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ARC-0019 Papers of Dr. Robert Horton

Summary
Title Papers of Dr. Robert Horton
Collection Number ARC-0019
Inclusive Dates 1886-1979
Creator(s) Unknown
Extent 1.0 Linear Feet
Processed By Jennifer Accavitti, '05
Finding Aid Prepared By Jennifer Accavitti, '05
Last Updated Spring 2005
Abstract  
Table of Contents
 

Summary, Access & Use, Biographical Note, Scope & Content, Series Description, Inventory

 

Access & Use

Acquisition Information Unknown
Access Restrictions None
Copyright The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns. Researchers bear full legal responsibility for acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code. The Albion College Special Collections Unit may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.
Preferred Citation Item, Folder Title, Box No., Papers of Dr. Robert Horton, College Archives, Special Collections, Albion College.

 

Biographical Note

Robert Elmer Horton was born in Parma, Michigan on May 18th, 1875.   He received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Albion College in 1897.  Horton’s interest and aptitude for Geophysical Studies resulted in his appointment as the New York District’s Engineer of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1900.   His studies of the New York waterways, as well as his experiments in infiltration, evaporation, interception, transpiration, and overland flow resulted in some of the most important publications for meteorologists of the era.  His masterpiece of four laws detailing the prevention of erosion was published one month before his death on April 22, 1945. 

 

Scope & Content
The Robert E. Horton Collection consists of many different works; both published and unpublished, separated into three different series based on content.  The series are then divided into several sub-series based on the author of the work.

 

The Horton Collection consists of three series with a total of eight subseries:


Series I: Publications

 

            Subseries I: By Horton

Section I: Hydrologic Cycle Materials: Reprinted for US Department of Agriculture: Weather Bureau

Section II: Publications in Journals

Section III: Other Publications (Non-Journals)

 

            Subseries II: By President Norris

Section I: Publications in Journals

Section II: Other Publications (Non-Journals)

 

            Subseries III: By Albion College Faculty

Section I: Publications in Journals

Section II: Other Publications (Non-Journals)

 

Subseries IV: By Other

 

Series II: Manuscripts

 

            Subseries I: By Horton

            Subseries II: By President Norris

            Subseries III: By Albion College Faculty

            Subseries IV: By Other

 

Series III: Miscellaneous

 

Series Description

Publications
The By Horton subseries consists of published works by Robert E. Horton in journals as well as a special section devoted to his work for the United States Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau.  The subseries is divided into three sections: Hydrologic Cycle Materials: Reprinted for US Department of Agriculture: Weather Bureau, Publications in Journals, and Other Publications (Non-Journals). 

The By President Norris subseries features published works of Dr. Louis Norris, president of Albion College from 1960-1970.  The subseries is divided into two sections: Publications in Journals and Other Publications (Non-Journals). 

The By Albion College Faculty subseries consists of works published in both journals and non-journals by various members of the faculty.  Similarly, this subseries is divided into two sections: Publications in Journals and Other Publications (Non-Journals).

The By Other subseries includes various published works by members with no obvious connection to the Albion College community, besides being a donated part of this collection.

Manuscripts
The By Horton subseries contains a number of unpublished scientific work and papers written by Dr. Horton. 

The By President Norris subseries includes unpublished speeches and works of Dr. Louis Norris. 

The By Albion College Faculty subseries features several items written but unpublished by Albion College Faculty members. 

The By Other subseries consists of unpublished works by those outside the Albion College community. 

Miscellaneous
This last series is simply labeled Miscellaneous as it contains various artifacts of the history of Albion College collected by Dr. Horton.

Inventory

Box

Folder

Series

Item

1

1

I:I

Additional Meteorological Data Needed by Engineers

1

1

I:I

Rainfall Interception

1

1

I:I

Correlation of Maximum Rain Intensities for Long and Short Time- Intervals

1

1

I:I

Cloudburst Rainfall at Taborton, N.Y., August 10, 1920

1

1

I:I

Vapor Pressure and Humidity Diagram and A Psychometric Chart for Determining the Dewpoint and Relative Humidity

1

2

I:I

Results of Evaporation Observations

1

2

I:I

Rainfall Interpolation

1

3

I:I

 

Accuracy of Areal Rainfall Estimates and Rainfall Duration and Intensity in India

1

3

I:I

Group Distribution and Periodicity of Annual Rainfall Amounts

1

3

I:I

Transpiration By Forest Trees

1

4

I:I

Sub-Surface Drainage of Land by Tile

1

4

I:I

The Turbine Water Wheel as a Prime Mover

1

4

I:I

Diagram for Full Comparison of Hydraulic Turbines

1

4

I:I

Some Broader Aspects of Rain Intensities in Relation to Storm Sewer Design

1

4

I:I

The Measurement of Rainfall and Snow

1

4

I:I

Watershed Leakage in Relation to Gravity Water Supplies

1

5

I:I

Modern Developments of Hydraulic Turbine Design

1

5

I:I

Water Power (The Encyclopedia Americana Excerpt)

1

5

I:I

The Depletion of Ground-Water Supplies

1

5

I:I

Determining the Mean Precipitation on a Drainage Basin

1

5

I:I

Stream Gaging by the Current Meter

1

5

I:I

The New Gravity Water Supply System of Albany, N.Y.

