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Russell W. Raitt Papers

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Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: Russell W. Raitt Papers Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0035 Physical Description: 8.4 Linear feet(19 archives boxes and 2 card file boxes) Date (inclusive): 1930-1992, bulk 1941-1979 Abstract: Papers of Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist Russell W. Raitt, including correspondence, research files, laboratory notebooks, and teaching materials. Scope and Content of Collection Papers of Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist Russell W. Raitt, including correspondence, research files, laboratory notebooks and teaching materials. Raitt researched underwater acoustics and seismology with the University of California Division of War Research (UCDWR), the Naval Electronics Laboratory (NEL) and the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL). He participated in several SIO research expeditions and cruises from the 1940s through the 1970s, and the collection contains notes and data related to these endeavors. Raitt collaborated with scholars internationally, often presenting at conferences and publishing research results. Highlights of these collaborations include Raitt's 1956 notebook from a research trip to Cambridge, England and his participation on the Discovery II expedition, as well as his 1970-1971 trip journal aboard the Soviet cruise Vityaz. Arranged in eight series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) RESEARCH, 3) EXPEDITIONS AND CRUISES, 4) WRITINGS, 5) TEACHING AND LECTURES, 6) COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS, 7) SIO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, and 8) SLIDES. Biography Geophysicist Russell W. Raitt was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1907. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1929 and his Ph.D. in 1935 from the California Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, Raitt founded the Geophysical Engineering Corporation in Pasadena, CA. He then moved to La Jolla, and from 1941 to 1945 conducted research on acoustics and the sea floor for the University of California Division of War Research (UCDWR). After the war, Raitt joined the newly developed University of California Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) as a senior research associate. When MPL merged into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in 1948, Raitt became an associate professor, studying underwater acoustics and sonar engineering. Raitt used seismic refraction techniques to study the sea floor, and advanced signifigant theories of sea-floor structure, evolution, and spreading. Raitt retired in 1976. He died in 1995 in San Diego. Preferred Citation Russell W. Raitt Papers. SMC 35. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Acquisition Information Acquired 1981-1995. OFF-SITE STORAGE COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS. Publication Rights Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection. Digital Content Sound recordings in the collection have been digitized. Processing Information Processing records for the first major 1981 accession of Raitt's office files note that they were disorderly, incomplete, and stored in colored binders. The original binder color, if applicable, has been noted on the folders (pink materials were created and maintained by MPL staff). Original folder titles and contents have generally been preserved. Subjects and Indexing Terms Marine geophysics -- Research Underwater acoustics Ocean bottom -- Research

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 2 Raitt, Russell W. (Russell Watson), 1907-1995 -- Archives Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Archives

CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Personal and professional correspondence with colleagues and research collaborators. The first section is arranged chronologically, followed by a second section of major correspondents arranged alphabetically by surname.

Chronological Box 1, Folder 1-28 1932-1967 General Solicitation letter from United Farm Workers in folder 28.

Box 2, Folder 1-12 1968-1979, and undated General note Includes one folder of personal correspondence, and some undated wireless messages from ships.

Alphabetical Box 2, Folder 13 Belshe, John 1959-1961 Box 2, Folder 14 Durbin, William 1956-1962 Box 2, Folder 15 Eckart, Carl 1945-1947 General Includes 1945 letter from Carl Eckart to Carl F. Eyring, Ralph J. Christensen, and Raitt regarding the discovery and naming of the deep scattering layer.

Box 2, Folder 16 Ewing, John 1957-1969 Box 2, Folder 17 Fisher, Robert 1964 Box 2, Folder 18 Hart, Pembroke J. 1959-1962 Box 2, Folder 19 Hartdegen, Carl 1982, undated Box 2, Folder 20 Hussong, Donald M. 1972 Box 2, Folder 21 Johnson, Rockne 1966-1969 Box 2, Folder 22 Keen, Charlotte 1969-1970 Box 2, Folder 23 Le Pichon, Xavier 1964-1969 Box 2, Folder 24 McConnell, Robert K. 1962 Box 2, Folder 25 Munk, Walter H. 1948 General note Correspondence on Raitt's contribution to the Sverdrup 60th anniversary volume.

Box 2, Folder 26 Murauchi, Sadanori 1969-1974 Box 2, Folder 27 Nafe, John E. 1957 Box 2, Folder 28 Nanda, J. N. 1951-1963 Box 2, Northrop, John 1961-1975 Folder 29-31 Box 2, Folder 32 Revelle, Roger 1958-1978 Box 2, Folder 33 Pepin, Robert 1959-1960 Box 2, Folder 34 Sagar, Frederick Henry 1952-1953 Box 2, Folder 35 Wickam, Jacob 1964 General note Correspondence on Raitt's contributions to a book on underwater acoustics.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 3 RESEARCH General Research

RESEARCH Scope and Content of Series Series 2) RESEARCH: Major topics in this series include Raitt's notes and data on the sea floor, underwater sound, seismology, and reverberation. It also contains Raitt's notes on lectures from other SIO and UC San Diego faculty members, as well as notes taken at conferences. Arranged in five subseries: A) General Research, B) Notes on Lectures, C) Notebooks, D) Subject Files, and E) Symposia and Conferences.

General Research

Box 3, Folder 1-2 Various notes 1930-1935 General note Topics include: cosmic ray track recorder, alpha particle counter, transient characteristics of a fine wire heated by an electric current, escape of radon from rocks, age of rocks, and velocity.

Box 3, Folder 3 Various notes 1940-1970 General note Topics include: transformer response, effect of viscosity, the propagation of explosive soundwaves on the ocean bottom, sediment refraction from surface measurements, and interference of two sound waves.

