research on cancer, diabetes, and sex hormones. This collection contains his research notes concerning cancer, diabetes, vitamins, and hormones, as well as articles and offprints, clinical notebooks, personal and professional correspondence, Funk Foundation materials, and a few slides/photos.

Louis Pasteur Collection (1854-1895)

4 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology. p. 18 of 94 This collection consists mainly of notes and letters by Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a vitally important chemist who worked with fermentation, contributed to the development of the first vaccines for diseases such as rabies and anthrax, and debunked the myth of spontaneous generation. The process of pasteurization is named after him. This collection includes a letter proposing the use of the anthrax virus to control rat populations in Australia, as well as manuscripts on the use of rabies vaccine on humans. Notes on chemicals, crystallization, and fermentation are included. (The rare book collections also contain important works by Pasteur, although their quantity does not warrant a separate section within this document.)

Louis-Pasteur Vallerey-Radot Collection (1883)

4 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection consists of corrected galley proofs for the book, published anonymously, Monsieur Pasteur, histoire d'un savant par un ignorant. A bookplate on a fragment of the slipcase notes that this was from the Pasteur Library 2 69.

OPTICS

Portraits of Scientists

41 boxes, paper container lists by box, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This is a large collection of portraits, mostly engravings, of scientists across a wide range of space and time. They are organized alphabetically by field, and within each field, by name. There is a list of contents in each box. They consist of mostly engravings, with some photos, of varying sizes.

Vanity Fair Portraits (1869-1912)

56 color lithographs, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

These are original works taken from original copies of Vanity Fair, consisting of portraits of scientists and other important figures, including Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, T.H. Huxley, Marie and Pierre Curie, Herbert Spencer and many others.

PHYSICS

Albert Einstein Collection (1922-1956)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This is an artificial collection that contains two manuscripts, three letters, and a series of original photographs, some of which were taken by Bern Dibner and some collected by him. The remainder is copies gathered by Bern Dibner. Included is a signed letter from Einstein to Dibner, appealing to him for money to go towards a public p. 19 of 94 education campaign about atomic weaponry. Also contains photocopies of correspondence relating the acquisition by Bern Dibner of Einstein Papers from Jay de Solla Price.

Cyril Stanley Smith Collection (undated)

19 Hollinger, 2 card boxes, 1 microfilm box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Smith (1903-1992) was a British-American metallurgist and historian of science. He developed fissionable metals as part of the Manhattan Project. He was particularly interested in the history and archaeology of metallurgy. The collection contains offprints, writings of Smith's on the history of science, and other documents concerning metallurgy, mining, the history of technology, archaeology, and chemistry.

Donald Rait McGregor Collection (1936-1978)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection consists of the scholarly papers and poetry of Donald R. McGregor, an electrical engineer best known for his publication, The Inertia of the Vacuum, a New Foundation for Theoretical Physics.

Glasser/Röntgen Collection (1895-1979)

4 boxes, has paper finding aid, processing under way.

This collection contains the correspondence of Otto Glasser, as well as his collection of information pertaining to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, inventor of the X-ray in 1895, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. This collection contains transcriptions of Röntgen's correspondence, photos of himself and his home, photographs of many of his X-rays, general information about the history of X-rays, as well as a Röntgen X-ray tube.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh Collection (1862-1919)

3 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Strutt (1842-1919) was an English physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1904. He is credited with discovering the element argon, and two phenomena are named for him: "Rayleigh scattering" and "Rayleigh waves." This collection contains photocopies and typed manuscripts of twelve of Rayleigh's scientific notebooks, as well as one of E.M. Sedgwick that contains a few notes by Rayleigh, photocopies and transcripts of letters from many notable scientists to Rayleigh, a folder of photographs, a folder of negatives, and an article by J.N. Howard titled "The Rayleigh Notebooks," Applied Optics 1:10 (October, 1964), 1129-1133. The originals of the photocopied materials are at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.

Gift of J.N. Howard.

Leo Szilard Papers (1933-1965)

2 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

p. 20 of 94 Leo Szilard (1898-1964) was the first to understand how a nuclear chain reaction could occur. He also played a role in the Manhattan Project, but later spoke publicly about the dangers of atomic weapons. This collection contains a small amount of professional correspondence, offprints, and transcripts of Szilard's own recollection and a CBS television appearance. Typescripts of his works are also included in the collection.

Thomas S. Kuhn Collection (1902-1966)

1 carton, 1 Hollinger, 10 microfilm boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains materials for Kuhn's Sources for History of Quantum Physics. These materials comprise almost 100 oral history transcripts, of, and microfilm of Bohr scientific correspondence and manuscripts. The material is a duplicate of what is in the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics at the American Philosophical Society.

Gift of Jehane Kuhn in 1997.

TELEGRAPHY, TELEPHONY, AND SOUND

Charles Taylor Collection (1911-1965)

3 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Taylor was an employee of the Marconi Company in England during and after World War II, working with telegraphs instead of joining the armed forces. This contains clippings, notebooks and pamphlets concerning telegraphs, especially those of the Marconi Company.

Donald Metcalfe Collection (1905-1971)

9 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

American engineer Donald Metcalfe (1932-2006) graduated from Cornell University in 1929 with an EE degree. After graduation, he joined AT&T. He was involved in the transmission of the first round-the-world telephone call in 1935. He was later a member of the staff of the MIT Radar School, served in the U.S. Navy and joined the Western Electric Co. as Department Chief of the Defense Projects Division. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence (Bell Systems, Western Electric), research on sonar, materials relating to the White Alice project, DEW Line, MIT Radar School, Cornell University, engineering literature, personal history and professional organizations.

Paul A. Hardaway Files (1871-1953)

3 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Hardaway was a historian specializing in the history of science, particularly electrical communications. This collection consists of his collection of mostly telegrams from the 1870s and letters from the 1940s.

p. 21 of 94 Wax Cylinder Collection

47 pieces, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains Edison Brand and Columbia Phonograph cylinders. Handwritten information describes and dates the recordings on many of the lids.

BURNDY LIBRARY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE SUBJECTS

I. Bernard Cohen Collection (1940-2002)

22 boxes, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The I. Bernard Cohen (IBC) collection is one of four collections of his papers; another two reside at Harvard University. Another collection remains in the custody of George E. Smith. The bulk of the papers relate to Cohen's post-retirement research and publications, primarily his exhaustive work on Newton's Principia Mathematica. Of some importance is the small group of George Sarton materials found in Box 1. As several of the files are preparatory to Sarton's magisterial plea for a research institute for the history of science, the material is both interesting and germane. The collection also includes correspondence from 1940-1994, publications and books in draft and typescript, many offprints, biographical information, photographs, science and public policy materials, conference materials, exhibit materials, student papers, conference preprints and coursepacks, correspondence relating to the Babson-Newton collection, papers collected on Newton and the Principia, and many theses of students from the 1960s and 70s.

Bern Dibner Personal Collection (1937-1992)

11 boxes, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains Dibner’s personal correspondence, papers, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and reviews. The extensive correspondence is between Dibner and numerous historians of science, book dealers, publishers, scientists and scientific organizations, and universities. Subjects include education, the Burndy Library, book collecting, the Dibner family, travel, Europe and World War II, Leonardo DaVinci and other scientists, and the history of science.

Janaki Nath Mukerji Collection (undated)

2 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Mukerji was scholar, engineer and book collector. In 2001 he donated 40 percent of his book collection to the Burndy Library. After a rough sea voyage and problems with insects, the books were in a terrible condition upon arriving at the Burndy. Now, all that remains is a list of the books and photocopies of the title pages.

p. 22 of 94 Charles A. Mabey Collection (1930-1961)

2 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection includes pocket diaries (1933-50), notes and bibliographical materials on Joseph Henry, and correspondence relating to the acquisition of the collection. Many of the diaries were produced by engineering and mining companies.

Robert McKeon Collection (undated)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

McKeon was a professor at MIT who was interested primarily in the history of technology. He donated to the Burndy Library a collection of approximately 400 books relating to 20th century mathematics and technology. This collection contains Kodak film, rollers, and microfilm of French manuscripts, as well as correspondence with the Burndy Library relating to the acquisition of his book collection. Subjects include the history of 18th and 19th century French civil engineering, and the history of technology.

Gift of Robert McKeon (July 24, 1996)

Otto Von Guericke Collection (undated)

1 quarter Hollinger, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Guericke (1602 – 1686) was a German engineer and physicist. He conducted experiments in magnetism and electricity, but is best known as the inventor of the vacuum pump. The collection contains a typescript copy of a translation of the 1672 edition of von Guericke's Experimenta nova by Margaret Ames, which was commissioned by David P. Wheatland from 1953-1955. It also includes correspondence between the translator and Wheatland, and with Bern Dibner, 1953-1983.

Gift of David Wheatland to Bern Dibner in 1983.

Otto Neugebauer Collection (1925-1987)

12 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Neugebauer (1899-1990) was a famous historian of science, especially of ancient mathematics and astronomy. The collection contains pamphlets and offprints including materials about Egypt. Also included are papers by Neugebauer and copies of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies and the Journal of Philology as well as microfilms of the Neugebauer index of the exact sciences. Also included are small cards containing his own astronomical observations.

Sarton-Bodenheimer Correspondence (1927-1960)

1 box, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

p. 23 of 94 George Sarton (1884-1956), a Belgian chemist, was a crucial figure in the forming of history of science as a field of study and founded the journals Isis and Osiris. F.S. Bodenheimer was an influential biologist who specialized in entomology, specifically in Israel.

Sarton-Montagu Correspondence (1924-1956)

2 boxes, has paper finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

George Sarton (1884-1956), a Belgian chemist, was a crucial figure in the forming of history of science as a field of study and founded the journals Isis and Osiris. Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) was an anthropologist who wrote extensively on the subject of race as a biological concept, including the UNESCO Statement on Race.

Asger Aaboe Collection (undated)

10 boxes: 9 file size boxes, 1 legal size hinge box, has paper finding aid.

This collection contains the papers of the Danish mathematician and historian (1922-2007) who held a PhD from Brown University, supervised by Otto Neugebauer at Brown. His dissertation title was: On Babylonian Planetary Theories. He specialized in arithmetical astronomy of the late-Babylonian period and also studied Mesopotamian mathematics. He was Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, History of Science, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale. The collection contains drafts/manuscripts articles, personal correspondence, Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Sciences, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Osiris Centaurus, Archives for the History of Exact Sciences, Vistas in Astronomy, Isis Book Reviews, etc, as well as a large number of reprints, especially on Near and Middle Eastern topics.

Baldassare Boncompagni Collection (undated)

1 box, has paper container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Boncompagni (1821-1894) was a historian of science and mathematics best known for his work, published at his own expense, Bulletine di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche. The collection contains correspondence, notes, and copied title pages and texts. The material has been gathered into cahiers, most likely by Boncompagni himself.

Gift of Bern Dibner.

David P. Wheatland Collection (undated)

7 card boxes (5.5 inches wide), has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Wheatland (1898 - 1993) was Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University. The collection contains bibliographic cards, with reference largely to nineteenth-century sources and to the physical sciences.

p. 24 of 94 MISCELLANEOUS SMALL COLLECTIONS

Small Manuscripts Collection

5 boxes, has container list, some of these are processed and in the online catalog. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This is an artificial assemblage of miscellaneous letters and manuscripts acquired at various times. The largest is three folders--all collections larger than that have been processed separately. Information about individual pieces is at box level. Box 6 contains autographs and letters from notables in which the intellectual content is negligible. Oversize manuscripts have been processed in separate collections. These include Faraday, Orsted, Marconi, and many others. Container lists are included for each box.

Alice B. McGinty Papers (1974)

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains McGinty's research papers regarding Stradanus, including her 1974 dissertation which made heavy use of Burndy Library Stradanus illustrations. Included is correspondence with Bern Dibner. Additional correspondence is located in the Bern Dibner Personal Collection files.

Boxed Patents

2 boxes, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

These boxes contain five patents folded to protect their seals and other fragile parts. Included is a patent in the name of Soren Hjoll granted by Queen Victoria in 1855 for improvements to electromagnets, two deed indentures from 1806 and 1812, two patents granted to William Edward Newton by Queen Victoria in 1866 and 1868 for technological improvements, as well as some documents pertaining to the British Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852. The boxes also include a grant of arms from Emperor Francis II in 1798 to Ludwig Conrad Deubner, as well as correspondence between a member of the Deubner family and Bern Dibner relating to the grant and a group of documents on the history of electricity.

Gift of Albert H. Emery III.

Diplomas, 17th and 18th centuries

1 box, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This is a small group of diplomas, primarily for medical degrees in Italy, gathered by Bern Dibner as examples of early diplomas. Several of the diplomas have appended seals and several are notable for calligraphy, decoration, and illumination. Locations of origin include Bologna, Rome, and Padua.

Edward S. Schultz Collection (undated)

13 boxes, has paper finding aid for box 1, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

p. 25 of 94 Schultz was a research consultant to inventors in Buffalo, NY. He was a principal in the Concept Development Corporation and received their patent rights when the company folded. This collection consists mainly of clippings from newspapers and magazines as well as correspondence concerning similar subjects. These pieces include information about inventions, science, news, and social phenomena, among other topics. Only the first box has been processed.

Esther Scroll

1 item, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The Esther Scroll is a Yemenite Hebrew scroll, on four parchment sheets sewn on a single turned roller and was written in Hebrew in Sana'a, Yemen, in 5570 (1809).

Belonged to Bern Dibner.

Johannes Stradanus Materials

1 book and 1 box, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Joannes Strada (1523-1605) was a mannerist artist born in Flanders and active mainly in 16th century Florence. The library holds a book of his works and a remounted Latin bestiary.

London Patent Specifications (1852-1886)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains thirty-three 19th century patents pertaining to electricity.

Miscellaneous Offprints

Approximately 40 cartons; semi-processed and currently being inventoried. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

These boxes contain many thousands of offprints in all science and technology topics, primarily from the 20th century but with some earlier material. The articles are in many languages. Some are relatively worthless because of their ready discoverability and availability through current online tools such as JSTOR, but others are more obscure and important.

Oversized Manuscripts

2 boxes, with item-level descriptions. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This is a collection of oversized manuscripts relating to mining and metallurgy, university degrees and diplomas, and early American documents.

p. 26 of 94 Worcester County Documents Regarding Roads (1846-1849)

17 items, unproccesed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This small group of items relates to the construction of roads in the following cities in Worcester County, Massachusetts: Asburnham, Fitchburg, North Brookfield, West Boylston, and Worcester. There are documents related to surveys of land, one letter, and 11 printed items (petitions to the county commissioners and the commission’s response). Some of the documents also relate to railroads in the area.

MONOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS

The monographic collections form the core of the Burndy Library--both primary (rare book) and secondary (reference) sources. Generally speaking, the rare books cover the period from the beginnings of printing to the early decades of the 20th century, and are strongest in the exact sciences, especially electricity and magnetism which were of particular interest to Bern Dibner. However, the Burndy collection also contains many important works in other subject areas, including those included in Bern Dibner's Heralds of Science, published in 1955 and reprinted in slightly different form in 1980. Dibner explained his annotated catalogue of two hundred notable books and pamphlets then in the Burndy Library as "an effort to select, no matter how imperfectly, a comprehensive number of books representative of the most important contributions to the physical and biological sciences issued since the beginnings of printing." The collection subsequently was transferred to the Smithsonian, but about half the titles have been re-acquired as replacements. The relatively few larger collections of monographic materials are treated individually in this section.

The general book collection, which is not separated into discrete smaller collections, has strengths in astronomy (including Airey, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Nicholas Copernicus), biology (including Louis Agassiz, Cuvier, Darwin, Harvey, Huxley, Pasteur), chemistry (including Boyle, Dalton, Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Lavoisier), earth sciences (including Humboldt, Sabine), engineering technology (including Diderot), history of science (including George Sarton), mathematics (including Archimedes, Euclid, Euler, Gauss, LaGrange, Leibniz, Newton), and especially physics (including Ampere, Bohr, Boltzmann, Marie Curie, Fermi, Galileo, Galvani, William Gilbert, Heisenberg, Hertz, Huygens, Mach, Maxwell, Oersted, Planck, Rontgen, Kelvin, Tyndall, Volta).

There are a few smaller aggregations within this general collection on particular topics or by particular authors, some of which maybe relatively unexpected, such as the Landmarks of Science microcard set, which makes accessible to users of the Library the texts of a large number of the most important works in the history of science that may not otherwise be available in the collections. In addition, there is a set of Ostwald's Kassiker Der Exakten Wissenschaften, a set of Arthur Reeve's stories of scientific detective Craig Kennedy (1910-1913), and an extensive collection of works on the popularization of science in 19th century France by Louis Figuier (1814- 1894).

The monographic collections span a very large range of topics, but several are worthy of special notice here due to their provenance. In the history of mathematics, two large collections—those of Waldemar Seidel (purchased in the late 1970s) and Vito Volterra (in part purchased and in part placed on deposit by the Italian government in the 1990s)—provide tremendous depth and range to the Huntington’s holdings in the history of mathematics. The Volterra Collection’s holdings of Italian material (especially of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) are scarcely to be matched in one place, even in Italy. The recent purchase of nearly one hundred early editions of p. 27 of 94 Euclid’s Elements from the collection of Arnauld de Vitry greatly strengthened Burndy’s holdings of this key text; Burndy’s collection of Euclid is now among the largest and most wide ranging in the country, and when combined with the Huntington's non-Burndy Euclidean holdings, is one of the most important in the world.

Another subject that has been of great interest to researchers is the Burndy’s collection of books related to the history and transportation of obelisks (a particular interest of Bern Dibner’s). This collection is probably as complete as any collection in the world, taking in a range that includes everything from 16th century engineering treatises to 19th century advertising trade cards. Other institutions hold collections of greater depth for individual obelisks (e.g. the Metropolitan Museum for the New York obelisk, the Boston Public Library for the Paris obelisk), but no other collection seems to match Burndy’s range across time and place.

Other book collections of note include the Michael Faraday Collection. Faraday (1791-1867) was a British scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Through his research, he established the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. As a chemist, he discovered benzene and invented an early version of the Bunsen burner. This small collection consists of books from his library.

The John Tyndall collection is also noteworthy as an assemblage of rare books. Tyndall (1820-1893) was a 19th century physicist. He is known for his study of diamagnetism and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air. He published more than a dozen books which brought experimental physics to a wider audience. This collection consists of over 1,000 books from Tyndall's library, including presentation copies.

Cyril Stanley Smith Collection

19 cartons, 2 card boxes, 1 microfilm box, 1 half-Hollinger, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Professor Cyril Stanley Smith had a long and distinguished career as an industrial metallurgist, professor of metallurgy and historian of technology and science at the University of Chicago and at MIT. Although dedicated to active research in physical metallurgy, early in his career he developed a deep interest in the history of his discipline, as well as in the historical interactions of science, technology and art.

As a result of his interest Professor Smith built up a collection of some 2,500 books dealing with the science, technology and history of materials. In 1992 Professor Smith donated his collection to the Burndy Library.

He began the collection in the 1920’s as the working library of a practicing metallurgist. However, it rather quickly grew to include historical sources, particularly those related to the crafts and decorative arts, as well as those related to the non-mathematical sciences dealing with matter and mechanism, which Professor Smith felt had been neglected by historians. It was Professor Smith’s opinion that the advance of scientific theory can only be understood against a backdrop of discoveries recorded in technical works, punctuated by rare but critical moments when a person of intellectual curiosity becomes intimately acquainted with the realities of practice and is forced to a modification of the established frameworks of explanation. Accordingly, despite the apparently specialized nature of this collection, the items it contains are highly diverse, reflecting the fact that metallurgy has interacted with almost all aspects of human activity and thought.

There are several 16th century “how-to” books for the artisan describing the hardening, softening and etching of steel, the assaying of precious metals, and the general techniques of casting, forging and shaping metals for use. Notable among these 16th century works are many little Probier buchlein and every edition of the highly important De la Pirotechnia (1540) of Vannoccio Biringuccio. p. 28 of 94 From the 17th century come the works of great English scientists such as William Gilbert, Robert Hook, Robert Boyle, as well as the works of the German author Rudolph Glauber-all critical landmarks in the advance in understanding the nature of matter and its changes. The rise and decay of Cartesian corpuscular philosophy is represented in the collection through Rohault’s popularization. The beginnings of the phlogiston theory may be seen in the works of Becher and Stahl. Further extensions of corpuscular philosophy are present in Emanuel Swedenborg’s important Philosophia (1734) and in Raumur’s 1722 book on iron and steel, with its fine mix of theory and practice.

The 18th century contributed finely illustrated encyclopedic accounts of crafts, ending with portentous works by Haiiy and Rome de Lisle on mathematical crystallography and De Analysi Ferri by Sven Bergman, which established precise compositional reasons for the mysterious differences between steel, cast iron and wrought iron.

The 19th century saw the gradual replacement of the old techniques by more modern ones, but not before they were well described in terms of the newer chemistry. By the century’s end, excellent microscopic studies of the structure of iron and steel from England, France, Germany and the U.S. had opened the way to the modern science of materials, based on understanding the relationships between composition, structure and properties. Through it all, steel stands out as the most interesting metal and the one that leads to deeper understanding, no doubt urged by its growing economic importance.

