American Physical Society
Division of Fluid Dynamics Archives

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Held by Special Collections, Linderman Library
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015

Call No.: SC MS 002
20 boxes, 8.4 linear feet

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General records of the operation of the Division, maintained by its Secretary. Correspondence, annual reports, executive committee minutes, financial records, documents relating to planning of program meetings, etc. Special Collections, Lehigh University Libraries, is the official archival repository of the Division.

Box 1: Miscellaneous Records

• Folder 1.01 Notebook containing minutes and secretary's and treasurer's reports 1947-1967.
• Folder 1.02 Notebook containing membership lists and Executive Committee and Treasurer's reports 1947 - 1958.
• Folder 1.03 Copies of minutes 1947-1956.
• Folder 1.04 Financial records 1949-1953.
• Folder 1.05 Executive committee lists 1947-198l (spotty).
• Folder 1.06 Correspondence re the Nominating of the Executive Committee (process of) 1953 1956.

Box 2: History, Minutes and By-laws

• Folder 2.01 Correspondence re History and Archives.
• Folder 2.02 Annual reports 1949-1976.
• Folder 2.03 Reports re Division Business.
• Folder 2.04 Executive Committee minutes 195l-1971.
• Folder 2.05 Executive Committee minutes 1972-1978.
• Folder 2.06 Executive Committee minutes 1978-1983.
• Folder 2.07 Executive Committee minutes 1984-.
• Folder 2.08 By-Laws Several Revisions.
• Folder 2.09 Correspondence re By-law Changes 1967.
• Folder 2.10 Newsletters 1967-1981.
• Folder 2.11 Meeting Budgets 1974-1977.

Box 3: Finances, Journals, DFD Prize

• Folder 3.01 Miscellaneous bills 1981.
• Folder 3.02 Financial statements 1981.
• Folder 3.03 Information "How to Run a Meeting".
• Folder 3.04 Correspondence re Journals.
• Folder 3.05 Formation of DFD Prize 1976 - 1982.
• Folder 3.06 Correspondence re DFD Prize - 198l prize.

Box 4: Correspondence re DFD Business (five boxes)

• Folder 4.01 June - December 1946.
• Folder 4.02 January - June 1947.
• Folder 4.03 July - December 1947.
• Folder 4.04 January - June 1948.
• Folder 4.05 July - September 1948.
• Folder 4.06 October - December 1948.
• Folder 4.07 January - March 1949.
• Folder 4.08 April - June 1949.
• Folder 4.09 July - September 1949.
• Folder 4.10 October - December 1949.
• Folder 4.11 January - June 1950.
• Folder 4.12 July - December 1950.
• Folder 4.13 January - April 1951.
• Folder 4.14 May - August 195l.
• Folder 4.15 September - December 195l.

Box 5: Correspondence re DFD Business (cont'd)

• Folder 5.01 January - March 1952.
• Folder 5.02 April - June 1952.
• Folder 5.03 July - September 1952.
• Folder 5.04 October - December 1952.
• Folder 5.05 January - May 1953.
• Folder 5.06 June 1953.
• Folder 5.07 July - December 1953.
• Folder 5.08 January - June 1954.
• Folder 5.09 July - September 1954.
• Folder 5.10 October 1954.
• Folder 5.11 November - December 1954.
• Folder 5.12 January - March 1955.
• Folder 5.13 April - June 1955.

Box 6: Correspondence re DFD Business (cont'd)

• Folder 6.01 July - August 1955.
• Folder 6.02 September - December 1955.
• Folder 6.03 January - March 1956.
• Folder 6.04 April - August 1956.
• Folder 6.05 September - December 1956.
• Folder 6.06 Bank Deposits - Statements 1953-1956.
• Folder 6.07 1957 (scant).
• Folder 6.08 1958.
• Folder 6.09 1959.
• Folder 6.10 1960.
• Folder 6.11 1961 (nothing for 1962 - 1964).
• Folder 6.12 1965.

Box 7: Correspondence re DFD Business (cont'd)

• Folder 7.01 1966.
• Folder 7.02 January - June 1967.
• Folder 7.03 July - September 1967.
• Folder 7.04 October 1967.
• Folder 7.05 November - December 1967.
• Folder 7.06 1968.
• Folder 7.07 1969.
• Folder 7.08 1970.
• Folder 7.09 1971.
• Folder 7.10 1972.
• Folder 7.11 1973.