Box 3, Folder 4 Magnetostrictive sources - Notes and graphs 1941 Box 3, Folder 5 Bone conduction receiver notes 1941 Box 3, Folder 6 Transducing systems patents (Raitt, serial no. 380 and 499) oath and correspondence 1941-1943 Box 3, Folder 7 Hydrophones notes 1941-1962 General note Includes parts and equipment lists for cruises.

Box 3, Folder 8 Sphere reflections notes and calculations 1942 Box 3, Folder 9 QC H-3 data and graphs 1942 Box 3, Folder 10 U.S.S. Jasper data 1942 March 19 Box 3, Folder 11 Photos and negatives for reports and papers 1942, 1947 General note Include negatives for lantern slides to "Transmission of Explosive Impulses in the Sea" by Raitt.

Box 3, Folder 12 Calibration of GA and GB pairs data sheets 1943 Box 3, Folder 13 Scripps canyon data and notes 1943-1944 Box 3, Folder 14 Shallow water rock and sand-mud data summaries and tables 1943-1945 Box 3, Folder 15 Thermocline effect graphs 1944 Box 3, Folder 16 Diffusion of heat in the upper layers of the sea notes 1945 March 13 Box 3, Folder 17 Dependence of echo range on target strength - Notes and data sets 1945 Box 3, Folder 18 Notes on a conversation with Lindsay on airborne sound 1946 August 19 Box 3, Folder 19 Suggested definitions of acoustical terms 1947 December Box 3, Folder 20 Underwater sound notes 1947-1957 Box 3, Folder 21 Fathograms 1948 Box 3, Folder 22 Galvonometers notes 1948 Box 3, Folder 23 Amplifiers 1948 General note Topics include: equipment requirements, diagrams for amplifier and shooting box for seismic study, and data sheets and graphs.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 4 RESEARCH General Research

Box 3, Folder 24 Explosive wave bottom reflection studies 1948 April-August General note Includes ammunition request, detonation schedules, and correspondence pertaining to fathom detonators.

Box 3, Folder 25 Lake Mead geological survey - Correspondence and report 1948 April 1 Box 3, Folder 26 Swedish Deep Sea Expedition 1948-1952 General note Report, photographs, and figures from the expedition by Waloddi Weibull, returned by Hans Pettersson.

Box 3, Complex Impedance of CBM 78203 #51 and #16 - Fathometer graphs 1949 June 20 Folder 27-28 Box 3, Folder 29 Acoustic notes and calculations ca. 1950 General note Includes original calculations on acoustic impedance and the velocity of sound in a mixture of sand and water, and on the attenuation of sound in dilute muds; notes on the reflection and transmission of sound in a region of continuously variable properties.

Box 3, Folder 30 Pt. Sur cable installation map 1953 General note Map showing the installation of black and red cables.

Box 3, Folder 31 Echo Sounder memoranda and correspondence 1954 General note Includes draft of the development of a survey-type echo sounder for the Bureau of Ships.

Box 3, Folder 32 Notes, correspondence, and abstracts while at Cambridge 1956 General note Includes memorandum regarding the Chinook Expedition, and revision notes for "Seismic Refraction Studies of the Pacific Ocean."

Box 3, Folder 33 Miscellaneous notes on temperature probe and Downwind heat flow 1957-1958 Box 4, Folder 1 Russian translations and correspondence 1958-1960 General note Includes translations of the first six papers of vol. 27 of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R.'s Trudy Instituta Okeanologii "Investigations of the Kurile-Kamachtka Trench and the Northwest Part of the Pacific Ocean"; translation notes from Olga Jones, and a translation of the paper "Deep Sounding of the Moon."

Box 4, Folder 2 Russian reprints and correspondence 1958-1964 General note Includes reprints in Russian, a NASA Technical Translation of the "International Geophysical Year Bibliography of Literature in the Russian Language for 1958," correspondence with Russian scholars and translators.

Box 4, Folder 3 Absorption of tsunami and continental border notes 1961 June 13 Box 4, Folder 4 Midway Island survey - Notes and correspondence 1961-1962 Box 4, Folder 5 Arons and Yennie - Bubble Pulse 1964 Box 4, Folder 6 Transcontinental Geophysical Survey correspondence 1964 October 7

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 5 RESEARCH General Research

Box 4, Folder 7 Papeete, Tahiti correspondence 1969 November-1970 January General note Includes correspondence relating to Raitt's leg injury while at sea.

Box 4, Folder 8 UCLA gravity data results undated Box 4, Folder 9 Directivity corrections graphs undated Box 4, Folder 10 Correction of pattern 40 KC Benioff - Data sheets and graph undated Box 4, Folder 11 Bathythermograph codes graphs undated Box 4, Folder 12 Interpretation of seismic refraction data memorandum undated Box 4, Folder 13 Ionization chamber photographs undated Box 4, Folder 14 Supersonic underwater telephony attenuation at 27 KC notes undated Box 4, Folder 15 Velocity of sound in the sea - Data charts and graphs undated Box 4, Folder 16 Reflection equipment - Diagrams and notes undated Box 4, Folder 17 Anisotropy notes undated