One of the great values of this collection is that it illustrates the prehistory of the modern sciences of condensed matter; containing many essentially unnoticed works will take on importance when historians reexamine the background of the present. But the making of works of art has also inspired much search for and discovery of interesting properties of materials, and many of the books would be equally at home in an art history library. This is especially true of the many beautiful books on Chinese bronze casting contained in the collection.

Professor Smith’s many books and articles include A History of Metallography (1960), From Art to Science (1980), and A Search for Structure (1981). In 1983 Professor Smith wrote an illuminating introduction to the Burndy Library’s facsimile edition of the Kodu Zuroku by Masuda Tsuna, a Japanese book on the smelting of copper, first published ca. 1801 in Osaka.

Some of the highlights of the collection include Enrico Fermi's own copy of his Molecole e cristalli (1934), and a first edition of Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665). In addition to books, the Smith collection includes manuscripts, reprints, and other items.

Babson Newton Collection

12 cartons, 4 Hollinger, 2 half-Hollinger, 16 clamshell, 4 small boxes, 1 wooden box, no finding aid (though you can identify materials here with the Catalogue of the Babson Newton Collection and its two supplements), processing under way. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Eighteenth-century physics in general and Newtoniana in particular are among the Library’s greatest strengths, thanks in large part to the presence of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, on deposit from Babson College. The collection is the work of Babson alone, who, after earning a fortune with her husband, took advantage of a market uninterested in the works of scientists and began to form one of the strongest Newton collections in the world.

p. 29 of 94 The Babson Collection has extraordinary depth in the works of Sir Isaac himself, and forms the largest collection of Newtoniana outside of England, and the third largest in the world. Of particular interest are the collection of books from his own library and the collection of writings in his own hand. The Babson Collection is closely focused on Newton himself, and does not include extensive holdings of Newton’s colleagues, rivals, or followers. Fortunately the Burndy collection provides an enormously rich vein of just that complementary material—as well as some Newtoniana of its own. Together the two collections provide nearly unmatched depth in natural philosophy and physics from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth.

The catalogue for the collection is organized by category, the largest seven of which are outlined below. In addition to the original catalogue published in 1950, two volumes of addenda to the catalogue have been released: the first in 1955, compiled by Henry C. Macomber, and the second in 2002, prepared by I. Bernard Cohen and Clark Elliott.

Principia: This collection is centered around two first editions of Principia, one of which has many alterations and additions in Newton’s own handwriting. There are also four copies of the second edition and two of the third, where Leibniz is mentioned by name, and the first edition of Motte’s translation (1729), as well as the first American edition. Also included are French and Italian editions and a collection of reactions to the Principia, including a first edition of Descartes’ Principia Philosphiae, two pamphlets by Voltaire, one in French, and one in Italian.

Optics: There are four copies of the first edition of the Optics, which also include the Enumeratio Linearum Tertii Ordinis and Tractatus de Quandrature Curvarum. Also included are two copies of each the second, third and fourth editions, two first editions of Samuel Clarke’s Latin translation of the Optics and a French edition, and a collection of reactions to the Optics.

Fluxions: The collection also contains two first editions of Newton’s Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series, along with an edition of a translation into English and into French. Works regarding fluxions by other authors are included as well. Also represented in the collection is the Leibniz-Newton controversy, with a first edition of a report for the Royal Society containing the correspondence of John Collins with mathematicians of his time. The report leans in Newton’s favor, preferring the idea that Leibniz had stolen the idea of the differential calculus from Newton’s Papers. Included are works about the controversy by Leibniz, Bernoulli, and Gerhardt.

Arithmetica Universalis: There is one copy each of the first and second editions of Arithmetica Universalis and a first edition of Joseph Raphson’s translation, revised and corrected by Samuel Cunn. Also included are the Leyden and Amsterdam Latin editions and Michael Laurentius Willich’s dissertation defending Newton’s mathematical methods.

Minor Mathematical Works: There are first editions of the following works: Analysis Per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias: cum Enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis; Neutoni Genesis Curvarum per Umbras;, Sir Isaac Newton’s Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves; and Analysis by Equations of an Infinite Number of Terms, explained (translation into English).

Chronology and Theology: There are four first editions of Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended as well as the abridgement by Newton himself. Also includes copies of Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. and Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley, containing Some Arguments in Proof of a Deity as well as a first edition of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.

p. 30 of 94 General Correspondence: There are printed editions of Thirteen Letters from Sir Issac Newton, Representative in Parliament of the University of Cambridge, to John Covel and Two Letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc.

Manuscripts: Many of the manuscripts in this collection relate to Newton’s chemical and alchemical work, one highlight of which is the Operationum Ordo, a 20,000 word treatise on chemical and alchemical analysis. Included are letters to John Grigsby, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Mason and works relating to Newton’s work as a magistrate. Another interesting document is Newton’s Remarks on Solomon’s Temple, which includes, among 84 pages of text in Latin, the floor-plan to Solomon’s temple as Newton imagined it.

Also included is material relating to Newton’s time at the mint, works edited by Newton, various biographies of Newton, local history, histories and textbooks of mathematics and science, material relating to the Flamsteed Controversy, miscellaneous books, and books from Newton’s own library, including a 1696 edition of books 1-6 and 11-12 of Euclid’s Elements.

Vito Volterra Collection

Mathematician and physicist; bibliophile, statesman, and man of conscience, Vito Volterra was among the leading figures in Italian science and politics of the first half of the 20th century. A mathematical prodigy, Volterra graduated from the University of Pisa in 1882. Rising rapidly in the academic world, he was appointed to the chair of mathematical physics at the University of Rome in 1900.

Volterra's mathematical skills were the connecting thread in a diverse range of interests as he undertook close mathematical study of phenomena in fields as diverse as optics, celestial mechanics, and biology. The results were major advances in the calculus, especially in the methods for the solving and understanding of integral equations with variable limits.

Volterra had an unusually strong sense of history and was an avid collector of books both old and new. His library was acquired in the early 1980s by Bern Dibner. Dibner brought many of these books to the United States, while a portion of Volterra's library remained in Rome as the property of the Republic of Italy. In the interest of making Volterra's entire library available to scholars in one place, however, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Assets has places its part of the collection on permanent deposit at the Burndy Library.

The Volterra Collection, two-thirds of which is on deposit from the Italian government, consists of approximately 8,000 volumes in the history of science, most in their original bindings.

Text from the Huntington’s old online guide

There are copies of Galileo Galilei's Siderius Nucius (Venice, 1610), Tycho Brahe's Episolarum astronimcarum libri (Uraniborg, 1596), and the Opticae Thesaurus (Basel, 1572), which contains the first printed edition of Ibn al-Haitham's optical writings. There are also multiple editions of nearly every work published by Galileo, as well as many works by Galileo's predecessors and contemporaries.

Although not primarily an engineer, Volterra owned many significant (and often very beautiful) early engineering books, with a particular focus on hydraulics and military engineering. Standouts include Carlo Fontana's Utilissimo trattato dell'acque correnti (Rome, 1696) and several works by Giralamo Cataneo.

p. 31 of 94 For historians of chemistry, there is the first edition of Giambattista della Porta's epochal work De distillatione (Rome, 1608). For those interested in the reception of Aristotle, there is a copy of Simplicius of Cicilia's commentary on Aristotle's Physics (Venice, 1526), heavily glossed in Greek. For historians of astronomy, there is a very rare Primum mobile (Basel, 1567) of Erasmus Oswald Schrechenfuchs.

As a physicist and mathematician, Volterra was particularly drawn to works in those fields. The collection boasts many major (and minor) works by Euler, Gauss, Ohm, and Helmholtz; nearly the complete works of LaPlace and LaGrange; books by Babbage and Herschel. There are important works for the history of electricity, including crucial papers by Ampere that the Burndy library did not yet own, some inscribed by the author. The collection's great strength in early mathematics continues forward in time, including what is among the most complete assemblages anywhere of works about Italian mathematics in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Offprints

The Vito Volterra Collection also includes a collection of offprints from scientific journals collected by Volterra, spanning 240 linear feet. The offprints are especially strong in the works of the leading Italian and European mathematicians of the period, including Beppo Levi, Tulio, Levi-Victa, Muttag-Lefler, Hadamard, Hardy and Paul Levy. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of such participants as Cartan, Eddington, Einstein, Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Wey.

The offprint collection, like the book collection, includes the writings and formal lectures of lesser known scholars at smaller universities in Europe. The Volterra collection will help historians chart the development of mathematics in the first third of the 20th century. Moreover, students of Volterra's life and work will find the collection most useful in constructing a reasonable profile of Volterra's working style and reading habits.

For more information, see Skuli Sigurdsson, "17,000 Reprints Later: Description and Analysis of the Vito Volterra Reprint Collection", Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1992), pp. 391-397.

Alessandro Volta Collection

Italian scientist Alessandro Volta was an important pioneer of electricity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1800 he published a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London entitled "On the electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of difference kind," in which he described his invention of the Voltaic pile - the first device that allowed experimenters to control the discharge of electricity. With this invention, what was once an object of scientific curiosity and the featured attraction in any number of aristocratic parlor games suddenly became a subject with enormous potential utility.

The collection consists of works owned by Volta, works written by him, as well as works about him. Among the rarer titles is his Scelta di Opuscoli Interessanti Traddotti da Varie Lingue [Milan, 1770] vols. 1-36, in two editions. Some of those owned by Volta bear his marks and notes. All bear witness to the intellectual context in which Volta made his experiments.

p. 32 of 94 SERIALS

The Burndy library has a very strong collection of serials relating to the history of science and technology, especially pertaining to engineering, physics, chemistry, astronomy and electricity. There is also a large selection of the publications of various local water boards in America. Though most of the serials are in English, Latin, French and German, the collection also contains volumes in Italian, Russian and Japanese. The collection has many European journals of science from the 1600s on as well as American popularizations and reviews from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Volterra Serials

The Volterra collection has its own selection of serials, relating mostly to mathematics in Italian, French and German. There is also a large selection of general science periodicals as well as publications and records from various academies in Europe.

Serials Relating to Water Works

The serials collections also include a great number of Water Board and Water Department reports and publications. These are mostly from the Eastern Seaboard and the Midwest, with a few stretching further across the U.S. and a couple from England and Canada.

p. 33 of 94 ORIGINAL HUNTINGTON LIBRARY MATERIALS

MT. WILSON COLLECTION FROM THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON

The Mount Wilson collection consists of rare books, manuscripts and photographs. It is on permanent deposit at the Huntington, and although it is not owned by the Huntington, we specifically control the usage rights to its rare books and manuscripts. (We also hold the rights to the rare books, but virtually all of them are in the public domain and thus of less concern).The library was moved to the offices of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (OCIW) in the 1970s, and then to the Huntington in 1987-89.

Mount Wilson was home to the largest telescope in the world between 1917 and 1948 (when it was surpassed by the Palomar Telescope north of San Diego, and also operated by the OCIW).

Rare Books

The books, totaling 1,109 titles, cover a broad range of dates from 1504 to 1977. A search in the online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org) under the subject term "Mount Wilson Observatory Collection" will produce the entire list of titles, some of which run to multiple volumes. Quite atypically, the call numbers for these books include a suffix: the body of the call number is 487000, followed by a colon and the number for the individual title. They came from the observatory's rare book library, originally housed at Mt. Wilson. It was clearly a working astronomer's library, as many of the works are in less-than-pristine condition. Many bear the bookplates and/or notes of the astronomers at Mt. Wilson, such as George Ellery Hale, Alexander Pogo, and Edwin Hubble.

The collection includes an impressive number of rare primary materials, mostly in astronomy, optics, and mathematics. High points of this part of the collection include a copy of Galileo's 1610 work Sidereus nuncius. There are also a good number of secondary sources, some of which are themselves historical. These topics include astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, optics, geology, medieval science, and many more.

Photographs

The Mt. Wilson photograph collections are one of the most heavily-used resources in the modern history of science holdings. They comprise 3,356 images taken between about 1903 - when the observatory was founded - up into the 1970s. The bulk of the images can be searched and identified through http://www.superstock.com, which manages many of the rights for these images on behalf of The Huntington.

Manuscripts

These voluminous materials consist of the papers generated by the Directors of the Mt. Wilson Observatory over its decades of operation.

George Ellery Hale, Mount Wilson Director’s Papers (1901-1925)

25 boxes, has paper finding aid. Please see record in the online catalog.

The collection consists of the Director's papers of George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) during his tenure at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Correspondents include many prominent figures such as Edwin Powell Hubble, Norman p. 34 of 94 Lockyer and Gifford Pinchot, as well as corporate bodies such as Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, and the Royal Astronomical Society. N.B.: There is a separate George Ellery Hale collection in the Library's holdings that is distinct from this collection, because Hale had other civic involvement in Pasadena that had nothing to do with the Observatory; please see the finding aid for this grouping of materials, which are not technically part of this collection.

Correspondence of George Ellery Hale (1887-1937)

3 boxes, 152 pieces, no finding aid, but see record in online catalog. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

George Hale (1868-1938) was an American astronomer who specialized in stellar spectroscopy, and organizer of the Mt. Wilson Observatory. He served as its director until 1923, and was instrumental in the construction of the 200-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar. The collection consists of correspondence from Hale to his friend, Harry Manley Goodwin, physicist and graduate dean of M.I.T. Its subject matter includes: practical and theoretical aspects of astronomical research, information about other scientists (Norman Lockyer, William Whewell, William Jevons, Robert Millikan, Albert Michelson, and Albert Einstein), the administration and finance of scientific research, scientific organizations and publications, Hale's own experiments and theories, the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, astronomical observatories, the foundation of the Huntington Library, and Hale's private and family life.

Richard Hale Goodwin, Gift, 8/22/1958 and 1/28/1969.

Hale Library (1924-45)

8 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection includes papers about the construction of Hale's library, and about the acquisition of rare books. These materials came from the Hale Solar Laboratory offices in 2004, when the building was sold by family members. They are unprocessed, and their primary value relates to Hale as a collector and owner of a private library and building in Pasadena.

Hale Solar Lab Collection (1924-1927)

One carton, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains documents and letters from Hale regarding the contracting and constructing of the Solar Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

100” Telescope Logbooks (1916-1975)

11 bound volumes of logbooks relating to the construction and use of the 100" telescope at Mt. Wilson.

The 100" Hooker telescope, funded in part by John D. Hooker and the Carnegie Institute of Washington, was completed in 1917. It was used to measure the precise diameter of stars for the first time. Edwin Hubble's work indicating the existence of galaxies outside our own, and the phenomena of redshift, was also completed with the help of the 100 inch telescope.

p. 35 of 94 60” Telescope Logbooks (1909-1935)

The 60 inch telescope began has a gift from George Ellery Hale's father, William Hale. In 1904, funding to finish the project was obtained, and once built, it became one of the most prolific and important telescopes in astronomical history. This collection contains logbooks from the use of the 60" telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Walter Sydney Adams Papers (1901-1956)

35,000 items, 109 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Adams (1876-1956) was an early member of the Mt. Wilson Observatory along with George Ellery Hale. He became director of the observatory in 1923, a position he held until his retirement in 1946. His primary interest was the study of stellar spectra. He worked on solar spectroscopy and co-discovered a relationship between the relative intensities of certain spectral lines and the absolute magnitude of a star. He continued his research in retirement at the Hale Solar Laboratory until his death. The collection chiefly consists of the administrative, scientific, and personal correspondence of Adams spanning the years 1921 to 1956. The collection also contains manuscripts and photographs related to Adams’ astronomical work and Mt. Wilson. The papers have been organized consecutively and consist of three series: 1) The Active Years (1921-1945), 2) The Retirement Years (1946-1956), and 3) World War II Classified (1940-45).

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade Papers (1915-1960)

22 boxes and 1 large folder, has digital finding aid.

Walter Baade (he did not often use his first two names) was a prominent 20th century astronomer, who ranks alongside Edwin Hubble as an important observer at the Mt. Wilson observatory. Though much of his work was published posthumously, his impact on the development of astronomy was enormous, especially the knowledge of the distances of galaxies. The collection contains many of his notes and writings from Mt. Wilson as well as materials from his work in Germany.

Horace Welcome Babcock Papers (1948-1978)

89 boxes, 28,000 pieces (approx.), no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Babcock (1912-2003), a distinguished solar and stellar astronomer, was also the fourth director of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. As director, he led the Observatories through many important changes including the establishment of the observatories in Chile. The papers in this collection are, for the most part, those of Babcock's when he was director from 1964 to 1978, and do not include his personal and scientific papers.

Ira Sprague Bowen Papers (1940-1973)

29,000 pieces (approx.), 88 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Bowen (1898-1973), a physicist by training, was the third director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. As director, he led the Observatory through its biggest transition since its founding in 1904, its joint operation of the largest telescope in the world, the 200-inch Hale Telescope, with the California Institute of Technology. Even though his formal scientific output fell off as director, his position of responsibility for the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories marks him as a very important figure in the history of American science.

p. 36 of 94 Carnegie Institute of Washington/ Mt. Wilson Observatory Miscellaneous Photographs (1920's-1950's, at least)

This collection contains photographs of Edison Pettit's work on the 60-inch telescope, pictures of Carnegie Institute of Washington, various telescopes and astronomical machinery, other observatories, yearbook photos, aerial photography of California, Paul Merrill's photos from the University of California at Berkeley, and more.

Carnegie Institute of Washington/ Palomar Articles (ca. 1940s and 50s)

This collection consists of magazine and newspaper clippings containing articles about or mentioning the Palomar observatory. It also includes a script for a documentary called "The Story of Palomar."

Palomar Articles (1946-68)

3 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

These boxes contain articles about the Palomar Observatory mainly from the 1950's. The articles are mainly in English with some German.

Frederic Eugene Wright Papers (1924-1961)

865 items, 6 boxes, 3 oversize folders, has digital finding aid.

Wright (1877-1953), an eminent optician and geophysicist, specialized in the physical features of the surface of the moon. In 1925 he was appointed the chair of the “Committee on Study of Surface Feature of Moon” of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. At the time of his death, he was considered the foremost authority on the moon. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, research material, and ephemera related to the history of science and Wright’s research of the physical features of the moon.

Contributions of Mt. Wilson Observatory (1915-1949)

12 boxes, has index volumes.

This collection contains pamphlets reporting yearly contributions from the astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Armin Joseph Deutsch Papers (at least 1950-1967)

31 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Deutsch (1918-1969) was an American astronomer and a writer of science fiction, including A Subway Named Mobius (1950). The collection contains his scientific notes, calculations, papers and slides.

Milton La Salle (Lasell) Humason Papers (1930-1952)

5 boxes, 2,100 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Humason (1891-1972) was a staff astronomer for the Mount Wilson (and Palomar) Observatories throughout his entire astronomical career. Humason is remembered chiefly for his collaboration with Edwin Hubble in the field of observational cosmology. Perhaps his most notable accomplishment, however, was his rise from mule-driver p. 37 of 94 and janitor at Mt. Wilson to the position of astronomer with the lack of even a high-school education. It was a feat remarkable for the time and will probably never be matched. Most of the material in this collection dated 1948 and later is correspondence between Humason and the public. There are occasional personal and scientific letters, but these are very few compared to the letters from the public. The collection contains materials relating to the 100 inch telescope and correspondence with General Electric about lamps.

The collection was placed on permanent deposit in the Huntington Library by the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection. This was done in 1989 as part of a letter of agreement (dated November 5, 1987) between the Huntington and the Carnegie Observatories. Cataloging of the papers was completed in 1989 prior to their transfer to the Huntington.

Alfred Harrison Joy Papers (1910-1972)

10 boxes, 2,150 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Joy (1882-1973) was a distinguished stellar astronomer who spent most of his professional career at the Mt. Wilson Observatory. His work on stellar radial velocities, variable stars, and galactic structure in the early twentieth century laid the groundwork for the rapidly expanding field of astrophysics. Boxes 1-3 contain correspondence, including both incoming letters and outgoing carbon copies, which are arranged in folders alphabetically by named correspondent or subject. Also included in collection are his astronomical working papers, talks given, material relating to the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, photographs, notebooks and one volume of bound reprints.

Louise Lowen Papers (1943-77)

2 boxes, unprocessed, no finding aid. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Lowen received her B.A. from UCLA in 1933 and Masters in math at the University of California, Berkeley in 1934. She was employed briefly by the Occidental Insurance Company. She worked for the Carnegie Institute of Washington D. C. and the Mt. Wilson Observatory as a research assistant until her retirement. Lowen was the keeper of the spectroscopic plate records at the Mt. Wilson Observatory and was an expert spectral-plate measurer. The collection contains calculations and documents pertaining to the loaning of spectrograms to other observatories.

