E.W. Scripps, August 1925
(From Acc. 90-105, Box 20)
Series 1. ORGANIZATION AND INCORPORATION OF SCIENCE SERVICE, MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE, 1919-1943.
Series 2. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIRECTOR (EDWIN E. SLOSSON) AND SENIOR STAFF OF SCIENCE SERVICE, 1920-1929.
Series 3. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF EDWIN E. SLOSSON, 1902-1929.
Series 4. BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE OF SCIENCE SERVICE, 1922-1925.
Series 5. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIRECTOR AND SENIOR STAFF OF SCIENCE SERVICE, 1921-1963, INCLUDING THE CORRESPONDENCE OF WATSON DAVIS AS NEWS EDITOR (1921-1922), MANAGING EDITOR (1922-1933), AND DIRECTOR (1933-1963).
Series 6. COMMITTEES, ORGANIZATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF WATSON DAVIS, 1941-1954.
Series 7. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENCE SERVICE STAFF FILES ON PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ENGINEERING, 1942-1958.
Series 8. DAILY MAIL REPORT, 1932-1964.
Series 9. ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION SURVEY, 1938-1939.
Series 10. RADIO PROGRAMS OF SCIENCE SERVICE - "ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE" AND "SCIENCE NEWS OF THE WEEK," 1935-1958.
Series 11. PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, AND SCIENCE NEWS LETTER PROOFS, 1921-1957.
Series 12. KNUD RASMUSSEN EXPEDITION, 1923-1926.
Series 13. INTERLINGUA, 1951-1963.
Series 14. NATIONAL INVENTORS COUNCIL, 1941-1948.
Series 15. UNESCO, 1947-1951.
Series 16. LATIN AMERICAN TRANSLATIONS, 1941-1952.
Series 17. SYNDICATED CORRESPONDENCE.
Series 18. AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION INSTITUTE, 1922-1954.
Series 19. PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES OF WATSON DAVIS, 1922-1952.
Series 20. "ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE" RECORDINGS, 1951-1959.
Series 21. KEYSTONE SCIENCE SERVICE, 1935-1936.
Series 22. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL.
The bulk of this collection was processed by Jane Livermore, a devoted and tireless volunteer in the Smithsonian Institution Archives between 1995 and 2004. Livermore is a former Science Service employee. She worked in the organization's library, oversaw the educational project "THINGS of Science," and served as Assistant to the Director. The Archives wishes to thank Ms. Livermore for her excellent work on this collection.
Many others have assisted on this project. SIA also thanks Helen Shade Cauley, Program Assistant in the Archives Division, who helped create folder listings for many of the later series in this record unit. SIA is especially indebted to historian Marcel C. LaFollette, who has conducted extensive research in this collection, written a historical summary for this guide, and whose findings in these records have generated excitement both within the Archives and among professional colleagues. SIA could not have created this finding aid without Dr. LaFollette's contributions, annotations, and insights.
Science Service, a not-for-profit institution founded to increase and improve the public dissemination of scientific and technical information, began its work in 1921. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities. It survives today in Science Service, Inc., an organization that publishes Science News and promotes science education.
Record Unit 7091 contains correspondence and other material related to Science Service, from just before its establishment through 1963, including the editorial correspondence of the first two directors and senior staff.
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E.W. Scripps, August 1925 (From Acc. 90-105, Box 20) |
The inspiration for such an organization developed during conversations between newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps (1854-1926) and zoologist William E. Ritter (1856-1944), who headed the Scripps-funded oceanographic institute in California. "Document A - The American Society for the Dissemination of Science," dictated by E. W. Scripps on March 5, 1919 (see Box 1, Folder 1), declared that the "first aim of this [proposed] institution should be just the reverse of what is called propaganda." Scripps believed that it should not support partisan causes, including those of any particular scientific group or discipline, but should instead develop ways to "present facts in readable and interesting form..." (p. 3). Scripps and Ritter held meetings throughout the United States to solicit ideas and support from scientists. By 1920, they had concluded that the best way to improve the popularization of science would be to create an independent, non-commercial news service with close ties to, but not operated by, the scientific community. The scientists would lend credibility to the organization's work, help to ensure accuracy, and project an image of authority.
Scripps supplied an initial donation of $30,000 per year from 1921 until his death in 1926. His will placed $500,000 in trust for Science Service and provided a continuing endowment until the trust was dissolved in 1956.
Science Service did not provide all its services for free. Scripps believed that the news service would be more valued by its clients - and would better reflect their needs and professional standards - if it charged a fair price for its products. As a result, the history of the organization is one of continual innovation, as the staff developed and marketed new syndicated features, wrote articles and books for other publishers on commission, and re-wrote each basic news story for multiple markets.
From the beginning, Science Service was guided by a 15-member board of trustees composed of two groups: prominent scientists nominated by the National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Smithsonian Institution, and newspaper editors or executives nominated by the Scripps-Howard organization or the Scripps family trust. William E. Ritter served as the first president of the board of trustees. Such scientists as J. McKeen Cattell, Edwin G. Conklin, Harlow Shapley, and Leonard Carmichael (the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) succeeded him over the next four decades.
During the summer of 1920, Ritter began negotiations with Edwin E. Slosson (1865-1929), a well-known chemist and popularizer. Slosson had taught at the University of Wyoming for thirteen years until moving to New York to become the literary editor of The Independent. He began work as the head of Science Service in January 1921.
The first public announcement of the creation of Science Service appeared in Science, April 8, 1921, pp. 321-323. The first meeting of the trustees was held on May 20, 1921; the Science Service trust was set up July 22, 1921; and the not-for-profit organization was incorporated in the state of Delaware on November 1, 1921.
In 1921, Howard Wheeler, former editor of the San Francisco Daily News, was hired as the business manager. Watson Davis (1896-1967), a civil engineer who had been working at the National Bureau of Standards and writing science features for a Washington, D.C., newspaper, was hired as principal writer. In 1923, Wheeler was fired; Slosson (whose title had been "Editor") was named Director; and Davis was promoted to managing editor.
 Watson Davis (From RU 7091, Box 404) |
Throughout the 1920s, Davis built the news service through the "Daily Science News Bulletin," which later became the syndicated "Daily Mail Report" sold to newspapers around the country. He developed a local radio program and script service ("Science News of the Week"), coordinated a project to produce phonograph records, and assembled a skilled staff to handle reporting, circulation, production, sales, advertising, and accounting. Davis also edited the organization's most successful product, Science News Letter (titled Science News Bulletin, April 2, 1921-March 1922, and Science News-Letter, March 1922-October 1930).
After Slosson's death on October 15, 1929, the trustees favored replacing him with another scientist. Davis lobbied for the position but remained as managing editor until he was finally appointed director in 1933. He guided the organization until his retirement in 1966.
From 1921-1924, the editorial offices were located in offices rented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington. When the NAS moved to its own building at 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., in April 1924, Science Service acquired space there. As World War II began, space became precious at the NAS headquarters. In spring 1941, Science Service purchased its own building at 1719 N Street, N.W., to house its expanding operations and staff.