Notes on Lectures

Box 4, Notes from Epstein's lectures 1932-1933 Folder 18-19 Box 4, Folder 20 Introduction to Wave Mechanics - Notes and problem sets 1933 Box 4, Folder 21 Radio transmission seminar 1946 July 10 Box 4, Folder 22 Notes on Lindsay's lectures - Wave motion 1946 July-August Box 4, Notes on Eckart and Liebermann's lectures - Absorption 1946-1947 Folder 23-24 Box 4, Folder 25 Notes on Eckart's lectures - Seminar on Wave Theory 1946-1947 Box 4, Folder 26 Notes on Cady's lectures - Transducer Design Seminar 1947 February Box 4, Folder 27 Notes from Eckart's lectures 1947-1949 Box 5, Folder 1 Notes on Eckart's lectures - Stratified fluids, equations of motion, and free convection 1953-1955 Box 5, Folder 2 Notes on Vacquier's lectures 1958 April Box 5, Folder 3 Notes on Liebermann's lecture - Properties of liquids 1957 February Box 5, Folder 4 Notes on Orowan's lectures 1958 Box 5, Folder 5 Notes on Munk's lectures 1961 Box 5, Folder 6 Notes on Spiess' lectures 1961 October Box 5, Folder 7 Notes on Sverdrup's lectures - Oceanography of Surface Layers undated

Notebooks

Box 5, Folder 8 Notes and problem sets 1933 General note Taken from a notebook and includes two tabs: "W" & "Misc." Includes calculations and notes on alpha radiation, magnetic deflection of cosmic rays, and radium in ocean sediments.

Box 5, Folder 9 Laboratory notebook 1941-1946 General note Bound volume with topics covering seismometers and waves.

Box 5, Folder 10 NDRC San Diego laboratory notebook #186 1943-1946 General note Bound volume of various notes and problem sets.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 6 RESEARCH Notebooks

Box 5, Notes and data 1945-1948 Folder 11-13 General note Topics include: directivity, phase fluctuations of transmission, data from La Paz cruise, variations of camera speed recorded by Raitt, diffraction by straight edge, echo and echo sounder, magnitude of scattering coefficients, pulse calibration of overall system, and reverberation.

Box 5, Folder 14 Notes and data 1948-1950 Box 5, Folder 15 Research notes and data 1948-1956 General note Bound volume. Topics include: seismic amplifier calibration data, test data and calibration data, filter calibrations, geophone tests, hydrophone tests.

Box 6, Folder 1 Workbook I 1949-1957 General note Contains notes, diagrams, and data primarily from 1954-1957 on such topics as filters for seismic work, calibrations, hydrophones, and amplifiers. Includes data and observations from CUSP cruise, Viscaino Bay, the Capricorn and MidPac expeditions, as well as hydrophone sea tests. Also contains some correspondence, MidPac certificate of participation, and meeting notes.

Box 6, Folder 2 Data notebook 1950-1965 General note Notebook of MPL statistician Gloria Slack. Bound volume with topics relating to seismic cruises, and observations on expeditions.

Box 6, Folder 3 Notes and data 1950-1951 General note Diagram, and data on topics including hydrophone buoys, seismic amplifiers, compression, and low frequency.

Box 6, Folder 4 Cambridge notebook 1956 General note Bound volume. Includes trip journal for the Discovery II expedition; notes of conversations with G. Shor, Tom Gaskell, Edward Bullard, V.V. Belousov; and planning information for the IGY.

Box 6, Folder 5 Notes 1956 General note Topics include: CUSP Expedition, the R.R.S. Discovery II cruise, and "Seismic Exploration of the Pacific Ocean" colloquium given at the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics.

Box 6, Folder 6 Workbook II 1957 General note Topics include: hydrophones, sound transmission, reversed and split profiles, and magnetic anomalies. Includes data and observations from IGY cruise to Valparaiso, the Downwind, Chinook, and Mukluk Expeditions, and the Arguello cruise. Also contains some correspondence, meeting notes, and trip journal.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 7 RESEARCH Notebooks

Box 6, Folder 7 Workbook III 1957-1960 General note Topics include: gravity at sea, seismic studies and deep-sea drilling, seismic refraction, heat flow, seismic velocities, and the detection of bombs by seismic waves. Includes data and observations of crustal thickness at Bikini and Eniwetok as well as data from the CUSP and Arguello cruises, MidPac, Mukluk, and Capricorn expeditions. Also contains some correspondence.

Box 7, Folder 1 Workbook IV 1963-1965 General note Contains notes and observations on such topics as research ships, gravitational energy, anisotropy, and least square reductions. Includes data and meeting notes on the Lusiad expedition.

Box 7, Folder 2 Workbook V 1965-1967 General note Contains notes, figures and diagrams, as well as observations on such topics and slope, velocity, and seismometers. Includes data from sea expeditions and the quartet area.

Box 7, Folder 3 Electricity and Magnetism by J. H. Jeans undated Box 7, Folder 4 Problems in chemical principles undated Box 7, Folder 5 Source depths ( ARGO-Doghouse) undated Box 7, Folder 6 Notes and problem sets undated

Subject Files

Box 7, Folder 7-9 Geophysical Engineering Corporation - Notes and report draft ca. 1940 Reverberation Box 7, Folder 10 Surface reverberation - Data sheets and graphs 1942-1943 Box 7, Folder 11 Bottom reverberation - Illustrations and graphs 1942-1944 Box 7, Volume reverberation - Cruise data sheets and graphs (Parts I-III) 1943 Folder 12-14 Box 8, Folder 1-3 Reverberation and sonar equipment on U.S.S. Jasper Racks A-F 1945-1951, 1971-1985 General note Includes notes on declassification, "Equipment for Sonar Research" rough draft, and photos and diagrams of equipment.

