Becker, George F. (George Ferdinand) 1847-1919 creator mixed material monographic eng ger spa 9,900 36 1 14.5 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. Open to research. 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 Mathematicians Physicists Scientists mm 78012229 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321.3 Open to research. DLC 781030 20260227111621.0 mm 78012229