Abstract

Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photographs, notes, diagrams, publications, glass slides and other items pertaining to the Cornell University Department of Physics, primarily from the 1880s through the 1950s, along with some later memoirs and histories of the Department and those associated with it.

Scope and content

Lecture notes from the classes of Ernest G. Merritt pertaining to electricity.

Scope and content Includes correspondence (1922-1936) between Ewer and Cornell University Professor Edward L. Nichols, Tsutomu Tanaka, and others, concerning her work in preparing physics research for publication, together with pertinent charts, notes, and reports; letters from Ernest Merritt and D. T. Wilber, with whom she also worked, and from editors of scientific publications; correspondence (1925-1935) with Julia K. Sommer, who was associated with the Theosophical World-University, clergymen, and others,...

Scope and content

Correspondence, primarily of Edward L. Nichols, Ernest Merritt, and Frederick Bedell, with contributors, subscribers, and advertisers. Receipt and order books, and photographs. Also, printing block from the first issue of the Physical Review, mounted on a plaque, from the office of Cornell President Emeritus Dale R. Corson. Also, printing blocks from issues of the Physical Review from 1911, 1932.