Sea floor bottom Box 8, Folder 4 Bottom scattering graphs 1942-1943 Box 8, Folder 5-7 Bottom reflection studies - Cruise data sheets, notes, and graphs 1942-1943, 1946 Box 8, Folder 8 Bottom sediment samples 1946-1947 Box 8, Folder 9 Bottom reflections 1959 Seismology Box 8, Brush oscillograms bomb data 1948 August-September Folder 10-11 Box 8, Folder 12 Saluda Seismic Operation photographs (NEL) 1949 Box 8, Folder 13 Pasadena local shocks - Data report 1949 January-March Box 8, Folder 14 Notes on seismic work on sea floor off Southern California 1950 January 4 Box 8, Folder 15 Seismic tests at Pt. Sur Station - Notes and schedule 1953 Box 8, Folder 16 Seismic operation program (MPL) plan notes 1954 Box 8, Folder 17 Operation Wigwam - Notes and earthquake telegram 1955 May 14 Box 8, Folder 18 Seismic workshop - Correspondence and notes 1958-1960 Box 8, Folder 19 Operation Leapfrog correspondence 1961

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 8 RESEARCH Subject Files

Box 8, Folder 20 SHOAL bomb test 1963-1964 Box 8, Folder 21 Bengal Fan and Sunda Orogen proposal and correspondence on seismic refraction studies 1974 Box 8, Folder 22 Seismic equipment diagrams undated Box 8, Folder 23 Seismograph refraction survey, Hanford area - Notes undated Box 8, Folder 24 Gnome bomb test data undated General note Includes four maps: Time Residual Plot; Ground Motion; Heat Flow Determinations in Middle North America; and Phase Velocity.

Symposia and Conferences

Box 8, Folder 25 Committee of Undersea Warfare 1948 General note Includes correspondence and conference information for the 3rd undersea symposium, Washington, D.C.

Box 8, Folder 26 Triannual meeting of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Rome, Italy 1953-1954 General note Includes paper abstract on "Seismic Refraction Studies in the Pacific Ocean Basin."

Box 8, Folder 27 Underwater Acoustics Symposium (Office of Naval Research) 1954 Box 8, Folder 28 10th Pacific Science Congress - "The Earth's Crust in the Pacific Basin," Honolulu, Hawaii 1960-1961 Box 8, Folder 29 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Helsinki 1960-1963 Box 8, Folder 30 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berkeley, California 1963 General note Includes conference program, list of participants, and proposal to Committee on Mean Sea-Level and its Variations.

Box 8, Folder 31 Symposium on the results of the IGY-IGC, Los Angeles 1963 Box 8, Folder 32 A symposium in honor of Sir Edward Bullard 1979 General note Includes list of invitees, speakers, and topics for symposium hosted by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on January 11-12, 1980.

EXPEDITIONS AND CRUISES Scope and Content of Series Series 3) EXPEDITIONS AND CRUISES: Notes, reports, and correspondence documenting Raitt's work and participation on research expeditions and cruises. Items in the series primarily span the late 1940s-1970s and include data collected from Scripps research vessels such as Horizon, Spencer F. Baird, Argo, and Ellen B. Scripps. Particular strengths of the series include data from the Antipode and Capricorn Expeditions, and the Vityaz cruise. The first part of the series consists of miscellaneous files arranged chronologically, followed by a second section arranged alphabetically by major expedition or cruise name.

Miscellaneous Box 8, Folder 33 U.S.S. Baya (SS318) tentative schedule 1948 March 29 Box 8, Folder 34 NORPAC tentative cruise patterns 1955 March 1 Box 8, Folder 35 Cruise preparation correspondence 1955 April-May Box 8, Folder 36 Research cruises (Vermilion, Fanfare) - Schedules and correspondence 1959 Box 8, Folder 37 Research vessel ARGO 1960 June 3 Box 9, Folder 1 Marine operations expeditions - Memorandum and correspondence 1957-1958

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 9 EXPEDITIONS AND CRUISES

Box 9, Folder 2-3 Marine operations cruise announcements 1953-1958, 1960-1970 Box 9, Folder 4 Pelagic Area Studies (PAS) - Operation schedule and report 1954 Box 9, Folder 5 Swallow correspondence - H.M.S Challenger and Capricorn 1954 Box 9, Folder 6 Cruise notes and data - CUTTER 1947-1948 Box 9, Folder 7 Cruise 67-01 notes 1967 Box 9, Folder 8-9 Antipode Expedition - Notes, schedules, program outline, and correspondence ca. 1970 General note Includes writing by D. G. Moore, J. R. Curray, and Raitt, "Structure and History, or the Bengal Deep-Sea Fan and Geosyncline, Indian Ocean" and postcards.

Box 9, Folder 10 Antipode Expedition - Notes, journal and correspondence 1971 January-May Box 9, Folder 11 Antipode Expedition - News release and newspaper clippings 1971 October Box 9, Folder 12 Operation plan for Eniwetok/Capricorn Expedition 1952-1953 Box 9, Capricorn Expedition - Notes and correspondence 1952 February-December Folder 13-14 General note Includes correspondence and shipment orders pertaining to ammunition and explosives, and "Operation Ivy" pamphlet from 1951.

Box 9, Folder 15 Capricorn Expedition - Correspondence 1953 November-1954 November General note Includes correspondence pertaining to publication of results related to Operation Ivy/Eniwetok.

Box 9, Folder 16 Capricorn Expedition travel time plots - Copy negatives 1952-1953 Box 9, Folder 17 Cedros Island Cruise - Bottom photographs 1939 June- July Box 9, Folder 18 Cedros Island Cruise - Skiff survey 1952 July Box 9, Folder 19 Chinook Expedition - Correspondence and reports 1956 May-1957 April General note Includes correspondence and meeting notes for 1957 Gulf of Alaska cruise.

Box 9, Folder 20 Chubasco Expedition - Notes and correspondence 1954 May-November General note Also referenced as the Acapulco Trench Expedition.

Box 9, CUSP Cruise - Notes, proposal and correspondence 1954 April-July, 1955 Folder 21-22 Box 9, Folder 23 DODO Expedition - Schedule and roster 1964 January 20 General note Part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's sequence of cruises to the Indian Ocean.

