KENT, Peter

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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR PETER KENT FRS (1913 - 1986) Compiled by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper VOLUME I List of Contents General Introduction Sections A - E Deposited in the Library, University of Nottingham NCUACS43/5/93 All rights reserved University of Bath 1993 THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS Report on the correspondence and papers of SIR (PERCY EDWARD) PETER KENT (1913-1986) geologist in Nottingham University Library, Manuscripts Department Reproduced for the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS43/5/93) by The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HP 1993 All rights reserved No7/93 NRA 36387 National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists underthe guidance of the Royal Society's National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR PETER KENT FRS (1913 - 1986) Compiled by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper Deposited in the Library, University of Nottingham NCUACS43/5/93 1993 All rights reserved University of Bath Catalogue of the papers and correspondenceof SIR PETER KENT FRS (1913 - 1986) Compiled by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper VOLUME II Sections F - J Index of correspondents Deposited in the Library, University of Nottingham NCUACS43/5/93 All rights reserved University of Bath 1993 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 The workof the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following societies and organisations: British Petroleum plc The Geological Society TheInstitute of Physics The Royal Society The Wellcome Trust P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION IS YET AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSEDIN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: THE KEEPER OF MANUSCRIPTS HALLWARDLIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION Items Page SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL A.1-A.268 11 SECTION B RESEARCH AND SURVEYS B.1-B.505 45 SECTION C DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT C.1-C.121 107 SECTION D PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES D.1-D.134 116 SECTION E NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL E.1-E.196 139 SECTION F SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS F.1-F.427 153 SECTION G COMMERCIAL CONSULTANCIES AND COMPANIES G.1-G.267 198 SECTION H VISITS AND CONFERENCES H.1-H.159 217 SECTION J SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE J.1-J.79 241 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS 248 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 GENERALINTRODUCTION PROVENANCE 4 The bulk of the papers were received in February and August 1990 from Lady (Lorna) Kent. The papers deposited in Nottingham University Library by Sir Peter Kent in 1985 were received from the Library in August 1990. OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF SIR PETER KENT Percy Edward (from an early age he choseto be called Peter) Kent was born in West Bridgford, Nottingham, in 1913. He was educated at West Bridgford Grammar School and University College, Nottingham, where he read Geology under Professor H.H. Swinnerton. He graduated B.Sc.withfirst class honours in 1934. He was then awarded a scholarship by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for research on the stratigraphy of the Lincolnshire Limestone and registered with London University for his Ph.D. Shortly after graduation, however, Kent was recommended to L.S.B. Leakey as geologist for his fourth East African Archaeological Expedition, the original choice K.P. Oakley having withdrawn. The expedition searched for remains of Homosapiens at Pleistocene sites at Kanam and Kanjera in Kenya following on from Leakey's expedition of 1931-32, and thenat Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, but with inconclusive results. Kent returned to the UK in 1935 and spent the following year writing up his results and resuming his study of Lincolnshire Limestone. On the strength of his work in Lincolnshire Kent joined the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company (later to becomeBritish Petroleum) as an Assistant Geologist. He undertook survey work on the south coast of England 1936-37. Kent then returned to Lincolnshire to report on the geology of the area and was also assigned to check the geology of the ‘Market Weighton Anticline’ in south east Yorkshire. Kent's survey showed that in fact no anticline existed. In 1938 Kent was despatched to Scotland where exploration for oil had begun in the carboniferous rocks of central Scotland, and in 1939 to Formby in Lancashire where oil seepages had been discovered. Onthe outbreak of war Kent was in a 'reserved' occupation and so continued to work for Anglo- Iranian in Nottinghamshire. In 1941, however, he was released by Anglo-lranian as they cut back on their geological surveying and he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was assigned to the Photo-Intelligence Branch of D section (Industry) of the RAF Central Interpretation Unit based at P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 5 Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. Kent worked on the assessment of German oil supplies - initially locating oil storage tanks,later identifying synthetic oil plants in which the Germans were converting coal to oil. Kent was seconded to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in Italy in 1944 and in 1945 he was posted to the Pentagon, Washington DC,to work with G2 Branch of US ArmyIntelligence on photo-interpretation of Japaneseoil installations. For his work onidentifying oil plants in Axis held Europe he was awarded the US Legion of Merit in 1946. At the end of the war with Japan Kent was the only non-American to accompany the US Strategic Bombing Survey, assessing the effectiveness of air raids on targets in Japan. After the war Kent rejoined Anglo-lranian and resumed work onoil finds in the Upper Carboniferous rock of the east Midlands, based at Eakring, Nottinghamshire. In 1948 he was posted to Iran for stratigraphic survey work in the Zagros mountainsin south east Iran. He returned to the UKin 1951, following the political disturbances in Iran which had resulted in the nationalisation of BP's Iranian interests and so curtailed further survey work. He was almost immediately sent to East Africa, a report having been received that a Kenyan government geologist had found signsof oil. It transpired that no oil was to be found, although the area was geologically promising, and Kent went on to Tanganyika where the prospects of finding oil seemed better. The results of this pioneering geological work were published in 1971 by the Geological Survey as Geology and Geophysics of Coastal Tanzania with Kent as a co-author. In 1955 Kent was posted to Papua New Guinea, first as Deputy Chief Geologist later Chief Geologist, with the Australasian Petroleum Company, a part-owned BP subsidiary. Kent was involved in surveys in the rain forest and the highlands of Papua. This metwithlittle success despite the promising geology of the area. Kent was posted to Canada in 1957 as Adviser to the President of BP Canada. There waslittle progress in eastern Canada and work moved westwards to the Northwest Territories and Canadian Arctic islands in 1958. In 1959 BP also began investigating oil prospectsin the north of Alaska. BP Exploration (Alaska) was formed with Kentasits first President. The work of Kent and his team wasto lead to a numberof discoveries of oil and gas including the two hugefields at Prudhoe Bay and Kuparek. In 1970 Kent and two BP colleagues, H.R. Warman and A.N. Thomas, were awarded the MacRobert Award of the Council of Engineering Institutions for the techniques they pioneered for accurate surveying through permafrost which made the discoveries possible. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 6 From 1961 Kent's duties became more managerial. He was appointed Deputy Chief Geologist of BP in 1961, Regional Manager of BP North and South America in 1962 and Technical and Regional Manager of BP America and the Western Hemisphere a yearlater. In 1966 Kent was made Chief Geologist and was muchinvolved in operations in the North Sea, particularly the discovery of the Forties field. Kent was appointed Assistant General Manager (Exploration) in 1971. Kent retired from BP in 1973 but continued as a consultant on exploration matters with special referenceto Iran, Canada and the UK. Kent had maintained his close connection with oil exploration in Iran through his service from 1965 on the Exploration Advisory Group, a body formed in 1957 to advise oil companies operating in Iran on exploration matters. In 1973 Kent became Chairman of the Group, his continuing membership of the EAG being part of his post-retirement consultancy with BP. The EAG's activities were halted in 1978 by the Islamic revolution and the overthrow of the Shah. Onhis retirement Kent was appointed Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council, a post he held until 1977. In 1977 Kentjoined the Board of LASMO (London and Scottish Marine Oil). He resigned from the Board in 1983 having seen LASMO develop from a very small investment houseinto a leading independentBritish oil company. In 1982 he accepted aninvitation to join the Board of Directors of Minworth Ltd, the controlling body of the Minworth Group of companies, and became its Chairman the following year. He also served as Chairman of Strontian Minerals, a subsidiary companywithin the Minworth Group, 1983-86. Kent's numerous contributions to geology were introduced by his Royal Society memorialists as follows: ‘Under Professor Swinnerton we may assume that Peter became so familiar with the chronostratigraphy of the Jurassic and Cretaceousthat he was able to recognize with confidence the zonal level of the rocks in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire that formed the subjects of his earliest researches. This was one of the techniques upon which his career was based; the other wasthe art of field mapping. Neither of these techniques, however, became anobjective in its ownright in his hands; both were employed for the deciphering of the structural history of parts of the Earth's shallow crust, some of them of great economic importance. His work will remain influential in this field of structural interpretation; growing from small beginnings in the East Midlands, thence to the North Sea and beyondthat to the aseismic continental margins of northern Europe and East Africa’. (N.L. Falcon and Sir Kingsley Dunham, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 33, 1987, 343-373, p.360). P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 7 Kent was accorded many honours for his contributions to geology and to petroleum exploration. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1938 and was awarded the Society's Lyell Fund in 1949 and their Bigsby and Murchison Medals in 1953 and 1969 respectively. He served as President of the Geological Society 1974-76. Kent was elected to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1957 (Honorary Member 1976), the Geological Society of America in 1966 and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, of which he was a founder- memberin 1965 and which he served as Chairman 1966. He received the MacRobert Award (see above) in 1970. Kent was President of the Yorkshire Geological Society 1965-66 and was awarded its Sorby Medal in 1973. He received Honorary Degrees from the universities of Leicester (1972), Durham (1974), Bristol (1976), Glasgow (1977), Aberdeen (1978), Cambridge (1979), Hull (1981) and Birmingham (1983). Kent waselected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1966 (serving on Council 1967-69) and was awardedits Royal Medal in 1971. Kent was knighted in 1973. Kent married twice, in 1940 to Margaret Betty Hood, who died in 1974, and in 1976 to Lorna Ogilvie Scott. DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION The material is presented in the order given in the List of Contents. This large collection covers almostall aspects of Kent's professional career. Section A, Biographical, is substantial. There is Kent's autobiographical account ‘Recollections in retirement’, and records of Kent's student work at University College Nottingham, his membership of the East African Archaeological Expedition 1934-35, his Second World War service and his career with the Anglo-lranian Oil Company/BP. The honours received by Kent are well-documented, including his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1966, the MacRobert Award in 1970 and his knighthood in 1973. The section also includes diaries 1950-71, family and social correspondence,including a sequence of letters home during Kent's period in Iran 1948-51, and miscellaneous personal papers and memorabilia. Section B, Research and surveys, is the largest in the collection. It documents Kent's survey and oil exploration work and his own geological research from the first work with Anglo-lranian Oil in Lincolnshire in 1936, through his postwar work for BP in the UK and overseasin Iran, East Africa, Papua New Guinea and North America, to the North Sea discoveries of the 1960s and 1970s, and P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 8 post-retirement research to 1986. There was a closerelationship between Kent's work for Anglo- lranian/BP and his academic geological research; with the company's goodwill Kent was able to use information from company surveysin his own publications. Kent retained a continuing interest in the geology and oil prospects of areas of the world he had visited and this is reflected in the wide geographical coverage of the papers. The bulk of the material, however, is concerned with the geology of England (particularly the Midland counties) and Iran (including the work of the Exploration Advisory Group). The material, most of which was found in Kent's own folders or envelopes, includes correspondence, manuscript notes (some on pages from ‘filofax' style notebooks), typescript drafts and notes, stratigraphical columns, oil well logs, maps, sections and photographs. There are also a numberof notebooks. Section C, Deep Sea Drilling Project, documents Kent's involvement in the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) from the negotiations over British participation in 1973 and the establishment of the International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD) in 1975. The lead agency in the UK was the Natural Environment Research Council, of which Kent was Chairman. Kent served on the Executive Committee of JOIDES, the consortium of member-institutions of the project, 1975-81, and on the UK IPOD Co-ordinating Committee. His involvement continued to the completion of the IPOD in November1983 and the campaign for British participation in its successor programme, the Advanced OceanDrilling Project (AODP, later just ODP). Kent played an active part in the research, reviewing the results of Leg 25 of the DSDP, which surveyed the western Indian Ocean and contributing to the series Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Section D, Publications and lectures, brings together material for many of Kent's published papers, 1936-87, and lectures from 1952. The largest single body of material documents his geological memoir for the Institute of Geological Sciences, Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash (HMSO, 1980). The lectures were chiefly delivered to university and college geological societies or The latter include Presidential addresses to the local geological and natural history societies. Yorkshire Geological Society and to the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union. There are also sequencesof editorial correspondence and Letters to The Times. At D.134 is material relating to a BBC radio broadcast on explorers in which Kent took part. There is an (incomplete) set of Kent's published papersat D.135. Section E, Natural Environment Research Council, includes papers relating to Kent's service on the the Geology and Geophysics Committee(later Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee) P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 9 of the NERC 1968-73, his Chairmanship of the NERC 1973-77 and subsequent Council service 1977-80. These activities are poorly documented since, with the exception of his first year as Chairman of the NERC, Kent did not retain many committee papers orofficial correspondence. The bulk of the papers document Kent's service on Preparatory Group 'A' of the Council, as a memberof which Kent served on the Deep Geology Committee and Visiting Groups to the Institutes of Geological Sciences and of Oceanographical Sciences. Section F, Societies and organisations, is the second largest in the collection. It documents Kent's association with 41 British, overseas and international bodies. These include the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, for which Kent acted as adviserin territorial disputes in the North Atlantic Ocean (Rockall) and the English Channel, the Geological Society, of which Kent was President 1974-76, the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, the Royal Society and the Watt Committee on Energy. For material relating to the British Geological Survey see the entry for the Institute of Geological Sciences and, specifically relating to the campaign to safeguard the future of the Survey 1984-86,the Institution of Geologists. Also of interest is the material on local geological and natural history societies of which Kent was a member,including the East Midlands and Yorkshire Geological Societies and the Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Trusts for Nature Conservation. Section G, Commercial consultancies and companies, comprises material relating to Kent's work for commercial organisations, principally BP, LASMO and the Minworth Group. The material relating to BP includes documentation of his later managerial career within BP, but much of it dates from his post-retirement consultancy from 1973. Kent's involvement with LASMO 1977-84 is the best documented componentof this section. As a memberof the Board and a consultant Kent was very closely involved with the operation of this companyat a crucial stage in LASMO's developmentinto a leading independentBritish oil company. The LASMO material also records the history of Charlton ThermosystemsLtd, a small company attempting to market a pioneering heating system, in which LASMO had a closeinterest. Kent's shorter period of service with the Minworth Group, as Board member and Chairman of Minworth Ltd and Chairman of Strontian Minerals, is also well- documented. Section H, Visits and conferences, presents a chronological sequence, 1951-85, of some of Kent's engagements both in the UK and abroad. Thevisit for which most documentation survives is the 1968 International Geological Congress held in Prague, Kent led the UK delegation. The proceedings P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 10 were cut short by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet occupation of Prague and the material includes accounts of the events by Kent and his wife, and memorabilia. The section does not presentall of Kent's extensive travel and attendance at meetings and conferences. His overseas research and survey work for BP is documented in section B and his visit to East Africa with the East African Archaeological Expedition is documented at A.53-A.102. Section J, Scientific correspondence, is the smallest in the collection. There are no extended sequences of correspondence. Muchof Kent's correspondence is to be found in other sections, retained with other material with which it was found. There is, for example, a great deal of scientific correspondencein section B. There is also an index of correspondents. LOCATION OF OTHER MATERIAL An album containing photographs taken during the East African Archaeological Expedition was donated by Kent to the British Museum (Natural History) in January 1977. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Weare very grateful to Lady Kent for making the bulk of the papers available and to Lady Kent and Dr Dorothy Johnston, Keeper of Manuscripts, Nottingham University, for advice and encouragement. T. E. Powell P. Harper BATH 1993 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 11 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL A.1-A.268 A.1-A.18 BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL A.19-A.52 SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY NOTEBOOKS A.53-A.102 EAST AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION A.103-A.126 SECOND WORLD WAR A.127-A.187 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS A.188-A.209 DIARIES A.210-A.238 FAMILY AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE A.239-A.268 MISCELLANEOUS PERSONALMATERIAL P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 12 Biographical BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL A.1 A.2 A.3 Memoir of Kent by N.L. Falcon and Sir Kingsley Dunham, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 33 (1987), 343-373. The Timesobituary, 14 July 1986. Application form for non-immigrant visa for USA, completed by Kent forvisit to Colorado, 1955. Calendarof postings with Anglo-lranian Oil/BP 1936-61. Copy of Kent's BP 'Staff review form’ for 1965. Entry for Who's Who, 1966. Biographical data, possibly for biographical reference book, 1984. Biographical data, 4pp typescript. Compiled by Kent c.1984. A.4-A.16 ‘Recollections in Retirement’. Contents of Kent's binder divided into thirteen for ease of reference. Unpublished autobiographical account by Kent. The account comprises typescript sections, some with later typescript ‘inserts’, recounting episodes in Kent's life and career. Thetitles of the sections are reproduced in the catalogue entries, and the material is presented in the order in which it was kept by Kent. ‘Beginnings’, 'Oh, my Father!’, ‘Four schools’. ‘University days - 1931-34, 1935-36', 'The family at Friary [Congregational Church]’, ‘Aunts and Uncles’, ‘Basford in the Twenties’. ‘Geology in eastern England’, 'East Africa 1934-5', 'With Leakey's 4th East African Archaeological Expedition 1934-5’. A4 A5 A6 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 13 Biographical A.7 A8 AQ A.10 A.11 A.12 A.13 A.14 A.15 A.16 ‘The later Thirties - early years with BP (1936-1940)', ‘Midlandsoil’, ‘Scottish interlude 1938-9’, 'The last summerof peace - Formby 1939 (andafter)’, ‘Oil at Eakring, Nottinghamshire, 1939". in the RAFVR’, ‘Interpreting industry’, ‘War years ‘Medmenham'’, ‘Intelligence 1945’, ‘Strategic Bombing Survey, Japan, 1945’, 'Wartime memory - San Severo- an Italian country town (1944)'. in the Pentagon, Washington D.C., the German oil ‘Iran, 1948-1951', ‘Iran - home at Haft Kel, 1949’, ‘Iran - surveys in the Zagros mountains 1948-1951’, ‘Iran regional geological surveys’. ‘Deep exploration in eastern England’, 'Back to East Africa in the 1950s’. ‘East Africa again, 1952, and afterwards’, ‘Postscript to East Africa’, ‘East African exploration - a narrative history’, 'In jungle country - Papua 1955-57’. ‘Canada - Calgary and the Arctic 1957-1960’, ‘Delivered by hand - a letter from Abu Dhabi and Kuwait May 1969’, 'A visit to Oman, November 1970’, 'A rather special week, November1971’. ‘Iran - exploration advice 1965-1978', 'The high Zagros with the EAG, October 1972 - a diary note’, ‘Diary of the last days in Iran November 1972". ‘Meeting cabinet ministers, 1966-76’. ‘An afternoon with the BBC TV', ‘Without a passport’, ‘Singing’, ‘A Dutch breakfast’, 'Strange customs’, ‘Pure lunacy’, ‘The unpredictability of air travel’, ‘Borrowed time’. ‘A newstarin the oil industry - LASMO 1977-83’, ‘The heat that failed - Charlton ThermosystemsLtd., 1980-1983’, ‘Positive vetting’, 'Prague 1968’, ‘Hong Kongat night’. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 14 Biographical A.17 A.18 Lists of publications, to 1971 and 1974, and list of Kent's ‘Reports held by BP’. ‘Reprints Register’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: tabulatedlists of names Arranged alphabetically. receiving 1958-72. of those various reprints, SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY NOTEBOOKS School A.19 A.20 A.21 Undergraduate A.22-A.38 Hardback. Labelled on front cover 'P.E. Kent. Practical Chemistry’. Used for accounts of experiments 1 - 46 from 15 October [71929]. The work was marked on 5 February 1930, 23 February 1930 and 22 July 1931. Hardback. Labelled on front cover 'P.E. Kent Practical Chemistry’ and inscribed inside front cover'...Practical Chemistry II'. Used for accounts of experiments 47 - 52. The work was marked on 22 July 1931. Looseat front is July 1931 Chemistry Practical examination paper. Hardback. accounts of experiments. Undated. Inscribed inside front cover 'P.E. Kent Physics’. Used for ‘Practical Lab work 1931-34 (possibly worthy of archives as example of H.H.S. [Swinnerton] teaching methods)’. Contents of Kent's large envelope so inscribed: diaries, binders, sketches and notebook. A.22-A.24 Pocket diaries 1932-34. Used for notes of geological fieldwork. A.22 1932. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 15 Biographical A.23 A.24 1933. 1934. A.25, A.26 (Stratigraphy) + Palaeontology’. Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference: ms notes onfossil types. A.27-A.30 Palaeo. Special’. ‘Stratig Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference. The binder was used from the front for ms notes principally on stratigraphy (A.27, A.28) and from the backfor ms notes on vertebrate palaeontology (A.29, A.30). A.31, A.32 ‘Cret'. Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. A.31 A.32 A.33 A.34-A.37 A.34 Essay on the Tremadoc beds. Ms notes on Cretaceous rocks. ‘Palaeontology Mollusca’. binder. Graptoloidea Brachiopoda Pencil sketches, retained in original Coelentera Foraminifera Kent's binder so inscribed. ‘Palaeontology’. Contents of Kent's binder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. Pencil sketches of invertebrata; University of London B.Sc. examination admission card and timetable, June 1934. A.35, A.36 Pencil sketchesof vertebrata. 2 folders. A.37 Duplicated instruction and problem sheets for map making course. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 16 Biographical A.38 A.39 A.40 A.41 A.42 A.43 A.44 A.45 A.46 Hardback notebook labelled on front cover 'P.E. Kent [...] Elementary Palaeontology Mineralogy. Petrology’. Used principally for pencil sketches of fossils and watercolours of rock specimens. Hardback notebook labelled on front cover 'Biogeography Oceanography’. Used from 'Oct 2’ for ms notes. Geophysics Hardback notebook labelled on front cover 'Geomorphology and Physical Basis...’ Used from the front for ms notes on geomorphology, and from the back for ms notes onthe ‘Physical basis’ of air, water, snow and ice and notes on '2nd Year Geomorph British Isles and Europe’. A little loose intercalated material. Hardback notebook inscribed on spine ‘Jurassic’ and inside front cover ‘Jurassics Paginated 1-191 with list of contents on first page. Used for ms notes and sketches pasted into the notebook. Inferior Oolite - Purbeckian'. Hardback notebook labelled on front cover ‘Jurassics' and inside front cover ‘Lower Lias of the British Isles'. Paginated 1-41 (some earlier pages cut from the notebook and later pages not numbered). Used for ms notes. Hardback notebookinscribed inside front cover ‘Palaeontology’. Used from the front for ms notes on fossils and from the back for ms notes on Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and the geology of south Shropshire. little loose intercalated material. Hardback notebooklabelled on front cover 'Petrology and Mineralogy’. Used from the front for ms notes on petrology and from the back for ms notes on mineralogy. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Stratigraphy’. Paginated 2- 146. Used for ms notes and sketchespasted into the notebook. Hardback notebookinscribed inside front cover ‘Abstracts’. Paginated 1-82 (later pages not paginated). Used for ms notes on the literature and newspaper cuttings 1933-34 (from the Manchester Guardian) on geological matters pasted into the notebook. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 17 Biographical A.47 A.48-A.50 A.48 A.49 A.50 A.51 A.52 Softback exercise book used from the front for ms notes on fossils and sketches pasted into the notebook, and from the back for bibliographical references (latest reference 1931). Some earlier pages cut from the notebook. ‘Field Work’. Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference: ms accounts of field work 1932-34 with list of contents on first page. The accounts are individually paginated and someareillustrated by photographspasted onto the pages. A later ms note by Kent found inside the binder (at A.48) describes it as ‘Probably submitted in B.Sc. original work’. Introductory note with list of contents; ‘The hydraulic Limestones of S. Notts’; ‘A study of the Lincolnshire Limestone’. ‘Geological mapping’; ‘The age of the highest Kimmeridgian of Lincolnshire’; ‘the Northampton district’; 'Easter camp 1932 Bradford on Avon, Wilts’; ‘Easter camp in Shropshire 1933’; ‘Isle of Wight August 1933’. ‘Welsh Border Easter '34'; 'Swanscombe'(later brief note on trial work with L.S.B. Leakey prior to East African Archaeological Expedition); photographs and map for ‘Notes on river systems and glacial retreat stages in south Lincolnshire’, by Kent, Bibliog. 7, 1939. 'A Charnian Axis in the East Midlands PEK/1933-4'. envelopeso inscribed: ms draft + hand-drawn map. Contents of Kent's A later ms note by Kent found attached describes the circumstances behind the draft: ‘This note was written in 1933/4 after a heavy dose of [W.J.] Arkell’s book (Jurassic rocks of G.B.) and papers by R.H. Rastall. It incurred the severe disapproval of Prof Swinnerton, who regarded it as an unjustifiable waste of time’. Ring bound pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for miscellaneous notes, those at front including work at Barnston [Lincs] 1933- 34. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 18 Biographical EAST AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICALEXPEDITION Leakey's After graduation in 1934 Kent was invited L.S.B. He was archaeological expedition to East Africa on its fourth season. recommended in the place of K.P. Oakley who had withdrawn from the expedition. join to The expedition wasto follow up Leakey's expedition of 1931-32 to Kenya, in the course of which Leakey had discovered fragments of a hominid skull at Kanjera and a hominid jaw bone at Kanam. The bones were thought to be from Homo sapiens. Leakey said the jaw had been found in Lower Pleistocene beds, which suggested an earlier date for the appearance of Homo sapiens than had hitherto been supposed, and the skull pieces in Middle Pleistocene. However, Professor P.G.H. Boswell, a leading authority on the Pleistocene, cast doubt on Leakey's claims and Leakey,to prove his case, persuaded the Royal Society to fund Boswell to visit the sites with him on his next expedition to East Africa. The expedition left England on 24 October and arrived in Kenya on 10 November. There was considerable difficulty finding the site of Leakey's main discovery. This, it transpired, was because the photograph purported to be of the site was in fact, as Kent and S. White, the expedition surveyor, discovered, of gullies some distance away. Boswell returned to the UK in January and wrote a Letter to Nature in which he revealed the discrepancy. The matter was complicated by the fact that the photograph was to appear in Leakey's book on his discoveries about to be published by Oxford University Press. Leakey argued that there was nointention to mislead and withdrew the photograph from the book. Further difficulty arose when it becameclear that the hominid jawbone had not actually been found in situ by Leakey but collected by a native assistant and that it was quite possibleit had slipped downinto the Pleistocene bed through cracksin the ground. Kentinitially served as assistant to Boswell, but following Boswell's return to the UK in January served as the Expedition Geologist. Thefirst stage of the expedition searched for the sites of Leakey's finds and other evidence of early Homo sapiens at Kanam and Kanjera and other locations in the Kavirondo area of Kenya. In May 1935 the team moved on to Olduvai Gorge (Oldoway) in Tanganyika. Kent left Kenya on 8 August 1935. See also B.365, D.2. The material is presented asfollows: A.53-A.87 Correspondence and papers A.88-A.102 Notebooks and maps P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 19 Biographical Correspondence and papers A.53-A.66 A.53 ‘East Africa. Technical correspondence etc from August 1934’ ‘Leakey's monthly reports. Letters from LSBL, Boswell, Wayland, Archdeacon Owen’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into fourteen for ease of reference. Correspondence August - October 1934 re preparations for the expedition. Includesinitial letter from Leakey re the possibility of Kent joining the party, 11 August, and correspondence re preparatory field trip to improve Kent's mapping techniques(see A.50). A.54-A.56 Monthly field reports. These duplicated typescript reports were written by Leakey for private circulation among expedition members and other colleagues. They report on the expedition's movements, excavations and discoveries, and include accounts of work carried out by Kent, with Boswell, and independently. A.54 24 October - 23 November 1934. 24 November - 23 December 1934. 24 December 1934 - 23 January 1935. A.55 24 January - 23 February 1935. 24 February - 23 March 1935. Includes Leakey'sfirst reactions to reports of Boswell's criticisms of his work, published in Nature, 9 March (see A.57), and ‘Report on geological work of the month’ by Kent. 24 March- 23 April 1935. Includes 'Geologist's report’ by Kent. A.56 24 April - 23 May 1935. 24 May - 23 June 1935. Includes ‘Geological report’ by Kent. 24 June - August 1935. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 20 Biographical A.57 A.58 A.59 A.60 A.61 A.62 A.63 ‘Human remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya colony’ by Boswell, Nature 135, 371-2; printed account of journey to Kenya andfirst impressions of the country by Kent, probably from the West Bridgfordian school magazine; letter from W.E. Owen, 5 April, and correspondence from E.J. Wayland, Director of the Geological Survey of Uganda, July, August 1935; typescript draft of letter from Kent to East African Standard on the newly discovered ruined city at Engaruka, 4 August 1935; hand-drawn maps of Songhor and Olduvai. Correspondence arising from the expedition, October - December 1935. Chiefly with expedition members (including Leakey and Boswell) and E.J. Wayland. Correspondencearising from the Expedition, January - April 1936. Includes W.C. Smith's typescript ‘notes on [...] igneous rocks from Eyasi and Manyana exposures’ other 6 correspondencere specimenscollected by Kent. collected Kent, by April 1936 and Correspondencearising from the expedition, May 1936 - 1937, 1939. The correspondence 1939is chiefly re red pebbles from Koru collected by Kent. Chiefly re fossil fish from Correspondence October 1940 - January 1941. Includes 'A note on Pleistocene deposits Miocene and Pleistocene beds. near Lake Manyara, Tanganyika’ by Kent, 8pp typescript, submitted for publication in the Geological Magazine, 14 January 1941 (Bibliog. 13, 1942). Correspondence February - May 1941. Includes ‘The recent history and Pleistocene deposits of the plateau north of Lake Eyasi, Tanganyika’ by Kent, 16pp typescript, submitted for publication in the Geological Magazine, 27 February 1941 (Bibliog. 10, 1941). Correspondence and papers June - September 1941. Includes lists of ‘Kavirondo Pleistocene mammals' compiled by A.T. Hopwood, sent to Kent 23 June; ‘The Pleistocene beds of Kanam & Kanjera, Kavirondo, Kenya’ by Kent, 19pp typescript, submitted for publication in the Geological Magazine, 6 July 1941 (Bibliog. 14, 1942); ‘Miocene deposits in Kenya’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, submitted for publication in Nature, 12 July 1941 (Bibliog. 12, 1941). A.64 Correspondence 1942. Chiefly re Kent's articles on Kenyan geology. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 21 Biographical A.65 A.66 A.67-A.72 Correspondence 1943-45. Includes ‘Contribution to discussion on Dr F. Dixey: "The relation of the main peneplain of Central Africa to sediments of Mioceneage"' by Kent, 2pp typescript, 3 February 1945. Miscellaneous material. Includes press-cutting from the Manchester Guardian, 11 January 1939 of report from W.E. Owen on ‘Newdiscoveries in Kavirondo'; hand-drawnillustration of geology of Rusinga island and map of Kokkothcliffs; ms notes; typescript draft Letter (? to Geological Magazine) on ‘The age and tectonic relationships of East African volcanic rocks’ by Kent, nd; two articles by K.P. Oakley, 1974 and 1975, reporting on radiometric assay dating of the hominid bone fragments discovered by Leakey's 1931-32 expedition. ‘Letters from Africa 1934-5'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: letters from Kent to his family, Includes accounts of principally his mother, October 1934 - July 1935. outward journey and activities in East Africa. At A.72 is miscellaneous material found therewith: 15pp ms notesfor talk by Kent on his experiences in East Africa; 'East African chessboard’ by Kent, 9pp msdraft on relations between Blacks and Whites in East Africa (probably written for the Friary Congregational Church newsletter); magazine photograph of Kent with Leakey and Miss Mary Nicoll (later Mrs Leakey) at Olduvai Gorge. A.73-A.79 ‘Letters to Africa 1934-35 (family matters) and Leakey’. Contents of Kent's envelope soinscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: letters from family, principally his mother, friends and colleagues, November 1934 - August 1935. Includes correspondence from Boswell, Leakey and E.J. Wayland. At A.79 are ms notes on ?Swahili grammar prepared by Kent. A.80 A81 A.82 ‘The stratigraphy of the Miocene bedsin the vicinity of the Kavirondo Gulf, Kenya (Summary)’ by Kent, 27pp typescript + figures, 1934-35; ‘Middle Pleistocene deposits near Lake Manyara, Tanganyika’ by Kent, 5pp typescript + maps, 1935. Correspondence and papers 1939-43. Includes lists of fossil mammalia from Miocene deposits at Kavirondo sent to Kent by D.G. Maclnnes and brief correspondencefrom Leakey re drafts sent to him by Kent. ‘Physiographical features of the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya’ by Kent, 16pp typescript found with correspondence at A.80. Not listed in Bibliog. but possibly early version of Bibliog. 15, 1942. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Biographical A.83 A.84 A.85 A.86 A.87 ‘Kilimanjaro - an active volcano’ by Kent, 4pp typescript, published as Bibliog. 