Organized Collections
American Geophysical Union, 1919-1965
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) was organized in 1919 to represent the US in the International Research Council's International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and to serve as the National Research Council Committee on Geophysics. In both of these capacities, the AGU promoted work in the fields of astronomy, geodesy, geology, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial electricity and magnetism, and vulcanology.
In 1972 the AGU separated from the National Academies and incorporated as an independent organization.
The American Geophysical Union collection contains correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes covering the years 1919-1965 for a span of 7 linear feet. The collection is arranged in two major divisions: 1919-1939 and 1940-1965.
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 1919-1939: Index
ADMINISTRATION
EXECUTIVE Board
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
Activities
Reports to Division of Foreign Relations: 1923-1934
Annual Meetings: 1920-1938
Appointments: Members: 1920-1931
Auditing Committee: 1932-1939
Award: Bowie Medal: 1939
Beginning of Union: 1919-1920
Committee on Budget: 1920-1939
Committee on Exhibits: 1939
Committee on Geophysical & Geological Study of Continents: 1935-1938
Committee on Geophysical & Geological Study of Oceanic Basins: 1933-1939
Committee on Hydrology: 1923-1929
Committee on Meetings: 1920-1939
Committee on Membership: 1920-1939
Committee on Membership Qualifications: 1933-1934
Committee on Statues & Bylaws: 1920-1939
Committee to Consider Establishment of American Journal of Geophysics: 1935-1939
Executive Committee
Meetings: Minutes: 1920-1939
General: 1920-1939
Members: Formal Listings: 1921-1932
Members & Officers: Formal Listing: 1939
Planning & Project Committee: 1937-1938
Sections
Geodesy: 1920-1933
Geophysical Chemistry: 1920-1924
Hydrology: 1922-1939
Meteorology: 1920-1933
Oceanography: 1923-1933
Physical Oceanography: 1920-1922
Seismology: 1920-1933
Terrestrial Magnetism & Electricity: 1920-1933
Volcanology: 1920-1933
Statutes & Bylaws: 1919-1938
General: 1920-1939
INSTITUTIONS Associations Individuals
Geological Society of America: 1936
FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
FINANCE
Funds
National Research Council to American Geophysical Union: 1920-1939
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 1940-1965: Index
ADMINISTRATION
EXECUTIVE Board
GOVERNING Board
INSTITUTIONS Associations Individuals
PUBLICATIONS
DIVISIONS OF THE NRC
FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
GOVERNMENT
PERSONNEL RELATIONS
PROPERTY & EQUIPMENT
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 1940-1965
ADMINISTRATION
EXECUTIVE Board
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
Activities
Reports to Division of Foreign Relations: 1940-1945
Reports to Division of Geology & Geography: 1945-1951
Reports to National Research Council: 1942-1951
Committee on Affiliation with American Geological Institute: 1946-1948
Committee on Audit: 1940-1950
Committee on Award of William Bowie Medal: 1941-1951
Committee on Establishment of American Journal of Geophysics: 1943
Committee on Exhibits: 1940
Committee on Meetings: 1940-1950
Committee on Membership: 1941-1951
Committee on Nominations: 1945-1950
Committee on Proposal for Journal of Geophysical Research: 1949-1950
Committee on Regionalization
Survey of Union Membership Regarding Proposed Regionalization Program: 1949
General: 1948-1949
Committee on Student Memberships: 1950
Editorial & Publications Committee
Meetings: Minutes: 1944-1951
General: 1944-1951
Executive Committee
Meetings: Minutes: 1940-1946
General: 1943-1950
Finance Committee: 1940-1947
Meetings
Annual: 1940-1951
Regional: 1947-1951