Box 9, Folder 24 Downwind Expedition - Correspondence 1957-1958 Box 9, Folder 25 Erben Bank Cruise - Brush oscillograms 1948 April 1 Box 9, Folder 26 Fanfare Sea Expedition - Schedule 1959 June 30 Box 9, Folder 27 Indian Ocean Cruise - Notes and schedule 1958 Box 9, Folder 28 Lusiad Expedition - Proposal and report on the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1961-1962 General note Incldues proposal to the National Science Foundation and report detailing field participation in the International Indian Ocean Expedition, 1960-1965.

Box 9, Lusiad Expedition 1961-1963 Folder 29-31 General note Includes ship request, personnel lists, schedules, data, and budget and ship reports.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 10 EXPEDITIONS AND CRUISES

Box 10, Folder 1 Monsoon Expedition - Notes, correspondence and images 1959-1962 Box 10, Folder 2-5 MidPac Expedition 1949-1951 General note Includes correspondence, proposals, personnel lists and schedules, data and reports.

Box 10, Folder 6 MOHOLE press kit 1959-1961 Box 10, Folder 7 MOHOLE site studies proposal drafts 1965 Box 10, Folder 8 Quartet cruises 27-30 - Data 1965-1966 Box 10, Folder 9 Scan Expedition - Correspondence and reports 1969 January-November General note Includes JOIDES report, personnel lists and schedules, correspondence, and MPL report by G. B. Morris.

Box 10, Folder 10 E.W. Scripps Cruise - Notes and calculations 1941-1949 General note Includes bathythermograms and Commander Sherry's calculations.

Box 10, Folder 11 Scripps expedition to the Revilliagigelo Islands (SERI) memorandum 1956 Box 10, Folder 12 Siqueiros Expedition schedules 1974 Box 10, Folder 13 Vermillion Sea Expedition correspondence 1959 January- May General note Includes SIO report, "Program of Research in the Gulf of California in the Field of the Earth Sciences."

Box 10, Folder 14 Vityaz Cruise 1970 September-December General note Includes crew lists, correspondence, report, and trip journal.

WRITINGS Scope and Content of Series Series 4) WRITINGS: Drafts, typescripts, and related correspondence for Raitt's professional publications, including his Ph.D. dissertation, as well as reports and proposals for research grants and projects. Co-authors, where present, are listed by name. Arranged chronologically within two subseries: A) Manuscripts and Presentations, and B) Reports and Proposals.

Manuscripts and Presentations

Box 10, Folder 15 A New Kind of Radioactivity 1933 April 1 Box 10, Folder 16 Radioactivity and the Light Nuclei by R. M. Langer and Raitt ca. 1933 Box 10, Direct Measurement of Alpha Particle Activities of Rocks and the Determination of Folder 17-18 Thorium. Doctoral thesis draft and notes 1935 Box 11, Folder 1 Radioactivity of the Earth's Crust and its Influence on Cosmic Ray Electroscope Observations Made near Ground Level by Robley D. Evans and Raitt 1935 Box 11, Folder 2 Fluctuation and Variation in Underwater Sound 1943-1946 General note Includes notes and data sheets, as well as NEL memorandum for a conference entitled, "Fluctuation of Transmission Observations in Underwater Sound."

Box 11, Folder 3 Transmission of 24 KC Sound in Shallow Water by R. R. Carhart and Raitt 1946

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 11 WRITINGS Manuscripts and Presentations

Box 11, Folder 4 Vertical Reflection of Supersonic Sound from the Sea Bottom 1947 General note Notes and drafts. Presented at the meeting of the American Physical Society July 12, 1947 in Palo Alto, California.

Box 11, Folder 5 Transmission of Explosive Impulses in the Sea by Raitt and T. F. Johnston 1947 General note Abstracts and correspondence. Presented to the Seismological Society of America meeting April 10-12, 1947 at Stanford.

Box 11, National Research Defense Committee (NRDC) Summary Technical Reports, Folder 6-10 volume 6-VII, chapters 1-5. Principles and Applications of Underwater Sound 1947 Box 11, Reverberation in the Sea by Carl F. Eyring, Ralph J. Christensen, and Raitt Folder 11-13 1947-1948 Box 11, Folder 14 Sound Scatters in the Sea 1948 Box 11, Folder 15 1950 Seismic Refraction Studies of Bikini and Kwajalein Atolls and Slyvanis Guyot 1950-1952 Box 12, Folder 1-2 Geophysical Measurements - Research notes and diagrams, drafts and correspondence 1950-1954 General note Presented at the 1952 Symposium on Oceanographic Instrumentation.

Box 12, Folder 3 The Pacific Basin - Some results from the Capricorn Expeditions 1953 General note Presented at the 1953 Institute of Geophysics Technical Conference.

Box 12, Folder 4 Seismic-Refraction Studies of Bikini and Kwajalein Atolls (Geological Survey Professional Paper 260-K) 1953-1954 Box 12, Folder 5 Subsurface Structures of Eniwetok Atoll from Seismic Refraction Observations 1953-1957 Box 12, Folder 6-8 The Tonga Trench by Raitt, R. L. Fisher, and R. G. Mason 1954-1955 General note Annotated manuscript with figures, correspondence, and notes. Versions presented at Columbia University Symposium on the Earth's crust, and published.

Box 12, Folder 9 Seismic Studies in the Southern California Continental Borderland 1955-1956 General note Drafts and correspondence. Presented at the XX International Geological Congress in Mexico City.

Box 12, Seismic Refraction Studies of the Pacific Ocean Basin I, Crustal Thickness of the Folder 10-11 Central Equatorial Pacific 1955-1956 Box 12, Folder 12 Sediment thickness of the Pacific ocean floor by R. Revelle and Raitt 1956-1957 General note Includes meeting notes and Revelle's notes.