19, 1944, with ms note on the shrinkage of the ice cap on Kilimanjaro; ms notes and pagesof drafts ‘The Uplift of East Africa’ and ‘The causeof the thrust vaulting of Rusinga’ by Kent, nd. Miscellaneous material. Includes typescript notes on geology of Kavirondo, photographs, hand-drawn mapsof Serengeti and RusingaIsland. Correspondence, 1976-77, principally re photographs of the expedition and identification of localities. Photocopies of pages from Leakey's Luck. The Life of Louis Leakey, 1903- 1972 by S. Cole (1975), with references to Kent underlined, and of front covers of By the Evidence: memoirs, 1931-1951 by Leakey and Disclosing the Past: an autobiography by Mary Leakey(1984). ‘L.S.B.Leakey Virginia Morell corresp.' labelled: correspondence with November1985. Morell Contents of Kent's folder so re the expedition, May 1984 - Morell was writing a book about the Leakey family and wrote to Kent with a number of relations amongst expedition members. chiefly concerning queries, The folder also includes an account by Kent of a 'Stone tool from Laetoli, Tanzania’ sent by him to the British Museum 1985. Kent describes the circumstances behind his taking the tool into ‘protective custody’ during the expedition. Notebooks and maps Notebooks A.88 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'Kanam'. Used from the front for field notes on work at Kanam and Kanjera, c. December 1934 - January 1935, and at the back for notes on D.G. Macinnes's presentation on Mastodon teeth at East African science meeting, Nairobi, 30 November 1934. Paginated 2-110 (later pages not paginated). Kent worked on the Pleistocene beds at the Kanam and Kanjera sites from November 1934 to 24 January 1935. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 23 Biographical A.89 A.90 A.91 A.92 A.93 A.94 Hardback notebook inscribed on spine 'Kanam’. Used from the front for notes on sections at Kanam and later notes on Leakey's book Stone Age Races of Kenya (Oxford, 1935) and the Louth - Willoughby anticline, and from the back for notes on sections at Rusingaisland. Loose material intercalated includes, at back, 9pp ms draft ‘The geology of the Kanam- Kanjera area (Kenya colony)' in Kent's hand, and sections from Kanam, Kanjera and Rawe. Kent worked on the Miocene beds on Rusinga and nearby islands 1 February - 28 March and 23-30 July 1935. Hardback desk diary for 1935. Used principally to record movement between sites 20 January - 8 August 1935. The page for 1 January has been used as an index. Softback pocket notebookinscribed on fore edge 'Koru etc’. Used from the front for field notes on work at Songhor, Muhoroni and Koru, and at the back for ‘General ideas’. Paginated 1-45 (Songhor) and 1-23 (Koru). Kent worked at Songhor 25-29 January and 22-25 April 1935 and at Muhoroni and Koru 6-14 April 1935. The notes on Songhor probably represent work on his first visit there. Hardback notebookinscribed on spine 'Rusinga’'. Used for notes on work on Rusinga, Mfanganu and Ngothe islands. Maps pasted into notebook at back. little loose material intercalated. The later pages of the notebook had ?photographs pasted onto them. At somelater date these have been torn from the pages. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'Rusinga’. Used from the front for field notes on work on Rusingaisland, and from the back for notes on Rusinga, Mfanganu and Ngotheislands. Paginated 1-94 (later pages not paginated). Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Central Kavirondo’. Used for field notes on work at Mariwa, Omba, Mabokoisland, Majowa bluff and Lela. Most pages not used. Kent worked on the Miocene bedsat these sites to the north of the Gulf of Kavirondo 15-21 April 1935. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 24 Biographical A.95 A.96 A.97 A.98 A.99 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'Oldoway + Eyasi’ and on first page ‘Geology in north Tanganyika 1) Oldowai 2) Laitolil and Lake Eyasi’. Used from the front for field notes on work at Olduvai and from the back for field notes on work to north west of Lake Eyasi. Paginated at the back 2-42. The Expedition moved to Olduvai Gorge, in Tanganyika, in May 1935. Kent worked in the Olduvai and Lake Eyasi area 10 May- 7 July. Hardback notebooklabelled on front cover 'Oldoway 1935 P.E. Kent’. Used from the front for draft of ‘Sections in the Branch Gorge at Oldoway, Tanganyika’, and from the back for draft on ‘North Western Eyasi'. Paginated at the front 1-47 and at the back 1-89. Loose material intercalated includes maps of Olduvai Gorge and letter to W.G. Aitken, 19 June 1953 re ‘draft script on Oldoway'’. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Manyara’. Used forfield notes on work near Lake Manyara. Most pages not used. Kent workedin this area 7-12 July 1935. Softback pocket notebook used for miscellaneous ms notes on East African (site unidentified) and UK geology. In the middle of the notebook are brief entries for 1, 2, 17 and 21 August 1935. Most pages not used. Softback pocket notebook cut in half and used as jotter for notes on East Africa and UK geology, addresses, bibliographical referencesetc. Maps A.100 ‘East Africa [Kenya] Karungu', 1:250,000. Compiled by Ordnance Survey 1916. Printed on linen-backed paper. This map covers the majority of sites at which the expedition worked in Kenya. The sites and someother features have been marked by Kent in ink and pencil. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 A.101 Biographical ‘German East Ordnance Survey 1915. Printed on linen-backed paper. [Tanganyika] Africa Eyassi’, 1:300,000. 25 Compiled by This map covers the Olduvai Gorge and Lakes Eyasi and Manyara. Some of the sites at which the expedition worked have been marked by Kentin ink. A.102 ‘German East Africa Kilimanjaro’, 1:300,000. Compiled by Ordnance Survey 1915. Printed on linen-backed paper. Inscribed on front 'Dr Leakey’. SECOND WORLD WAR At the outbreak of war Kent wasin a reserved profession and wastherefore exemptfrom military service. He joined the Home Guard. In 1941 he was released from Anglo-lranian as they reduced their geological programme (see A.131). Kent joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve and wasassigned to the Photo-Intelligence Branch of D section (Industry) of the RAF Central Interpretation Unit based at Medmenham. He worked on the assessmentof German oil supplies - initially locating oil storage tanks, later identifying synthetic oil plants in which the Germans were converting coal to oil. He was secondedto the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in 1944 and in 1945 to the G2 Branch of US ArmyIntelligence to work on photo-interpretation of Japaneseoil installations. For this work he was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1946. At the end of the war with Japan Kent wasthe only non-American accompanying the US Strategic Bombing Survey to Japan to assessing the effectivenessof air raids. A.103-A.118 "RAF Records 1941-46’. Contents of Kent's large envelope soinscribed. A.103 ‘Orders papers 1944-46. Survey and subsequentvisit to Japan with the Survey. Official corresp.' Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: official Chiefly material re transfer to US Strategic Bombing A.104 Memorandare 'Conflict with authority! [January] 1944’. Relates to a memo Kent sent to his commanding officer critical of an order that D section was no longer to estimate oil production figures but only supply the basic data for others to analyse. Kent was reprimanded for the memo,as'...the tone of this memo doesnot reflect a clear appreciation of the duties and discipline necessary in a military organisation’. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 26 Biographical A.105-A.112 'R.A.F. correspondence’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into eight for ease of reference: correspondence and papers 1943-46. A.105 Charts and plastic measuring cards for photo-interpretation; ‘Hydrogenation practice in Germany’, 4pp typescript; ‘The Fischer Tropsch Process’, 2pp typescript + diagram; typescriptlist of ‘Slides held by Section D of synthetic oil plants’. A.106 Travelling expenses 1943-45 and messbill. A107 Papers re transfer to US Strategic Bombing Survey, 1944-45. A.108 A.109 A.110 ‘Extract from: "A review of the Air Offensive Against Axis Oil Supplies” CombinedStrategic Targets Committee, Working Committee (Oil)' report, 21 June 1945, with Kent's letter of 16 July commenting on the report; 'M.I.S. [US Military Intelligence Service] Photo Interpretation’, note written by Kent for use in compilation of official history of the Petroleum Section, 9pp typescript, 12 September 1945; memo from Kent re BlechhammerSouthoil production plant, 14 September 1945. Correspondence and papersre visit to Japan with Bombing Survey, August- December 1945. Includes ‘Participation in U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. Oil and Chemicals Division’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + list of sites visited; ‘Nagaski - 1945' by Kent, 2pp typescript account of visit to Nagasaki in October 1945, 5 July 1946. Humorous items: spoof ‘Extract from: Special Survey of Axis Europe Oil Production’ meeting, 1 April 1944; spoof ‘Functional analysis report’ on ‘Henry M. Noel’; ‘Thoughts on a Hot Afternoon’, limericks, chiefly re Japaneseoil production, 'by Peter and Pat’. A.111 Printed material on Axis oil production, 1942 and 1945. A.112 List of photographs taken in USA and Japan, 4pp typescript; memorabilia. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 27 Biographical A.113 ‘Ploesti Mission 1st August 1943'. Album of photographs compiled by RAF Middle EastIntelligence Unit. The raid on Ploesti in Rumania was carried out in daylight by 162 Liberators of the 9th US Air Force, flying without fighter protection, from RAFairfields in the Middle East. Of this force 108 bombers returned. 172 tons of bombs were dropped and oil production slumped from 2,850,000 barrels in July 1943 to 1,880,000 for August. By September, however, production hadfully recovered. Further aerial photographs of the effects of the raid are at A.114-A.116, A.119. A.114-A.116 Aerial photographs, principally of Rumanian oil production sites at Ploesti, some showing damage from bombing (see also A.113, A.119). 3 folders. A.117 D-Day memorabilia, including printed sketch of 'Forts [Flying Fortresses] returning from France - seen from Medmenham’. A.118, A.119 ‘RAF'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. A.118 A.119 A.120 A.121 Copies of memos re secondment to Mediterranean Allied Air Force,Italy, 1944; interpretation Bergius hydrogenation plants’, 12 March 1944, and Austrian oilfields, 8 January 1945; humorous song ‘Christmas Day at Medmenham' and poem 'The usual channels’. refinery capacity at reports on ‘Surplus Photographs, including aerial photographs of damageto oil production sites at Ploesti (see A.113, A.114-A.116) and photographof launch of V2 rocket. ‘Corresp. re RAFVR/Washington DC 1945-6'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: American colleagues. Also includes notification of award of Legion of Merit to Kent, 22 July 1946. correspondence 1945-47 principally social with "RAF: De-mob'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: documents re release from RAFVR duty 1946 and relinquishment of commission in RAFVR in 1958. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 28 Biographical A.122 Correspondence and papers 1981-82 re Kent's contribution to BBC TV programme ‘Auschwitz and the Allies’. Kent commented on the wartimerole of the RAF Central Interpretation Unit. This programme was broadcast on BBC 2 on 16 September 1982. Kent's contribution was not programme misrepresented the Unit by suggesting it could have knownof the existence of a Death Campat Auschwitz. included that the and he felt Photocopies of pages from Evidence in Camera. The story of Photographic Intelligence in World WarII by C.B. Smith (1958), The Eye of Intelligence by U. Powys-Lybbe (1983) and Target: Hitler's Oil by R.C. Cooke and R.C. Nesbit (1985), with references to Kent underlined. Kent wrote the Foreword to Target: Hitler's Oil, D.74). Bibliog. 141, 1985 (see A.123-A.126 Printed material. A.123-A.125 ‘Wartime Continental Oil installations Maps extracted from Oxford strategic handbooks’. Contents of Kent's envelope soinscribed divided into three for ease of reference. The material is pages of data, maps and background information on oil production capacity of European countries, torn from handbooks. A.126 Evidence in Camera, vol.1, no. 1, 19 October 1942. Evidence in Camera ‘Special[final] Edition on Photographic Reconnaissance and Photographic Intelligence’, March 1945. United States Bombing Survey Summary Report, 30 September 1945. Annotated on front cover ‘Proof copy...’ P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Biographical CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS A.127 Birth Certificate, 18 March 1913. Radcliffe House School, West Bridgford, School Report for Easter 1919. Award of Junior Scholarship by Notts. Education Committee, July 1924. A.128 References from Headmaster of West Bridgford County Secondary (later Grammar) School and Minister of Friary Congregational Church, 1929. A.129 University of Nottingham. Letter re visit to Stapleford Estate, Wymondham, Leics., 1932; results of University of London B.Sc. Special Examination for External Students, 1934; repaymentof loan to University College, Nottingham, 13 January 1939. D.S.I.R. Maintenance Allowancefor 1934-36. A.130 Appointment with Anglo-lranian Oil Company. Letter to G.M. Lees declining appointment as geologist with the A.1 [?Anglo- Iranian Oil Company], 1935. Applications for post of Geologist, Geological Survey and Museum, 1936, 1937. Includes letter from the Notts Education Committee, 2 September 1936, confirming that Kent was not expected to pursue a teaching careerin view of the financial support he received at West Bridgford County Secondary School, and wasfree to apply to the Geological Survey. Ms draft of application letter to Anglo-lranian Oil, 16 August 1936, with references from H.H. Swinnerton, W.A. Richardson and P.G.H. Boswell, and letter of appointment, 26 September. Invitation to serve as Expedition Geologist on anthropological expedition to northern Tanganyika, 4 April 1937. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 30 Biographical A.131 Correspondence and memoranda re work for Anglo-lranian, 1937-41. Includes ms draft ‘Details of Researches’, and letter of 30 January 1940 giving Companyapprovalfor Kent's marriage. In May 1941 Anglo-lranian released Kent ‘owing to the restriction of the Geological Programme’. A.131A Election as Fellow of the Geological Society of London, March 1938. A.132, A.133 Ph.D. thesis ‘The Miocene beds of Kavirondo, Kenya’. Kent was awardedhis Ph.D. in December 1939. A.132 Thesis (unbound). A.133 Letter notifying Kent of the award; letters of congratulation. A.134 Military service. References from G.M. Lees, H.H. Swinnerton and Rev. J.O. Dobson, Minister of Friary Congregational Church, for appointment as Officer; correspondencefrom Anglo-lranian re salary arrangements. Photocopyof ‘Citation for Legion of Merit, Degree of Legionnaire' This was awarded to Kent in December 1945 for his work in interpreting aerial photographsof Axis oil production installations in Europe. A.135 Post war employment. Application for Chair of Geology, Nottingham University, March 1946. Letter from L.J. Wills re lecturerships at Birmingham University, May 1946. Correspondence and papers re resumption of career with Anglo-lranian, 1946-48. Offer of Associate Professorship, Pennsylvania State College, March 1949. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 31 Biographical A.136 Award of moiety of the Lyell Geological Fund of Geological Society of London, 1949. Includes Abstract of Society Proceedings giving Kent's award on pp.74-75, with ms drawings by elder daughter (aged five) at the back. Award of Bigsby Medalof Geological Society of London, 1955. A.137 D.Sc., London University, 1959. Appointment as BP Regional Manager (Exploration) North and South America, 1962. A.138-A.142 Election to Royal Society, 1966. A.138 Correspondence re candidature, 1957, 1960, 1964; notice of election in BP Daily News Precis. A.139-A.142 Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.139 A-G A.140 H-N A.141 P-Y A.142_ First name and unidentified A.143 Appointment as BP Chief Geologist, and long service award, 1966. Offer of Chair of Geology, Durham University, 1966. Award of Murchison Medal of Geological Society of London, 1969. A.144-A.150 Award of MacRobert Award for Engineering and Technology, 1970. This Award consisted of a Gold Medal and prize of £25,000 awarded for ‘an outstanding contribution...in the fields of engineering or the other physical technologies or in the application of the physical sciences, which has enhancedorwill enhancethe national prestige and prosperity of the United wel P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 32 Biographical Kingdom’. Kent received this award, in conjunction with his BP colleagues H.R. Warman and A.N. Thomas, for ‘Exploration leading to the discovery of the Prudhoe Bayoilfield’, in particular the development of techniques for surveying through the permafrost of north Alaska. Therules of the award allowed no more thanfive recipients of the prize and Kent, Warman and Thomas were named as the key senior personnel involved. They recognised the contribution made by other membersof the BP team by dividing the £25,000 into 25 shares of £1,000 which were distributed by them to thoseinvolved in the Alaska work. A.144 Correspondence and papers re BP submission for the award. A.145 Award, including press-releases. A.146 Newspapercuttings and transcripts of BBC reports on the award. A.147 Arrangementsfor division of the award including list of recipients, and letters of thanks. A.148, A.149 Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.148 A-L A.149 M-W and unidentified A.150 Correspondencearising, 1971. A.151, A.152 Award of Royal Medal of Royal Society, 1971. A.151 Press-release and citation. A.152 Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.153 Honorary D.Sc., Leicester University, 1972. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 33 Biographical A.154 Retirement from BP, 1973. A.155-A.163 Knighthood, 1973. Kent wasknighted for services to petroleum exploration. A.155 Correspondencere arrangements, including style of address. Kent wished to be styled Sir Peter rather than Sir Percy Kent. knighthood was conferred 24 October. The A.156 Newspaper cuttings and features; 'A commendatory poem’ by E.H. Kent, daughter, in celebration of the knighthood. A.157-A.162 Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.157 A,B A.158 C-E A.159 F-K A.160 L-R A.161 S-Z A.162_ First name and unidentified A.163 Correspondence and papers re membership of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor, 1973-86 and nd. A.164 Offer of Consultant Professorship, Keele University, 1973. Offer of part-time post, Grant Institute of Geology, Edinburgh, 1973. Appointment as Chairman, Natural Environment Research Council, 1973. A.165 Award of Sorby Medalof the Yorkshire Geological Society, 1973. Honorary D.Sc., Durham University, 1974. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 34 Biographical A.166 Honorary Membership, Geological Society of Bulgaria, 1975. A.167 Honorary Membership, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1976. Folderincludes biographical account and photograph of Kent. A.168 Honorary LL.D., Glasgow University, 1977. Folder includes two mounted photographsof honorary graduands. A.169 Honorary D.Sc., Bristol University, 1977. A.170 Letter re proposed Peter Kent Medal ‘for outstanding workin thefield of oil and gas geology’, 8 June 1978. A.171 Honorary LL.D., Aberdeen University, 1978. A.172 Honorary Sc.D., Cambridge University, 1979. A.173 Honorary D.Sc., Hull University, 1981. Kent gave the address on behalf of the honorary graduands. A.174, A.175 Honorary D.Sc., Birmingham University, 1983. 2 folders. A.176 Twenty-five years membership of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1984. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 35 Biographical A.177-A.187 Kent's death Kent died on 9 July 1986. A.177 Funeral Service, Friary United Reformed Church, West Bridgford, 16 July 1986. Envelope containing slips signed by those attending. A.178 Service of Thanksgiving, St James Church, Piccadilly, 19 November 1986. Includes order of service and correspondence. A.179 Correspondence and papers re contributions to the Nottingham Hospitals ScannerAppeal. Lady Kent asked that donations be sent for the Appeal, organised through Friary Church, in lieu of flowers. A.180-A.186 Letters of condolence, arranged alphabetically. A.180 A-C A.181 D-H A.182_ |-M A.183 N-S A.184 T-Y A.185_ First name and unidentified A.186_ First name and unidentified A.187 Circular letter from Lady Kent re ‘the two memorials set up to Peter’, December1987. Conservation Book Prize BP Exploration and the Nature Conservancy Council established a Sir Peter Kent and BP Petroleum Development and the Nottinghamshire Trust for Nature Conservation opened an Industrial Archaeology nature trial over the Duke's Wood oilfield, including a Sir Peter Kent Memorial Plantation. 1987, in April 36 Biographical P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 DIARIES Deskdiaries These were used by Kentprincipally to record survey work for BP. There is material intercalated or pasted to pages of the diaries. This may include photographs, letters and greetings cards, membership cards, newspaper cuttings, ms jottings, and theatre tickets and other memorabilia A.188 1950. A.189 1954. A.190 A.191 A.192 1955. Photograph of M.B. Kent (wife) pasted into front. Intercalated material includesletter from M.B. Kent. 1956. 'Woods Australian Diary’. into front. Photograph of Kent with his wife pasted 1957. 'Woods Australian Diary'. Photograph of wife and daughters pasted into front. A.193-A.205 BP desk diaries 1958-70. A.193 1958. A.194 1959. A.195 1960. A.196 1961. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 37 Biographical A.197 1962. A.198 1963. Photograph of ‘Knox United Church Choir, Calgary, November3rd, 1963' pastedinto front, with key. Kent was a memberof the choir. A.199 1964. A.200 | 1965. A.201 1966. Includes newspapercuttings re election to the Royal Society. A.202 1967. A.203 1968. A.204 1969. A.205 1970. BP Pocket diaries A.206 1968. A.207 1969. A.208 1970. A.209 1971. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Biographical FAMILY AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE Family A.210 Brief ms and typescript notes on family members. A.211 Annie Scott Kent, née Woodward, mother. Oneletter only, 6 April 1937. See also A.67-A.71 and A.73-A.79. A.212-A.222 Margaret Betty Kent, née Hood, first wife. Kent married M.B. Hood in 1940. A.212 Letter, 2 November 1945. A.213-A.218 Correspondence 1948-51. Theseletters were sent homeby Kent during his period in Iran 1948-51 and East Africa in 1951. It includes messages to his daughters and a few miscellaneous letters and memorabilia. A.213 1948, 1949 A.216 1951 January-April A.214 1950 January-April A.217 1951 May-December A.215 1950 October-December A.218 Nd A.219-A.222 Letters of condolence etc on death of M.B. Kent, June 1974, arranged alphabetically. A.219 A-F A.220 G-M A.221 N-W A.222 First name and unidentified P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 39 Biographical A.223, A.224 Lorna Ogilvie Kent, née Scott, second wife. Kent married L.O. Scott in 1976. A.223 Material re wedding; photograph of L.O. Kent. A.224 Family correspondenceto L.O. Kent, from July 1986. For letters of condolence on Kent's death see A.180-A.186. A.225 Judith Ann Kent, elder daughter. Schoolproject 'Calgary to Banff. A geographical appraisal’, c.1959-60. Letter, 2 April 1978. A.226 Edward Woodward, uncle Letter re Estate, 1948. Charles Frederick Hickling, cousin. Obituary, 1977. Personal correspondence Includes contents of Kent's personal correspondencefile for 1964-67. Arranged chronologically. A.227 1933, 1937 A.233 1980-82 A.228 1957, 1962, 1964 A.234 1983 A.229 1965, 1966 A.235 1984 January-May A.230 1967-69 A.236 1984 June-December A.231 1973 A.237 1985, 1986 A.232 1974-79 A.238 Nd P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 40 Biographical MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL MATERIAL A.239-A.252 Church, clubs and charities A.253-A.256 Passports A.257-A.263 Social occasions A.264-A.268 Memorabilia Church, clubs and charities Friary Congregational (later United Reformed) Church Kent became a memberof the church in 1931. He methis first wife through the church (she became Secretary in 1956) and retained his links throughout his workinglife. In 1982 he agreed to be elected an Elderof the church. Correspondence and papers 1937-86. A.239 1937, 1971, 1974, 1975. March 1974', 7pp typescript with ms additions. Includes Kent's 'Sermon for Friary Church 17th A.240 1979, 1982, 1983. A.241 1984-86, nd. Includes letter to K.H. Clarke MP re Sunday shop opening, 13 February 1986. Medmenham Club The Medmenham Club was open to those who served in Photographic Interpretation during the Second World War. A.242 Membershiplists 1954, 1979 and amendments. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 41 Biographical A.243 Newsletters 1966-85. Not a complete sequence. A.244 Miscellaneous Includes correspondence from U. Powys-Lybbe re her book The Eye ofIntelligence (see A.122). correspondence 1977-85. and papers English Club, Zanzibar A.245 Rule book, sent to Kent on his election as a Full Member, 16 January 1954. Old West Bridgfordians Association Kent wasa pupil at West Bridgford Grammar School 1925-31. 1966, 1974, 1980. 1966 item is extract from ‘The West Bridgfordian' with brief account by Kent of developments in the search for natural gas beneath the North Sea. 1982. Correspondence and papers re West Bridgford School Prize-Giving, 29 November. Kent presented the prizes. A.246 A.247 A.248 1985, 1986. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge A.249 1971, 1975-86. Chiefly re dining rights. Luton College of Higher Education A.250 Degree ceremonies 1978 and 1979. Kent was Guest of Honour at the 1979 Degree Ceremony. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 42 Biographical Rushcliffe Liberal Association A.251 Membership, 1985. Charities and appeals A.252 Various dates 1972-86. Passports A.253 1934-39. Memorabilia re marriage pasted onto p.5, photographsof wife and daughters c.1956 and ?childhood photograph of Kent loose at p.27. A.254 1947-57. A.255 1953-58. Photographsof Kent loose at pp.13 and 25. A.256 1957-67. Social occasions A.257 Royal Garden Party, Buckingham Palace, 14 July 1964. A.258-A.260 Naming Ceremonyof SS British Explorer, Nagasaki, 26 March 1970. The British Explorer was the first of seven 200,000 ton oil tankers built for BP by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Kent travelled to Japan with his wife and attended various functions in conjunction with the Naming Ceremony. A.258 Diary oftrip; memorabilia from pre-Naming Ceremonyfunctions. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Biographical A.259 Memorabilia from Naming Ceremony. A.260 Photographs. A.261 Luncheon, Buckingham Palace, 21 May 1974. Includes Kent's ms accountof the occasion, 3pp ms. Opening of British Antarctic Survey Building by the Duke of Edinburgh, Cambridge, 7 May 1976. A.262 Elizabethans of Distinction Banquet, Savoy Hotel, London, 1 December 1977. A.263 Inauguration of Magnus oilfield by the Prime Minister, 14 September 1983. Memorabilia A.264, A.265 Newspapercuttings on Kent's life and career. A.264 1933. Nottingham Guardian 22 November,picture of Kent with part of an ichthyosaurus communis fossil he found at Barnstone Quarries. 1935. Nottingham Guardian 15 November, feature on Kent (in East Africa) and R. Bentham, also a University College Nottingham geology student (in Arctic region). A.265 1947, 1966, 1973-75. Item 1975 sketch from New Scientist of Kent (speaking), fellow chairmen of Research Councils, Sir Bernard Lovell and Airey Neave MP at British Association meeting, Guildford. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Biographical A.266 ‘Early flights’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: maps of USA and Pacific ocean with Kent's flight and voyage 1945 andflights 1955 marked thereon. A.267 Miscellaneous memorabilia, 1945-81. Includes photograph of Kent 1954. A.268 Miscellaneous memorabilia, nd. Includes copyof ‘Arctic and Bush Survival. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 45 SECTION B RESEARCH AND SURVEYS B.1-B.505 The papersin this section document Kent's survey workfor the Anglo-lranian Oil Company(later BP) and subsidiary companies, and Kent's own geological research. The two are closely related. With the company's goodwill Kent was able to use information from company surveys to further his own geological research, and his survey work itself represents a considerable geological achievement. A list of the over 90 reports Kent prepared for BP is at A.17 The material dates from Kent's first work with Anglo-lranian Oil in Lincolnshire in 1935, through his postwar work for BP in the UK and overseasin Iran, East Africa, Papua New Guinea and North America, to the North Sea discoveries of the 1960s and 1970s, and post-retirement research to 1986. The geographical coverageis thus very wide, although the bulk of the papers are concerned with the geology of England (particularly the Midland counties) and Iran. Much of the material was found in Kent's own folders or envelopes, usually with the title inscribed thereon. Thesetitles have been reproducedin the catalogue entries. The folders or envelopes may contain material spanning many decades, reflecting Kent's continuing interest over an extended period in certain areas of the UK andof the world - such as Lincolnshire, East Africa and Iran. This material includes ms notes (some on pages from ‘filofax' style notebooks), typescript drafts and notes, stratigraphical columns, oil well logs, maps, sections and photographs. There are also a number of notebooks. The material has been arranged by geographical area. At the end of the sectionis a little material reflecting Kent's concern with wider energy issues, such as the gasification of coal. The material is presented asfollows: B.1-B.225 UNITED KINGDOM B.1-B.7 England general B.8-B.52 Midlands general B.53-B.122 Lincolnshire B.123-B.131 Nottinghamshire P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 46 Research and surveys B.132-B.136 Leicestershire B. 137-B.142 Derbyshire B.143-B.145 East Anglia B.146-B.163 Southern England B.164-B.182 Yorkshire B.183-B.186 Scotland B.187-B.225 North Sea B.226-B.353 IRAN B.226-B.229 Kazerun Survey B.230-B.251 Behbehan-Kazerun Survey B.252-B.277 Fars-Laristan Survey B.278-B.290 Salt Plugs B.291-B.339 Exploration Advisory Group B.340-B.353 General B.354-B.407 EAST AFRICA B.408-B.427 PAPUA NEW GUINEA P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 47 Research and surveys B.428-B.456 NORTH AMERICA B.457-B.469 GULF STATES B.457-B.463 Kuwait B.464-B.469 Oman B.470-B.485 OTHER AREAS AND MISCELLANEOUS B.486-B.505 ENERGYISSUES B.486-B.491 General B.492-B.500 Coal B.501-B.503 Oil shales B.504,B.505 Other energy resources Research and surveys 48 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 UNITED KINGDOM England general B.1-B.4 ‘England General’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference. B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4 B.5 ‘Note on the structure of the Ollerton district [Notts]' by Kent, 5pp typescript + maps, 11 April 1938; typescript notes on Millstone Grit, April 1940; ‘The underground stratigraphical conditions of North Norfolk' by Kent, 5pp typescript + map and section, c.October 1940; 'A structure contour map of the base of the Mesozoic rocks of England’ by Kent, 7pp typescript, 4 December1940. ‘Explanatory note to accompany a geological map of central and southern England and two cross sections showing a possible reconstruction of pre- Permian strata and a discussion on the prospects of oil discovery’ by G.M. Lees, 10pp typescript + 3pp data, map and sections, June 1944; covering letter from Lees to Kent; 'Sub-surface structure of S. Eastern England’ by Kent responding to Lees's paper, 3pp typescript, 25 October 1944. Typescript memos by Kent ‘Structure of the Kirkleatham - Redcar area [Yorks]', 2pp + contour map, 27 June 1946 and 'A reconnaissance of the Nunthorpe area [...] Yorkshire’, 2pp + contour map; typescript note on ‘Huntingdon Borings', 1 October 1965. Contour mapof the ‘Palaeozoic surface of England and the Channel coast’; map and in England’; [of England and ‘Palaeographical map of the lower Palaeozoic floor Wales]...' by L.J. Wills, 1975. development ‘Permian diagram of N.E. 'UK Licenses'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: maps showing production, mining and prospecting licenses granted to oil companies, 1962- 67 B.5A List of exploration wells in England and Wales, 1918-84. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 49 Research and surveys B.6 B.7 Midlands B.8-B.11 B.8 B.9 B.10 B.11 B.12 B.13 ‘Interim maps for the Wolfson Geochemical Atlas of England and Wales’, Applied Geochemistry Research Group, Imperial College London, July 1974. Hardback pocket notebookpaginated 1-116 (top right hand corner) and 169- 237 (bottom right hand corner), later pages not numbered. Used for notes, maps (pasted onto pages) and data from well logs 1940-c.1971. little intercalated material. 'Lias corresp'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence and papers 1935-78, chiefly re Lias of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. 1935-37. Includes Stanton Ironworks Company information on Holwell mine [Leics]. 1940-47. Correspondence 1940-41 chiefly re ammonites from lowerLias in the Vale of Belvoir, Leics, and the RiverTill, Lincs. 1951-64. Includes typescript notes ?by Kent on 'The Mesozoic rocks of Bornholm’, 23 October 1962 and ‘The basal Lias near Long Bennington [Lincs]', 23 November1962. 1965-78. typescript, published in Ironstone’ by M.K. Howarth, 3pp typescript, sent to Kent 17 April 1974. Includes 'A lower Lias section in the River Till' by Kent, 2pp Bibliog. 93, 1974, and 'The age of the Frodingham Ring binder made by Kent and usedto file ms and typescript notes on sites in the Midlands in an alphabetical sequence. Various dates 1935-1968. Somelooseintercalated material. Ring bound pocket notebook used by Kent from the front chiefly for notes on sea-shells and on sites in the Midlands where they were found. Latest bibliographical reference 1936. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 B.14 Research and surveys 50 Pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘East Midlands' and onfirst page ‘Lancashire, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire’. Used from the front for notes on sites 1937-46 and from the back for notes on sites and on first aid. Loose at front is personal note from younger daughter(Elizabeth) Helen followingvisit to Kent in Port Moresby (c.1955-57). B.15-B.17 ‘Geophysical data’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into three for ease of reference. B.15 B.16 B.17 B.18 B.19 Driller's Tour Reports from bore-holesin Lincolnshire, June 1938. D'Arcy Exploration Co. and other maps: D'Arcy Exploration was a subsidiary of Anglo-lranian Oil operating in the UK. Structure Contour map of the base of the Lincolnshire Limestone, Lincs, 1937. Seismic Refraction Survey of Lincs and Notts, c.1940 (2 maps). Reflection Seismograph Survey of Log Clawson-Widerpool-Bunny area, Lincs and Notts, 1943 (3 maps). Refraction survey of Foston-Bourne-Thistleton area, Lincs, 1946. Seismic Refraction Survey of Lincs and Notts, 1951. Seismic Survey of area south of Lincoln, nd. Magnetic Survey of Lincs, nd. Charts from 'East Lincs. Magnetic Survey’, nd. Hardback pocket notebookinscribed inside front cover '1939'. notes on sites in Midlands. Many pages have been removed. Used for ‘Misc. Mids Jurassic Well data’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: notes and data from wells at Spital [Berks], Wysall [Notts], Sproxton [Leics], Blankney [Lincs] and Stixwould [Lincs]; 'A re-examination and study of Northampton sands samples from Lincs Test Wells' 3pp typescript, 16 January 1945; 'Revision of Sheet 142 - Melton Mowbray’, 6pp ms not in Kent's hand; etc. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 51 Research and surveys B.20, B.21 ‘Jurassic - E. Eng. Graphic Logs'. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference: D'Arcy Exploration Co. well logs 1940s. B.20 B.21 Long Bennington G.1 and G.2 [Lincs], Bottesford 1 and 2 [Leics], Claypole 1 [Lincs], Gulf Exploration Co. Cleveland Hills 1 [Yorks], Foston 1 [Lincs]. Nocton 2, 6 and 7, Spital 1, Sproxton 1, Stixwould 1 [Lincs]. B.22, B.23 '{" well logs E. Midlands'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. B.22 B.23 B.24 B.24A B.25-B.27 B.25 D'Arcy Exploration Co. well logs 1940s: Eakring 1 and 146 [Notts], Long Clawson 1 [Leics], Widmerpool1 [Notts]. BP Exploration Co. well logs 1950s: Colston Bassett North 1 and South 1, Cropwell Butler 1, Langar 1 [Notts]. ‘Sections + misc. reports E. Midlands'. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: typescript notes by Kent ‘Mesozoic structure of western Norfolk’, 4pp, 6 May 1946 and 'The structure of the Haughton - Perlethorpe area [Notts]', 2pp + map, 6 August 1946; draft 'Deep borings in Lincolnshire’ by Kent, 5pp ms, nd; 'Appendix. Notes on Geological Survey [of the Lincoln area]' ?by Kent, 6pp typescript, nd; Seismic Refraction Survey map of Notts and Lincs heavily annotated by Kent, 1951. ‘from Breedon to Widmerpool' and ‘across north Sections Leicestershire (Vale of Belvoir) syncline' by Kent, with covering memosApril and May 1946. the the ‘Structure of East Midlands'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Typescript notes by Kent ‘East Midlands drilling prospects’, 2pp, 20 September 1951 + later map, ‘Compilation and publication of U.K. drilling results’, 3pp, 28 September 1951, 'Bottesford [Notts], recommendation for additional test', 3pp, 1948 with covering note 28 September 1951', 'The structure of Caunton [Notts]', 1p + map, 15 April 1953, ‘Forward seismic programme: East Midlands’, 2pp, 20 July 1953; ms notes. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 52 Research and surveys B.26, B.27 Maps. B.26 ‘Geological structure contour map' of Notts and S. Yorks, 1940. Annotated by Kent. ‘Relations of the Midlandscoalfields' by Kent, 1 September 1947. ‘Farley's Wood' by Kent, 13 October 1947. Isochron map of area south of Lincoln, 25 September 1949. B.27 '‘lsopachs of the lower and middle coal measures (Millstone Grit to Top Marine Band)in the North East Midlands’, 21 November 1951. (6 maps). Isochrons of deep refractors in Notts and Lincs, Shrops and Staffs, Lancs and N. Yorks, nd. (4 maps). Lincolnshire Limestone, nd. ‘Belt for reflection survey’ in Lincs, nd. B.28-B.32 'Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands’ and '‘Rhaetic drafts and correspondence’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed dividedinto five for ease of reference: material re 'The Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands' by Kent, Bibliog. 34, 1953 (see also B.33-B.35) and other work on Rhaetic. B.28 B.29 B.30 Notes and data from bore-holes at Thorney, Scotter Wood, Pilham [Lincs] and Billesdon[Leics], c.1940; ‘The deposition of the Rhaetic bone beds' ?by Kent, 4pp typescript, latest bibliographical reference 1944; correspondence 1948 with M.R.W. Johnson and S.G. Clift re data on Rhaetic of Bunny area [Notts]. ‘Comments on Dr Kent's Rhaetic paper’ by N.L. Falcon, 30 October 1951; correspondencere Rhaetic 1952-53, 1955. ‘Details of sections’, typescript and ms draft of part of Kent's article; ms notes, tables andfigures. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 53 Research and surveys B.31 B.32 Map of Rhaetic in the Midlands by Kent, 1961; 'U-shaped burrows in the Rhaetic of Nottinghamshire’ by Kent, 2pp typescript + figures, revised 1960s, relates to 'Problems of the Rhaetic in the East Midlands', Bibliog. 76, 1970; 'The stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Rhaetic (Triassic) beds of Barnstone, Nottinghamshire’ by J.H. Sykes and J.S. Cargill, 44pp typescript + figure, 10 November 1969. Typescript notes on the Rhaetic in the north Midlands, Lincs, Yorks, and the North Sea, c.1970, possibly prepared for the Stratigraphy Committee of the Geological Society, with comments on Kent's 'Rhaetic. Draft account for Geol. Soc. Strat. Committee’, November 1970 (see F.101); charts of Rhaetic development in Lincs and Yorks by Kent, 1970; correspondence various dates 1971-86 and nd. B.33-B.35 ‘Rhaetic drafts'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: chiefly re ‘The Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands' (see also B.28-B.32). B.33 B.34 B.35 B.36, B.37 B.36 'The Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands' by Kent, 23pp typescript with ms correction; ‘Sections in the Jurassic beds of the East Midlands’ by Kent, 29pp typescript, latest bibliographical reference 1946. Figuresfor the article, illustrating Rhaetic outcrops in the N.E. Midlands. Correspondencere article 1952-53 and later work on the Rhaetic beds of the Midlands 1961, ms and typescript notes. ‘Rhaetic'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Ms notes on Bunny [Notts] sent to Kent 14 April 1946; ms draft 'The Rhaetic thicknessesin relation to structure’ by Kent, 4pp, c.1940s; map of 'Rhaetic thicknessesin the Northeast Midlands’ by Kent, 1961; correspondence and typescript notes on Rhaetic beds of Wilkesley bore-hole [Ches] from C.J. Stubblefield, January 1962. B.37 Ms notes on Torksey well 1, c.1962; correspondence 1964, 1977, 1978. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Research and surveys B.38 B.39 B.40 'Lias & Rhaetic (Source rocks +)'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: letter re 'specimen of an Acanthodian jaw’, 4 January 1956; 'Type sections of Bathonian, Portlandian and Purbeckian stages, and the problem of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary’ by P.C. Sylvester-Bradley, 7pp duplicated typescript sent to Kent for comment 8 June 1962; ms notes. ‘Lower/Middle Lias Paper Lias Working Data’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: 3pp msdraft 'The basal Lias near Long Bennington’(see B.10); references; maps;etc. 1960s. ‘The lower and middle Lias sequencein the North-East Midlands’ by Kent, 32pp typescript, 'Redraft dated March'63'. B.41-B.48 Contents of Kent's envelopes inscribed with map number (Ordnance Survey 1 inch:1 mile series) and area covered. The envelopes may contain ms and typescript notes and data, sections and mapschiefly relating to shot-points and bore-holesin the area. B.41 B.42 B.43 B.44 B.45 B.46 ‘Sheets 71-72 Market Weighton [Yorks]'. Includes ‘The earlier Lias of North-West Lincolnshire' by Kent, 3pp typescript ‘2nd draft’, nd. 1963-83 and nd. ‘Sheet 80 Shotholes sections re South Cave, Lincs, 1975. Lias N. Lincs’. Notes and correspondence ‘Sheets 89-90 Scunthorpe/Brigg [Lincs]'. 1962-73. ‘Sheets 102-103 Saxilby - Market Rasen [Lincs]'. 1964, 1973. Riseholme - Bishop Norton ‘Sheet 114-115 Lincoln - Rasen 81. Includes well log from Welton well 1, 1981. Brant Broughton - Thorney[Lincs]'. 1964- ‘Sheet 127 (with 126) Grantham [Lincs]'. c.1950-72. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 55 Research and surveys B.47 ‘Sheet 141 Loughborough[Leics]'. Notes on Bunny, Notts, March 1978. 'Sheet 142 Melton Mowbray[Leics]'. Chiefly re Old Dalby. 1946-73. B.48 ‘Sheet 143 Bourne Woolsthorpe - Mkt Overton [Leics]'. 1966, 1972. ‘Sheet 157 Stamford [Lincs] Greetham - Wansford [Cambs]’. 1964-73. B.49 B.50 B.51 B.52 Lincolnshire B.53-B.57 B.53 B.54 Hardback pocket notebook used for notes on sites in East Midlands 1968- 71. Pagesat front removed. Spiral bound notebook. Used for notes onsites in Lincs and Leics, 1975-76. Most pagesnot used. ‘South Midlands'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: miscellaneous material 1954, 1958, 1968. Includes well log from NokeHill G.1, and note by Kent commenting on ‘Oil prospects of the Staffordshire basin’ by ?J.1. Gillespie, 1 May 1958. ‘North Staffs sectionsetc. Maps 1965'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ‘Oolites - Corresp. Palaeo & stratig'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: correspondence and papers re Lincolnshire Limestone 1934-79. 1934-36. Includes typescriptlist of ‘Lincolnshire Inferior Oolite Brachipoda. Collected by P.E. Kent, 1932-1936' and mslist of those specimens missing. Includes 1941 re 1938-41. stratigraphical nomenclature in the Lincolnshire Limestone and with H.M. Muir-Wood re specimensfor the British Museum (Natural History). correspondence Richardson with L. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 56 Research and surveys B.55 B.56 1946-47. Includes correspondence re specimens for British Museum (Natural History) and H.L. Hawkins, Reading University, and 1p ms note on ‘Section at South Ferriby, Lincolnshire’, 8 July 1947. 1952-60. Includes 'The nomenclature and subdivisions of the Lincolnshire Limestone' by Kent, 8pp typescript + references and figures, with comments from Muir-Wood 20 May 1955. B.57 1961-79. Includes correspondence 1968-69 re 'the Clipsham ammonite’. B.58-B.60 ‘Lincolnshire - Limestone structure'. divided into three for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled B.58 B.59 B.60 B.61 ‘Report of a study of the Lincolnshire Limestone’ by Kent('Prelim. Report to D.S.I.R. north Northamptonshire’ by Kent, 5pp typescript, November 1936. 19pp typescript + figure; 1936'), ‘The structure of ‘The geology of north Lincolnshire’ by Kent, ms and typescript draft with ms corrections and additions, February 1938. Typescript notes by Kent ‘Revised structural contour interpretation of Lincolnshire Seismic Survey’, 7pp, 2 April 1941; ‘Report on the occurenceof pure Limestone, suitable for large scale quarrying, in Lincolnshire’, 3pp, nd; ‘Deep borings in Lincolnshire’, 3pp, nd; 'The Jurassic beds', 4pp, nd. ‘Report of a study of the Lincolnshire Limestone’ by Kent, 20pp typescript, September 1936. This report is a revised version of that at B.58 above. It is annotated ‘Report to DSIR underterms of research grant...’ B.62-B.64 ‘Geological Report P.E.K. 1. Report on the geology of Lincolnshire’ by Kent, May 1937. This was Kent's first report for Anglo-lranian Oil. B.62 B.63 24pp typescript + 6pp appendix anderrata. Figures. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 57 Research and surveys B.64 Miscellaneous maps found with figures: ‘Revised structure contour map of the base of the Lincolnshire Limestone near Lincoln’ by Kent, 31 May 1938. ‘Surface contour mapof the upper surfaceofthe interior Oolite near Grantham, Lincolnshire' by Kent, 3 June 1938. 'Thicknesses of Jurassic rocks near Grantham’ by Kent, 3 June 1938. ‘Structural contour map of the upper surface of the Lincolnshire Limestone' by Kent, 'Revised November1940". B.65 Exercise book inscribed on front cover ‘Previousliterature Lincs. Limestone’, and with business card printed 'P.E. Kent, B.Sc. Research Student...’ Most pages have been removed, those pasted to inside front cover remaining are loose. Miscellaneous ms notes. B.66-B.70 ‘Well logs. N & E Lincolnshire’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into five for ease of reference. Chiefly 1930s. B.66-B.68 Records, sections and notesof wells or borings. B.66 B.67 B.68 B.69 B.70 Appleby, Barnetby, Broughton, Burton upon Stather, Caenby. Clapgate, Haverholme, Hibaldstow, Howsham, Kettleby, Kirton Lindsay, North Lincoln. Reeds Winteringham, Winterton Holmes, Worlaby, Wrawby, Wressle. Scothern, Scotney Risby Warren, Island, Farm, Scotter, ‘Appleby - Brigg area 3" index to [water and exploratory] borings’; ‘Borehole records' collected by A.M. Cobban; etc. List of ‘Ammonites from the Frodingham Ironstone of the Scunthorpedistrict. Collected by P.E. Kent...January 1938', 2pp typescript with ms annotation; list of 'Frodingham Ironstone - deep exploration borings'; ‘Plan showing Frodingham Ironstone exploration area’; section from Worlaby showing strata above Frodingham Ironstone. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 58 Research and surveys B.71, B.72 ‘Well logs. Lincs. Wolds'. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. Chiefly 1930s. B.71 B.72 Typescript data from Beelsby, Cadbourn, Caistor, Croxby, Grasby, Great Limber, Kelstern, Nettleton, Somerby, Tealby, Thoresway, Walesby, Wold Newton. Records of wells or borings from Addlethorpe, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Calcethorpe, Donington, Grimoldby, Louth, Maltby le Marsh, Melton Ross, Sutton on Sea, Tathwell, Welton le Marsh, Willoughby, Wold Newton; miscellaneous data. B.73-B.77 ‘Well logs. C + S Lincs'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. Chiefly 1930s. B.73-B.76 Recordsof wells or borings. B.73 B.74 B.75 B.76 B.77 Ancaster, Anwick, Bainton, Benefield, Cottesmore [Leics], Billingborough, Braceby, [Rut], Colsterworth, Cranwell, Digby, Donington, Dorrington, Dowsby, Easton [Northants], Edenham, Evedon, Ewerby Waithe. Pedwardine, Branston, Clipsham Canwick, Burton Fineshade Faldingworth, Great Casterton [Leics], Great Ponton, Grimsthorpe, Hacconby, Haydor, Horbling, Kingscliffe [Northants], Kirkby Underwood, Langworth, Laxton, Lincoln. Folkingham, [Northants], Gosberton, Little Bytham, Metheringham, Miningsby, Normanton, Pilsgate, Hanworth, Sempringham, Shelford, Sleaford, South Witham, Spalding. Sapperton, Scampton, Ropsley, Preston, Potter Scopwick, Spanby, Spridlington, Stamford, Stanion [Northants], Swaton, Swayfield, Swineshead, Swinstead, Thorpe Tilney, Threckingham, Tickencote [Leics], Waddington, Wansford, Wilsford, Wittering, Wymondham [Leics]. Correspondence 1936, 1941; sections of Eagle and Thorney bore-holes, 1940; ms notes. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 59 Research and surveys B.78 B.79 B.80 B.81 B.82 ‘Seismic Wells - Lincoln 1938-9'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes on refraction surveys carried out in area south of Lincoln; map of area surveyed. ‘Seismic Wells Notts, S. Lincs, Leics 1940-43'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms and typescript notes onrefraction surveys. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Lincoln 1937 Usedfor notes on sites lying south and south east of Lincoln. Lincs’. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Central Lincs May 1938'. Used for notes on sites lying east and south of Grantham. Pocket notebook inscribed on front cover P.E. Kent N. Lincolnshire, 1938’. Used for notes on sites east and south-east of Brigg. B.83-B.85 ‘The geology of North Lincolnshire’ by Kent, February 1938. B.83 39pp typescript + ‘Stratigraphy typescript appendix and ‘Note onthe Brigg district’, 2pp typescript. of the Frodingham Ironstone’, 11pp B.84, B.85 Figures. 2 folders. B.86 B.87-B.89 Correspondence and papers, 1940-67 and nd, found with preceding. Includes typescript notes by Kent 'Boreholes at Winterton and Scotney, North Lincolnshire’, with covering letter to C.H. Dinham, 24 January 1940, ‘Ammonites from the Kim[m]eridge Clay of the Lincolnshire Fens', 18 June 1940, 'An ammonite from the Spilsby Sandstone of Elsham , North Lincolnshire’, 8 November 1961 and ‘River systems and glacial retreat stages in south Lincolnshire’ by Kent, nd. 1. Surface structure of Grantham - Sleaford ‘South Lincolnshire Reports. area (1938). 3. Underground structure of Grantham - Stamford area (1946)'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. of Long Benington district. 2. Surface structure P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 60 Research and surveys B.87 B.88 B.89 B.90 ‘On the geology of the Grantham district’, by Kent, 6pp typescript + figures, 7 October 1938. ‘Report on the underground structure of the county between Grantham and Stamford' by Kent, 4pp typescript + figures, 2 July 1946; ‘Sections of South Lincolnshire’, 27 July 1946. 'A borehole to basementrocks at Glinton, near Peterborough, Northants' by Kent, 6pp typescript, for meeting of Geological Society 13 December 1961 (Bibliog. 47); 'Glinton no.1 Geological completion report’ by M.F. Ridd, 22pp photostat copy, October 1961; note on ‘Material from Glinton No. 1 borehole’ by R. Walls, 2pp typescript, 24 November1961; etc. Miscellaneous material re Glinton well. Includes four mounted photographs of rock samples from the well. B.91, B.92 ‘Columnar secns'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. B.94 B.92 ‘Report on the Long Bennington structure’ by Kent, 8pp typescript, 1942; miscellaneous ms sections; maps; exchange with R.J. Firman re Long Bennington bore-holes, October 1962. [The lias of the north east Midlands] Part two: the Lias and Oolites', 14pp typescript + appendix; typescript data 1948 from test borings at Blankney, Bottesford, Sproxton, Stixwould, Sturton by Stow; 'Palynological report on chipping samples from BP...borehole at Claypole, 16 June 1971. Ruskington, Nocton, Claypole, Lincoln, Spital, B.93, B.94 ‘Lincolnshire Brochure (revision)'. divided into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's box file so labelled B.93 B.94 Correspondence, Limestone, 1941-45. chiefly re East African geology and Lincolnshire Bibliographical references; figures; outline list of contents ?for brochure. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 61 Research and surveys B.95 B.96 Spiral bound notebook used from the front for notes on sites in Lincs ‘pre- 1945' and from the backfor draft ‘Outline of stratigraphy’. Most pages not used. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Lincolnshire 1946’. Used for notes on Hibaldstow boring 28 June 1946. Most pagesnot used. B.97, B.98 ‘Lincs Seismic Holes 1948'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. B.97 B.98 B.99 B.100 B.101 B.102 B.103 Ms data from shot-points at Aubourn, Blankney, Brandon, Brauncewell, Claypole, Coleby, Digby, Dorrington, Gelston, Haddington, Kettlethorpe, Nocton, North Hykeham, Potter Hanworth, Scopwick, Stubton, Wellingore Hand-drawn mapsindicating positions of bore-holes; section from Carr Lane bore-hole, Hibaldstow. Miscellaneous material 1940s: map of Trent and sites to the east 1941; section of area from Eakring - Dunston 1943; map of Long Clawson; ms note 'A lateral change in the Red Chalk [of north Lincolnshire]. Hardback pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for notes onsites in Lincs, earliest date 3 July 1950. Most pages not used. ‘Lexicon of Stratigraphy. 1955. Retainedin original binder. Jurassic Rocks of Lincolnshire’ by Kent, March Correspondence and papers found with preceding. The correspondenceis principally with J.E.Hemingway, 1955, responsible for recording the Jurassic entries. ‘M[iddle] + U[pper] Lias & Oolites'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: 'A borehole at Welton, near Lincoln' by Kent, 3pp typescript, 31 January 1955 (Bibliog. 39); ms and typescript notes and pagesofdrafts. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 62 Research and surveys B.104 B.105 B.106 B.107 B.108 ‘Northerly estuarine’. Contents of Kent's envelope soinscribed: typescript accounts of sections at Fillingham and Ingham Cliff, 1964; report on Welton borehole, 3pp typescript. 'The earlier Lias of north-west Lincolnshire’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 24 September 1964. ‘Tetney Lock No. 1'. Tetney Lock 1; typescript notes, c.1964; sample descriptions. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: well log from Hand-drawn sections by Kent 1964, some from 1930s data, others from data from trenches dug by East Midlands Gas Board: Blyborough, Clipsham, Denton, Colsterworth, Fillingham, Glentworth, Hibaldstow, Ingham Cliff, Leadenham, Scampton, Spital, Waltham, Welton. London Palaeontological Notes by F.C. Dilley, 1965, ‘Microfaunas from Jurassic (chiefly Liassic) surface samples from Lincolnshire’ and 'Microfauna from the Jurassic of Tetney Lock No. 1 Well’, with 2pp typescript comments by Kent 25 June 1965. B.109 ,B.110 ‘Fenland Graphic Logs'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. B.109 B.110 B.111 B.112 BP log for Bardney well 1, 1966. Notes and data on wells at Wisbech and Wittering 1971; well logs from Ruskington 1, 1955, Helpringham 1, 1969, Brigg 1, 1981. Miscellaneous material 1960s: correspondence re borings 1962; typescript note on 'Trench sections at Westborough, Lincs' ?1966; sketches by Kent of geology at Castle Quarry, Ancaster and Leadenham Quarry, 1969; sections. Contents of Kent's envelope: miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1971-73. Includes ms‘field notes & sketches' and typescript data from 1971 Gas Council trench in north west Lincs; log and typescript data from Nettleton well 1 1972; and 'The Cretaceous - Jurassic contact in the 1973 Elsham trench section’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, November 1973. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 63 Research and surveys B.113 B.114 B.115 B.116 B.117 Contents of Kent's folder: correspondence and papers 1973-76 re second edition of 'The geology of Lincolnshire’, by Kent and H.H. Swinnerton (Bibliog. 105, 1976). River Brant ‘The Broughton and Stragglethorpe, mid-Lincs. 1973' by Kent, 5pp typescript + ‘Brant section near Stragglethorpe 1.2.74’. section between Skinnand, Brant J.A.D. Dickson sections’. ‘Oolites Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: sections from the Great Hale bore-hole sent to Kent January 1974. Inferior Oolite isopach maps of area east of Lincoln, sent to Kent by R.J.M. Dixie 22 March 1974. ‘Lincs. Palaeontology (Lias - ex-I.G.S.) B.M.'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: 16pplist of identifications of Lincolnshire fossils presented by Kent to Institute of Geological Sciences 1968-72, sent to Kent 4 April 1974. B.118 ‘Nettleham #1 Logs’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed. 1982. B.119 B.120 B.121 ‘Ewerby (Sleaford) Boreholes'. ‘basic strata logs' for four bore-holes sunk by Anglian Water 1985-86. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: Hardback pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for notes on sites in north Lincs. Nd. ‘Lincs Lst. inscribed. Nd. Richardson's Strat. Columns’. Contents of Kent's envelope so B.122 Miscellaneous ms notes and sections. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Nottinghamshire B.123 B.124 B.125 Research and surveys ‘Land Utilisation inscribed: hand-drawn map. Aug. 1941 Fisketon'. Content of Kent's envelope so Report UK 137 'Geology of South Nottinghamshire’ by Kent, December 1947, retained in original binder. Some later material has been added within the binder at back of report. Material found looseis at B.125. Correspondence, papers, photographs and maps found loose at backof B.124. 1969 correspondenceis principally re Widmerpool Gulf. B.126, B.127 ‘South Notts. 1951 Draft'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference B.126 13pp typescript with ms correction + mslist ofillustrations and title page, with covering letter 1954. A note onthe title page states: 'Draft of paper, written 1951 revised 1955, intended for eventual publication’. B.127 Figures. B.128 ‘South Notts draft maps'. annotated well log for Widmerpool1. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: B.129-B.131 ‘Notts - Air photos’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Some labelled or inscribed with identification on verso. 1941 and nd. Leicestershire B.132 ‘Leicestershire Lower Carboniferous Kent's envelope so inscribed. Field records 1939'. Contents of P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 65 Research and surveys B.133 B.134 B.135 B.136 Derbyshire B.137-B.141 B.137 B.138 B.139 ‘Plungar [Leics]'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: ‘Note on the Plungar structure’ by Kent, 1p typescript, 27 January 1954; draft on the Middle and Upper Lias, 4pp typescript; D'Arcy Exploration Co. well logs for Plungar 1 and 2 and Barkeston 1; maps of Plungararea;etc. Report UK 357 (PEK 68) ‘The Melton Mowbray Prospect’ by Kent, July 1961, retained in original binder. Some later ms notes looseat back. ‘Oolites sections'. notes, sections etc 1969-73, chiefly re Sproxton. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: miscellaneous Miscellaneous material various dates 1964-84. 1984 correspondence and papers re Asfordby bore-holes sunk by National Coal Board. ‘Derbyshire’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. Correspondence and papers 1946-71. 1946-50. Chiefly re geological examination of silica pits in Newhaven area. Includes Kent's report on 'The location of silica deposits on the Derbyshire plateau' prepared for the Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Company, 3pp typescript, 3 January 1947 and 'The Mesozoic history of the southern Pennines' by Kent, 4pp ?incomplete typescript with ms correction and annotation, latest reference 1947. Chiefly re ‘Triassic relics and the 1,000-foot surface in the 1957-59. southern Pennines' by Kent (Bibliog. 42, 1957). Includes draft of article, 12pp typescript and of 6pp typescript ‘Postscript note’ arising from work of C. Yorke, and related correspondence. 1961-71. Includes photocopiesofletters of F.W. Shotton to C. Yorke, 1961- 62, re Derbyshire blue clays. B.140 Typescript and ms notes on theliterature. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 66 Research and surveys B.141 Ms notes, tablesetc. B.142 ‘UK exploration - Land Licenses, South Derbyshire’ by Kent, 1p typescript note to H.R. Warman, 22 November 1973, with map showing area for which Kent recommendeda License should be sought. East Anglia B.143, B.144 B.143 B.144 B.145 Southern England ‘East Anglia’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. ‘Seismic investigations of East Anglia and their geological implications’ by Kent and J.E.R. Wood, 2pp duplicated typescript resumé of presentation to British Association meeting August 1961; ‘Notes on paper "Seismic investigations of East Anglia [...]"' by T.F. Gaskell, 4pp photostat typescript, 23 November 1961, with response from J.E.R. Wood. Revised version of ‘Seismic investigations of East Anglia [...]', 13pp typescript, October 1962. Contents of Kent's folder: logs from North Creake well 1, South Creake well 1 and Somerton well 1; Superior Oil Co. summaries of logs for Ellingham, Four Ashes, Lakenheath, Ashwell, Little Chishill, Tring 1965-66; ms and typescript notes. B.146-B.151 'S. England’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference B.146 ‘Geological Progress Report for March 1937' by A.H. Taitt, 3pp typescript; data from Worbarrow Bay, Mupe Bay and Lulworth Cove[Dorset], October 1937, with ms diagrams and notes found therewith; data from Chaldon well 1 [Dorset], 29 March 1939. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 67 Research and surveys B.147 B.148 B.149 B.150 B.151 ‘Choice of a deep drilling location for Mesozoic oil in Southern England’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + covering memo, 20 May 1946; 'Draft Memo to Mr Seamark. A recommendation for a boring at Sandown, Isle of Wight’ by G.M. Lees, 10pp typescript, sent to Kent for comment 6 June 1946; notes on 'Kimmeridge oil shale development’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + covering memo, 8 October 1947; memo to N.L. Falcon on 'Corallian prospects of the Dorset coast’, 2pp typescript, 29 December 1947. Correspondence and papers re fossils in Isle of Wight Carstone, October 1952; typescript list of chief or characteristic ammonites to be found in various rocks, nd. Well logs from Brightling 1 [Sussex], Fordingbridge 1 [Hants], Grove Hill 1 [Sussex], Portsdown 1[Hants], Poxwell 1 [Dorset], Willesden 1 [Mddx]. Annotated chart of data from logs of wells in Sussex, Hants and Isle of Wight; BP geological maps of southern England showing gas and oil production, June 1970. Two cross-sections ‘across the I.o.W. structure’, sent to Kent 27 September 1974; correspondence re geology of Ham and Kingsclere [Hants], 1979; material re bore-holes at Marchwood [Hants] and Winterborne Kingston [Dorset]; etc. B.152, B.153 ‘Dorset reports. September 1937'. divided into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled B.152 B.153 Memofrom P.T. Cox to A.H. Taitt 5 May 1937 (includes note that 'Mr Kent will report to you as Resident Geologist, Poxwell, on Friday 14th May’); notes by W.J. Arkell, July 1937 on ‘Thickness of Kim[meridge] Clay’, 5pp typescript and ‘Oil prospects in the Lulworth district’; 'Poxwell No. 1. Completion ‘Report on excavations on the Poxwell structure’ by Kent, 2pp typescript + sections. Report’ by Kent, 8pp typescript + section; ‘Note on the Bincombe, Sutton Poyntz, Poxwell and Chaldonstructuresof S. Dorset' by Taitt, 4pp typescript + figures, with copy of comments by Arkell; ‘Note on the succession penetrated at Broadbench, Kim[m]eridge Bay' by Kent, 4pp typescript + log; well logs of Kimmeridge 1 and Radipole 1 [Dorset]. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 68 Research and surveys B.154 Sutton Poyntz & shot holes'. ‘Dorset Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: includes annotated map of Sutton Poyntz area, correspondence re specimens, May 1948, and sections through Chaldon Herring anticline, 1955. B.155-B.157 'Kingsclere [Hants] Boring’. divided into three for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed B.155 B.156 ‘The Kingsclere boring’ by R.V. Melville, 24pp typescript + table, sent to Kent for comment 20 September 1949, with related correspondence including later draft for letter to Melville asking 'Now that you are facing retirement, would youlike to take it up again?’ ‘Underground storage prospects' by Kent, 4pp typescript + covering memo and figure, May 1953. B.157 Log and data from Kingsclere well 1. B.158 B.159 B.160 B.161 ‘Dorset stratigraphy’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: letter to Kent from M. Adcock, 26 December 1939; ms and typescript drafts of ‘The origin of Ptygmatic folding’ by Kent; data from wells at Eakring, Caunton and Kelham [Notts]. ‘Vale of Wardour’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: letters from B.H. Mottram re the Poxwell Fault, and Mere Fault and Wardour Fold, December 1953; ms draft 'The structure of the Vale of Wardour’; ms notes; maps of vale of Wardour area. ‘UK oil prospects - West Dorset Mesozoic' by Kent, 2pp typescript, 28 November1973. 'R. Stoneley - Wessex Basin'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: draft ‘On the structural development of the Wessex Basin’ by Stoneley, 13pp typescript + figures, sent to Kent for comment 6 January 1981, with letter arising. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 69 Research and surveys B.162, B.163 ‘Oil in Dorset'. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. B.162 B.163 Yorkshire B.164 In 1985 BP celebrated fifty years of exploration and production at Kimmeridge in Dorset. They asked Kent to assist in the compilation of a profile of operations in the 1930s. Draft profile of Kimmeridge operations by D.J.T. Smale, with covering letter to Kent, 24 July 1985. ‘The Kimmeridge story' by Kent, 9pp typescript with ms correction and annotation, 31 July 1985; background information including copy of ‘Oil in Dorset' by Kent, New Scientist, 16 July 1959, 84-85 (notlisted in Bibliog.). ‘The Market Weighton Anticline' by Kent, 26pp typescript + figures, with ms annotation and correction, May 1938, retained in original binder. Also enclosed in the binder is contemporaneous correspondence from H.D. Thomas and a 'Comment on the results of the Beverley Seismic Survey- Report UK. 204' by Kent, 3pp typescript,15 February 1955. B.165 Hand-made paper-back pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Market Weightondistrict 1938'. Used for notes chiefly on South Cave and Millington. P.E. Kent B.166, B.167 Correspondence and papers re 'The Market Weighton structure’ by Kent, (Bibliog. 41, 1955). B.166 35pp typescript. B.167 correspondence Includes J.E. Hemingway, 22 March 1955, whoread the paperto the Yorkshire Geological Society in Kent's absence in New Guinea; 5pp typescript transcript of comments onthe paper following its presentation. including comments from re paper, P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 70 Research and surveys B.168 B.169 ‘Yorkshire Rhaetic'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: correspondence 1946, 1952, 1953; well logs from Cleveland Hills 1, Eskdale 2, Moordale 1; msnotes. Composite structure contour map of the Cleveland Hills by Kent, 18 March 1947. B.170-B.172 'NE & SE Yorks'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. B.170 ‘Potential gas-bearing structures in East Yorkshire’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, 11 September 1953; list of Yorkshire wells with depths and thicknessesof Lias and 1952-53 maps of Middlesbrough and Humberareas. nd; UK Gravity Survey Permo-Trias, B.171 Maps, including: Mapof east Yorkshire by Kent, 10 February 1954. Gas Exploration Proposed Seismic Programme map of Lincs and east Yorks. Geological sketch map of north east Yorks. B.172 Typescript and ms data from Eskdale bore-holes; mapsof the area. B.173-B.176 Contents of Kent's folder divided into four for ease of reference. B.173 Account of ?East Midlands Geological Society field trip to north east Yorkshire, 15-18 October 1965, with illustrative material found therewith; London Palaeontological Note 'Ostracod dating of Pre-Cretaceous strata, Market Weighton area’ by R.A. Field, 11 December1968. B.174 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers 1966-79. B.175 Ms and typescript notes on sites in Givendale area, 1973, 1975, 1980-82. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 71 Research and surveys B.176 B.177 Correspondence and interim Howsham and Scalla Moor, 1974. reports re bore-holes at Brown Moor, ‘Yorkshire Deep Wells'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: well logs from Cleveland Hills (extension), Crayke 1, Fordon 1 (extension), Harlsey 1, Whitwell on the Hill 1 (extension). Latest date 1965. B.178, B.179 ‘East Yorks. Bore-hole Secns'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: well logs, notes, data and correspondence with F.C. Dilley 1971-74. B.178 B.179 B.180 B.181 B.182 Scotland B.183 Barmston 1, Eskdale 2 and 12, Fordon 1. Great Hatfield 1, Hornsea 1, Millington Pasture shot-hole, Risby 1, Robin Hood's Bay 1, South Cliffe 1. 'Winestead No. 1 log, data and notes, c.1972. S. Yorks’. Contents of Kent's envelope soinscribed: well ‘E. Yorks. and Humberside B.H.s'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: map of Hull area with sites of bore-holes indicated; well log from Kirkleatham 2; 10pp typescript list of thicknesses and depths of strata for bore-holes in Aclam area, sent to Kent 9 September 1975; etc. ‘'HowardianHills’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes, some dated June 1977. ‘D'Arcy Exploration Company's search for petroleum in Scotland’ by B.K.N. Wyllie, Institute of Petroleum Conference, Glasgow, 6-11 June 1938. pre-print of presentation at P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 72 Research and surveys B.184, B.185 ‘North-West Scotland 1968 Applecross Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. Gruinard Bay, Skye’. Contents of B.184 B.185 B.186 North Sea B.187 Field notes and typescript notes June 1968; letter to Kent from M.G. Collett re samples from Applecross, 23 July 1969. Geological Survey of Scotland map of Applecross. ‘Rhaetic etc Scotland'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: notes on Trias succession at Rudha na Leac, Raasay, sent to Kent 7 April 1972; unidentified sections. ‘Jurassic and Cretaceous reservoirs in the North Sea basin’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + figure, 2 July 1962. A covering note has been annotated by Kent ‘Largely misleading’. B.188-B.191 ‘North Sea - General’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference: papers re North Seaoil prospects 1963-67. B.188 'How good are North Sea offshore oil prospects?’ by J.A. Kornfeld, World Oil, 1 February 1963, 47-51; 'The searchfor oil and gas in the North Sea’ by J.S. Royds, 9pp typescript pre-print + figures, 'Nov. 1965'; ‘A summary of the geology and geophysics of the British North Sea' by M. Holmes, 9pp typescript + 3pp typescript 'File Note’ and table, December 1965. B.189 Programme for 14th Inter-University Congress on the Geology of Shelf Seas, Hull, January 1967, with Kent's ms notes on proceedings. See H.19. B.190, B.191 Figures, possiblyillustrations for Kent's contribution above. 2 folders. B.192 ‘The basis of North Sea exploration’ by Kent and A.F.M. Matthews, 12pp typescript, 'For oral presentation at the A.A.P.G. Convention, Toronto - May 1964'. See H.12. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 73 Research and surveys B.193 London Palaeontological Note ‘Foraminifera from BP (North Sea) 48/6/3, incorporating a Zonal Schemefor the Lias and its application to Hamilton’ by F.C. Dilley, 1 December 1966. B.194, B.195 ‘North Sea: General 1967-'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. B.194 Exchange with D.T. Donovan re nomenclature of North Sea features, February 1967; papers re discussion with Board of Inquiry into a North Sea submarinepipeline, 1970; etc. B.195 Memosetc. 1972. B.196-B.200 ‘North Sea Logs and Summaries 1/500’. inscribed dividedinto five for ease of reference. Latest date 1968. Contents of Kent's envelope so B.196 Wells 47/3-1 and 47/9-1. B.197 Well 47/15-1x. B.198 Wells 47/18-1 and 47/25-2. B.199 Well 48/6-5. B.200 Well 48/6-10. B.201-B.208 ‘North Sea Wells'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease of reference: well logs and summaries etc. Latest date 1973. B.201 Lists of oil companies andtheir wells; mapsofoil fields and wells. B.202 Wells A339/-1, 38/29-1, 41/8-1, 41/20-1. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 74 Research and surveys B.203 Wells 41/24A, 42/23-1, 42/29-1, 44/11-1, 44/21-1. B.204 Wells 47/3-1, 47/9-1, 47/13-1, 47/15. B.205 Wells 47/18-1, 47/20-1, 47/25-2, 47/29A-1. B.206 Wells 48/6-1, 48/6-5, 48/6-10. B.207 Wells 48/21-2, 49/13-1, 49/17-1, 49/22-1, 49/26-1, 53/10-1. B.208 'N. Sea Lias Zonal Chart’. B.209 B.210 B.211 B.212 Softback notebookinscribed on first page 'North Sea data 1974-'. from the front and from the back for notes 1974-75. Used 'N. Sea - Cretaceous Sub-crop envelope soinscribed: data. J. Butler 1975'. Contents of Kent's Softback notebookinscribed on fore edge ‘North Sea 1978'. Used for notes on wells in block 47. Most pages not used. Softback notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘North Sea Lancaster Gate 1979 1980 83'. Used for notes on organisation of British National Oil Corporation and its Exploration Department; Conference on Petroleum Geology of the Continental Shelf of North-West Europe, March 1980 (see H.111, H.112); Geological Society meeting 1983. B.213 Institute of Geological Sciences North Sea Survey ‘Equalised Stack’ data. 1980. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 75 Research and surveys B.214 Institute of Geological Sciences North Sea Survey ‘Relative Amplitude Stack’ data. 1980. B.215-B.217 Background material re North Sea pockmarks, sent to Kent 19 October 1982. 3 folders. B.218-B.225 North Sea figures and maps. 8 folders. Some of presentations and articles on the North Sea. material was used as illustrative this material for Kent's IRAN Kent's first overseas posting with Anglo-lranian/BP wasto Iran. Here he was involved in studying the geology of the outer mountains of the Zagros range. In 1951 BP were expelled from Iran when its interests were nationalised by the Iranian government. Kent was involved in three major surveys; of Kazerun 1948-49, and then of Bebehan-Kazerun 1949-50 and Fars-Laristan 1950-51 both of which were led by Kent. In 1951 BP was expelled from Iran when foreign owned oil companies were nationalised. For Kent's letters hometo his family in this period see A.213-A.218. With the restoration of the monarchy in Iran BP were able to resumetheir activities. In 1957 a consortium of western oil companies operating in Iran, including BP, established the Exploration Advisory Group, to advise on exploration matters. Later it reported to OSCO- the Oil Service Company- a joint concern of western oil companies serving as a direct contractor to the National Iranian Oil Company. Kent became a memberof the EAG in 1965, replacing N.L. Falcon as the BP representative. In 1973 Kent became Chairman of the Group in succession to H.D. Hedburg, his continuing membership of the EAG being part of his post-retirment consultancy with BP. EAGactivity comprised visits to Teheran to receive briefings from staff on the ground followed byfield trips, chiefly to the oilfields and the Zagros mountains area. The party would then return to Teheranto draft its report. The EAG madeits last visit in 1978; its activities were halted by the Islamic revolution and the overthrow of the Shah. Kent's interest in salt plugs dated to his survey work in the Zagros Salt plugs are more numerous and better seen in mountains in 1948-51. this region of Iran than in any other area of the world. In February 1968 Kent was a memberof a party which conducted a minor survey of salt plugs in the Fars province. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 76 Research and surveys The material is presented asfollows: B.226-B.229 Kazerun Survey B.230-B.251 Behbehan-Kazerun Survey B.252-B.277 Fars-Laristan Survey B.278-B.290 Salt Plugs B.291-B.339 Exploration Advisory Group B.340-B.353 General Kazerun Survey B.226 Appendicesto 'Kazerun Survey - 1948/49' by Kent, August 1949. Retained in original binder. B.227, B.228 Mapsprepared during Kazerun survey. 2 folders. B.229 Hardback pocket notebookused for notes on Iran 1948-49, and UK Midland sites 1970s. Behbehan-Kazerun Survey B.230-B.236 '‘Bebehan-Kazerun Survey 1949-50 of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference. Monthly and Interim reports'. Contents B.230 Correspondence and memosre organisational and logistical arrangements, August - November 1949; Progress Report for September; ‘Note on the Bingistan Barytes deposits' by Kent, J.F. Watson and H.R. Warman, 5pp typescript, ?November 1949. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 77 Research and surveys B.231 Progress Reports for October and November 1949. B.232 Progress Reports for December 1949 and January 1950. B.233 B.234 Correspondence and papers re samples from Tang-i-Shahen fissure, January, July 1950. Correspondence and memos February 1950; Progress Report for February 1950. B.235 Progress Reports for March and April 1950. B.236 Miscellaneous material. B.237-B.242 ‘Bebehan-Kazerun Strat Columns’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed dividedinto six for ease of reference: stratigraphical sections, dated October 1949 - April 1950. B.243, B.244 ‘Bebehan-Kazerun Survey. Palaeontologists' Reports'. folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's B.243 Reports by J.A. Douglas on fossils collected during the survey, June 1950 and January 1951. B.244 Preliminary palaeontological reports July - September 1950. B.245 ‘The Bingistan Barytes deposits Supplementary Note [to Report PEK 35] by Kent, 2pp duplicated typescript + plates and figure, 11 July 1950. See B.230. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 78 Research and surveys B.246-B.249 'Mamatain'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. B.246 Report PEK 36 ‘An examination of the Mamatain Limestones' by Kent, J.F. Watson and H.R. Warman, August 1950. Retained in original binder. B.247-B.249 Material found with preceding. 3 folders. B.247 B.248 B.249 Memos, notes and sections re Mamatain Limestone; humorous verse 'To Editor, H.K. [Haft Kel] News’. 1:253,440 topographical maps of Kazerun, Basht and Haft Kel areas, 1940s; 1:253,440 geological maps of Kazerun and Beheban, 1920s. linch: Yamile map of 'The lower Fars stage 3. Secondary Limestones of Mamatain', March 1949; Anglo-lranian Oil Co. 'Panorama of Iran showing the oil operations’ annotated by Kent with 1949-50 survey route; ms sketches 'Samples of Gach-Limestonetransitions'; miscellaneous msfigures etc. B.250, B.251 Report PEK 37 'The Behbehan - Kazerun Survey 1949-50’ by Kent, J.F. Watson, H.R. Warman and D.G.F. Bailey, c.September 1950. Retained in original binders. B.250 Part |. B.251 Part Il. Fars-Laristan Survey B.252-B.254 Series of three hardback pocket notebooks inscribed 'P. E. Kent Laristan' on fore edge and numberedonfront cover. Fars- B.252 '{'. 'Book 1 Surmeh to Asalu'. Used from October 1950. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 79 Research and surveys B.253 B.254 '2'. 'Book 2 Khiaru to Chiru'. Used from December 1950. '3'. ‘Book 3 Kalat to Chah Kazimah'. Used from February 1951. B.255-B.257 'Kuh-i-Surmeh (Fars-Laristan Survey)'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: material re Report PEK 39. The report itself was not found. B.255 B.256 B.257 Progress Reports for October and November 1949 and February 1950 (prior to Kentjoining the Survey). Correspondence and memos 1950-52. Includes reports onfossils collected. Well logs and sections from Kuh-i-Surmeh; photographs; ms figures; ms notes. B.258-B.260 ‘Monthly repts 1950-51 Fars Laristan'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed dividedinto three for ease of reference. B.258 October, November, December 1950, January 1951. B.259 February, March, April 1951. B.260 Ms notes on work December 1950 - April 1951; correspondence and memos April, September - October 1951; typescript notes on Cenomanian Marls; maps and msfigures. B.261, B.262 'Fars-Laristan Stratig Sections’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: stratigraphical sections dated October 1950 - April 1951. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 80 Research and surveys B.263-B.269 ‘Pal Data & specimens’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: papers re samples sent for analysis. B.263, B.264 Macrofossils field data sheets, numbered 1- 60. 2 folders. B.265, B.266 Memos re data sheets and cansof fossil samples returned for examination, October 1950 - July 1951, with lists of samples. 2 folders. B.267, B.268 Reports by J.A. Douglas on macrofossils collected during the survey, 1951. 2 folders. B.269 Correspondence and memos January 1951-1952. B.270-B.277 Material re report PEK 40 'The Fars - Laristan Survey, 1950-51' by Kent, A. McGugan, H.R. Warman and E.K. Cullingham, c. September 1952. B.270, B.271 Contents of Kent's envelope divided into two for ease of reference: papers re report PEK 40. B.270 Memos 1951-52; letter to C.J. Stubblefield re Kalat Cambrian trilobites, 20 June 1952; 'Salt plugs' by Kent, 11pp typescript with ms correction; typescript notes on 'Gach-i-turushes on Kuh-i-Gavbut', ‘Eocene landstlip within the Bakhtiri conglomerates of Kuh-i-Safid (Janna)’. B.271 Sections and photographs for report PEK 40; etc. B.272 Typescript draft of text with ms correction and annotation. B.273, B.274 Final report. Retainedin original binders. B.273 Part I. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 B.274 Research and surveys 81 Il Some of the sections and photographs which Part accompaniedPart II may be at B.271. (incomplete). B.275, B.276 Papers re the Report found looseat back of B.274. B.275 Chart of horizontal sections from the survey. B.276 Miscellaneous material. Includes draft ‘Appendix A - The Knemiceras Beds’, App typescript + figure. B.277 ‘Fars Laristan Survey 1950-51. Appendix A'. Retained in original binder. Salt Plugs B.278-B.283 ‘Salt Plugs'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference. B.278 B.279 B.280 B.281 Correspondence 1951, 1959, 1963-65. Includes correspondence re 'The origin and movement of Salt Domesin S.W. Persia’ by Kent, presentation to Leicester University Geological Society, 1964. See also D.100. Correspondence 1966-69. Includes 'The temperature conditions of Salt Domeintrusions’ by Kent, 2pp typescript Letter to Nature, Lond., 1966, and correspondence with H.D. Hedberg re ‘Fars Salt Plugs minor survey' (see B.280). Report on 'Fars Salt Plugs minor survey February 23rd - 28th, 1968’, 8pp typescript + lists of specimens. Correspondence 1971, 1975-85, nd. Chiefly re 'The emergent Hormuz Salt Plugs of southern Iran’ (Bibliog. 121, 1979, see D.44, D.45). P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 82 Research and surveys B.282 ‘Iran November 1969 - Revised list of PEK samples’; ms note by Kent on ‘Piercement Salt Plugs of the Southern Gulf’; sketches of salt plugs by Kent. B.283 Maps, sections, etc. B.284, B.285 ‘Iran etc Salt Plugs. SP diagrams’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: miscellaneous mapsandfigures. B.286-B.290 ‘Salt Plugs Lit[erature] Other Countries'. inscribed dividedinto five for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's folder so B.286 B.287 Off-print ‘Internal structure of the Grand Saline salt dome, Van Zandt County, Texas' by W.R. Muehlburger, University of Texas, 1959. Pasted into back of the notebook are Kent's ms notes on visit to Grand Saline and page of programme from American Association of Petroleum Geologists Conference, March 1959. ‘Emplacement of the Arctic Gypsum Diapirs' by Kent, 6pp typescript, 16 June 1960; 16pp typescript notes on ‘Petrographical examination of Erratic rocks associated with Gypsum Diapirs from the NW Territories'; 'Evaporite Piercement structures in the northern Richardson mountains’ by Kent and W.A.C. Russell, 11pp typescript + references (Bibliog. 46, 1961). B.288 Correspondence 1980-81. B.289, B.290 Miscellaneous material. 2 folders. Exploration Advisory Group (EAG) 1965 B.291 Note re recommendations of 1964 report; correspondence and papers re 1965 visit, 21 November - 6 December. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Research and surveys B.292 Programmeand msnotes. B.293 ‘Recommendations of the Members Exploration Advisory Group December 1965’. B.294 B.295 B.296 1967 Programme and ms notesof 1967visit, 19 November - 4 December. Hardback pocket notebook used from the front for notes on EAG visits to Iran 1967 and 1971 and from the backfor notes on 1967visit. Draft 'Recommendations of Members Exploration Advisory Group December 1967'. The draft is annotated by Kent 'Unexpurgated draft. To be retained!’ 1968 B.297 ‘Report of [Consortium] Committee on Reserves under the Chairmanship of Mr [M.M.] Pennell’, 25 June. 1969 B.298 Correspondence re and draft February, and 1969visit. report of EAG meeting, London 10-12 B.299 Programme and ms notes of 1969 visit, 21 November - 4 December. B.300 Report of EAG December 1969. Retainedin original binding. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Research and surveys 1971 B.301 B.302 B.303 Correspondence, papers, annotated programmeand msnotesre 1971 visit, 1-15 March. Report of EAG March 1971. Retainedin original binding. ‘Exploration Presentation to Members’ Technical Representatives November 1971". 1972 B.304 Correspondenceand papers re 1972 visit, 29 September - 13 October. B.305 ‘Summary of technical papers for presentation to Members Exploration Advisory Group in Teheran, October 1972'. Annotated by Kent. B.306 ‘Exploration Advisory Group Meeting October 1972 Field Excursion Notes’. B.307 Programmeand msnotes of 1972 visit. B.308 Report of EAG October 1972. Retainedin original binding. B.309 Correspondencearising, including correspondence re Kent's succession as Chairman, etc. 1973 B.310 Correspondence re Chairmanship and 1973 visit, 30 November - 13 December. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 85 Research and surveys B.311 B.312 B.313 B.314 B.315 Programme and field excursion notes; ms notesofvisit. Report of EAG December 1973. Retainedin original binding. ‘Geological map of South-WestIran’, 1:1,000,000. 1974 Correspondence, chiefly re structure of anticlinal cores. Persian Gulf oil well summaries, August and September- October. 1975 B.316 Programmeand msnotesoffirst 1975 visit, 3-19 January. B.317, B.318 '1975 E.A.G. field trip maps and sections Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Dezful Embayment'. Contents of B.317 B.318 B.319 B.320 B.321 Drafts by EAG membersof sections of the January 1975 recommendations. Geological maps of Dezful and Ahwaz, 1:250,000. Report of EAG January 1975. Retainedin original binding. ‘Dalan prospect. Proposed Bangestan, Khami and Permian Test Well Proposal Summary’, sent to Kent 20 February; notes by Kent for second 1975 EAG meeting, [3-18] October; brief correspondence. Loose-leaf pocket notebook containing programme and ms notes of October meeting. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 86 Research and surveys B.322 Report of EAG October 1975. Retainedin original binding. B.323 B.324 B.325 1976 Report of EAG October 1976. Retainedin original binding. Correspondence November 1976. Iranian oil potential’ by Kent. Includes 2pp typescript ‘Appraisal of 1977 Letter re meeting of OSCO Geophysical Advisory Group, 3 May; exploration drilling results, August 1976 - September 1977; annotated programme of visit; etc. B.326 Report of EAG October 1977. Retainedin original binding. 1978 B.327 Correspondence; annotated programmeofvisit; attendancelist for EAG de- brief meeting, 10 November. B.328 Report of EAG October 1978. Retainedin original binding. B.329-B.339 OSCO Geological and Exploration Division reports and technical notes. See also B.350, B.351. B.329-B.331 ‘The post-Asmari formations of South lran' by G. Favre, report 1220, December 1974. 3 folders. B.332, B.333 ‘The geothermal gradient map of S.W. Iran and adjacent areas and its applications’ by G. Orbell, technical note 2/1976, April 1976. 2 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 87 Research and surveys B.334 ‘The Mesozic sequence in soutwest Iran and adjacent areas' by A. Setudehnia, report 1248, August 1976. B.335, B.336 ‘Synsedimentary tectonics in the Bangestan of Kharg' by H. Bolz, report 1275, January 1978. 2 folders. B.337-B.339 'The geology of the Bandar Abbas hinterland, South Fars' by P. Verral, report 1286, August 1978. 3 folders. General B.340-B.344 '‘lran - General'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: correspondenceand papers 1964-75, nd. B.340 1964. Includes material re research on oil recovery techniques in Iran and 3pp typescript memo by Kent ' S.W. Iran - Reservoir data’, 24 November. B.341 1965. Includes papers re crude oil from Kharg oil wells. B.342 1967-70. B.343 1971. Includes material re proposed research on the Zagros Crush Zone. B.344 1971-75 and nd. B.345 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Iran 64'. Used from the front and from the backfor notes onvisit to lran 1964. Paginated upto p.53. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 88 Research and surveys B.346-B.353 Contents of Kent's envelope divided into eight for ease of reference: maps, stratigraphical columns and sections. B.346-B.348 Stratigraphical columns. 1960s. 3 folders. B.349 Seismic sections, c.1976. B.350, B.351 Figures for OSCO Exploration Division technical note 3/1977 on Kuh-e Darang area. 2 folders. See B.329-B.339. B.352, B.353 Miscellaneous. 2 folders. EAST AFRICA Kent was posted to East Africa very shortly after his return from Iran in 1951, initially to investigate a report that oil had been found in Kenya. Nooil wasfound but Kent remained in East Africa principally surveying the geology of Tanganyika where the prospect of finding oil seemed better. He left Africa in 1955 but made several later visits. The final results of Kent's geological work in East Africa were only published in 1971 in Bibliog. 80. Also includesa little material relating to oil prospects in northern Africa which Kent visited during his time in East Africa. For material relating to Kent's work on the East African Archaeological Expedition of 1934-35 see A.53-A.102. For material relating to work arising from the Deep Sea Drilling Project for which Kent reviewed the results of Leg 25drilling in the western Indian Ocean, see C.117-C.121. B.354 Softback pocket notebookinscribed onfirst page 'Kenya - Northern Frontier Dist. 1951 Uganda - Albert visit". Used from the front for notes on sites 23 May - 7 July 1951, and notes on expenses, itineraries etc, October - December. B.355-B.357 Series of three hardback pocket notebooks used 1951, dated and identified by inscription on front cover. B.355 ‘Northern Kenya’. Used for notes and sketches 11-27 June. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 89 Research and surveys B.356 B.357 B.358 B.359 B.360 ‘Coastal Tanganyika’. Used for notes and sketches 25 October - 22 November. At the entry for 26 October on the Tanga district are stapled later notes on Tanga, February 1953. 'Mafia-Zanzibar' and onfirst page 'Voyage of the "Burgan" '. Used for notes and sketches 24 November - December. At entry for 7 December are pasted later notes on shot-point 39 in Zanzibar, 16 November 1954. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Tanganyika flights Nairobi 1951'. Used to record observations made duringflights 14-21 October 1951. At front are stapled later notes on flight to and visit at Dodoma, Tanganyika, June 1953. Uganda Af. so_ inscribed: 'E. correspondenceand paperschiefly re sulphurous soil samples, 1952-53. Seepages'. envelope Kent's Contents of Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Tunisia Paginated (incomplete) 1-32 on left-hand pages. sketches 15-27 September 1952. Most pages not used. 1952’. Used for notes and B.361, B.362 Report PEK 45 'A reconnaissance of Eastern Tunisia’ by Kent, September 1952. B.361 21pp typescript + 1p appendix. B.362 Figures. B.363 B.364 Material found with preceding report. A.N. Thomas, 6pp typescript + figure, 15 October 1952. Includes 'Oil prospects of Algeria’ by the Wajir-Mandera district, ‘Geology of B.M. Ayers...With appendices on fossils collected in the area’. The appendices are by Kent although published anonymously. Retained in original binding. 1952. North-East Kenya...by P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 90 Research and surveys B.365 Geological Survey of Tanganyika Report no. PEK/1 ‘Sections in the branch gorge at Olduvai' by Kent. Retainedin original binding. c.1953. The report is based on work done while the East African Archaeological Expedition was at Olduvai during 1935. B.366-B.370 Series of five hardback pocket notebooks used 1953, numbered, dated and identified by inscription on front cover. B.366 '1. Mafia Bagamoyo [Tanganyika]'. Used for notes January - February. B.367 '2. Zanzibar Pemba’. Used for notes February - March. B.368 '3. Smaller Islands Lindi Uganda’. Used March and May. B.369 B.370 B.371 '4. Pemba Mafia island September 1954. Miscell'. Used October - December and for further notes on '5. Madagascar’. (incomplete). Used September - October 1953. Paginated 1-68 Report PEK 48 'A visit to western Madagascar’ by Kent, September 1953. Retainedin original binding. B.372-B.375 Series of four hardback pocket notebooks used 1954, dated and identified by inscription on front cover. Used for recording observations made during flights, and site notes and sketches. B.372 ‘Tanganyika...With Arusha - Nairobiflight 30.6.54'. Used June - August. B.373 ‘Kenya’. Used August - October. B.374 ‘British Somaliland October...Flight over Somalia’. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 91 Research and surveys B.375 ‘Kilwa Mtwala [Tanganyika]'. Used October - November. B.376 B.377 B.378 B.379 B.380 B.381 B.382 ‘Somaliland’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: draft of Report PEK 54 'A brief visit to British Somaliland' by Kent, November 1954, retained in original binding; ms notes; printed material re oilfield at Dagah Shabell, British Somaliland 1958 and 1959. Memos and photograph re bitumen extracts from Karoo sands from Madagascar, 1955. Hardback notebookinscribed on front cover ‘Tanganyika 1957'. Used for notes and sketches during visit October. Most pages not used. Duplicated typescript 'Comments' by Kent on: ' "Geology of the Western Matumbi Hills, Tanganyika" by J. Spence’, 29 October 1957; ' "The sediments of coastal Kenya..." by R.E. Linton and R.G. Maclean’, 4 November 1957; 'The stratigraphic sequenceat Zanzibar’, 24 March 1958. Technical note PEK 5 ‘Earth movementsin inland East Africa’ by Kent, 20 March 1958. Retainedin original binding. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed onfirst page ‘Libya Jan-Feb 1960’. Used for notes during visit 27 January - 20 February. Hardback notebookinscribed on fore edge 'Fr. N. Africa’. Used during visit June 1961. Most pages not used. B.383-B.388 ‘East Africa 1962'. Contents of Kent's envelope soinscribed divided into six for ease of reference. B.383 Proposed programme, 18 May 1961, and 8pp duplicated typescriptlist of ‘General objectives’; 4pp typescript notes on 'Visit of Dr. P.E. Kent - 22nd May 1962' by R.E. Linton. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 92 Research and surveys B.384 Material re 1961-65 East African drilling programme; ms notesetc. B.385 Mapsof Pugo area and Pembaisland. B.386 Maps of Tanganyika showing BP operationsetc. B.387 B.388 Stratigraphical columns from East African bore-holes. ‘Part Ill' of draft on Tanzania by J.A. Hunt: figures sent for information, 30 September 1965. B.389-B.393 ‘Geophysical data book 1965'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. B.389 ‘Geophysical data book for Tanganyika, including Mafia' by M.J. Laws and R.C Sbresni, Mombasa, January 1965, 42pp duplicated typescript + appendices. B.390 Figures for preceding. B.391 ‘Geophysical data book for Zanzibar and Pemba’ by M.J. Laws, Mombasa, January 1965, 13pp duplicated typescript + appendices. B.392 Figures for preceding. B.393 B.394 ‘Appendix "C" Southern Somalia’ to Geophysical data book for Kenya (not found), sent 2 March 1965, 4pp duplicated typescript; annotated BP map of Somalia, March 1968, showing oil exploration concessions with ms notes on bore-holes. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge '1967 East Africa’. Most pages not used. little loose material intercalated. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 93 Research and surveys B.395 B.396 B.397 Letter from R. Walters to Kent, 4 August 1967, enclosing ‘some of the photographs...taken on our flying visit to Kilifi and Matasade on July 22nd, together with quick tracings as an aid to memory’; ms sketches of Matasade and Dogogichaislands; ms notes. Ms notes on ‘Tanzania Geophys 18/10/70'; typescript note ‘Northeast Africa: geology of the Afar triangle’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 9 January 1973. AGIP Visit, 1970' and ‘East Africa BP Exploration Development Co. Report 'Geology and oil prospects of the western Indian Ocean Region’, by Kent, September 1973. Retained in original binding. B.398-B.407 Maps. B.398 1:4,000,000 geological map of East Africa, March 1949. 1:2,000,000 geological map of East Africa, 1952. B.399 B.400 1:2,000,000 topographical maps of Abyssinia, June 1943, and Kenya, 1933 and 1950. 1:1,000,000 topographical map of Dar es Salaam, 1946. Kent. Annotated by 1:1,000,000 geological map of Tanganyika, March 1962. B.401 1:1,000,000 geological map of Mombasa- Nairobi, November 1942. 1:1,000,000 topographical map of Mombasa - Nairobi, 1946. Annotated by Kent. B.402 1:1,000,000 topographical maps of Marsabit (Kenya) and Uganda, 1915 and 1919. The area on both maps round Lake Rudolf has been coloured in with geological information and both are annotated by Kent. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 94 Research and surveys B.403 1:1,000,000 aeromagnetic survey map of Kenya, May 1963. 1:1,000,000 map of Kenya, showing Bouguer gravity contours, basement depth contours and seismic features, nd. B.404 Miscellaneous geological maps of Kenya. B.405 BP maps of Mombasa. B.406, B.407 ‘Tanzania figures'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: maps and stratigraphical columns. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Kent was posted to Papua New Guinea in 1955, first as Deputy Chief Geologist, later Chief Geologist, with the Australasian Petroleum Company, a part-owned BP subsidiary. Kent wasinvolved in searching for signs ofoil in the rain forest and the highlands of New Guinea. This met with little successdespite the promising geology of the area. B.408-B.412 Series of five spiral bound reporters notebooks inscribed with topics and dates on front cover. B.408 B.409 B.410 ‘Orie visit June 1955’. Used for notes 18-23 June, with mapof area of survey pasted into notebook. Looseat front is copy of letter re arrangements for Kent's arrival and the Orie survey. ‘Port Moresby Misc. 1955 Bwata visit 1956’. Includes notes on Pio-Purari flight 6 July 1955 and ?Baimuru to Bwata survey. ‘Highlands visit 1956'. Used for notes 5-9 April, and for later notes on sites in England 1974. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 B.411 Research and surveys 95 ‘Misc. Recceflights 1957 1971'. Used for notes on flights November 1956 and January 1957, with map of area of laterflight pasted into notebook, and for notes '1971 Highland Recce + [at back] Mananda with D.A.L. Jenkins 10+11 Nov'. Pasted to back cover of notebook is envelope containing two scaled squares used for calculating on a mapdistances covered byaircraft travelling at various speeds. B.412 ‘Melbourne visit'. Miscellaneous notes, nd. B.413-B.422 Australasian Petroleum Co. Reports. B.413-B.415 Report XG 'The stratigraphy of the Neogene rocks of Papua’ by Kent and J.O. Zehnder, July 1956. B.413, B.414 32pp duplicated typescript + figures. 2 folders. B.415 Plates. B.416, B.417 Report XE Part Il 'A review of the Mesozoic stratigraphy of Australian New Guinea’ by F.K. Rickwood, August 1956. B.416 23pp duplicated typescript. B.417 Plates. B.418-B.420 Report LW ‘Report on the Pio Purari Survey, 1955' by Kent and Rickwood, August 1956. B.418, B.419 46pp duplicated typescript + figures. 2 folders. B.420 Plates and photographs. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 96 Research and surveys B.421 B.422 B.423 B.424 B.425 B.426 B.427 Report XH 'The stratigraphy of the older tertiary rocks (Eocene and Oligocene) of Papua’ by Kent, April 1957. 21pp duplicated typescript + figures and plates. Retained in original binding. Report XK 'The pleistocene volcanoes of Papua’ by Kent, ‘Issued February 1958'. 14pp typescript + map. Hardbackpocketnotebookinscribed onfirst page 'Fiji 1956’. Used for notes and sketches 29 September- 6 October. 'List of samples collected [by Kent in Fiji] Sept/October 1956'; ‘Addendum to London Palaeontological Note no.171 on fifteen samples from the Fiji islands', 15 October 1964; map of Viti Levu. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Papuan Volcanoes etc...Puri 1957'. Used chiefly for sketches, some of which are pasted into the notebook. ‘Papua General maps'. samples from Pio-Purari survey; hand-drawn map; map of western Papua. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: list of ‘Summary of a geological history of Eastern New Guinea’ by J.E. Thompson, 7pp duplicated typescript prepared for 'A.P.E.A. Conference, Sydney, March 1967' (see H.17). Annotated by Kent. NORTH AMERICA Kent was posted to Canada in 1957 as Adviser to the President of BP Exploration (Canada). In 1959 he was appointed asthefirst President of BP Exploration (Alaska). The material includes papers relating to BP policy in Alaska and northern Canada. B.428 Hardback notebookinscribed onfirst page '1. Athabasca (Mildred Lake) 2. Hay River 3. Spray Lake area’. Used for notes and sketches June and August 1958. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 97 Research and surveys B.429 B.430 B.431 B.432 B.433 B.434 B.435 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'NWT Canada’. Used for notes onvisit to survey party 16, July 1958 and'Visit to Canadian Arctic’ 21- 24 July 1958. Paginated 5-34. Report on ‘Visit to Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada July, 1958' by Kent. Retained in original binding. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'NWT Canada’andonfirst page ‘June 1959 Aklavit Visit'. Used for notes and sketches c.20-26 June. Paginated 3-85. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge '1959 N. Canada 1969, 1969 Visit to Liard, 70', and onfirst page '1959 Visit to Monkman area Herschel Id, Inuvik and Ft Good Hope 1971 Arctic islands reconnaissanceincl. Barrow Dome + Isachsen[shot-point]’. 1970 Arctic Islands visit Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Arctic visit Aug. 1959". Used for notes on visits to Arctic islands 14-21 August. Paginated 1-95. At backis index of islands visited and pasted inside back cover is map of route taken. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Alaska 1959 Reconnassanceflight, Susitna area 1964 Visit to Sadlerochit Mtns [at back] 1969 Visit to North Slope’. ‘Arctic Gypsum Plugs'. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: chiefly correspondence re analysis of gypsum samples, and paper by Kent and W.A.C. northern Richardson Mountains’, delivered at 1st International Symposium on Arctic Geology, Calgary, 11-13 January 1960. Includes draft of paper, 5pp typescript + figures, Bibliog. 46, 1961 (see also D.99). piercement evaporite structure Russell ‘An in the B.436 Softback pocket notebookinscribed on fore edge ‘Alaska 1960'. Used for notes on Alaska andflights over Canada June 1960. P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 98 Research and surveys B.437 B.438 B.439 B.440 B.441 B.442 B.443 ‘Alaska Yak[utat]'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: material re possible agreement with Colorado Oil and Gasre collaboration in Yakutat Development Contract, 1960, including papers for 10th meeting of Board of Directors of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., 20 October. ‘Gulf of Alaska’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: BP Exploration (Alaska) maps of southern Alaska, 1961, 1962. Contents of Kent's envelope: ms 'Notes on Kern [California] - St Helens Sept 1961'; ms itineraries: 'San Francisco & Calgary 1962’, 'Los Angeles Houston New Orleans Mar/Ap 1963', ‘Calgary & Edmonton Oct/Nov 1963', N-Y, Pittsbg, Toronto, Calgy May 1964', '1965 Trinidad and US’, 'Visit to NY, St Louis, LA 1966’, 'Visit to Calgary & Australia Feb/March 1967’. Miscellaneous ms notes on Canadian and US oil matters November 1963, July 1964, November 1965 and February 1967. ‘Alaska 1966 1968 1972'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: notes re BP policy May 1966, November 1968, May 1972 and nd. ‘International Symposium on the Devonian System. Guidebook for Canadian Cordillera Field Trip Sept. 1-3, 1967' by P.A. Ziegler, 81pp duplicated typescript. Flight notes for visit to Yukon and Northwest Territories 9-10 April 1969 by M.C. Pick, 12pp duplicated typescript + figures. B.444 Contents of Kent's envelope: ms notes onvisit to Canada and Alaska 1969. B.445 ‘Alaska’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: material re Prudhoe Bay operations. Includes BP press-releases, September - October 1969; article from World Petroleum September 1969 re conditions at Prudhoe; 5pp typescript of presentation by BP to Geological Society on ‘Alaskan Exploration and the development of the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield’, December 1970. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 99 Research and surveys B.446 B.447 B.448 B.449 B.450 B.451 B.452 January 1970 issue of BP Shield devoted to Alaska. Article by Kent ‘Entry into Alaska’ is at pp.5-9 (Bibliog. 75). Contents of Kent's envelope so ‘Canadian Minerals 1970 inscribed: ms notes re activities of Canadian Minerals (?subsidiary of BP Minerals) chiefly uranium. 1972'. 1971 'The status of Arctic Islands exploration’ by Kent, 6pp typescript, 30 July 1971. ‘Exploring Canada's Arctic Islands' by Kent, 7pp typescript, 3 August 1971. Contents of Kent's folder: Bathurst Island, Canada, collected by Kent, 1971. material re graptolites from Twilight Creek, ‘Canada 1971 etc’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes on Canadianoil matters various dates 1968-71. ‘Canada Jan 1972'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes on Canadian oil matters. Softback notebook inscribed on first page 'Canada 1975': ms notes during visit to Canada May 1972. Includes notes on briefing by BP Canada, University of Calgary Extension course and visit to Geological Survey of Canada. B.453 September 1975 issue of BP Shield International devoted to Alaska. B.454-B.456 ‘Arctic Islands - maps'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 100 Research and surveys B.454 ‘Bathymetric chart of Arctic Ocean as of 1956 (approx.) compiled from Soviet sources’. Canadian Southern Petroleum Ltd map of Arctic islands showing distribution of drilling concessions. B.455, B.456 Geological Survey of Canada 1:506,880 mapsofArctic islands. 2 folders. GULF STATES Kuwait B.457 B.458 ‘Kuwait Oil Company Limited Geological Summary: May 1961'. Annotated by Kent. Loose material found at end of report is at B.458. Loose material found at end of B.457: letter from P.T. Cox, Managing Director BP Exploration, re exploration programmein Kuwait, 26 May 1961; ms notes; maps. B.459, B.460 ‘Kuwait notes 1968 etc’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: chiefly material re visits to Kuwait, 1968, 1970 B.459 B.460 Ms notes on ‘Geological History of Kuwait’, February 1968; map ofoil field developmentin Kuwait area, 1968; etc. Programmefor and ms notes on visit to Kuwait March 1970; 'Kuwait', 3pp typescript draft 8 June 1971; 'Deep structure of Burgan and Ahmadi’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, 20 November 1972. B.461-B.463 ‘Kuwait'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. B.461 Programmefor and ms notes on visit to Kuwait January - February 1973, correspondence and memosarising. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 101 Research and surveys B.462, B.463 Material re visit to Kuwait, February 1976. 2 folders. Kent visited Kuwait as a Consultant to Kuwait Oil Co. to advise on deep exploration of the Burgan dome. Oman B.464 Softback pocket notebookinscribed onfirst page 'Visit to Oman November 1970'. Used for notes and sketches during visit. B.465-B.467 '‘Oman'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. B.465 B.466 B.467 B.468 B.469 Programmeforvisit to Oman, November 1970; correspondence 1970, 1972, 1977, nd. List of Kent's samples from Oman; ms sketches and maps; 'Oman Mountain Geology - Comments by K.W. Glennie...on some aspects raised by Dr Kent', 4 February 1971. Miscellaneous background information. Includes ‘Low-grade metamorphic tuffs, rhyolites, porphyrites, and marbles from Qarn Sahma Salt Dome, Oman [collected] By F.J. Fitch’, 5 September 1955. BP report 'Structure of Oman' by Kent, February 1971. Retained in original binding. Report 'A reconnaissance of salt plugs in Oman’ by Kent, November 1972. Retainedin original binding. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 102 Research and surveys OTHER AREAS AND MISCELLANEOUS This material is principally brief ms notes from filofax style notebooks on areasvisited for a few days, or in some casesjust flown over. Arranged in a chronological sequence. B.470 University College Nottingham hardback notebook used from the front for miscellaneous notes c.1940s, and from the back for records of distribution of off-prints on British and African geology from 1941 (Bibliog. 10) to 1958 (Bibliog. 43). Pages at front have been cut from the notebook. Muchlooseintercalated material dating from 1937 to 1958. B.471, B.472 Hardback notebooks used for notes on visit to Australia and New Zealand 1962. B.471 B.472 B.473 New Zealand, February. little loose material at back of notebook. Australia, February-March. At backis draft by Kent on ‘Papua: Visit of Prof S.W. Carey + G.A.V. Stanley to the Purari area’. Contents of ‘Filofax'-style loose-leaf pocket notebook: ms notes 1962. Arrangedalphabetically from ‘Alaska’ to 'UK'. The entries are in diary form andprincipally cover the period April - August. Ms notes on Colombia, 8 April 1963. B.474 Msnotesduring visit to Trinidad 1965. Ms notes 1968. Headingsinclude 'Berlin' and 'Germany- Misc’. B.475 Softback pocket notebookinscribed on fore edge ‘Italy Bulgaria’. Used for notes and sketches duringvisits to Italy October 1968 and September 1969, and Bulgaria September1971. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 103 Research and surveys B.476 B.477 B.478 B.479 B.480 B.481 B.482 B.483 B.484 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'S. Germany France’. Used for notes and sketches during visits to Germany September 1970, and France 17-20 April 1972. ‘Port Moresby - Melbourne - Perth 1971'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes. Msnotes during visit flight over East Asia, 21 July 1971. Headingsinclude: ‘Thailand’, ‘Burman’, ‘India’, 'W. Pakistan/Afghanistan’. 'Filofax'-style loose-leaf pocket notebook containing notes during visits c.1972-73. Headings include: ‘Arctic Inst’, 'BOC Perth’, 'BP New Zealand’ etc. At back is pocket containing miscellaneous memorabilia. Contents of 'Filofax'-style loose-leaf pocket notebook: ms notes 1973. Includes notes onvisit to lan December, Nature Conservancy meeting, 12 Septemberand Natural Environment Research Council business. Ms andtypescript notes from visit to Thailand and Far East, March 1973. Stratigraphical columns from Hudbay Oil (Australia) Ltd, 1981. Softback pocket notebookinscribed on fore edge ‘North Atlantic’. Principally used for notes on symposium on the International Programme of Ocean Drilling, Geological Society, May 1981. Most pagesnot used. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Greece’. Used for notes and sketches, nd. Most pages not used. B.485 Miscellaneous undated msnotes. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 ENERGY ISSUES General B.486-B.489 B.486 B.487 B.488 Research and surveys 104 ‘Energy and Reserves’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: press-cuttings, photocopied information etc re energy reserves 1972-74. 1972. Typescript drafts of Kent's comments on 'The Limits to Growth’ report of the Club of Rome; incomplete copy of Times Higher Educational Supplement, 31 March, featuring ‘The Limits to Growth’. Kent's comments are on p.11. 1973(1). and world supplies, 28 February. Extract from Hansard, House of Lords debate on energy policy 1973(2). Includes report from Nature on Royal Society meeting on Energy in the 1980s organised by Kent. See H.69. B.489 1974. B.490, B.491 ‘Energy’. Contents of Kent's envelope soinscribed divided into two for ease of reference: miscellaneous information on energy reserves 1977-80. B.490 1977. Text of speech by Tom King MP, Opposition spokesman on energy, 5 November. Annotated by Kent 'mostly quite sensible...’ B.491 1977-80. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Coal B.492-B.495 B.492 B.493 B.494 B.495 Research and surveys 105 ‘Underground Coal Gasification + N.C.B. [National Coal Board] general. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference. ‘Underground Gasification of Coal' by Kent, 5pp typescript, 1973, sent to NCB Mining Department recommending NCB/BP collaboration, November 1973, with brief correspondencearising; press-cuttings. ‘Coal reserves and resources, with particular reference to thosein Britain’ by A.M. Clarke, Chief Geologist of NCB, 23pp duplicated typescript draft, 1977. ‘A note on the new concept of national reserves...' by A.M. Clarke, 32p duplicated typescript + summary etc, sent to Kent 15 May 1981 with covering letter chiefly re the Flowers Commission on Energy and the Environment. Article on gasification from the New Scientist, 1982; ‘Economically recoverable coal reserves' by A.M. Clarke, 9pp duplicated typescript, November 1983, with covering letter to R.J. Price re conclusions; Letters to The Times by Sir Kingsley Dunham (‘Keeping coalfor the future’) and Kent (‘Conserving coal stocks') 22 June and 5 July 1984. See also D.97. 18 February B.496-B.498 Correspondence and papers re NCB proposal to develop Vale of Belvoir coalfield 1976-82. B.496 B.497 Correspondence re NCB proposals 1976-78. Ms notes on NCB investigations of sites 1974; press-cuttings 1976 and 1982. B.498 Stratigraphical columnsof shafts in Vale of Belvoir; maps. B.499, B.500 ‘Coal reports'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed dividedinto two for Papers re the Coal Study Paper of the Flowers ease of reference. Commission. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 106 Research and surveys B.499 B.500 Oil shales B.501 B.502 B.503 ‘Coal reports 1979-1980': copies of submissions to the Commission. Chart of ‘Measuring performance in the management of national coal resources’ drawn by A.M. Clarke; letter from Kent to P.T. Warren, Deputy Executive Secretary of Royal Society, re Royal Society's ad hoc group on the coal study paper, January 1979. In September 1973 Kent wrote to the Institute of Geological Sciences suggesting there was ‘a strong case for assessing the available reserves [of oil shales] in U.K. to enable the Governmentto review policy on this long- term hydrocarbon reserve’. The IGS began a survey of UK oil shales in conjunction with the Departmentof Energy. Its report was released in 1981. Correspondence re possible IGS investigation of oil shales 1973. Also includes photocopy of minutes of informal meeting on Kimmeridge shale at the Ministry of Supply, London, 6 October 1947. Correspondence and papers re oil shales 1974-75, Includes typescript notes by Kent 'UK oil shale investigation’, 2pp and 'UK oil shales prospects: Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk: Kimmeridgian shales’, 4pp, with extensive mscorrection. 1981. IGS reports on oil shales in England and Scotland sent to Kent for information Other energy resources B.504 B.505 Press-cuttings on nuclear energy, 1974, 1977-79; ‘Social responsibility and the Atom' by Kent, 2pp typescript draft, 10 March 1978, respondingto British Council of Churches decision to oppose reprocessing at Windscale. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: proof copy of ‘Geothermal’. ‘Geothermal energy. Review of Geothermal energy - Resources, production, stimulation...' by Kent (Bibliog. 96, 1975); material re Italian geothermal energy development. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 107 SECTION C DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT C.1-C.121 The Deep SeaDrilling Project (DSDP) began in August 1968 as an 18 month projectdrilling off the eastern coast of Florida. The successof this first phase led to 30 and 36 month extensions and widening of the geographical scope. During the period 1968-75 the Project concentrated on making an extensive reconnaissance of the sedimentology of the oceanfloor. The Project had been financed by the US National Science Foundation and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for a consortium of universities called the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES). In 1973 with the end of the reconnaissancedrilling in sight it was proposed the DSDP beinternationalised and in the autumn of 1975 the UK, France, West Germany, the USSR and Japanjoined the Project in the International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD). The lead agency in the UK was the Natural Environment Research Council, of which Kent was Chairman. The IPOD wastodrill fewer boreholes but to greater depths than previously feasible. The IPOD ended in November 1983 after 15 years whenits drilling ship the D/V Glomar Challenger required an overhaul. A successor 10 year programme wasput forward by JOIDES, the Advanced Ocean Drilling Project (AODP, later just ODP). The UK wasinvolvedin the planning stage of AODP and, after somedifficulty raising the requisite funds, joined the Project in December1985. The DSDP wasconsidered to be a highly successful enterprise. Amongits practical results was the discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 12,000 feet, and its findings have been used to support the theory of continental drift. In a letter of 31 January 1984 (C.47) J.C. Bowman wrote to Kent describing the project as ‘remarkably successful in exploring the geology of the ocean floor, both in terms of the basic knowledge gained andits application in other fields such as mineral and hydrocarbon exploration’. In addition to his service on the Executive Committee of JOIDES, 1975-81, and on the UK IPOD Co- ordinating Committee, Kent played an active part in the research. He reviewed the results of Leg 25 of the DSDP, which surveyed the western Indian Ocean, particularly the area around Madagascar and contributed a chapterto /nitial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (Bibliog. 91, 1974). P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 108 Deep SeaDrilling Project The material is presented asfollows: C.1-C.5 ESTABLISHMENTOF IPOD C.6-C.56 JOIDES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE C.57-C.82 UK IPOD CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE C.83-C.116 LEG REPORTS, SITE SUMMARIES ETC C.117-C.121 LEG 25 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 109 Deep SeaDrilling Project ESTABLISHMENTOF IPOD Kent wasvery keen that the UK should participate in IPOD. His advice was sought by the JOIDES Planning Committee Working Group on Oceanic Margins while preparing its proposal for IPOD to drill in continental margins to test the plate tectonics theory. ‘Global Ocean Research’. Report of a joint working party on the scientific aspects of international ocean research, 1 June 1969. Papers re JOIDES Planning Committee Working Group on Oceanic Margins, 1973. Invitation to contribute, 16 March, with note on 'Proposed research programs of IPOD’; copy of Kent's contribution, 2pp typescript, 3 April. Working Group papers sent to contributors, 23 April. ‘Draft Scientific Narrative for an International Program of Ocean Drilling’, sent to Kent 20 July. Retainedin original binding. ‘Deep Sea Drilling Project’ by Kent, 2pp typescript note sent to W. Reed, Advisory Board for the Research Councils, setting out the technological case for UK involvement in IPOD, 19 April 1973; letter re IPOD from G.V. Wood, 17 May 1973; background information. C.1 C.2-C.4 C.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 JOIDES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kent was UK delegate on the JOIDES Executive Committee 1975-81. He was succeededby J.C. Bowman. Correspondence and papersprincipally re meetings of Executive Committee 1978-84. Also includes papers of JOIDES Planning Committee, Panels and Working Groups, and general documents re DSDP activities. Much of the hes P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 110 Deep SeaDrilling Project material is concerned with proposals and planning re the projected AODP. C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9 1978 June (1) 1978 June (2) C.32 1981 December(1) C.33 1981 December(2) 1978 December C.34 1982 April 1979 January C.35 1982 May C.10 1979 April C.11 1979 May C.12 1979 July C.36 1982 August C.37 1982 September(1) C.38 1982 September(2) C.13 1979 August(1) C.39 1982 September-November C.14 1979 August(2) C.40 1983 January, April C.15 1979 October C.41 1983 January C.16 1979 November C.42 1983 June C.17 1979 December C.43 1983 July C.18 1980 February C.44 1983 August, September C.19 1980 March (1) C.45 1983 September C.20 1980 March(2) C.46 1983 November C.21 1980 July C.47 1984 January C.22 1980 August C.48 1984 February-March C.23 1980 September, October C.49 1984 March-April C.24 1980 November(1) C.50 1984 June (1) C.25 1980 November(2) coi 1984 June(2) C.26 1981 March, April C.52 1984 June-July C.27 1981 June C.53 1984 September(1) C.28 1981 August(1) C.54 1984 September(2) C.29 1981 August (2) C.55 1984 October C.30 1981 November(1) C.56 1985, nd C.31 1981 November(2) P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 111 Deep SeaDrilling Project UK IPOD CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE between The termsof reference of this Committee were defined in a paper presented to its seventh meeting on 2 December 1983 (C.69) as to coordinate UK policy on the IPOD programme and the JOIDES planning structure, to ensure adequate consultation between scientific and technological interests and organisations participating in IPOD, to secure a proper balance betweenscientifc and technologicalinterests in IPOD, to appoint, or nominate, and brief delegates to JOIDES Committees, and to appoint such sub-Committees as are necessary and to receive reports from them. Kent was Chairman of the Committee for the period 1975-82, being succeeded by M.G. Audley- Charles. He served thereafter as Royal Society representative. government academic, industrial and Papers re meetings of Co-ordinating Committee from 1978, including many papers from JOIDES Committees and Panelscirculated to the Committee. The papers 1984-85 chiefly non- participation) in the AODP.It includes a paper by Kent on 'Deep SeaDrilling Results - Industrial Applications’, presented to a meeting held to discuss UK participation in the ODP on 2 March 1984 (C.70). participation British relate (or to C.57 1978-79 C.70 1984 March (1) C.58 1980 July (1) C.71. 1984 March(2) C.59 1980 July (2) C.72 1984 March (3) C.60 1980 July (3) C.73. 1984 March(4) C.61 1980 August C.74 1984 March-August C.62 1980 November C.75 1984 November-December C.63 1981 February, May C.76 1985 C.64 1981 November C.77 1986 January C.65 1982 April, June C.78 1986 February C.66 1982 November C.79 1986 March-April C.67 1983 February, June C.80 1986 March C.68 1983 December(1) C.81 1986 May, June C.69 1983 December(2) C.82 ‘UK Newsletter about IPOD', nos 4-8 (1976-80). P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 112 Deep SeaDrilling Project LEG REPORTS,SITE SUMMARIES ETC Papers reporting on progress of DSDP investigations carried out from the drill-ships D/V Glomar Challenger 1970-83 and the JO/IDES Resolution 1985-86. The material is presented in chronological order 1970-86. It comprises scientific summaries and operation resumés, press-releases, and site summaries of Legs 13-110 (not a complete sequence) of the DSDP sent to the JOIDES Executive and Planning Committees and to the UK IPOD Co- ordinating Committee. Legs 13 (Mediterranean Sea, 1970), 15 (Caribbean Sea, 1970-71), 16 and 17 (Pacific Ocean, 1971). Legs 19 (northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, 1971), 20 (Pacific Ocean, 1971), 21 (Coral Sea and Tasman Sea, 1971-72). Legs 22, 1972 (Indian Ocean, 1972), 23 (Arabian Sea and Red Sea, 1972). Legs 24, 26 (Indian Ocean, 1972). For Leg 25 see C.117-C.121. Legs 27 (eastern Indian Ocean, 1972), 28 (Antarctic, 1972-73). Leg 48 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1976). Leg 69 (Caribbean Sea, 1979). Legs 70 (southern Pacific Ocean, 1979), 71 (southern Atlantic Ocean, 1980). Legs 72 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1980), 73 (southern Atlantic Ocean, 1980). C.83 C.84 C.85 C.86 C.87 C.88 C.89 C.90 C.91 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 113 Deep SeaDrilling Project C.92 Legs 74, 75 (southern Atlantic Ocean, 1980). Legs 76 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1980), 77 (Gulf of Mexico, 1980-81), 78A (Caribbean Sea, 1981). Legs 79, 81 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1981). Legs 82 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1981), 83 (eastern Pacific Ocean, 1981- 82). Leg 84 (eastern Pacific Ocean, 1982). Leg 85 (northern Pacific Ocean, 1982). Legs 86 (northern Pacific Ocean, 1982), 87 (Sea of Japan, 1982), 88 (northern Pacific Ocean). Leg 89 (western Pacific Ocean, 1982). C.93 C.94 C.95 C.96 C.97 C.98 C.99 C.100 Leg 90 (western Pacific Ocean, 1982-83). C.101 Leg 91 (southern Pacific Ocean, 1983). C.102 Leg 92 (Pacific Ocean, 1983). C.103 Leg 93 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). C.104 Leg 94 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 114 Deep SeaDrilling Project C.105 Leg 95 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). C.106 Leg 96 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). C.107 Leg 101 (Gulf of Mexico, 1985). C.108 Legs 103 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1985), 104 (Norwegian Sea, 1985). C.109 Leg 105 (Baffin Bay and Labrador Sea, 1985). C.110 Leg 106 (Atlantic Ocean, 1985). 0.111, ©.112 Leg 107 (Tyrrhenian Sea, 1985-86). 2 folders. C.113, C.114 Leg 108 (Atlantic Ocean, 1986). 2 folders. C.115 Leg 109 (Atlantic Ocean, 1986). C.116 Leg 110 (Caribbean Sea, 1986). LEG 25 Leg 25 of the DSDP surveyed the western Indian Ocean, particularly the area around Madagascar. Kent was asked by JOIDESto review the results and contribute a chapter on 'Leg 25 results in relation to East African coastal stratigraphy’ to volume 25of Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (Bibliog. 91, 1974). C.117 Correspondencere Leg 25 and Kent's contribution, January - May 1973. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 115 Deep SeaDrilling Project C.118 Correspondence re Leg 25 and Kent's chapter, June 1973 - January 1974. C.119 Draft of Kent's chapter, 15pp typescript + figures, with ms correction. C.120, C.121 ‘Hole Summaries’: summary of scientific results of Leg 25 in two volumes. Retained in original binding. C.120 ‘Book 1. C.121 ‘Book 2’. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 116 SECTION D PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES D.1-D.135 D.1-D.97 PUBLICATIONS D.1-D.80 Drafts D.81-D.93 Editorial correspondence D.94-D.97 Letters to The Times D.98-D.133 LECTURES D.134 BROADCAST D.135 REPRINTS P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 PUBLICATIONS Drafts D.1 D.2 Publications and lectures 117 A chronological sequence of material relating to publications, or to the intention to publish. Where applicable reference has been made to the Bibliography in the Royal Society memoir of Kent (A.1) in the form Bibliog... . ‘Intra Jurassic movements in North Northamptonshire’. Dated '10/36' but not listed in Bibliog. 3pp typescript. ‘On the Serengeti plains of Tanganyika’. bibliographical reference 1936. Not listed in Bibliog., latest This is an account of Kent's journey from Kenya to the Serengeti with the 1934-35 East African Archaeological Expedition (see A.53-A.102). 9pp typescript with ms corrections and additions.It is drafted on the verso of typescript notes of the geology of sites visited by the expedition. D.3 ‘The lowerLias of South Nottinghamshire’, Bibliog. 2, 1937. Letter only. ‘A borehole at Foston (Lincolnshire)’, Bibliog. 4, 1938. 2pp ms. D.4 ‘Note on a borehole at Kettleby, near Brigg’, Bibliog. 8, 1939. 3pp typescript. ‘Note on faulting south east of Nottingham’. Dated 27 November 1939 but not listed in Bibliog. 3pp typescript + figure. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 118 Publications and lectures D.5 D.6 D.7 D.8 D.9 ‘Note on the age of the uppermost Kimmeridge Clay of north Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 9, 1940. 3pp typescript. ‘A short outline of the stratigraphy of the Lincolnshire Limestone’, Bibliog. 11, 1941. 8pp typescript. ‘The Pleistocene beds of Kanam and Kanjera, Kavirondo, Kenya’. 14, 1942. Bibliog. 19pp typescript + figures. ‘The country round the Kavirondo Gulf of Victoria Nyanza’. Bibliog. 15, 1942. 18pp typescript + references and mslist of plates; 16pp typescript ?earlier draft 'Physiographical features of the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya’. ‘Pleistocene climates in Kenya and Abyssinia’, Bibliog. 16, 1942. 5pp typescript, with covering letter from Kent to his Commanding Officer at RAF Medmenham, 19 May 1942, requesting permissionforits publication. ‘Upper Rhaetic beds in North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 17, 1943. 2pp typescript. Book review of South African Scenery. A text book of geomorphology by L.C. King (Oliver & Boyd 1942), by Kent, 1943. 3pp typescript. D.10 ‘The age and tectonic relationships of East African volcanic rocks’, Bibliog. 18, 1944. 13pp typescript + table andfigure. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 119 Publications and lectures D.11 'Glacially transported Inferior Oolite at Hougham’, Bibliog. 21, 1944. 1p typescript. ‘Tangential and vertical forces in the Earth's crust’. Dated 14 August 1946 but not listed Review of the geophysical theories of P. Fourmarier. Bibliog. in 2pp typescript. D.12 ‘The Carr Lane borehole, Hibaldstow', Bibliog. 28, 1948. 3pp duplicated typescript + figure. D.13 D.14 D.15 ‘A structure contour map of the surface of the buried pre-Permian rocks of England and Wales’, Bibliog. 29, 1949. Draft summary; 3 typescript pages of the draft with ms corrections; comments by N.L. Falcon and L. Richardson 1947. ‘Shallow borings in the Jurassic rocks near Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 35, 1953. 4pp typescript with ms correction + figure. ‘Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Bagamoyodistrict’. Bibliog., latest reference 1954. Not listed in 6pp typescript + diary of traverses, lists of samples and palaeontological reports. D.16-D.18 ‘The structural history of South Nottinghamshire’. Dated March 1955 but not published. Bears typescript note 'Draft of paper, written 1951 revised 1955, intended for eventual publication’ and ms annotation 'Copied to NCB January 1975’. D.16 D.17 11pp typescript + plate. Figures. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 120 D.18 D.19 D.20 Publications and lectures ‘1st Draft’, 8pp typescript + mslist of figures. ‘A Kimmeridge sandstonein North Lincolnshire’ (with R.Casey), Bibliog. 48, 1963. 13pp typescript + figure, with covering letters; ?earlier draft, 7pp typescript. ‘The basal Lias near Long Bennington’. Dated 18 June 1964 and intended for publication in Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union but not listed in Bibliog. 3pp typescript; letter to Kent from editor, 1 December 1964. D.21, D.22 ‘The transport mechanismin catastrophic rock falls’, Bibliog. 51, 1966. D.21 D.22 Opp typescript + references; 7pp typescript earlier draft. Brief editorial correspondence; backgroundinformation on landslides. D.23, D.24 ‘A review of the correlation of the Lincolnshire Limestone’, Bibliog. 56, 1966. D.23 D.24 D.25 ‘Final draft’ 16pp typescript + references. Correspondence with L. Richardson and P.C. Sylvester-Bradley re the paper, 1966; ‘Third draft’, 10pp typescript. Book review of C.A. Burk, Geology of the Alaska peninsula - island arc and continental margin, (with A.P. Terris). This review was submitted to the Geological Magazine 2 January 1967 but notlisted in Bibliog. 3pp typescript; request to review. Book review of E.G. Poole et al, Geology of the country around Nantwich and Whitchurch. Bibliog. 58, 1967. This review was submitted to the Geological Magazine 20 February 1967. 2pp typescript; brief editorial correspondence and correspondencearising. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 121 Publications and lectures D.26 ‘Sections through the Great Oolite series near Spital’. Dated 18 May 1967 and intended for publication in Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union but replaced by 'Fossiliferous Dogger in North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 68, 1968 (see D.31). 1p typescript + references; coveringletter. ‘A contour map of the pre-Carboniferous surface in the North-East Midlands', Bibliog. 64, 1967. ‘1st Draft’, 5pp typescript with ms corrections + ‘Tentative contour map...’. D.27-D.30 ‘The buried floor of eastern England’, Bibliog. 66, 1968. D.27 D.28 12pp typescript + references; 3pp appendix ‘The Lower Carboniferous at Grace Dieu, Leicestershire’. ‘First draft' of ‘The buried floor...’ dated 2 January 1962’, 8p typescript with extensive mscorrection; 4pp msdraft of appendix. D.29, D.30 Miscellaneous figures found with preceding. 2 folders. D.31 ‘The Jurassic-Cretaceous junction at Elsham' (with F.C. Dilley), Bibliog. 67, 1968. Letter covering galley proofs (not found). 'Fossiliferous Dogger in North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 68, 1968. 2pp typescript; editorial correspondence. ‘Dating of the North Atlantic opening’. Dated 8 July 1969 and probably intended for publication in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society but notlisted in Bibliog. 2pp typescript. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 122 Publications and lectures D.32, D.33 ‘The salt plugs of the Persian Gulf Region’, Bibliog. 77, 1970. This was a revised and extended version of his Bennett lecture to Leicester University, January 1970 (see D.111). D.32 D.33 D.34 D.35 D.36 D.37 D.38 32pp typescript + references. Correspondencewith P.C. Sylvester-Bradley, including his Preface to Kent's paper. Notlisted in ‘Exploring Canada's Arctic islands’. Bibliog. but annotated 'BP Magazine’ and possibly early draft of Bibliog. 79, 1971. Dated 3 August 1971. 7pp typescript. 'The Mesozoic history of the east coast ofAfrica’, Bibliog. 81, 1972. 4pp typescript; miscellaneousfigures. 'The Lias at Old Dalby, Leicestershire’, Bibliog. 88, 1973. 5pp typescript + references and captions for figures; background information Dalby, including Leicestershire’ dated 27 May 1965. ‘Temporary exposures note by Kent near Old ‘The world's future oil reserves - the problem of discovery’. Notlisted in Bibliog. but intended for publication in ‘BP Shield’. Dated 1973. 6pp typescript. This was chapter 2 of D.H. Rayner ‘Structural history’, Bibliog. 90, 1974. and J.E. Hemingway (eds), The geology and mineral resources of Yorkshire. Comments on Kent's draft from Rayner; references; miscellaneous figures. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 123 Publications and lectures D.39 D.40 D.41 D.42 D.43 ‘The contribution of industry to knowledge of ocean margins’, Bibliog. 94, 1974. 19pp typescript proof + references and captions for figures; brief editorial correspondence. ‘Continental margin of East Africa - region of vertical movements’, Bibliog. 95, 1974. Editorial correspondenceonly. ‘Middle Jurassic nomenclature in eastern England: the “Upper Estuarine beds" ', written for Mercian Geologist but annotated 'Not submitted or used’, latest bibliographical reference 1975. 2pp typescript + references. 'The Madagascar controversystill lives' (with D.H. Tarling), Bibliog. 104, 1976. 4pp typescript + references and figures(titled ‘Madagascar controversystill very much alive’); miscellaneous background information. co-author; ms notes; letter from ‘Hydrocarbons in Cleveland - an early proposal by P.F. Kendall’, Bibliog. 108, 1976. 6pp typescript; proof with ms corrections; draft of letter to editor re correction of mistakes in Kendall's original note reproducedin this paper. Request to Kent to write introduction for J. Brooks’ book Carbonisation and coalification of sedimentary organic matter, with brief correspondence arising. 1976-78. ‘The structure of Mesozoic basins in southern England’. Drafted as Letter to Geological Magazine, April 1977, but notlisted in Bibliog. 1p typescript; earlier draft sent to N.L. Falcon for comment. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 124 Publications and lectures D.44, D.45 ‘The emergent Hormuz salt plugs of southern Iran’, Bibliog. 121, 1979. See also B.281. D.45 D.46 Ms drafts of sections of the paper. Brief correspondence; photographsforplates. ‘Tectonics of the northwest European continental shelf’, Bibliog. 122, 1980. 8pp typescript. D.47-D.60 Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash, Bibliog. 123, 1980. D.47-D.50 Final draft, 129pp typescript + preface, tables etc. 4 folders. D.51-D.53 Typescript chapters of '2nd Draft’. 3 folders. D.54-D.56 Correspondence with Institute of Geological Sciences, contributors and others, 1973-77, 1981. D.54 1973-75 D.56 1977, 1981 D.55 1976 D.57 Miscellaneous figures, tables etc. D.58-D.60 Photographs. Some used in the volume. 3 folders. D.61 Minerals from the Marine Environment, Bibliog. 125, 1980. Editorial correspondence; reviews; miscellaneous msnotes. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 125 Publications and lectures D.62 ‘Subsidence and uplift inversion’, Bibliog. 129, 1980. in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: a double ‘Penultimate’ draft entitled 'Epeirogenic subsidence and inversion in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire’, 11pp typescript with extensive ms correction and annotation; editorial correspondence. D.63, D.64 ‘The structural and tectonic environment of Permian and Mesozoic igneous rocks’, Bibliog. 133, 1982. D.63 D.64 ‘Final copy’, 13pp typescript + reference; ‘Draft II’, 11pp typescript with extensive mscorrection. Editorial correspondence 1976-82. D.65, D.66 ‘The Somali ocean basin and the continental shelf of East Africa’, Bibliog. 134, 1982. D.65 D.66 ‘Final Draft’, 14pp typescript with ms corrections. Editorial correspondence 1977-82. D.67-D.71 ‘Montague Mattinson Pennell’, Bibliog. 136, 1982. D.67 D.68 Proof, 36pp typescript with mscorrection. ‘Copy vetted by BP Legal Dept’, 33pp typescript with ms correction and annotation(not all in Kent's hand). D.69, D.70 Ms and typescriptdrafts of parts of the memoir. 2 folders. D.71 Correspondence,principally with Pennell's family and colleagues; ms notes and other biographical material. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 126 Publications and lectures D.72 ‘The origin of North Sea pockmarks'. Written 1983 but notlisted in Bibliog. This arose from a Royal Society Discussion Meeting at which T. Gold's controversial views on the origin of hydrocarbons were considered. See also E.179-E.188. 4pp msandtypescript draft with extensive ms correction; correspondence re pockmarks, including comments on Kent's paper. D.73 D.74 Preface to Geophysical Logsin British stratigraphy, Bibliog. 140, 1985. 2pp typescript; brief editorial correspondence. Foreword to R.C. Cooke and R.C. Nesbit, Target: Hitler's oil, Bibliog. 141, 1985. 2pp typescript and 4pp msdrafts; correspondencefrom author. D.75, D.76 ‘D.C. lon’. 1985. Notlisted in Bibliog. Kent wrote obituaries of lon for the British Geologist and Petroleum Review. He also gave the address of Remembrance and Thanksgiving, 11 February 1986. Service at the D.75 D.76 D.77 Obituaries by Kent and text of address at Remembrance Service;draft of obituary for the Geological Society by N.L. Falcon (Kent had declined the invitation to write lon's obituary for the Geological Society and suggested Falcon). Biographical information on lon ‘Leonard Johnston Wills', Bibliog. 142, 1986. Kent had written the obituary of Wills for Nature in 1980, Bibliog. 124. 3pp typescript; correspondence with publishers and colleagues; obituaries; msnotes on Wills's career. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 127 Publications and lectures D.78 ‘Island salt plugs in the Middle East and their tectonic implications’, Bibliog. 144, 1987. This was published posthumously. Editorial correspondence. D.79, D.80 ‘The place of Infra-Cambrian salt in Middle East tectonics’. Dated c.1986 but not listed in Bibliog. This is related to the preceding and may be draft towards a planned book. D.79 D.80 31pp ms and typescript draft with extensive ms correction + abstract, ms captionsfor figures and acknowledgements. Miscellaneous figures. Editorial correspondence Arranged alphabetically by publisheror journaltitle. D.81 Adam Hilger Ltd. 1980 Invitation to write monograph on the geological structure of the North Sea (declined). BP Explorer Paper on UK onshoreexploration. Earth and Planetary Science Letters Refereeing. 1984 1980 D.82 Geological Magazine 1974-85 Kent was an Associate Editor. Correspondence re Associate Editorship; book reviews for the Geological Magazine. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 Publications and lectures D.83 Graham & Trotman Ltd. 128 1982 Invitation to serve as Senior Adviser to Graham & Trotman on earth science series (declined). Journal of Petroleum Geology 1980-81 Requests for papers. Journalof the Geological Society 1985-86 Refereeing. D.84-D.88 Mitchell Beazley Publishers Ltd 1978-81 Kent acted as adviser for the energy section of Atlas of Earth Resources, published by Mitchell Beazley in 1979, commenting on draft chapters as they were sent to him. D.84 1978 March-August D.87 1978 October(2) D.85 1978 September D.88 1978-79, 1981 D.86 1978 October(1) D.89 Nature Refereeing; fee for contribution. D.90 Open Earth Book reviews for Open Earth. D.91 Oxford University Press Invitation to write book for OUP (declined). D.92 Pergamon Press Ltd Refereeing. 1980 1979-83 1980 1979 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 129 Publications and lectures D.93 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 1974, 1978 Refereeing. World Oil 1965 Invitation to write article on North Sea exploration (declined). Letters to The Times In addition to the Letters listed below, Kent wrote to The Times in 1968, about the Warsaw Pactinvasion of Czechoslovakia (see H.32). D.94 ‘East African glaciers’, 26 September 1944. ‘Meeting world demandsforoil’, 28 January 1974. ‘Problem of atomic waste disposal’, written as Chairman of the NERC, C.1973-77. ‘The quality of architecture’, written 15 August 1977. publication. No evidence of ‘Assessing future oil resources’, drafted in reply to Letter of P.R. Odell, 24 October 1977. No evidenceof publication. D.95, D.96 ‘Need for law to aid exploration into Britain's mineral resources’, 9 January 1980 and ‘Minerals exploration’, 22 April 1980 (both with K.C. Dunham). Kent and Dunham's Letter of 9 January, arguing for Crown ownershipofall undiscovered mineral reserves, provoked a lively correspondence in The Following their second Letter Kent and Dunham wereinvited to Times. speak before the House of CommonsAll-Party Minerals Group on 23 July. Letters of Kent and Dunham and other Letters published in The Times in response. Correspondence arising, including exchange with T.H.H. Skeet MP re meeting with All-Party group. D.95 D.96 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 130 Publications and lectures D.97 ‘Cohabitee’, written 23 January 1982. No evidence of publication. ‘Keeping coalfor the future’, 5 July 1984. See also B.495. Unpublished Letter, January 1985. LECTURES D.98 D.99 ‘Problems of Midlands Geology’, University College Nottingham, 4 February 1952. Ms list of ?slides only. ‘Evaporite Piercement structures in the Northern Richardson mountains’ (with W.A.C. Russell). This was published as Bibliog. 46, 1961. ‘Lecture copy' 12 January 1960, 11pp typescript with ms annotation + references and figure. See also B.435. D.100 ‘Persian salt plugs’, Leicester, November 1963. Ms list of slides only. See also B.278. ‘UK operations’, Bristol, 16 January 1964. Typescriptlist of slides only. ‘North Sea exploration’, Fyzabad, Trinidad, 24 March 1965. Posteronly. D.101-D.104 ‘The structure of the concealed Carboniferous rocks of North-eastern England’, Presidential address to the Yorkshire Geological Society, York, 11 December 1965. This was published as Bibliog. 52, 1966. D.101 27pp typescript + ms introductory remarks and typescriptlist of slides. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 131 Publications and lectures D.102, D.103 Figuresfor slides. 2 folders. D.104 Correspondence 1965-66; notice of Kent's lecture. D.105 ‘Outline geology of the North Sea basin’, Presidential address to the Yorkshire Geological Society, York, 10 December 1966. This was published as Bibliog. 59, 1967. References, figures and plates; programme; letter December1966. re publication, 31 D.106 The North Sea, Royal Geographical Society, 16 January 1967. 8pp typescript+ list of slides. D.107 Invitation to lecture on North Sea exploration to Petroleum Exploration Society of Libya in 1967. D.108, D.109 Adrian Visiting Fellowship, Leicester University. In 1968 Kent gave three lectures as Adrian Visiting Fellow. See also F.255- F.264. D.108 ‘The building of the Zagros mountains’, 17 February. Typescriptlist of slides with ms annotation; notice of Kent's lecture. ‘Tanzania - a study of an epeirogenic region’, 11 May. Kent gave this lecture, under the title ‘The coastlands of East Africa. A stratigraphical and structural study’. Typescript lecture notes andlist of slides; list of fossils for lecture. D.109 ‘The search for North Sea gas’ by Kent, 22 November. Typescript lecture notes; mslist of ?slides; notice of Kent's lecture. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 132 Publications and lectures D.110 Lecture on Persian surveys, Sheffield Society, 23 January 1969. University Students Geological Ms lecture notes; letter re arrangements. Lecture on the North Sea, Geological Society of Alaska, 2 April 1969. Typescript introductory remarks; mslist of slides. Invitation to December1969. lecture to Arthur Holmes Society, Durham University in D.111 Lecture on the North Sea, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 7 January 1970. Letter re arrangements; typescriptlist of slides. ‘Salt Mountains of the Middle East’, 11th Bennett Lecture, University, 9 January 1970. Leicester Typescriptlist of slides; ms notes; notice of lecture. See also D.32, D.33. D.112 Lecture on East African structures, Cambridge University, 29 January 1970. Brief correspondencere arrangements only. Address on opening the new Department of Geology, Keele University, February 1970. 5pp typescript. D.113, D.114 ‘Lincolnshire geology in its regional setting’, Presidential address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, 1970. This was published as Bibliog. 78, 1970. D.113 D.114 ‘Final copy’, 10pp typescript + references; typescriptlist of slides. 1969 draft miscellaneous notes and data. of the address, 7pp typescript; typescript list of slides; P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 D.115 Publications and lectures 133 Correspondencere possible lecture to the Geological Society on the North Sea. It was planned to hold this in November or December 1969 but was subsequently postponed to 1970. There is no evidence it was ever delivered. in a Geological Society meeting which included Kent did participate discussion of the developments in the North Sea in October 1969 (see H.43). D.116 ‘Arctic oil exploration’, Nottingham University Geological Society, 14 January 1971. Typescriptlist of slides; correspondence re arrangements. Invitation to lecture on the North Sea to Geological Society of Glasgow in October 1971 or later (declined). D.117 ‘Geotechnical problems in Alaskan oil exploration and production’, British Geotechnical Society, London, 8 December 1971. This presentation wasoriginally scheduled for 22 November. Correspondencere arrangements. D.118 ‘Geological problems in exploration for oil and gas in the North Sea’, Luton College of Technology, 1 February 1972. This formed part of the College's short course ‘Advancesin Geology’. Ms list of slides; correspondencere arrangements. D.119 Invitation to lecture to Geographical Association Lincoln Branch, January or March 1972 (declined). Invitation to speak at University College of Swansea Geological Society Dinner-dance, 16 February 1972 (declined). Invitation to speak at Institute of Geological Sciences Leeds Office annual dinner, 25 February 1972. This was subsequently cancelled. Brief correspondence. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 134 Publications and lectures ‘New light on North Sea geology’, Petroleum Exploration Society of New York, 18 May 1972. Correspondencere arrangements. D.120 Lecture on Arctic islands, 27 September1972. Typescriptlist of ?slides; ‘Concessional history’ of Canadian Arctic islands’. Invitation to lecture on Petroleum to Brincliffe Grammar School for Girls, Nottingham, in October, November or December1972 (declined). Invitation to lecture to University College of Swansea Geological Society in October or November 1972 (declined). D.121 List of 'Dr P.E. Kent lectures: 1973’. tectonics in the ‘Plate hypothesis’, Leicester University Geological Society, 16 January 1973. Inadequacies and imperfections problems. Invitation; typescript outline of lecture. Invitation to speak at Queen Mary College London Geological Society annual dinner, 23 February 1973 (declined). D.122 'Geology and geophysics in the search for University, 1 June 1973. hydrocarbons’, Durham Correspondencere arrangements; mslist of ?slides. ‘Exploration of continental margins’, Wigan and District Geological Society, Wigan, 19 October 1973. Correspondencere arrangements only. Lecture to North Notts Mining Engineering Society, Mansfield, c.1973. Letter re arrangementsonly. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 135 Publications and lectures D.123 Address to Queen Mary College London [?Geological Society annual dinner], 15 February 1974. 3pp typescript with ms annotation. Address to Manchester Geological Association annual dinner, 1 March 1974. 2pp msintroductory remarks; letter re arrangements. D.124 Address to Swinnerton Geological Society, Nottingham, 14 March 1974. Invitation; 4pp typescript with ms correction and annotation. Address to Leeds Geological Association centenary dinner, 19 April 1974. Kent spoke to the Association on ‘The North Sea andits problems’ on 18 April. 3pp typescript; letter re arrangements. D.125 RoyalInstitution Evening Discourse, 31 January 1975. Typescriptlist of slides; letter arising. Lecture at Birkbeck College London, 11 February 1975. Typescriptlist of slides only. Invitation to lecture to Cambridge Natural History Society, January or February 1975. 'The modern face of the Geological Society of London’, address of welcome at Charles Lyell centenary celebration reception, 2 September 1975. 3pp typescript. D.126 Lecture at Trinity College Dublin, 9 January 1976. Ms list of slides only. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 136 Publications and lectures ‘Major synchronous events in continental shelves', [?Royal Institution] Evening Discourse, 7 April 1976. This was published as Bibliog. 111, 1976. App typescript; typescriptlist of slides. Address on opening of new British Antarctic Survey headquarters by H.M. The Queen, 7 May 1976. 2pp typescript. D.127 Mesozoic lectures. Kent delivered three lectures in this series in Cambridge 16, 17 and 18 November1976: ‘Eastern England and the southern North Sea- a history of blocks and basins’, ‘The northern North Sea and the western approaches. Model for continental margin development’ and ‘The problem of aseismic continental margins - the problem of world wide synchronism’. Ms lists of slides; references; brief correspondence re arrangements and ms itinerary of ‘Cambridge week’. D.128 ‘Epeirogenic movements on the continental shelf of N.W. Britain’, Celebrity lecture of the Geological Society of Glasgow and Edinburgh Geological Society, Glasgow,5 April 1977. Correspondencere arrangements. Lecture on offshore oil exploration, Endeavour Society University College of North Wales, 30 November 1977. Letter re arrangementsonly. D.129 D.130 ‘Structure of the British continental shelf, Aberdeen Geological Society, 15 February 1978. This was rearranged from 12 October 1977. Correspondencere arrangements. British continental ‘The Cockermouth, 4 April 1979. shelf, Cumberland Geological Society, Invitation andletter re arrangementsonly. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 137 Publications and lectures ‘Applied research in Government science and the relation of science and industry’, Luton Technical College, 17 April 1979. 8pp ms. D.131 Lecture on the geological background to Middle East oil to Swinnerton Geological Society, Nottingham, 19 January 1981. Invitation only (accepted). Lectures on oil and gas to residential course on energy resources for HM Forces, Nottingham University, September 1981. Invitation only (?accepted). ‘Oil exploration in Britain’, Sylvester-Bradley Geological Society, Leicester University, 11 March 1982. Ms “list of slides; correspondence re arrangements. D.132 A.K. Wells Memorial Lecture to the Lyell Club, King's College London, 24 February 1983. Ms list of slides; correspondencere arrangements. ‘Deep exploration in the North Sea - scientific achievement and mineral wealth’, 2nd L.R. Moore Lecture, Sheffield University, 27 April 1983. Ms introductory remarks; mslist of slides; correspondence re arrangements. D.133 ‘A history and review of UK onshore activity’, Annual University Celebrity Lecture, Strathclyde University, 16 May 1985. Correspondencere arrangements; poster. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 BROADCAST Publications and lectures 138 D.134 ‘Comparisons in oil prospecting’, broadcast in BBC Home Service ‘The Travellers’ series, 12 February 1965. Transcript, retained in original binding; letter and contract from BBC December 1964; cutting of review from the Listener magazine. REPRINTS D.135 Published papers 1941-82. Not a completeset. 1 box. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 139 SECTION E NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL E.1-E.196 Kent served on the Geology and Geophysics Committee (later Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee) of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1968-73. In 1973, following his retirement from BP, he was appointed Chairman of the NERC for four years. Kent continued to serve on the Council of the NERC until September 1980. He sat on a number of NERC committees during his Chairmanship and subsequent period on Council. The material presented in this section is by no means comprehensive. Both Kent's Chairmanship of the NERC 1973-77 and his service on Council 1977-80 are poorly documented. Ofparticularinterest therefore is Kent's ‘daybook' for 1973-74 (E.23-E.35), a folder in which he kept copies of outgoing correspondence and papers. This chiefly, though by no means exclusively, relates to NERC business. The best documented area of NERC activity is Kent's service as adviser on geological and geophysical activities under the auspices of Preparatory Group ‘A’. The material is presented asfollows: E.1-E.45 GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS COMMITTEE E.16-E.64 CHAIRMANSHIP AND COUNCIL E.65-E.188 PREPARATORY GROUP A E.65-E.90 General, and Visiting Group to IGS/IOS E.91-E.178 Deep Geology Committee E.179-E.188 Working Group on Abiogenic gases within the UK crust E.189-E.196 MISCELLANEOUS P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 140 Natural Environment Research Council GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS COMMITTEE (later INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE) The Committee's terms of reference were 'To guide, co-ordinate and keep under review the whole field of research on geology and geophysics, including the geology and geophysics of the sea-floor, to assume responsibility... for the Institute of Geological Sciences, [and] to advise on the award of grants to universities and other bodies, and of fellowships and training grants to post-graduate students,in the earth sciences’. Kent served on the Committee as BP representative for three years from 1 August 1968 in succession to N.L. Falcon. In 1971 the Committee was restructured into a number of smaller Committees, including the Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee. Kent served on this body for a further three year term. Correspondence re appointment, meetings etc 1968; minutes of tenth meeting 15 October 1968. Papers of discussion meeting on NERCinterest in geology and geophysics 20 February, and of eleventh Committee meeting 25 March 1969. General correspondence 1969; minutes of twelfth meeting 4 November 1969. E.1 E.2 E.3 E4,E5 Papersof thirteenth meeting 10 March 1970. 