Letter to Taylor from Leverett, January 11, 1914

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7

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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: January 11, 1914

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

You may be interested in knowing about the talk I had with the Director about the matter of your private research. I explained that both Chamberlin & I induced you to work for the USGS, and contribute the results of your own private work , with the the understanding that you would sometime publish your history of the Great Lakes, as you would have done if you had not worked for the Survey. He seemed more impressed with this view of author's rights than with our previous arguments, and he told me he would try to get it into the printer by June or soon after. If he gets inquiries from outside parties, that might help get it to the printer. I have not written to any "outside parties" but I may bring it up with some people I feel well acquainted. I read Gilbert's paper on Interpretation of gravity anomalies today and plan to include it in the bibliography in the Monograph. If you decide to make some remarks on this paper, send them to me and I will put them in the proper place and send them along. There is talk of sending me to Louisiana in February to look at some shore phenomena for Vaughan to act as an umpire for the discordant interpretations.