Between 1921-1963, Davis and senior writers such as Frank Thone, James Stokley, Jane Stafford, and Marjorie Van de Water interviewed hundreds of scientists and engineers, and wrote thousands of articles, often maintaining a lively correspondence with their sources. Thone, a botanist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, worked for the organization from 1924 until his death in 1949, covering both the Scopes trial and the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll; astronomer Stokley joined the group in 1925 and continued to write the "Star Map" feature even after he went to work for the Franklin Institute and for General Electric. Stafford, one of the founding members of the National Association of Science Writers, covered medicine and biology for Science Service from 1928 to 1956. Van de Water covered psychology and related topics from 1929 through the 1960s. Other members of the Davis family also assisted in the operations, including Watson's wife, the chemist Helen Miles Davis (1896-1957), who edited Chemistry from 1944, when it was acquired by Science Service, until shortly before her death. Watson's brother Fremont Davis served as the organization's photographer.
Science Service also depended on an extensive network of part-time correspondents, or "stringers," in the United States, Europe, and Asia, to provide information and photographs. Most of these contributors were graduate students, young professors, or schoolteachers. By the mid-1930s, Science Service was dispensing small fees (under $10.00) for over 500 short news items and illustrations annually. The staff was also answering hundreds of letters each year from readers of all ages who were curious about science in general or had specific questions about a subject mentioned in the news. The correspondence with these people afford a rich resource for social and cultural historians.
In addition to sending its writers to participate in expeditions, Science Service established projects to collect scientific data, such as seismological information and ursigrams, and to compile weekly astronomical and meteorological charts. They also initiated a "Scientific Minute Men" project in which a network of archeologists and other scientists were authorized to wire Science Service at no charge.
The activities of the staff and organization were wide-ranging and reflect the breadth of science and scientific concerns during the twentieth century. Slosson and Davis were involved extensively with groups like the American Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and American Eugenics Society, and the staff writers covered dozens of scientific meetings every year, sometimes serving as officers of those associations. Davis was a major participant in the National Inventors Council and served on dozens of advisory committees for scientific laboratories and universities, and national and international government agencies. With Alexander Gode, Davis worked to promote acceptance of Interlingua, an international scientific language. One of the organization's most lasting contributions was to science education, through its sponsorship of Science Clubs of America, National Science Fairs, the Science Talent Search, and informal teaching units called "THINGS of Science." Science Service also sponsored early innovation in microphotography, established a Documentation Division and a Bibliofilm Service, and helped to found the American Documentation Institute.
For the first four decades of its existence, however, the central mission remained science journalism. As Davis wrote in 1960, Science Service strived from the beginning to convince both publishers and scientists that "science is news, good news, news that can compete, from a circulation standpoint, with crime, politics, human comedy and pathos, and the conventional array of news and features" and that science "could be written popularly so as to be accurate in fact and implication and yet be good reading in newspaper columns" (Watson Davis, "The Rise of Science Understanding," 1960, Box 368, Folder 2). These records will help historians to understand better the processes of negotiation, adjustment, and innovation which created that news. - Marcel C. LaFollette
On January 10, 2008 Science Service was renamed Society for Science & the Public (SSP).
Record Unit 7091 contains: correspondence and telegrams; drafts and final versions of articles, books, and radio scripts; staff notes and interoffice correspondence; published material such as pamphlets and news clippings; photographs and drawings; advertisements and trade literature; and other ephemera related to science news coverage and publishing.
This record unit is one of the largest single collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA). There are several related collections in SIA (see Accessions 01-122, 01-243, 04-042, 90-068, 90-105, 93-019, and 97-020; online finding aids at http://siarchives.si.edu/research/fapersonal_papers.html#sciserv and in the Smithsonian museums (see National Air and Space Museum; National Museum of American History, including the Archives Center and collections in agriculture and mining, chemistry, costume, engineering, electricity, medical sciences, military history, modern physics, and photographic history; National Museum of Natural History; and Portrait Gallery).
The arrangement of RU 7091 reflects the eclectic nature of an active news organization that was reactive to current events and discoveries, in touch with a worldwide network of researchers, and concerned about accuracy. In 1960, the organization's educational director described their records in this way: "... Science Service has been distributing science news for 40 years. During that time we have been in touch with practically all the major scientists and the developments which were taking place. Since all of our material has to have full authentification, we have built up a mass of files" (Letter from Frederick A. Indorf to Joseph C. Shipman, October 24, 1960, Box 350, Folder 13). This "mass of files" also included two extensive "morgues" that contained back-up material, information, and photographs that could be used in future stories. The informational "morgue" files were organized according to the Library of Congress classification scheme. A few of these files are in RU 7091 (see Series 7); more extensive collections are located in SIA Accessions 01-122, 01-243, 90-068, 90-105, and 93-019 and in curatorial collections in Smithsonian Institution museums. A major portion of the biographical "morgue," containing photographs and information about scientists, engineers, and other public figures, is in SIA Accession 90-105.
Editorial correspondence with news sources was usually filed in the general correspondence files of Series 1 - 5. Some was also filed with the resulting story for the Daily Mail Report (see Series 8) or with other back-up in a morgue file. Correspondence with scientists and engineers who appeared on the Science Service radio programs may also be found in the radio program files (see Series 10). Audiotapes of some broadcasts are in Series 20, SIA Accession 04-042, and in the NMAH Archives Center collection (Call # ACNNMAH0223).
Most folders in RU 7091 retain the original folder's title. This finding aid uses edited descriptions and additional notes to assist researchers in navigating through the record unit. Most correspondence was filed by the date and the last name of correspondent, but documents were sometimes filed alphabetically according to a topic or by the name of an individual's affiliation.
The topics covered in RU 7091 include all fields of science and engineering, theoretical physics to bridge construction techniques, wildlife conservation to plastics and paints. There is considerable attention to social and economic issues and to military research and censorship during World War II. The staff visited museums, observatories, industrial test facilities, and military installations; they reported on most of the major scientific events of the time, including the Scopes trial. During the 1930s and 1940s, Science Service purchased news and photographs from official U.S.S.R. news offices and also supported efforts to interact with Soviet scientists. There were attempts to establish branch operations in England and France and to encourage science popularization and education in Mexico.
Correspondents include trustees, news sources, publishers, writers, and business clients. Most inquiries from readers or listeners were answered and filed with regular editorial correspondence. "Taffy" is the term Science Service used for complimentary correspondence; it is often filed separately. Series 5 also contains manuscripts and letters from scientists and non-scientists who were convinced they had discovered, proved, or understood a new scientific principle or insight - or else could save humanity from foreseeable destruction.
