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Call Number: SC0273
Creator:
Townley, Sidney Dean, 1867-1946.
Title: Sidney Dean Townley papers
Dates: circa 1827-1939
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear feet
Summary: Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, research
notes including astronomical observations and geological measurements, articles,
lectures, personal diaries, family genealogy, and a collection of family photographs
including glass plate negatives and a glass plate negative format camera.
Language(s): The materials are inEnglish.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Astronomer. Studied at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, and at the
Universities of Berlin and Munich. Before becoming a Professor of Applied Mathematics at
Stanford Unviersiy in 1907, Townley taught at U.C. Berkeley and was Astronomer at the
International Latitude Observatory in Ukiah, California. He became Professor Emeritus of
Astronomy and Geodesy at Stanford in 1932. In addition to practical astronomy, his
research interests included asteroids, comets and variable stars, latitude measurements,
and seismology.
Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, research notes including
astronomical observations and geological measurements, articles, lectures, personal
diaries, family genealogy, and a collection of family photographs including glass plate
negatives and a glass plate negative format camera.
Stanford University. Dept. of
Mathematics--Faculty.
Townley, Sidney Dean, 1867-1946.
Astronomy.
Diaries.
Geodesy.
Glass plate negatives.
Latitude variation.
Photoprints
Seismology.
Social history--19th century.
Social history--20th century.