Dear Peter:
I fully support this and will table this at the British Geophysical
Association (BGA) meeting tomorrow to encourage further support. I am
confident that the BGA will support this. Please let me know if I can help
further.
Paul Young
President BGA
Professor R. Paul Young
Chair of Earth Sciences
Department of Earth Sciences
Liverpool University
4, Brownlow Street
Liverpool, L69 7GP
UK
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Maguire, P.K.H." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: Sir Harold Jeffreys Archive
> Dear Colleague,
>
> Sir Harold Jeffreys
> Financial Support for cataloguing of the Jeffreys archive.
>
> The National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists
(a
> small unit at the University of Bath), which aims to locate, sort, list
and
> index the archives of eminent British scientists and thus make accessible
> for scholarly research the source materials for the history of science,
are
> looking for financial support for cataloguing the archives of Sir Harold
> Jeffreys. The Director of NCUACS, Peter Harper, states quite simply his
> belief in "the importance of making accessible the correspondence,
> unpublished drafts, research records, photographs and so on of such a
> fundamental figure in the history of geophysics".
>
> The unit has already catalogued the archives of Sir Edward Bullard and is
> now tackling those of Keith Runcorn. They have approached the Royal
> Astronomical Society for a donation towards the cost of undertaking the
> cataloguing of the Jeffreys archive. As an RAS councillor I am
soliciting
> the views of UK geophysicists as to the value of this work and would be
more
> than grateful if you were able to contact me by email ([log in to unmask])
before
> Friday 29th June to give me your views. (The next Council meeting is on
> Tuesday 3rd July). The RAS is considering the amount it might donate, and
> the views of practicing geophysicists would be very useful in helping
> Council come to a decision on the matter.
>
> I very much look forward to hearing from you
> Peter Maguire
>
>
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> Professor of Geophysics
> Department of Geology
> University of Leicester
> Leicester LE1 7RH
> UK
>
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