Correspondence and printed documents, 1850-1883, 1850-1883 Digital

Contains correspondence and some printed material related to the administration of the Harvard College Observatory, dated from 1850 to 1921. Topics include the deposit of an engraved plate, a new asteroid observed in 1857, academic matters, and instrumentation. There are also printed memorials to astronomer Sidney Coolidge (1830-1863), an assistant to George P. Bond, who died in the American Civil War, and a document concerning a change to Eastern Time, in addition to an unsigned, undated illustration of islands in the Pacific Ocean.