Frequent correspondents among the trustees included: C.G. Abbot, Edward U. Condon, Rene J. Dubos, Frank R. Ford, George Ellery Hale, Ross G. Harrison, Harrison E. Howe, W.H. Howell, Vernon Kellogg, Karl Lark-Horovitz, D.T. MacDougal, Kirtley F. Mather, John C. Merriam, Robert A. Millikan, Raymond Pearl, Marlen E. Pew, Michael I. Pupin, I.I. Rabi, Charles Edward Scripps, Robert P. Scripps, Paul B. Sears, Thomas L. Sidlo, Harry L. Smithton, Mark Sullivan, Warren S. Thompson, Henry B. Ward, Alexander Wetmore, David White, William Allen White, and Robert M. Yerkes.
Other notable writers, scientists, and public figures include: William Beebe, Hans A. Bethe, Charles Bittinger, Howard W. Blakeslee, Edwin G. Boring, Bart J. Bok, Gregory and Marjorie Breit, P.W. Bridgman, Wilfred Swancourt Bronson, Rachel Carson, George Washington Carver, Morris L. Cooke, Clarence Darrow, Frances Densmore, Thomas A. Edison, Enrico Fermi, Henry Field, George Gamow, Eugene Garfield, Robert H. Goddard, Peter C. Goldmark, Hamilton Holt, J. Edgar Hoover, Julian S. Huxley, Louis M. Lyons, Margaret Mead, Merrill Moore, Edward R. Murrow, H.H. Nininger, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Gifford Pinchot, James A. Reyniers, J.B. Rhine, Walter Orr Roberts, M. Lincoln Schuster, John T. Scopes, Glenn T. Seaborg, Gilbert Seldes, Elizabeth Sidney Semmens, Upton Sinclair, Otto Struve, Elihu Thomson, Harold C. Urey, Mark Van Doren, Selman A. Waksman, Henry A. Wallace, Warren Weaver, H.G. Wells, and Gaylord Wilshire.
RU 7091 contains extensive records of the transactions with temporary correspondents and photographers, notes on the article titles and amounts paid, as well as correspondence discussing particular scientific events and, during the 1930s and 1940s, the situation in Europe. Among the active European correspondents were Maxim Bing in Switzerland, Victor Cofman in England, and Theodor G. Ahrens, Hans F. Kutschbach, and Gabrielle Rabel in Germany.
Researchers interested in the history of American publishing, journalism, advertising, and public relations will find extensive correspondence with professionals in those fields. Newspaper Enterprise Association, or "NEA Service," was a news syndicate established by the Scripps organization in 1909, to which Science Service sold articles and feature series. They also marketed articles and photographs to publications like Life and Reader's Digest. There is considerable correspondence with the editors about topic selection and why particular stories were rejected.
Science Service staff used special abbreviations in their interoffice correspondence. Starting in the 1930s, small name and date stamps were also used to record or acknowledge all correspondence and notes. Abbreviations were written in all capital letters as well as in initial cap form (e.g., Watson Davis was "WD" as well as Wd"). Here is a partial list of abbreviations that appear frequently in RU 7091:
 Senior staff writer Frank Thone, 1938 (From Acc. 90-105, Box 23) |
ACM = A.C. Monahan
An = Anne Shiveley, secretary to
Watson Davis
Ba = Howard Bandy, treasurer
Be = Miriam Bender,
office staff
DGL = Donald G. Loomis, assistant treasurer
Do =
Dorothy Reynolds, secretary to Watson Davis
Ed = Emily C. Davis
(sometimes written as "ECD")
En = Leonard Engel
Ew = Ann
Ewing
Fa = Bob Farr
FD = Fremont Davis
Fl = Margaret
Fleming
Fr = Violet Frye
Gi = Minna Gill, librarian
Hd =
Helen Miles Davis
Hj = Hallie Jenkins, sales manager
Ho = Janet
Howard
HW = Howard Wheeler, business manager
JWY = J.W.
Young
Js = James Stokley
Kl = Fred Kline, list room
Kr =
Joseph Kraus, science youth programs
Md = Marjorie MacDill (Breit); in
1928, Jane Stafford became the medical editor and used these initials from
1928-1936
Mg = Mary McGrath, secretary to Watson Davis
Ml =
Bernice Maldondo
Mm = Martha G. Morrow
Mn = Minna Hewes
Mo =
Morton Mott-Smith
Ot = Frances Ottemiller
Pd = Phillippa
Duckworth, secretary to E.E. Slosson
Ps = Page Secrest
Pt =
Robert Potter
Ri = William E. Ritter
RLI = Ronald L. Ives,
photograph editor
RNF = Robert N. Farr
Ro = Ron Ross
Sl =
E.E. Slosson
St = Jane Stafford, after 1936
Th = Frank
Thone
Vn = Marjorie Van de Water
Wd = Watson Davis
We =
Margaret Weil
Wi = Austin Winant
Interoffice correspondence in the 1920s also used these abbreviations: Bk = bookkeeper; Cr = circulation; Fl = File; Lb = library or library files; Mr = mailroom; Rt = retail files; Sa = sales department; Tp = typing department; Wb = wastebasket.
SELECTED ONLINE HIGHLIGHTS FROM SCIENCE SERVICE RECORDS:
Box 1 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Science Service - Organization of 1919 | |
| Folder | 2 | Science Service - Organization of 1920 and 1921. Includes E.E. Slosson's "Notes of a Talk to Trustees of Science Service" and material relating to motion picture project. | |
| Folder | 3 | Science Service - Organization of 1921 | |
| Folder | 4 | Science Service - Organization of 1921- Certification of Incorporation | |
| Folder | 5 | Science Service - Organization, Certification of Incorporation, and additional regulations amended to May 1, 1954 | |
| Folder | 6 | Dr. Ritter's personal file. Correspondence of William E. Ritter as President of the Board of Trustees. | |
| Folder | 7 | Estimate of expenditures and receipts for year ending July 1, 1922 | |
| Folder | 8 | Executive Committee - general correspondence | |
| Folder | 9 | Trustees meeting, April 27, 1922 | |
| Folder | 10 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1923 | |
| Folder | 11 | Trustees correspondence, 1923 | |
| Folder | 12 | Executive Committee correspondence and annual meeting, 1924 |
 Photograph of the Science Service Board of Trustees Meeting, May 1, 1941. Seated (left to right): Charles G. Abbot, Ross G. Harrison, J. McKeen Cattell, Robert A.Millikan, O. W. Riegel, Edwin G. Conklin, W. H. Howell, H. E. Howe. Standing: A. H. Kirchhofer, Frank R. Ford, Henry B. Ward, Watson Davis, Harlow Shapley. (From RU 7005, Box 187) |
Box 2 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1925 | |
| Folder | 2 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1926 | |
| Folder | 3 | Tax Exemption Status correspondence, 1926. Includes a history of the founding of Science Service. | |
| Folder | 4 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1927 | |
| Folder | 5 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1928 | |
| Folder | 6 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1929 | |
| Folder | 7 | Trustees' comments on annual report, 1929 | |
| Folder | 8 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1930 | |
| Folder | 9 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1930 | |
| Folder | 10 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1931 | |
| Folder | 11 | Executive Committee correspondence and annual meeting, 1931 | |
| Folder | 12 | Science Service Trustees correspondence, 1930-1931 | |
| Folder | 13 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1931 |
Box 3 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1932 | |
| Folder | 2 | Annual meeting of trustees, April 28, 1932 | |
| Folder | 3 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1932 | |
| Folder | 4 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1933 | |
| Folder | 5 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1933 | |
| Folder | 6 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1934 | |
| Folder | 7 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1934 | |
| Folder | 8 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1935 | |
| Folder | 9 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1935 | |
| Folder | 10 | Revised Articles of Incorporation, By-laws of Science Service, October 1, 1935 |
Box 4 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1936 | |
| Folder | 2 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1936 | |
| Folder | 3 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1937 | |
| Folder | 4 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1937 | |
| Folder | 5 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1938 | |
| Folder | 6 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1938 | |
| Folder | 7 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1939 | |
| Folder | 8 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1939 |
Box 5 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1940 | |
| Folder | 2 | Information memoranda to trustees, 1940 | |
| Folder | 3 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1941 | |
| Folder | 4 | Information memorandum to trustees, 1941. Information on purchase and renovation of Science Service building at 1719 N Street, N. W., in Washington. | |
| Folder | 5 | Annual meeting of trustees, May 1, 1941 | |
| Folder | 6 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1942 | |
| Folder | 7 | Information memorandum to trustees, 1942 | |
| Folder | 8 | Annual meeting of trustees, April 30, 1942 | |
| Folder | 9 | Executive Committee correspondence and information memorandum to trustees, 1943 |
This series contains primarily the correspondence of Edwin E. Slosson, from January 1921 until his death in October 1929; it also includes correspondence and documents relating to all staff activities, and to the formation of Science Service.
