Finding Aid to the Papers of Olin J. Eggen, 1943–1998
Finding Aid to the Papers of Olin J. Eggen, 1943–1998
Location of collection:
Accession 2009/238
University Archives
Room 425 Steenbock Memorial Library
550 Babcock Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-5629
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Title and dates of collection:
Papers of Olin J. Eggen, 1943–1998.
Size of collection:
approximately 6 linear feet (9 boxes)
Papers/records created by:
Eggen, Olin J. (Olin Jeuck), 1919–1998
Finding aid written in English.
Short description of collection:
The Papers of Olin J. Eggen shed considerable light, not only upon the professional career of a native Wisconsin astronomer and double-alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but more importantly, upon large-scale developments which have characterized post-war astronomy and astrophysics, including the creation of large (4-meter-class) optical telescopes in the southern hemisphere. Over a career of fifty years, Eggen became an extremely productive and heavily-cited researcher as well as a noted administrator. Among the significant documents preserved in this collection are the extensive letters exchanged between Eggen and Caltech astronomer Allan R. Sandage, along with the draft of Eggen’s most notable scientific paper, referred to by the initials of its authors as, “ELS.”
Biography of Olin J. Eggen
Olin J. Eggen was the second astronomer to receive his Ph.D. (after C. M. Huffer in 1926) from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born on a farm in Orfordville, Rock County, Wisconsin on 9 July 1919 [son of Olin and Bertha (Jeuck) Eggen], he received his B.A. degree in 1940 and, after the Second World War, a Ph.D. under the direction of Washburn Observatory director Joel Stebbins. Eggen’s (1948) dissertation involved six-color photometric study of the stars Algol and 44Bootis. His enormously productive career, which spanned five decades in length, must be traced across the surfaces of five continents. These career progressions included stints at the University of California’s Lick Observatory (from research associate to assistant astronomer, 1948–1955); visiting fellow, Mount Stromlo Observatory (1955–1956); chief assistant astronomer, Royal Greenwich Observatory (1956–1961) and later deputy chief scientific officer (1965–1966); professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and staff member, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories (1961–1964); professor of astronomy (Australian National University) and director of the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (1966–1977); and finally senior astronomer [and on occasion, acting director], Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (1977–1998). Eggen was also a visiting observer at the Cape Observatory, South Africa (late 1950s).
The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) records a total of 397 publications under Eggen’s name! Chiefly involving photometric and astrometric work on nearby clusters, Eggen moved on to researching Cepheids, white dwarfs (with Jesse L. Greenstein), subdwarfs (with Allan R. Sandage), and the kinematics of moving groups (with Astronomer-Royal Richard v.d. R. Wooley and others). Eggen’s move to Caltech in the early 1960s proved fortuitous, leading to the collaboration with theorist Donald Lynden-Bell and Sandage that produced the famous “ELS” paper (1962). These authors argued, from the motions of high-velocity, metal-poor halo stars, that a near free-fall collapse of the protogalaxy had preceded the establishment of its principal disk motions. Though called “one of the most influential astrophysics papers ever written” (Editors of the PASP, 2001, p. 133), the ELS interpretation has not gone unchallenged.
Eggen received a number of professional honors during his lifetime. The most notable was the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1985). In that same year, he was awarded the gold Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Eggen was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society and served as its vice-president (1961–1962). He delivered the Pawsey Memorial Lectureship of the Australian Institute of Physics (1967) and was elected president of the Australian Society of Astronomers (1971–1972). Although nominated on several occasions to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, his election to that body was reportedly “black balled” by certain prominent east-coast astronomers.
Eggen served on the joint planning committee during negotiations for construction of the 4-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and Observatory, but was later passed over for the directorship of that facility. It is well-known that he was strongly opposed to the procedure of blind refereeing of manuscripts submitted for publication. Whenever Eggen himself was chosen as a referee, he communicated his concerns about a paper directly with its author. In cases involving his own papers, where he felt himself unfairly treated, he became defensive; these instances seem to have resulted in some injury to Eggen’scareer (from referees with long memories). His mature research style was characterized by multi-part papers devoted to intensive studies of selected populations of stars. Though he applied the label “Baconian” to this approach, Eggen argued that “overall progress in our science depends entirely on such long-range detailed projects. . . . We do not solve problems; we discover them.”
