DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
These papers consist of correspondence with members of the United States
Coast Survey chiefly concerning tide gauges; descriptions and drawings of
working parts of clocks and tide gauges; mathematical equations and tables;
records of data connected with Coast Survey work; office notes and vouchers;
drafts for articles written and collected by Avery; USCS mathematical and
scientific publications; and Avery's phonetic alphabet primers. Also included
is correspondence concerning a proposal to print Avery's primers in Great
Britain and an obituary of Avery.
Notations within the papers are
frequently done in stenography. Knowledge of stenography will be helpful in
understanding this material. Correspondents include: Robert Stanton Avery,
Alexander Dallas Bache, John Batchelder, Thomas Craig, Julius Erasmus Hilgard,
Samuel P. Langley, Macmillan and Company, L. W. Meech, Benjamin Peirce,
Charles Anthony Schott, William Wesley and Son, and B. Westerman and
Company.
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Box 1 of 3
- A - C
- F - H
- L - M
- N - P
- R - W
- Miscellaneous correspondence
Box 1 of 3
- Astronomical
- Astronomical
- Astronomical, oversize (see Box 3)
- Lunar, Paris, Greenwich, Alcyone, 1850-1860
- Lunar, Boston, 1855, 1857
- Lunar, 1870-1873
- Lunar, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1877-1878
- Lunar, Sausalito, California, 1878
- Meteorological
- Tide, San Diego, California, 1854-1874
- Tide, Baltimore, Philadelphia, 1855
- Tide, Sitka, Alaska Territory, 1867
- Tide, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 1875
- Tide, Tahiti, 1878
- Tide, oversize (see Box 3)
- Notes, figures, and tables (3 folders)
Box 1 of 3
- Geometric theories, equations, and solutions (3 folders)
- Logarithmic tables
- Metric system
- Tidal formulas
- Table of Products of All Integer Numbers Up to 100 Multiplied by 100, by Robert S. Avery
- Table of Products of Numbers up to 100, by Robert S. Avery
- Table of squares to 1000 squared
- Table of the Values of Sin Q, Sin 2Q, Sin 3Q, Cos Q, Cos 2Q, Cos 3Q in Time, by Robert S. Avery
- Tables of Factors for Reduction of Transit Observation
- Mathematical miscellaneous
Box 1 of 3
- Drawings and descriptions of working parts of clocks and tide-gauges. See Box 3.
- Papers relating to tide-gauges, and meters
- Papers relating to clocks for tide-gauges
- Plans for putting up tide-gauges; transportation and accommodations, 1874-1876
- Avery's report of his visit to clock dealers, October 1870
Box 1 of 3
- Circular concerning working hours, 1867
- Travel expense vouchers
- Office notes miscellaneous
Box 1 of 3
- Papers concerning the Phonetic Alphabet
- Proofs and corrections for Avery's Phonetic Alphabet books
- Papers concerning electrotyping
Box 1 of 3
- A Brief History of Intemperance and Temperance, by William M. (?) Meech.
- A First Cause Proved from the Nature of Chance, by L. W. Meech.
- A Tabular Statement of Results Computed for Tide Tables for Charts of the Western Coast of the United States, by R. S. Avery.
- A Tide-gauge with Heating Apparatus, by R. S. Avery.
- Barometer
- Character Essential to Success in Life, author unknown.