Box 8: Correspondence re DFD Business (cont'd)

• Folder 8.01 1974.
• Folder 8.02 1975.
• Folder 8.03 1976.
• Folder 8.04 1977.
• Folder 8.05 1978.
• Folder 8.06 January - March 1979.
• Folder 8.07 April - August 1979.
• Folder 8.08 September - December 1979.
• Folder 8.09 January - April 1980.
• Folder 8.10 May - July 1980.
• Folder 8.11 August - December 1980.
• Folder 8.12 January - March 1981.
• Folder 8.13 April - July 1981.
• Folder 8.14 August - December 1981.
• Folder 8.15 1982.
• Folder 8.16 1983.

Box 9: Executive Committee, etc. (Received in 1992)

• Folder 9.01 Executive Committee 1970s
• Folder 9.02 Committee on Large Scale Computation 1984-85
• Folder 9.03 Physics Today Magazine 1985
• Folder 9.04 Physics News Magazine 1979-1983
• Folder 9.05 Chairman's Notebook 1980-1983
• Folder 9.06 40th Program meeting, Oregon University 1987
• Folder 9.07 41st Program meeting, Buffalo, NY 1988
• Folder 9.08 42nd Program meeting, Palo Alto, CA 1989
• Folder 9.09 Financial data 1983-1984
• Folder 9.10 Financial data 1984-1985
• Folder 9.11 Financial data 1985-1986
• Folder 9.12 History of Physics Newsletter 1991

Box 10: Meeting Correspondence (three boxes)

• Folder 10.01 1949 University of Virginia.
• Folder 10.02 1950 University of Illinois.
• Folder 10.03 1951 University of Chicago.
• Folder 10.04 1952 Ohio State University.
• Folder 10.05 Sept. 1953 University of New Mexico. (papers).
• Folder 10.06 July 1953 Pennsylvania State University.
• Folder 10.07 May 1953 National Bureau of Standards.
• Folder 10.08 Jan. 1954 New York; November 1954 Langley Field, Va.
• Folder 10.09 August 1955 Mexico City.
• Folder 10.10 March 1956 San Diego, Ca.
• Folder 10.11 Abstracts of papers for 1956 meeting.
• Folder 10.12 January corresp. re papers for 1956 meeting.
• Folder 10.13 February corresp. re papers for 1956 meeting.
• Folder 10.14 March corresp. re papers for 1956 meeting.
• Folder 10.15 March corresp. re papers for 1956 meeting.

Box 11: Meeting Correspondence (cont'd)

• Folder 11.01 November 1957 Program meeting Lehigh University.
• Folder 11.02 June 1958 Program meeting University of California, Berkeley.
• Folder 11.03 November 1959 Program meeting University of Michigan.
• Folder 11.04 April 1961 Program meeting University of Maryland.
• Folder 11.045 Program Flyers 1958-1967
• Folder 11.04 November 1966 Program meeting at Sanford University.
• Folder 11.05 November 1967 Program meeting Lehigh University.
• Folder 11.06 November 1968 Program meeting Seattle.
• Folder 11.07 November 1969 Program meeting University of Oklahoma.
• Folder 11.08 November 1970 Program meeting University of Virginia.
• Folder 11.09 November 1971 Program meeting and correspondence University of California at San Diego.
• Folder 11.10 November 1972 Program meeting and correspondence University of Colorado.
• Folder 11.11 November 1973 Program meeting Yale University.
• Folder 11.12 November 1974 Program meeting California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
• Folder 11.13 November 1975 Program meeting University of Maryland.
• Folder 11.l4 November 1976 Program meeting University of Oregon.

Box 11A: Meeting Correspondence (cont't)

• Folder 11.l5 1976 Program material.
• Folder 11.16 November 1977 Details of meeting Lehigh University.
• Folder 11.l7 November 1977 Program meeting Lehigh University.
• Folder 11.l8 November 1977 Records of abstracts Lehigh University.
• Folder 11.19 November 1977 Several abstracts.
• Folder 11.20 November 1977 Form letters.
• Folder 11.21 1977 Work sheets re program including photos.