Box 6 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence A, January - April 1921 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence A, April - December 1921 | |
| Folder | 3 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 1921 | |
| Folder | 4 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 1921, Section B - Physics | |
| Folder | 5 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 1921, Section C - Chemistry | |
| Folder | 6 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 1921, Section E - Geology and Geography | |
| Folder | 7 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 1921, Section F - Biological Sciences | |
| Folder | 8 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 1921, Section G - Botany | |
| Folder | 9 | The American Boy, 1921 | |
| Folder | 10 | American Philosophical Society meeting, 1921 | |
| Folder | 11 | Applications for positions, 1921 | |
| Folder | 12 | Armament Conference, 1921 | |
| Folder | 13 | Articles in request, 1920-1921 | |
| Folder | 14 | Correspondence B, January - April 1921 |
Box 7 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence C, 1921. Correspondents include George Washington Carver. | |
| Folder | 2 | Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920-1921 | |
| Folder | 3 | Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence D, January - April 1921 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence D, April - December 1921. Includes photographs of Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Eureka, California. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence E, 1921 | |
| Folder | 7 | Ecological Society of America, 1921 |
 Edwin E. Slosson (left) with Watson Davis (seated at right), on roof of National Academy of Sciences Building. (From RU 7091, Box 404) |
Box 8 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence F, 1921. Correspondents include W.S. Franklin. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence G, 1921. Correspondents include Harvey S. Wiley. | |
| Folder | 3 | John Goldstrom, 1921-1922. Includes advertisements for Aeroshroud thrust regulator. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence H, January - April 1921. Correspondents include Bernhard C. Hesse and George G. Heye. | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence H, April - December 1921. Correspondents include T. Swann Harding, H.E. Howe, and Woods Hutchinson. | |
| Folder | 6 | The Independent, 1921. Correspondents include Hamilton Holt. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence J, 1921 | |
| Folder | 8 | Joseph Jastrow, 1921 |
Box 9 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence K, 1921. Correspondents include Vernon Kellogg and William C. Wells. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence L, 1921, part 1 of 2. Correspondents include Jacques Loeb. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence L, 1921, part 2 of 2. Correspondents include Sir Oliver Lodge. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence M, January - July 1921. Includes Robert A. Millikan's comments about Marie Curie. | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence M, August - December 1921 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence Mc, 1921. Correspondents include S.S. McClure. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence - motion pictures, 1921 | |
| Folder | 8 | Mount Wilson Observatory, 1921. Correspondents include George Ellery Hale. |
Box 10 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence N, 1921. Correspondents include Carl Van Doren. | |
| Folder | 2 | National Geographic Society, 1921 | |
| Folder | 3 | New York State Museum, 1921 | |
| Folder | 4 | New York Zoological Park, 1921 | |
| Folder | 5 | Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1921. Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) was a news syndicate established by the Scripps organization in 1909 and to which Science Service regularly sold articles and feature series. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence O, 1921 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence P, 1921, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence P, 1921, part 2 of 2. Correspondence Q for 1921 is missing. | |
| Folder | 9 | Prince of Monaco, 1921. Coverage of his visit to Washington, D.C., and speech to the scientific community. |
Box 11 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence R, 1921 | |
| Folder | 2 | Radio, 1921-1923, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 3 | Radio, 1921-1923, part 2 of 2 | |
| Folder | 4 | Radio sets, 1922 | |
| Folder | 5 | Requests for information, 1921 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence S, January - March 1921 |
Box 12 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence S, April - June 1921. Correspondents include E.W. Scripps and Harlow Shapley. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence Sa - Sc, July - December 1921. Correspondents include J. McKeen Cattell; includes W. S. Franklin manuscript on "The Science of Golf." | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence Se - Sy, July - December 1921. Correspondents include E.W. Scripps and Harlow Shapley. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence - Science, 1921 | |
| Folder | 5 | Science Service editorial advisory board | |
| Folder | 6 | Science Service office memos and vouchers, 1921-1923 | |
| Folder | 7 | Science Service releases, 1921 | |
| Folder | 8 | Science Service requisitions for supplies, 1921 | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence - Smithsonian Institution, 1921 | |
| Folder | 10 | Special Libraries Association lecture, 1921. Correspondents include Robert M. Yerkes. | |
| Folder | 11 | Correspondence Bureau of Standards, 1921 |
Box 13 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence T, 1921. Correspondents include Charles Fitzhugh Talman and J. Arthur Thomson. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence telegrams, 1921 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence U, 1921. Correspondents include James H. Brestead. | |
| Folder | 4 | United Feature Syndicate, 1921. Material produced by Science Service for the syndicate. | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence V, 1921. Correspondents include Mark Van Doren. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence W, January - June 1921. Correspondents include Harvey W. Wiley and Gaylord Wilshire. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence W, July - December 1921 |
Box 14 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Washington Academy of Sciences, 1921. Correspondents include H.A. Brouwer; includes photograph of Brouwer. | |
| Folder | 2 | Howard Wheeler - general file, 1921. Includes E.E. Slosson's "Report to Trustees" and Howard Wheeler's "Report of Manager of Science Service," June 1921. | |
| Folder | 3 | Howard Wheeler - personal, 1921. Correspondents include Frederic Dorr Steele. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence X - Z, 1921. Correspondents include Robert M. Yerkes. | |
| Folder | 5 | Bulletin, 1922 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence H, 1922. Correspondents include George Ellery Hale, Alfred Harcourt, and Rollin Lynde Hartt. Correspondence A - G and I - K for 1922 is missing. | |
| Folder | 7 | Julian Huxley, 1921-1922 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence L, 1922. Correspondence M - Z for 1922 is missing. |
Box 15 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Scientific societies. Lists of officers and activities in 1922. | |
| Folder | 2 | Vocational information, 1922 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence A, 1923 | |
| Folder | 4 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Pacific and Southwestern Division meetings, September 1923 | |
| Folder | 5 | American Philosophical Society, 1923 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence B, 1923, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence B, 1923, part 2 of 2 | |
| Folder | 8 | Australia/Pan-Pacific Science Conference, 1923 |
Box 16 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence C, 1923, part 1 of 2. Correspondents include Glenn Frank and Harlow Shapley. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence C, 1923, part 2 of 2 | |
| Folder | 3 | Caldwell book, 1922-1923, part 1 of 2. Correspondents and drafts for Science Remaking the World, edited by Otis W. Caldwell and E.E. Slosson. | |
| Folder | 4 | Caldwell book, 1922-1923, part 2 of 2. Correspondents include Lyman Beecher Stowe. | |
| Folder | 5 | J. McKeen Cattell, 1923 | |
| Folder | 6 | Century Company, 1923 | |
| Folder | 7 | Chats on Science, 1923. Includes manuscript copies of Slosson columns. | |
| Folder | 8 | Country Gentleman, 1923 |
Box 17 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence D, 1923. Correspondents include Lee De Forest, Frances Densmore, June Downey, and Lyman Beecher Stowe. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence E, 1923 | |
| Folder | 3 | Eclipse, September 1923. Correspondence relating to E.E. Slosson's participation in observation of a solar eclipse. | |
| Folder | 4 | Editorial staff, 1921-1923 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence F, 1923. Correspondents include David Fairchild and E.E. Free. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence G, 1923. Correspondents include Edwin F. Gay, Charles W. Gilmore, Kenneth M. Gould, and Benjamin C. Gruenberg. | |
| Folder | 7 | Gothenburg Exposition, 1923. Correspondence relating to E.E. Slosson's trip to Sweden to attend the Tercentenary Exposition. | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence H, 1923. Correspondents include Frederick Lewis Allen, Ellwood Hendrick, S.J. Holmes, and Julian S. Huxley; includes advertisements for Walter Camp's "Health Builder." |
Box 18 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Historical chart for Progress of Science, 1923. Correspondents include Otis W. Caldwell and Willis R. Whitney. | |
| Folder | 2 | Hygeia, 1922-1923. Correspondents include Victor C. Vaughan. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence I, 1923. Correspondents include George Iles, Wickliffe Rose, and Institute of International Education. | |
| Folder | 4 | The Independent, 1922-1923 | |
| Folder | 5 | Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 1922-1923 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence J, 1923. Correspondents include Joseph Jastrow and David Starr Jordan. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence K, 1923. Correspondents include E.G. Conklin, Fred C. Kelly, Alfred Korzybski, Herbert V. Neal, and Thomas H. Morgan; includes discussion of the controversy surrounding Paul Kammerer's research. | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence L, 1923. Correspondents include Edwin Herbert Lewis, W. Lee Lewis, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Matthew Luckiesh. | |
| Folder | 9 | Lecture tour, February - March 1922 | |
| Folder | 10 | Lecture engagements, 1923 | |
| Folder | 11 | Lectures, 1923. Includes promotional brochures for Slosson books. | |
| Folder | 12 | Lectures - Emmerich Bureau, 1923-1924. Emmerich began to manage E.E. Slosson's lecture tours in 1923. |
Box 19 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Lectures - finished, 1922-1924. Includes contracts. | |
| Folder | 2 | Lectures - old, 1922-1924. Includes Slosson's lecture notes. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence M, 1923, 1 of 2. Correspondents include D.T. MacDougal, John C. Merriam, Robert A. Millikan, and Carl S. Miner. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence M, 1923, 2 of 2. Correspondents include H.L. Mencken, Cleveland Moffett, Edward LeRoy Moore, and Thomas H. Morgan. | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence Mc, 1923. Correspondents include Milton A. McCrae. | |
| Folder | 6 | The MacMillan Company, 1921-1925, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 7 | The MacMillan Company, 1921-1925, part 2 of 2 | |
| Folder | 8 | William M. Mann, 1922-1923. Photographs and Mann's "A Polyglot Cannibal Land" were transferred to Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 7293, Box 8, Folder 16. |
Box 20 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence N, 1923. Correspondents include W.A. Noyes. | |
| Folder | 2 | National Academy of Sciences, 1923 | |
| Folder | 3 | National Research Council, 1923. Correspondents include Robert M. Yerkes. | |
| Folder | 4 | Nobel Prize, 1914-1922 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence O, 1923 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence P, 1923 | |
| Folder | 7 | Popular Science Monthly, 1922-1924. Correspondents include Matthew Luckiesh. | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence R, 1923 | |
| Folder | 9 | William E. Ritter, 1923. Includes information on Science Service activities in 1923. | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence S, 1923 | |
| Folder | 11 | Science Service taffy file, 1923. "Taffy" is the term Science Service used for complimentary correspondence. | |
| Folder | 12 | Sigma Xi, 1923. E. E. Slosson was president of the organization. |
Box 21 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Statistics, 1923 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence T, 1923. Correspondents include Warren S. Thompson. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence U, 1923 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence V, 1923. Correspondents include Walter B. Veazie. | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence W, 1923. Correspondents include Tarkington Baker and Workers Education Bureau. | |
| Folder | 6 | Wistar Institute, 1923 | |
| Folder | 7 | General Federation of Women's Clubs | |
| Folder | 8 | The World's Work, 1922-1923. Includes advertisements for Frigidare. | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence X - Z, 1923. Correspondents include Frederick Lewis Allen, Robert M. Yerkes, and Raphael Zon. | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence A, January - June 1924. Correspondents include Isaiah Bowman and H.L. Mencken. | |
| Folder | 11 | Correspondence B, January - June 1924. Correspondents include L.H. Baekeland, Isaiah Bowman, W.O. Brigstocke, and Martha Bunting. |
Box 22 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence C, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 2 | Beverly L. Clarke, 1924-1926 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence D, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence E - F, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence G, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence H - J, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence K, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence L, January - June 1924 |
Box 23 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence Mc - M, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 2 | MacMillan Company, 1922-1924. Correspondents include C.G. Abbot. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence N - O, January - June 1924. Correspondents include Bruce Bliven. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence P - Q, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence R, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence S, January - June 1924, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence S, January - June 1924, part 2 of 2 |
Box 24 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence T - V, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence W, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence X - Z, January - June 1924 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence A, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 5 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 19, 1924 - January 3, 1925 - correspondence | |
| Folder | 6 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 19, 1924 - January 3, 1925 - programs | |
| Folder | 7 | American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, December 19, 1924 - January 3, 1925 - news coverage |
Box 25 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence B, July 1924 - June 1925, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence B, July 1924 - June 1925, part 2 of 2 | |
| Folder | 3 | James H. Breasted | |
| Folder | 4 | British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, August 1924 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence C, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | University of Chicago, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 7 | F.E. Compton and Company, July - August 1924 | |
| Folder | 8 | Ida C. Clarke - Pictorial Review prize | |
| Folder | 9 | Crossword puzzles, Spring 1925 | |
| Folder | 10 | Thomas Y. Crowell, July 1924 - June 1925 |
