Records of Harvard College Observatory Boyden Station, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Scope and Contents This series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well as observations on the conditions of the sky, presumably recorded by Boyden Station assistant L.G. Schultz in Hanover, South Africa. The observations are written on loose pages that appear to have been torn from a notebook. There is also a grouping of letters between Schultz and Observatory director Edward Charles Pickering discussing Schultz's weather reports. Additionally, there are incoming letters addressed to...

Scope and Contents This series contains a disbound volume of mostly numbered letters from Solon Irving Bailey to Harvard College Observatory director Edward Charles Pickering. The correspondence, which Bailey describes in his first letter as “my official correspondence to you on this South African trip,” is mostly written from Hanover, Cape Colony, South Africa, and describes his trip to and around South Africa, his general observations of the area, as well as meteorological conditions.It also...

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This series contains a notebook with copies of outgoing correspondence written by Boyden Station assistant L.G. Schultz in Hanover, South Africa. Most of the letters are addressed to Harvard College Observatory director Edward Charles Pickering and primarily describe weather conditions.

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This series contains a bound volume of outgoing correspondence from Harvard College Observatory astronomer Solon Irving Bailey while he was scouting new potential locations for Boyden Station in Hanover, South Africa. The letters are primarily addressed to Observatory director Edward Charles Pickering and discuss expenses, the sharing of scientific data, as well as descriptions of photographs.