While employed at the Lick Observatory, Eggen published five short papers on the history of astronomy in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflet series. Upon his relocation to the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux Castle, he commenced studies that resulted in publications on Edmond Halley’s correspondence with John Flamsteed; a biographical sketch of George Biddell Airy for the Dictionary of Scientific Biography; plus entries on Halley and Tycho Brahe for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eggen apparently intended to write a major work on the discovery of Neptune (having borrowed an important file from the Royal Greenwich Observatory) but that objective was never fulfilled.
Eggen was briefly married (1952–1956) to the widow of one of his war-time buddies and he adopted her two children, but the relationship ended in divorce –– a factor which contributed to his departure from the Lick Observatory. Roughly ten years before his death, Eggen was diagnosed with “congestive cardiac [heart] failure,” although the condition apparently did not prompt him to modify his preferred diet of roast beef and French fries. Upon Eggen’s arrival in Australia for a month-long visit, he suffered a heart attack and died at Camberra Hospital on 2 October 1998. Afterwards, the bulk of his papers were collected by CTIO astronomer Nick Suntzeff and transferred to the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Selected References
Editors of the PASP. “Olin J. Eggen (1919–1998).” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 113 (January 2001): 131-135.
Eggen, Olin J. “Notes from a Life in the Dark.” Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics 31 (1993): 1-11.
Frame, Tom, and Don Faulkner. Stromlo: An Australian Observatory. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 2003, esp. Ch. 8, “The rise and rise of astrophysics: The Eggen years, 1966–1977,” pp. 159-184.
Freeman, Ken C., et al. “Olin Jeuck Eggen, 1919–1998.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32, no. 4 (2000): 1661-1662.
Gascoigne, S. C. B., K. M. Proust, and M. O. Robins. The Creation of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Scope and Contents of Collection:
The collection consists largely of correspondence (Section I, Boxes 1–6) between Eggen and a worldwide contingent of astronomers; over 400 catalogued correspondents span the period from 1948 to 1998. Among the most important of these assemblages are letters to/from Jesse L. Greenstein, Allan R. Sandage, Albert E. Whitford, and Richard van der Riet Woolley. This section also contains letters exchanged between other astronomers, copies of which were often sent to Eggen. During his first employment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Eggen answered much of the routine correspondence of Astronomer-Royal Woolley.
Section II (Box 7), Personal Papers, contains Eggen’s surviving military records (1943); also found here are the bulk of his unpublished manuscripts, including notebooks and catalogues of stellar data; his draft of the ELS paper; along with numerous referee and proposal evaluations.
Section III (Box 8) contains many primary-source manuscripts relative to Mount Stromlo Observatory and the founding of the Anglo-Australian Telescope and Observatory. These papers were largely exchanged between leading astronomers and Australian/British administrators; many were copied for Eggen’s information. Likewise found here are those reviews commissioned by the Research School of the Physical Sciences (Australian National University) that played a role in Eggen’s resignation from the Mount Stromlo directorship.
Section IV (Box 8) contains drafts or offprints of Eggen’s principal works in the history of science.
Section V (Box 9) consists of (partially arranged) photographs of Eggen, various astronomers, and institutions with which he was associated.
Access to Collection:
No restrictions.
Restrictions on use of Collection:
No restrictions.
Provenance and Acquisition Information:
Both Eggen’s remaining family/heirs, and the scientific staff of CTIO, felt that the institution where Eggen had received his Ph.D. would be the most natural destination for his scientific papers and correspondence. During 1999, communications between the UW Department of Astronomy (Professor-Emeritus Robert C. Bless), the UW archivist, and CTIO staff determined the feasibility of this scheme, whereupon, the collection was assembled and shipped to this department.
