Charles P. (Charles Pollard) Olivier correspondence, 1915-1962

Mss.B.OL45

Date: 1915-1962 | Size: 0.5 Linear feet, Ca. 400 items
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Abstract

This collection pertains almost exclusively to Olivier's interest in meteors. Generally, there are only a few letters per person and for many correspondents, only one.

Background note

Charles P. Olivier was an astronomer who pioneered the scientific visual study of meteors, double stars, and variable stars. He attended the University of Virginia for his undergraduate and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1911 with his Ph.D. in astronomy with a dissertation disproving the existence of stationary meteor radiants. He founded the American Meteor Society (AMS), an offshoot from the American Astronomical Society, the same year in order to visually observe meteors and meteor showers. The meteor plots collected from 1911 to 1931 by AMS members helped prove Olivier's doctoral dissertation. He was also known for appealing to student and amateur astronomers to volunteer their meteor observations.

His first teaching position, from 1912 to 1914, was as professor of astronomy at Agnes Scott College. During the summers, he volunteered at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. Olivier returned to the University of Virginia in 1914 to work at the McCormick Observatory until enlisting to serve in World War I. Leaving the University of Virginia in 1928, Olivier worked as the director of the University of Pennsylvania's Flower Observatory. There, he continued his studies on double stars, discovering more than 150, and was eventually made chair of the university's astronomy department before retiring in 1954.

The moon crater Olivier is named after him.

Collection Information

Physical description

Ca. 400 items.

Provenance

Presented by Charles Pollard Olivier and accessioned, 05/02/1967 (1967 883ms). Daily hourly meteor rates presented by Olivier and accessioned, 03/--/1975 (1975 526.a, .b ms).

Indexing Terms


Personal Name(s)

  • Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916
  • Astapovich, I. S. (Igorʹ Stanislavovich), 1908-1976
  • Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1857-1923
  • Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860-1929
  • Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966
  • Chapman, Sydney, 1888-1970
  • Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952
  • Doolittle, Eric, 1870-1920
  • Frost, Edwin Brant, 1866-1935
  • Hall, Asaph, 1829-1907
  • Harnwell, G. P. (Gaylord Probasco), 1903-1982
  • LaPaz, Lincoln
  • Menzel, Donald Howard, 1901-1976
  • Olivier, Charles P. (Charles Pollard), 1884-1975
  • Roy, Felix de
  • Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
  • Schlesinger, Frank, 1871-1943
  • Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972
  • Struve, Otto, 1897-1963

Subject(s)

  • Astronomy.
  • Meteors.


Detailed Inventory

 Abbe, Cleveland
  
 Abbe, Cleveland
  

Custodial history: The following is a listing of the correspondents of the C. P. Olivier papers received April 19, 1974 and accessioned: 1974 455ms.

 Abbe, Cleveland: Report
  
 Aitken, R.G.
  
 Allen, Edward W., Jr.
  
 Amundson, Thomas
  
 Arend, S.
  
 Astapowitch, Igor S.
  
 Baillaud, Jules
  
 Baldauf, Richard J.
  
 Barnard, E.E.
  
 Barr, John U.
  
 Barringer, D. Moreau
  
 Barringer, P.B.
  
 Barton, Samuel G.
  
 Benyon, John F.
  
 Berman, Horace N.
  
 Billings, C.M.
  
 Blaisdell, D.P.
  
 Blanco, V.M.
  
 Bloom, Julius
  
 Bloggs, Isabel
  
 Bonfield, Max
  
 Bosler, Jean
  
 Bosler, Jean
  
 Boyd, Sylvia
  
 Boyles, Alfred
  
 Brockett, Paul
  
 Brogan, Phil F.
  
 Brogdon, J.S.
  
 Brouwer, Dirk
  
 Byrd, Harry F.
  
 Burkel, Christian E.
  
 Catharine, Irwin T.
  
 Chant, C.A.
  
 Chapman, Sydney
  
 Conklin, Edwin G.
  
 Cook, Gustavus Wynne
  
 Colton, Barrows F.
  
 Crommelin, C.D.
  
 Davis, Watson
  
 Dawson, Bernhard
  
 Delinger, J.H.
  