1

5

I:I

Water Diversion Between Drainage Basins

1

5

I:I

Primary Rainfall Types

1

5

I:I

List of Publications with Abstracts: Horton Hydrologic Laboratory

1

5

I:I

Central Station Redevelopment of Water Power

1

6

I:I

Report of Hannacrois-Catskill Gravity Water Supply fir the City of Albany, N.Y.

1

6

I:I

Storm-Flow Prediction

1

6

I:I

The Role of Infiltration in the Hydrologic Cycle

1

6

I:I

The Relation of Hydrology to the Botanical Sciences

1

6

I:I

The Role of Snow, Ice and Frost in the Hydrological Cycle

1

7

I:II

The Neo-Realistic Criticism of Substance

1

7

I:II

Curricular Courses in Religion

1

7

I:II

Treasures in Heaven

1

7

I:II

The Church College Speaks

1

7

I:II

Is Science Explanatory?

1

7

I:II

When Dreams Fail

1

8

I:II

Christianity- A Philosophy of History

1

8

I:II

Christianity and the Roots of Crisis

1

8

I:II

Christianity and Progress

1

8

I:II

Christians Can Be Great

1

8

I:II

God’s Providence in History

1

8

I:II

Hindrances to Christian History

1

8

I:II

Proceedings: The Ohio Conference on Character Education

1

9

I:II

Teaching and the Philosophy of History

1

9

I:II

The Teacher as Profit

1

9

I:II

Values and the Non-Spiritual

1

9

I:II

Existence and its Polarities

1

9

I:II

Teaching For Fun

1

9

I:II

Problems in Christian Higher Education

1

9

I:II

A Philosophy of Health

1

9

I:II

How to Educate a Woman

1

9

I:II

What You Will Find at a Church College

1

9

I:II

In Praise of Maladjustment

1

9

I:II

The Role of Women in American Economic Life

1

9

I:II

On Mixing Ethics with Business: Throwing your Moral Weight Around

1

9

I:II

How to Educate a Woman’s Husband

1

9

I:II

The Rights to Life, Liberty, and Learning

1

9

I:II

The Professor as a Leader

1

9

I:II

MacMurray College and Jacksonville (Ill) High School Collaborate in a Program for Superior Students

1

9

I:II

How to Educate a Man

1

9

I:II

College is a Mirror Held Up

1

10

I:II

The Good News Days and Polarity: A Philosophy of Tensions among Values (book excerpts)

1

10

I:II

Moral Hazards of an Executive

1

10

I:II

Philosophy is for the Young Too

1

10

I:II

Hinge Benefits (December 7, 1960 Chapel Address)

1

10

I:II

We Know in Part: The Unmistakable Partiality in Knowledge

1

10

I:II

Albert Schweitzer- A Christian Critic

1

10

I:II

Albert Schweitzer- A Christian Critic

1

10

I:II

What Constitutes True Education?

1

10

I:II

Tom Sawyer at Albion

1

10

I:II

The Moral Weight of the Administrator

1

10

I:II

Scholarship Can Cause Trouble

1

10

I:II

College Administrator Must Ask “What’s the Big Idea?” of His Job

1

10

I:II

Men of Principle

1

10

I:II

It’s the Idea of the Thing

1

10

I:II

What’s Good About it?

1

10

I:II

From Mixture to Mastery

1

11

I:II

Pamphlet: Publications of Louis William Norris President, Albion College

1

11

I:II

Through a Glass Darkly

1

11

I:II

When We Do Everything Backward

1

11

I:II

Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting Council of Graduate Schools in the United States

1

11

I:II

Teachers Shall Shine As the Firmament

1

11

I:II

The Individual in a Changing Society

1

11

I:II

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Graduate Study and Research

1

12

I:III

Sucking Behavior: A Review of the Literature

1

12

I:III

Relative Loss and Kind of Interpolated Activity in a Retroactive Interference Design

1

12

I:III

Sex Differences in Learning And Forgetting of Partly Connected Meaningful Material

1

12

I:III

On the Accuracy of Written Recall: A Scaling and Factor Analytic Study

1

12

I:III

Additional Observations on Scoring the Accuracy of Written Recall

1

12

I:III

Expressing the Magnitude of Results in Retroaction Experiments

1

12

I:III

Exploratory Studies of Stories Varying in the Adjective-Verb Quotient

1

12

I:III

Learning Factors as Determiners of Pretest Sensitization

1

12

I:III

Retroactive Interference in Meaningful Material as a Function of the Degree of Contextual Constraint in the Original and Interpolated Learning

1

12

I:III

Scaling the Accuracy of Recall of Stories in the Absence of Objective Criteria

1

12

I:III

The Effect of Reducing the Variability of Length of Written Recalls on the Rank Order Scale Values of the Recalls

1

13

I:III

An Investigation of the Response Mechanism of the Size-Weight Illusions

1

13

I:III

A Comparison of Three Scaling Techniques in Estimating the Accuracy of Written Recall

1

13

I:III

Clinical Judgment

1

13

I:III

Comparison of Two Procedures in the Study of Retroactive Interference in Connected Meaningful Material

1

13

I:III

Immediate Memory of Connected Meaningful Material Practiced Under Delayed Auditory Feedback

1

13

I:III

Encyclopedia Judaica on Jews of Latin America

1

13

I:III

Report to Governor William G. Milliken by the Special Commission on Energy

1

13

I:III

Nation-Building Myths in Asia

1