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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Volume 14, 1909-1911 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GUIDE TO SERIES I-B-1: GENERAL RECORDS. LETTERBOOKS. BOUND LETTERBOOKS. VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Archives American Academy of Arts and Sciences 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 © 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Updated: 19 April 2016 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ARCHIVES Series I-B-1: General records. Letterbooks. Bound letterbooks. Volume 14, 1909-1911 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Historical Note The Academy has received letters, announcements, and other forms of correspondence since the founding in 1780. All such correspondence was the responsibility of the Corresponding Secretary, one of the original officers of the Academy. Beginning sometime in the late 1800s, incoming letters were pasted into bound scrapbooks, which the Academy referred to as “letterbooks.” This practice continued until 1988, when staff began saving correspondence in folders. For the time period covered by Volume 14, the President of the Academy was John Trowbridge (1908-1915). The Corresponding Secretary was Edwin Herbert Hall (1904-1915). Scope and Content The series of letterbooks in its entirety includes letters from newly-elected Fellows, formally accepting their elections; communications with other learned societies (especially, invitations to attend meetings or send representatives to official events, and offers to exchange publications); correspondence concerning gifts of books, maps, and natural history specimens; and inquiries from members and non- members regarding the submission and publication of articles. Volume 14 contains letters and other documents received by the American Academy from 1909 to 1911. The majority of this incoming correspondence pertains to the election, resignation, and death of members, most notably Woodrow Wilson’s letter acknowledging election to the Academy prior to his taking office as President of the United States in 1913. Other topics, of lesser number, include notices of member deaths, circulars from national and international scientific societies and institutions, announcements of international congresses and invitations to various institutional anniversaries. A significant portion of this type concerns international scientific congresses and events, preparations for the Boston-1915 Exposition, President Howard Taft’s medal ceremony in recognition of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s discovery of flight, and requests for nominations for Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry, and literature. Some correspondence pertains to the financial and administrative activities of the Academy, particularly one member’s reminiscence of past meetings on the anniversary of the Academy’s one thousandth, as well as the activities of other learned societies, such as the American AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES -- GUIDE TO LETTERBOOK, VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Philosophical Society and the Amerika-Institut in Berlin, Germany. Volume 1 volume contained within 3 document cases, Boxes 0288.2, 0288.3, and 0288.4 (0.75 linear feet) Archival Arrangement The Academy has begun disbinding the volumes and conserving the individual letters, and will continue that practice until all letters are in stable condition. The letterbooks in Series I-B are arranged numerically by volume number. Within each volume, the original order of the pages has been retained. Generally the records are arranged in chronological order. Multiple unrelated documents on one support page are labeled a, b; enclosures or envelopes are labeled e. Preferred Citation [Item title, date]. Series I-B-1: General records. Letterbooks. Bound letterbooks. Volume 14, 1909-1911. Archives, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Languages French Italian German Swedish Russian Spanish Latin Subjects Exchange of publications Exhibitions—Massachusetts—Boston Learned institutions and societies—America Learned institutions and societies—Publishing Letter books Nobel Prizes Science—History Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 Page 3 of 56 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES -- GUIDE TO LETTERBOOK, VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Processing Information Processed by Kittle Evenson, Simmons GSLIS intern, December 2012. Page 4 of 56 ITEM LIST ACADEMY LETTERBOOK VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Page 14-01 Letter from Herbert Wilbur Rand to Edwin H. Hall, 1909 March 17; Cambridge, MA. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Acknowledges election to the Academy. Creator: Rand, Herbert Wilbur, 1872-1960; Elected 1909 Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003201.001.jpg Page 14-02 Letter from William Morton Wheeler to Edwin H. Hall, 1909 March 17; Boston, MA. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Acknowledges election to the Academy. Creator: Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937; Elected 1909 Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003202.001.jpg Page 14-03 Letter from William Townsend Porter, 1909 April 7; Boston, MA. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Resigns from the Academy. Creator: Porter, William Townsend, 1862-1949; Elected 1901 Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003203.001.jpg Page 14-04 Letter from Crawford Toy to [William] Watson, 1909 April 10; Cambridge, MA. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Resigns from the Academy. Creator: Toy, Crawford Howell, 1836-1919; Elected 1888 Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003204.001.jpg AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES -- GUIDE TO LETTERBOOK, VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Page 14-05 Letter from Franz Boas to Secretary of the Academy, 1909 March 23; Columbia University. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Invites Academy to join in expressing good wishes to Professor Frederic Ward Putnam on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Note: Contemporary, handwritten note from Edwin Hall expresses regrets and suggests that fellow Academy members be invited to the celebratory dinner. Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Elected 1912 Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003205.001.jpg Page 14-06 Circular from Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Mineralogical and Geological Section (Frank J. Keeley, Silas L. Schumo, Edgar T. Wherry, Committee), 1909 March 1; Philadelphia. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Proposes dates for upcoming Spring meeting on Friday and Saturday, April 23rd and 24th, 1909, and calls for contributions of papers or informal accounts of current work. Creator: Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia. Mineralogical and geological section Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003206.001.jpg Page 14-07 Circular from Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Johannes Paulus Lotsy, secretaire perpetuel), 1909 February; Harlem, Netherlands. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 14. Notifies Academy of the resignation of M. J. Bosscha of the Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities due to health reasons, and announces J. P. Lotsy as M.J. Bosscha's successor. Creator: Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Language: French Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003207.001.jpg Page 6 of 56 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES -- GUIDE TO LETTERBOOK, VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Page 14-08 Circular from Societa Ligure di Storia Patria (Cesare Imperiale de Sant'Angelo, Il Presidente), 1908 December 24; Genoa, Italy. Read at Stated Meeting, 1909 April 26. The Ligurian Society of Native History offers the Academy a commemorative medal in honor of its fiftieth anniversary. Note: Oiled paper. Creator: Società ligure di storia patria Language: Italian Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003208.001.jpg Page 14-09 Circular from Reale accademia delle scienze di Torino ; Comite International en l'Honneur de Amedeo Avogadro sous le Patronage de S. M. Victor Emanuel III Roi d'Italie (Stanislao Cannizzaro, President honoraire), [1909 May]; [Turin, Italy]. Notifies the Academy of upcoming events to commemorate the late scientist Amedeo Avogadro, including a publication of a volume of his works and the erection of a statue of him in Turin, Italy. Includes a list of the Italian and International members of the International Committee in Honor of Amedeo Avogadro, in charge of organizing the events. Note: Contemporary note that it was acknowledged by the corresponding secretary May 12, 1909. Creator: Reale accademia delle scienze di Torino Language: French Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003209.001.jpg Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003209.002.jpg Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003209.003.jpg Page 7 of 56 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES -- GUIDE TO LETTERBOOK, VOLUME 14, 1909-1911 Page 14-10 Death notice from Societe de Geographie Commerciale de Bordeaux (Gilbert Lasserre, Le Secretaire general, F. Samazeuilh, Le President), 1909 April 7; Bordeaux, France. Announces the death of Julien Manes on April 2, 1909. Note: Contemporary note that it was acknowledged by the corresponding secretary May 12, 1909. Creator: Societé de géographie commerciale de Bordeaux Language: French Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003210.001.jpg Image: http://www.amacad.org/archive/images/003210.002.jpg Page 14-11 Circular from Der Vorstand des Botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg (E. Koehne), [1909 May]; Friedenau bei Berlin, Germany. Invites the Academy to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Botany Society of the Province of Brandenburg, to be held on the May 31, through June 2, 1909 at the Royal Botanical Museum in Dahlem, Germany. Includes a program of events and detachable RSVP. Note: Contemporary note that it was acknowledged by the corresponding
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