Correspondence of Guglielmo Marconi (1899-1902)

125 items, plus newspaper clippings, 2 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Marconi (1874-1937), an Italian physicist, began experimenting with wireless telegraphy in the late 1890s, which culminated on December 14, 1901 with the first trans-Atlantic transmission of a wireless telegraph. He would later go on to experiment with short-wave radio and microwaves. This collection consists of letters and telegrams from Marconi to his fiancée Josephine Bowen Holman. There are also letters to Holman from Marconi’s mother, Annie Jameson Marconi, one of his engineers, R. Norman Vyvyan, and various other correspondents (mainly family members). Portions of some of the letters to Holman from Marconi are written in Morse code, and there are pictures of his telegraph towers in Cornwall and two of his family home in Bologna. There are two manuscripts: Morse Code Legend written by Marconi and Holman’s diary for January to April 1902. There are also six pieces of ephemera and 141 newspaper clippings.

p. 38 of 94 Paul W. Merrill Papers (1922-1961)

15 boxes, has paper finding aid.

Merrill (1887-1961) was one of the pioneers of stellar spectroscopy, who worked at many observatories, including the Harvard College Observatory and the Mt. Wilson Observatory. The collection consists of Paul Willard Merrill's correspondence files from the years 1922-1961 during his time at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

Albert Abraham Michelson Papers (1899, 1931-1935)

2 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Michelson (1852-1931) was an American physicist who studied the motion and qualities of light propagation. In 1907 he became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences. The collection includes a book by Michelson in French regarding the meter, as well as notes from the Michelson Museum curator, graphs, design sketches, and a photocopy of Michelson's notebooks.

William C. Miller Papers (1970)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Miller (1910-1981) worked on photographic techniques and materials and designed optical systems for Mt. Wilson. This collection includes his papers about observation and color photography as well as a photo album of an event at the Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Rudolf Minkowski Papers (1949)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Minkowski was a German-American astronomer who studied supernovae at the Palomar Observatory Sky Observatory. The collection contains 3 large notebooks as well as calculations and graphs.

Mt. Wilson Observatory Annual Reports / Year Books (1906-1955)

This collection contains annual reports and year books from the Mt. Wilson Observatory and the Carnegie Institute of Washington.

Mt. Wilson Observatory Directors Annual Reports (1929-1986)

These annual publications summarize the year's work, research, and contributions, and were presented by the directors of Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Mt. Wilson Observatory Miscellany

3 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

This collection contains a solar rotation book, logbooks, letters, annual reports, and newspaper clippings.

p. 39 of 94 Legal Papers of Mt. Wilson Observatory (1903-1938)

1 box, 85 items, has digital finding aid.

The Mount Wilson Observatory Legal Papers comprise one box of material relating to the founding, construction, and operation of the institution dating from 1903-1939. The bulk of the papers are legal documents: deeds, leases, utility contracts, and permits. Two folders contain documents relating to legal actions taken against Mount Wilson and the Carnegie Institution. Also included are three letters from John D. Hooker, a Los Angeles industrialist, philanthropist, and founder of the California Academy of Science, announcing his donation to fund the 100 inch telescope that would bear his name. Other participants include George Ellery Hale, Walter S. Adams, and Francis G. Pease.

Papers of Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop, 1911-1966 (bulk 1930-1947)

931 items, 8 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Material relates to the operation of the Optical Shop, and is divided into four general categories: research and procedural notes, correspondence, inventories and requisition slips, and job lists and employee time sheets. Shop notebooks form the bulk of the research material, several of which track the construction of the observatory’s 100 inch Hooker telescope as well as the 200 inch Hale telescope housed at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory. The majority of correspondence is between Optical Shop technicians and astronomers at Mt. Wilson and elsewhere in the country. Also includes various scientific manuals, brochures, and unidentified notes which have been gathered into a folder of ephemera.

Mt. Wilson Observatory/ ORSD / NDRC

Contains internal documents (many classified) regarding work scientists did in conjunction with the Office of Scientific Research and Development as well as the National Defense research committee. Most of the material is related to the development of better optical instruments and better aerial photographs. Also included is information about different tactical defense maneuvers.

Mt. Wilson Observatory Reprints of Communications to the National Academy of Sciences (1915-1938)

Has index.

This collection is made up of pamphlets on astronomical topics written by one or two authors concerning the current research at the Mt. Wilson Observatory. They are numbered 1-122.

Mt. Wilson Observatory Reprints from the Papers of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) (1907- 1949)

This is a large collection of reprints from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Seth Barnes Nicholson Papers (1914-1963)

445 items, 3 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Nicholson (1891-1963) was an astronomer who spent his entire career at Mt. Wilson, discovering 4 moons of Jupiter as well as asteroids. He made significant discoveries regarding sunspots, especially in regards to their magnetic properties and terrestrial effects. The collection consists of his astronomical research and correspondence. The majority of Nicholson’s research material deals with his study of Jupiter and its moons. His p. 40 of 94 other research includes his study of magnetic activity, the asteroid Icarus, Trojan asteroids, Pluto, Venus, the sun and sunspots. Most of the correspondence is between Nicholson and other astronomers throughout the world; the majority of it is also about Jupiter and its moons, asteroids, and sunspots. The collection also includes several photographs.

Francis Gladheim Pease Papers (1850-1937)

4,250 items (approx.), 18 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Pease (1881-1938) was one of the original staff members of the Mount Wilson Observatory when it was formed in 1904. His most important contribution was in the design and use of astronomical instruments, including the 100 inch Hooker telescope and the 200 inch Hale telescope. The bulk of this large collection is from 1905-1937, and contains experimental records, miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, observations and notes, calculations, reprints of articles, notebooks, and photographs. Topics covered in the collection are numerous and include the Mt. Wilson Observatory, the Yerkes Observatory, astronomy, and astronomers. The majority of it relates to Pease’s research on the speed-of-light (highlighting his manuscript with Albert A. Michelson), Ether drift, his observations of the moon, the sun, Jupiter, star diameters, galaxies, nebulae, as well as his work on interferometers, and the design and construction of telescopes.

Edison Pettit Papers (1920-1946)

6 boxes (3,100 pieces), has digital finding aid.

Pettit (1890-1962) was an astronomer on the staff of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories for thirty-five years. An observer and instrumentalist, he was a pioneer in the early fields of infrared and ultraviolet research. His main interest was in the sun, but later expanded to include the moon and planets. His collaboration with Seth B. Nicholson on the heat radiation from the planets and moon was the most significant research on these bodies during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains all of his personal correspondence, as well as manuscripts, graphs, papers written by Pettit, as well as material written by Harold Delos Babcock.

Alexander Pogo Papers (1952-1959)

4 boxes, 936 items, has digital finding aid.

Pogo (b. 1893), a Russian-born astronomer and classical scholar, served as the librarian for the Mount Wilson Observatory located in Pasadena, California. The collection is composed primarily of correspondence between Dr. Pogo and members of the general public with an interest in astronomical issues and the work of the Mount Wilson Observatory. The collection consists of a large number of letters from school-age children with questions about the workings of the universe. Other subjects include religious issues and biblical prophecies, flying saucers, space travel, expeditions to the moon, observations of the sky, comets, eclipses, and new planets. The collection also includes letters from amateur and professional astronomers from around the world, particularly Europe and Latin America.

Frederick Hanley Seares Papers (1909-1945)

6,200 pieces (approx.), 21 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Seares (1873-1964), staff astronomer at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, was involved in most of the administrative and research activities of the Observatory. Dr. Seares's most important contributions to the science of astronomy

p. 41 of 94 pertain to the nature, brightness, and distribution of the stars. This collection consists of a large amount of his correspondence, as well as some manuscripts, notes, and notebooks.

Henrietta Hill Swope Papers (1931-1970)

2,400 items (approx.), 12 boxes, has digital container list.

Swope (1902-1980) was a mathematician and astronomer. During World War II she served as a mathematician in the Hydrographic Office of the U.S. Department of the Navy, and later she was appointed as a research fellow at the Mt. Wilson Observatory. This collection contains some of her correspondence, manuscripts, notes, astronomical papers, observations, and reprints of articles.

Adriaan Van Maanen Papers (undated)

19 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Van Maanen (1884-1946) was a Dutch-American astronomer. He is most well known for his work on spiral nebulae, and for the discovery of "Van Maanen's Star," a white dwarf star. This collection consists of Van Maanen's logbooks, calculations, and charts concerning stellar astronomy.

Olin C. Wilson Papers (1930-1990)

4,372 pieces, 34 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Wilson (1909-1994), an astronomer at the Mt. Wilson observatory, devoted his professional work to various phases of spectroscopy, including the stellar radial velocity program, various investigations of stellar atmospheres and interstellar material, Wolf-Rayet stars, planetary nebulae, and stellar chromospheres. This collection deals primarily with his professional activities, which were concentrated from the mid-1930s into the 1980s. Wilson corresponded frequently with astronomers from a variety of universities in the United States and abroad, and the collection is representative of the deeply international and collaborative nature of astronomical and astrophysical research in the second half of the 20th century. It also contains valuable and insightful material related to the schism between Mount Wilson and Caltech in the 1970s and 1980s, and the near-demise of Mount Wilson during that decade.

Theodore Dunham Papers (1926-1977)

387 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Theodore Dunham, Jr. was Scientific Director of the Fund for Astrophysical Research from its founding in 1936 until his death in 1984. He was born in 1897 in New York City. He attended higher education at Harvard (Bachelor’s degree, chemistry), Cornell (M.D.) and Princeton (A.M. and Ph.D., physics). He was a staff member of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1928 to 1947. Along with Walter S. Adams, he discovered the strong presence of carbon dioxide in the infrared spectrum of Venus. During World War II from 1942 to 1946, he was Chief of the Optical Instrument Section of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. He then spent several years applying physical methods to medical research, first from 1946 to 1948 as a Warren Fellow in Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and then from 1948 to 1957 at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. In 1957 he joined the faculty of the Australian National University and from 1965 to 1970 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania. After returning to the United States in 1970, he resumed his earlier association with Harvard College Observatory. In 1926 he p. 42 of 94 married Miriam Phillips Thompson; they had two children: Theodore Dunham III, and Mary Huntington Dunham.

The majority of the collection is made up of correspondence between Theodore Dunham and various astronomers throughout the United States and England (and a couple other countries). Dunham and the other astronomers’ research and work are the main topics of the letters. These subjects include: Dunham’s work on stars (including our sun) and planets (Jupiter, Venus); biophysics; telescopes and lenses; and the Fund for Astrophysical Research. There is a folder with correspondence between Dunham, Harry Plaskett (Dunham’s closest friend and astronomer at Oxford), and others regarding Dunham’s attempt at doing his part during World War II. He contacts several people and institutions in England and Canada including the National Research Council in Ottawa looking for a position somewhere. This folder includes a copy of a letter by Dunham to Winston Churchill offering any assistance he can give to the war effort as well as copies of Dunham’s “Summary of Scientific Work” (resume). The majority of the letters by Dunham are copies that he kept for his own records. There are nine photographs mostly astronomical machinery, probably for illustrations for an article by Dunham, including a transparency of the telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory. The publications include a copy of Engineering and Science Monthly which is published by California Institute of Technology Alumni Association. The issue contains an article about George Ellery Hale and an article by Edwin Hubble; as well as several reprints of articles by Theodore Dunham alone and articles he co-wrote with Walter S. Adams.

Gift of Mary H. Thompson in 2013.

AEROSPACE

Roy A. Anderson Papers (1909-1995)

10 boxes, has digital finding aid.

The Roy A. Anderson Papers document the career and life of Anderson (1920-2003) during the second half of the twentieth century, and the early history of the Lockheed Corporation from the early 1900s and the 1990s. The collection is divided into two series, Lockheed Corporation and Personal, with the bulk of materials concentrated in the Lockheed Corporation series. The bulk of the collections consist of photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera. The collection is especially rich in photographic prints of early Lockheed aircraft, employees, and customers. The collection is small; as such, it does not document the detailed activities of the Lockheed Corporation.

Gift of Betty B. Anderson, Roy’s wife, June 23, 2011.

Harvey Christen Papers (undated)

6 boxes, unprocessed, no finding aid. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Christen (1910-1993) was one of the first employees of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. He learned about planes by building them and fixing them. By 1943, at age 33, Christen was a senior manufacturing engineer in charge of thousands of workers at the wartime Lockheed plant. When he died, he left a personal collection of more than 2,000 photographs dating back to the early 1930s. The collection contains photographs related to Lockheed and its role in the development of the aviation industry as well as personal manuscripts and articles.

p. 43 of 94 Gift of Burt and Carol Basney, 2007.

Willis M. Hawkins Papers (1920-2009)

80 boxes, has digital finding aid.

The Willis M. Hawkins Papers document the successful aerospace engineering career of Hawkins (1913-2004) at Lockheed, the relationships between industry, military, and government, and the development of airplanes, missile systems, and space vehicles during the second half of the 20th century. The bulk of collection materials date from the 1950s to the early 1990s and consists of correspondence, memoranda, presentation and meeting materials, reports, blueprints, clippings, speeches, writings and ephemera. The collection is especially rich in correspondence; in addition to Hawkins’ incoming and outgoing correspondence is the copied correspondence of other Lockheed executives with whom Hawkins worked closely during his tenure.

Gift of Nancy G. Bostick, Hawkins’s daughter and trustee, October 1, 2004.

Albert R. Hibbs Papers (1884-2009)

80 boxes, has digital finding aid.

The Albert R. Hibbs Papers document the personal life and career of Hibbs (1924-2003) as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs’ consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. The arrangement reflects Hibbs’ general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The bulk of collection materials dates from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings.

Gift of Victoria Hibbs, March 1, 2010.

Ben R. Rich Papers (1940-1995)

11 boxes, 2 oversize, 1000 items (approx.), has digital finding aid.

Rich (1925-1995) was a member of Lockheed's Advanced Development Projects, also known as the Skunk Works, a group formed by Clarence "Kelly" Johnson in the 1940s. As a senior design specialist, he worked on the U-2 aircraft, helped design the CL-400, and worked on what became known as the SR-71 aircraft; in particular he helped solve difficult aerodynamic and thermodynamic problems on the SR-71 engine inlets. Later, as head of Skunk Works, his greatest achievement was supervising the development of Stealth technology, for low radar signatures, incorporated on the F-117A aircraft. The collection contains many clippings and speeches, little daily correspondence, binders of detailed lecture notes, handwritten calculations, technical articles, materials relating to his memoirs, articles on specific aircraft, and ephemera such as photos. Chronological coverage is from the 1950s to 1990s; much material is from the 1980s and early 1990s, save for selected documents and the Technical Notes and Data series from the 1950s.

Gift of Michael and Karen Rich, July 15, 2008.

p. 44 of 94 Northrop Corporate Archives (undated)

365 boxes, unprocessed, no finding aid. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

The Northrop Corporation was manufacturer of aircraft in the United States. It was formed in 1939 and later merged with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994.

ASTRONOMY

Sir William Herschel Letters (1777-1807)

8 letters.

Herschel (1738-1807), an English astronomer, discovered Uranus in 1781. This collection consists of eight autograph letters by Herschel to fellow astronomers Edward Pigott (7 letters) and John Goodricke (1 letter). The letters discuss the power of Pigott’s telescope, a reading by Pigott at the Royal Society on the meridian observations of Mercury, a spot seen on Mars, observations of the sun, a recent discovery of a comet by Pigott, and a forthcoming visit from Pigott. They also discuss a meeting between Herschel and Joseph Banks in London on May 4, 1783. The letter to Goodricke thanks him for a recent paper on Mars. There are other discussions of telescopes, periodical stars, etc., and also a small diagram by Herschel. There are also three items with illustrations of Herschel and fellow scientists Edward Jenner, Sir Humphry Davy, and John Hunter.

Bonham's, item #119, Purchased June 5, 2001.

Edwin Powell Hubble Papers (1900-1989)

30 boxes, 1300 pieces, plus ephemera and five boxes of astronomical papers, has digital finding aid.

Hubble (1889-1953) was an American astronomer and staff member of the Mount Wilson Observatory, a position he held until his death on September 28, 1953. Although Hubble's earliest astronomical observations concerned galactic nebulae, from 1922 on Hubble began to use the 100 inch reflector at the Mount Wilson Observatory to view what are now called galaxies (Hubble used the term "extragalactic nebulae"). Combining twenty-four distances he had calculated with the corresponding redshifts, Hubble discovered a linear relation between the distance of distant galaxies and their speeds of recession from us. This relation, known as Hubble's Law, provided the first observational evidence of the expansion of the universe and supported what others had predicted on the basis of Einstein's theory of general relativity. After World War II, Hubble returned to the Mount Wilson Observatory where he became Chairman of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories Research Committee. Hubble spent much of his time on plans for the use of the 200 inch Hale Telescope, which he was the first to use. In addition to his observational astronomy, Hubble pursued other interests. An avid student of the history of science and philosophy as well as an ardent Anglophile, Hubble was elected Trustee of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery upon the death of George Ellery Hale in 1938. The collection of his papers contains manuscript material by Hubble, as well as his wife, Grace, correspondence of personal and professional nature, photographs, ephemera, logbooks, and astronomical working papers.

Gift of Grace Hubble, 1954, with some relevant pieces added later; the three logbooks of photographic plates (in Box 29) were obtained from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1987.

p. 45 of 94 Fritz Zwicky Papers (1940-1967)

38 items, 2 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Zwicky (1898-1974), a Swiss astronomer, worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. The collection chiefly deals with Zwicky and his family, although there is some material related to astronomy. The collection includes one volume of letters between Zwicky and his daughters, in which Zwicky occasionally mentions his research and astronomical work. There are also three of Zwicky’s telephone books, photographs, audio tapes, and reel to reel. There are also 14 16mm film reels that contain scenes of his home life in Pasadena: Zwicky family trips; school shows with Zwicky’s daughters; and scenes at Palomar Observatory.

Gift of Barbarina Zwicky, June 24, 2011.

BIOLOGY, BOTANY, AND NATURAL SCIENCE

Thomas Huxley Letters (1856-1893)

16 pieces, no finding aid.

Huxley (1825-1895) was an English biologist and an advocate of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The collection contains letters to and from Huxley.

Edward Jesse Papers (1854-1868)

22 pieces, no finding aid.

Jesse (1780-1868) was English writer on natural history. He is the author of Gleanings in Natural History (1832- 1835), An Angler’s Rambles (1836), Anecdotes of Dogs (1846), and Lectures on Natural History (1863). The collection contains letters to and from Jesse.

Louis François de Pourtalès Correspondence (1857)

2 letters.

Louis François de Pourtalès (1824-1880), an American naturalist and a student of Louis Agassiz, worked for the U.S. Coast Survey from 1848 to 1873. These are two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Pourtalès to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.

Purchased from Bruce J. Ramer, February 20, 2009.

Titian Ramsay Peale Correspondence, 1821-1876 (bulk 1830-1835 and 1849-1873)

115 pieces, 1 box, has paper finding aid.

Peale (1799-1885), son of Charles Wilson Peale, was an American naturalist and artist. This collection contains his professional and personal correspondence, most of which are letters received by him during his tenure as the curator of the Peale's Museum in Philadelphia and assistant examiner in the U.S. Patent Office. p. 46 of 94 Purchased from Frank Barnard, July, 14, 1975.

William Jones Rhees Papers (1827-1867)

64 boxes, 4,700 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Rhees (1830-1907), was a bibliographer, collector, and chief clerk of the Smithsonian Institution. An enthusiastic autograph collector, Rhees accumulated numerous unrelated letters and papers of prominent men as well as more coherent groups of manuscripts relating to his official position. Although assembled chiefly for its autograph value, the collection contains various groups of related materials. In addition to the collections of Alexander Dallas Bache (see separate entry), Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the National Institute for the Promotion of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Institution, the collection contains Rhees’s correspondence, letters and papers addressed to the United States Pension Bureau, letters and papers related to Indian affairs, and miscellaneous autograph letters and documents.

Purchased from Romenia F. Rhees, February 24, 1922.

Herbert Spencer Papers (1864-1894)

1 box, 51 pieces, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Spencer (1820 –1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

Benjamin Stillingfleet Papers (1757-1771)

11 pieces, no finding aid.

Stillingfleet (1702-1771) was a botanist, translator, author, and tutor. The collection contains letters to Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu.

John Tyndall Papers (1865-1893)

36 pieces, no finding aid.

Tyndall (1820-1893) was a prominent 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation, and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere. Tyndall published seventeen books, which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wider audience. From 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, where he became the successor to positions held by Michael Faraday.

Frank Weinberg Correspondence (1901-1912)

1 case, 56 pieces, no finding aid.

Weinberg was a nurseryman who specialized in cacti, orchids, and rare plants. He was proprietor of a nursery business in Long Island, New York until 1911, when he came to Hollywood, California, to work as a horticulturist on the Holmby Hills estate of Arthur Letts, Sr. The collection consists of letters discussing mainly botanical information, especially on cacti, orchids, and rare plants. There are numerous letters from Joseph Nelson Rose, associate curator of the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.

p. 47 of 94 Gift of William Hertrich.

John A. Burroughs Papers (undated)

1 box, no finding aid.

Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist, essayist, and fly fisherman. He is known for his writings on birds, flowers, and rural scenes. He was a close friend of Walt Whitman who visited him at his home on the west bank of the Hudson River, and was acquainted with John Muir, Frank Chapman, Gustav Stickley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Ford. Burroughs inspired national leaders to preserve land and wildlife. He was given honorary doctorates from Yale University, Colgate University, and the University of Georgia.