Box 12, Folder 13 Some Results of Seismic Studies in Capricorn Expeditions 1956-1959 General note Correspondence and abstract for paper presented at the Seismological Society of America, 1954.

Box 12, Folder 14 Propagation of Explosive Sound Beneath the Sea Floor 1956 General note Paper presented at Acoustical Society of America.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 12 WRITINGS Manuscripts and Presentations

Box 12, Folder 15 Seismic-Refraction Studies of Eniwetok Atoll 1957 Box 13, Folder 1-4 The Sea: Ideas and Observations chapter manuscript General note Correspondence, notes, drafts and figures pertaining to Raitt's contribution on crustal rocks.

Box 13, Folder 5 Sound Velocities at the Surface of Deep-Sea Sediments by Fry and Raitt 1960-1961 Box 13, Folder 6 Seismic Refraction Observations of the Indonesian Island Arc 1962 Box 13, Folder 7 Seismic Refraction Studies 1962 Box 13, Folder 8 Topography and Structure of the Peru-Chile Trench by R. L. Fisher and Raitt 1962 General note Includes rough data profile at the Peru trench.

Box 13, Folder 9 Geophysics of the South Pacific 1963 General note Presented at ICY-IGC Symposium.

Box 13, Anisotropy of the Pacific Upper Mantle by Raitt, G. G. Shor Jr., T. J. G. Francis, and Folder 10-12 G. B. Morris 1966 General note Includes notes for talk and lectures presented to the Scripps Institution Staff Research Conference and the American Geophysical Union Meeting, a 1966 report on "Anisotropy of the Pacific Upper Mantle" for MPL, and tentative operation plans for sonar field demonstrations.

Box 13, Folder 13 Seismic Measurements in the Southern Indian Ocean by T. J. G. Francis and Raitt 1966-1967 Box 13, Folder 14 Velocity Anisotropy and Delay-Time Maps of the Mantle near Hawaii by G.B. Morris, Raitt, and G.G. Shor Jr. 1969 Box 13, Folder 15 Mantle Anisotropy in the Pacific Ocean by Raitt, G. G. Shor Jr., G. B. Morris, and H. K. Kirk 1970-1971 General note Presented at the Ocean World Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.

Box 13, Folder 16 Anisotropy of the Oceanic Upper Mantle by Raitt, G. G. Shor Jr., H. K. Kirk, and M. Henry 1971-1972 General note Presented at the Seismological Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Box 13, Folder 17 Anisotropy and Crustal Structure of the Cocos Plate by G. G. Shor Jr., Raitt, M. Henry, L. R. Bentley, and G. H. Sutton 1973 Box 13, Folder 18 Super-thick Sedimentary Basin, Bay of Bengal by J. N. Brune, J. Curray, L. Dorman, and Raitt ca. 1986 Box 13, Folder 19 Seismic Exploration of the Sea Floor undated Box 13, Seismic Refraction Data Analysis undated Folder 20-21 General note Photocopied manuscript.

Box 14, Folder 1 Bottom Reverberation undated

Reports and Proposals

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 13 WRITINGS Reports and Proposals

Box 14, Folder 2 Explosive Sound Waves in the Sea, Observations with a 2500 Moving-Coil Oscillograph by Johnston and Raitt 1942-1947 General note Report and memorandum moving paper from confidential to unclassified.

Box 14, Folder 3 Volume reverberation at 10, 20, 40, and 80 KC report 1943 Box 14, Folder 4 Layer Effect by Raitt and Sheehy - Report and commentary 1944 Box 14, Folder 5 Declassification memoranda on NDRC reports 1946 General note Memoranda pertaining to the "Propagation of Underwater Sound" and sonar.

Box 14, Folder 6 Reverberation in Shallow Water (progress report) by C. F. Eyring, R. J. Christensen, and Raitt - Declassification documents 1947 Box 14, Folder 7 Ivy final report project 11.4 - Declassification correspondence and report 1953-1955 Box 14, Folder 8 Reflection and Refraction of Explosive Waves by the Sea Bottom (progress report) by Raitt and George Shor, Jr. 1955 Box 14, Folder 9 Heat Flow through the Ocean Floor 1958-1960 General note Draft and final grant proposal to the National Science Foundation.

Box 14, Folder 10 International Geophysical Year (IGY) Terminal Report revisions 1964 April Box 14, Anisotropy Studies 1968-1969 Folder 11-12 General note Proposals to the National Science Foundation. Includes budget summaries and correspondence.

Box 14, Folder 13 Seismic Anisotropy of the Pacific Mantle by Raitt and G. G. Shor, Jr. - Grant and budget proposals 1971 Box 14, Folder 14 Marine Seismic Refraction, Anisotropy and Structural Studies 1971-1974 General note Research proposals to the National Science Foundation. Includes budget summaries and correspondence.

Box 14, Miscellaneous grant proposals and reports 1974-1976 Folder 15-16 General note Includes notes, reports, content on the crustal structure of the East Pacific Rise, and the operation schedule of R/V Thomas Washington.

Box 14, Folder 17 Marine Geophysical and Geological Study of the Molucca Sea Collison Zone - Research grant application 1976 UCDWR Reverberation Group Box 14, Folder 18 Bottom Reverberation: Dependence on Frequency - UCDWR no. U79 report 1943 June 16 Box 14, Folder 19 Echoes from Wakes - Declassification documents 1947 Box 14, Reverberation Studies at 24 KC - Drafts, sections I-XII undated Folder 20-21 UCDWR Sonar Group Box 14, Folder 22 The Isolation of Additive Effects (UCDWR M327) - Declassification documents 1945-1946

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Box 14, Folder 23 Sonar Data Division (UCDWR) - Reports and declassification documents 1945-1947 General note Includes file report of "Additive Analysis with Disproportionate Weighting" (UCDWR M379), declassification documents for "Supplement to: Limitations of Echo Ranges by Reverberation (Deep Water)" (UCDWR M361.1), and "Processing Sound Field Data" (UCDWR N336).

Box 14, Folder 24 Sonar publicity and declassification - Notice by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations 1946 March 25 General note Details the extent to which sonar has been declassified and may be used for publication.

Box 14, Stratification of Sound Scatterers in the Ocean (UCDWR M397) - Folder 25-26 Declassification and figures 1946 TEACHING AND LECTURES

Box 15, Folder 1 Scattering from a thin layer 1940-1942 Box 15, Folder 2 Reverberation 1942 Box 15, Folder 3 Scattering 1946 Box 15, Folder 4 Distribution of volume scatters (MPL seminar) 1947-1948 Box 15, Folder 5-8 Principles of underwater sound (Oceanography 116) 1947-1952 Box 15, Folder 9 Acoustics of the sea bottom (UCLA Physics seminar) 1948 March 4 Box 15, Folder 10 Explosive sound studies (MPL seminar) 1948 Box 15, Folder 11 Noise lecture notes 1948-1954 General note Topics include noise and hydrophones, as well as notes from Eckart's lectures in 1951, and noise test data from 1954.

Box 15, Geophysics 240A 1950-1957, 1961 Folder 12-13 Box 15, Folder 14 Seminar in submarine geology 1954 Box 15, Special topics in Oceanography (Oceanography 220) 1954-1955, 1957-1958 Folder 15-17 Box 15, Geophysics 240B 1959-1963 Folder 18-21 Box 16, Folder 1-2 Geophysics (Parts I & II) 1961 Box 16, Folder 3 Geophysics (ES240) 1963 Box 16, Folder 4 Geophysics orientation 1968 April 30 Box 16, Folder 5-6 ES 246A vols. I & II lecture notes 1968 Box 16, Folder 7-9 SIO 244 and SIO 226A 1971-1974 Box 16, Folder 10 Internal constitution of the Earth 1972 January 3 Box 16, Folder 11 Anisotropy of horizontal compressions wave velocity in the upper mantle 1974 Box 16, Various lecture notes 1948-1951, 1957-1963 Folder 12-14 General note Topics include: volume reverberation, reflection of sound from a sphere, seismic studies, surface waves, elastic strain, heat flow, oceanic movements, and bottom refractions. Contains data from MidPac and Downwind Expeditions.

Box 17, Folder 1-4 Various lecture notes and problem sets 1961-1964, 1966-1967

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COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS Scope and Content of Series Series 6) COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS: Meeting notes, correspondence, and memoranda from professional organizations and committees in which Raitt participated. Important files include the joint planning committee between NEL and MPL, and the Comité International de Geophysique, a working group of the International Council of Scientific Unions. Arranged chronologically.

Professional Organizations Box 17, Folder 5 Report on the New York Meeting of the Optical Society of America 1931 General note Includes correspondence to H. E. Kaiser.

Box 17, Folder 6 The American Physical Society 1946-1947 Box 17, Folder 7-8 American Association for the Advancement of Science - Membership correspondence and annual meeting in San Diego 1946-1947 Box 17, Folder 9 Miscellaneous correspondence 1947-1948 General note Includes Raitt's membership recommendation letter for the American Geophysical Union.

Committees Box 14, Folder 10 Joint planning committee, Marine Physical Laboratory/Navy Electronics Laboratory 1946 June-1948 February General note Includes meeting minutes.

Box 17, Folder 11 Institute of Geophysics - Conference program and advisory board minutes 1956 Working Group Investigations of the Earth's Crust - Comite International de Geophysique 1957-1961 General note Includes "Interpretation of Seismic Retraction Data," Downwind data, "Pacific Oceanic Crust" paper by Raitt and G. G. Shor, notice of meeting for the Working Group on Investigations of the Earth's Crust, and meeting notes with Fred Spiess.

Box 17, Institute of Geophysics - Conference program and advisory board minutes Folder 13-14 1957-1959, 1960-1964 Box 17, Working Group Investigations of the Earth's Crust - Comite International de Folder 15-16 Geophysique, meeting and lecture notes 1962 General note Includes correspondence pertaining to Raitt's participation in the working group meeting, the group's meeting agenda, resolutions and preliminary contributions, and Raitt's notes on the meeting. Raitt's lecture notes for the International Oceanographic Congress held in Paris, France on March 19-22, 1962 are also included.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 16 SIO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Scripps Institution of Oceanography

SIO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Scope and Content of Series Series 7) SIO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: As a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) beginning in 1948, Raitt witnessed the growth of both SIO and UC San Diego. In addition to Raitt's faculty papers and lecture notes, this series documents the development of the Department of Earth Science, controversies surrounding the 1950 University of California loyalty oath, and Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College). This series contains correspondence, meeting minutes, and relevant reports on the history and development of SIO and UC San Diego. Arranged chronologically within three subseries: A) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, B) Department of Earth Sciences, and C) UC San Diego.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Box 17, Folder 17 Budget committee - Meeting agendas and ledgers 1960-1963 General note Agendas include lists of appointments and breakdown of research funding.

Box 17, Folder 18 University of California Division of War Research (UCDWR) personnel directories 1944-1945 Box 17, Folder 19 Marine Physical Laboratory - Notes and memoranda on formulation 1946-1947 Box 17, Folder 20 University of California public information clip sheet 1948 March Box 17, Folder 21 Policy memorandum on use of the Scripps Institution name 1956 Box 17, Folder 22 Raitt's MPL badge 1956 Box 17, Folder 23 Institute of Oceanography of the National Academy of Science of the USSR - Vityaz visit 1958 December General note Includes visit itinerary, guest lists, Vityaz personnel lists and memoranda to SIO staff.