Processing Information:
This collection was processed by historian of astronomy Jordan D. Marché II in June 2005. The Finding Aid was completed in March 2009.
Container List
Section I: Personal Correspondence (& letters to/from others)
Box 1 Folder 1Finding Aid to the Olin J. Eggen Papers (this document)
Box 1 Folder 2Abel, M. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 3Abhyankar, K. D. 1960.
Box 1 Folder 4Abt, Helmut A. 1960, 1971, 1978, 1980-1982, 1985-1988, 1991,
1998.
Box 1 Folder 5Airy, A. [Miss]. 1958.
Box 1 Folder 6Aizenman, Morris. 1981.
Box 1 Folder 7 Alderfer, Jane. 1984.
Box 1 Folder 8Alexander, John. 1959-1960.
Box 1 Folder 9Allen, G. W. 1960.
Box 1 Folder 10Ammar, Ray. 1993.
Box 1 Folder 11Aplin, Fiona. 1995.
Box 1 Folder 12_____, Arlo. 1984.
Box 1 Folder 13Armitage, John. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 14Arp, Halton Chip. 1958-1960.
Box 1 Folder 15_____, Arthur. 1956, 1959.
Box 1 Folder 16Askania-Werke. 1960.
Box 1 Folder 17_____, Audrey. 1965.
Box 1 Folder 18Baade, Walter. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 19Babcock, Horace W. 1956, 1967.
Box 1 Folder 20Bahcall, John. 1983.
Box 1 Folder 21Bahner, Klaus. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 22Baily, M. N. O. [Mrs.] 1957.
Box 1 Folder 23Baily, Walter Francis. 1957. Contains pamphlet, “Francis Baily,
The Astronomer, 1774–1844.”
Box 1 Folder 24Bain, Gail. 1990.
Box 1 Folder 25Baize, Paul. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 26Baker, James G. 1952.
Box 1 Folder 27Baker, Norman H. 1982-1984.
Box 1 Folder 28Balick, Bruce. 1985.
Box 1 Folder 29Barker, H. G. 1957, 1960.
Box 1 Folder 30Bazzani, Craig S. 1998.
Box 1 Folder 31Beattie, J. J. 1968.
Box 1 Folder 32Beaumont, C. J. 1967.
Box 1 Folder 33Becker, W. 1966-1967.
Box 1 Folder 34Bell, Roger A. 1983-1984.
Box 1 Folder 35Bellingham, L. 1968.
Box 1 Folder 36Bessell, Michael. n.d., 1978-1979.
Box 1 Folder 37Bidelman, William P. 1947-1948, 1957-1958, 1982.
Box 1 Folder 38Bingham, R. G. 1969.
Box 1 Folder 39Blaauw, Adriaan. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 40Black, Peter. 1976.
Box 1 Folder 41Blanco, Victor M. 1956, 1976-1977, 1978, 1980, 1986.
Box 1 Folder 42Bohm, Karl-Heinz. 1986, 1990, 1992.
Box 1 Folder 43Bok, Bart J. 1952, 1957-1958, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 44Bolton, J. G. 1974.
Box 1 Folder 45Bond, H. 1992.
Box 1 Folder 46Bondi, Hermann. 1956, 1958.
Box 1 Folder 47Borkowski, K. 1982.
Box 1 Folder 48Bowen, E. G. 1967-1968, 1972.
Box 1 Folder 49Brasch, Frederick E. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 50Breger, M. 1982.
Box 1 Folder 51British Broadcasting Corporation. 1965.
Box 1 Folder 52Brown, Wm. S. 1960.
Box 1 Folder 53Brück, H. A. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 54Burnett, A. A. 1977.
Box 1 Folder 55Buscombe, Bill. 1956, 1959.
Box 1 Folder 56[Butcher], Harvey. 1977.
Box 1 Folder 57Butts, Lee B. 1967.
