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    <title>Cleveland Abbe papers, 1850-1954 (bulk 1850-1916)</title>
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    <namePart>Abbe, Cleveland</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1838-1916</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>31 3</extent>
    <extent>12.4</extent>
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  <abstract>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 Glavnai͡a astronomicheskai͡a observatorii͡a, 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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Astronomer and meteorologist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010272">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010272</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Abbe, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1928</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coffin, James H. (James Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ferrel, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gibbs, Wolcott</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1908</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gould, Benjamin Apthorp</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1896</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall, Asaph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1907</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Henry, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1878</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Newcomb, Simon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1905</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peirce, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1880</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rutherford, Lewis M</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Safford, Truman Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Searle, G. M. (George Mary)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Struve, Otto</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1905</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Watson, James C. (James Craig)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1880</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Abbey family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Signal Corps.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Weather Bureau.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Glavnai͡a astronomicheskai͡a observatorii͡a (Pulkovo, Russia)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>United States Coast Survey.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Astronomical observatories</topic>
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    <geographic>Pulkovo</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Astronomy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Eclipses</topic>
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    <topic>Longitude</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Meteorology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Scientific expeditions</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, West</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Weather</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>Maps</topic>
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    <occupation>Astronomers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
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