Box 17, Folder 24 University of California/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography film series proposal on Oceanography 1962 Box 17, Folder 25 Marine Physical Laboratory - Personnel clearance memoranda 1966-1967 Box 17, Folder 26 Photograph from the Celebration in Honor of Russell Raitt and Victor Vacquier 1992 October 13 Box 21, Folder 1-5 Sound recording of the Celebration in Honor of Russell Raitt and Victor Vacquier 1992 October 12 General note Five audiocassettes of a day of lectures recognizing the scientific contributions of Raitt and Vacquier, organized by George Shor and John Sclater, held in Sumner Auditorium. Speakers include William A. Nierenberg, Cecil Green, J. Tuzo Wilson, Jean Francheteau, Christopher Harrison, Fred Spiess, Sir Anthony Laughton, Robert L. Fisher, and others. Digitized version available upon request. Access Original restricted (digital version available)

Department of Earth Sciences

Box 17, Folder 27 Earth Sciences curricula development for geochemistry and geophysics - Proposals and memoranda 1957-1959 Box 17, Folder 28 UC Academic Senate, Southern Section minutes - Approval of graduate degrees in geochemistry 1958 Box 17, Folder 29 Formation of the Department of Earth Sciences - Preliminary proposal 1958 November 5

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 17 SIO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Department of Earth Sciences

Box 17, Folder 30 Earth Sciences geophysical curricula memorandum and proposal 1961 Box 17, Folder 31 UC San Diego Department of Earth Sciences and SIO undergraduate curricula in geophysics 1965 Box 17, Folder 32 Raitt's notes on Earth Sciences curricula redesign ca. 1973

UC San Diego

Box 18, Folder 1 Referendum on UC San Diego fallout shelter program 1963 March 14 General note Prepared and distributed by the University of California Campus Women for Peace.

Box 18, Folder 2 Lumumba-Zapata proposal (Third College) 1969 General note Includes committee meeting minutes and Chancellor's response.

Box 18, Folder 3 Third College academic plan 1969 October UC Academic Senate, San Diego Division Box 18, Folder 4 Loyalty oath controversy 1949-1950 General note Includes newspaper articles, petitions, correspondence to the Academic Senate.

Box 18, Folder 5 Memorandum regarding emereti benefits submitted by faculty of the Southern Section 1952 Box 18, Folder 6-7 Committee on Academic Freedom - Memoranda and correspondence 1965-1970 General note Includes comments regarding the UC Student Organization Handbook revision; "Save the University" correspondence; a statement by John Isaacs on Department of Defense research funding; an issue of the "Reviled College Inciter" and articles from "The Indicator"; and documents pertaining to the Vietnam war and campus protests.

Box 18, Folder 8 Academic Senate - Resolutions against war research ca. 1970 Box 18, Folder 9 Academic Senate special committee - George Francis McEwen Memorial Resolution 1972 March Box 18, Committee on Public Ceremonies - Agenda and minutes 1965-1969, 1971-1972 Folder 10-13 General note Includes agenda, memoranda, and minutes for various public ceremonies at UC San Diego, including the dedication of Revelle College, and the inauguration of Chancellor John S. Galbraith.

SLIDES Scope and Content of Series Series 8) SLIDES: Images primarily of figures and diagrams used in Raitt's presentations. Includes a sequence of glass lantern slides from the Marine Physical Laboratory. Slides are numbered according to Raitt's original labelling system.

Box 18, Folder 14 Guadalupe and Decros Islands 1949 January and March Box 18, Folder 15 Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) sea trips from San Diego to Santa Rosa Island, with index 1949 August Box 18, Folder 16 Guadalupe Island with Melpomene cave undated Box 18, Folder 17 Index to lantern slides for Raitt presentations 1973 General note The numbering used in the index corresponds to the "RR" labels on the slides, also referred to as the Medieval System.

Russell W. Raitt Papers SMC 0035 18 SLIDES

Box 19 RR 1-10 - Tonga Trench by Raitt, R. L. Fisher, and R. G. Mason 1954-1955 Box 19 RR 11-20 - Propagation of Explosive Sound Beneath the Sea Floor 1956 Box 19 RR 21-26 - Sediment Thickness of the Pacific Sea Floor by R. Revelle and Raitt 1957 Box 19 RR 27-35 - Topography and Structure of the Pacific Basin (Pt. II) Central Basin by Raitt and H. W. Menard 1958 Box 19 RR 36-47 - Pacific Oceanic Crust by Raitt and G. G. Shor, Jr. 1959 Box 19 RR 48-51 - Geophysics of the South Pacific 1963 Box 19 RR 52-57 - Seismic Refraction Studies of the Mendocino Fracture Zone 1963 Box 19 RR 58-63 - Seismic Refraction Studies of the Indian Ocean by Raitt and G. G. Shor, Jr. 1963 Box 19 RR 64-66 - Is the Mohole a Discontinuity? 1965 Box 19 RR 67-45 undated General note Slides not matched to lectures. Includes: figures; charts of the Pacific Ocean showing SIO temperature probe stations, seismic refraction stations, and site lines and stations from MidPac and Capricorn Expeditions; travel time plots of Capricorn stations; and slides related to sediment thickness.

Box 19 RR 76-83 - Marine Seismic Studies of the Indonesian Island Arc 1967 Box 20 MPL slides 1-7, 48-55, 113-119, 178-231 (some slides missing) 1946-1953 Box 21 MPL slides 242-250, 289-357 (some slides missing) 1946-1953

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