Box 1 Folder 58 Cahn, Julius H. 1983.
Box 1 Folder 59Campusano, Luis. 1984.
Box 1 Folder 60Carlson, Claudia J. 1981.
Box 1 Folder 61Carmody, Francis. 1958.
Box 1 Folder 62Carney, Bruce W. 1983.
Box 1 Folder 63Carpenter, M. 1967.
Box 1 Folder 64Casertano, Stefano. 1984, 1992.
Box 1 Folder 65_____, Celia. 1966.
Box 1 Folder 66Celis, Leopoldo. 1985.
Box 1 Folder 67Cesarky, C. 1984.
Box 1 Folder 68“Chairperson.” 1980.
Box 1 Folder 69Chalonge, D. 1957.
Box 1 Folder 70Churms, J. 1969.
Box 1 Folder 71Clariá, Juan J. 1978.
Box 1 Folder 72Clark, George W. n.d.
Box 1 Folder 73Clemence, Gerald M. 1962.
Box 1 Folder 74Code, Arthur D. 1956.
Box 1 Folder 75Corben, P. M. 1962.
Box 1 Folder 76Cousins, A. W. J. 1957-1960.
Box 1 Folder 77Cowley, Anne. 1985.
Box 1 Folder 78Crawford, David L. 1967.
Box 1 Folder 79Crawford, John G. 1968, 1970, 1972-1973.
Box 1 Folder 80Cruise, A. M. 1997.
Box 1 Folder 81Cunliffe, D. W. 1968.
Box 2 Folder 1Dalgarno, A. 1985.
Box 2 Folder 2Davidson, J. P. 1982, 1987.
Box 2 Folder 3Dawson, Peter C. 1986.
Box 2 Folder 4de Beer, Gavin. 1957.
Box 2 Folder 5de la Puenta, Francisco F. 1960-1961.
Box 2 Folder 6de Vaucouleurs, Gerard. 1956, n.d.
Box 2 Folder 7Desmond, Thomas C. 1956.
Box 2 Folder 8Deutsch, Armin J. 1956, 1958.
Box 2 Folder 9Devereux, R. A. 1959.
Box 2 Folder 10DeVorkin, David H. 1977, 1982.
Box 2 Folder 11Dewhirst, David W. 1956-1957.
Box 2 Folder 12Dewitt, Hill. 1981. [a spoof]
Box 2 Folder 13Dexter, D. 1968.
Box 2 Folder 14Dicker, G. E. 1974-1977, 1981-1982.
Box 2 Folder 15Dieckvoss, W. 1959.
Box 2 Folder 16Dingle, Herbert. 1957.
Box 2 Folder 17Dommanget, J. 1986-1987.
Box 2 Folder 18Donley, L. M. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 19Doyle, M. P. n.d.
Box 2 Folder 20Dressler, Alan. 1982.
Box 2 Folder 21Dubs, R. V. 1986, 1991.
Box 2 Folder 22Dunbar, D. N. F. 1972.
Box 2 Folder 23Duncan, James W. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 24Eaton, Joel A. 1988.
Box 2 Folder 25Ebbighausen, E. G. 1957-1958.
Box 2 Folder 26_____, Edie. 1956.
Box 2 Folder 27Edmondson, Frank K. 1990 (includes transcription of OHI w/
Eggen, 10 May 1987).
Box 2 Folder 28Eichendorf, Walter. 1983.
Box 2 Folder 29Eichhorn, H. K. 1961.
Box 2 Folder 30Elias, J. 1981.
Box 2 Folder 31Elmegreen, Bruce G. 1986, 1994.
Box 2 Folder 32Ennor, A. Hugh. 1967, n.d.
Box 2 Folder 33Evans, David S. 1958, 1960.
Box 2 Folder 34Evans, Tom Floyd. 1985.
Box 2 Folder 35Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd. 1958.
Box 2 Folder 36Fairbanks, W. C. 1975.
Box 2 Folder 37Faltin, Julia. 1993.
Box 2 Folder 38Faulkner, Donald Jack. 1985, 1992.
Box 2 Folder 39Feast, Michael. 1961, 1980, 1985.
Box 2 Folder 40Federer, Charles A., Jr. 1955.
Box 2 Folder 41Fenkart, Rolf P. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 42Fernie, Donald. 1984.
Box 2 Folder 43Finsen, W. S. 1959, 1964-1965.
Box 2 Folder 44Flaherty, Kevin. 1993.
Box 2 Folder 45Fleming, Messrs. R. B., & Co. 1956.
Box 2 Folder 46Ford, R. Les. 1968.
Box 2 Folder 47Fracassini, M. 1981.
Box 2 Folder 48Frail, D. A. 1982.
Box 2 Folder 49Francis, William L. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 50Frey, Wilfred S. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 51Friedgé, K, and Baumann, H. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 52F Miscellaneous. 1979.
Box 2 Folder 53Gaposchkin, Sergei. 1957.
Box 2 Folder 54Garrison, R. F. 1982.
Box 2 Folder 55Garstang, Roy H. n.d., 1957, 1959.
Box 2 Folder 56Gascoigne, S. C. Ben. 1956-1958, n.d., 1967.
Box 2 Folder 57Gibb, J. R. 1959.
Box 2 Folder 58Gillispie, Charles C. 1976.
Box 2 Folder 59Gilmore, Gerard. 1982, 1986 (w/ Robert Carswell).
Box 2 Folder 60Giovanelli, R. G. 1968.
Box 2 Folder 61Giuse. 1978.
Box 2 Folder 62Gold, T. 1959.
Box 2 Folder 63Goldberg, Leo. 1977.
Box 2 Folder 64Goodwin, W. P. 1956.
Box 2 Folder 65Gorton, J. G. 1967.
Box 2 Folder 66Green, Richard F. 1985.
Box 2 Folder 67Greenstein, Jesse L. 1950, 1956, 1959, 1966-1969, 1972, 1974,
1977, 1983.
Box 2 Folder 68Gregory, Carol. n.d.
Box 2 Folder 69Griersmith, David. 1979.
Box 2 Folder 70Griffin, Roger E. M. 1978, 1982.
Box 2 Folder 71Guseinov, O. 1983.
Box 2 Folder 72Guy, [?]. J. 1957.
Box 2 Folder 73G Miscellaneous. 1957.
Box 3 Folder 1Haffner, H. 1960.
Box 3 Folder 2Hamilton, Donald. 1984.
Box 3 Folder 3Hamilton, Jack. 1955.
Box 3 Folder 4Hamilton, W. S. 1968, 1974-1975, 1977.
Box 3 Folder 5Hargreaves, F. J. 1956.
Box 3 Folder 6Harris, R. J. 1967.
Box 3 Folder 7Hartkopf, William I. 1994-1995.
Box 3 Folder 8Hast, Adele. 1986.
Box 3 Folder 9Hayes, Juliette. 1997.
Box 3 Folder 10Hearnshaw, John. 1983, 1993, 1997, n.d.
Box 3 Folder 11Heath, Richard. 1987.
Box 3 Folder 12Heckman, O. 1957-1958, n.d.
Box 3 Folder 13Herbig, George H. 1960, n.d., 1981, 1984-1985.
Box 3 Folder 14Hertzsprung, Ejnar. 1963, 1965.
Box 3 Folder 15Hesser, James E. 1971, 1974, 1976-1977.
Box 3 Folder 16Hewerdine, Anita R. 1962.
Box 3 Folder 17Hodge, Paul. 1984-1987, 1990-1993, 1996, 1998, n.d.
Box 3 Folder 18Hodgkin, David K. R. 1955, 1966-1969, 1971-1972, 1974.
Box 3 Folder 19Hogg, Helen Sawyer. 1960, 1977.
Box 3 Folder 20Hohnen, Ross A. 1968-1969, 1972-1974, 1986, 1997.
