Description: Papers of Floyd R. Watson (1872-1974), professor of physics (1904-40), including correspondence (1900-72), photographs, publications (1901-44), laboratory notebook (1927-29), Pentagon clippings (1918-74), autobiography (1969), scrapbook (1942-43), Urbana Methodist church photographs and publication (1905-40), and a file on a Acoustical Society
Watson Tribute Session (1975-76). The papers include appointment letter, book contracts, membership and war service certificates, Sabine award booklet (1959) and publications on acoustics of auditoriums, viscosity of liquids, sound absorption and publication on acoustics.