05225cpcaa2200853 4500 mm 78012229 DLC 20260227111621.0 cr ||||||||||| 781030|||||||||||| eng mm 78012229 ms 60000024 DLC dacs DLC DLC eng ger spa S lcmd Becker, George F. (George Ferdinand), 1847-1919. George F. Becker papers, 1814-1928. 9,900 items. 36 containers plus 1 oversize. 14.5 linear feet. Arranged in 8 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1814-1919; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1857-1928; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1872-1887; Series 4: Subject File, circa 1852-circa 1905; Series 5: Biographical File, 1824-1919; Series 6: Blueprints, Maps, and Sketches, 1839-1912; Series 7: Addition, 1902; and Series 8: Oversize, 1841-1914. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, notes, notebooks, reports, articles, charts, tables, blueprints, maps, landscape sketches, memorabilia, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Becker's service as geologist-in-charge, U.S. Geological Survey. Documents his geological investigations in Nevada, southern Alaska, South Africa, the Pacific slope, and the Philippines. Also documents his service as geophysicist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1898; U.S. representative at the Radioactivity Congress in Brussels, Belgium, in 1910; and president of the Geological Society of America, 1914. Correspondents include Andreas Arzruni, James Franklin Bell, Theodore E. Burton, William Crozier, Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana, Samuel Franklin Emmons, Archibald Geikie, A. Hague, Eugene W. Hilgard, Edmund Otis Hovey, Henry Marion Howe, Louis Janin, Waldemar Lindgren, Charles Washington Merrill, Simon Newcomb, Charles S. Peirce, Chester W. Purington, Theodore Roosevelt, H.W. Turner, Charles D. Walcott, and Robert Simpson Woodward. Photographs and photograph albums transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Collection material in English, with Spanish and German. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321 Arzruni, Andreas, 1847-1898 Correspondence. Bell, James Franklin, 1856-1919 Correspondence. Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929 Correspondence. Crozier, William, 1855-1942 Correspondence. Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935 Correspondence. Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 Correspondence. Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911 Correspondence. Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924 Correspondence. Hague, A. (Arnold), 1840-1917 Correspondence. Hilgard, Eugene W. (Eugene Woldemar), 1833-1916 Correspondence. Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 Correspondence. Howe, Henry Marion, 1848-1922 Correspondence. Janin, Louis, 1837-1914 Correspondence. Lindgren, Waldemar, 1860-1939 Correspondence. Merrill, Charles Washington, 1869-1956 Correspondence. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 Correspondence. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 Correspondence. Purington, Chester Wells, 1871- Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Turner, H. W. (Henry Ward), 1857- Correspondence. Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927 Correspondence. Woodward, Robert Simpson, 1849-1924 Correspondence. Becker family. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Geological Society of America. Geological Survey (U.S.) Radioactivity Congress (1910 : Brussels, Belgium) Geology Alaska. Geology Nevada. Geology North America. Geology Pacific Coast (America) Geology Philippines. Geology South Africa. Geology United States. Geology United States Societies, etc. Geophysics. Radioactivity Congresses. Geologists. itoamc Mathematicians. itoamc Physicists. itoamc Scientists. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321.3 39736 39736