Box 3 Folder 21Holloman, Elizabeth S. 1985, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 22Hosie, James F. 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 23Hoskin, Michael. 1984.
Box 3 Folder 24Houk, Nancy. 1982, 1990.
Box 3 Folder 25Hoyle, Barbara. 1957.
Box 3 Folder 26Hoyle, Fred. 1968.
Box 3 Folder 27Hube, D. P. 1970.
Box 3 Folder 28Huxley, Leonard G. H. 1967.
Box 3 Folder 29H Miscellaneous. 1960, 1982.
Box 3 Folder 30Ianna, Philip A. n.d.
Box 3 Folder 31Iben, Icko, Jr. 1986-1987, 1990.
Box 3 Folder 32Innanen, K. A. 1969.
Box 3 Folder 33Innis, John L. 1986.
Box 3 Folder 34Irwin, John B. 1956.
Box 3 Folder 35Janes, Kenneth. 1981.
Box 3 Folder 36Jarrett, Clifford G. 1961.
Box 3 Folder 37Jefferies, John T. 1983, 1985, 1987.
Box 3 Folder 38Jeffery, Mike H. 1968-1969.
Box 3 Folder 39_____, John. n.d.
Box 3 Folder 40Johnson, Harold. 1959.
Box 3 Folder 41Jones, Derek. 1960 (w/ Candy, M. P.), 1982-1983.
Box 3 Folder 42Jones, Glynne. 1971-1972.
Box 3 Folder 43Jones, Ken N. 1967-1968, 1973, n.d.
Box 3 Folder 44Jones, T. W. 1981.
Box 3 Folder 45Joy, Alfred H. 1960.
Box 4 Folder 1Kazs, G. J. 1975-1976.
Box 4 Folder 2Kellie, Betty. 1956.
Box 4 Folder 3Khouri, Su G. 1971, 1978.
Box 4 Folder 4Kim, Chulhee. 1991.
Box 4 Folder 5Kinman, Tom D. 1958-1960, 1977, 1985, 1998.
Box 4 Folder 6Kodak, Messrs., Ltd. 1958.
Box 4 Folder 7Kopal, Zdenek. 1946, 1957, 1959.
Box 4 Folder 8Kron, Gerald. 1956-1959, n.d.
Box 4 Folder 9Kron, Katherine. n.d., 1957-1958.
Box 4 Folder 10Kukarkin, B. V. 1956-1957.
Box 4 Folder 11Kukarkina, Natalia P., and Kholopov, P. N. 1977.
Box 4 Folder 12Ladborough, R. W. 1957.
Box 4 Folder 13Lallemand, A. 1957.
Box 4 Folder 14Lance, Kate. 1984-1985.
Box 4 Folder 15Larson, Richard B. 1997.
Box 4 Folder 16Lattanzio, J. 1983.
Box 4 Folder 17Laurie, Phil S. 1973.
Box 4 Folder 18Ledeux, J. 1981.
Box 4 Folder 19Leung, Kam-Ching. 1983.
Box 4 Folder 20Lewin, R. 1956.
Box 4 Folder 21Lightman, Alan P. 1983.
Box 4 Folder 22Liller, William. 1982.
Box 4 Folder 23Lindblad, Bertil. 1957.
Box 4 Folder 24Lindblad, Per Olof. 1983.
Box 4 Folder 25Lindroos, K. Peter. 1984.
Box 4 Folder 26Lippincott, Sarah Lee. 1959.
Box 4 Folder 27Low, D. A. 1975-1977.
Box 4 Folder 28Lü, Phillip K. 1981.
Box 4 Folder 29Lukes. 1961.
Box 4 Folder 30Luyten, Willem J. n.d., 1960, 1965-1970.
Box 4 Folder 31Lydster, W. R. 1967.
Box 4 Folder 32Lynden-Bell, D. 1971.
Box 4 Folder 33Lynds, Beverly T. 1959.
