Davidson, George, 1825-1911.
George Davidson papers, 1845-1911.
Letters, including family correspondence; diaries; personalia; financial papers; manuscripts of his writings and speeches; notebooks; lecture notes; computations and drawings; subject files; photographs; reports; sketches; maps; clippings. Service with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Service and with various commissions, governmental and private; interests in science, engineering, geography and navigation, history of California, etc.; association with the University of California as Regent and as professor. Included also: some papers of his wife and children, and papers relating to his wife's family (Fauntleroy family and Owen family).
Davidson was a geodesist, astronomer, geographer and engineer. He was chief of the U.S. Coast Survey on the Pacific Coast from 1868-1895, and President of the California Academy of Sciences from 1872-1886. He was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Geodesy at the University of California, and became a Regent of the University from 1877 to 1885, and Professor of Geography from 1889-1905. He was instrumental in popularizing astronomy on the West Coast and made his private observatory in Lafayette Park, San Francisco available to the scientific community and the public.
Davidson, George, 1825-1911.
University of California, Berkeley.
Geodesy.
Astronomy.
Geography.
Navigation.
Engineering.
History of science and technology collection.
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University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA