Cleveland Abbe papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 9500
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Weather Bureau; Scientific expeditions; Meteorology; United States. Army. Signal Corps; United States Coast Survey; Longitude; United States; Maps; Weather; Glavnai︠a︡ astronomicheskai︠a︡ observatorii︠a︡ (Pulkovo, Russia); Astronomical observatories; Eclipses; Astronomy
Description: Correspondence, diaries, weather maps, weather synopses and probabilities, and other papers relating to Abbe's career with the Weather Service of the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Weather Bureau.  Documents his participation in the West African Eclipse Expedition (1880s).  Also includes Abbe (Abbey) family genealogical material and correspondence with family members particularly his brother, Robert Abbe; correspondence with Benjamin Apthorp Gould whom Cleveland Abbe assisted in the telegraphic longitude work of the U.S. Coast Survey at Cambridge, Mass.; and correspondence with Otto Struve, former director of the Glavnai︠a︡ astronomicheskai︠a︡ observatorii︠a︡, Pulkovo, Russia, where Abbe was a guest astronomer (1865-1866).  Other correspondents include Albert S. Bickmore, James H. Coffin, William Ferrel, Wolcott Gibbs, Asaph Hall, Joseph Henry, S.P. Langley, Simon Newcomb, A.S. Packard, Benjamin Peirce, Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Truman Henry Safford, G.M. Searle, and James C. Watson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Dr. Petrena Abbe Shea, 1962.

Transfer, U.S. National Archives, 1963.

Astronomer and meteorologist.

Collection material in English.

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