Box 4 Folder 34Lynds, C. Roger. 1960, n.d.
Box 4 Folder 35L Miscellaneous. 1950; 1960.
Box 4 Folder 36Maddox, John. 1983.
Box 4 Folder 37Madore, Barry F. 1984-1985.
Box 4 Folder 38Majewski, Steven. n.d.
Box 4 Folder 39Mantegazza, Luciano. 1984.
Box 4 Folder 40Marshall, R. A. 1968.
Box 4 Folder 41Mathieu, Robert D. 1984.
Box 4 Folder 42Mayall, Nicholas U. 1967.
Box 4 Folder 43Mayo, G. [Miss] 1957.
Box 4 Folder 44McAlister, Harold A. 1986.
Box 4 Folder 45McCrea, William H. 1957, 1989.
Box 4 Folder 46McGlynn, Thomas A. 1985.
Box 4 Folder 47McNamara, D. Harold. 1976, 1978, 1982-1983, 1985-1986.
Box 4 Folder 48Meagher, George V. 1968.
Box 4 Folder 49Mermilliod, J. C. 1982.
Box 4 Folder 50Mescher, Susan. 1984.
Box 4 Folder 51Middleton, Pete. n.d.
Box 4 Folder 52Miller, Walter J. 1962-1963.
Box 4 Folder 53Minnett, H. C. 1967.
Box 4 Folder 54Morgan, W. W. 1962.
Box 4 Folder 55Morris, M. O. [Miss] 1968.
Box 4 Folder 56Morrison, Leslie. 1993.
Box 4 Folder 57Mould, Jeremy R. 1978, 1997.
Box 4 Folder 58Muñoz, Juanita. 1977, n.d.
Box 4 Folder 59Murray, C. Andrew. 1962-1963, 1977.
Box 4 Folder 60Muzzio, Juan C. 1980.
Box 4 Folder 61Nemec, James M. 1991.
Box 4 Folder 62Nicholson, Dwight. 1982.
Box 4 Folder 63Nicklin, M. S. 1968.
Box 4 Folder 64Niemela, Virpi. 1984.
Box 4 Folder 65Noakes, M. 1978.
Box 4 Folder 66Norris, John. 1985-1987.
Box 4 Folder 67Nugent, B. A. 1998.
Box 4 Folder 68Observatory Magazine. n.d.
Box 4 Folder 69O’Connell, Daniel. 1960.
Box 4 Folder 70Oort, Jan K. 1959.
Box 4 Folder 71Oosterhoff, P. Th. 1957.
Box 4 Folder 72Osmer, Patrick S. 1981-1982, 1984-1985, 1987, n.d.
Box 4 Folder 73Osterbrock, Donald E. 1987.
Box 4 Folder 74Osvalds, V. 1961.
Box 4 Folder 75Ovenden, Michael W. 1957-1958.
Box 5 Folder 1Pagel, Bernard E. J. 1958, 1960, 1985.
Box 5 Folder 2Palmer, D. R. 1958.
Box 5 Folder 3Palous, Jan. 1984, 1986.
Box 5 Folder 4Pankonin, Vernon L. 1987.
Box 5 Folder 5_____, Pat. 1959.
Box 5 Folder 6Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia. 1948.
Box 5 Folder 7Peñaloza, Marcos A. 1982.
Box 5 Folder 8Perry, Charles L. 1982.
Box 5 Folder 9Perry, Joan E. 1969, 1972.
Box 5 Folder 10Pesch, Peter. 1985.
Box 5 Folder 11Peterson, Deane M. 1986.
Box 5 Folder 12Petrie, R. M. 1956, 1958.
Box 5 Folder 13Philcox, J. 1970.
Box 5 Folder 14Philip, A. G. Davis, and Perry, Charles L. 1977.
Box 5 Folder 15Pilditch, Edgar L. 1958-1959.
Box 5 Folder 16Plaskett, H. H. 1958-1959.
Box 5 Folder 17Plowman, C. G. 1968, 1970-1973.