This small collection contains twenty pieces of correspondence, most of which are from Burroughs to fellow author Jean Dwight Franklin. There are also 32 photographs. These photographs are mostly of John Burroughs alone, but there are also some of him with John Muir. There are also37 miscellaneous printed items regarding Burroughs and his work as a naturalist.

Purchased from Dawson’s Book Shop in 1972.

Anna C. Stryke Collection (1742-1935)

182 items, 4 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Stryke (1884-1973), an American illustrator, worked for several years in Cornell University’s biology department making a specialty of biological illustration. Her work appeared in various periodicals, London publications, and children’s books. She was later an active participant in the Pasadena chapter of the Red Cross in Southern California. The collection primarily contains autograph letters from prominent architects, artists, authors, engravers, and playwrights from the 19th century in England. These letters appear to have been collected by Stryke. The collection also includes correspondence from Richard Hancock, an English naturalist, written to Stryke from 1924 through 1926. There are also travel diaries to Hawaii, and a number of drawings and watercolors.

Gift of Stryke Estate, February 4, 1974.

Ernest Braunton Papers (1889-1943, bulk 1920-1937)

69 items, 1 box, has digital finding aid.

Braunton (1868-1945), a respected consultant of landscape design and horticulture, planned the layout of the Bryant Botanical Gardens and designed ornamental grounds for hundreds of homes in Southern California, including the lily ponds for Henry Huntington. His knowledge of horticulture, and especially the flora of Southern California, was extensive. He also had a hand in the development of the Southern California avocado industry. The collection contains three manuscripts, including an essay about horticulturist Theodore Payne. There is also correspondence, as well as ephemera, the majority of which are records and documents of the Southern California Horticultural Society.

McNair Family Papers (1901-1964)

43 boxes, approx. 460 pieces, has paper finding aid.

p. 48 of 94 James Birtley McNair (1889-1967), American chemist and botanist, specialized in economic and chemical botany. The collection includes McNair’s personal correspondence, chiefly his letters to his brother William Righter McNair and sister Rebecca Sharon McNair. There are a few letters from the California State Commission of Horticulture regarding McNair's research of citrus diseases in 1909-1910 and several letters related to his genealogical research. Also included are copies and reprints of McNair's scientific articles and papers.

Gift of James Birtley McNair, 1965.

Charles Russell Orcutt Papers (1822-1899)

1 box, 800 pieces, no finding aid.

Orcutt (1864-1929) was a botanist and editor. From an early age he collected and studied plants, making many contributions to the Smithsonian Institution during his lifetime. The collection consists primarily of letters to Orcutt, along with some documents and manuscripts. The subject matter of the letters focuses primarily on the flora of California and Mexico. Correspondents include Asa Gray, Edward Lee Greene, George Frederick Kuntz, Charles Christopher Parry, George Alana Vasey, and Sereno Watson.

Purchased on August 17, 1959.

Ernest Christian Rost Papers (1918-1937)

4 boxes, 3 folders, 648 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Rost (1867-1940) was a cactus specialist who studied geology at Harvard and Yale. He was also a photographer and took pictures in the Philippines and Cuba for an official pictorial history of the Spanish-American war. The collection includes letters, manuscripts, documents and a substantial number of photographs relating to Rost and other fellow botanists Joseph Nelson Rose of the Smithsonian Institution and Nathaniel Lord Britton, director of the New York Botanical Garden. It also includes the typewritten draft of an unpublished manuscript, Something About Cacti, and articles by Etta N. Rost (using the pseudonym Esther Norton).

Note: Approximately 800 glass plate negatives (5x7 inches) have been transferred to the Rare Book Department of the Huntington Library.

Purchased from Mrs. Miles E. Rost, August 1968.

André Thouin, Letters to (1786-1807)

12 pieces.

André Michaux (1746-1802), French botanist, was the first botanical explorer to travel widely in North America. He was the first to discover and describe hundreds of American plants; he also introduced many important foreign plants into American culture: camellias, the crape myrtle, the herb ginkgo biloba, and others. In these letters, which are written to André Thouin (1746-1824), Michaux's friend and chief gardener of the King's Garden (King Louis XV), the Michauxs discuss their trip to America to study its botany. Eight of the letters are written by André Michaux; two by his son François André; one by André Thouin; and one by an unknown author (last name may be Limorin).

Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from William Reese, Co., January 25, 2000.

p. 49 of 94 Don B. Skinner Papers (1933-1969)

2 boxes, 96 pieces, 2 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Skinner was the recreational director for Los Angeles from 1933-1939. He and his wife Murray were founding members of The Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society. An avid botanizer, Skinner spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley working with H. M. (Harry Morton) Butterfield (b. 1887) on his botany research and was active in the research and classification of cacti and succulents from all over the world. This collection primarily consists of letters to Don B. and Murray Skinner from other botanists in California and Washington, D.C. Incoming correspondence covers such subjects as botany nomenclature, dudleya, and echeveria from various botanists of note such as J. R. Brown, H. M. Butterfield, Thomas Harper Goodspeed (1887-), Reid Moran, and B. Y. (Benjamin Yoe) Morrison (1891-1966).

Gift of the Estate of Don B. Skinner, May 12, 1977.

Alain C. White / Boyd L. Sloane Correspondence (1930-1951)

4 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Alain Campbell White (1880-1951) was an American chess player and botanist. This collection contains his personal correspondence, as well as correspondence relating to botanical gardens, plant identification, and mainly botanical books.

CHEMISTRY

Torbern Bergman Papers (1779-1806)

16 pieces, no finding aid.

Bergman (1735-1784) was a Swedish scientist whose work impacted the fields of chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, astronomy, physics and geography. The collection is comprised of Bergman's translated autobiography, thirteen letters and two notes. All of the correspondence is addressed to Louis Bernard, Baron Guyton de Morveau (1737-1816), and the majority was penned by Bergman. Other authors in the collection include Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), Johan Georg Ludvig Manthey (1769-1842), and Guyton de Morveau, who authored both notes in the collection and added comments within the body of several letters. Issues discussed within the correspondence include metallurgy, the phlogistic theory of combustion and the field of scientific nomenclature. Scientists discussed within the correspondence include Lorenz Florenz Friedrich Von Crell; Cit. (Barthelemy) Faujas-De-St.-Fond; Pierre Clement Grignon; Richard Kirwan; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; Joseph Priestly; Sven Rinman; Jean Baptiste Louis de Rome de L'Isle; Francois Rozier; Carl Wilhelm Scheele; and Christian Ehrenfried Von Weigel. Note: In French.

Jonathan A. Hill Booksellers, Inc., purchase, May 1997.

Sir Humphrey Davy Papers (1814-1826)

5 pieces, no finding aid.

p. 50 of 94 Davy (1778-1829) was an English chemist who discovered several alkali and alkaline earth metals. He contributed to the discoveries of the natures of iodine and chlorine. This collection contains 4 letters and 1 piece of verse: The Glow Worm - Epping Forest.

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING

Milo Hoadley Collection (1849-1886)

65 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Hoadley (1809-1887) was a civil engineer born in Connecticut. He worked selling wood and later wine. He served as assistant and deputy county surveyor and was elected state surveyor general in 1851. Hoadley was involved in negotiations for the water supply of the city of San Francisco, served as president of the San Francisco City Board of Civil Engineers (1862-1863), and later practiced privately as a civil engineer. The collection consists of official and private surveys made in San Francisco city and county, 1849-1862, land titles in San Francisco city and county, as well as materials relating to the San Francisco water supply, 1852-1872.

Purchased from Edwin Grabhorn in January, 1945.

John Haskell Kemble Collection (undated)

In 1986 Professor Kemble (1912-1990) of Pomona College gave to the Huntington one of the great private collections related to maritime history including ship design and construction. The Kemble Collection has original 19th-century ship engineering drawings, coastal surveys, publications of the shipbuilding industry, many books dealing with the world's harbors, and technical studies on ship construction. The collection also includes much of Kemble’s early correspondence and drafts in manuscript of his books on a transisthmian canal route. Professor Kemble died in 1990, and in his estate he provided for funds to acquire books to supplement his collection and to bring scholars to the Huntington. The first Kemble Lecture dedicated to maritime history was given in November 1993.

Eugene Clyde La Rue Collection (1909-1949)

11 boxes, 376 rolled maps, photo albums available through the Rare Books department, 2,543 pieces, has digital finding aid.

La Rue (1879-1947), a hydraulic engineer, was employed by the U.S. Geological Survey making field examinations for power sites and reporting on irrigation projects, first as district engineer for the Great Basin District headquartered in Salt Lake City (1907-1911), and then in the Water Resources Branch (1911-1927). After this time La Rue entered a private civil engineering partnership in Los Angeles. The collection consists of letters and documents (including 8 volumes) and 876 maps related to irrigation projects in the western United States (bulk 1909-1949). There are correspondence, reports, etc. regarding Colorado River projects (including the Colorado River-Los Angeles Gravity Flow Aqueduct); the Klamath Lake Project in Oregon; the Merced Irrigation District in California; the San Juan River, Little Colorado, and Verde projects in Arizona; and many others. Of note in the collection are diaries of La Rue's Colorado River trips from 1921, 1922, and 1924, and maps of western areas.

Mrs. E. C. La Rue, Gift, 1950-1955.

p. 51 of 94 Los Angeles Paving Company Records (1903-1974, bulk 1912-1964)

8,477 items (15 boxes, one rolled item, 38 volumes), has digital finding aid.

The Los Angeles Paving Company, owned and managed by the Werdin family, was an important business enterprise in 20th century Southern California. Over the decades, the Los Angeles Company expanded and it accomplished paving tasks for many families, businesses, and governmental agencies in the region. The company paved many of the streets in Southern California, including Los Angeles' famous Sunset Boulevard. The papers provide a unique perspective of 20th century California history and American business history and more specifically, a view of business practices in Los Angeles. The business files include invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The correspondence series is also business- related. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The ephemera series includes items such as business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, and several LA Paving Company related artifacts. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.

Gift of Linda Carson Werdin, November 19, 1999.

William G. McAdoo Papers (1823-1992)

12 boxes, 559 pieces, has digital finding aid.

McAdoo (1863-1941) was a practicing lawyer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and New York City, and developed and oversaw the construction of the Hudson River Tunnels, acting as president of the company which operated them from 1902-1913. He was also a member of President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury from March 1913 to December 1918, and California Senator from 1933 to 1936. Much of the McAdoo correspondence deals with his public appearances and engagements as a United States senator and also his attempt at reelection in 1938. Also of interest is McAdoo's involvement with the first Pan-American flight in 1936 and the papers dealing with the Hudson River Tunnels project.

Doris Cross McAdoo, Gift, October 26, 1998.

Samuel Brooks Morris Collection (1910-1962)

165 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Morris (1890-1962) served as Chief Engineer for the Pasadena Water Department from 1913 to 1935. While at the Pasadena Water Department, he designed and built the Pine Canyon Dam that was later renamed in his honor as Morris Dam. In September 1935 he became a professor in the Engineering department of Stanford University. Morris was then appointed the General Manager and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 1944, remaining in that position until his retirement in 1955. He also engaged widely in consulting activities for other organizations throughout his professional career. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, technical papers, and other material from his work and professional life.

The bulk of the material was donated in 1993 by John Morris, grandson of Samuel Morris.

p. 52 of 94 Jasper O'Farrell Papers (1845-1924)

1 box, 1 oversize folder, ½ of BR Box 125, 76 pieces, has paper finding aid.

O'Farrell (1817-1875), pioneer California politician and surveyor, was employed as a surveyor by the Mexican authorities from 1844-46, continued in government service under American rule, and made an official survey of San Francisco in 1847. He later engaged in mining on the Yuba River and in farming, ranching, and surveying in Sonoma County. The collection consists of letters, documents, 7 sketches, maps and one manuscript related to his life and business activities. The collection's subject matter and contents include rough surveys and sketches of California ranchos and towns (ca. 1845-ca. 1850), receipts, bills, etc. (1850-ca. 1870), and deeds, leases, and other papers pertaining to O'Farrell's land in Sonoma County (1855-1870). There are also letters to O'Farrell about various business, personal and political topics (1846, 1853-1874) and personal letters from O'Farrell to his daughter, Elena (1871-1875). The collection also contains notes and excerpts from printed accounts of O'Farrell's life and copies of letters dealing with the San Francisco survey (from 1924 and after).

Purchased from Edwin Grabhorn, January 1945.

Albert Kimsey Owen Collection (1885-1909)

5 boxes, 418 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Owen (1847-1916) was a civil engineer and utopian reformer. He traveled to Mexico in 1873 on a surveying trip for the future Mexican Central Railroad and saw Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa. Owen dreamed of a railroad linking the United States through Texas to this Mexican port and planned a cooperative colony to be founded on the rich agricultural land nearby. The Mexican government granted him permission to form the Texas, Topolobampo & Pacific and Telegraph Company in 1881, and the first colonists began to arrive in 1886. Little progress was made on the railroad (which was not completed until 1961), and the colony eventually failed when the members were divided in their views on the ownership of land and water rights. In addition to his activities in Mexico, Owen wrote books and articles on a variety of subjects, including cooperatives, woman suffrage, and currency questions. The collection contains documents and letters relating to the colony as well as railroad development in Mexico under the regime of Porfirio Díaz.

Purchased from Ray Reynolds, 1964 and 1974.

Railroad (International) Collection (1812-1884)

17 bound volumes, has paper finding aid.

This collection consists of material pertaining to various railroads, especially Australian and British. The collection also contains materials related to the activities of the civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel from 1842 to 1851, the work of Sir John Rennie on the projected Northern Railway, the work of John Duncan, Superintendent of Works for the East India Railroad Company from 1845 to 1847, the civil engineer Thomas Sopwith's work on railroads from about 1835 to 1870, bridges and other structures planned for the London and Birmingham Railway as drawn in watercolor by the civil engineer Robert Stephenson, the building of a bridge over the Seine at Maisons for the Paris and Rouen Railway, and a right-of-way dispute between a property owner in Leeds and the Leeds and Bradford Railway.

Anderson Galleries, Purchase, 1919.

p. 53 of 94 Felix Riesenberg Sr. Papers (undated)

9 boxes, 750 pieces, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Riesenberg (1879-1939) was a civil engineer and author who, after going to sea for 12 years, joined the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1901. In 1906-7 he went on a private expedition to the North Pole. He wrote technical and historical works as well as novels. The collection includes drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, etc. of books written by Felix Riesenberg, Jr., and two by Felix Riesenberg, Sr. as well as some correspondence.

Purchased from Mrs. Felix Riesenberg, October, 1965.

Frederick Roeser Collection (1880-1919, bulk 1911-1919)

1 box, 94 pieces, has digital finding aid.

This collection reveals little about Roeser himself; perhaps either a metallurgist or chemist, he served at different times as superintendent of ASARCO's Arkansas Valley and Globe smelting plants in Colorado (the latter near the city of Denver). During the 1890's, he may have lived in Revelstoke, British Columbia; he certainly invested in British Columbian land and mining stock during that decade. The bulk of the collection (and certainly the most valuable portion), however, consists of the various scientific, engineering and administrative reports circulated among ASARCO officials which he must have accumulated while superintending company smelters. The collection also contains a small assortment of personal papers related to Frederick Roeser.

Gift of Mrs. Frederick Roeser, February 3, 1969 and July 9, 1973.

Ephraim George Squier Papers (1852-1858)

6 boxes, no finding aid.

Squier (1821-1888), an archaeologist, author and diplomat, went to Central America in 1849 as chargé d'affaires, and returned in 1853 to make surveys for the Honduras Interoceanic Railway. He served as U.S. commissioner to Peru (1863-65) and as consul general of Honduras in New York in 1868. Squier wrote many books on Central and South America. The collection consists of letters, documents, and manuscripts (including 35 notebooks and field books) related to Squier's unrealized project for the Honduras Interoceanic Railway. There is material related to explorations and surveys with reference to the practicality of a ship canal in the area in addition to maps of both Central and South America.

American Art Association, Purchase, January 9, 1924.

Fairfax Proprietary Papers (1675-1843)

7 boxes, approx. 350 pieces, has paper finding aid.

In 1649, the then exiled King Charles II gave the Northern Neck, the area between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers to seven of his supporters. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Baron of Cameron (1693-1781) inherited the Northern Neck in 1710. His dispute with Virginia over the boundaries of his grant was settled in his favor in 1745. The state of Virginia canceled the proprietorship in 1785. The family finally sold their last interest in the estate in 1808. This collection contains correspondence and documents covering the routine business affairs of the Northern Neck Proprietary, including survey warrants issued by several agents to the country surveyors (1722-

p. 54 of 94 1760); county rental returns (1721-1780), and letters, office records and memoranda of Robert "King" Carter, Sir William Fairfax, George William Fairfax, and Thomas Bryan Martin. Included are Robert Carter's letterbook (1720-1721), land grants in the Northern Neck counties, and survey warrants to George Washington (1749-1752). Note: Forms part of the collection of Robert Alonzo Brock.

Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Papers of Cyrus K. Holliday (1854-1883)

1 box, has paper finding aid.

Holliday (1826-1900), promoter and railroad builder, was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from Allegheny College in 1852. After practicing law for a short time, he moved to Kansas, where he founded the city of Topeka and succeeded in having it declared the territorial capital. Holliday secured the charter for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, which was organized in 1860. He was elected its first president and was director until the time of his death. Holliday was a leader in Republican politics, served in the state legislature, and was active in many business enterprises.

The collection contains items pertaining to Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company business matters, development of the city of Topeka, and politics in Kansas.

Purchased from Mrs. George W. Burpee in 1960.

Wallace L. Chadwick Collection (undated)

3 typewritten volumes, no finding aid.

Chadwick was an internationally known civil engineer who built utility power plants around the world. He attended the University of Redlands for two years and later served as a trustee for 42 years. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering science in 1965. He served as Southern California Edison’s vice president of engineering and construction until 1962. Chadwick worked on projects such as the San Francisco Bay Are and Washington subways, hydroelectric plants in Canada, a nuclear power plant in Texas, a power facility in Saudi Arabia, and the official inquiry into the cause of the 1976 failure of the Grand Teton Dam.

Adolph J. Ackerman Collection (undated)

24 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Ackerman (1901-?) was a consulting hydro-electric engineer from Madison, Wisconsin. He was born in New Ulm, Minnesota and received degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1926 and 1932. Ackerman worked with the Fargo Engineering Company, the Commonwealth Power Corporation, Stone and Webster, and the Aluminum Company of America. He is the author of many technical articles and two books.

p. 55 of 94 GEOLOGY, MINING AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

Because of the influence of Rodman Paul of Caltech and probably President Herbert Hoover, who once sat on the Huntington's Board of Trustees, the Library can claim to be one of the largest depositories of materials related to mining and exploratory geology in the United States. For example, Professor Paul brought the papers of geologist James D. Hague to the Library. This collection included the notebooks of Clarence King, famed geologist and surveyor for the U.S. Geological Survey. In the Manuscripts Department are papers and records related to virtually every mining district in the West. In lesser number but still of no little importance are papers related to petroleum engineering and the oil industry. Much of this material is under the curatorial responsibility of the Curator of Western American Manuscripts.

John Casper Branner Papers, Letters and Diaries (1875-1921)

100 items (approx.), 2 boxes, has paper finding aid.

Branner (1850-1922), an American geologist, was the second president of Stanford University (1913-15). His career featured scientific expeditions to Brazil, where he went as a geologist and botanist. The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts (including 7 volumes of diaries) related to Branner's life and his work as a geologist in Brazil.

Gift of Mrs. Elsie Branner Fowler, June 30, 1954. Gift of George C. Branner, August 19, 1954.

William Henry Pettee (1847-1898, bulk 1865-1878)

4 boxes, 1 roll, 839 pieces, has digital finding aid.

After graduating from Harvard with a degree in classical studies, Pettee (1838-1904) spent three years studying engineering at Lawrence Scientific School, during which time he also assisted in teaching chemistry. Pettee is particularly known for his barometric determination of altitude and his studies of the beds of gold-bearing gravels. His work led to the publication of Whitney's book Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California and to Contributions to Barometric Hypsometry. Pettee did the behind-the-scenes research for many publications and was active in the American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Philosophical Society, and other learned organizations.

Gift of Mrs. Robert Bacher and Mr. David Dow, grandchildren of William H. Pettee, August, 1981.

Raphael and Eliza Shepherd Pumpelly Collection (1839-1916)

15 boxes, 3,500 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923) was a geologist and explorer born in Owego, New York. After working as a geologist in Asia, Pumpelly returned to the U.S. to study iron and copper deposits in Michigan and the Lake Superior district. He then focused on a study of the Green Mountains of Massachusetts. This collection contains information about Raphael's wife and descriptions of his travels in Europe and Asia. It also includes a few professional papers and some personal correspondence.

