© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Sigma Xi, the
Scientific Research Society of North America, Alpha Chapter records,
1886-1986.
Collection Number:
37-4-194
Creator:
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research
Society of North America.Alpha Chapter.
Quantity:
6.4 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
N/A
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Collection includes material pertaining to
the chapter affiliations of members, 1886-1967, with correspondence, lists,
forms, minutes, notices, and announcements concerning transfers, nominations,
officers, committees, and branches at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, the
Cornell Medical College in New York City, and the New York Agricultural
Experiment Station in Geneva, New York; materials concerning the founding and
early history of Sigma Xi, 1886-1945, including correspondence, printed
material, manuscripts, and speeches; extensive financial records, 1909-1973,
including correspondence, lists, reports, bills, receipts, checks, and bank
statements; miscellaneous correspondence, 1930-1976; Alpha Chapter membership
lists, 1949-1974; administrative information, 1887-1976, including procedural
manuals, by-laws, constitutions, yearbooks, song, annual reports, programs,
proceedings, minutes, correspondence, and presidential addresses; petitions for
new chapters of Sigma Xi, 1909-1971, initiation announcements, and completed
nomination forms, 1965-1971, with unclaimed certificates and insignia order
forms; volumes, 1886-1966, include minutes, petitions for new chapters, account
books, histories of Sigma Xi, and photographic negatives of the chapter
signature book. Also included is a 1904 Sigma Xi diploma. Includes
correspondence of Simpson Linke and Yervant Terzian.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection includes material pertaining to the chapter affiliations of
members, 1886-1967, with correspondence, lists, forms, minutes, notices, and
announcements concerning transfers, nominations, officers, committees, and
branches at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, the Cornell Medical College in
New York City, and the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New
York; materials concerning the founding and early history of Sigma Xi,
1886-1945, including correspondence, printed material, manuscripts, and
speeches; extensive financial records, 1909-1973, including correspondence,
lists, reports, bills, receipts, checks, and bank statements; miscellaneous
correspondence, 1930-1976; Alpha Chapter membership lists, 1949-1974;
administrative information, 1887-1976, including procedural manuals, by-laws,
constitutions, yearbooks, song, annual reports, programs, proceedings, minutes,
correspondence, and presidential addresses; petitions for new chapters of Sigma
Xi, 1909-1971, initiation announcements, and completed nomination forms,
1965-1971, with unclaimed certificates and insignia order forms; volumes,
1886-1966, include minutes, petitions for new chapters, account books,
histories of Sigma Xi, and photographic negatives of the chapter signature
book. Also included is a 1904 Sigma Xi diploma. Includes correspondence of
Simpson Linke and Yervant Terzian.