| Description | General correspondence of Dan McKenzie, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England, January-December 1997. The contents principally comprise various invitations and arrangements for McKenzie to attend symposia, serve on committees, give talks or write articles, requests for preprints or computer programs, or permission to republish his papers, correspondence with publishers, or with fellow academics/scientists seeking McKenzie's opinion on their works, but also:
Claudio Vita-Finzi, Department of Geological Sciences, University College London, England, on his recent visit to south India to see Vinod Gaur, has heard that McKenzie will also visit the country soon as Raman Professor, recommends meeting with C P & Kusala Rajendran, 20 January 1997, with brief copy reply from McKenzie, 23 January 1997;
Short, copy letter from McKenzie to David Sington, BBC Science, London, England, joking that on his recent trip to India [as Raman Professor] he found that he was a 'film star' due to the repeated showings of the BBC Horizon programme 'The Day the Earth Melted' [1991] on Indian television, 2 April 1991; Professor E A V Ebsworth, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham, England, following a disappointing academic review of the university's Department of Geology, approaches McKenzie to be one of two distinguished geologists who might be able to offer guidance, 3 March 1997, with brief copy reply from McKenzie more than happy to help, 7 April 1997; John C W Cope, Honorary Treasurer, Geological Society, London, England, invites McKenzie to serve on a committee to oversee the Fermor Fund, 30 April 1997, on reverse a draft, manuscript reply from McKenzie agreeing, [n.d.]
Bryan Lovell, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, England, report on the ONGC-Cambridge University joint research on Pulse Project: visit to Dehli & Dehra Dun, 12-14 August, by Lovell, 28 August 1997;
Copy letter from McKenzie to Godfrey Fitton [Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland], having read the recent article analysing the impact factor of papers published in the Geological Society's Special Publication series, decided to investigate and found himself in agreement with many of the figures, despite this he still thinks that journal articles have the edge, 26 October [1997];
Professor John 'Jack' Harris, Editor, 'Interdisciplinary Science Review', Institute of Materials, London, England, on meeting McKenzie for the first time at the Royal Society recently, it took him a while to realise that he was 'McKenzie of McKenzie & Parker (1967)' fame, wonders why geology is not included in the Nobel Prize science categories, 7 November 1997;
Celal Sengor, I T U Maden Fakultesi, Jeoloji, Istanbul, Turkey, sending McKenzie a copy of their joint obituary of Ihsan Ketin, 20 May 1996, which McKenzie subsequently edited down for inclusion in the Geological Society of London's Annual Report, 1 December 1997; letters, mainly between Professor Peter Day, Director and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, England, and McKenzie, concerning the organisation of Friday Evening Discourse lecture to be given by McKenzie.14 June 1996-5 December 1997. |