- Clock
- Clock and Watchwork
- Corrections for the Moon's Parallax
- Description of a Heating Apparatus to use with a Tide-gauge
- Device for regulating the movements of the cylinders of a self-adjusting apparatus
- Dipleidoscope (extract)
- Direction for Starting the Tide-gauge at Fox Island - For the use of the observer
- Discussion by R. S. Avery of the Height of the Tides Observed at San Francisco in 1855
- Discussion by R. S. Avery of the Sidereal Time of Tides Observed at San Francisco in 1855
- Experiments with Spiral Springs
- Extracts from Historical Recollections of Connecticut, author unknown
- For Tide-gauge, Float and Tubes
- Forms for Some Computation in Harmonic Analysis, by R. S. Avery
- (No title) Logarithms
- Magnetic Survey, by Alexander Dallas Bache, circa 1862, pp 3-51
- Magnetic Survey, by Alexander Dallas Bache, circa 1862, pp 52-101
- Magnetic Survey, by Alexander Dallas Bache, circa 1862, pp 102-161
- Mode of Forming a Brief Tidal Table for a Chart, by R. S. Avery
- Mode of Forming a Brief Prediction Tide Table, by R. S. Avery
- New Mode of Approximation
- New Style gauge for North Haven, Maine, and other papers
- Notebook
- Observing Current, by R. S. Avery
- Of the Tide at Papeete, Tahiti, by R. S. Avery, February 13, 1860
- On Recording Tidal Observations, by R. S. Avery
- (No title) relating to origin of language, author unknown
- Plan for a Box Tide-gauge, 1879
- Papers relating to tide observation in the Polar Region
- Preliminary Note on a New Tide Predicter by E. Robert (extract, 1879)
- Self-registering tide gauge
Box 2 of 3
- Suggestions Relative to Tidal Discussion, December 1856
- The Historians of Persia, author unknown
- The Time Argument for Tidal Computations, 1857
- Tide (extract, 1868)
- Tide-gauge with a suspended balance tube glycerine
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, September 1, 1858
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, April 5, 1859
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, June 14, 1859
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, September 22, 1859
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, September 30, 1859
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, December 23, 1859
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, February 26, 1860
- To Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. S. Avery, August 23, 1860
- Transformation of Mr. Meech's Formula for the Time of a Tide, by R. S. Avery, 1856
- Variation of the Needle (extract)
- Miscellaneous
Box 2 of 3
- A General Differential Equation in the Theory of the Deformation of Surfaces, by Thomas Craig, 1879
- Almanac, 1884
- Anti-Phonetic First-book, by Robert Stanton Avery, 1893
- The Astronomical Journal, 1855
- Avery's Phonetic Alphabet, by Robert Stanton Avery, 1893
- Catalogues
- Catalogues
- Civil Service Reform Association
- Committee for the Purpose of Promoting the Extension, Improvement, and Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observation, 1870
- Directions for the Observation of Tides, 1852
- Directions in Regard to the Operations of the Coast Survey, 1855-1856
- Fluctuations in the Moon's Mean Motion by Simon Newcomb, 1909
- Laws and Regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey of the United States, 1881
- The Mathematical Magazine, January-October, 1882
- The Mathematical Magazine, January-October, 1883
- The Mathematical Magazine, January-October, 1884
- The Mathematical Visitor, July 1880
- The Mathematical Visitor, January 1881
- The Mathematical Visitor, January 1882
- The Motion of a Solid in a Fluid, by Thomas Craig, 1879
- Nature, August 9, 1883
- Newspaper article, October 8, 1894
- On a Method of Swinging Pendulums for the Determination of Gravity Proposed by M. Faye, by C. S. Peirce, 1879
- On Steady Motion in an Incompressible Viscous fluid, by Thomas Craig, 1880
- On the Tidal Current of New York Bay Near Sandy Hook, by A. D. Bache, 1868
- On Tides and Tidal Action in Harbor, by J. E. Hilgard, 1875
- Philosophic Society of Washington
- Phonetic First-book, by Robert Stanton Avery, 1893
- The Phonetic Primer, by Robert Stanton Avery, 1893
- Photograph of the Tycho region of the Moon
- Report of the Committee Approved for the Purpose of Promoting the Extension, Improvement, and Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observation, 1872
- Roberts' Tide Predicting Machine, December 1879
- Science, January 4, 1884
- Science of the Tide, by William Whewill, 1834
- Self-Registering Tide Gauge; Instruction for Observers, by A. D. Bache, November 26, 1859
- Tidal Area of San Francisco Bay, 1881
- Tide and Tidal Phenomena, by Henri Mitchell, 1868
- Un Ensayo de Fotografia Lunar, Luis G. Leon, 1909
- United States Coast Survey, 1860
- United States Coast and Geodetic Survey publications, 1868-1875
- United States Coast and Geodetic Survey publications, 1879-1882
- United States Coast and Geodetic Survey publications, 1882-1884
- Papers printed in German
- Lists of publications
Box 3 of 3
- Drawings and notes for working parts of clocks and tidal gauges
- Tables, miscellaneous
- Four rolls of calculations (unidentified) - likely tidal calculations and calculations of mathematical functions
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