Research Notebook 23
1958-1965, 1968-1981

Title Page 000 
No Date: Map of the Big Sur, California coastline 003 
November 1972: Property Bench Marks 005 
November 1958: Butane tank 009 
July 1958, January 1961: Notes re: land acquisitions at Deer Flat Ranch 010  011 
October 1958, June 1960, January 1961, July 1961: Notes re: cattle at Deer Flat Ranch 012 
March 1959, December 1962: Notes re: management of Deer Flat Ranch, cattle, sale of land 013 
February, June 1963: Autobiographical entries, notes re: cattle 014 
March, July 1976: Notes re: Clare Swik and Susan Stuart Perry [caretakers at Deer Flat Ranch] 064  065  066  067 
August, November, December 1976: Notes re: Timothy Wilcox and Lynne Wilcox [caretakers at Deer Flat Ranch] 069 
May 1960, January 1979: Poison oak 070 
October 1980: Notes re: Randy and Debi Zachary [caretakers at Deer Flat Ranch] 070  071 
October 1980: Notes re: Donald and Linda Stearns [applicants for caretaker's position at Deer Flat Ranch] 072  073 
November 1980: Draft Correspondence: LP to Don Stearns [re: ranch maintenace instructions] November 1, 1980 074 
November 1980, July 1981: Notes re: cattle, maintenance at Deer Flat Ranch 075  076 
July 1981: Don and Linda Stearns [caretakers at Deer Flat Ranch] 077 
September 1981: Notes re: cabin refrigerator 078  079 
June 1977: Notes re: cattle grazing dispute 080  080a  080b 
June 1977: Notes re: cattle 081 
December 1978: Notes re: Native american bones 081 
November 1958: Nuclear bomb tests 100 
March 1964: Notes re: awarding of 1962 Nobel peace prize 100 
July 1958: World problems 101  103  105 
July 1958: Pure research and industrial research defined 102 
October 1961: Radioactive fallout 106  107 
May - June 1960: Freighters - war scare? 110  111 
March 1964: New ranch house 120 
March 1964: Legal document: A Standard Form of Agreement between Owner and Architect, March 5, 1964 121 
April 1964: Notes and hand-drawn schematics for new ranch house 122  123  124  125 
October 1974: Water pipes 126  127 
September 1975: New house near old cabin 131 
July 1958: Promotion energy of hydrogen-like electrons 150  151  152  153  154  155 
No Date: Orthogonal spdf orbitals 154a 
July 1958: Dihedral angles in H2O2, etc. 156  157  158  159 
July 1958: Potential function for dihedral angle δ in Sx 160  161 
August 1958: d character of double bonds 162  163  164  165  166 
August 1958: Discussion of f character 167 
October 1958: Resonance and interatomic distances 168  169  170  171  172  173 
No Date: [1958?] Vibration in CO2 174 
February 1959: Bond angles in methane halogenides 175  176  177 
March 1959: Boron hydrides 178  179 
March 1959: B5H9 179 
March 1959: Structures with B- H+ at apex, other atoms neutral 179 
March 1959: Structures with B- apex, H+ corner, other atoms neutral, or bridge 180  181 
March 1959: A statistical treatment 182  183 
March 1959: Tetraborane 184 
March 1959: All atoms neutral 184 
March 1959: One B- H+ 184  185  186  187 
March 1959: The Monte Carlo method - B4H10 188  189 
March 1959: Successive approximation 190  191 
March 1959: Same treatment for B2H6; B5H9; B4H10 192 
March 1959: Summary of factors 193 
March 1959: B9H15 193  202 
March 1959: B6H10; B6H11- ion 194 
March 1959: B5H11; B3H8- ion 195 
March 1959: BeB2H8 196 
March 1959: AlB3H12 197 
March 1959: B2H6 198 
March 1959: B10H14 199 
March 1959: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 200  201 
March 1959: Cyclopropylcarbonium ion 202 
March 1959: Borane ions 203 
March 1959: Ferrocene Fe(C5H5)2 204 
March 1959: Nickelocene 205  206  207 
March 1959: Vanadocene V(C5H5)2 208 
March 1959: Titanocene 208  209 
March 1959: Cr 210  211 
March 1959: Mn 211 
March 1959: Alkali halogenide gas molecules 212  213 
March 1959: Ionic radii 214  215 
April 1959: B4H10 - self-consistent treatment 216  217 
April 1959: B4H10 - count of structures 218  219  220 
April 1959: B4H10 - simple statistical theory 221 
May 1959: Tetragonal boron 222  223 
June 1959: Chromium tricarbonyl benzene 224 
June 1959: Cr and C6H6; Cr and 3 CO 225 
August 1960: The stability of the N2 molecule 226 
August 1960: N - N bond 227 
August 1960: N 229  230  231  232  233 
August 1960: Consideration of C-C, C=C and C≡C with sp3 orbitals 231  232 
August 1960: N=N 234 
September 1960: Simplification of the calculations C-C, N-N, O-O, F-F, C≡C, N≡N 234 
September [?] 1960: Strength of N bond orbital 234a 
September 1960: F-F 235 
November 1960: Electron transfer in V4Al23 236  237  238  239 
November 1960: More about the virial theorem 240  241 
November 1960: Antiferromagnetism in Cr 241 
November 1960: Titanium 242 
December 1960: The nature of the metallic orbital 242 
December 1960: Autobiographical entries 243 
December 1960: Cross-square repulsion and strained bonds 243  244  245  246 
December 1960: Methane vs. Acetylene - C-H bond lengths 245 
December 1960: C-H bonds in CH4 and C2H2 247 
December 1960 - January 1961: Morse function 248  249  250 
January 1961: The significance of metallic radii 251  252 
January 1961: Metals 253 
January 1961: Metal solubility and enthalpy of metals 253  254  255  256 
January 1961: Entropy of mixing 257  258  259 
May 1961: One-electron bonds and antiferromagnetism 260  261  262  263 
August 1961: The fundamental particles 264  266  268  269  270  271  272  273  274 
August 1961: Nucleonic charge 264 
August 1961: Hyperons 265 
August 1961: Mesons 265 
August 1961: Antihyperons 265 
August 1961: Types of decay 267 
January 1962: Nuclei 274  275 
February 1963: Theory of CH2 triplet ground state 276  277 
March 1963: Ionic character of one-electron bonds 278  279  280 
March 1963: A new calculation for CH2 280 
June 1963: Magnetic moments 281  282 
June 1963: Another discussion of Fe4N 283 
June 1963: Another discussion - based on strained bonds 283  284  285 
June 1963: Mn4N 285  287 
June 1963: Manganese 286 
June 1963: Promotion energy for transition metals 287 
June 1963: Electron configurations of lanthanons(g) 287 

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