Science Service Board of Trustees Meeting

Summary

Photograph of the Science Service Board of Trustees Meeting, on May 1, 1941. Includes (left to right) seated: Dr. Charles G. Abbot (Fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944), Dr. Ross G. Harrison, Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, Dr. Robert A.Millikan, O. W. Riegel, Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, Dr. W. H. Howell, Dr. H. E. Howe. Standing: A. H. Kirchhofer, Frank R. Ford, Dr. Henry B. Ward, Watson Davis (Director), Dr. Harlow Shapley. The Science Service, the Institution for the Popularization of Science, was organized in 1921 as a non-profit corporation.

Subject

• Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
• Davis, Watson
• Shapley, Harlow 1885-1972
• Riegel, O. W (Oscar Wetherhold) 1902-1997

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See copy of a memo from Watson Davis to the members of the Board of Trustees, dated June 10, 1941 (same SIA location as the photograph), for titles and affiliations of each of these members.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 7005 Box 187 Folder 1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1941

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Secretariats
• Science Service Board
• Harrison, Ross G
• Meetings
• Secretaries
• Ford, Frank R
• Howell, W. H
• Conklin, Edwin G
• Ward, Henry B
• Kirchhofer, A. H
• Millikan, Robert A
• Howe, H. E
• Cattell, J. McKeen

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

94-12597

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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