Wilbur Vincent Brown Papers, 1860-1928
DePauw University
DC 321 & 322

Archives of DePauw University

and Indiana United Methodism

Wilbur Vincent Brown Papers

1860-1928

Size: 0.80 lf

Restrictions: none

Accession: none or unknown

Provenance: donor

Processed by: unknown

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Wilbur Vincent Brown was born in Hope, New Jersey, March 27, 1860, the son of Reverend and Mrs. Albert Brown. He received his bachelor of science degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1880. Eight years later he was awarded his Ph.D. from the same institution. He was a member of the faculty for 43 years, coming to DePauw as assistant professor of mathematics, and assistant director of the McKim observatory. Dr. Brown had been ill for some time before he resigned his position on the faculty. His death in 1928 was due to high blood pressure.

Collection Statement

This collection contains many volumes of books by Dr. Brown, most are journals presumably about the weather. Some volumes are unidentified. There are also many books about the Meridian Circle Constants/Observations.

DC 321

Folder 1     Presumably a weather log - Aug. 21, 1894-Aug. 31, 1901

           2    Unidentified volume, June 5, 1888-March 13, 1889

           3     Longitude - Book #1 - May 29, 1888
                        Book #2 - May, June (1888?)
                        Book # 3 - May 29, 30, 31, June 4 (1888)

            4     Clocks 324, 296
                        Book #1 - Sept. 8, 1885- Jan. 26, 1888
                        Book #2 - Jan. 28, 1888-May 1, 1889
                        Book #3 - May 1, 1889-Mar. 16, 1895
                        Book #4 - Mar. 22, 1895-July 22, 1903

            5     Personal Equation Single or Double Lines

            6     Meridian Circle Observations
                        Dec. 16, 1887-May 5, 1888 Latitude
                        May 29, 1888-June 8, 1888 Longitude
                        Dec. 10-29, 1888 Per. Eq. Single & Double Lines
                        Aug. 28, 1894-Oct. 1, 1894 Coll. error due to angle of objective
                        June 5, 1895-July 12, 1895 Latitude

            7     Mean Values for the Constants of Reduction Meridian Circle

            8     Latitude
                        Pages 1-48 Approx. place of moon reduced back to 1855
                        Pages 48- Latitude

DC 322

    Folder 1     Equatorial #1 Aug. 27, 1885-May 31, 1886
                        June 1, 1886-1909 (?)

                2     "Verse" by WVB

                3     Miscellaneous
                            Almucantar Star List
                            No. 2 - Nos. 193-304 n.d.
                            No. 3- Nos. 305-425 n.d.
                    
                 4     Almucantar
                            No. 1- Aug. 29-Oct. 29, 1889
                            No. 2- Oct. 29, 1889-Nov. 30, 1889
                            No. 3- June 24, 1890-June 30, 1890
                            No. 4- Aug. 28, 1890-Jan. 13, 1891
                            No. 5 - Jan. 14, 1891-Sept. 27, 1894 (scattered)
                

                5     Another book which goes with this list but is unidentified

                6    Constants of Meridian Circle
                            No. 1- Nov. 15, 1887-April 7, 1888
                            No. 2- Apr. 10, 1888-Aug. 27, 1890
                            No. 3- Aug. 28, 1890-Mar. 27, 1895
                            No. 4- June 5, 1895-June 6, 1910 (scattered)
                            No. 5- Dec. 5, 1899

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