Dugan to Dean West, 4 March 1921, Menzel file, Mudd.
2.
MenzelD.H., Autobiography (1974), a 681-page double-spaced typescript (copies have been deposited at the Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, and the Harvard University Archives, for use only with permission), 166 (chap. 18, p. 2).
3.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 167.
4.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 167–8.
5.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 168.
6.
MenzelD. H., “Distribution of 2000 new nebulae and distance of LMC”, Popular astronomy, xxx (1922), 627–8.
Shapley to Russell, 28 February 1923 and 7 March 1923, PUL/HNR.
11.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 181–2.
12.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 182–3. In his voluminous personal bibliography, Menzel listed 59 articles for Gernsbach's Science and invention, many written under pseudonyms, but he did not list any science fiction nor articles written under the pseudonyms Don Howard or George Zint (mentioned explicitly in his autobiography). Possibly some of these were published in Gernsbach's Amazing stories, but suppressed in his bibliography. A search of the first decade of Amazing stories yielded nothing.
13.
FowlerR. H. and MilneE. A., “The intensities of absorption lines in stellar spectra, and the temperatures and pressures in the reversing layers of stars”, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, lxxxiii (1923), 403–24; MenzelD. H., “The history of astronomical spectroscopy”, History of and education in modern astronomy, ed. by Richard Berendzen (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, cxcviii (1972)), 225–44, p. 239. Russell and Dugan endorsements for Menzel to the Graduate School, 13 March 1923, Menzel file, Mudd.
14.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 239–40; Russell to Meggers, 21 December 1923, ATP/WFM.
15.
RussellH. N., “Ultimate and penultimate lines in spectra”, Popular astronomy, xxxii (1924), 229–30. This abstract was expanded in Russell, “A list of ultimate and penultimate lines of astrophysical interest”, Astrophysical journal, lxi (1925), 223–83.
16.
Russell to Shapley, 22 November 1923, PUL/HNR. Russell, op. cit. (ref. 15, 1925).
17.
Shapley to Russell, 25 October 1923, PUL/HNR.
18.
Fowler and Milne, op. cit. (ref. 13), 424; quoted in DeVorkinD. H. and KenatRalph, “Quantum physics and the stars (I)”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xiv (1983), 102–32, p. 123.
19.
Payne-GaposchkinCecilia, The dyer's hand: An autobiography and other recollections, ed. by HaramundanisKatherine (Cambridge, 1984), 161.
20.
Shapley to Russell, 19 June 1923, PUL/HNR.
21.
Haramundanis (ed.), op. cit. (ref. 19), 161–2.
22.
Ibid., 162.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 177.
25.
Shapley to Russell, 25 October 1923, PUL/HNR.
26.
Russell to Shapley, 30 October 1923, PUL/HNR.
27.
Russell to Shapley, 30 October 1923, PUL/HNR.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid.
30.
KidwellPeggy, in Payne-Gaposchkin, op. cit. (ref 19), 15, has examined this episode from Cecilia Payne's viewpoint.
31.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 19, quote from p. 16. Cited in DeVorkin and Kenat, op. cit. (ref. 18), 123–4.
32.
Shapley to Russell, 24 June 1924, PUL/HNR.
33.
Russell to Menzel (in Denver), 3 July 1924, PUL/HNR.
34.
Menzel to Russell, 10 October 1924, 18 April 1925, 7 September 1926; Russell to Aitken, 15 March 1926, PUL/HNR. The full paragraph in Russell's recommendation reads as follows: “As for your second question, the only man I can think of at the moment is Donald Menzel. He is at Ohio State, if I remember right, and his interests are thoroughly astrophysical, and he might like the opportunity at Lick. It may be that he has already rather too good a salary to be in the running; but he is the best chap I can think of. He is really decidedly good, and knows quite a bit of astrophysics”.
35.
Russell to Aitken, 15 March 1926, PUL/HNR.
36.
Menzel to Russell, 7 September 1926; Russell to Menzel, 27 September 1926, PUL/HNR.
37.
Menzel, Autobiography (ref. 2), 243. On Lick's eclipse expeditions, see EddyJ. A., “The Schaeberle 40-ft eclipse camera of Lick Observatory”, Journal for the history of astronomy, ii (1971), 1–22. Russell to Aitken, 15 March 1926; Menzel to Russell, 7 September 1926; Russell to Menzel, 27 September 1926, PUL/HNR.
