| Description | File containing Referees' reports and correspondence relating to rejected papers which were submitted to the Society for Publication, 1915-1931. Unsuccessful authors comprise:
T H Cope "On the Igneous and Pyroclastic Rocks of the Berwyn Hills", 1915;
Fernand Selhage and Maurice Sluys "La Formation Schisto-calcaire du Bas-Congo et du Niari", including original mss and diagram, 1915;
Herbert Basedow "The Yellow Cliff Glacial Till...", including original mss and photographs, 1921;
M Zalesski, "Description of New Permian Insects from Eastern Russia", including original mss, 1928
D N Wadia, "Syntaxis of the North-West Himalayas...", 1930;
P Tesch, "The Riss Glaciation of the South Eastern Parts of England", 1930-1931;
Philip Jessop "The Igneous Rocks of North Derbyshire", 1931;
Harold Jeffreys "On the Mechanics of Mountains", 1931.
Also loose letters concerning submissions of papers, comprising:
Herbert Bolton, on Professor Meunier's wish to submit a paper despite the unlikelihood of it being accepted, 18 Mar 1922; A C Seward on the expense of publishing a paper suggested by ?Arnold Heim on the Cretaceous and Tertiary geology of the United States, 26 Apr 1922; G H Plymen submitting his paper on the geology of Sark, 24 Aug & 5 September 1923; Frederick George Hopkins submitting an unnamed paper, 8 June 1922; Edgar S Cobbold, on the difficulties of preparing a large map for submission [for his paper on Comley], 20 May 1926.
In the file are also proof sheets for:
Leaflet "Committee of the Geological Society of London. To specify areas and features of geological importance", [1930-1931] re: geoconservation;
Three partial copies, one of which has corrections, of Thomas Sheppard's proposed catalogue of maps listing Roderick Murchison's SDUK map of England and Wales (1842); John Phillips' 'New Index Geological Map of the British Isles and Adjacent Coast of France' (1842); William Rhind's 'Geology of Scotland' (1842). |