Gift of Raphael Pumpelly (grandson of the geologist), January 28, 1960.

p. 56 of 94 Bailey Willis Papers (1856-1957)

11,799 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Willis (1857-1949), professor of geology, graduated from Columbia University with a degree in civil engineering in 1879. Willis served in various positions as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1880 to 1916. His geological work took him to many parts of the world, such as the expedition he led for the Carnegie Institution to Northern China in 1903-04 and included studies of Patagonia and the Nahuel Huapí lake district in Argentina. He served as head of the Geology Department at Stanford University from 1915 to 1922 and was renowned for his seismological research. The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and scientific reports), documents, and photographs related to his life and interests. Subject matter includes his work, travels and family, geology (especially earthquakes), scientists, and scientific institutions. There are also early photographs of China (1903-04) and Argentina (1911-13).

D.F. Smith, C. G. Willis, and R. Willis, Gift, 6/30/1962. Margaret Willis Smith, Gift, 3/10/1964. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Grinnell Willis, Gift, 10/9/1969.

Basil Wilson Papers (1954-1977)

6 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Wilson, an oceanographic engineer based in Pasadena, California, primarily worked on earthquake occurrence and effects in ocean areas, tsunami hazards, and wave problems involving the dynamic behavior of offshore structures and the mooring of supertankers. The majority of the collection consists of correspondences and papers relating to the Alaskan earthquake and tsunami of 1964, the Hilo Harbor Tsunamis, and a boat landing project for Long Beach Harbor. There are also notebooks of other projects on which Wilson worked.

Gift of Elizabeth Wilson, July 2001.

Papers of George Frederick Kunz (1835-1938)

3 boxes, has paper finding aid.

Kunz (1856-1932), mineralogist and author, was born in New York, took a Ph.D. at the University of Marburg in 1903 and a Sc.D. at Knox in 1907, and served for many years as a gem expert at Tiffany and Co., the New York jewelers. Kunz wrote numerous books and articles on gems and coins, traveled widely, maintained an active business correspondence with member of the American and international diplomatic corps, and served as an adviser to various governmental agencies. He was a research curator of previous stones at the American Museum of Natural History and founded the American Museum of Peaceful Arts (later the Museum of Science and Industry).

The collection contains items pertaining to routine business and professional affairs, international mines and mining and the world gem market; reflections on public health, international expositions, preservation of national parks and scenic sites, New York City’s economy, civic affairs, and Republican politics.

Purchased from Dawson’s Book Shop in 1964.

p. 57 of 94 Papers of C. A. Noren (1932-1939)

1 box, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Noren was a collector of, and dealer in, minerals in Fresno, California.

The collection contains mostly inquiries about and information pertaining to California minerals, many from universities and museums.

Purchased from Patterson in 1966.

MATHEMATICS

Charles Babbage Correspondence (1835-1863)

7 letters, no finding aid.

Charles Babbage (1792-1871) was a mathematician famous for his invention of calculation machines which predated the earliest computers by 100 years. While still an undergraduate, he created the Analytical Society with John Herschel and George Peacock. Its purpose was to introduce continental methods into Cambridge mathematics. He also took part in establishing the Astronomical Society, the British Association, and the Statistical Society.

MEDICINE

Committee on Multiphasic Screening Papers (1953-1957)

145 items, has digital finding aid.

The Inter-University Labor Education Committee created the Health Plan Consultants Committee in 1953 in order to research and test viable health care programs for laborers in the Los Angeles region. The Committee on Multiphasic Screening was created to coordinate the physicians’ activities regarding the screenings. The group conducted health screenings of employees and members of participating companies and unions. The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

Theodore J. Curphey Papers (1921-1976, bulk 1941-1967)

9,250 items (approx.), 50 boxes, 1 oversize album, has digital finding aid.

Curphey (1897-1986) served as the first Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles. Curphey’s innovative attempts to modernize and professionalize the L.A. County Coroner’s Office were initially controversial, but later became standard practice by coroners and physicians across the state and nation. The collection contains documents, correspondence, ephemera, and lantern slides. The chief topics are: his work as Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Battered Child Syndrome, air pollution, smoking and smog, aircraft accidents, suicide and suicide prevention, drug addiction and overdose, causes of death, homicides, asphyxia, autopsy, drowning, forensic pathology, forensic science, oral contraceptives, and violent deaths. p. 58 of 94 On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

George Dock Papers (1866-2003, bulk 1907-1951)

4,718 items, 27 boxes, 5 scrapbooks, microfilm reel and oversize items, has digital finding aid.

Dock (1860-1951), a medical professor, specialized in pathology. He retired to Pasadena, California in 1922, where he continued to conduct research, write articles, and see patients. He served on the California State Medical Board and the National Board of Medical Examiners, and was also active in local enterprises, including the creation of the Los Angeles County Medical Association's library. The large collection includes Dock's medical and autobiographical work, papers relating to his teaching positions and students, a large amount of personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, and four scrapbooks.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

Harvard Medical School Notebooks (1871-1876)

3 volumes.

These three volumes contain notes from a variety of medical classes given at Harvard Medical School. The student's name is unknown.

Gift of Dr. Robert Folkenflik, December 9, 2005.

Emil Bogen Papers (undated)

9 boxes, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Bogen (1896-1963) was born in New York City and graduated from the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine in 1923. He worked as head pathologist and director of laboratories and research at the Olive View Sanatorium, a tuberculosis sanatorium in Los Angeles County. He co-authored the textbook What About Alcohol and was associate editor of the American Review of Tuberculosis from 1947-1949 and of the Quarterly Journal of Alcohol Studies beginning in 1940. He died at aged 66 of acute heart failure.

Charles Leroy Lowman Papers (1925-1937)

298 items, has digital finding aid.

Lowman (b. 1879), a prominent orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, founded the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital in 1911 to treat children and adults with postural and orthopedic disabilities. In particular, Lowman is known for his techniques of hydrotherapy and for his work with children. This collection contains material related to Lowman’s book, Techniques of Underwater Gymnastics (1937), including handwritten notes, drafts, correspondence regarding his techniques and the books’ publication, and many photographs of treatment facilities and orthopedic techniques and exercises.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

Earl F. Nation Collection (1896-1980)

231 items, 1 box, has digital finding aid.

p. 59 of 94 Nation (1910-2008), a prominent physician in the Southern California community, was an active member of various national professional groups. He became president of the American Urological Association in 1978, and helped to preserve urologic history throughout his tenure. He also became a devoted biographer of Sir William Osler and collected his correspondence. He published the collection, Student and Chief: The Osler-Camac Correspondence in 1980. He also annotated a bibliography of Osler’s works, An Annotated Checklist of Osleriana in 1976. The bulk of the collection is the correspondence between Sir and Lady William Osler to Charles Nicoll Bancker Camac. Other correspondents include John M. Connor, librarian for the Los Angeles County Medical Association, Clifford Pilz, and William Bennett Bean.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angele County Medical Association.

Charles Wistar Stevens Papers (1823-1888)

59 items, has digital finding aid.

Stevens (d. 1901) practiced medicine in Boston and his native New Hampshire throughout much of the 19th century. A Harvard graduate, Stevens cultivated relationships with several important 19th century figures, and exchanged letters with prominent Boston area physicians including Jacobi Abraham, a leading figure in the study of pediatrics. Additionally, Stevens describes his encounters with poverty in his book Revelations of a Boston Doctor (1882), in which he discusses the plight of orphans, pregnant women, and tuberculosis victims. This collection of correspondence and notes offers insight into 19th century medical practice. Included are Stevens’ inquiries concerning dropsy, diphtheria, and other diseases. Notable participants include Clarence J. Baker, Ephraim Cutter, Henry M. Field, Austin Flint, Abraham Jacobi, James Russell Lowell, Justin McCarthy, Edwin Whipple, Henry W. Williams, and Robert C. Winthrop.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

Joseph Pomeroy Widney Papers (1880-1937, bulk 1932-1937)

42 items, has digital finding aid.

Widney (1841-1938), an American physician, was the second president of the University of Southern California, a founding dean of that university’s medical school, and a founder of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. He sailed to California after briefly serving in the Civil War for the Union, and began his medical career in Los Angeles in 1868. A prolific writer, he helped establish the journal Southern California Practitioner, and in 1935 he published his book The Three Americas: Their Racial Past. This collection contains 32 manuscripts, the bulk of which are chapter drafts from his books. The collection also includes ten items of ephemera.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

Records of the Los Angeles County Medical Association’s Coroner’s Committee Campaign (1950-1956)

152 items, 2 boxes, has digital finding aid.

In 1956, the Coroner’s Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) ran a campaign to hire a new coroner for Los Angeles County and bring in a medical doctor to fill the position. In order to do this, the Coroner’s Committee had to get a Los Angeles Charter Amendment passed that stated that the Coroner shall be a physician who is a certified pathologist (LA County Charter Amendment “D”). The amendment also separated the office of the Coroner from the Public Administrator, and other policies regarding the Coroner’s p. 60 of 94 roles and responsibilities in autopsies. This collection contains the material the committee used in running the campaign to get County Charter “D” passed. This includes campaign records, correspondence, committee minutes, printed materials, publicity information, applications, and memoranda. There is also material used in the search for the first coroner which includes correspondence between the committee and Theodore J. Curphey, who was eventually hired as the first Coroner of Los Angeles County in March 1957.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

Minute Books of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (1871-1970)

41 volumes, has digital finding aid.

The Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) began in 1878, a professional institution designed to regulate and encourage the development of medicine in Los Angeles. Since then, the organization has established itself as an important institution in the profession. The Association’s library quickly became an archive for the medical history of California, and an invaluable resource for physicians. The collection contains 41 volumes of LACMA’s minute books from 1871 to 1970. Some prominent California physicians held chief positions with LACMA including Walter Jarvis Barlow, Lewis T. Bullock, George Dock, William R. Molony, and Joseph Pomeroy Widney.

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

PHYSICS

Alexander Dallas Bache Papers (1827-1867)

1,896 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Bache was an American physicist and educator. In addition to teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Military Academy, Bache was the Vice President of U.S. Sanitary Commission during Civil War, President of the American Philosophical Society and National Academy of Sciences, incorporator of the Smithsonian Institution and the author of numerous works on physics and meteorology. The collection chiefly consists of letters addressed to Bache relating to Girard College, including Bache's presidency there. Other subjects include Bache's scientific interests, particularly terrestrial magnetism, the establishment of scientific institutions and departments of science, interest in and support of expeditions, including Commodore Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to northwestern Greenland (1853-1855), and Arctic expeditions of Isaac Israel Hayes. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Horace Binney, Issac Israel Hayes, Elisha Kent Kane, Humphrey Lloyd, Benjamin Pierce, George Henry Preble, Adolphe Quetelet, Edward Sabine, Whitley Stokes, and others. Note: Forms part of the William Jones Rhees Papers (see separate entry).

Purchased from Romenia F. Rhees, Feb. 6, 1935.

Guglielmo Marconi Correspondence (1899-1902)

125 items, has paper finding aid.

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist who spent much of his professional life in Great Britain. In the late 1890s he began experimenting with wireless telegraphy, which culminated on December 14, 1901, with the first trans-Atlantic transmission of a wireless telegraph. This collection consists of letters and telegrams from Guglielmo Marconi to his fiancée, Josephine Bowen Holman. There are also letters to Holman from Marconi’s p. 61 of 94 mother, Annie Jameson Marconi, one of his engineers, R. Norman Vyvyan, and various other correspondents (mainly family members). Two specific manuscripts are “Morse Code Legend” written by Marconi and Holman’s diary for January to April of 1902. There is also some ephemera, including papers written by Marconi and newspaper clippings. Subjects include Marconi and Holman’s relationship, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Morse code, and Marconi’s invention: the wireless telegraph.

Gift of Hon. Peter Smith, August 5, 2005.

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

Although the bulk of the Huntington's collections consists of incunabula and other early printed works, it also houses an impressive group of medieval manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Henry Huntington in his collecting days. Many of these are notable for their relationship to early astronomy, medicine, botany, and classical math and science. The most relevant examples from the medieval manuscripts collections are listed below.

HM 1035 Aristotle. De Animalibus

Southern Italy, s. XIII (second half).

Written for a member of the family of Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily and Naples, 1266-85. Some parts of the book are now missing, judging by the multiple titles that appear on the spine.

Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1918 from G.D. Smith.

HM 64 Astrological and Medical Compilation

England, s. XV.

Includes an extensive collection of medicinal recipes and charms, astrological charts and information, a T-O world map, excerpts from Ps. Aristotle's Secreta secretorum, sections of Galenic medicine, dietary suggestions, portions of the Trotlula minor, notes on arabic and roman numerals, domestic recipes, surgical procedures, herbal information. In Latin, English, and French.

Bought ca. 1833 by Sir Thomas Phillips; his MS 6883. Acquired privately through A.S.W. Rosenbach by Henry E. Huntington in 1923.

HM 65 Ptolemy. Almagest

Southern France, 1279.

Date on f. 184. Belonged to Pier Leoni (d. 1492), physician to Lorenzo d' Medici. Includes twenty astronomical tables connected to the appropriate places in the text by tie marks. Some contemporary and 15th century marginalia. Probably belonged to the Jesuit College in Rome, some of whose books passed to the Vatican Library in 1912. At the same time approximately 27 of their manuscripts were sold to the book dealer W. Voynich, including HM 65. Belonged to the Chicago theologian and book collector Rev. Frank W. Gunsalus.

p. 62 of 94 Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

HM 923 Statutes

England, s. XIV (second quarter).

Includes some legislation concerning bloodletting, hygienic prescriptions, medicine, and astrological information. Also includes a document containing verses detailing the process of determining the number of years between Adam and Christ, as well as a manuscript regarding weights and measures in France. Numerous references in the text to Scarborough point to early ownership in that town.

Acquired by Henry Huth from Quaritch in 1875. Alfred H. Huth sale, Sotheby's 1 July 1918 pt. VII lot 7064 to G. D. Smith from whom it was acquired by Henry E. Huntington.

HM 58 Agnus Castus. Medical Recipes

England s. XV.

A Middle English herbal containing many recipes written by the scribe for distilled waters, medical and non medical issues, as well as some medicinal recipes and charms added by several contemporary and later hands in the blank spaces left by the scribe. Sold by Rodd, ca. 1842, possibly n. 295 in one of his catalogues, to Sir Thomas Phillips.

Acquired by Henry E. Huntington privately through A.S.W. Rosenbach in 1923.

HM 1011 Mensulae Planetarum

Germany, 1581.

Includes 7 astronomical number tables (magic squares) for Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and the moon, respectively, each with explanations and commentary regarding the numerical symbolism of Hebrew letters. Followed by brief discussions of the names of the earth and of the crescent symbol, with frequent use of astrological symbols and Hebrew letters, as well as a brief astrological text.

Tract bears contemporary number "14" on p. 1, suggesting, as does its brevity, that it was once part of a larger volume. 19th century printed German book dealer's notice on front pastedown.

Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

HM 83 Cosmography. Astrological Medicine

Lubeck (?) 1486-88.

Geographical material, prophetic material, astronomical, and geographical diagrams, medicinal material, zodiac, fortunes of the planets, paths of the planets.

Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in Feb. 1926 from Maggs, Cat. 465 "Bibliotheca Americana et Philippina" "Pg. IV (1925) n. 2588 with plate on ff. 67.

HM 30313 Alchemical Scroll

Ripley (?) s. XVI, second half. p. 63 of 94 English verse about alchemy, white stone and red stone, white and red gum, the trinity.

Acquired by the Huntington Library from Sotheby's, 9 December 1958, lot 42.

HU 1051 Alchemical, Medical, and Technical Compilation

Various authors, s. XV^in-XVI^ex.

Various alchemical, medical and technical manuscripts in English and Latin. Includes numbers, 1-1,000,000 written out in Latin with the corresponding Arabic numeral in digits, as well as parts of Aristotle's De physiognomia, various recipes and diet information, and information on making mercury, and other alchemical recipes.

Purchased with the Hastings Papers, January 1927.

RB 17862 Philip Melancthon. Geometrical Propositions

Wittenberg, 1553.

"Written in one vigorous cursive hand" and then bound in the 19th century, this book contains both astronomy and related geometric propositions. Brief paragraphs under the following rubrics: De supputatione motus solis, De conversione temporis oblati in tempus astronomicum. De reductione, De medio solis motu inviendo, and others.

Belonged to the collection of Lincolniana, Oliver R. Varrett (1873-1950); sale of a "notable American collection" by the American Art Association, New York, 20 December 1920, n.580 to J. Adams for Henry E. Huntington.

HM 39465 Astronomical Miscellany

Various authors, s. XV^med.

In addition to general astronomical material, this collection includes material relating to arithmetic and the use of an astrolabe. It includes diagrams and notes regarding eclipses of the sun and the signs of the zodiac. There is also a document containing a discussion of the humors.

Purchased at Sotheby's, Lot 51, July, 1973.

RB 100304 Giorgio Valla (Excerpt)

Giorgio Valla, s. XVI, first part.

Excerpts of a text which contains the titles De compositione, De subtractione, De multiplicatione, De divisione.

Acquired by Henry E. Huntington from Otto Vollbehr in March, 1925.

HM 1345 Theological Miscellany

Various Authors, s. XIV^in.

Includes portions of Bede's De natura rerum. Also contains table of computistic information composed ca. 1310 followed by a brief account of the 3-part division of the world and a list of the provinces in each.

Acquired by Henry E. Huntington from A.S.W. Rosenbach. p. 64 of 94 HM 1336 Medical Recipes

Various Authors, s. XV^med.

In English. Includes Latin-English herbal glossary of approximately 130 entries, as well as recipes for illness as well as non-medical recipes. Includes a charm against being deceived in the market place, recipes for rat poison, ink, and glue for parchment, as well as indices to determine if a sick person will die.

Acquired by Henry E. Huntington from A.S.W. Rosenbach in February, 1926.

HM 26053 Herbal and Medical tracts

Various Authors, s. XV, second half.

In Latin. Topics include: De diversitate purgacionum, dieta bone pro colericis, de quattor complexionibus hominis, etc. Tracts relating to diet. Four tables of Aqua, Aer, Ignis, Terra with colors and grades.

Purchased from Sotheby's, 6 June, 1961.

RELATED ITEMS IN OTHER SUBJECTS

Because the history of science is an evolving, interdisciplinary field, and because it is quite often interested in everyday "normal" science in addition to landmark events and figures, it is worth noting that the Huntington's collections outside of the realm of the history of science may be useful to researchers. For example, the Huntington contains a vast amount of family records, especially English and American, that often contain reference to events related to the history of science, or to everyday experiences of science and medicine. The list below is necessarily incomplete, but meant to give a sense of what kinds of documents may be found in other collections.

Francis Bacon Library Manuscripts Collection

75 pieces, 6 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and 1st Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626), was the noted English jurist, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and statesman. This collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, deeds, indentures, leases, volumes, and ephemera, mostly related to Francis Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon, Nicholas Bacon, the Bacon family, their work, the Bacon lands in Essex, as well as other miscellaneous items.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Donated by The Bacon Library and Foundation, Claremont, California, November 1995.

Frances Power Cobbe Correspondence (1855-1902)

12 boxes, 854 pieces, has digital finding aid.

p. 65 of 94 Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading suffragette. Letters addressed to Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights, antivivisection, her work in Bristol, and her moral and religious writings, including a friend’s comments on her books and articles. Correspondents include Mary Carpenter, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anthony Froude, Keshub Chunder Sen, James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Felix Pecaut, and others. See also the Letters of Frances Power Cobbe, a collection of 34 letters (1868-1904).

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, 1949.

Frances Power Cobbe, Letters of (1868-1904)

34 letters, no finding aid.

Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading suffragette. 31 of these letters were written by Cobbe, and relate to a variety of topics including Cobbe’s work with the anti- vivisection movement, literature, politics, Mary Somerville, the Ethnological Society of London, and other personal subjects. Addressees include English surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget, surgeon Dr. Robert Dunn, Reverence Henry Allon, and fellow suffragette Helen Taylor. There are also two letters by English religious philosopher James Martineau, and one letter by British scholar Francis William Newman to Frances. See also the Frances Power Cobbe Correspondence collection (1855-1902).

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Winifred A. Myers, September 1974.

Charles Augustus Keeler Papers (1895-1944)

19 boxes, approx. 1,700 pieces, has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Keeler (1871-1937), an American poet and ornithologist, was the author of Bird Notes Afield (1899) and many volumes of verse. This collection contains his personal, business and literary papers. Correspondents include Luther Burbank, Herbert Hoover, David Starr Jordan, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edwin Markham, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson.

For more information, please contact Sue Hodson, Curator of Literary Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Mrs. Charles A. Keeler, 9/30/1944; 6/29/1946, and 12/8/1949. Mrs. Merodine Keeler McIntyre, Purchase, 4/15/1950.

Theodore S. Palmer Papers (1849-1954)

306 pieces, 5 boxes, 1 notebook, 1 oversize map, has paper finding aid.

Palmer (1868-1955), naturalist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led the first Death Valley expedition in 1891. The collection consists of Palmer's diary of the Death Valley Expedition, related notebooks, photographs

p. 66 of 94 and his research material on the Jayhawker Party of 1849. Also contains letters from Palmer's brother, Harold King Palmer, an astronomer at the Mt. Wilson Observatory.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Mrs. Theodore Sherman Palmer, December 14, 1955.

