American Association for the Advancement of Science Correspondence and Papers

Résumé du livre

The collection consists of correspondence pertaining to two of the AAAS's annual meetings held in New York at the American Museum of Natural History, in December 1916 and from December 27, 1928, to January 2, 1929. The letters primarily concern the planning of the meetings, including operational details, with emphasis on the geological and mineralogical sections. Most of the material is typewritten (some carbon copies), with a number of handwritten items, including the unsigned English translation of an extract from an 1837 article on geology by [Louis] Agassiz, Concerning the erratic blacks of the Jura, that originally appeared in the Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des sciences (France). The extract is also typewritten with at least one carbon copy. Many letters were written by AMNH president Henry Fairfield Osborn and geology curator Chester A. Reeds. Other correspondents include Roy Chapman Andrews, Charles Berkey, R.J. Colony, R.A. Daly, W.H. Hobbs, Frank Leverett, Burton E. Livingston, G.R. Mansfield, physicist G.B. Pegram, F.R. Van Horn and Wen-hao Wong of the National Geological Survey of China. Some letters refer to contributions made to the Hospitality Fund and the Honorary Reception Committee. Other material includes newspaper clippings about the 1928 meeting and the Organization and Procedures of AAAS 1928-1929.