urn:taro:utexas.cah.00626 A Guide to the Joseph Hoover Mackin Papers, 1930-2002 Center for American History Original EAD encoding by Amy E. Armstrong according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. January 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Mackin, Joseph Hoover Joseph Hoover Mackin Collection 1930-2002 Collection contains the correspondence, writings, photographs, audio recordings, and publications of geologist and University of Texas professor, Dr. Jospeh Hoover. AR 93-460; 2008-003 1 foot Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Materials are in English. Creator Sketch:

Dr. Joseph Hoover Mackin received a BS degree in geology from New York University in 1930, and MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University in 1932 and 1937. He taught at the University of Washington for twenty-eight years and then became the William Stamps Farish Chair in the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Geology where he taught courses in geomorphology and structural geology. He completed work for the U.S. Geological Survey and the Atomic Energy Commission, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was chairman of the Earth Sciences Division of the National Research Council, was involved in developing lunar geology experiments for the first mission to the moon, and was selected by NASA to study the first lunar rock samples. Dr. Mackin died on August 12, 1968.

Biographical information from:

James, Harold L. “Joseph Hoover Mackin, 1905-1968,” Washington, DC: The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of American, 1974.

 Scope and Contents:

Collection contains correspondence, subject files, writings, and research papers, photographs, and audio recordings documenting Dr. Mackin’s career in geology and geomorphology.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

 Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hoover Mackin Papers, 1930-2002, the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

 Inventory 3A212 Joseph Hoover Mackin 3A212 Demolition Bombing, 1943, undated 3A212 Altitude and Local Relief of the Bighorn Area During the Cenozoic, undated 3A212 Calkins, 1965 3A212 Correspondence, 1961-1966 3A212 Old Consulting, 1946-1955 3A212 Braiding [?] and Thoughts, 1949-1968 3A212 Personal - Heart Mail, 1965-1966 3A212 Printed Material: 3A212 1941-1962 3A212 1933-1969 3A212 1940-1974 3S51 Photographs 3S51 "on accepting chair from Mrs. Farrish, Dr. Ransom," undated 3S51 unknown group, undated 2.325/AA40a Biographical (memorials and biographies), 1969, 1974 2.325/AA40a Writings (papers, abstracts, lectures), 1930-1960 2.325/AA40a Scientific Method-early drafts 2.325/AA40a Published Writings 2.325/AA40a Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)-John E. Galley, 1965-1967 2.325/AA40a Clippings 2.325/AA40b Correspondence: 2.325/AA40b 1933-1939 2.325/AA40b 1940-1949 2.325/AA40b 1950-1958 2.325/AA40b 1960-1968 2.325/AA40b Posthumous, 1968-2002 2.325/AA40b Assorted Memorials and Letters 2.325/AA40b 7 inch open reel-to-reel tape: 2.325/AA40b Executive Committee-Division of Earth Sciences, Tape #1 and #2, February 5, 1966