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  1. "Dr Sheldon, Roosevelt U, Official, dies". Chicago Tribune (Section 2, P 6, C 4). December 24, 1964. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1964/12/24/page/30/article/dr-sheldon-roosevelt-u-official-dies. 
  2. "Dr. H. H. Sheldon, a physicist, dies". The New York Times (New York City). December 24, 1964. https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/24/dr-h-h-sheldon-a-physicist-dies.html?_r=1. "In 1929, for instance, he discussed in print the possibility of man's one day visiting other planets." 
  3. Marquis 1976, p. 550.
  4. "Circular of information / the University of Chicago". University of Chicago. 1923. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=%22Harold%20Horton%20Sheldon%22;id=mdp.39015076326944;view=plaintext;seq=226;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=226. 
  5. "Reports of the chancellor and treasurer". New York University. 1922. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=%22Harold%20Horton%20Sheldon%22;id=nyp.33433074825633;view=plaintext;seq=402;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=398. 
  6. New York University Catalogue, 1927–1928; University Bulletins; RG 1; New York University Archives, New York University
  7. New York University Catalogue, 1940–1941; University Bulletins; RG 1; New York University Archives, New York University.
  8. Winter, Frank H., Prelude to the space age, The Rocket Societies, 1924–1940, p. 76, https://archive.org/stream/preludetospaceag00wint/preludetospaceag00wint_djvu.txt, retrieved November 22, 2015, "As science editor for The New York Tribune, Sheldon was a powerful voice in the promotion of space flight at the time. He also gave his own lectures and wrote the foreword for Lasser's book. "...Dr. H. H. Sheldon of the American Museum of Natural History added greater prestige to the book by writing a forward." 
  9. "Library Catalogue". New York University library. 2002. https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/1627424. ""The conquest of space" by David Lasser; with the original foreword by Dr. H. H. Sheldon and a new introduction by Sir Arthur C. Clarke." 
  10. Kane 1997, p. 215.
  11. Sheldon, p. 165.
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