Box 5 Folder 18Popper, Daniel M. 1958, 1960, 1971, 1978.
Box 5 Folder 19Proust, Dominique. 1984-1985.
Box 5 Folder 20Quennell, Peter. 1957.
Box 5 Folder 21Quill, Humphrey. 1957-1958.
Box 5 Folder 22Ramsey, Hal H. 1981-1982.
Box 5 Folder 23Ratnatunga, K. 1987.
Box 5 Folder 24Ready, Ralph. 1988.
Box 5 Folder 25Reda, Fatma Mohamed [Miss]. n.d.
Box 5 Folder 26Redman, R. O. 1956-1957, 1959, 1961, 1967-1968.
Box 5 Folder 27Reid, Neill. 1983, 1997.
Box 5 Folder 28Reiz, A. 1972.
Box 5 Folder 29_____, Rete. 1963.
Box 5 Folder 30Rodgers, Alex. 1985, 1987, 1992, 1995.
Box 5 Folder 31Rodriguez, Eloy. 1987.
Box 5 Folder 32Ross, Ian G. 1975-1977.
Box 5 Folder 33Rubin, Vera. ca. 1992.
Box 5 Folder 34Rule, Bruce H. 1967-1968.
Box 5 Folder 35Russell, Henry Norris. 1946.
Box 5 Folder 36Ryan, T. 1976.
Box 5 Folder 37R Miscellaneous. 1960.
Box 5 Folder 38Sadler, D. H. 1958.
Box 5 Folder 39Sahada, Jorge. 1956-1958.
Box 5 Folder 40Sandage, Allan R. 1955-1961, 1965-1974, 1976, 1981, 1989-1990,
1992, 1994-1997, n.d.
Box 5 Folder 41Sargent, W. L. W. 1961, 1985, 1991.
Box 5 Folder 42Savage, D. G. 1982-1983.
Box 5 Folder 43Scalo, John M. 1983.
Box 5 Folder 44Schaefer, Brad. 1987.
Box 5 Folder 45Schmidt, Th. 1957.
Box 5 Folder 46Schmitz, Marion. 1979.
Box 5 Folder 47Schofield, A. Norman. 1958.
Box 5 Folder 48Schwan, H. 1991.
Box 5 Folder 49Seitzer, Pat. 1987.
Box 5 Folder 50Severny, A. B. 1958.
Box 5 Folder 51Shane, C. Donald. 1955-1959, 1962.
Box 5 Folder 52Shane, Mary Lea. 1958-1959.
Box 5 Folder 53[Shapley, Harlow]. ca. 1952; see James G. Baker.
Box 5 Folder 54_____, Sid. [?] n.d.
Box 5 Folder 55Skelton, R. A. 1957.
Box 5 Folder 56Skumanich, Andrew. 1957.
Box 5 Folder 57Smart, William M. 1958. [and to Walter S. Adams, 1936]
Box 5 Folder 58Smith, C. H. 1969, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 59Smith, Harlan J. 1956.
Box 5 Folder 60Smith, Robert. 1981-1982.
Box 5 Folder 61Soderblom, David. 1982.
Box 5 Folder 62“Staff Officer.” 1977.
Box 5 Folder 63_____, Stan. 1957, 1961.
Box 5 Folder 64Stansen, R. 1967.
Box 5 Folder 65Stebbins, Joel. 1956-1959, n.d.
Box 5 Folder 66Stibbs, Walter N. 1957.
Box 5 Folder 67Stoy, Richard H. 1956-1962, 1964-1965.
Box 5 Folder 68Stratton, F. J. M. 1957-1958, 1960.
Box 5 Folder 69Street, R. 1973, 1975, 1977.
Box 5 Folder 70Strittmatter, Peter. 1968.
Box 5 Folder 71Strom, Stephen E. 1988.
Box 5 Folder 72Struve, Otto. 1955-1956.
Box 5 Folder 73Sullivan, Woodruff T., III. 1983.