Biographical, 1875-1953

1875-1884 Richard Hawley Tucker (RHT III) Biography (4 typed pages) 1879 Union University Dudley Observatory Annual Report of the Director (photocopy) (2 pages) 1880-1950 Membership ( list of 17 memberships) 1884 June 12 membership in Tau Beta Pi 1901 January 7 membership in American Association for the Advancement of Science 1902 July 3 membership fee to American Assn for the Advancement of Science (A.A.A.S.) 1902 July 3 certificate as Fellow of A.A.A.S 1903 August 6 Honorary Member of Sociedad Astronomica de Mexico 1905 “American Astronomers in Argentina” Herald Tribune (2 copies) 1905 December 26 National Geographic Society membership 1907/8January 23 “Offered New Honor” R.H. Tucker Chosen as One of Seven Scientists for Southern Institution – Station to be established In South Africa, South America or New Zealand – Carnegie Obseratory (2 copies) 1908 April 25 Membership in American Philosophical Society 1911 Abril 2 San Luis : La mission científica norteamericana – Los profesores del Instituto Carnegie 1912 May 27 Sainte Claire Club San Jose, California membership 1913 June 2 Wiscasset, Maine membership in Fire Society 1920 May 5 “In the Old Days – Recollection of a Seventy-niner” by R.H. Tucker, Alumni Bulletin of Lehigh University, p. 12-13 1924 March 17 Sigma Xi California Chapter membership 1924 May 5 Seismological Society of America Stanford University 1924 May 10 Certificate of Membership Seismological Society of America 1926 (newspaper photocopy article) “Sky Savant Will Relinquish Lick Duties in July – Richard Hawley Tucker to Retire and Make Home in Palo Alto. Joined Staff in 1893 Is First Conventional Retirement Under Foundation’s Terms” 1929 January “Reminiscences of a Lehigh Astronomer” by R.H. Tucker, ’79, Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 4, p. 12 1935 April “Stanford Group Becomes California Gamma” by Louis T. Monson. The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, p. 30 -32 1935 November “From the Record of the Years” by R.H. Tucker, The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, p. 79 1936 February 29 Tau Beta Pi Initiation Banquet California Gamma, Stanford University, Richard Tucker (Menu and Program) 1944 February 12 Astronomical Society of the Pacific (note of thanks) 1946 November 5 Wiscasset Fire Society honorary membership 1949 May 14 Northern California Lehigh Alumni Club election as President-Emeritus 1950 January 26 Northern California Lehigh Club congratulations on 90th birthday 1950 September 7 American Association for the Advancement of Science 50 year membership 1952 “Dr. Richard H. Tucker, Class of 1879” (obituary in The Alumni Bulletin, p. 26 1952 “Richard Hawley Tucker” (Reprint) Year Book of the American Philosophical Society, p. 343-347. 1952 April 1 (4 assorted obituaries from West Coast newspapers) 1953 February “Richard Hawley Tucker 1859-1952” (Reprint), Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 65, No. 382, p. 16-18 No Date (obituary) Richard Hawley Tucker 1859-1952, University of California (3 pages)