| Description | Brief file containing general correspondence of Dan McKenzie, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England, 2002. Notably includes:
Mireille Polve, President of the Société Géologique de France, Paris, France, seeking McKenzie's opinion, as a Foreign Associate member of the organisation, on how its journal is considered abroad, and if he does not reply the Société will view this as an unwillingness to engage in its interests, 20 December 2001, with copy reply from McKenzie stating that the 'Bulletin of the Geological Society of France' is little read in the UK but the same could be said of the journals of the geological societies of other countries, suspects that in time there will be a single, global journal for Earth sciences which will probably be online, though the Société was one of the first to recognise McKenzie with an honour he has too many committments to actively engage with it as the letter implies, and therefore resigns his Associate membership with reluctance, 3 January 2002; photocopied contact sheets of the American Geophysical Union's awards ceremony of December 2000 [during which McKenzie was given the William Bowie Medal], sent 22 January 2002; John Frederick Dewey, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, California, USA, enjoyed the differing views offered in Naomi Oreskes' book ['Plate tectonics: an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth', Cambridge, Massachusetts: Westview Press (2001)], is also enjoying California and reminisces about Edward 'Teddy' Bullard, 30 [?January] 2002; letters of congratulations from McKenzie's friends and colleagues on being awarded the Crafoord Prize for Geosciences, 14 February-8 April 2002, also letters and arrangements for the presentation of an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 19 February-27 March 2002. |