Letter to Taylor from Leverett, May 6, 1912

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The correspondence series includes approximately 1100 letters written between 1892-1939. The majority of the collection are letters between Frank Leverett and Frank Bursley Taylor; they discuss their field work, Monograph 53, other publications and various related problems. There is also other correspondence with other geologists, including T.C. Chamberlin, Grove K. Gilbert, J.W. Goldthwait, H.L. Fairchild, et alia. There is extensive correspondence with the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada, and the Michigan Geological Survey. The primary subject of this series is the surficial glacial geology of the midwestern U.S. and Canada. Leverett & Taylor's work was essential for understanding how the Great Lakes were formed as the Pleistocene glaciers advanced and retreated from the midwestern states. The letters describe the 30 year process of gathering data, mapping the data and constructing the picture of glacial processes during the last Ice Age.

Dates

Creation: May 6, 1912

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General

Inclosing letter from Lindgren suggesting that our monograph be published as 2 Professional Papers, which seems like a crazy idea to me. I inclose my response. He and the Director may decide to issue it as 2-volume monograph. Please send them the illustrations as well as the manuscript as soon as you can, and write the Director about what you think. If you think that any extra photographs you may plan on taking are not essential, write Ridgeway that the illustrations are complete with what he had in hand. If the illustrations are ready for the engraver, that would be a strong point for the monograph to be published in the next fiscal year. I am thinking that in a few years when I have the relationship between Lake Agassiz and the Superior lakes cleared up and you have completed the work on the eastern lakes, it might be advisable for us to produce a work on the Ice Age and the Great Lakes to be published by a non-government publishing house. There is a need for a good summary as Wright's Ice Age is a dismal failure. If we did this later we would not have to be bound by government restrictions. It appears that the author has no rights whatever in a government publication.