George Suckley Papers (1846-1886)

1 box, 97 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Suckley (1830-1869), United States Army surgeon and naturalist, participated in the Northern Pacific Railroad Route Survey led by Isaac I. Stevens. The collection consists of the correspondence and papers of George Suckely's activities and interest in the field of natural history, especially ornithology.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

From M. F. Savage, January 1923.

Paul Hutchison Papers (1927-1975)

2 boxes, items in botanical library, 2 volumes, 120 pieces, has digital finding aid.

A senior botanist at the University of California at Berkeley, Hutchison (1924-1997) traveled great distances from his California home in search of new plant species. The papers contain two botanical essays by Hutchison on the species of cacti in which he specialized, as well as a few of his letters to and from other prominent botanists. The bulk of the collection consists of Hutchison's personal collection of the journals and correspondence of English streetcar operator and amateur cactus botanist John Thomas Bates. There are several botanical notebooks and catalogues belonging to Hutchison and Bates. Two of Bates' notebooks contain extensive notes on English botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849-1934). There is also a 1952 bound report collected by Hutchison on the horticultural and agricultural conditions of the Caribbean island of St. Croix. There are also 24 items of ephemera including a botanical catalogue, miscellaneous ledgers, invoices, photographs, a scrapbook and taxonomic notes.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Paul Hutchison, June 1987.

George Bird Grinnell Papers (1879-1951)

124 items, has digital finding aid.

Grinnell (1849-1938) was an editor, author, explorer, naturalist, and conservationist. He was an active member in various scientific and conservationist organizations, wrote various books and articles, and was editor of the publication Forest and Stream from 1876-1911. This collection of some of his correspondence covers such subjects as wild life conservation (especially of birds) use of water resources on public lands for irrigation, national parks and the National Parks Association, and publications relative to national parks and wildlife.

p. 67 of 94 For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Joseph Rubenfine, May 1979.

Theodore Parker Lukens Papers (1882-1903)

8 boxes, 3,600 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Lukens (1848-1918) was a conservationist, a pioneer community leader in Pasadena, California and a friend of John Muir. He promoted many conservation causes. The collection consists of letters, diaries, manuscripts, and photographs related to Lukens's personal and business affairs, conservation, the study of local forests, commercial tree farming, and the establishment of the Mount Wilson Observatory.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Mrs. Helen Lukens Gaut, Purchase, January 18, 1954.

John Muir Letters (1902-1955)

86 pieces, 1 box, no finding aid.

Muir (1838-1914) was a naturalist, conservationist, and writer who came to the U.S. from his birthplace of Scotland. He arrived in California in 1868 and became an avid supporter of the Yosemite Valley, helping to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890. He wrote extensively about the mountains of California, his best known works being The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Yosemite, and My First Summer in Sierra. This collection contains family letters and correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins and the John Muir Association, plus two manuscripts. Xerox copies of a small collection of correspondence mostly between Muir and his brother (155 pieces, 1860-1906) are available in the Library.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of J. Marshall Watkins, May, 1961.

Collection of Research Material related to John Muir (1891-1961)

59 items, has digital finding aid.

Muir (1838-1914) was a naturalist, conservationist, and author. The collection is made up of 59 ephemera items related to John Muir including pamphlets, brochures, newspaper and magazine clippings, programs, poetry, and copies of Muir’s writings and sketches. The material was collected by J. Marshall Watkins while he was researching Muir. Subjects include Muir’s conservation work in California including his involvement with the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Kings Canyon National Park, and Yosemite National Park.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of J. Marshall Watkins, May 20 and June 14, 1961.

p. 68 of 94 William Henry Thrall Papers (1888-1960)

3,500 pieces (approx.), 10 boxes, 1 volume, 1 roll, has paper container list. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Thrall (1874?-1963), a conservationist and editor, loved to hike and became an authority on the trails and history of the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. From 1933 to 1938 he served as head of the Division of Mountain Education of the Los Angeles County Department of Recreation. He was also the publisher of Trails magazine from 1934-1938. This collection contains letters, manuscripts, documents relating to the San Gabriel Mountains and the publication of Trails magazine and secondary source material on Los Angeles County water supply, conservation, and recreation in the mountain areas.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Mrs. William H. Thrall, May, 1963.

Olindo Romulus Angelillo Papers (1925-1983)

10 boxes, 800 items (approx.), has digital finding aid.

Angelillo (1899-1988), an Italian American civil engineer, inventor, and scientist, was active in California politics in the 1930s and 1950s. He later did work on water resources, energy development, earth movements, and air pollution control. The collection includes his correspondence, documents, ephemera, artifacts, architectural drawings, maps, photos, and videocassettes.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of the author, October 2, 1975.

Records of the Conservative Water Company (1900-1967)

2 boxes, 310 items, has digital finding aid.

The Conservative Water Company began to supply water to the neighborhood of Watts, within Los Angeles, California, in 1904. The Department of Water and Power purchased the utilities company in August 1967. The collection includes correspondence, reports, and ephemera. Many of the letters deal with the company’s public health, financial, and legal issues. The reports are primarily about the company’s water supply. The ephemera include newspaper clippings, financial and legal documents, maps, pamphlets, and public health documents.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Elliot Mittler, November 20, 2009. Several maps were a gift of Elliot Mittler, April 26, 2010.

Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle Collection (1835-1938)

371 pieces, 4 boxes, has paper finding aid.

p. 69 of 94 Valle (1854-1938), a legislator and civic leader, was a director of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (1927-1929). The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents (including one bound volume) and maps (in English and Spanish) related to the life and career of Reginald Francisco Del Valle (bulk 1920- 1937). It includes materials related to California politics and government, water resources, agriculture in the Owens Valley, the St. Francis Dam disaster, Stephen Mallory White, the Del Valle family (including a copy of the will of Ygnacio del Valle) and the William Mulholland Memorial. There are also land papers for the Camulos Ranch in Ventura County, California.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Lucretia Grady, Gift, June 1940; James Smalldon, Purchase, March 1965.

J. H. Dockweiler Papers (1882-1931)

4 boxes, 69 pieces, no finding aid, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

Dockweiler (1864-1930), a civil engineer, was employed in the office of Los Angeles City Surveyor on railroad surveys from 1880 to 1887. He served as Los Angeles City Engineer for three terms (1891-1899) and in this position was instrumental in the development of the Los Angeles water-supply system. From 1899 to 1904 Dockweiler was a consultant in engineering, water projects, and the investigation of Western mining properties. From 1904 to 1916 he was a consulting engineer for the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, but by 1925 had returned to Southern California and continued consulting on irrigation and other engineering projects. The collection consists of 69 field books Dockweiler kept. Subject matter includes surveys of Los Angeles and environs (1882-92) and of water supplies for the San Francisco and Oakland area (1906-16).

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Dawson's Book Shop, Purchase, July 21, 1966.

Albert Bacon Fall Collection (1887-1941)

109 boxes, 55,000 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Fall (1861-1944) was a senator from New Mexico (1912-1921) and Secretary of the Interior (1921-1923) under President Harding. As Secretary, Fall concentrated his efforts on problems relating to the development of the nation's resources. The collection (bulk 1887-1941) contains letters and documents related to the following subjects: Fall's terms of office as senator for New Mexico and Secretary of the Interior (1912-23), family affairs (1907-41) and personal business (1912-23); politics and government (both in New Mexico and on a national level); New Mexico (especially land, water, forest, and mineral questions); Mexico (including the testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee Investigating Mexican Affairs); reclamation projects (especially the Colorado River Project and Elephant Butte Dam); Indian Affairs (particularly with the Apache, Navajo, and Pueblo tribes); Alaska.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Mahlon T. Everhart, Jr., 1952-63. p. 70 of 94 John Alexander Gray Papers (1961-1965)

1 box, 176 items, has digital finding aid.

Gray, a Los Angeles newswriter, drafted articles relating to the Bureau of Power and Light (later the Department of Water and Power) and the history of the City of Los Angeles. The collection consists primarily of his draft article manuscripts relating to the procurement of water and power from the Owens Valley via the Los Angeles Aqueduct and from Boulder Dam for the city of Los Angeles. Other subjects of the articles include key Los Angeles institutions, including the Metropolitan Water District and the Southern California Edison Company. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and ephemera that reflect Gray’s interest in Los Angeles air quality and environmental education.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of James A. Linck, February, 1968.

Frank Hinckley Collection (1863-1898)

3 boxes, 2 volumes, 221 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Hinckley (1838-1890) became a civil engineer for the government in San Francisco in 1863. He worked as a surveyor for the Western Pacific Railroad in and around the Bay Area until 1872. The collection consists of letters, diaries (29 volumes), two account books, and documents related to the life and professional activities of Hinckley. Subject matter includes: life in San Francisco (1863-66), working for the Western Pacific Railroad Company as a surveyor (1863-90), and ranch life in both Hayward and Redlands, California. There are also some materials by additional Hinckley family members in the collection.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Hinckley, May 1935.

William Rich Hutton Papers (1840-1861)

2 boxes, 149 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Hutton, surveyor and engineer, came to California in 1847 as a clerk with his uncle, Major William Rich, paymaster for U.S. volunteer troops. For the next six years, Hutton was employed as a surveyor and draftsman. During this time he made watercolor and pencil drawings of California scenes. In 1853 he returned to the East and worked as an engineer on various projects including the Washington Bridge and Hudson River Tunnel in New York City. The collection contains 95 drawings, 13 letters, and 39 facsimile copies of letters and manuscripts. The illustrative material includes both watercolor and pencil drawings of California (including Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco, the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, and the California missions), Baja California, Mexico, and Peru. There are also five pieces in the collection related to the author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Mary A. Hutton, Gift and purchase, 1939-1946.

p. 71 of 94 William Spencer Lowden Papers (1856-1929)

8 boxes, books, 12,500 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Lowden (1830-1912) came to Sacramento from Massachusetts by wagon train in 1849. He went to Weaverville, California, in 1850, where he engaged in mining. Following work as a trader, contractor, surveyor, and express rider, he settled in Grass Valley, California. In 1857 he founded the Weaverville and Shasta Wagon Road Company. Lowden's son, Henry L. (1857-1935), worked with his father in a surveying company for many years and served at one time as U.S. deputy county surveyor. The collection consists of letters and documents (including account books and letter books) related to the business and family lives of William S. and Henry L. Lowden (bulk 1856-1929). The collection contains the business records of three companies with which the Lowdens were involved: the Weaverville and Minersville Wagon Road Company, the Weaverville and Shasta Wagon Road Company, and the Lewiston Turnpike Company. Miscellaneous land and legal papers may also be found in the collection in addition to various mining and surveyors' reports.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Leo J. McGlynn, Purchase, November 1951.

William Moore Collection (1857-1891)

6 boxes, 2 volumes, 95 items, has paper finding aid.

Moore (1827-1891), Los Angeles surveyor, worked for the Los Angeles city surveyor's office with George Hansen in the 1850s. Moore served as Los Angeles county surveyor and as Los Angeles city surveyor. Moore was given a contract in 1878 to build a tunnel in central Los Angeles to supply irrigation water (the tunnel was never built). This collection contains the following series: manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, ephemera, and oversize. The manuscripts include Moore's daily diaries as well as his field books. The diaries contain short entries reflecting his business activities. The field books contain sketches and calculations of his various surveying projects. The small series of correspondence includes letters from friends written to Moore and his wife. The correspondence also includes one letter from Moore to his wife about his discovery of gold during a mining expedition in 1878. The legal documents include contracts, deeds, indentures, leases, and promissory notes. The two oversize ledgers include notes and drawings of Moore's various surveying projects.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Florence Moore Kreider, Gift, January 1935, May 1938 and November 1946.

Charles F. and Isaac B. Potter Papers (1887-1940, bulk 1905-1925)

10 boxes, 3,974 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Charles (b. 1861) and his brother Isaac (b. 1856), were lawyers with extensive business interests in Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and California. Their clients were chiefly water and power companies in the Southwestern United States. Although more than half of the collection contains daily business correspondence, there are also various reports on geothermal power resources and water rights issues in California and in the Owens Valley in particular. The collection also includes agreements, deeds, incorporation papers, mortgages, organizational records, property and title holdings, and surveys. p. 72 of 94 For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from N.A. Kovach, February 8, 1945.

Henry Harbinson Sinclair Collection (1762; 1893-1931)

7 boxes, volumes, 1,093 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Sinclair (1858-1914), a hydro-electrical engineer, was instrumental in the development of hydro-electric power in Southern California and helped organize the Redlands Electric Light and Power Company, which was franchised in 1892. He later became director of the California Power Company (formed to build an electric plant on the Kern River), general manager of the Edison Electric Company, and a director of the Southern California Edison Company and various other corporations. The collection contains his personal papers: letters, manuscripts (including 9 diaries and 17 notebooks), and documents related to his life and business interests. Subject matter includes mostly business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc. (1909-14); diaries (1896-1907) and notebooks (1893-1909) concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association (1911- 14); the California to Honolulu yacht races (1905-08). The collection also includes his son's papers pertaining to California Delta Farms, Incorporated (1920-29).

Note: The Special Collections division of A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands, California (125 W. Vine Street) has the other known significant repository of material related to H.H. Sinclair, stemming from his activities in and around the city.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Allan Goldman, Institutional Archivist ([email protected]).

Gift of Arthur W. Sinclair and Marjorie Sinclair, children of H.H. Sinclair, 1936.

Solano-Reeve Collection (1849-1910)

19 boxes, has digital finding aid. Digital versions of maps available on Huntington Digital Library website.

Alfred Solano (1857-193?) became associated with George Hansen, assisting him in the making of surveys of various tracts in Los Angeles County and in other parts of Southern California. Hansen's records were left to Solano and form part of this collection. The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. Of the 3,225 pieces in the collection, there are over 2,100 maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Alfred Solano and Anna B. Reeve, Purchase, May 1933.

Southern California Edison Records (1848-1989, bulk from 1911-1965)

510 boxes, has digital finding aid.

p. 73 of 94 Southern California Edison (SCE) is the largest electric utility in California and one of the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utilities, serving more than 14 million people in 15 counties of central, coastal and southern California. The collection consists of a selection of corporate records created by SCE, an electric utility founded in 1886, as well as smaller collections created by employees of SCE and materials used in the process of writing the official history of SCE. The Huntington also holds a very large and extensive photograph collection of images taken by SCE over the decades; this collection resides within the Huntington’s Visual Materials collections and can be viewed here: http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16003coll2.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Allan Goldman, Institutional Archivist ([email protected]).

Donated by Edison International in August 2005.

Motion Picture Film of Southern California Edison (c. 1930-1996)

626 items, has digital finding aid.

The collection primarily chronicles the history and development of Southern California Edison, including the construction of Edison plants, advertising footage, the search for alternative energy sources, and employee news videos featuring updates on Edison projects. Historical footage and advertising spots date from the 1930s forward, while the majority of the VHS and U-Matic material covers the 1970s through 1990s.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Allan Goldman, Institutional Archivist ([email protected]).

Gift of Edison International, August 2005.

St. Francis Dam Disaster Papers (1928-1929)

12 items, containing 974 pages of material, 2 boxes, has digital finding aid.

From 1924 to 1926, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power built the St. Francis Dam in the San Francisquito Canyon to help provide water for the city. However, the dam collapsed in the night between March 12 and 13, 1928. The flood travelled south through San Francisquito Canyon, turned west to the Santa Clara River, and destroyed parts of several towns and cities in Ventura and Los Angeles counties including Santa Paula City before it reached the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of people were killed, homes became debris, agricultural plants in the field were washed away, and the value of land in the flooded area drastically decreased. The county and city governments, with the help of personnel from the state and federal agencies, established several committees to investigate the cause of the dam's failure, to provide material support for the survivors, and to compensate for the loss caused by the disaster. The Red Cross, the American Legion, and many individuals joined the relief efforts. This collection includes correspondence, meetings minutes, press releases, photographs, and other documents about the St. Francis Dam disaster. As the original arrangement of the papers has been kept, most folders contain documents related either to one of the government-established committees or to some non- governmental organizations. The papers document, in detail, how various governmental committees and non- governmental organizations worked together for the disaster's relief and compensation. It also deals with the conflicts between the Los Angeles city government and the Red Cross on some relief issues, the legal aspects of Los Angeles city government's relief efforts, and the investigation of the causes of the dam's failure. Among others, Charles C. Teague, mayor of the City of Santa Paula, participated in the decision making process of the disaster's relief and investigation and he is an author in the collection.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]). p. 74 of 94 Gift of R. G. Cleland, February 1944 and Gift of Judge Pierson M. Hall, December 6, 1944.

Nathan W. Stowell Collection (1852-1925)

3 boxes, folders, 1 rolled item, 167 items, has digital finding aid.

Stowell (b. 1851), a hydraulic engineer, worked on numerous irrigation and land development projects in Southern California, including the areas of Rialto, Corona, Cucamonga, Ontario, East Whittier, and the Imperial Valley. He founded or took leadership positions in several companies, including the Stowell Cement Pipe Company, the Cucamonga Fruit Land Company, the Cucamonga Land and Improvement Company, the Ontario Power Company, and the Pacific Sewer Pipe Company. Stowell was vice-president of the California Development Company and president of the Imperial Valley Water Company Number 1, where he collaborated with George and William Chaffey on the irrigation development of Ontario and the Imperial Valley. The collection consists primarily of Stowell’s field notes, maps, and business records. Included are copies of the field notes from Los Angeles area surveyors Henry Hancock, George Hansen, and William P. Reynolds from the 1850s to the 1870s, as well as copies of maps and plats from the Cucamonga and Los Angeles areas. Seven volumes of business records consist of deeds, articles of incorporation, and lawsuits related to Stowell’s interests.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from N. Kovach, 1943; and February and April, 1945.

Alfred B. Summers Papers (ca. 1875-1909)

1 box, 17 volumes, approximately 330 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Summers, a U.S. Deputy mineral surveyor from California, made surveys of mines in northern California. The collection consists of letters, documents, 17 field books, survey notes, and maps related to various California mines in Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Yuba counties.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Egbert Robinson, August 1937.

John Baker Tapscott Papers (1837-1943)

1 box, approximately 200 pieces, has paper finding aid.

Tapscott (1830-1906) began his career as a surveyor, and, after serving as 1st Lieutenant of the Corps of Engineer of Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, he became partner in the newly established firm of Cobb & Tapscott, which specialized in civil, topographical, and architectural engineering and surveying. Tapscott was known as an amateur scientist, historian, and genealogist and frequently contributed to local newspapers. He was one of the first members of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The collection consists of miscellaneous correspondence, Civil War papers, surveyor’s field books, and many public lectures and research materials, including those on the Transit of Venus.

For more information, please contact Olga Tsapina, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

p. 75 of 94 Purchased from Mrs. Katharine T. Rohrbough, June 20, 1966.

George Clinton Ward Papers (1847-1948, bulk 1927-1936)

881 items, 3 boxes, 1 oversize scrapbook, has digital finding aid.

Ward (1863-1933), an engineer and California utility company executive, first worked in the construction of iron bridges and railroad engineering. He was chief engineer for the Racquette Lake Railroad in New York, owned by Collis P. Huntington. In 1905, Henry E. Huntington persuaded him to come to California, and Ward became general manager for the Huntington Land and Improvement Company. He later worked as general manger for the Pacific Light and Power Company, where he was in charge of the Big Creek hydro-electric generating project. He was made vice-president of the Southern California Edison Company in 1917, and president in 1922. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, including condolence letters by and about Henry and Collis Huntington. Other items include manuscripts, clippings, documents, and ephemera.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Allan Goldman, Institutional Archivist ([email protected]).

Gift of Mrs. Louis Ward Watkins, September 10 and 16, 1946; February 25 and June 30, 1948; August 18, 1953; and December 13, 1954.

Historical Photograph Collection

The Photo Archive at the Library contains approximately 250,000 prints and negatives which deal primarily with the history and growth of the American West with an emphasis on Southern California. The images are used for research by historians, in historical publications, and more frequently in documentary television and video tapes. Because the Archive concentrates on the settlement, building, and commercial growth of the West, many of the photographs visually chronicle the influence of civil engineering and important engineering projects in this region. The themes that are predominant in the history of the American West deal directly with engineering issues: transportation, mining, water and its transport, agriculture, and the growth of residential and manufacturing centers. These are well-documented in the Photo Archive, which is part of the Rare Books Department.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Watts, Curator of Photographs ([email protected]).

Brock Collection: Fairfax Proprietary Papers (1675-1843)

7 boxes, has paper finding aid.

In 1649, the then exiled King Charles II gave the Northern Neck, the area between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers to seven of his supporters. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Baron of Cameron (1693-1781) inherited the Northern Neck in 1710. His dispute with Virginia over the boundaries of his grant was settled in his favor in 1745. The state of Virginia canceled the proprietorship in 1785. The family finally sold their last interest in the estate in 1808.

This collection contains correspondence and documents covering the routine business affairs of the Northern Neck Proprietary, including survey warrants issued by several agents to the country surveyors (1722-1760); county rental returns (1721-1780), and letters, office records and memoranda of Robert "King" Carter, Sir William Fairfax, George William Fairfax, and Thomas Bryan Martin. Included are Robert Carter's letterbook (1720-1721), land grants in the Northern Neck counties, and survey warrants to George Washington (1749-1752).

p. 76 of 94 For more information, please contact Olga Tsapina, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased with the Brock Collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Ralph Arnold Papers (1836-1961)

257 boxes, 200,000 items, has digital finding aid.

Arnold (1875-1961) was a leading consulting geologist and petroleum engineer in the United States. He became a member of the U.S. Geological Survey, wrote and lectured extensively on geological subjects, engaged in numerous mining and petroleum ventures, and was active in Republican politics, especially in the presidential campaign of Herbert Hoover. The collection contains letters, documents (including 190,000 reports), 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, South America, etc.; political papers from 1914-1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers (1836-1961) of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey (1900-09).

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Ralph Arnold, 1955-1961.

Ralph Arnold Addenda (c. 1848-1961)

540 items (approx.), has digital finding aid.

This collection focuses on correspondence, school records, and ephemera related to Ralph Arnold’s daughter, Winninette Arnold Noyes. There is also a variety of other correspondence by members of the Arnold family, as well as their friends and colleagues; diaries kept by Delos Arnold (1856), Ralph Arnold (1891-1901), and Winninette Stokes Arnold (c. 1921-1934). There are also some professional papers related to Ralph Arnold, family photographs, and some printed texts and maps.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of the Dr. Patricia Noyes estate through the Oregon Pacific Bank Wealth and Management Services and Cheryl Gruez, September 8, 2011.

Aurora Consolidated Mines Company Records (1913-1918)

2 boxes, 238 items, has digital finding aid.

The Aurora Consolidated Mines Company, a mining enterprise headquartered in Utah, mined gold and silver in Aurora, Nevada. The mine was considered one of the most important in Nevada when it was sold to Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company in 1914. The mine also contained a cyanide mill. The records, composed mostly of plans and blueprints for mine equipment, appear to be primarily from the mine’s metal and repair shop. The collection also contains one manuscript, one letter, a number of clerical documents, and two pieces of ephemera.

p. 77 of 94 For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from W.P. Hammon, February 19, 1964.

Sir Francis Beaufort Papers (c. 1710-1953)

38 boxes, 2,143 pieces, has digital finding aid.

Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) was a hydrographer of the British Navy and member of the Royal Society, creator of the wind force scale and weather notation coding, and author of Karamania, or, A brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity (London, 1817). Beaufort was married twice. His first wife was Alicia Magdalena Wilson (d. 1834). In 1839 he married Honora Edgeworth, the daughter of his long-time friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth and sister of the novelist Maria Edgeworth. His daughter Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe, Viscountess Strangford (d. 1887) was a noted humanitarian and traveler. The collection contains diaries, journals, account books and correspondence of Beaufort and members of the Beaufort family: his father Daniel Augustus Beaufort, first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson Beaufort (d. 1834), and others.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Francis N. Beaufort-Palmer, 1968-73.

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare Correspondence (1843-1923)

537 items, 8 boxes, has paper finding aid.

Baron Bruce (1815-1895), a barrister and politician, was a member of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Correspondence includes subjects such as women in medicine, Scottish commercial fishing, politics, the Royal Horticulture Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Sanitary Law Commission.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Alta California Bookstore, 1970.

O.S. Dawson Papers (1873-1911)

1 box, 1 oversize box, 146 items, has digital finding aid.

This collection consists of correspondence and documents related to the legal and business affairs of O.S. Dawson, the Sonora Consolidated Mining Company, and the Hidden Treasure Consolidated Mining Company in Bodie Mining District, California, and the Ramsey-Ottawa Mining Company in Nevada. It includes receipts, reports, plats, notices of mining locations, surveys, and financial accounts. The letters, written by Dawson and various business partners and mine managers, discuss details about the management of mines, possible lawsuits, outstanding debts, and possible mine purchases in California and Nevada; there is one item regarding mining in Utah. The collection contains 78 pieces of ephemera, including three cartes-de-visite of O.S. Dawson.

p. 78 of 94 For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Talisman Press, May and September, 1979.

John F. Duling Papers (1855-1958, bulk 1900-1958)

739 items, 7 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Duling was a mining engineer and surveyor based in Los Angeles, California. The collection consists primarily of mining charts, maps, reports, surveys, photographs and township plans for mines in Arizona, California, Canada, Mexico, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico. It also contains surveys for real estate developments in Southern California.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Spencer Moore, July 31, 1961.

Goldfield Merger Mines Company Records (1903-1914)

140 pieces, 1 box, 1 map, has digital finding aid.

Edward S. Byrnes and R.P. Oldham founded the Goldfield Merger Mines Company in 1908. The company had business interests in Seattle, Washington, and Goldfield, Nevada, and owned several other companies and their mining claims, including the Gold Horn Mining Company, Potlach Mining and Milling Company, St. Ives Gold Mining and Milling Company, and the Velvet Gold Mining Company. The collection consists of business records with articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, mining claims, reports, and legal documents. There is also a manuscript map of mining claims.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Talisman Press, November 24, 1978.

Hamilton-Greville Papers (1769-1801)

1 box, 2 cases, 87 pieces, no finding aid.

Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) was a British diplomat and archaeologist, who studied volcanoes and earthquakes, and collected Greek and Roman artifacts. This collection contains his personal correspondence, political writings, and some of his work on volcanoes, earthquakes, and archaeology. The entire collection is published in Alfred Morrison, comp., The Hamilton-Greville Papers, 2 vols. (n.p., 1893-94).

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

James Duncan Hague Papers (1824-1936)

23 boxes, volumes, envelopes, approx. 24,000 pieces, has paper finding aid.

p. 79 of 94 Hague (1836-1909) was a mining engineer and explorer. His papers consist of letters (including 46 letter books), manuscripts (including diaries, notebooks and field books), documents, photographs, maps and drawings. Subject matter includes the family and business affairs; mining (including the South Sea Expedition in 1858-61, the Calumet and Hecla copper mines in Michigan in 1863-1914, and other mining companies in the Western U.S. and in Mexico).

Note: The papers of James D. Hague consist of three distinct parts: 1. Papers of Clarence King; 2. Papers of James D. Hague; 3. Addenda. The papers of Clarence King and the Addenda to the papers of James D. Hague are described separately.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Marian, Eleanor and James Hague 11/12/1948, Gift of James Hague, 9/17/1969.

James D. Hague Addenda (1836 -1908)

71 boxes, has paper finding aid.

Note: Forms part of: Papers of James D. Hague, 1824-1936.

The addenda contains correspondence, business papers, diaries, scrapbooks and other materials related to the life and family of James D. Hague. Also found in the addenda are small groups of papers of Horace F. Cutter of San Francisco, a friend of Clarence King, and of Edward Singleton Holden (1846-1914), astronomer and Hague family friend who was director of the Lick Observatory, president of the University of California, and librarian of West Point.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of James D. Hague 1970-1977.

Charles Henry Janin Papers (1858 -1937)

45 boxes, has digital finding aid.

Janin (1873-1937) was a California mining engineer, who followed the career of his famous father, Louis Janin. In 1914, he joined the staff of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Washington D.C., and participated in war work with that bureau during World War I, serving on the advisory committee on tin resources, as a member of the Gold Committee, and was instrumental in securing for the U.S., from Serbia, a large shipment of platinum, a very scarce and highly strategic element during the war years. The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to his career. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Acquired from Louis Janin, Henry Janin, and Elizabeth (Janin) Evans, December 1958.

p. 80 of 94 Otis R. "Dock" Marston Papers (1870 - 1978)

421 boxes, 250 volumes, 161 reels, has digital finding aid.

Marston was a noted river-runner and historian of river lore. A key participant in the opening of the Grand Canyon to motorized navigation and an organizer of the 1960 jet boat run up through the canyon, he was also a leading historian of the Colorado and Green river basins. The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Otis R. Marston and his collection of materials on the history of Colorado River and Green River regions. Included are log books from river expeditions, journals, diaries, extensive original correspondence as well as copies of material in other repositories, manuscripts, motion pictures, still images, research notes, and printed material. While the principal focus is the history of river-running, the collection also touches, often in depth and with original materials, on the geology of the entire region, the history of mining, water issues, hydroelectric power development, recreational use and policy issues, the history of transportation, the ecology of various riverine ecosystems, exploration, the film industry and promotion of the West, and indigenous cultures.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of the Estate of Otis R. Marston, with numerous smaller additions from G. Marston and many others November 7, 1979, with additions 1950-1992.

Nevada Mining Photograph Collection (1892-1893)

20 photographs, has digital finding aid.

These 20 “blue print” photographs are of various views of the mining camps in Virginia City and Sutro, Nevada including mining equipment, miners, locomotive cars, interior views of the mine shaft, buildings and mules.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Watts, Curator of Photographs ([email protected]).

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Robertson, August 1964.

Northern Belle Extension Mining Company Records (1922-1932)

2 boxes, 218 items, has digital finding aid.

The Northern Belle Extension Mining Company was a silver mining company with headquarters in New York City and mining operations based in Candelaria, Nevada in the Columbia Mining District during the 1920s. The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, financial records, and ephemera. The manuscripts include unpublished reports on various mining districts and geologic conditions of the ore deposits in Candelaria and the Red Cloud Mine in Arizona. The majority of the correspondence is to and from the company’s Vice President and manager William E. Pomeroy. The letters concern Pomeroy’s various business deals, real estate ventures, land and mining claim purchases, mining practices, geologic makeup of mining claims, and his opinion of new areas for future mining operations.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Mrs. Charles Yeatman Estate, August 27, 1968.

p. 81 of 94 Sierra Nevada Silver Mining Company Papers (1860-1880)

53 items, 1 box, has digital finding aid.

The Sierra Nevada Silver Mining Company, one of the mines of the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada, was active during the boom years of the 1860s and 1870s but never produced great yields. The company continued to produce ore until 1881. The collection consists of the company’s business correspondence and documents, some of which relate to the court case of the Sierra Nevada Silver Mining Company v. the American Mining Company (1862-1863). Other subjects covered include mines and mineral resources in Virginia City, Nevada and the Comstock Lode, Nevada.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Graham H. Hardy, March 28, 1950.

Harley A. Sill Papers (1901-1964)

1,445 pieces (approx.), 15 boxes, 1 oversize volume, has digital finding aid.

Sill (1885-1964), a Los Angeles mining engineer, worked as a consultant who visited and made reports on various types of mines throughout the western hemisphere, particularly in California and the American West. The collection contains letters, documents, maps, and reports related to his professional activities. There are also some reports on mines in other parts of the United States and in South and Central America.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Mrs. Harley A. Sill, October 1973.

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Papers (1865-1906)

40 items, 1 box, has digital finding aid.

This standard gauge railroad went from Minden, Nevada to Reno, where it met the Central Pacific Railroad. It connected the mines of the Comstock Lode near Virginia City, Nevada with quartz reduction mills along the Carson River and lumberyards near Carson City. This collection primarily consists of business correspondence addressed to Henry M. Yerington. Subjects include mines and mineral resources in Nevada and Cerro Gordo, California, pumping machinery, and water rights in Inyo County, California.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Jerome Schwimmer, May 10, 1968.

Welter Family Papers (1900-1954)

79 items, 2 boxes, 5 folders, has digital finding aid.

This collection primarily consists of letters from Edwin Nicholas Welter as he worked and traveled throughout Alaska and the Yukon mining for gold from 1900 until his death in 1923. His correspondence covers such

p. 82 of 94 subjects as his living conditions, gold mines and mining, and his views on the World War, 1914-1918. The correspondence of his brother Stuart Jackson Welter covers his activities in the McCoy Mining District in Lander County, Nevada. Of particular interest is the correspondence from his time in Battle Mountain, Lander County, Nevada, in which he discusses uranium mines and mining. There are also four topographic surveys of Nevada in the collection.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Karyn G. Morris, May 1988.

Clarence Rivers King Papers (1859-1902)

7 boxes, 752 pieces, has container list. Forms part of Papers of James Duncan Hague, 1824-1936.

King (1842-1901) was a geologist, mining engineer, and writer. From 1867-1877, King directed the geological and scientific survey of the Fortieth Parallel from eastern Colorado to the California border. He was then made head of the newly established United States Geological Survey, a position he held until entering private practice as a mining engineer in 1881. The collection consists of his scientific and professional papers (including those concerning a reconnaissance in Arizona in 1865 and 1866, and Mexican mining companies). The 43 scientific notebooks in the collection include material on the California Geological Survey in 1864-66 and the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel from 1867-72. The collection also contains correspondence, a few manuscripts, photographs, and 10 letter books.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Marian, Eleanor, and James Hague, 1948.

Stowe Collection--Grenville Papers--Special Subjects--14. Transportation (1773-1889)

17 boxes, 2,700 pieces, has digital finding aid.

The Stowe Collection consists of the papers of the Grenville, Temple, Nugent, and Brydges families, related through the 18th century marriages which brought each other to the famous house at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. In addition to over 1,000 letters in the Grenville Correspondence concerning the 3rd Duke’s involvement with railroads, the collection contains a large number of accounts and other papers relating to various railroads in which the 3rd Duke had an interest.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Sold in 1921 by Lady Mary Morgan-Grenville, Baroness Kinloss of Stowe, and purchased for the Huntington Library through Frank Marcham and the Museum Bookstore, London, in 1925.

Los Angeles Railway Corporation

202 pieces, 2 boxes, 4 volumes, 2 maps, 1 manila envelope, 6 scrapbooks (including 2 indexes), has container list, unprocessed. All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Dibner Curator for the History of Science and Technology.

p. 83 of 94 The Los Angeles Railway Corporation, formed in 1910, was the final result of various mergers and consolidations of the numerous local and interurban railways which developed in Los Angeles and adjacent communities. The collection consists of source material, mainly statistics, reports, etc., collected by Edwin L. Lewis (who became manager of the Los Angeles Railway Building in 1921). The collection also includes letters, manuscripts, memorandum books, scrapbooks, and documents. Of note is a two-volume typescript by Lewis, titled “Street Railway Development in Los Angeles and Environs, 1895-1938.”

For more information, please contact Jennifer Allan Goldman, Institutional Archivist ([email protected]).

Gifts of Edwin L. Lewis, 1939 and Mrs. Collis H. Holliday, December 1981.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll, pseud.) Collection (1849-1897)

96 pieces, no finding aid.

Dodgson (1832-1898), known mostly for his fiction, was also a teacher of logic and mathematics in England. He was a large fan of puzzles, logic problems and teaching mathematics. The collection is comprised mostly of letters, but also contains two poems, "Puck has fled the haunts of men" and "Puck has ventured back again."

For more information, please contact Sue Hodson, Curator of Literary Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Archibald Henderson (1913-1943)

25 pieces, no finding aid.

Archibald Henderson (1877-1963) was a mathematician, teacher and biographer. He was interested in Einstein's theory of relativity, and did much to help others interpret it. He produced a text book called The Theory of Relativity. He was also the authorized biographer of George Bernard Shaw.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Francisco Xavier Monteiro de Barros Papers (1812-1909)

103 items, has digital finding aid.

Born in Carnide, Portugal, Monteiro de Barros (1778-1855) initially pursued the study of mathematics and science at the University of Coimbra. After serving as cosmographer of Santarem between 1802 and 1808, he worked for the Lisbon Commissariat. He entered Portuguese politics in 1820, advocating liberal reforms. In opposition to a growing contingent of absolutist supporters, Monteiro de Barros and his family moved to England, and then to New York where he pursued banking. The bulk of the collection is letters authored by his colleagues, documenting changes in the Portuguese politics and government and United States-Portuguese foreign relations. Most of the works penned by Monteiro de Barros are scientific and mathematical notes and tracts, specifically relating to celestial mechanics and mathematical physics. The dates of these papers are unknown, and were therefore dated before 1855, the year of his death. Note: The letters and manuscripts in the collection are in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and Latin.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

p. 84 of 94 Two biographical entries were gifts of Dr. Alberto Iria, Director of the Arquivo historico Ultramarino in Lisbon, Portugal, November 1961.

73rd Evacuation Hospital Papers (1943-1985)

2,713 items, 12 boxes, four oversize items, has digital finding aid.

The 73rd Evacuation Hospital Unit was formed in 1940 in Los Angeles, California, and made up of medical officers on the Attending Staff of the LAC/USC Medical Center. The unit left the United States for the China- Burma-India Theater in January 1943 and arrived in Bombay in March. The unit was transferred to Margherita the same month to provide services to the engineering units building the Ledo Road, as well as Chinese soldiers stationed around. The unit moved to Shingbwinyang in northern Burma in March 1944, and was stationed there until it was inactivated in July 1945. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, numerous photographs, slides, and ephemera. Writings by the former unit members are “Clinical Survey of Eighty-Six Cases of Scrub Typhus” by Clarence M. Agress and Edward R. Evans, “Contribution of Hospital in Time of War” by L.J. Tragerman, “Memoirs” by John Sayer, and “My Diary of Experiences in India” by Ethel H. Weber. The material was donated to the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) by the former members of the 73rd Evacuation Unit when an exhibit was held in 1983 and 1984. Much of the correspondence is between former members and Lewis Bullock and Elizabeth Crahan at LACMA’s library in the 1980s.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.

William Reed Bullard Papers (1852-1895)

46 pieces, no finding aid.

Bullard (1837-1890) practiced medicine for ten years with his uncle Dr. Talbut Bullard in Indianapolis, Indiana, after attending Harvard Medical School. While in Indiana, William worked at a Union hospital in which the wounded and dying prisoners taken at Fort Donelson were confined. Eventually, Bullard left Indiana and settled in Montana, opening a practice in Helena. In addition, Bullard was, for many years, the Medical Examiner for Montana, and a charter member as well as Secretary of the Territorial Medical Society. This collection consists primarily of correspondence between him and his sister Helen K. (Bullard) Wyman, with a few additional letters from family members including his wife Mary. In these letters to his sister, he discusses his life and medical practice in both Indianapolis, Indiana, and Helena, Montana. Bullard was active in both communities and his letters often describe social activities, celebrations and the growing and shaping of both towns. His letters also reveal Bullard's commitment to his family, and his deep love of music.

For more information, please contact Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from M&S Rare Books, 2006.

William Lodge Kidd (1800-1817)

17 volumes, no finding aid.

p. 85 of 94 This collection includes the journal of the British naval surgeon (1784-1851) on H.M. ships "Bacchante," "Tromp," "Peloris," and "Raleigh," as well as a collection of sermons, and a treatise called A Concise Account of the Typhus Fever at present prevalent in Ireland... (1897), written by Kidd for the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, of which he was President.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Richard Carlile Papers (1819-1900)

9 boxes, 620 pieces, 13 oversize folders, has digital finding aid.

Richard Carlile (1790-1843), British freethinker and journalist, became a strong advocate of freedom of the press and was first arrested in 1817 for the illegal distribution of periodicals. Thereafter he was prosecuted several times for publishing the works of Thomas Paine and other literature considered blasphemous or radical, and altogether spent over nine years in prison as a result. Foremost among his publications was The Republican (1819-26), most of which was written during his six-year confinement in Dorchester Gaol. A freethinker in religion as in politics, Carlile was strongly anticlerical and was once imprisoned for resisting the payment of church rates. The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including 1 volume and 2 volumes of diaries) and documents related to the blasphemy and libel trials of Richard Carlile, Jane Carlile, and Mary Anne Carlile. Other topics in the collection include the liberty of the press in Great Britain, Carlile's religious views, and prison conditions in Great Britain.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Purchased from Mrs. Norman F. Stevens, 1936-1938.

Hastings Collection

The Hastings family played a major role in English political life for over four centuries. The large collection of their family papers was purchased by the Huntington Library in January 1927 from Maggs Bros. of London. Relevant items include a volume of accounts of the executors of Sir Issac Newton, a list of papers read at the Royal Society, (with discourse concerning the French Academy of Science, 1769-70), a large number of 17th and 18th medicinal recipes and prescriptions (120 pieces), as well as a small collection of papers concerning transportation (ca. 1765-1871).

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Ellesmere Collection

The Ellesmere collection consists of the family documents of the Egerton family, whose political and financial fortunes (as well as the famous collection of books and manuscripts later known as the Bridgewater Library, bought by Mr. Huntington in 1917) began with Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), the illegitimate son of a minor Cheshire knight. Relevant items include a copy of Edward Topsell's The Foules of Heauen, with watercolor illustrations (1613), primary source material on forestry law of 16th and 17th century Britain, a treatise on diseases of horses, and a copy of an oration given by Dr. Henry Stanley in London in 1613 on the anniversary of William Harvey's death.

p. 86 of 94 For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Acquired by Henry Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London.

Stowe Collection

The Stowe Collection, largest by far of any in the Library, consists of the papers of the Grenville, Temple, Nugent, and Brydges families, related through the 18th century marriages which brought each of them to the famous house at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. It also includes a much smaller group of papers of Charles O'Conor (1764-1828), the Irish scholar and Catholic priest who came to Stowe in 1798 as chaplain and librarian. The collection, spanning nine centuries, was sold in 1921 by Lady Mary Morgan-Grenville, Baroness Kinloss of Stowe, and purchased for the Huntington Library through Frank Marcham and the Museum Bookstore, London, in 1925. Related items include papers concerning the Contagious Diseases Act (1865-78), medical prescriptions, advice, and notes on treatment, a treatise entitled "A Recipe for a physick," and "Directions for setting up ye Aerocope or quicksilver weather glass," Richard Grenville's notes on mineralogy and geography, as well as the medical expenses of the Grenville family.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Catton Family Papers (1890-1960)

66 items, has digital finding aid.

