Records and Correspondence Relating to the Hodgkins Bequest and Prizes Subsequently Allocated from its Income, 1866-1916.
Type:
Archival materials
Note:
The Hodgkins Fund was created by a gift in 1891 from Thomas George Hodgkins, who directed that one-half its income be used to support research on atmospheric air
in connection with the welfare of man. In 1893 the Smithsonian held its first competition for contributions to knowledge on this subject. In later years it also made direct
grants from the Fund to support the research of specific scientists.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 31, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Correspondence
Grants from the Hodgkins Fund, 1891-1916: The Smithsonian seems to have given individual grants and sponsored its prize competitions more or less simultaneously. It is sometimes difficult to be sure which records related to which endeavor. The following records seem to deal chiefly with applications for specific grants. A part of the file is missing.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 31, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Correspondence
Hodgkins Prize Papers Submitted for the 1893 Competition: In most cases each folder contains both correspondence and a copy of the intended prize essay. Some contain drawings, photographs, or copies of an author's other works. Some essays were returned at the author's request. Authors' names have been supplied when they could be determined with certainty. The rules of the competition allowed contestants to enter under a pseudonym; and some are listed here using that name, since no real name could be found. There is also a register of Hodgkins Fund correspondence, circa 1893-1897, in series 5.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 31, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Correspondence
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Collection Citation:
Olin Levi Warner papers, 1857-1962 (bulk 1857-1899). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
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Smithsonian Institution. Hodgkins, Fund Search this
Object Type:
Smithsonian staff publication
Electronic document
Year:
1920
Citation:
Clayton, Henry H. and Smithsonian Institution. Hodgkins, Fund. 1920. Variation in solar radiation and the weather (with five plates). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 71(3): 1-53.
Abbot, Charles G., Fowle, Frederick Eugene, Aldrich, Loyal Blaine and Smithsonian institution. Hodgkins, fund. 1916. On the distribution of radiation over the sun's disk and new evidences of the solar variability (with one plate). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 66(5): 1-24.
Walter, Leo and Smithsonian Institution. Hodgkins, Fund. 1908. On the clasping organs attaching the hind to the fore wings in Hymenoptera. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 50(9): 65-87.