Box 11B: More meeting folders from Lehigh

• Folder 11B.01 Meeting details 1957
• Folder 11B.02 Formal announcements 1957
• Folder 11B.03 Meeting, local arrangements 1967
• Folder 11B.04 Meeting, Finances 1967
• Folder 11B.05 Meeting, Formal reports 1967

Box 12: Meeting Correspondence (cont'd)

• Folder 12.01 November 1978 Program meeting University of Southern California.
• Folder 12.02 November 1979 Program meeting University of Notre Dame (and photo).
• Folder 12.03 November 1980 Program meeting and correspondence Cornell University.
• Folder 12.04 November 1981 Meeting Announcement Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Ca.
• Folder 12.05 November 1982 Meeting announcement Rutgers University.
• Folder 12.06 November 1983 Meeting (1 sheet) University of Houston.

Box 13: Other Groups and Organizations

• Folder 13.01 Division of Electron Physics 1952.
• Folder 13.02 Division of Fluid Mechanics.
• Folder 13.03 Division of Fluid and Solid Mechanics.
• Folder 13.04 Gas Dynamics Colloquia.
• Folder 13.05 Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Institute, 1960-1967.
• Folder 13.06 Inst. of Aeronautical Sciences.
• Folder 13.07 International Colloq. on Drops and Bubbles.
• Folder 13.08 National Inventors Hall of Fame.
• Folder 13.09 Division of Plasma Physics.
• Folder 13.10 U.S. Nat. Congress on Applied Mechanics.
• Folder 13.11 U.S. Nat. Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
• Folder 13.12 Misc. meeting announcements 1958-1968.
• Folder 13.13 Misc. articles.

Box 14: Membership

• Folder 14.01 Membership lists 1949 - 1953.
• Folder 14.02 Membership lists 1953 - 1955.
• Folder 14.03 Membership lists 1955 - 1971.
• Folder 14.04 Membership lists 1972 - 1977.
• Folder 14.05 Membership letters 1952.
• Folder 14.06 Membership letters 1953.
• Folder 14.07 Membership letters 1954.
• Folder 14.08 Membership letters 1955.
• Folder 14.09 Membership letters 1956.
• Folder 14.10 Correspondence re members 1957.
• Folder 14.11 Correspondence re members 1975 - 1980 (incomplete).
• Folder 14.12 Applications for membership 1968 - 1980 (incomplete).

The following 3 boxes of material were received in 1991

Box 15: Program material

• Folder 15.01 7th Shock Tube Symposium 1971
• Folder 15.02 Committee on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics 1965-1971
• Folder 15.03 Committee on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics 1967-1972
• Folder 15.04 Capsicum--Future meetings 1968-1970
• Folder 15.05 Toronto Meeting June 1967
• Folder 15.06 Chicago Meeting January 1968

Box 16: Business Correspondence

• Folder 16.01 Procedure for Publication 1967-1969
• Folder 16.02 Executive Correspondence 1967-1969
• Folder 16.03 Executive Correspondence 1970-1974
• Folder 16.04 Chairman's Correspondence 1966-1967
• Folder 16.05 Chairman's Correspondence 1968-1970
• Folder 16.06 Nominating Committee 1967-1970
• Folder 16.07 Secretary-Treasurer's Correspondence 1967-1969
• Folder 16.08 Secretary-Treasurer's Correspondence 1970 and Vice Chairman's Correspondence 1967-1970
• Folder 16.09 Finances 1967-1970
• Folder 16.10 Seattle Meeting 1967
• Folder 16.11 Elections 1960s

Box 17: Programs and Newsletters

• Folder 17.01 Newsletters 1982-1987
• Folder 17.02 Houston Meeting 1983
• Folder 17.03 Providence Meeting 1984
• Folder 17.04 Arizona Meeting 1985
• Folder 17.05 Columbus Meeting 1986
• Folder 17.06 Oregon Meeting 1987
• Folder 17.07 Programme of 1960 Divisional meeting Baltimore
• Folder 17.08 Programme of 1962 Divisional meeting Oklahoma
• Folder 17.09 Abstracts of Papers from 1965 Divisional meeting Cleveland
• Folder 17.10 Abstracts of Papers from 1966 Divisional meeting Stanford CA
• Folder 17.11 Programme and Abstracts 1967 Divisional meeting Bethlehem PA
• Folder 17.12 20th Anniversary Meeting 1967 Bethlehem PA

Box 18: Archive material (received in 1992)

• Folder 18.01 Program meeting material 1980s
• Folder 18.02 Newsletter 1974-1989
• Folder 18.03 Executive Committee minutes 1971-1986
• Folder 18.04 Otto Laporte Lectures 1972-1985
• Folder 18.05 Fluid Dynamics Prize 1979-1983

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