 DeWitt, Robert L., Reverand
  
 Dirick, R.
  
 Dobson, C.M.B.
  
 Doolittle, Eric
  
 Dubs, H.H.
  
 Dudley, L.P.
  
 Dunsink Observatory, Ireland
  
 Eason, F.B.
  
 Elsavor, Walter M.
  
 Epner, Norman
  
 Fahrney, D.S.
  
 Farnum, Grace C.
  
 Farquhar, Edgar S.
  
 Fath, E.A.
  
 Federer, Charles A.
  
 Ferrell, Oliver Perry
  
 Fisher, Clyde
  
 Fisher, Willard J.
  
 Fleming, John A.
  
 Folio, Peter J.
  
 Ford, Clinton B.
  
 Foshag, W.F.
  
 Fowler, A.
  
 Fox, Phillip
  
 France, Jennie V.
  
 Franklin, Lindley M.
  
 Free, E.E.
  
 Frost, Edwin B.
  
 Furcron, A.S.
  
 Gillespie
  
 Glowan, E.H.
  
 Guigay, G.
  
 Guth, Vladimir
  
 Guthwick, G.
  
 Haas, Walter
  
 Halbach, Edward A.
  
 Hall, Arthur
  
 Hammer, Carl
  
 Harding, A.M.
  
 Harnwell, Gaylord P.
  
 Harwood, Margaret
  
 Hawkins, Gerald S.
  
 Henderson, E.P.
  
 Herlofson, N.
  
 Hertzsprung, Ejnar
  
 Hill, Charles M.
  
 Hill, Lon C.
  
 Himsel, D.V.M.
  
 Hoffleit, Dorrit
  
 Hoffmeister, C.
  
 Hollowell, M.
  
 Hope-Jones, Frank
  
 Hufnagel, Fred
  
 Humphreys, W.J.
  
 Hurder, W.R.
  
 Ingalls, Albert G.
  
 Inonye, Hideo
  
 International Research Council
  
 Jacks, Maston M.
  
 Johnson, Lyndon Baines, President
  
 Kapenstein, Ira
  
 Kerolyr, M. de
  
 Khan, A.R.
  
 Kimmel, Joseph W.
  
 King, A.
  
 Kline, James, Reverand
  
 Kohman, Truman P.
  
 Komaki, Koziro
  
 Kuiper, Gerard P.
  
 Kunz, George F.
  
 LaPaz, Lincoln
  
 Laeb, August L.
  
 Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia
  
 Lindblad, Bertil-Anders
  
 Lipman, Charles B.
  
 Luesley, Earl E.
  
 Lukkien, H.G.
  
 Lutz, Edgar H.
  
 Luyten, W.J.
  
 McBain, Flora M.
  
 McClenahan, Howard M.
  
 McDannald, A.H.
  
 McDuffie, E.M.
  
 McIntosh, Ronald
  
 Makemson, Maud W.
  
 Marshall, Roy K.
  
 Martindell, Jackson
  
 Martinetz, Walter
  
 Mary, Donald
  
 Mayall, Margaret W.
  
 Menzel, Donald H.
  
 Menzies, A.
  
 Merrill, George P.
  
 Metzer, Eli
  
 Metzger
  
 Miller, F.D.
  
 Millman, P.M.
  
 Miner, Eunice Thomas
  
 Mizwa, Stephen Pa
  
 Mohler, Orren C.
  
 Monnig, Oscar E.
  
 Moore, Hugh
  
 Moore, J.H.
  
 Morrow, Glenn R.
  
 Moulten, F.R.
  
 Mowell, M.H.
  
 Musser, Paul H.
  
 Neathery, Robert W.
  
 Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Weer En Sterrekunde
  
  New York Times
  
 Nicholson, T.D.
  
 Nielson, Axel
  
 Nininger, H.H.
  
 Nogay, Frank
  
 Noonan, Julia A.
  
 Norries, L.B.
  