Members: Proposed: 1949-1951
Members & Officers: Formal Listings: 1940-1947
President: 1956
Proposition for New Journal: 1949-1950
Prospectus: 1950-1951
Regionalization
Analysis by Committee on Meetings: 1947-1948
Analysis by Section of Hydrology: 1947
Western Gulf Area: 1950-1951
Sections: Hydrology
Bequest: 1945
Committee for Selecting Horton Manuscripts for Publication: 1946
Committee on Bibliography of Hydrology: 1940
Committee on Hydrologic Regions: 1944-1948
Committee on Inter-Society Relations: 1944-1946
Committee on Permeability: 1947-1948
Committee on Runoff: 1944-1948
Committee on Snow: 1942-1946
Executive Committee: 1942-1950
Meetings: 1940-1950
General: 1940-1951
Sections: General: 1941-1944
Statutes & Bylaws: 1941-1950
General: 1940-1951
GOVERNING Board
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
Activities
Origin & Development of AGU 1919-1952
Reports to Division of Geology & Geography: 1952-1953
Reports to National Research Council: 1952-1959
Award
Terrestrial Magnetism & Atmospheric Electricity: 1952-1953
Committee for Study of Metric System in US: 1958-1959
Committee of Finance & Investment: 1959-1960
Committee of Tellers: 1953-1959
Committee on Advertising: 1957-1959
Committee on AGU Publications: 1958
Committee on AGU Salaries & Organization: 1959-1960
Committee on Audit: 1951-1960
Committee on Award in Terrestrial Magnetism & Electricity: 1954-1960
Committee on Award of William Bowie Medal: 1951-1959
Committee on Budget: 1952-1961
Committee on Corporation Membership: 1953-1961
Committee on Cosmic-Terrestrial Relationships: 1953-1959
Committee on Education: 1957-1959
Committee on Future of Journal of Geophysical Research: 1960
Committee on Geophysical Abstracting: 1958-1959
Committee on Geophysical & Geological Study of Continents: 1957-1959
Committee on International Participation
Appointments: Members: 1954-1959
Meetings: Minutes: 1954-1959
General: 1954-1959
Committee on James M Macelwane Memorial: 1957-1958
Committee on Meetings: 1952-1959
Committee on Membership: 1954-1959
Committee on Membership Dues: 1960
Committee on Nominations: 1952-1959
Committee on Relations Between AGU & NRC
Berkner Report: 1954
General: 1952-1954
Committee on Relations of AGU with US National Committee of IGY: 1957-1958
Committee on Resolutions: 1959-1960
Committee on Statues & Bylaws: 1952-1959
Committee to Study AGU Membership Committee Organization: 1956-1957
Committee to Study Relationship of AGU to AGI: 1957
Editorial & Publications Committee
Appointments: Members: 1951-1957
Meetings: Minutes: 1951-1958
General: 1951-1958
Executive Committee: 1952-1959
Geophysical Monograph Board: 1958-1959
Meetings
Annual: 1951-1959
Joint with American Meteorological Society: 1952
Officers of AGU: 1955-1960
Regional: 1951-1961
Membership
Corporation Membership: 1956-1959
Members Recommended to be Dropped for Nonpayment of Dues: 1952-1956
Recommended by Membership Committee: 1956-1959
Month-End Roundups: 1955-1959
Publications Program
Request for Funds: 1958-1959
General: 1958-1959
Regions
Mid-Pacific: 1954-1956
North Central: 1952-1953
Pacific Northwest: 1954-1960
Pacific Southwest: 1951-1959
Southeastern: 1953-1955
Reports of General Secretary to Executive Committee: 1955-1959
Representatives on Other Organizations: 1952-1959
Russian Translation Project: 1956-1959
Sections
Hydrology: 1951-1960
Meteorology: 1952-1959
General: 1957-1959
Solicitation of Financial Support Through Advertising in Transactions or Corporate Membership: 1958
Statutes & Bylaws: 1955-1958
Triennial Report to IUGG: 1959
Trips: Executive Secretary: 1957-1961
General: 1951-1961
INSTITUTIONS Associations Individuals
American Association for Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union Affiliation: 1945-1951
Committee on Metric Usage: 1957-1959
Meetings: 1942-1958
Symposia: 1959
