Letter to Taylor from Leverett, December 20, 1912

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5

Staff Only

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: December 20, 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

I am glad to hear you sent in a title for the New Haven meeting. We should turn out to see Fairchild in "his supreme position as president of GSA and hear his address." No doubt it will interest us both. I rec'd a letter from Alden indicating I am getting him "waked up" to his duties at last. Alden found no editing had been done despite "someone" telling him it would be done before the Toronto meeting. On Dec 18, Alden addressed a request to the Director through the Chief Geologist that the Monograph be given an advanced position on the list without injustice to those authors who submitted earlier. Alden says Walcott's Cambrian Monograph has been waiting on the list a year longer than ours, although I don't think Alden realizes ours laid in the editor's drawer from April 1911 to December because the editor thought it was incomplete. I am glad you think my idea about restricting Alden's supervision to the western field is a good one; I shall try to carry my point forward when I get to Washington.