 Nussbaum, Hans
  
 Ohio State University
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: "A History of Meteoric Astronomy"
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: "Bibliography"
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: Concerning Harry F. Byrd
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: letter to the delegates of the Republican Convention
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: letter to the editor of Life
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: letter to the Shooting Star Commission
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: letter to the Public Information Division, Air Force
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: letter to the Commision Des Etioles Filantes of the International Astronomical Union
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: "Meteors"
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: Miscellaneous Notes
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: "Nebula"
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: "The August Meteors"
  
 Olivier, Charles P.: Report from the Flower and Cook Observatories
  
 O'Neill, John L.
  
 Parker, Constance
  
 Paterson, Fraser J.
  
 Patton, John S.
  
 Penniston, J.B.
  
 Pepper, Aimon R.
  
 Pickering, William H.
  
 Pokzbvsky, K.
  
 Pope, E.A.
  
 Pope, Ida May
  
 Pomeroy, John H.
  
 Poulter, Thomas C.
  
 Prager
  
 Pratt, M.A.
  
 Prentice, P.M.
  
 Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier
  
 Quinn, A.H.
  
 Rand, Stephen
  
 Reid, J.R.
  
 Reimer, Walter J.
  
 Rense, William A.
  
 Rhodes, R.N.
  
 Rifflard, Désiré C.
  
 Ritchey, G.W.
  
 Robbins, William J.
  
 Robinson, L.J.
  
 Rosa, Nicholas
  
 Rosebrugh, D.W.
  
 Rowe, Alan
  
 Roy, Felix de
  
 Russell, Henry Norris
  
 Schiesinger, Frank
  
 Schmidt, W.
  
  Scientia
  
 Scranton, William W.
  
 Scranton, William W.
  
 Serota, Sam
  
 Shapley, Harlow
  
 Sharda, Jean
  
 Shaw, Quincy A.
  
 Sherburne, E.G.
  
 Siekman, Rosemary
  
 Shatton, F.T.M.
  
 Simpson, Clinton
  
 Skumanich, Andrew
  
 Slouka, Hubert
  
 Smith, Franklin W.
  
 Smith, Howard W.
  
 Smith, J.J.
  
 Spitz, Armand N.
  
 Stanjukowitsch, K.
  
 Stebbins, Joel
  
 Stevenson, William H.
  
 Stewart, Meldrum
  
 Stewart, John Q.
  
 Stokley, James
  
 Stone, Ormand
  
 Stratton, F.T.M.
  
 Sturbridge, Richard V.
  
 Struve, Otto
  
 Sullivan, W.H.
  
 Tacker, Lawrence J.
  
 Talman, C.F.
  
 Van Biesbrouk, G.
  
 Van Den Bergh, Sidney
  
 Van Doren, Gene
  
 Venable, Francis P.
  
 Ventor, S.C.
  
 Vermilye, William M.
  
 Vickers, Aw. V.
  
 Wade, Alton F.
  
 Wallace, George C.
  
 Warner, W.P.
  
 Washington, Henry S.
  
 Watson, F.
  
 Watson, T.C.
  
 Weaver, Claire
  
 Webb, Walter N.
  
 Wend, Richard E.
  
 Wesley, W.H.
  
 Whipple, Fred L.
  
 Whipple, T.J.W.
  
 Whitney
  
 Williams, Edwin B.
  
 Williams, J.D.
  
 Wilson, Herbert C.
  
 Wilson, Ralph E.
  
 Wilson, T.W.
  
 Wirth, Lewis
  
 Woolard, Edgar W.
  
 Wood, Dorothy F.
  
 Wood, Frank Bradshaw
  
 Wright, Fred E.
  
 Wright, W.H.
  
 Wylie, C.C.
  
 Young, Anne S.
  
 Dugan, Raymond S.
  
 Eddington, A.S.
  
 Frost, Edwin B.
  
 Hull, G.F.
  
 Humphreys, W.J.
  
 Innes, R.T.A.
  
 King, A.
  
 Kirkpatrick, R.
  
 Lyman, Herbert
  
 Merrill, George P.
  
 National Academy of Sciences
  
 [Opiek], J.E.
  
 [Russell, Henry Morris], J.
  
 Schlesinger, Frank
  
 Shapley, Harlow
  
 University of Sofia