Blaauw collectie

Professor Adriaan Blaauw heeft jaren lang alle Groningse proefschriften verzameld en daarnaast van andere universiteiten ook een groot deel. Deze collectie wordt bewaard in het Kapteyn Instituut in kamer 177 en er is een digitale catalogus bijgehouden.

My set of astronomical dissertations [...] is the result of my systematically collecting what I received or got donated from about the year 1938, i.e. since I was associated with Groningen or Leiden. For these two institutes the set is fairly complete for most of the 20th century. It includes some of the hard cover copies given me by J.H. Oort (those for which he was the promotor). For Amsterdam the set is much less complete (perhaps about 50%?). For Utrecht even less. For Amsterdam, there was a period when the late Roelof Takens saw to it that I received their dissertations, but this was not systematically continued after his death. For Utrecht it always was a bit haphazard.....