Margaret Mary Louis (1882-1971), the chief figure in this collection, was the first director of the Medical Social Service Association, a new social program she helped found at Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1932. Mary also helped start several other organizations including the Hawaii Medical Service Association, the first voluntary prepaid plan for medical care in the United States; the Bureau of Mental Hygiene at Queen’s Hospital; and the convalescent nursing home at Maunalei Heights. The collection includes travel letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and ephemera. Much of the content of her travel letters is dedicated to comments and discussions on the hospitals and social conditions of the cities she visited. She often met with doctors and social workers and talked to them about their experiences. Mary’s 15 diaries (1939-1951) describe in detail all aspects of her life in Honolulu including: her work at Queen’s Hospital, her difficulties with the doctors and hospital administration, patient care, hospital costs, her work with several medical and social work associations, her work in a convalescent home, and various other medical issues such as adoption, sterilization, staffing, and fundraising.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Barry Menikoff, December 1986.

Mount Wilson Toll Road Company Records (1903-1953)

206 items, including 10 volumes, has digital finding aid.

The Pasadena and Mount Wilson Toll Road Company, incorporated in 1889 by Judge Benjamin Eaton and others, was reorganized in 1890 with the purpose of building a ten mile wagon road from Eaton Canyon up the west flank of the San Gabriel Mountains to Mt. Wilson. The road was completed and put into use in 1891, and the company p. 87 of 94 gradually acquired control of the Mt. Wilson area. A syndicate took control in 1904, and the Mt. Wilson Hotel was built. The road was later improved for automobile traffic and continued in use until its closure in 1936 when it became the Mount Wilson Hotel Company. The collection includes correspondence, documents, ledgers and journals, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and a register book for the Mt. Wilson Hotel. The records provide a unique perspective to view corporate history in Southern California.

For more information, please contact Bill Frank, Curator of Hispanic, Cartographic, and Modern Western Manuscripts ([email protected]).

Gift of Jerome Schwimmer, July 16, 1968.

PRINTED WORKS

Introduction

The Huntington Library has often been described as a "library of libraries," or a "collection of collections." Henry E. Huntington's all-or-nothing attitude towards book collecting earned him a celebrity status beyond the world of bibliophiles, and allowed him to amass one of the world's most impressive personal libraries, especially in the areas of early English and early American manuscripts and books. He clung to his values and rarely branched out from his own interests when purchasing collections; books in foreign languages were "useless" to him, while his appetite for English language literature, poetry, and historical documents seemed insatiable.

However, his general policy of well-roundedness and "filling in" his collection wherever it seemed to be lacking resulted in the spectacular scope and quality of the Huntington Library which is evident today. The structure of the library as a whole consists of an amalgamation of large-scale purchases cemented by innumerable individual purchases made alongside the en bloc acquisitions. Because he was able and willing to pay collector's prices for large holdings, he had little competition and was able to accumulate an astonishing amount of material across many subjects before the idea of doing so caught on among book collectors.

It is to this aspect of Henry Huntington's character that the Huntington Library owes its impressive collection of science-related materials. Because he was first and foremost a businessman of great talent, Huntington was able to foresee the possibilities of increasing the future value of his library far beyond the ambition of the average bibliophile. This included the enlargement of the collection to include background material of the periods and subjects in which he was interested. Usually, bibliophiles neglect this kind of material in favor of classics and rarities, but to students and scholars, both types are equally valuable. So, for example, in addition to the first editions of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Spenser that were included in the Bridgewater Library bought by Huntington in 1917, there were a large number of contemporaneous volumes relating to theology, science, commerce, gardening, cooking, and much more. Henry Huntington's penchant for thoroughness and superiority placed the Huntington in a position to become particularly strong in the history of science at a time when the subject was virtually unknown.

It wasn't until the late 20th century, however, that the Library began to systematically bolster its history of science holdings and make a name for itself as an important research institute in this area. Daniel Woodward is largely responsible for this development; he campaigned hard in the late 1970s and 1980s to raise funds to fill in holes

p. 88 of 94 and to expand the Huntington's history of science collections. With Woodward as the catalyst, the Huntington made great progress in the fields of geology, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, botany, and mathematics during this period. He also compiled a tentative list of the Huntington's holdings in specific areas of early science, as well as a summary of its highlights and strengths, which is still a valuable resource today. The acquisition of the Burndy Library in 2006 only strengthened the history of science collections further.

The Huntington's strong collection of incunabula already included many titles relating to the history of medicine and herbology, and these were increased steadily since Mr. Huntington's death, with Woodward paying special attention to their development during his time at the Huntington Library. Highlights of the incunabula collection in the history of science include the first printed edition of Euclid’s Elementa geometraie (1482), the Ulm Ptolemy (1482), the Aldine Aristotle (1495-98), and the first and Jenson editions of Pliny's Histora naturalis (1469, 1472). The extensive collection of Medieval manuscripts also includes many texts, notes, and short treatises concerning science (see Medieval MSS section).

Like most of the Huntington's holdings, post-1500 works in the history of science are mostly American and British, but with a significant number of continental texts, as well. General high spots include the 1543 Vesalius and the 1545 Geminus, the 1521 Vitruvius, the De magnete of William Gilbert (1600), and the 1579 Besson. The Huntington's collections are particularly strong in chemistry, botany and zoology, electricity, astronomy, engineering and transportation, and aeronautica. The Cole Chemistry Collection, the Mt. Wilson Astronomical Collection, the Charles Mead Ichthyology Collection, the Francis Bacon Collection, and the Los Angeles County Medical Association Collection are among the most extensive and important collections in the library's holdings. Please refer to the entries below, which are organized by topic, for more information on specific texts and collections.

Early Printed Works

The Huntington has been a superb location for the study of the history of civil engineering, particularly in the American and British contexts, and the arrival of the Burndy Library in 2006 substantially enhanced what was already one of the country's best collections. The Library’s collection of early printed books contains a number of titles related to engineering and technology, including works by Roberto Valturio (De Re Militari, 1472), Vitruvius Pollio (De Architectura, 1495 and subsequent editions), Georgius Agricola (De Re Metallica, 1556), Agostino Ramelli (Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine, 1588), Domenico Fontana (Della Trasportatione dell’Obelisco Vaticano, 1590), Giovanni Branca (Le Machine, 1629) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Le Antichità Romane, 1756). The rare book collection also includes many works relating to early English and American surveying and to the construction of British and American transportation systems including classics such as Nicholas Wood’s Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads of 1825.

The Maggs Aeronautical Collection

According to an introduction to its catalog, the Maggs Aeronautical collection's purpose is "to trace, as far is it has been possible, the evolution of aviation, or the art of flying, by the aid of human ingenuity, from early times down to the close of the Great War." The catalog splits the collection into works before 1783, when the Montgolfier Balloon was invented, balloons and airships from 1783-1850, evolution of aircraft from 1851-1899, and aeroplanes and dirigibles in the 20th century. There is also a collection of engravings.

p. 89 of 94 Herbals

Herbals are endlessly fascinating windows into the practice of medicine, botany, cooking, and natural magic of the medieval and Early Modern European world. Generally speaking, herbals list medicinal plants and describe their appearance, gathering, and preparation, and contain notes on their preservation and storage and provide necessary data on dosage. Some ancient prototypes, of which the Huntington has stunning examples, are Pliny, Galen, and Theophrastus. Mr. Huntington's love of incunables, as well as books printed in England before 1801 is largely responsible for the Huntington Library's collection of herbals today.

Among the highlights of the later herbals is Le Grant Herbier. ca. 1486-88, which was the source for the first English herbal, Here Begynnyth a Newe Mater, the Whiche is called an Herball, London, 1525, of which the Huntington also has a copy. There is also John Martyn's Historia Plantarum Rariorum, 1728-38, the first instance of color-printed botanical illustrations, as well as the gorgeously illustrated Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London 1731-43, by Mark Catesby. The collection also includes Carl Linnaeus' Hortus Cliffortianus, Amsterdam, 1737, the first work to incorporate Linnaean principles, and Leonhard Fuch's New Kreuterbuch, 1543, considered one of the greatest herbals of its time.

William Cole Chemistry Collection

This is the largest collection of the history of chemistry books west of Wisconsin. Over a period of several years in the mid-1980s, the Huntington purchased 550 titles comprising more than 2,000 volumes from Cole, a chemistry teacher in Southern California. Though the resulting collection spans the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, its strongest emphasis is on chemistry in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A sampling of important items in the collection reveals a splendid set of volumes 1-44 of the Annales de chimie (Paris, 1789-1802). Also present are Karl Wilhelm Scheele's Chemische Abhandlung von Luft und Feuer (Leipzig, 1782), the second edition, and Guyton de Morveau's copy of the first French edition. Guyton de Morveau's own works are well-represented, including the first issue of Methode de nomenclature chimique (Paris, 1787), including his own copies of his work, with his manuscript corrections. There are multiple early editions of Boerhaave's Elements of Chemistry, as well as works by Stahl, Lavoisier, Gugliemini and D'Alambert.

Warren D. Mohr/Darwin Collection

Approximately 1600 pieces.

Mohr assembled one of the greatest personal collections of Darwiniana of all time. In 1993, he donated all 1600 books, caricatures, engravings, and photographs to the Library. The remarkable collection includes over 1000 different book-form editions of Darwin's writings and over 500 supporting volumes by his contemporaries and followers. Every one of Darwin's books is represented in one form or another; from the Cambridge Philosophical Society's 1835 pamphlet of extracts from Darwin letters sent home during his voyage on the Beagle, to over two hundred printings of On the Origin of Species including the most important non-English translations. The books came from virtually every part of the world and from all kinds of libraries: mercantile, lending, American public, and those of aristocratic families, workingmen, and socialist and philosophical societies. Highlights include a first edition of On the Origin of Species, the 1835 printing of excerpts from letters Darwin sent home from his four year voyage on the HMS Beagle, a three volume Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle (1838-1843), edited by Darwin, and an 1888 edition of The life and letters of Charles Darwin, with handwritten annotations by his son, Francis.

p. 90 of 94 John A. Moore Gift for the Mohr/Darwin Collection

171 volumes.

In the late 1960s, Professor John A. Moore began to collect volumes that dealt with the reception of Charles Darwin's views in Europe and the United States, paying particular attention to works which highlighted religious and cultural conflict. The collection also contains volumes generally related to 19th century American/European science. Moore felt that these rarer works were underrepresented in the general literature on Darwin and his legacy, and he donated his collection of almost 200 volumes with the hope that future scholars would gain further insight into this aspect of Darwiniana. The books, purchased in small lots over many years, include early editions of the works of many contemporaries of Darwin zoology and other fields, including Agassiz, Comstock, Draper, Asa Gray, and William James.

Medicine

The Huntington's collections of history of medicine material began with Henry Huntington's quest to amass incunable editions. He and his library staff put together a distinguished collection of early medical imprints which included classical and Arabic texts, medieval treatises, herbals, and encyclopediae of human history which appear in multiple editions. Where Mr. Huntington stopped collecting, the Los Angeles Country Medical Association Library donation continued, accumulating European continental imprints well into the 16th and 17th centuries. The LACMA rare book collection also includes landmark publications in this period, making it a rich and varied collection.

The heart of the Huntington's printed book collection resides pre-1801 British material. While it is focused on literary, historical, and political texts, it also includes works on a wide range of medical topics. Early Americana is another area where a concerted effort has been made to acquire works of every kind and subject, including those dealing with medical history. Because the English/Scottish and pre-1830 American medical professions were so closely linked, we have works of physicians, anatomists, etc., printed on both continents. There are also strong holdings of such major figures as Benjamin Rush and Daniel Drake. The Civil War medical collection is extensive because of the John Page Nicholson Library, a 10,000 volume Civil War historical collection, the extensive manuscript and diary material at the Library, and the influence of Dr. William Norwood of Loma Linda in promoting acquisitions during the 1970s.

The LACMA and Huntington collections also make up a significant resource for the study of the history of medicine in California. LACMA has major files related to the institutional growth of medicine as well as important biographical materials; the Huntington has unusual imprints and archival records of prominent California leaders (from B.D. Wilson to Supervisor Kenneth Hahn), which provide supporting information about the evolution of medical practice in Southern California.

Los Angeles County Medical Association Library Collection

7,000 pieces.

The Los Angeles County Medical Association Library was once the center of the L.A. medical community, but with the advent of digital research and the building up of university and hospital research collections, the library decided to close its doors and to loan indefinitely its holdings to the Huntington and to UCLA. The LACMA library got its start in 1934 when Walter Jarvis Barlow MD, a former LACMA president, entrepreneur, and founder of the Barlow Sanitorium for Tuberculosis, gave his collection of medical books to the Association. While the 25,000 piece Barlow Trust now resides at UCLA, the Huntington received both the rare p. 91 of 94 books and history of medicine collection. The rare books collection has approximately 1,500 volumes and consists of mainly early printed European and American works from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The history of medicine collection, 5,000 books, represents a variety of topics on the history of medicine including bibliographies, biographies, historical studies and critical works published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among these roughly 7,000 volumes permanently loaned to the Huntington, the collection includes the Californiana, a record of medicine in the state, and the Botica Generale, the first medical book published in California and one of only three known copies in existence. Also of note are specialty books from the 16th and 17th century as well as a spectacular, well-preserved copy of the English 1559 edition of Thomas Geminus' Anatomy.

In total, nine LACMA collections were received by the Huntington: Brewer, Smith, Watson, and Wilson (smaller collections of rare books complementing the Rare Books collection), California (500 volumes of books and materials of general historical works, institutional publications, as well as early California imprints), Dock (materials written by or about Dr. George M. Dock, 1860-1951), History of Medicine, Olser (publications by or about Sir William Olser, 1849-1919, including almost all editions of his famous The Principles and Practice of Medicine), and Rare Books. There is also a remarkable and extensive reference collection in the LACMA Library.

Francis Bacon Foundation-Arensberg Collection

Approximately 14,000 volumes.

Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954) was probably best known for his support and collection of modern art. He was an early advocate and friend of many avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, including Marcel Duchamp and Beatrice Wood. However, his book collecting career began early, and was also a major part of his life. As an undergraduate, Arensberg began to collect works by Dante Aligheri, which expanded to the Renaissance in general, and eventually brought his attention to Francis Bacon (1561-1626). His interest in cryptography (particularly in Dante and Bacon) led him to enlist in the ranks in the stormy battle over the "authorship question," and he became a staunch supporter of the theory that Bacon was responsible for the works attributed to William Shakespeare. He even published a handful of books on the subject. But his ultimate tribute to the man whom he so greatly admired was the creation in 1938 of the Francis Bacon Foundation and Library. Together, he and the foundation's president, Elizabeth S. Wrigley, amassed one of the most remarkable and extensive collections of Baconiana in the world.

Its original home was on the campus of the Claremont Colleges in California, where the foundation sponsored periodic meetings and lectures. In November of 1995, the foundation decided that they would give the Bacon Library holdings to the Huntington to ensure the long-term preservation of the collection and to stimulate scholarly study of Bacon and his times. The gift was the largest single rare book acquisition in the field of Renaissance studies since the death of Mr. Huntington in 1927. The Tudor-Stuart period in English history is the most used part of the Huntington's rare book collection, making the Bacon Library a perfect fit for the existing strengths of the Huntington. In addition, it added significantly to the history of science collections, which were beginning to take shape at the Huntington in the 1980s and 1990s.

The book collecting activities of the Arensbergs formed the heart of the Bacon Library collection. All the fields of Bacon's interests; law, politics, affairs of state, philosophy, the natural and physical sciences, literature, cryptography, magic, witchcraft, alchemy, and Rosicrucian teachings, are represented in this core collection. Under the direction of Elizabeth Wrigley, who became the director of the Bacon Library in 1960, the original 3,500 titles grew to over 14,000. The library acquired several outstanding gifts in addition to purchases made over p. 92 of 94 the years. For example, the Isabelle Kittson Brown Collection of Elizabethan/Jacobean books was donated by Mrs. Brown's son, Ernest Clive Brown, and the late Douglass Adair, professor at the Claremont Graduate School, donated the Lee-Bernard Collection in American political theory. Two private collections of Bacon and Baconiana, the Allen Woodruff Collection, donated by Gertrude Marvin Woodruff Stokes, and the collection of Olive Woodward Hoss round out the list of notable collections incorporated into the library. The Huntington also possesses the personal papers of the Arensberg and Stevens families as well as the family's personal collection of books unrelated to Francis Bacon.

Several of these subsumed collections and their collectors have an interesting history of their own. Isabel Kittson Brown (1860-1928) was the wife of Ernest C. Brown, an early 20th century industrial magnate. Brown was the owner of The Gas Age, a major journal of the pioneering natural gas industry. Isabelle Brown apparently had wide-ranging intellectual interests, and unlike many other women of her social class, actively pursued scholarly research. She became a noted scholar of Elizabethan history, and authored several books on the subject under the pseudonym Basil Brown. In support of her studies, Isabella Brown amassed a significant collection of rare and reference materials. By the time the collection reached the library in 1971, it numbered ca. 3,000 volumes. It contained about 700 English books published in the STC and Wing periods, 18th century works on Elizabethan and Jacobean subjects, 16th and 17th century manuscripts, and several sculptures.

The Lee-Bernard collection in American political theory, named in honor of Luther J. Lee, Dean of the Claremont Graduate School from 1953-1960, and Robert J. Bernard, President of the graduate school from 1959-1963, was donated to the library in 1967 by Douglass Adair (1912-1968), professor of American history at the graduate school. The collection is significant in that it represents an attempt to recreate the "statesman's library" that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson urged the Continental Congress to buy in 1783. The young republic did not have the financial resources to make the purchases at the time, but the list of over 200 recommended titles still survives. Madison and Jefferson envisioned an essential "working" library for the new government which included subjects such as international law and diplomacy, politics and political theory, statutory law and legal codes and over 100 histories of foreign nations with which the newly created United States could expect to have dealings.

The Bacon Library adds significantly to the Huntington's history of science collections not only because Bacon was such an important early proponent of the inductive method in natural philosophy, but also because of some of the early scientific works included in the collection, such as those of Herman Boerhaave, which the Huntington did not previously own.

Gift of the Francis Bacon Foundation, 1995.

Edward Lasker Horse Collection (1487-1997)

7,000 volumes.

Edward Lasker (1912-1997), a Los Angeles attorney and businessman, was first introduced to the world of the thoroughbred in 1929. Captivated by their beauty and speed, he bred and raced horses - including major stakes winners - until 1967. Sometime in the early 1950s, Lasker had the opportunity to buy books from the sporting library of New York breeder Robert L. Gerry. He took full advantage of the opportunity, acquiring about 1,000 volumes, which became the foundation of his 7,000-volume rare book and reference library covering the period 1487-1997. The collection includes seminal European works such as Frederico Grisone's influential book on horsemanship, Ordini di cavalcare (1572), the first illustrated work on horse diseases, Opera di Mescalzia (1591) by Filippo Scacco, and the landmark book on horse anatomy, Carlo Ruini's Dell'Anatomia et dell'infirmata el

p. 93 of 94 Cavallo (1598). Also included are important English texts by Thomas Blundeville, Gervase Markham, and William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, all of which played a significant role in educating the public about the care and training of horses. Lasker's collection also includes books published by the Jockey Club, including the Racing Calendar (1727) and General Stud Book documenting racing results and pedigree.

Giles Mead Ichthyology Collection

250 volumes.

In 1996 Giles W. Mead donated his spectacular 250 volume collection on ichthyology to the Huntington Library. Dr. Mead, formerly Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University and director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, over a 35 year period, assembled one of this country's most prestigious rare book collections on the history and science of fishes. It covers the period from Pierre Belon's original work in descriptive ichthyology La nature & diversite des poissons (Paris: Charles Estienne, 1555) to Toshio Kumada's colorful Japanese publication Illustrations of edible aquatic fauna of the South Seas. (Odawara: privately printed, 1949). Many of the publications represent the first ever identification and description of previously unknown fishes skillfully depicted in stunning illustrations.

The collection includes Marcus Boch's Naturgeschichte des auslandischen fisches, published in Berlin 1785- 1795, which has long been esteemed the most beautiful book on fishes, as well as Georges Cuvier and Achilles Valencienne's monumental 22 volume work Histoire naturelle des poissons (Paris: Levrault, 1828-1849), which is considered "the basis for modern ichthyology."

Many of the books bear the book plate of scientist and author William Beebe. One of the most impressive of these is the first scientific work on American fishes by an American author: John Edwards Holbrooks' Ichthyology of South Carolina (Charleston: J. Russell, 1855). The Beebe/Mead copy came from the library of famed zoologist Louis Agassiz and contains his signature and penciled notes.

As a whole, the collection points to Dr. Mead's passion for fish, as well as fine printing and illustrations. Many of the volumes are very finely made, printed on handmade paper, and contain some of the most spectacular zoological illustrations of their time.

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