Box 26 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence D, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence E, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence F, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence G, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence H, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence I, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence J, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence K, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence L, July 1924 - June 1925. Correspondents include Arthur D. Little. | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence - lectures, 1924 |
Box 27 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence - lecture opportunities, March 1925 - September 1925, part 1 of 2 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence - lecture opportunities, March 1925 - September 1925, part 2 of 2 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence M, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence Mc, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence N, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence O, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence P, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence Q, July 1924 - June 1925. Files for correspondence R - Y, July 1924 - June 1925, are located in RU 7091, Series 5, Box 366. | |
| Folder | 9 | Samples of Science News Bulletin, March 1925 | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence V, July 1924 - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 11 | Correspondence A, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 12 | Argus Press Clipping Bureau, 1925 - 1926 | |
| Folder | 13 | Correspondence B, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include Charles A. Beard. |
Box 28 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence C, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence D, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence E, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence F, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 5 | The Forum, 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence G, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 7 | The Grolier Society, 1925 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence H, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence I, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 10 | The Independent, 1924-1926 | |
| Folder | 11 | Independent Corporation, 1925-1926 | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence J, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 13 | Correspondence K, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 14 | Correspondence L, July 1925 - June 1926 |
Box 29 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Lectures, 1925-1926 | |
| Folder | 2 | Lectures, July - December 1925 | |
| Folder | 3 | Lectures, January - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 4 | Lectures - opportunities, 1925-1926 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence M, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include John T. Merriam and William A. Murrill. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence Mc, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include D.T. MacDougal. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence N, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include W.A. Noyes. | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence O, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence P, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include Alexander Hume Ford. | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence - personal - E.E. Slosson, 1924-1926. Includes recollections by E.E. Slosson of the University of Kansas "Science Club" in the 1890s, and a menu from the Norfolk-Washington Steamboat Company, 1924. |
Box 30 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence Q, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence R, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include William E. Ritter. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence S, July 1925 - June 1926. Original ink drawing by Theodore Scheel; correspondents include Francis H. Snyder and Mark Sullivan. | |
| Folder | 4 | Sachs Fund Prize, 1924-1926 | |
| Folder | 5 | Science Service - sample of daily wire service to newspapers, November 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | Science Service - possible contributors, 1921-1926 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence T, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence U, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence V, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence W, July 1925 - June 1926 | |
| Folder | 11 | "Ways of the World" - H. P. Fairchild, 1926. Correspondence on a proposed feature to be written by Henry Pratt Fairchild and illustrated by Francis J. Rigney. | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence X - Z, July 1925 - June 1926. Correspondents include Robert M. Yerkes. |
Box 31 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence A, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence B, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Edward L. Bernays. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence C, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Otis W. Caldwell. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence D, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence E, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence F, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Frank Fearing, John H. Finlay, and E.E. Free. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence G, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Benjamin C. Gruenberg. | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence H, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include George Ellery Hale, Norris F. Hall, T. Swann Harding, Rollin Lynde Hartt, and Albert W. Herre; includes discussion of work of Marie Curie. | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence I, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence J, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Joseph Jastrow. | |
| Folder | 11 | Correspondence K, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence L, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Matthew Luckiesh and S.W. Reyburn. |
Box 32 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Lectures, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 2 | Lectures, July - October 1926 | |
| Folder | 3 | Lectures, November - December 1926 | |
| Folder | 4 | Lectures, January - February 1927 | |
| Folder | 5 | Lectures, March - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 6 | Lecture opportunities, July 1926 - June 1927 |
Box 33 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence M, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Jesse Lee Bennett. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence Mc, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence N, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include W.A. Noyes. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence O, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence P, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence Q, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence R, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Woodbridge Riley and William E. Ritter. | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence S, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Upton Sinclair (with circular and order blank for Sinclair's Love's Pilgrimage), J. Russell Smith, and Harry Steenbock. | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence T, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence U, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 11 | Correspondence V, July 1926 - June 1927 | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence W, July 1926 - June 1927. Correspondents include Carl C. Dickey, French Strother, and Gaylord Wilshire. | |
| Folder | 13 | Correspondence X - Z, July 1926 - June 1927 |
Box 34 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence A, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Merle Crowell. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence B, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include William F. Bade and W.O. Brigstocke. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence C, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Walter B. Cannon, J. McKeen Cattell, and Preston Slosson; includes copies of Curtis "Boys League" booklets. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence D, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include John Cotton Dana. | |