American Chemical Society
Committee on Exchanges: 1955-1957
American Meteorological Society: 1944-1959
American Society of Civil Engineers: 1950-1961
American Standards Association
Committee on Fluid Permeation Z59: 1948-1960
American Water Works Association
Symposium on Ground Water Problems: 1942
Geophysical Society of Hawaii: 1953-1959
Institute of Aerospace Sciences
Anniversary Banquet: 1961
National Education Association
National Commission on Teacher Education & Professional Standards: 1958-1959
Ohio State University
Institute of Geodesy Photogrammetry & Cartography: 1961
University of California
Symposium on Mass & Heat Transfer from Snow Lakes & Ground Surfaces: 1949-1950
University of Hawaii
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics: 1955-1961
University of Southern California
Hancock Foundation: 1950
Water Research Foundation
Study of Governmental Organization for Water Resources of Delaware River Basin: 1959
William Byrd Press Inc: 1961
General: 1945-1961
INTERNATIONAL Relations
Academies & Councils Abroad
Soviet Academy of Sciences: 1945
International Congresses
Conference on Atmospheric Electricity: 1954
Conference on Physics of Precipitation: 1958-1959
International Geophysical Year
US National Committee: 1955-1959
LEGAL Matters
Will: Horton R: 1945-1946
ORGANIZATION
Office Procedures & Memoranda
American Geophysical Union: 1941
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Brochures: AGU: 1959
Inaugurations Ceremonies Speeches: 1951-1961
PUBLICATIONS
Biological Abstracts: 1958
Geophysical Monograph Series: 1955-1959
Hydrology Publications in Horton Library: 1947
Journal of Geophysical Research
Advertising Space: 1959
Carnegie Institution as Publisher: 1949-1958
Editorial Board: 1958-1961
Exchange of Publications with Foreign Institutions: 1959
Mailing & Shipping: 1959-1961
Page Charges: 1958-1959
Permission to Quote: 1959-1962
Printing & Publishing: 1958-1962
Request for Funds: 1958-1959
Section on Geomagnetic & Solar Data: 1959-1960
Solicitation of Manuscripts: 1959
Symposium on Exploration of Space: 1959-1960
Manuscripts: Horton Manuscripts
Inventory: 1945-1948
Maximum Observed Rainfall Amounts: 1949
Progress on Completion: 1945-1947
Transactions
Advertising Space: 1955-1959
Bibliography of Papers Relating to Hydrology: 1932-1941
Exchange of Publications with Foreign Institutions: 1953-1959
Mailing Lists: 1926-1938
Permission to Quote: 1954-1961
Postal Laws & Regulations: 1945-1953
Printing & Publishing: 1951-1962
Request for Funds: 1947-1958
Subscriptions: 1953-1958
General: 1942-1959
DIVISIONS OF THE NRC
EARTH Sciences
American Geological Institute: 1958-1959
GEOLOGY & Geography
American Geological Institute
American Geophysical Union Affiliation: 1948
FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
ACCOUNTING
Vouchers: 1946
BANKS: 1956-1959
CONTRACTS
AF19(604)-754
Conference on Atmospheric Electricity: 1954-1955
Ilr-1585
Annotated Bibliography of Hydrology in US: 1941-1952
FINANCE
Funds: Grants: 1944-1959
TAXES
Tax Exemption: 1958-1959
GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES & Departments
Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service: 1939-1944
National Science Foundation
Conference on Theoretical Geophysics: 1956
General: 1955-1960
CONGRESS
Bills
Adoption of Metric System: 1959
Establishment of Geophysical Institute at U of Hawaii: 1955
Committee on Government Operations
Subcommittee on Reorganization & International Organizations: 1961
General: 1952-1959
EXECUTIVE
Federal Council of Science & Technology: 1959
National Resources Planning Board
National Roster of Scientific & Specialized Personnel: 1942-1947
INTERNATIONAL Relations: 1955-1965
STATE Governments
California
Department of Public Works: 1942
PERSONNEL RELATIONS
WELFARE: 1950-1960
PROPERTY & EQUIPMENT
REAL Estate
Buildings: Space: 1948-1956