| Folder | 5 | Doran and Company, 1922-1927. Correspondents include Frank Thone. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence E, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence F, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence G, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 9 | Correspondence H, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Benjamin C. Gruenberg. | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence I, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Henry Hazlitt and Paul R. Heyl. | |
| Folder | 11 | Institute of Current World Affairs, 1924-1927 | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence J, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Joseph Jastrow. |
Box 35 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence K, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 2 | Alfred Korzybski, 1927 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence L, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Henry W. Lanier. | |
| Folder | 4 | Lectures - general, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 5 | Lectures, July - October 1927 | |
| Folder | 6 | Lectures, November - December 1927 | |
| Folder | 7 | Lectures, January - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 8 | Lecture opportunities, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 9 | Liberty, 1924-1925 | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence M, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Warren K. Moorehead and Emma Reh Stevenson. | |
| Folder | 11 | Correspondence Mc, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include D.T. MacDougal. | |
| Folder | 12 | McClure's Magazine, 1924-1926. Correspondents include S.S. McClure. |
Box 36 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence N, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 2 | The Nation, 1924-1925. Correspondents include Mark Van Doren; drafts of E.E. Slosson's review of three books on relativity. | |
| Folder | 3 | New York Sun, 1927 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence O, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence P, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 6 | Pan-Pacific Science Congress Tokyo, 1925-1926. Correspondents include Hamilton Holt. | |
| Folder | 7 | Photographs, 1925. Correspondence about photographs of E.E. Slosson. | |
| Folder | 8 | The Physical Review, 1927 | |
| Folder | 9 | The Physical Sciences, 1926. Reviews by E.E. Slosson. | |
| Folder | 10 | Pictorial Review, 1925-1926. Correspondence relating to nominations for a Pictorial Review award to outstanding American women. | |
| Folder | 11 | G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. A tribute to Slosson from Putnam. | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence R, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include William E. Ritter. | |
| Folder | 13 | Correspondence S, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Harry L. Smithton. | |
| Folder | 14 | Saturday Evening Post, 1925 | |
| Folder | 15 | Saturday Review of Literature, 1924-1927. Correspondence and copies of book reviews by Science Service staff. | |
| Folder | 16 | The Scholastic, 1926-1927. E.E. Slosson served on advisory committee for the magazine. | |
| Folder | 17 | Popular science lectures, 1927 | |
| Folder | 18 | E. E. Slosson - personal, 1926-1928. Correspondents include Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Woods Hutchinson. | |
| Folder | 19 | Edith Spaeth, 1926 |
Box 37 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Stanford University Press, 1926 | |
| Folder | 2 | Julius Stieglitz, 1923-1926. Includes discussion of E.E. Slosson's health and the text of Slosson's speech about Stieglitz. | |
| Folder | 3 | Sachs Prize, 1927 | |
| Folder | 4 | The Sun, 1924-1925 | |
| Folder | 5 | Correspondence T, July 1927 - June 1928. Correspondents include Olin Templin and Warren S. Thompson. | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence U, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence V, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence W, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 9 | Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1926 | |
| Folder | 10 | John Wiley and Sons, 1926. Book reviews written by E.E. Slosson. | |
| Folder | 11 | The World, 1924-1926 | |
| Folder | 12 | Correspondence X - Z, July 1927 - June 1928 | |
| Folder | 13 | Correspondence A - B, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include Agassiz Association, American Institute of the City of New York, John Bakeless, and Stringfellow Barr. | |
| Folder | 14 | Correspondence C - D, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include J. McKeen Cattell and Ida Clyde Clarke. |
Box 38 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence E - F, July 1928 - June 1929. Material relating to a National Hydraulic Laboratory. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence G - H, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include George Ellery Hale and Erasmus Haworth. | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence I - J, July 1928 - June 1929 | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence K - L, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include John Bakeless and E.H. Kennard. | |
| Folder | 5 | Lectures finished, October - December 1928 | |
| Folder | 6 | Correspondence M - N, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include D.T. MacDougal and William McPherson. | |
| Folder | 7 | Correspondence O - P, July 1928 - June 1929 | |
| Folder | 8 | Correspondence Q - R, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include Malcolm W. Davis and William Patterson; materials on Quetico-Superior Council. |
Box 39 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence S - T, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include French Strother. | |
| Folder | 2 | Correspondence U - V, July 1928 - June 1929 | |
| Folder | 3 | Correspondence W - Z, July 1928 - June 1929. Correspondents include Alvin W. West and Robert M. Yerkes. | |
| Folder | 4 | Correspondence A - E, July - October 1929. Correspondents include Frances Densmore. | |
| Folder | 5 | American Library Association, 1925-1929. Development of lists of best books in science. | |
| Folder | 6 | Baltimore Sun article, 1928. Discussion of polar exploration. | |
| Folder | 7 | Maxim Bing, 1924-1929. Bing was Science Service's Berlin correspondent. | |
| Folder | 8 | Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924-1929 | |
| Folder | 9 | Book League of America, 1928-1929. Includes prospectus, booklets, brochures, order form, Slosson's reviews, and correspondence. |
Box 40 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Science book lists, 1926-1929 | |
| Folder | 2 | The Bookman - George H. Doran Company, 1925-1926 | |
| Folder | 3 | Baker Brownell - The Energy of the New World, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 4 | Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 5 | Century Company, 1923-1929 | |
| Folder | 6 | Century Company - Snapshots of Science correspondence, 1926-1928 | |
| Folder | 7 | University of Chicago Press, 1924-1928 | |
| Folder | 8 | Collier's, 1925-1928 | |
| Folder | 9 | Collier's - radio talks |
Box 41 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Cosmos Club Admissions Committee, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 2 | Watson Davis, 1929 | |
| Folder | 3 | Dictionary of American Biography, 1926-1927 | |
| Folder | 4 | Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926-1927 | |
| Folder | 5 | Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1924-1929. Full-color advertising material for Doubleday's The Nature Library; correspondents include Russell Doubleday and Lyman Beecher Stowe. | |
| Folder | 6 | June Downey, 1924-1929 | |
| Folder | 7 | Thomas A. Edison, 1923, 1925, 1927-1928. Correspondence and drafts for E.E. Slosson's 1928 Encyclopedia Britannica biography of Edison; questions Slosson used in his 1925 interview of Edison; correspondents include Thomas A. Edison and Theodore Edison. | |
| Folder | 8 | Notes for articles on Thomas A. Edison, 1929. Edison product advertising; copy of The Life of Thomas A. Edison in Word and Picture, 1927; notes of Slosson's August 1929 interview of Edison. | |
| Folder | 9 | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1925-1929 | |
| Folder | 10 | Correspondence F - M, July - October 1929. Correspondents include John C. Krantz. | |
| Folder | 11 | Francis Bacon Award for the Humanizing of Knowledge, 1927-1929. Competition run by Simon and Schuster. |
Box 42 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Greenberg Publisher, Inc., 1927 | |
| Folder | 2 | Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1924-1929. Correspondents include Alfred Harcourt. | |
| Folder | 3 | Harcourt, Brace and Company - Keeping Up With Science, 1924-1925, 1927. Correspondents include Donald C. Brace and Alfred Harcourt. | |
| Folder | 4 | Harcourt, Brace and Company - Sermons of a Chemist, 1925-1926, 1928. Correspondents include S.S. McClure; includes royalty statements and reviews. | |
| Folder | 5 | Harper Brothers, 1925-1928. Correspondents include Frederick Lewis Allen. | |
| Folder | 6 | Hamilton Holt, 1925-1926. Correspondents include F.W. Shipley. | |
| Folder | 7 | Henry Holt and Company, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 8 | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926-1929 | |
| Folder | 9 | Mrs. A.A. Knopf, 1924-1926 | |
| Folder | 10 | W. Colston Leigh - lectures, 1929 | |
| Folder | 11 | Leigh-Emmerich Lecture Bureaus, 1924-1929 | |
| Folder | 12 | Little, Brown and Company, 1926-1927, 1929 | |
| Folder | 13 | Macmillan Company, 1925-1929 | |
| Folder | 14 | McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1926-1929 |
Box 43 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence N - S, July - November 1929. Correspondents include Elizabeth Sidney Semmens. | |
| Folder | 2 | National Research Council Conference of Experimental Psychology, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 3 | National University, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 4 | Nation's Business, 1924-1928 | |
| Folder | 5 | Open Court Publishing Company, 1925-1929 | |
| Folder | 6 | William E. Ritter anniversary book, 1929 | |
| Folder | 7 | Science Progress, 1928-1929 | |
| Folder | 8 | Scientific Book Club, 1929 | |
| Folder | 9 | Scopes Trial - witnesses, 1925 | |
| Folder | 10 | Scopes Trial - witnesses, 1925 |
Box 44 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Scopes Trial - witnesses, 1925 | |
| Folder | 2 | Scopes Trial - American Civil Liberties Union, 1925 | |
| Folder | 3 | Scopes Trial - evolution clippings, 1925, part 1 of 3 | |
| Folder | 4 | Scopes Trial - evolution clippings, 1925, part 2 of 3 | |
| Folder | 5 | Scopes Trial - evolution clippings, 1925, part 3 of 3 | |
| Folder | 6 | E.W. Scripps, 1926. Material related to Scripps's death and final bequests. | |
| Folder | 7 | Scripps Foundation for Population Research, 1927-1928 | |
| Folder | 8 | Atherton Seidell, 1925-1926, 1929 | |
| Folder | 9 | Thomas Seltzer, Inc., 1926 | |
| Folder | 10 | Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1925-1929. Correspondents include Maxim Bing, Clifton Fadiman, and M. Lincoln Schuster. | |
| Folder | 11 | Snapshots of Science, 1928 | |
| Folder | 12 | Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926-1929 | |
| Folder | 13 | Correspondence T - Z, July - October 1929 |
Box 45 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Tropical Research Board, 1929 | |
| Folder | 2 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, 1922-1923. Includes correspondence and drafts for a series edited by Slosson. | |
| Folder | 3 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, 1923 | |
| Folder | 4 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, 1924 | |
| Folder | 5 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, January - June 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, July - December 1925 |
Box 46 of 459
| Folder | 1 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, 1926 | |
| Folder | 2 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences, 1927-1929 | |
| Folder | 3 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences - possible authors, 1926-1929 | |
| Folder | 4 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences - Arrhenius, 1928 | |
| Folder | 5 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences - Evolution - Facts and Theories by Benjamin Gruenberg, 1928 | |
| Folder | 6 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences - The Human Habitat by E. Huntington | |
| Folder | 7 | D. Van Nostrand Company's Library of Modern Sciences - Stories in Stone by W.T. Lee | |
| Folder | 8 | B. Westermann Company, 1924-1928 | |
| Folder | 9 | Williams and Wilkins, 1924-1928 | |
| Folder | 10 | Rosalind Wood, 1927-1928 |
This series contains miscellaneous correspondence of Edwin E. Slosson before he became director of Science Service, drafts and final manuscripts, and correspondence relating to his publications, lectures, and sermons in the 1920s.
Box 47 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Edwin E. Slosson - biographical information. Includes program for 1929 Memorial Service for Slosson. | |
| Folder | 2 | Edwin E. Slosson - personal, 1902-1916 | |
| Folder | 3 | Edwin E. Slosson - business cards and notes, c. 1921. Includes his notes about potential authors and news sources. | |
| Folder | 4 | Edwin E. Slosson - journalistic interests. Includes 1910 and 1913 issues of The Independent. | |
| Folder | 5 | Edwin E. Slosson - Life Adjustment Center, 1929. Slosson was chairman of a committee to establish a counseling center at Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church in Washington. | |
| Folder | 6 | Edwin E. Slosson - University of Chicago. Includes a photograph of Memorial Hall dining room at Harvard University, c. 1920. | |
| Folder | 7 | Edwin E. Slosson - University of Kansas, c. 1910-1917. Includes notes on Slosson's college experiences. | |
| Folder | 8 | Bibliography of the Writings of Edwin E. Slosson. One of several volumes compiled by Science Service after Slosson's death in 1929. | |
| Folder | 9 | Bibliography of the Writings of Edwin E. Slosson - correspondence, 1929-1930 | |
| Folder | 10 | Bibliography of the Writings of Edwin E. Slosson - preparation, 1929 |
Box 48 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Articles by Edwin E. Slosson, Volume 1, and Scientific Papers by Edwin E. Slosson, 1929. Compiled after Slosson's death. | |
| Folder | 2 | Articles by Edwin E. Slosson, Volume 2, 1929. Compiled after Slosson's death. | |
| Folder | 3 | Lectures by Edwin E. Slosson, 1929. Compiled after Slosson's death. |
Box 49 of 459
| Folder | 1 | World's Work articles, November 1922 - March 1923 | |
| Folder | 2 | "Creative Chemistry" series for The Independent - correspondence | |
| Folder | 3 | Creative Chemistry - The Century Company, 1919-1921 | |
| Folder | 4 | Creative Chemistry - correspondence | |
| Folder | 5 | Creative Chemistry - illustrations | |
| Folder | 6 | Easy Lessons in Einstein - clippings about Albert Einstein from newspapers and journals, c. 1918-1920 | |
| Folder | 7 | Easy Lessons in Einstein, 1929. Correspondents include H.A. Bumstead, Alfred Harcourt, W.J. Hussey, and Isabel M. Lewis. |
Box 50 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Easy Lessons in Einstein - notes, c. 1918-1920 | |
| Folder | 2 | Sixty Thousand Words, 1913 | |
| Folder | 3 | Articles and reprints | |
| Folder | 4 | Miscellaneous articles and other writings | |
| Folder | 5 | Reprints | |
| Folder | 6 | Miscellaneous manuscripts | |
| Folder | 7 | Chats on Science, 1924-1925 |
Box 51 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Chats on Science, 1926-1927 | |
| Folder | 2 | Chats on Science - reviews, 1924-1926 | |
| Folder | 3 | Collier's article - "Catching Up With the World" | |
| Folder | 4 | Collier's articles, August 1925 - December 1925 | |
| Folder | 5 | Collier's articles, January - April 1926 | |
| Folder | 6 | Collier's articles, May - August 1926 | |
| Folder | 7 | Collier's articles, September - December 1926 |
Box 52 of 459
| Folder | 1 | Collier's articles, January - June 1927. Includes copies of Daily Science News Bulletin, June 1926 - May 1927. | |
| Folder | 2 | Sources of Energy, 1922. Notes for Slosson's talk "An Inventory of Energy"; correspondents include Comfort A. Adams, Vernon Kellogg, and Robert A. Millikan. | |
| Folder | 3 | Expansion of Chemistry - requests, 1924 | |
| Folder | 4 | The Fall of Energy and the Rise of Man | |
| Folder | 5 | Fifty Years of Science - lecture, 1926 | |
| Folder | 6 | Great American Universities - correspondence, 1909-1917. Correspondents include H.A. Bumstead, Charles A. Harrison, David Starr Jordan, and Woodrow Wilson. | |
| Folder | 7 | Great American Universities - reviews and notes, 1910 | |
| Folder | 8 | Nine Sons of Satan - correspondence and notes, 1915-1918 | |
| Folder | 9 | Nine Sons of Satan - correspondence, 1918-1920. Correspondents include Pierre de Bacourt, Charles A. Beard, Mary Ann Pace, Upton Sinclair, and Olin Templin. | |