2 folders. E.6 E.7 E.8 General correspondence 1970; minutes of fourteenth meeting 2 June 1970. General correspondence 1971. Correspondence 1971 re Report of Working Party on Geotectonics and Crustal Studies. With 'Revised Interim’ draft sent to Kent for comment. E.9, E.10 Papersoffirst meeting of |GS Advisory Committee 13 October 1971. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 141 Natural Environment Research Council E.11 Ele E.13 E.14 E.15 Papers of second meeting 2 May 1972. Correspondence May-August 1972, chiefly re possible UK participation in the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) (see section C). Kent served on a Working Group to adviseonthis. Draft Report of Working Party on Mining and Economic Geology, with Kent's comments 3 August 1972. Kent was a memberof the Working Party. Correspondence and papers September 1972 - January 1973 re possible UK participation in the DSDP. Minutes of third meeting 11 October 1972. CHAIRMANSHIP AND COUNCIL E.16 Correspondencere terms of appointment, 1973-75. E.17-E.20 Papers of Council meeting 26 July 1973. Council chaired by Kent. 4 folders. This was the first meeting of E.21 E.22 Papers for Annual Week-End Meeting of the NERC, Edinburgh, 21-23 September 1973. ‘Research in the Geological Sciences’, NERC Publications Series B, no.7, September 1973. Annotated by Kent. E.23-E.35 ‘Chairman's Daybook’. Contents of Kent's bulky folder so inscribed divided into thirteen for ease of reference. This folder comprises Kent's own copies of correspondence and papers sent out from his office as Chairman of the NERC 12 September 1973 - 14 October 1974. The material does not cover NERCbusiness exclusively but P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 142 Natural Environment Research Council includes scientific and social correspondence. Subjects range from social invitations to NERCpolicy on support of research. A continuing theme in these papers is the NERC response to the Government White Paper Cmnd 5046, which changed the way in which certain areas of research were funded. Certain programmes of applied research wereto be funded by the relevant Government Departments with funds transferred from the NERC. This entailed negotiations with the Departmentof Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries over which projects should be supported by them and how much moneyshould betransferred. Most of the material concerns negotiations over the ‘DTI gap’, the discrepancy between the sum to be transferred from the NERC to the Departmentof Trade and Industry (which in 1974 wasthen divided into three Departments of Energy, Trade and Industry) and the costof the existing and available applied research programmes. E.23 E.24 E.25 E.26 E.27 E.28 E.29 E.30 1973 September-October. 1973 November. 1973 December- 1974 January. 1974 February. 1974 March(1). 1974 March (2). research, submitted to the ABRC. Includes typescript note on NERC support for energy 1974 April. 1974 May. Includes letter to Nature responding to article ‘European Scientists Disunite' which Kent and co-signatories believed to be ‘erroneous and misleading’. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 143 Natural Environment Research Council E.31 E.32 E.33 E.34 E.35 E.36 E.37 1974 June. Includes 3pp typescript note by Kent 'Mesozoic developmentof aseismic continental margins, Europe and elsewhere’ sent to Royal Society 19 June 1974, and minutes of meeting on funding of the Marine Biological Association activities, 19 June. 1974 July (1). 1974 July (2). 1974 August, September. supported by the NERC. Includes correspondence re offshore research 1974 September, October. Correspondencerecriticism of NERC organisation 1975. Miscellaneous 1975-77. correspondence re completion of term of service as Chairman. correspondence and papers Includes E.38, E.39 Papers of Council meeting 24 May 1977. 2 folders. E.40-E.44 ‘Taxonomyin Britain: The Report of the ABRC Review Group on Taxonomy, 1977'. Annotated by Kent. This report was discussed by the NERC attheir meeting on 24 November 1977. 5 folders. E.45 Miscellaneous correspondence 1978-79. research grants awarded by the NERC. Includes data on duration of E.46-E.49 Papers of Council meeting 24 May 1979. 4 folders. E.50-E.54 Papers of Council meeting 27 March 1980. folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 144 Natural Environment Research Council E.55, E.56 Papers for ad hoc meeting of Council members to discuss British Antarctic Survey (BAS)scientific priorities. E.55 E.56 E.57 ‘Report on BAS's [British Antarctic Survey] Antarctic activities & facilities’ by P.F.G. Twinn and D.R. Gipps, March 1980. Retainedin original binding. Paperon 'BAS's Scientific Programmes’, April 1980. CorrespondenceApril- June 1980, principally re reorganisation of NERC. E.58, E.59 Interim reports of NERC Special Topic programmes sent to Council members 14 July 1980. 2 folders. E.60, E.61 Papers of Council meeting 31 July 1980. 2 folders. E.62 Correspondence August-October 1980 re end of Kent's term of office and Council meeting of 25 September 1980. Kent was unable to attend this, due to be his final Council meeting, through illness. E.63, E.64 Papers of Council meeting 25 September 1980. 2 folders. PREPARATORY GROUP A GeneralandVisiting Group to IGS/IOS Kent served on the NERC's Preparatory Group ‘A’ (Earth Sciences) which advised Council on geological and geophysical matters. He was a member of the Visiting Group to the Institute of Geological Sciences (IGS) Continental Shelf Division and the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS) Marine Geophysical Group. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 145 Natural Environment Research Council E.65-E.70 Visiting Group to the |OS Marine Geophysical Group and IGS Continental Shelf Division on 17 and 25 October, 20-21 November and 1 December 1978. Kent chaired the Group. E.65-E.68 Papersfor visits. 4 folders. E.69 E.70 Kent's ms notesonvisit of 17 October to |OS, Wormley. Draft report of Visiting Group sent to Kent April 1979. With extensive ms correction and additions by Kent. The final Preparatory Group 'A' on 17 May(see E.71). report was circulated with the papers for the meeting of E.71-E.73 Papers for meeting of NERC Preparatory Group ‘A’, 17 May 1979. folders. 3 E.74 IGS ‘Proposal Mineral Reconnaissance Programme’, paperfor meeting of Preparatory Group ‘A’, 5 December 1979. continuation for the of the E.75-E.79 Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group ‘A’, 5 February 1980. 5 folders. E.80 Letter re meeting of Preparatory Group 'A’, May 1980. E.81, E.82 Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group 'A’, 1 July 1980. 2 folders. E.83 Papers for joint meeting of Preparatory Groups 'A’ and 'D' on marine sedimentology, 1 July 1980. E.84, E.85 Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group ‘A’, 2 February 1981. 2 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 146 Natural Environment Research Council E.86 Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group ‘A’, 5 February 1982. Kent wasa Visitor at the meeting reporting on the future of IPOD. E.87, E.88 Visiting Group to the IGS Continental Shelf Division, Edinburgh, 23-24 November 1983. E.87 E.88 Timetables, annotated by Kent; 'The Continental Shelf Division. A view of the future' by H.R. Tainsch, sent to Kent for comment 20 January 1984. Papersfor visit. Retained in original folder. E.89, E.90 Visiting Group to the IGS Marine Geology Unit, Keyworth, 13 December 1983. E.89 E.90 Timetables, annotated by Kent; draft report of the Group sent to Kent for comment 8 March 1984. Papersfor visit. Retained in original folder. Deep Geology Committee In 1978, following the creation by the Institute of Geological Sciences of a Deep Geology Unit, the NERC established a Deep Geology Programmeto coordinate research into Deep Geology carried out by the IGS Unit and a numberof universities. The Deep Geology Committee was established in February 1979 to oversee the Programme. Kent served on the Committee from its inception (as the first Chairman 1979-83). The Committee reviewed progress and considered proposals for the research to be carried out under the Programme, and organised meetings. It reported to Preparatory Group ‘A’. E.91 Notes on IGS/Universities Discussion Group on Deep Geology, 2 May 1978. This was an exploratory meeting called to discuss the future direction of the programme. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 147 Natural Environment Research Council E.92 E.93 Notes on IGS/Universities Discussion Group on Deep Geology, 23 May 1978; ms notes by Kent. This meeting received detailed proposals for ten projects. List of projects recommended for funding within the Deep Geology Programme, 1 June 1978; notes on IGS/Universities Discussion Group on the Lower Crust (Deep Geology Programme), 15 June 1978. E.94, E.95 Papersforfirst meeting of Committee, 30 May 1979. 2 folders. E.96 Paper on 'Role of Government geological agencies in mineral resource development’, commenting particularly on the role of the French Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Miniéres, with enclosures, July 1979; 'NERC and the Earth Sciences’by J. Sutton, 4pp typescript, 27 September 1979. E.97-E.99 Papers for second meeting of Committee, 8 May 1980. folders. E.100 E.101 ‘Deep Geology Project: Availability of U.K. onshore confidential information’ by Kent, 1p typescript with ms correction and addition, 8 May 1980, with comments on the draft by membersof the IGS. See E.115. Papers re proposalfor deep crustal reflection profiling in British Isles, sent to Kent 1 July 1980. E.102, E.103 Workshop on the Deep Geology of the onshore UK, Leicester, 23-24 September 1980. Kent was unable to attend duetoillness. E.102 Correspondence re arrangements, programme, correspondencearising. E.103 Abstracts. E.104-E.106 Papersof third meeting of Committee, 11 November 1980. 3 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 148 Natural Environment Research Council E.107-E.111 Papers of fourth meeting of Committee, 13 January 1981. 5 folders. Chiefly research grant applications and proposals arising from the Deep Geology Workshop(E.102,E.103). E.112 Report of Deep Geology Committee 1979-1981 for Preparatory Group ‘A’. E.113, £.114 Papersoffifth meeting of Committee, 28 July 1981. 2 folders. E.115 ‘Deep Geology Project: Availability of U.K. onshore confidential information’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 9 August 1981, and 2pp typescript amended version. With covering and related correspondence. See E.100. E.116-E.118 Sections of Deep Geology Committee Report sent to Kent for corrections September 1981. Principally project reports. 3 folders. E.119-E.122 Papersof sixth meeting of Committee, 24 February 1982. folders. Chiefly research grant applications and reports. E.123, E.124 Papers of seventh meeting of Committee, 28 April 1982. 2 folders. E.125-E.130 Papers of eighth meeting of Committee, 20 October 1982. 6 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.131, £.132 Second Workshop on the Deep Geology of the onshore UK, Cambridge, 5-6 January 1983. Kent introduced the Workshop. E.131 E.132 Correspondence,list of participants, ms notesfor introductionetc. Programmeandabstracts, Report on Workshop. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 149 Natural Environment Research Council E.132A Correspondence and papers re Deep Fluid Processes seminars. Three of these meetings were held during 1983: Cambridge, 14 February, and London, 16 May and 19 September. Kent attendedthefirst. E.133-E.138 Papers of ninth meeting of Committee, 20 April 1983. 6 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.139 Correspondence May-July 1983, re Kent's period of service as Chairman. E.140-E.143 Papers of tenth meeting of Committee, 12 October 1983. 4 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.144, £.145 Papers of BIRPS[British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate] Advisory Committee meeting, 29 November 1983. 2 folders. BIRPSwasestablished in 1981 to operate a UK programmeof deep seismic reflection profiling. The BIRPS Advisory Committee reported to the Deep Geology Committee with proposals for experimental projects. E.146 Correspondence and papers re BIRPS North Sea 1984 Workshop held following the BIRPS Advisory Committee meeting. E.147-E.157 Papers of eleventh meeting of Committee, 22 March 1984. 11 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.158-E.161 Papers of twelfth meeting of Committee, 2 October 1984. 4 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.162, E.163 Third Workshop on the Deep Geology of the onshore UK, Durham, 3-4 January 1985. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 150 Natural Environment Research Council E.162 Brief correspondence re arrangements, list of participants and papers offered, 1p ms notes on ‘Future of BIRPS’. E.163 Programmeand abstracts. E.164-E.166 Papersof thirteenth meeting of Committee, 26 March 1985. 3 folders. E.167-E.172 Papersoffifteenth meeting of Committee, 10 October 1985. 6 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.173 Papers of BIRPS Advisory Committee meeting, 25 March 1986. E.174-E.178 Papersof sixteenth meeting of Committee, 20 June 1986. folders. Chiefly research grant applications. Working Group on Deep Source Gaseswithin the UK crust This Working Group was established by the Deep Geology Committee at their meeting on 24 February 1982 'to propose a programme of work to investigate occurrences of methane, actual and potential within the UK crust’. Kent was Chairman of the group. The subject under study arose from the hypothesis of Professor Thomas Gold of Cornell University that throughout geological time carbon gases trapped inside the Earth during its formation gradually seep out through the Earth's surface. The most common of these carbon gases was methane and it was suggestedthat if the hypothesis were correct this methane could be a valuable source of energy. Kent's interest in Gold's ideas about the origins of natural gases and oil preceded the formation of the Working Party. In 1980 Gold visited the Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU) at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, to lecture on ‘Primordial methane - energy source for the future?’ and discuss his ideas, and Kent had been among those attending. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 151 Natural Environment Research Council E.179-E.182 Papers from visit of Gold to ETSU, 9 April 1980. E.179 Invitation; programmeofvisit. E.180, E181 Background information provided by ETSU. folders. E.182 E.183 E.184 Notes on round table meeting with Gold; copy of ‘Harwell Bulletin’ covering the visit of Gold; correspondencearising April-June 1980. Letter re establishment of Working Group, 1 March 1982; papers for meeting of Working Group, 7 April 1982, annotated by Kent; Kent's ms notes. Draft report of meeting; ‘Draft programme to investigate the possibility of economically significant accumulation of deep source hydrocarbonsexisting in the UK crust’, annotated by Kent. E.185, E.186 US Department of Energy meeting on Unconventional Deep Source Gas, Morgantown, WV, 3-4 May 1982. E.185 E.186 E.187 E.188 Unofficial report by A.T. Huntingdon, NERC representative at the meeting. US Department of Energy report of the meeting. Discussion meeting on Origin of fossil fuels - biogenic vs non-biogenic, London, 7 October 1982. Kent spoke on ‘Investigation of Deep Source Gas' as Chairman of the Working Group. Programme; Kent's notes for his lecture and ms notes on lecture by Gold; brief correspondence. Draft of The duplex origin of natural gas and petroleum, and the prognosis for future supplies' by Gold, sent by him to Kent for information 4 December 1984. Natural Environment Research Council 152 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 MISCELLANEOUS E.189, E.190 Working Party on the Law of the Sea. This was established by the European Science Foundation to consider the implications of the Law of the Sea negotiations for marine research. It was feared that the terms under consideration might restrict such research. Kent was the NERCrepresentative on the Working Party. Mostof the material concerns the meeting of the Working Party in Paris on 8 February 1978. Correspondence and papers, December 1977 - February 1978. Includes ‘draft paper of what could be the ESF answerto the American statement on the implications of the conclusions reached by the Conference on the Law of the Sea negotiations upon marine research’, heavily annotated by Kent. Papers of meeting of 8 February, including Kent's ms notes and report; revised draft of ESF paper telexed to Kent 13 February, with Kent's reply suggesting amendments. E.189 E.190 E.191, E.192 ‘NERC misc - continental shelf survey’. inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's envelope so E.191 ‘Programme of Offshore Studies by IGS for Department of Energy. Proposals for 10 year programme 1979-1988’. E.192 Brief correspondence January-April 1978; maps. E.193-E.196 Geological Survey of Great Britain Consortium. Kent was Chairmanofthis body. Papers for meetings 1979 and 1980. See also F.145-F.161. E.193-E.195 Sixth meeting, 12 June 1979. 3 folders. E.196 Seventh meeting, 20 February 1980. T a m q | | National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists underthe guidance ofthe Royal Society's National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR PETER KENT FRS (1913 - 1986) Compiled by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper VOLUMEII SectionsF - J Index of correspondents Deposited in the Library, University of Nottingham NCUACS43/5/93 All rights reserved University of Bath 1993 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 153 SECTION F SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS F.1-F.427 The material covers 41 British, overseas and international organisations. The organisations are presented in an alphabetical sequence. While some entries are slight, dealing with membership, invitations to meetings and the like, others are more substantial both in their time-span and in the matters covered. Among the organisations best documented here are the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Geological Society, the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, the Royal Society and the Watt Committee on Energy. For material relating to the British Geological Survey see the entries for the Institute of Geological Sciences andtheInstitution of Geologists. Also of interest in this section is the material on local geological and natural history societies of which Kent was a member, including the East Midlands and Yorkshire Geological Societies and the Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Trusts for Nature Conservation. The material is presented asfollows: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS F.1-F.5 ARTHUR HOLMESSOCIETY (DURHAM UNIVERSITY) F.6 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE F.7, F.8 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (see INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES) CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS F.9 COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC POLICY F.10-F.21 DAVID DAVIES MEMORIAL INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS F.22, F.23 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 154 Societies and organisations EAST MIDLANDS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY F.24-F.30 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE F.31-F.68 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA F.69 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON F.70-F.137 GEOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION F.138-F.143 HARKER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (HULL UNIVERSITY) F.144 INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES/BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INSTITUTION OF GEOLOGISTS INTERNATIONAL TRUST FOR ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE F.145-F.161 F.162-F.165 F.166-F.183 F.184-F.228 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES F.229-F.241 INTER-UNION COMMISSION ON GEODYNAMICS F.242-F.245 IRAN SOCIETY F.246, F.247 LAMONT-DOHERTY GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY F.248-F.252 LEICESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY F.253 LEICESTERSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LEICESTER UNIVERSITY F.254 F.255-F.264 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 155 Societies and organisations LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION F.265-F.274 LINCOLNSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION F.275-F.278 MACROBERT AWARD EVALUATION COMMITTEE F.279-F.311 MANCHESTER MUSEUM F.312 MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION F.313-F.318 NATURE CONSERVANCY F.319-F.323 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION OPEN UNIVERSITY F.324-F.328 F.329, F.330 PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION F.331 PAPUA AND NEW GUINEASCIENTIFIC SOCIETY F.332 PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SOCIETY OF GREATBRITAIN ROYAL INSTITUTION ROYAL SOCIETY ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS ULSTER MUSEUM WATT COMMITTEE ON ENERGY WORLD CULTURAL COUNCIL F.333-F.340 F.341-F.344 F.345-F.389 F.390 F.391 F.392-F.410 F.411-F.417 YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY F.418-F.427 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 156 Societies and organisations AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS 1956-84 Kent was elected a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in 1957. In 1976 he was elected an Honorary Member (see A.167) and in 1984 received a certificate marking 25 years membership (A.176). For AAPG conferences attended by Kent see section H. 1956-57. Chiefly re membership. 1965-66. Includes correspondencere Letter of recognition for AAPG Semi- Centennial celebrations 1966. Kent was asked to secure a Letter from the Queen. In the event a Letter was written by R.W. Marsh MP,Minister of Power. 1967-68. Chiefly re papers on evaporites of the North Sea and the Middle East. 1969-71. Includes correspondence re refereeing paper. 1972-75, 1979-84. F.1 F.2 F.3 F.4 F.5 ARTHUR HOLMESSOCIETY (DURHAM UNIVERSITY) 1975 F.6 Election as Honorary Vice President. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENTOF SCIENCE 1943-82 Kent became a Life Member of the British Association in 1943. He was Vice-President of Section C (Geology) 1966 and President 1972-73. For British Association meetings attended by Kent see section H. F.7 1943, 1971-74. Includes papers of General Committee meeting 24 August 1973. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 157 Societies and organisations F.8 1975-77, 1982. CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS 1979-82 Kent was made an Honorary Memberof the Society in 1979. F.9 Honorary Membership, 1979, 1982; Newsletter for March 1980. COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC POLICY 1971-72 The Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) was established in 1965 ‘to advise the Secretary of State for Education and Science in the exercise of his responsibilities for the formulation and execution of Government scientific policy’. It was wound upin 1972, its duties being subsumed within those of its successor body, the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC). Kent was appointed a member of the CSP in 1968 and served this body and the ABRC until 1977. Kent seems to have returned the majority of the papers he was sent in connection with CSP business (see F.10), and the papers presented here relate solely to the response to the 1972 Green Paper Cmnd 4814 'A Framework for Government Research and Development’ and subsequent White Paper Cmnd 5046 (the Rothschild Report). Kent was a memberof the CSP's Preparatory Group charged with responding to Cmnd 4814. F.10 Lists of CSP ‘papers returned...' Letter to F.S. Dainton from Kent enclosing 2pp typescript draft ‘Comments on Cmnd 4814...', 13 December 1971; comments by F.A. Fidler on Cmnd 4814, 4 January 1972; letter to W.K. Reid, of the Department of Education and Science, from Kent, 4 January 1972; 3pp typescript ‘Arguments on the Green Paper’ by T.L. Cottrell, 15 January 1972. F.11 Kent's ms notes on Royal Society meeting with Lord Rothschild, 11 January 1972; 3pp typescript ‘Comments by Lord Rothschild, FRS, on statements in letters to the Press about his report, and at his request circulated to Fellows attending meeting on Tuesday 11 January 1972’; 'Memorandum by Lord Rothschild...’ intended as ‘a definitive presentation of my views on someof the major issues on which mycritics appear to me misguided’, 20 January 1972. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 158 Societies and organisations F.12 F.13 F.14 ‘A note of evidence taken from Lord Rothschild by the [House of Lords] Select Committee on Science and Technology’, 26 January 1972. Note on CSP Preparatory Group (Green Paper) meeting, 18 January 1972, annotated on verso by Kent, and CSP [?draft] response to Cmnd 4814. Correspondence and papers re cross-examination of Dainton, A.E.Merrison and Kent for the CSP by the Select Committee on Science and Technology, 2 February 1972. Includes copy of minutesof their evidence. F.15, F.16 Other submissions on Cmnd 4814. F.15 F.16 Agricultural Research Council; Royal Society. Natural Environment Research Council (2nd draft and final version). F.17-F.19 Photocopies of press-cuttings re Cmnd 4814, 25 November 1971 - 11 January 1972, circulated to CSP Preparatory Group. folders. F.20 F.21 Miscellaneous later press-cuttings and articles re Cmnd 4814. Cmnd 5046, July 1972; Cmnd 5177 ‘Select Committee on Science and Technology. Government observations on First and Fourth Reports’, December 1972, annotated by Kent. DAVID DAVIES MEMORIAL INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1981-82 F.22, F.23 Advice on Institute's study of continental shelf waters around the UK. 2 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 159 Societies and organisations EAST MIDLANDS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1964-83 Kent joined the Society shortly after it was founded in February 1964. He was a Trustee of the Society's Trust Fund and wrote a numberofarticles for its journal The Mercian Geologist. The material includes correspondenceandcirculars. 1964-67. 1967 material chiefly re establishment of Trust Fund. 1968. Chiefly re Trust Fund. Includes correspondence with J.H. Sykes re ‘Barnstone railway 1969. cutting project' and meeting on ‘The Rhaetic of the East Midlands’, 12 December, introduced by Kent at which Sykeslectured on ‘Details of the Barnstone section’. 1970. Includes correspondence re review article by Kent ‘Problems of the Rhaetic in the East Midlands' published in The Mercian Geologist(Bibliog. 76, 1970). Chiefly re geological field excursion to Scunthorpe led by Kent, 17 1971. October. 1972-74. Geologist. Includes report on the excursion to Scunthorpe for The Mercian 1975,1978,1982-83. 1982 material re geological field excursion to the area south-west of Grantham led by Kent, 18 July. F.24 F.25 F.26 F.27 F.28 F.29 F.30 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 160 Societies and organisations FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTHOFFICE 1974-78 The material is presented as follows: F.31-F.54 English Channel F.55-F.57 Falkland Islands F.58-F.68 Rockall English Channel F.31 F.32 Following unease at French movesin 1974 to begin exploratory drilling in a disputed area of the English Channel, Kent was asked in October 1975 to assist the Foreign and Commonwealth Office during arbitration ‘to delimit the course of the continental shelf boundary between the UK and France’as the UK's scientific expert at the Court of Arbitration in Geneva. The material is principally documents and mapsrelating to the UK and French claims, including British and French submissions (termed Memorials and Counter-memorials) and Kent's comments on them. 1974 November-December. Background correspondence re UK response to possible French drilling. Possibly passed to Kent by R.J.H. Beverton, Secretary of the NERC. 1975 October-December. Correspondence re case, including letter asking Kent to assist, and his comments on part of the draft UK Memorial (submission) to the Court of Arbitration on the Hurd Deep Fault zonein the English Channel. F.33-F.37 1975 December. comments. 5 folders. Copy of draft UK Memorial prepared following Kent's F.38 F.39 1976 January-March. Correspondence and papers, chiefly re Hurd Deep. 1976 April-July. memorial. Correspondence and papers, chiefly re UK Counter- P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 161 Societies and organisations F.40 F.41 F.42 F.43 F.44 1976 August, September. Papers re French Counter-memorial. 1976 October, November. Re French Counter-memorial. 1976 December (1). Correspondence and papers re UK reply to French Counter-memorial. 1976 December(2). Frenchreply. 1977 January, February. Includes 9pp typescript of Kent's ‘Oral submission on the geological evidence’ and 4pp typescript of ‘Oral submission on the geology’ annotated ‘Secondversion’. The Court of Arbitration beganits deliberations in January 1977. F.45-F.48 Verbatim records of Meeting of the Court for 10, 18 and 23 February. 4 folders. F.49 Kent's ms notes, including short account of his experiences at the Court; letter of thanks from Foreign and Commonwealth Office, March 1977. F.50-F.54 Miscellaneous background information: principally maps. 5 folders. The Falkland Islands Kent reviewed [D.H.] Griffiths’ report on the structure of the Falkland Islands continental shelf on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in April 1975. The FCO wasparticularly interested in the hydrocarbon prospects of the area around the Falkland Islands. F.55 ‘Geology of the Region around the Falkland Islands’ by D.H. Griffiths et al, March 1975. Retainedin original binder. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 162 Societies and organisations F.56 F.57 Rockall F.58 F.59 F.60 F.61 F.62 Correspondence re Griffiths' report, including copy of Kent's review, 3pp typescript, June 1975. Newspapercuttings re oil prospects in the region. In 1976 Kent was asked to advise on the strength of the UK claim to the Rockall Plateau and supervise the preparation of a report against rival claims from the governmentsofthe Irish Republic and Denmark. The British government wasanxiousto restate the UK case,that the Plateau waslinked to mainland UK by continental crust, without opening the way for a Danish claim on the Rockall Plateau based on the Faroes. 1976 May-September. Includes FCO request for up-to-date information on the geology of the Rockall area, May. 1976 October-December. Includes Kent's 11pp typescript first draft on the ‘Boundary between UK andthe Irish Republic’, and later draft with ms and typescript corrections (not by Kent). 1977 February, March. Includes 'Aide-mémoire to Sir Peter Kent on The crustal structure of the NW British continental margin’ by D.K. Smythe and R. McQuillin, 9 March. This summarised evidence ‘for and against a continental crustal link of the Rockall Plateau to the UK continental shelf NW of Scotland’. 1977 May-August. Re preparation offinal report for Law Officers. 1978 April. Correspondence re terminology employedin the report. F.63-F.68 Miscellaneous background information. 6 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 163 Societies and organisations GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1965-71 Kent was elected a memberof the Geological Society of America in 1966. F.69 1965-71. Re membership. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 1960-86 Kent was elected a Fellow in 1938 (see A.131A). He served on Council 1963-66 and wasPresident of the Society 1974-76. He was a memberof many committees and groups of the Society, all of which are represented in the surviving material. not He received the Society's Lyell Fund for 1949 and Bigsby Medal 1953 (A.136) and the Murchison Medalin 1969 (A.143). The material is presented asfollows: F.70-F.76 General correspondence and papers F.77-F.112 Stratigraphy Committee F.113 Committee for Sustained Industrial Support F.114-F.123 Appeals Committee F.124-F.126 Petroleum Geochemistry Group F.127-F.137 Geological Society Club P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 164 Societies and organisations General correspondence and papers These principally date from the period prior to Kent's Presidency of the Society and include very few ‘official’ papers such as papers for meetings of Council. Includes letter from T.N. George, President, asking whether Kent 1969. would accept nomination as his successor, 6 October. 1970. 1971. Includes correspondence re 1971 Appeal. 1972. Includes correspondence re membership of temporary working group on mineral extraction and the environment. Includes correspondence 1973. biographical material re F.W. Shotton, candidate for the Wollaston Medal. Presidency re of the Society and 1974-76. 1978-84. F.70 F.71 F.72 F.73 F.74 F.75 F.76 Stratigraphy Committee The material is presented as follows: F.77-F.87 General F.88-F.111 Triassic Working Group F.112 Jurassic Working Group P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 165 Societies and organisations General The Stratigraphy Committee was established in 1968 to replace the Stratigraphical Code Sub-Committee, of which Kent was also a member. It published guides to stratigraphical procedure in 1972 and 1978, both co- authored by Kent. F.77 Background material. Committee’, March 1967. Includes ‘Report of the Stratigraphical Code Sub- F.78-F.87 Stratigraphy Committee meetings 1972-74, 1979-85. Correspondenceand papers. The meetings in early 1972 were chiefly concerned with preparation of the Committee's ‘Concise Guide to stratigraphical procedure’, (Bibliog. 83, 1972). The committee later published 'A guide to stratigraphical procedure’, (Bibliog. 118, 1978). F.78 1972 January F.83 1979-80 F.79 1972 February F.84 1981 F.80 1972 March-June F.85 1982 F.81 1972 July-September F.86 1983 F.82 1973-74 F.87 1984-85 Triassic Working Group The Triassic Working Group was established in 1966 by the Geological Society as one of a number of Working Groupsto review the stratigraphy of In 1968 it was placed under the newly the Phanerozoic rock succession. established Stratigraphy Committee. In the case of correlation of the Triassic, described by Kent in a letter to M.G. Audley-Charles of 15 November 1966 (F.88) as ‘one of the mostdifficult in British stratigraphy’it wasfelt necessary to organise up-to-date reappraisals of regional data on the Triassic. The Working Group, chaired by Kent, began work in 1967, holding a symposium on 1 November 1967, the results of which were published in a special issue of the Geological Society's Quarterly Journal. The Working Group then went on consider three phases of the Triassic in the preparation of a correlation chart: the Rhaetic, the Keuper and the Bunter. It finally produced a report, considerably longer than originally P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 166 Societies and organisations envisaged in 1980 (A correlation of Triassic rocks in the British Isles, Bibliog. no. 127). Correspondence and papers 1966-83. 1966. Correspondence re paper on Triassic correlation by M.G. Audley- Charles. This was the most extensive survey of the subject then attempted and, although somewhat controversial, was a spur to the Working Group's activities. 1967 January-March. Re Audley-Charles's paper. 1967 April. Re Audley-Charles's paper. following its reading at Geological Society Discussion meeting, 5 April. Includes comments on the paper 1967 May. Includes correspondencere possible Trias Symposium. 1967 June. 1967 June-August. Trias Symposium. October-December. 1967 Symposium, and re 'Aide-mémoire' by Kent on the Rhaetic. Chiefly correspondence and papers re 1968 January-March. Chiefly re publication of Symposium proceedings, and Kent's 'Aide-mémoire’. 1968 April, May. Group, 20 May. Includes Kent's first ‘Progress Report’ of the Working F.88 F.89 F.90 F.91 F.92 F.93 F.94 F.95 F.96 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 167 Societies and organisations F.97 F.98 F.99 F.100 F.101 F.102 F.103 F.104 F.105 F.106 F.107 1968 June-November. Includes 2pp typescript ‘Recommendations for lithographical terminology applied to the Rhaetic Beds of Britain’ prepared for the Group by Kent, 3 July, and ‘Comments on the recommendations...’ by P.L. Robinson, 4pp duplicated typescript. 1969 January-June. Includes ‘General description of stratigraphic units in the UpperTrias of Great Britain’, 6pp typescript + figures found with minutes of meeting 29 April. 1969 July-October. 1970 January-June. Re meeting 17 February, and questionnaire on 'Keuper’ rocks of the British Isles. 1970 July-December. Includes 'Progress Report’, revised questionnaire on ‘Keuper' rocks and typescript summary accounts by Kent of the Rhaetic of the North Midlands, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the North Sea + figures. 1971 January-June. Includes questionnaire on ‘Bunter’ rocks of the British Isles. 1971 August. circulated prior to Working Group meeting on 6 October. Chiefly replies to questionnaires on 'Keuper’ and ‘Bunter’ 1971 October-December. Chiefly re meetings 6 October and 1 December. 1972 January-March. Chiefly re meetings 2 February and 21 March to considerregional correlation charts. 1972 April-December. 1973. Includes 'Progress Report of the Working Party on the Trias’ by Kent, ‘Presentation on Progress of Triassic Working Group’ for Stratigraphical Committee, 5 June, and draft correlation chart. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 168 Societies and organisations F.108 1974. F.109 1975-76. Includes ‘Definition of new names for major stratigraphical units’ by G. Warrington and his 'Report of visit to Vienna...’ for meeting of IUGS sub-commission on Triassic stratigraphy. F.110 1978. Re Working Group Report. F.111 1979, 1980, 1983. Jurassic Working Group This group was considerably less active than the Triassic Working Group. Kent was a member. F.112 1966, 1973. Committee for Sustained Industrial Support F.113 1977. Chiefly re compilation of appeal brochure. Appeals Committee The Appeals Committee was established in 1981 to raise money for the Society's archives and conservation programmeandfor the compilation of a Palaeographical Atlas. Kent was Chairman of the Committee.It held its first meeting on 2 December 1981. The Appeal succeeded in raising the £10,000 required for the Atlas but not the further £80,000 for the employment of a conservationist on a permanent basis. In October 1983 the Committee launched an Appeal for funds to support its field-based training schemefor promising honours graduates. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 169 Societies and organisations material The correspondencere potential donors and Appealletters andreplies. meetings of the papers for is chiefly Committee, F.114 1981 F.119 1982 August F.115 1982 January, February F.120 1982 September, October F.116 1982 March F.121 1982 November F.117 1982 April, June F.122 1982 December F.118 1982 July F.123 1983 Petroleum Geochemistry Group In 1983 the Petroleum Geochemistry Group expanded its scope and widenedits membership to become the Petroleum Group. Kent had been a memberof the Petroleum Geochemistry Group and was also a memberof the new Group,serving on its Committee. Kent spoke at the Petroleum 1982. Re 1982-83 programme of events. Geochemistry Group's Discussion Meeting on the Origin of fossil fuels: biogenic vs non biogenic, London, 7 October 1982. See also H.122. 1983. Membership of Petroleum Group; 1983-84 programmeof events. 1984-85 programme of events. Kent spoke on 'UK on-shore 1984. exploration - historical review’ at the Group's meeting on on-shore UK exploration, London, 16 May 1984. See H.143. F.124 F.125 F.126 Geological Society Club Kent was elected a member in 1960 and served on the Committee 1963-65. He waselected an Honorary Memberin 1978. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 170 Societies and organisations Chiefly papers for meetings of the Club F.127 1960-64 F.128 1965-68 F.129 1969-70 F.130 1971-73 F.133 1979, 1981 F.134 1982 F.135 1983 F.136 1984 F.131 1974, 1976-77 F.137 1985-86 F.132 1978 GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION 1937-85 Kent was elected a memberin 1935(life member from 1937). The material is chiefly re membership. There is also correspondencere arrangements for Association field excursions abroad for which there is no other evidenceof Kent's participation. The excursion to Kenya in 1983 is documented at H.127-H.129. 1937, 1967. Items 1937 are notes of thanks for services during Association field meetings, 1967 material is for Association field trips in east Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire. 1969-70. Chiefly correspondencere applications to join Association. 1971-72. Correspondence re arrangements for Association excursion to Bulgaria, September- October 1971. Also includes ‘Oil and Gas production in Bulgaria’ by Kent, 6pp typescript, 15 October 1971 + 1p ‘Addenda’. F.138 F.139 F.140 F.141 1973, 1981. F.142 1983-84. excursion to Cyprus 24 April - 2 May 1984. Chiefly correspondence re arrangements for Association P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 171 Societies and organisations F.143 1985, nd. Correspondence re proposed excursion to Crete and Santorini, October, and re reunion of participants in 'Long field meeting in Switzerland 6th - 21st September 1947', 2 November. HARKER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (HULL UNIVERSITY) 1978 Kent was Honorary Vice-President of the Society 1978-79. He was guestat the Society Annual Dinner, 1 February 1979. F.144 1978. Invitation to act as Honorary Vice-President and correspondence re Annual Dinner. INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES/BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1972-86 of The Institute Geological Sciences was formed in 1965 as an amalgamation of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, the Overseas Geological Surveys and the Geological Museum as a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In 1984 the Institute was renamed the British Geological Survey and the Geological Museum transferred to the British Museum (Natural History). The material is presented asfollows: F.145,F.146 Institute of Geological Sciences F.147-F.161 British Geological Survey Institute of Geological Sciences Material relating to Kent's service on the Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee (previously the Geology and Geophysics Committee) of the Natural Environment Research Council 1968-73, and on the NERC Visiting Group to IGS is presentedin section E. F.145 1972-73,1977,1980-81. General correspondence,including correspondence re confidentiality of data. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 172 Societies and organisations F.146 1982-83. Chiefly correspondence re possible reprint of IGS memoir ‘The geology and geophysics of coastal Tanzania’ by Kent, J.A. Hunt and D.W. Johnstone (Bibliog. 80, 1971), and progress towards publication of the ‘Chipping Norton Memoir’. British Geological Survey In 1984 the proposed reductions in NERC funding of the British Geological Survey for 1984-85, together with withdrawal of funds by individual Government Departments, led to serious concern for the future of the Survey. This concern washeightened by the proposed reorganisation of the NERC in its 1985 Corporate Plan. There wasparticular opposition to plans to administer the Survey asif it were a university-based NERC directed research institute. It was argued that this was incompatible with the Survey's role as a national body with statutory requirements for the geological mapping of the UK, whose gathering of strategic data available for public use was vital to the full development of British mineral and hydrocarbon resources. It was suggested that the Survey should be given a semi-autonomous status such as that enjoyed by the Ordnance Survey. In response to calls for an independent review of the British Geological Survey a joint NERC/Advisory Board for the Research Councils study group into geological surveying was established under the Chairmanship of Sir Clifford Butler in October 1985 'To assess the UK needs for geological surveying over the next 5-10 years - its scale, nature and quality - having regard to the longer term prospects for public expenditure’. It received submissions from interested parties and reported in 1986. with those at The correspondence and papers presented here should be consulted in conjunction Consultative Committee on British Support for Geological Science, established by the Institution of Geologists in November 1984, and those at F.378-F.381 re the Royal Society's Panel on Geological Surveying, established toliaise with the Butler study group. F.171-F.180 relating to the F.147 1984 May-September. Includesletter from Kent to Tam Dalyell MP outlining the funding difficulties of the Survey, 4 September. F.148 1984 October-December. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 173 Societies and organisations F.149 F.150 F.151 F.152 F.153 F.154 1985 January. Copy of brochure prepared for ‘Visit by the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education and Science to the British Geological Survey, Keyworth on 31 January 1985'. Sent to Kent for information. The brochure sets out the history of the Survey, its staff and funding, and someofits activities. 1985 January-February. Includes letter from Kent to Sir Robin Nicholson, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet Office, setting out the case for the Survey. 1985 March. Includesfinal draft of ‘A consultative document on a strategic plan for the British Geological Survey’ by B. Kelk. 1985 April-August. Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science. Includes correspondence with P.L. Brooke MP, Under- 1985 June. Kent's copy of Support of geophysics in the United Kingdom. A Working Party report (Royal Society, London, 1985). 1985 October-December. Includes announcement of establishment of the Butler study group. F.155 1985 December. Copy of NERC ‘Plan 2000’. This Plan was formulated in response to criticism that much of Britain remained inadequately mapped geologically and set out a crash programme for the British Geological Survey to resurvey by the end of the century those areas of the UK covered by obsolete geological maps. F.156 1986 January-February. Includes correspondencere 'Plan 2000". F.157-F.161 Submissions to the Butler study group. F.157 Kent, November 1985. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 174 Societies and organisations F.158 B. Kelk, January 1986. D.A. Gray, January 1986. F.159 Geological Information Group, January 1986. Geological Society, January 1986. Institution of Geologists, January 1986. F.160 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, February 1986. S.L. and D.T. Donovan, February 1986. F.161 NERC, February 1986. INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM 1963-85 He served on the Exploration and Kent was elected a Fellow in 1963. Production Committee 1965-66. Kent resigned from the Fellowship in 1978. 1963-64. February 1964. Membership, discussion meeting on Athabasca Tar Sands, 27 1965. Contributions to summer discussion meeting on Salt Basins. F.162 F.163 F.164 1968-70. F.165 1972-78, 1985. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 175 Societies and organisations INSTITUTION OF GEOLOGISTS 1976-86 The Institution was founded in 1977 following a campaign by the Association for the Promotion of an Institution of Professional Geologists in the mid- 1970s. Kent became a Corporate MemberoftheInstitution at the invitation of the President in November 1979, and was elected a Fellow in 1985. Among Kent's activities on behalf of the Institution were Chairmanship of the Consultative Committee on British Support for Geological Sciences, sponsoredbytheInstitution to lobby for the British Geological Survey, andin 1986 Chairmanship of the Joint Institution of Geologists/Geological Society Co-operation two organisations. Committee, discussing possible merger of the The material is presented as follows: F.166 Association for the Promotion of an Institution of Professional Geologists F.167-F.170 General correspondence and papers F.171-F.180 Consultative Committee on British Support for Geological Sciences (CCGS) F.181-F.183 East Midlands Group Association for the Promotion of an Institution of Professional Geologists F.166 1976-77. January 1977. Kent was Guest Speakerat the meeting. Re meeting of East Midlands branch, Barnstone, Notts, 10 General correspondence and papers F.167 1978-80. Includesinvitation to join the Institution, August 1979. F.168 1981-84. Chiefly re membership. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 176 Societies and organisations F.169 F.170 1985 March, June. Item June 1985 is draft of Charter, Bylaws and Rules of the Institution, with copy of a covering letter to Geological Society re possible mergerof the two bodies. The Geological Society had raised the possibility of a merger between the Society and the Institution of Geologists. The Institution's initial reply included the draft Charter of the Institution and a covering letter setting out the Institution's reservations about merging. 1985 November-1986 January. Includes notification of Kent's election as Fellow, and invitation to serve as Chairman of the Joint Institution of Geologists/Geological Society Co-operation Committee. Consultative Committee on British Support for Geological Sciences (CCGS) In responseto the crisis believed to be facing the British Geological Survey (see F.147-F.161) the Institution of Geologists established a Working Group in November 1984 to organise the geological community's response and argue the case for maintained funding of the earth sciences. It agreed at its first meeting to widen its membership by bringing in representatives from industry and to establish itself as the Consultative Committee on British Support for Geological Science Funding for Research in the Geological Sciences. Thefirst Chairman of the Working Group and the Committee was D.C. lon but on his death in September 1985, Kent wasinvited to serve on the Committee as Chairman. The Committee drafted a numberof papers ‘Geological Sciences in danger’, ‘Funding for research in the geological sciences' and ‘Geology and Wealth: the future?’ for circulation and much of the material presented hererelates to the preparation and circulation of the drafts and consideration of comments received at meetings of the Committee. For material relating to the Royal Society's Geological Survey Panel see F.378-F.381. F.171 1984 November F.176 1985 December F.172 1985 January -April F.177 1986 January, February F.173 1985 May, August F.178 1986 June (1) F.174 1985 September, October F.179 1986 June (2) F.175 1985 November F.180 1986 June (3) P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 East Midlands Group Societies and organisations 177 F.181 Newsletters 1982-85. Not a complete sequence. F.182 Membershiplists 1983 and 1984. F.183 Papers for AGM 1986. INTERNATIONAL TRUST FOR ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 1969-86 The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature wasthe financial agent of the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, founded in 1895 to maintain and develop the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and to give rulings on particular problems of nomenclature. Kent was a memberof the Trust from 1969, serving as Chairman c.1970-84. He served on the Management Committee and its Appeal Subcommittee. F.184 Correspondencereinvitation to Kent to join the Trust, June 1969, with copy of 1947 Certificate of Incorporation. F.185-F.228 Correspondence and papers re general and committee meetings of the Trust 1969-86. Mostof the material relates to fund-raising efforts 1980-84. F.185 1969,1971 F.194 1980 July-December F.186 1972-74 F.187 1977-78 F.195 1981 January, February F.196 1981 March-May F.188 1979 January, February F.197 1981 June F.189 1979 March F.198 1981 June, July F.190 1979 April-July F.199 1981 August-October F.191 1979 September-December F.200 1981 November,December F.192 1980 January-March F.201 1982 January-March F.193 1980 April-June F.202 1982 March P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 178 Societies and organisations F.203 1982 April F.216 1983 October F.204 1982 May, June F.217 1983 November,December F.205 1982 June F.218 1984 January, February F.206 1982 July F.219 1984 March F.207 1982 September, October F.220 1984 March, April F.208 1982 November F.221 1984 May, June F.209 1982 December F.222 1984 June F.210 1983 January, February F.223 1984 July-October F.211 1983 February F.224 1985 February-April F.212 1983 March,April F.225 1985 June F.213 1983 May F.226 1985 August, October F.214 1983 June F.227 1986 March, May F.215 1983 July-September F.228 1986 June INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICALSCIENCES(IUGS) 1981-85 Kent was a memberof the |UGS Endowment Committee 1968-71 and the Advisory Board for Research Development 1982-85. The material is correspondence and papers for meetings of the Advisory Board for Research Development. This body wasinitially established as the Board of the IUGS Research Development Program in 1982 to ‘stimulate, encourage and facilitate international research programsin the geological sciencesthat will advance fundamental geological knowledge and aid the solution of regional and global resource problems’. The Board was to plan and managethe scientific programmeand the fund-raising campaign for the IUGS Research Trust Fund. The Board held its first meeting in January 1982 in Bonn. Its terms of reference wereslightly revised, and its official title changed, after this meeting. In 1972 I|UGS and UNESCO launched a joint International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP). Papers re Kent's service on the British National Committee for the IGCP are at F.367-F.377. F.229 1981-82. Includesinvitation to serve, 17 August 1981, and correspondence re first meeting. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 179 Societies and organisations F.230 1982 January. Retainedin original binding. Papers for first Board meeting, Bonn, 29-30 January. F.231 1982 January-August. Minutesof first meeting; correspondence. F.232-F.235 1983 January. Papers for third Board meeting, Paris, 20 January. 4 folders. F.236 F.237 F.238 F.239 F.240 F.241 1983 January, February. Kent's ms notes on proceedings and report for British National Committee for Geology; correspondencearising from the meeting. 1983 March-November. Correspondence, chiefly re membership of Board. 1984 February. Retained in original binding. Papers for fifth Board meeting, Orleans, 4-5 February. 1984 July. Correspondence. Includes ‘Report of the |IUGS Advisory Board for Research Developmentto the IUGS Council’. 1985 February. Papers for Board meeting, Paris, 5-6 February. Retained in original binding. Kent was unable to attend. 1985 February-May. Minutes of Board meeting; correspondence re meeting and re Kent's resignation from the Board in April. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 180 Societies and organisations INTER-UNION COMMISSION ON GEODYNAMICS 1971-74 Kent was a member of Working Group 7 (‘Epeirogenic movements of regional extent’) of the Commission from 1971. He served as a memberof the British National Committee for Geodynamics. F.242 1971. Invitation to serve and correspondencearising. F.243 1972. F.244 1973. Papers re proposal to establish an international oceanic tide gauge network. F.245 1974. IRAN SOCIETY 1970-85 Kent becamea life member in 1970. F.246 1970,1971. Membership, meetings. F.247 1983-85. Meetings. LAMONT-DOHERTY GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY 1979-86 joined the Kent Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New York, in 1979. He served two three- year terms. Lamont-Doherty Advisory Council of F.248 1979, 1980. arising and re meeting 25 October 1980. Invitation to serve on the Council, 12 July; correspondence P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 181 Societies and organisations F.249 1981, 1982. General correspondence. F.250 1983 March-September. Includes correspondence re arrangements for meeting 14 October 1983. F.251 1983 October-December. Papers for meeting; correspondencearising. F.252 1984, 1986. 1984. Chiefly correspondence re and papers for meeting 1 June LEICESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 1974-76 Kentjoined the Society in 1974. F.253 Membership and meetings. LEICESTERSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION 1980 F.254 Appeal to BP for funds to purchaseTilton Railway Cutting. LEICESTER UNIVERSITY 1967-78 In 1967 Kent was awarded oneofthefirst Adrian Visiting Fellowships of the University. These were established for ‘distinguished men or women from industry or the public services or the arts who are willing, during the period of their association with the University, to provide general advicein theirfield of interest, or assist as consultants with specific research projects’. Kent advised on aspects of geological research at the University and gave a numberof lectures: ‘Structural evolution of the Zagros Mountainsof Iran’, 16 February 1968 (D.108); ‘The coastlands of East Africa. A stratigraphical and structural study’, 10 May 1968 (D.108); ‘The search for North Sea gas (D.109)', 22 November 1968; 'Salt mountains of the Middle East’, 9 January 1970 (D.111). I... P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 182 Societies and organisations F.255 F.256 F.257 F.258 F.259 F.260 F.261 In 1972 Kent was awarded an Honorary D.Sc. by Leicester University (A.153). 1967 April-June. Chiefly re award of Fellowship. 1967 October-December. Includes correspondencere 1968 lectures. 1968 January-May. Includes material re Geology Department's East African Rift Valley project. 1968 June-December. university examination system’, drafted for the Vice-Chancellor, 24 June. Includes 3pp typescript note by Kent on ‘The Includes draft ‘Proposals for the establishment of a planetary and 1969. space sciencecentre in the University of Leicester’, 9 October. 1970 January, February. establishment of a space science centre at Leicester. Includes final version of proposals for the 1970 March, April. Includes copies of Geology Department's research proposals to NERC; proposal for establishment of Honours degree Geology with geophysics by M.A. Khan, and comments thereon, including Kent's, April. F.262 1970 May-December. F.263 1971-73. F.264 1978. Retirement and death of Professor P.C. Sylvester-Bradley. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 183 Societies and organisations LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION 1938-86 Kent joined the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union in 1938. He served a number of terms as President of the Geological Section and of the Union. Kent wrote a numberof articles for the Union's Transactions and delivered the 1970 Presidential address ‘Lincolnshire geologyin its regional setting’ (see D.113, D.114). F.265 1938, 1946, 1949. Includesinvitation to serve as President 1950-51. F.266 1964. Chiefly re field excursion to Lincolnshire Wolds, 27 June. Kent was a leader of the excursion. F.267 1965-66. Includesinvitation to serve as President 1967-68 (declined). F.268 1967-68. Includesinvitations to serve as President of the Geology Section 1967 and President of the Union 1969-70 (both accepted), and papers for meetings. F.269 1969 January-May. Chiefly re meetings. F.270 1969 July-October. Chiefly re meetings. F.271 1970 January-April. Chiefly re meetings and Kent's Presidential address. F.272 1970 June-December. Includes material re field excursion to Colsterworth, 13 June. Kent was a leader of the excursion. F.273 1971-75. F.274 1978, 1981-86. Chiefly re meetings and Kent's service as President of the Geological Section. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 184 Societies and organisations LINCOLNSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION 1964-86 The Trust was founded in 1948, as the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Trust, to work for the conservation of Lincolnshire's remaining wild areas. The material is chiefly re meetings. F.275 1964-65, 1968 F.277 1973-76 F.276 1970-72 F.278 1980-86 MACROBERT AWARD EVALUATION COMMITTEE 1977-86 The MacRobert Award was administered by the Council of Engineering Institutions (later the Fellowship of Engineering) as the premier engineering award in the UK. The award, of a gold medal and prize of £25,000, was made annually on behalf of the MacRobert Trusts in recognition of outstanding contributions to engineering or technology or in the practical application of the physical sciences which contributed to the national prestige and prosperity. Kent served as a Royal Society representative on the Evaluation Committee from 1975. Kent himself was awarded the MacRobert Award in 1970, jointly with H.R. Warman and A.N. Thomas, for surveying techniques pioneered on the Alaskan North Slopeoilfields (see A.144-A.150). The material is papers for meetings of the Committee, including submissions for the Award, press-releases F.279 1977 F.280 1978 (1) F.281 1978 (2) F.282 1978 (3) F.283 1979, 1980 (1) F.284 1980 (2) F.285 1980 (3) F.286 1981 (1) F.287 1981 (2) F.288 1981 (3) F.289 1981 (4) F.290 1982 (1) F.291 1982 (2) F.292 1982(3) F.293 1982 (4) F.294 1982 (5) F.295 1982 (6) F.296 1983 (1) F.297 1983 (2) F.298 1983 (3) P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 185 Societies and organisations F.299 1983 (4) F.300 1983 (5) F.301 1983 (6) F.302 1984 (1) F.303 1984 (2) F.304 1985 (1) F.305 1985 (2) F.306 1985 (3) F.307 1985 (4) F.308 1985 (5) F.309 1985 (6) F.310 1986 (1) F.311 1986 (2) MANCHESTER MUSEUM 1983 F.312 Exchange re financial crisis at the Museum andits implications for the geologicalcollections. MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 1978-85 Kent was a memberof Council of the Marine Biological Association 1978-81. F.313-F.317 Chiefly correspondence re arrangements and papers for meetings of Council 1978-81. F.313 1978-79 F.316 1981 February-June F.314 1980 F.317 1981 October F.315 1981 January F.318 Miscellaneous later material re functions held by the Association, 1983-85. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 NATURE CONSERVANCY Societies and organisations 186 1968-73 The material is chiefly re the Nature Conservancy's review of its existing geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) to ensure all localities of appropriate scientific interest were being protected. Kent advised on phasesthree andfour of the review: Jurassic and Permo-Triassicsites. F.319 1969. Papers for meeting re Jurassic SSSIs, London, 7 February. F.320 F.321 1972 February, March. Leeds and London, February. Papers for meetings re Permo-Triassic SSSls, 1972 July-September. Correspondence with Nature Conservancy re possible conservation of Jurassic Ironstone quarries to be abandoned by British Steel Corporation. F.322, F.323 Nature Conservancy Geological Section circulars 1-8 (lacks number 6) 1968-73. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION 1982-85 Kent served as President from 1984. F.324 1982. Includes April and September Newsletters. F.325 1983. Includes correspondence re proposed nature and archaeologytrial on BP land at Eakring. This was completed after Kent's death (see A.187). F.326 1984 February-April. Appeal to BP; presidency of the Trust. F.327 1984 May-November. F.328 1985. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 OPEN UNIVERSITY F.329 F.330 Societies and organisations 187 1970-85 1970, 1971, 1973. Correspondence re Open University (OU) proposal for co-operative teaching project, 1970; advice on BBC programmesfor OU's Earth Resources course, in BBC OU television programme ‘Resourceconflicts’, broadcast 2 and 5 February 1973. 1971; participation 1978-79, 1985. Chiefly correspondence re possible BP funding for second OU Chair in Earth Sciences. PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 1963-78 Kent resigned from the Palaeontological Association in 1978. F.331 Circulars 1963, 1972, 1976; brief correspondencere resignation 1978. PAPUA AND NEW GUINEASCIENTIFIC SOCIETY 1957 Kent was a memberof Council of the Society during his period working for BP in Papua New Guinea. F.332 Letter acknowledging resignation. PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SOCIETY OF GREATBRITAIN 1965-86 Kent was a founder member of the Society in 1965, and served as Chairman 1966. He became an Honorary Memberin 1970. F.333 1965. Papers re formation of the Society, and summerfield trip to north- east England, 16-18 September. Kent was leaderon thelast day. F.334 1966-67. Chiefly re meetings. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 188 Societies and organisations F.335 F.336 F.337 F.338 F.339 F.340 1968-71. 1972. Chiefly re symposium on North Sea exploration to be organised by the Society. 1973-74, 1978-79. includes 1979 membership directory. 1981-84. Chiefly Newsletters. 1985. Newsletters. 1986. Newsletters. ROYAL INSTITUTION 1971-86 Kent was elected a member of the Royal Institution in 1971. He was appointed a Manager of the Royal Institution and Chairman of the Davy Faraday Laboratory Committee 1977-80. He was a Vice-President 1979- 80. In 1980 he wasaskedto serve as the RoyalInstitution's representative on the Watt Committee on Energy (see F.392-F.410). F.341 F.342 1971, 1975-76. Chiefly re membership. 1977. Chiefly re Davy Faraday Laboratory Committee. F.343 1978. Laboratory Committee. F.344 1979-86. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 ROYAL SOCIETY Societies and organisations 189 1968-86 Kent waselected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1966 (see A.138- A.142). In 1971 he was awarded the Society's Royal Medal (A.151, A.152). Kent served on Council 1967-69 and on many committees of the Society. The material is presented as follows: F.345-F.350 General and miscellaneous F.351-F.355 Elections, grant applications and awards F.356 British National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics F.357 British National Committee for Geodynamics F.358-F.363 British National Committee for Geology F.364-F.366 British National Committee for ICSU F.367-F.377 British National Committee for IGCP F.378-F.381 Geological Survey Panel F.382-F.385 Ordnance Survey Committee F.386-F.389 Soirée Committee General and miscellaneous Includes circulars, correspondence re possible discussion meetings F.345 1972, 1973. F.346 1977-79. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 190 Societies and organisations F.347 1980. Chiefly re proposed discussion meeting on ‘Geochemical reactions’ (later modified to 'Geochemistry of burial diagenesis’). F.348 1981, 1982. F.349 1983, 1984. Includes correspondencere possible Royal Society support for Yorkshire Museum dinosaurs exhibition 1983, 1984. F.350 1985, 1986. Elections, grant applications and awards F.351 1968, 1972-73 F.354 1980-81 F.352 1974, 1978 F.355 1982-85 F.353 1979-80 British National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics Kent was a member of this Committee 1968-78. Seismology Subcommittee. He served on the F.356 1973, 1978, 1980. British National Committee for Geodynamics Kent was a member of this Committee 1971-80. It was dissolved after the completion of the International Geodynamics Project in 1979. F.357 1973, 1980. Letter 1980 re disbanding of Committee. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 191 Societies and organisations British National Committee for Geology Kent was a memberof this Committee 1968-72 and 1976-82. second period of service he chaired the Committee. During his Chiefly correspondence re and papers of Committee meetings. F.358 1973, 1977-78 F.359 1979 (1) F.360 1979 (2) F.361 1980 (1) F.362 1980 (2) F.363 1981-82, 1985 British National Committee for ICSU Kent was a member of the National Committee for ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions) as Chairman of the British National Committee for Geology. British Chiefly papers of Committee meetings. F.364 1979 (1) F.365 1979 (2) F.366 1980-81 British National Committee for IGCP The IGCP (International Geological Correlation Programme) was launched by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) (see F.229-F.241) in 1972. The chief function of the Committee was to allocate travel and other grants for projects carried out under the auspices of the Programme. The material is presented asfollows: F.367, F.368 Committee papers F.369-F.372 Grant Allocations Panel F.373-F.377 Printed material P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 192 Societies and organisations Committee papers F.367 1975,1981 (1) F.368 1981 (2) Grant Allocations Panel F.369 1979 (1) F.370 1979 (2) Printed material F.371 1980-81 F.372 1981 F.373-F.375 ‘Geological correlation’, Newsletter of the IGCP. Volumes 1-5 (1973-77) and 11 (1983). 3 folders. F.376, F.377 Annual reports of UK contribution to the IGCP, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1983. 2 folders. Geological Survey Panel This was established in 1985to liaise with the ABRC/NERCstudy groupinto geological surveying chaired by Sir Clifford Butler (see F.147-F.161 and F.171-F.180). Kent served on the Panel, which waschaired by J. Sutton. 1985 December. Letter re establishment of Panel; papers offirst meeting, 19 December. 1986 January. Papers of second meeting, 8 January. 1986 March. includes ms notes by Kent. Papers of meeting with Butler study group, 21 March. 1986 April-July. Includes copy of the British Geological Survey's ‘Plan 2000' and Kent's comments thereon. F.378 F.379 F.380 F.381 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 193 Societies and organisations Ordnance Survey Committee Kent was Vice-Chairman of this Committee from 1977 until its reorganisation in 1981 as the Ordnance Survey Scientific Committee. In 1978 he chaired an ad hoc subcommittee established to compile the Royal Society submission to the Department of the Environment's Ordnance Survey Review (Serpell) Committee (F.382). 1978 July. Copy of Royal Society submission to Serpell Committee, with related correspondence. 1978 November. Papers re Ordnance Surveydigital mapping programme. 1979. February; papers for Committee meeting, 20 November. Report on Royal Society oral evidence to Serpell Committee 7 1980, 1981. December 1980; letter of thanks for service, 30 March 1981. Papers re digital mapping; papers for Committee meeting 9 F.382 F.383 F.384 F.385 Soirée Committee Kent was a memberof this Committee for the period covered by the papers. F.386 1978-80 F.387 1981 (1) F.388 1981 (2) F.389 1981 (3) ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS 1970,1981 F.390 Invitations to be nominated for election to the Fellowship 1970 and 1981. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 ULSTER MUSEUM Societies and organisations 194 1983 F.391 Correspondencere funding from industry for purchase of dinosaur skeleton. WATT COMMITTEE ON ENERGY 1980-86 The Watt Committee on Energy was formed 'to promote and assist research and development and other scientific or technical work concerning all aspects of Energy and to disseminate knowledge generally concerning Energy for the benefit of the public at large’. It held its first meeting in April 1976. Ahistorical account of the Committee is to be found at F.392. Kent was appointed to the Watt Committee's Board and Executive as a representative of the Royal Institution in 1980, initially for a one year term. He was then asked to serve on the Watt Committee's Standing Committee on Finance and Business Planning, extending his period of membership. The material is presented as follows: F.3892-F.405 AGMs, Board and Executive meetings F.406-F.409 Consultative Council F.410 Standing Committee on Finance and Business Planning AGMS,Board and Executive meetings Although Kent only served one year on the Board and Executive, he continued to receive papers for meetings as a member of the Standing Committee. F.392 Invitation to serve, 14 March 1980, and related correspondencere service, 1981; copy of ‘The growth of an idea (an intimate history of the Watt Committee on Energy)’ by J.H. Chesters, the 1980 Wilson Campbell Memorial Lecture. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 195 Societies and organisations F.393-F.405 Papers for AGMs and meetings of the Board and Executive of the Watt Committee, with related correspondence. F.393 1980 March-May F.400 1982 June,July F.394 1980 June F.401 1982 September-December F.395 1980 July-December F.402 1983 February-May F.396 1981 January-February F.403 1983 June, July F.397 1981 March-May F.404 1984-85 F.398 1981 June-November F.405 1986 F.399 1982 January-May Consultative Council The Executive of the Watt Committee appointed Working Groups to undertake research projects for the Committee. Their work was presented in papers delivered to twice-yearly meetings of the Consultative Council of the Committee, comprising two representatives from each member institution. The results were published as Watt Committee Reports. The papers comprise notices, agenda, synopses of presentations, lists of participants etc for meetings of the Consultative Council. Kent attended a number of these and someof the papers bear his notes and annotations. Eighth meeting on surprise scenarios and energy policies for transport, 19 June 1980; ninth meeting on assessmentof energy resources, 2 December 1980; tenth meeting on the European energy scene, 21 May 1981. Eleventh meeting on energy and electronics, 3 December 1981; twelfth meeting on energy for survival: the energy efficient society, 9 June 1982; thirteenth meeting on nuclear energy - a professional assessment, 2 December 1982; fourteenth meeting on conversion to coal: industry, commerce and the home, 7 June 1983. Fifteenth meeting on acid rain, 1 December 1983; sixteenth meeting on small-scale hydro-power, 5 June 1984; seventeenth meeting on the energy industry: the challenge of waste disposal, 11 June 1985. F.406 F.407 F.408 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 196 Societies and organisations F.409 Eighteenth meeting on passive solar design in buildings - realising the opportunities, 23 October 1985; nineteenth meeting on air pollution, acid rain and the environment, 4 December 1985. Standing Committee on Finance and Business Planning F.410 Papers for meetings 1982-83. WORLD CULTURAL COUNCIL 1982-85 The World Cultural Council, based in Monterrey, Mexico, awarded the Albert Einstein World Award of Science and Jean Jacques Rousseau World Award of Education. Kent was nominated a member of the Interdisciplinary Committee of Honorary Presidents in 1982 and asked to help choose recipients of the Award for 1984 and 1985. F.411 Brief correspondence re nomination and information about the World Cultural Council, 1982-83. F.412-F.414 Albert Einstein Award 1984. Papers re scientists nominated and covering letters. 3 folders. F.415-F.417 Albert Einstein Award 1985. Papers re scientists nominated and covering letters. 3 folders. YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1947-86 Kent becamea life memberof the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1947. He was on the Society's Council 1962-68 and served as Vice-President 1964-65 and President 1965-66. He delivered the 1965 and 1966 Presidential Addresseson 'Thestructure of the concealed carboniferous rocks of North- Eastern England’ (D.101-D.104) and ‘Outline geology of the southern North Sea Basin' (D.105). These and a numberof Kent's papers were published in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. He was awarded the Society's Sorby Medalfor 1973 (see A.165). P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 197 Societies and organisations F.418 1947, 1958, 1961. F.419 F.420 Principally correspondence and papers re field excursion to north 1962. Lincolnshire, 21-23 September. Kent wasa joint leader. 1964. arrangements for AGM and Annual Dinner, 12 December. Includes correspondence re offer of Presidency to Kent and F.421 1965. Includes correspondence re award of Sorby Medal to G.H. Mitchell. F.422 1966-67. Hambleton Hills area, 17-18 September 1966. Kent wasa joint leader. Principally correspondence and papers re field excursion to the F.423 1969-70. F.424 1971. Includes editorial correspondence. F.425 F.426 F.427 Principally correspondence and papers 1972. Lincolnshire, 7-8 July. Kent wasa joint leader. re field excursion to 1972-75, 1978, 1980. Includes 1972 membershiplist. 1982-86. Includes correspondence re Presidency. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 198 SECTION G COMMERCIAL CONSULTANCIES AND COMPANIES G.1-G.267 G.1-G.20 BRITISH PETROLEUM (BP) G.21-G.226 LONDON AND SCOTTISH MARINE OIL (LASMO) G.227-G.264 THE MINWORTH GROUP G.265-G.267 MISCELLANEOUS G.265 The Guthrie Corporation Ltd G.266 Royal American Petroleum Corporation G.267 WimpeyLaboratories Ltd P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 199 Commercial consultancies and companies BRITISH PETROLEUM (BP) Chief of Geologist BP's subsidiary Kent spent his working career with the Anglo-lranian Oil Company/BP. He was a Geologist with Anglo-lranian 1936-41, and with BP 1946-55. In 1956 he was appointed Australasian Petroleum, in 1957 Adviser to the President of BP Exploration (Canada) and was appointed President of BP Exploration (Alaska) in 1959. On his return to the UK Kent became Deputy Chief Geologist 1961, Regional Manager North and South America 1962, Technical and Regional Manager Western Hemisphere and America 1963, Chief Geologist 1966 and Assistant General Manager, Exploration 1971. He retired from BP in 1973 but was offered a contract as Consultant to the Exploration and Production Department, with particular reference to Iran, in June 1973. His position as memberof the Exploration Advisory Group in Iran (see B.291-B.339) was part of this consultancy. In June 1978 his contract was altered to exclude the northern Irish Sea and North Sea where Kent saw a potential clash of interests betweenhis BP consultancy and his LASMO Directorships. Kent's survey work for the companyis to be found in section B. However, his later managerial duties for BP are poorly documented; much of the material presented here relates to his consultancy with BP after his retirement. G.1-G.6 ‘Exploration Policy’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into six for ease of reference: typescript memoranda and papers. G.1 G.2 G3 G.4 ‘Oil prospects of the continental shelf throughout the world' by G.M. Lees, 10pp, 1 March 1946; list of ‘Countries in which BP has participated in exploration work since 1951', 11 February 1969. Miscellaneous papers re exploration policy criteria 1969, including ‘The economics of exploration for BP' by AJ. Bromley, 6pp + appendix, 8 October, with Kent's comments thereon. ‘Exploration review 1970' by Kent, 16pp typescript, February 1970; ‘Future level of exploration activity’ by H.R. Warman, 2pp, 17 September 1970; ‘Geological Establishment’ by Kent, 3pp + appendices, 3 November 1970. Division - 'BP projected crude oil production to the year 2000', 3pp + tables, 20 November 1970; 'World crude availability: some long term projections’, 2pp + figures, c.1970. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 200 Commercial consultancies and companies G.5 G.6 'The urgent need to increase exploration’ by F.H. Mann, 3pp, 23 May 1972; drafts of sections for BP's 'Ten-year Look Ahead’, September 1972. Kent drafted section 'Ill Requirements of exploration policy 1972-1982’, 7pp. Miscellaneous papers re exploration policy 1972-73, including note on exploration in Europe by A.F.M. Matthews, 6pp, 20 November 1972, annotated by Kent; ‘The status of BP's exploration’ by Kent, 2pp, 7 December 1972; and undateddraft letter re salaries of scientific staff. G.7-G.13 ‘BP General’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference. G7 G8 G9 G.10 G.11 G.12 G.13 Handbookfor residential course for BP managers 6-25 October 1963. Kent is listed as a speaker on ‘Exploration’ for 10 October. BP managementpress summaries for 12, 16 and 19 September1969. Information on holdings of CFP (Compagnie Frangaise des Pétroles) worldwide sent to Kent March 1971. Miscellaneous material re North Sea 1971. ‘Exploration and Production Forecast 1973-1977', 3 January 1973. Miscellaneous material 1974-75, 1981-82. Includes typescript notes by Kent on 'Oil prospects of northern Italy - posthumous comment’, 7 April and ‘Oil maturation hypothesis’, 23 May 1975. Correspondence and papers re The History of the British Petroleum Company. Kent reviewed 'Volume |. The developing years 1901-1932’, published by Cambridge University Press in 1982, for the BP Explorer magazine. Includes synopsis of the history with chapter headings for volume one, and 2pp typescript draft of Kent's review. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 201 Commercial consultancies and companies G.14-G.20 Correspondence and papers re consultancy, 1973-86, chiefly re terms, fees etc. G.14 G.15 G.16 G.17 G.18 G.19 G.20 1973-74. Correspondencere terms andactivities of consultancy. Includes 'The prospectiveness of continental margins’ by Kent, 5pp typescript + figures, written for BP October 1974. 1976-77. Includes note on 'Southern North Sea - Pre-Permian prospects’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 17 November 1977, and draft 'Review of geological reports on the East Midlands’ by Kent, 10pp typescript, November 1977. 1978-79. 1980. Includes 'Exploration of Lower Carboniferous Dolomites’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, 3 January. 1981. Includes draft review 'Deep reservoirs in South Dorset’ by Kent, 5pp typescript with extensive ms correction, March; papers for BP exploration seminar, London, 23-24 November; 'Commenton "Prospects of the Eakring oilfield" [by] D.J. Antia 1981' by Kent, 3pp typescript, 16 December. 1983-84. 1985-86. 1985. Includes photographs from visit to Wytch Farm, Dorset, 15 May P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 202 Commercial consultancies and companies LONDON AND SCOTTISH MARINEOIL (LASMO) Kent was appointed Consultant to LASMO 1 August and non-executive Director 27 September 1977. He retired from the Board in April 1983 but was retained as Consultant to 1984. He advised on exploration strategy and policy in general terms as well as offering advice on specific prospects under consideration by LASMO and also played an important part in LASMO commercial policy such as advising on the Sixth and Seventh Roundsof applications for North Sea concessions. During the period covered by Kent's service with LASMO the company grew rapidly. In 1978 the annual productionof oil and gasliquids was 0.39 million barrels, in 1983 it was 12 million barrels, with gross sales increasing from £5 million to £215 million in the same period. It expandedits holdings from the North Seato include interests in Australia, the Middle East, Indonesia, the Philippines and the USA. The material is presented as follows: G.21-G.26 Appointment, terms etc G.27-G.77 Correspondence, memoranda and papers G.78-G.184 Board and General Meetings G.185-G.190 Press-cuttings G.191-G.226 Charlton ThermosystemsLtd Appointment, terms etc G.21 G.22 Correspondencere appointment 1977. Correspondencere terms and conditions of service, retirement from Board 1978-84. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 203 Commercial consultancies and companies G.23-G.25 Paymentof consultancy and Director's fees and expenses. G.23 1977-79 G.25 1982-84 G.24 1980-81 G.26 Miscellaneous and personal correspondence. Correspondence, memoranda and papers The material is papers sent to Kent as Consultant and Director 1977-83. It is arranged chronologically with an indication of the principal subjects covered by the papers. Amongthe subjects covered are LASMO - Ranger Oil cooperation in the North Sea Ninian oil field and the 1982 LASMO acquisition of the non-US gas andoil interests of the Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas International. This expanded LASMO holdings worldwide, particularly in Indonesia (with BP) and Australia, and addedto existing interests. This material should be consulted in conjunction with papers of Board meetings presented at G.78-G.176. 1977 August, September. Well 23/27 (Ninian field), Guatemala. 1977 October, November. Guatemala. North Sea, cooperation with Ranger Oil, 1977 December. Sixth Round North Sea exploration licence applications, hydrothermal resourcesin Arabia. 1978 January, February. Sixth Round cooperation with Ranger Oil and BNOC. 1978 March. Visit to BNOC Glasgow Office, explorationpolicy. 1978 April, May. Sixth Roundlicences. G.27 G.28 G.29 G.30 G.31 G.32 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 204 Commercial consultancies and companies G.33 G.34 G.35 G.36 G.37 G.38 G.39 G.40 G.41 G.42 G.43 G.44 G.45 1978 June (1). Oil prospects off Ireland. 1978 June (2). Visit to Ranger Oil (Canada) Ltd, Calgary, 21-29 June. 1978 July (1). Ninian field. 1978 July (2). Exploration policy. 1978 August. Ninian field. 1978 September, October. Exploration in the Reed Bankoff the Philippines. 1978 December.Ninian field. 1979 January (1). Ninian field, cooperation with BNOC re deep-water drilling in Rockall Trough. 1979 January (2). Deep-waterdrilling. 1979 February. Deep-waterdrilling, LASMO corporate strategy. 1979 March, April. March, and to P&O Oil Corporation, Houston, Texas, 5-6 April. Visits to BP Petroleum Development Co., Aberdeen, 1979 May-July. Reed Bank, Sixth Round applications, exploration policy, Seventh Roundprospects. 1979 August, September. Meeting on LASMO holdings in UK and overseas waters. P. E-Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 205 Commercial consultancies and companies G.46 G.47 G.48 G.49 G.50 G.51 G.52 G.53 G.54 G.55 G.56 G.57 G.58 1979 October. Interests of Hercules in North Sea, Seventh Round, ‘Farm out' of BNOC holdingsin North Sea. 1979 November. Seventh Round. 1979 December. Seventh Round. 1980 January (1). Round. Acquisition of Ranger Oil (UK) properties, Seventh 1980 January (2). Representation of LASMO in Far East. 1980 February-April. Seventh Round negotiations, Persian Gulf wells. 1980 April. Ninian field. 1980 May (1). Seventh Round, meeting at Department of Energy, 20 May. 1980 May (2). Seventh Round. 1980 June (1). Seventh Round. 1980 June (2). Visit of LASMO Directorsto Ninian field, 27-28 June. 1980 July. Gabon, Seventh Round, acquisition of Bates Oil Co, technical data on block 22/2. 1980 August, September. Possible takeover of Hamilton Bros' UK interests, acquisition of Coparex Norge A.S., sales of crude oil. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 206 Commercial consultancies and companies G.59 G.60 G.61 G.62 1980 October-December. Seventh Round. 1981 January. awards. Oil taxation, Danish offshore exploration, Seventh Round 1981 February. Umm al Quwain, LASMOreorganisation, dividend policy. 1981 March-April. Seventh Round awards, LASMO organisation, effect of the Budget on LASMO, Gabon, Eighth Round. G.62A 1981 April. Prospect summary. G.63 G.64 G.65 G.66 G.67 G.68 May-June. 1981 Nigeria, development of T-Block in North Sea in cooperation with Phillips Petroleum Co., possible LASMO rights issue, 1981 budget. 1981 July (1). T-Block. 1981 July (2). Cousland (Mid-Lothian) onshore licence, visit to Calgary, Canada for Third International Conference on Arctic Geology and Petroleum prospects, 18 June - 1 July, Norwegian offshore exploration, Texas 1981 September, October. Wytch Farm, BRINDEX (Association of British Independent Oil Exploration Companies) submission to Chancellor of the Exchequerre taxation of oil companies. 1981 November, December. Possible acquisition of Berkeley Exploration & Production Ltd and Frontier Oil, Eighth Round, finance of Bates Oil Co., financial results for 1981. 1982 January-March. Eighth Round, Cousland licence, expansion in USA, oil taxation, well 3/27-1. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 207 Commercial consultancies and companies G.69 G.70 G.71 G.72 G.73 G.74 G.75 G.76 G.77 1982 April, May. Acquisition of non-US interests of Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas International (Hudbay), Indonesianinterests. 1982 June, July. Equatorial Guinea, Hudbay acquisition, Indonesia. 1982 August (1). Hudbay acquisition. 1982 August (2). strategic assessment. Hudbay acquisition, Pena Creek field, Texas, LASMO 1982 August (3). Hudbay acquisition. 1982 September. Eighth Round. 1982 October-December. Canada, production forecast, Hudbay acquisition. 1983 January, February. Beatricefield. 1983 April, May, July. Exploration guidelines, exploration in Canada. Board and General Meetings The material is presented as follows: G.78-G.176 Board Meetings G.177-G.184 General Meetings P.E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 208 Commercial consultancies and companies Board Meetings Papers of monthly meetings of Board of Directors and committees, some annotated by Kent. From May 1980 some Board papers were presented in spiral bound volumes. G.78 1977 July G.97 1979 February G.79 1977 September G.98 1979 March G.80 1977 October G.99 1979 April G.81 1977 November G.100 1979 May G.82 1977 December(1) G.101 1979 June G.83 1977 December(2) G.102 1979 July G.84 1978 January G.103 1979 August G.85 1978 February G.104 1979 September(1) G.86 1978 March (cancelled) G.105 1979 September(2) G.87 1978 April G.88 1978 May G.89 1978 June G.90 1978 July G.106 1979 October(1) G.107 1979 October(2) G.108 1979 November(1) G.109 1979 November(2) G.91 1978 August G.110 1979 November(3) G.92 1978 October(1) G.111 1979 December G.93 1978 October(2) G.112 1980 January G.94 1978 November G.113 1980 February G.95 1978 December G.114 1980 March G.96 1979 January G.115 1980 April P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 209 Commercial consultancies and companies G.116 1980 May (1) G.143 1981 September G.117 1980 May(2) G.118 1980 June (1) G.144 1981 October G.145 1981 November(1) G.119 1980 June (2) G.146 1981 November(2) G.120 1980 July G.147 1981 December(1) G.121 1980 August G.148 1981 December(2) G.122 1980 September(1) G.149 1981 December(3) G.123 1980 September(2) G.150 1982 January (1) G.124 1980 October G.151 1982 January (2) G.125 1980 November(1) G.152 1982 February (1) G.126 1980 November(2) G.153 1982 February (2) G.127 1980 December(1) G.154 1982 March(1) G.128 1980 December(2) G.155 1982 March (2) G.129 1981 January G.156 1982 April (1) G.130 1981 February (1) G.157 1982 April (2) G.131 1981 February (2) G.158 1982 May(1) G.132 1981 March(1) G.159 1982 May(2) G.133 1981 March(2) G.160 1982 June (1) G.134 1981 April G.135 1981 May(1) G.136 1981 May (2) G.161 1982 June (2) G.162 1982 July (1) G.163 1982 July (2) G.137 1981 June(1) G.164 1982 August(1) G.138 1981 June (2) G.165 1982 August(2) G.139 1981 July (1) G.166 1982 September(1) G.140 1981 July (2) G.167 1982 September(2) G.141 1981 August (1) G.168 1982 September(3) G.142 1981 August(2) G.169 1982 October(1) P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 210 Commercial consultancies and companies G.170 1982 October(2) G.174 1983 March (1) G.171 1982 November G.175 1983 March (2) G.172 1982 December G.176 1983 April G.173 1983 January, February General meetings Papers for Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings. G.177_ AGM April 1979 G.181 AGM & EGM May 1982 G.178 EGM November 1979 G.182 EGM September 1982 G.179 AGM & EGM May 1980 G.183 EGM March 1983 G.180 AGM April 1981 G.184 AGM & EGM April 1983 Press-cuttings G.185-G.190 Contents of Kent's envelope: photocopies of press-cuttings, press-releases and company assessments 1982-83. The subject most extensively covered is the £43.6 million rights issue of March 1983. 6 folders. Charlton ThermosystemsLtd Charlton Thermosystems Ltd was a small company set up to manufacture and market electrical inventions of Mr John Charlton of Romsey, Hants. Kent was introduced to the companyby a fellow Director of LASMO. In March 1980 he and J. Stephen, a physicist from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, visited Mr Charlton for a demonstration of one of his most promising inventions, the Charlton Energy Unit. This was a system of heating which involved passing a low-voltage current through a cable buried in earth or concrete. Kent and Stephen reported favourably on the invention and LASMO decided to invest in the invention. On the issue of shares in the companyin April 1980 LASMO took a 20% share-holding andlent it £240,000. Kent, as the P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 211 Commercial consultancies and companies only scientist on the LASMO Board wasappointed an Alternate Director of Charlton Thermosystems. However the companyfailed to break even and in May 1983 it ceased to operate as an independent company, becoming a wholly ownedsubsidiary of LASMO. The material is presented asfollows: G.191-G.206 General correspondence and papers G.207-G.226 Board and General Meetings General correspondence and papers G.191 October 1979, March 1980. Chiefly re visit of Kent and J. Stephen to inspect the Charlton heating unit, March 1980. G.192 April 1980 (1). LASMO investment in the company, April 1980. G.193 April 1980 (2). LASMO investment, April 1980. G.194 G.195 May, June 1980. Central Office of Information film on the heating unit, staff, assessmentof the heating unit.. July-September 1980. Patenting the heating unit, forming joint company in the Republic of Ireland. G.196 October, December 1980. Patenting of and tests on the heating unit. G.197 January, February 1981. Tests on heating unit transformer, patenting. G.198 May-November 1981. Patenting. G.199 March 1982. Patenting. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 212 Commercial consultancies and companies G.200 May-July 1982. Approachto British Rail, accounts. G.201-G.203 January 1983. Report on Charlton Thermosystems, 24 January. 3 folders. G.204 January-May 1983. Chiefly re visit by Kent to Charlton Thermosystems, 9 February, and company problems. Folder also includes 4pp typescript account by Kent of 'The Heat that failed - Charlton ThermosystemsLtd., 1980-1983'. G.205 Nd. G.206 ‘Charlton Thermosystems (Romsey) Ltd Briefing Notes' for LASMO Board after its takeover. Board and General Meetings G.207 1980 May G.217 1981 April G.208 1980 June, July G.218 1981 May G.209 1980 August G.219 1981 June G.210 1980 October G.220 1981 July G.211 1980 November G.221 1981 August G.212 1980 December G.222 1981 October, December G.213 1981 January (1) G.223 1982 January G.214 1981 January (2) G.224 1982 May G.215 1981 February G.225 1983 May, August G.216 1981 March G.226 1984 November P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 213 Commercial consultancies and companies THE MINWORTH GROUP The material is presented as follows: G.227-G.245 Minworth Ltd G.246-G.264 Strontian Minerals Ltd Minworth Ltd Minworth Ltd was the controlling body of the Minworth Group of companies. It operated by bringing the commercial projects of Minworth companies to a viable mature stage and then seeking outside minority participation for further investment. Kent was appointed a Director of Minworth Ltd in 1982. He wasoffered the Chairmanship in May 1982, on this occasion declining, and in June 1983, when he accepted. Kent was involved in Minworth's re-opening of the Strontian barytes mine in Argyll to supply the North Sea gas andoil rigs with barytes and was appointed Chairmanof Strontian Minerals Ltd, a subsidiary established to run this operation (G.246-G.264). The material is presented asfollows: G.227-G.233 General correspondence and papers G.234-G.245 Board and General meetings General correspondence and papers G.227 G.228 G.229 Includes invitation to serve as Chairman and draft of Kent's letter 1982. declining. 1983 January-July. Kent's efforts on behalf of Strontian Minerals. Includes correspondence re Chairmanship, and re 1983 July-December. Includes plan of mines development in Weardale, 22 July 1983. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 214 Commercial consultancies and companies G.230 1984. Chiefly re sales of barytes of Strontian Minerals. G.231 1984-85. G.232 1985-86, nd. G.233 Softback pocket notebook used for notes on Minworth interests and policy from 1983. Most pagesnot used. Board and General meetings G.234 1983 G.240 1984 September G.235 1984 January G.241 1984 December G.236 1984 March G.242 1985 February G.237 1984 May G.243 1985 August G.238 1984 July (Board) G.244 1985 November G.239 1984 July (AGM) G.245 1986 July Strontian Minerals Ltd In 1982 the Minworth Group established a subsidiary company to mine and processbarytes, barium sulphate, at Strontian in Argyllshire. Barytes is the major constituent of drilling fluids and it was hoped to win contracts with the North Sea oil and gas industries hitherto dependent on foreign supplies. Kent was appointed a Director of Strontian in July 1983 and Chairman of the Board in September 1983. He resigned from the Board in May 1986. The material is presented asfollows: G.246-G.250 General correspondence and papers G.251-G.264 Board meetings P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 215 Commercial consultancies and companies General correspondence and papers G.246 1982 February. 'Project appraisal and financing proposals in respect of the mining of barytes...' by P.W. Mason, Managing Director, Minworth Ltd. G.247 1982 November, 1983. G.248 1984 April-July. G.249 1984 August-October. G.250 ee nd. Includes Kent's letter of resignation from the Board, 10 May Board meetings G.251 1983 July (1) G.258 1984 September G.252 1983 July (2) G259 1984 October, November G.253 1983 September G.260 1984 December G.254 1983 November G.261 1985 February G.255 1984 January G.262 1985 May G.256 1984 February, March G.263 1985 September, October G.257 1984 June G.264 1986 January Commercial consultancies and companies 216 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 MISCELLANEOUS The Guthrie Corporation Ltd G.265 Invitation to serve as Consultant re North Sea, 10 March 1981 (declined). Royal American Petroleum Corporation G.266 Re Directorship, November 1983. Wimpey Laboratories Ltd Kent advised Wimpey Laboratories (acting Generating Board) on earthquakerisk assessment, 1983. for the Central Electricity G.267 Brief correspondence, September-November1983; backgroundinformation. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 217 SECTION H VISITS AND CONFERENCES H.1-H.159 Notall of Kent's extensive travel and attendance at meetings and conferences is documented in this section. Kent's overseas research and survey work for BP is documented in section B. His visit to East Africa with the East African Archaeological Expedition led by L.S.B. Leakey, 1934-35, is documented at A.53-A.102. The visit for which most documentation survives is the 1968 International Geological Congress held in Prague. The proceedings were cut short by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet occupation of Prague. Kent was leader of the UK delegation. The material includes accounts of the events by Kent and his wife, and memorabilia. The presentation is chronological as far as possible. Material relating to invitations either declined or for which there is no evidence of acceptanceis placed at the end of the sequencefor each year. Where applicable reference has been madeto the bibliography in the Royal Society memoir of Kent (A.1) in the form Bibliog.... 1951 H.1 1952 H.2 Third World Petroleum Congress, The Hague, 28 May- 6 June. Brief correspondencere arrangements. International Geological Congress, Tunis, September. Letter re flight back to London. Not otherwise documented. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 218 Visits and conferences 1953 H.3-H.5 H.3 H.4, H.5 1955 H.6 1956 Inter-University Geological Congress, Nottingham, 30 December- 4 January 1954. G.M. Lees wasto speak on ‘Earth contraction is the causal mechanism of mountain-building' but the paper was presented by Kent in Lees' absence. Brief correspondence; 5pp typescript draft ‘The Shrinking Earth and the impermanence of ocean basins' by Kent, commenting on the points raised by the discussion of Lees' paper. ‘The evolution of a shrinking Earth...’ by Lees, 92pp typescript with ms highlighting and correction. A covering page is annotated ‘Paper read to the Inter-Universities Congress (by PEK) on behalf of Dr G.M. Lees, in 1953. A pre-Plate tectonics appraisal’. At the end of the draft are ms notes (?from post presentation discussion). Fourth World Petroleum Congress, Rome. Kent spoke on ‘Igneousrocksin the oilfields of the English Midlands’. Draft of Kent's contribution, 9pp typescript + summary andfigures. H.7-H.10 Twentieth International Geological Congress, Mexico City, 4-11 September. Kent attended this Congress on behalf of BP whilst working in Papua New Guinea. He remained in Mexico after the Congress until 24 September. He visited Fiji on his way back to Papua. H.7 H.8 Circulars. Correspondence re arrangements and payment of expenses; proposed itinerary. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 H.9 Visits and conferences 219 ‘Oil prospects of southwest Mexico (Chiapas)', 3pp typescript photostat copy; annotated typescriptlist of slides on Mexican geology for '[?Papua and New Guinea] Scientific Society: Wednesday 13/2/57’, with brief summary of Kent's lecture 'A geologist in Mexico’ given to Papua and New Guinea Scientific Society 15 February 1957. H.10 Printed memorabilia. 1961 1964 H.12 1966 H.13-H.16 Visit to New Zealand, November. ‘Geological reconnaissance of parts of New Zealand...Suggested itinerary for Dr Kent’. Not otherwise documented. International Convention (including 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists), Toronto, 18-21 May. Kent attended this Convention on behalf of BP. He spoke onthe ‘Basis of exploration in the North Sea’ (with A.F.M. Matthews). See also B.192. Annotated programme; draft of Kent and Matthews’ contribution, 12pp typescript with ms annotation. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, St Louis, Missouri, 25-28 April. Kent spoke on 'The progress of exploration in the North Sea’. published as Bibliog. 60, 1967. This was H.13 Press-release; notebook containing Kent's ms notes on proceedings; brief correspondencere publication of Kent's contribution. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 220 Visits and conferences H.14 Draft of Kent's contribution, 10pp typescript with ms annotation. H.15, H.16 Figuresfor slides for the presentation. 2 folders. 1967 H.17 Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Conference, Sydney, 12-15 March. Annotated programme; msnotesonvisit to Australia. See also B.427. H.18 British Association meeting, September. Kent was joint leader of Excursion C.3 to North Lincolnshire with P.F. Rawson, 2 September. Correspondence re excursion; duplicated typescript notes for excursion (Bibliog. no. 57). H.19 [?Inter] University [?Geological] Congress, Hull. Kent spoke on ‘Geological problems in North Sea exploration’. published as Bibliog. 65, 1968. This was Draft of Kent's contribution, 12pp typescript. 1968 H.20 Brighton, May. Ms notesfor lecture on 'North Sea exploration’ by Kent, annotated ‘Brighton Conference 1968 DWKBarker, Chairman 6/5/68". P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 221 Visits and conferences H.21-H.42 Twenty-third International Geological Congress, Prague, 19-23 August. Kent wasthe official delegate of the Institute of Petroleum and head of the UK Delegation and was accompaniedbyhis wife, M.B. Kent. The Congresswasinterrupted on 21 August by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the occupation of Prague by Soviet troops. There was some discussion whether to continue the Congress, Kent among those arguing it should not be abandoned. The membersof the Congressvoted to continue the meeting and did so for two more days. The Technical University, in which the Congress was held, was by that time the only sizeable building in Prague still The Congress ended on 23 August, one day early, and the UK delegation was bussed out of the country (taking a numberof non-British participants withit). in Czechoslovak hands. Kent wrote accounts of the meeting for the Royal Society, for a presentation on the Congress at the Geological Society on 11 December 1968, and for the Geological Newsletter of the International Union of Geological Sciences (Bibliog. 70, 1969). H.21, H.22 Correspondencere arrangements, 2 folders. H.23 H.24 H.25 H.26 H.27-H.31 H.27 H.28 Third circular; provisionallist of participants. Kent's ms notes of pre-Congress 'Field-trip in Slovakia’. Papers for business meetings at the Congress. Kent's ms 'Notes taken at Emergency Meetings, Prague 1968’. Contents of Kent's folder divided into five for ease of reference: memorabilia relating to the pre-Congress excursion, the Congress and events following the invasion of Czechoslovakia. At H.31 is Kent's valedictory message to Czechoslovak colleagues issued on behalf of the UK delegates. Poster, press-cuttings, badges. ‘Excursion’. Memorabilia from pre-Congressfield trip. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 222 Visits and conferences H.29 H.30 H.314 H.32-H.37 H.32 H.33 H.34 H.35 H.36 H.37 ‘Delegation’. Memorabilia from Congress proceedings. ‘Invasion’. ‘Evacuation’. Includes press-cuttings. Comments of Kent's reported in The Times 27 August appeared to minimize the impact of the Soviet action. Kent wrote a Letter to the paperto correct this impression (see H.32). Correspondence and papers arising from the Warsaw Pact invasion and disruption of the Congress. 1968 August, September. Includes Kent's report on the Congress to the Royal Society; letters from Kent to the President of the Royal Society calling for a protest to the Soviet Academy of Sciences and to the President of the Institute of Petroleum advocating an end to preparations for the next World Petroleum Congress (due to be held in Moscow in 1971) 27 August; and Letter to The Times, September, in response to reported remarksof his in The Times of 27 August (see H.31) that 'the International Geological Congresscontinued normally in Prague through the coup’. 1968 October (1). Includes material re Conference on the Czechoslovak crisis, Brighton, 14-16 October sent to Kent by St.J. Bates, conference organiser. 1968 October (2). Includes ms andtypescript draft ‘Prague and the Russian invasion’ by Kent and his wife, M.B. Kent. 1968 November. typescript. Includes account of the Congress by J.B. Eby, 11pp Chiefly re presentation on the Congress held at the 1968 December. Geological Society, 11 December. Includes 'Prague - August 1968' by Kent, 8pp typescript. This was subsequently published in the ‘Geological Bulletin’ of the International Union of Geological Sciences 1969. Includes shortened version of Kent's presentation, sent to the Royal Society, 7 January, and photographs taken during the Congress. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 223 Visits and conferences H.38-H.42 Miscellaneous printed material. H.38 Pamphletsetc. H.39-H.42 Newspapercuttings July-October 1968. 4 folders. Kent had begun collecting newspaper cuttings on the crisis before heleft for the Congress. At H.39 is copy of ‘underground’ Czechoslovak newspaper dated 24 August. 1969 H.43 Geological Society meeting, 15 October. Comments by Kent on paper 'Marine geological survey off the north east coast of England’ presented by Dingle. H.44-H.46 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas. Kent and P.J. Walmsley presented a paper ‘North Sea progress’. This was published as Bibliog. 74, 1970. H.44 Typescript and msdraft of Kent and Walmsley's contribution as delivered + ‘Preliminary list of slides'; 14pp duplicated typescript + references andlist of figures ?as submitted for publication. H.45, H.46 Figuresfor slides. 2 folders. H.47, H.48 '|.P./A.A.P.G. Brighton 1969". Kent spoke on ‘The geological framework of petroleum exploration in Europe and North Africa’. H.47 ‘Lecture copy’ of Kent's contribution, 16pp typescript with ms corrections + bibliography. H.48 Figures. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 1970 H.49 Visits and conferences 224 Offshore Symposium, 9-11 March. Kent spoke on'BP offshore concessions - past and present’. Kent's contribution, 8pp typescript. H.50-H.52 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June. Kent spoke on 'Worldwide developmentsin the exploration field’. H.50 H.51 H.52 1971 H.53 Correspondence with contribution from Oil and Gas Journal, 30 November1970. participants; copy of fellow report on Kent's Kent's contribution, 12pp typescript, with mslist of slides. Figuresforslides. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Arctic Conference, San Francisco, February. Kent's ms notes on proceedings. Invitations for 1971 H.54 National Conference on Earth Science on the Geology and Evolution of Continental Margins, Banff, Alberta, 3-7 May. Geological Society of America and its Associated Societies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 1-3 November. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 225 Visits and conferences 1972 H.55, H.56 H.55 H.56 H.57 Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, 20 January. Kent was Guest Speaker and spokeon ‘Recollections of a Field Geologist’. Correspondencere arrangements; report of Kent's lecture from Oilweek, 31 January; programme. Typescript and msdraft of Kent's contribution; mslist of slides. NATO Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, April. Kent spoke on 'East African evidence of the palaeoposition of Madagascar’ and 'The continental margin of Tanzania’. These were published as Bibliog. 85 and 86, 1973. Correspondencere Kent's contributions; list of ?slides; typescript copies of Kent's contributions as preparedfor publication. H.58 Twenty-fourth International Geological Congress, August. Kent spoke on 'An environmental review of the world's richest oil-bearing region - the Middle East’ (with H.R. Warman). This was published as Bibliog. 82, 1972. List of slides for Kent's contribution only. 1973 H.59, H.60 H.59 H.60 Twentieth Inter-University Geological Congress, Keele, 2-5 January. spoke on 'Deepexploration of sedimentary basins and continental shelves’. Kent Brief correspondencere arrangements; programme; list of participants. Outline and summary of Kent's contribution; photocopied mslist of slides. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 226 Visits and conferences H.61-H.65 Visit to Australia, New Zealand and USA, 14 March - 8 May. Kent left on this lecturing tour two days after his Farewell Party at BP. His principal engagement wasthe Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Conference, Canberra, 26-28 March at which he was keynote speaker on 'The Geology and Geophysics in the discovery of giant oilfields’. Kent delivered lectures on the North Sea in Adelaide, 21 March, Wellington (Royal Society of New Zealand), 19 April, and New York (Petroleum Exploration Society of New York), 18 May. He also lectured on oil and gas exploration in Iran, Alaska and the North Sea in Wellington (BP New Zealand), 17 April. In the course of his tour Kent visited colleagues at research centresin Australia, New Zealand and USA. Itinerary. Correspondence re arrangements for visit to Australia and the APEA Conference. List of slides for Adelaide lecture; Kent's contribution to APEA Conference, 15pp typescript+ list of slides. Correspondencere arrangements to visit New Zealand and USA; itinerary. Lists of invitees and participants at various functions; notice of lecture to BP New Zealand; lists of slides for New Zealand lectures; memos on 'New Zealand prospects’ etc prepared by Kent onhis return. Geological Society Marine Studies Group Discussion Meeting on Some Scientific Objectives for Drilling and Coring at Sea, London, 16 May. Kent spoke on 'The continental margin in petroleum exploration’. Correspondence re arrangements; programme; ms notes; summary of Kent's contribution. H.61 H.62 H.63 H.64 H.65 H.66 H.67, H.68 British Association Annual Meeting, Canterbury, Kent, 20-24 August. Kent was President of Section C (Geology) and delivered the Presidential Address on 'The stratigraphy and tectonicsof salt’. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 227 H.67 H.68 H.69 Visits and conferences Programme; tickets etc for social events. Summary of Kent's contribution, 3pp typescript with ms draft of introduction welcoming Sir Kingsley Dunham, President of the British Association to the lecture; ms notes; typescript notesfor field excursions. Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Energy in the 1980s, London, 15-16 November. The meeting was organised by Kent. He also chaired the first session. Programme; correspondence re arrangements. Invitations for 1973 H.70 Lyell Club Seventh J.H. Taylor Memorial Symposium on the Geologist and the Environment, King's College London, 14 February. American Association of Petroleum Geologists National Convention on Major Successesin a Hostile Environment, Anaheim, California, 14-16 May. Arctic Oil and Gas Congress, Le Havre, May. Joint Meeting of British geological societies, Manchester, 20-22 September. 1974 H.71 H.72 Softback pocket notebook inscribed onfirst page ‘Visits [...]') Used for ms notes onvisits within the UK January - November 1974. Open University Geological Society Second Annual Conference on Geology and Man, Edinburgh, April. Kent spokeon ‘Industry and the continental shelves’. Letter re arrangements; programme; msnotes for Kent's contribution. P.8; Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 228 Visits and conferences H.73-H.76 Conference on Petroleum and the Continental Shelf of North West Europe: the Geology and the Environment, London, 25-29 November. Kent gave the keynote address on ‘The tectonic development of Great Britain and the surrounding seas' and chaired the final session at which he gave the summing-up speech. The keynote address was published as Bibliog. 98. H.73 H.74 H.75 H.76 H.77 Invitation for 1974 H.78 1975 H.79 H.80 Memore invitation; annotated programmes. Brochure; list of participants. List of slides; summing-up speech, 5pp typescript. Correspondence,chiefly re Kent's contribution. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Visits’. notes onvisits within the UK December 1974 - August 1975. Used for ms Conference on Geological Principles of World Oil Occurrence, Banff, May. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Geothermal power’ and ‘Basins AAPG Geneva’. Used by Kent for ms notes on International Convention 'Il fenomeno geotermico e sue applicazione’, Rome andPisa, 3- 5 March (see H.80), a visit to Aberdeen re North Sea, April, and later notes including visit to Sharjah, January 1980 and American Association of Petroleum Geologists meeting in Geneva, July 1984 (see H.144). International Convention 'Il fenomeno geotermico e sue applicazione’, Rome and Pisa, 3-5 March (see also H.79). Letter re arrangementsonly. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 229 Visits and conferences H.814 Thirteenth National Conference on Earth Science on Structural Types and Associated Oil and Gas Occurrences,Banff, 4-9 May. Kent spoke on 'The North Sea and the broader problems of the North West European continental shelf, 'Orogenic developmentin Iran’, 'Epeirogenic movements in East Africa’ and gave the symposium 'recap' and summary. Bibliog. 103, 1975 gives 'The search for giant oilfields' as the title of his contribution to the conference proceedings. Invitation and correspondence re arrangements; programmes; list participants; lists of slides. of H.82 Ninth World Petroleum Congress, Tokyo. Kent contributed to a Panel Discussion on global tectonics and petroleum occurrencesbut may not have attended the Congressin person. Brief correspondencere congress; papers re Panel Discussion. 1976 H.83 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'UK continental shelf. Used for ms notes on visit to Aberdeen, Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain meeting, 11 May and American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May (see H.84, H.85). H.84, H.85 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May (see H.83). Kent was ‘Antagonist’ in a discussion on plate tectonics as a major exploration tool. There were plansto publish the discussion proceedings but Kent's contribution is not listed in Bibliog. Kent argued that the plate tectonics ‘hypothesis, although valuable in understanding andclassifying regional structure, is not yet predictive on the scale required for hydrocarbon exploration’. Programmeof discussion; ms and typescript drafts of Kent's contribution. Correspondencere publication of proceedings. H.84 H.85 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 230 Visits and conferences H.86 1977 H.87 H.88 1978 H.89-H.91 Geological Society Engineering Group meeting on Engineering Problems Associated with Ground Conditions London, 9 November. in the Middle East, Kent spoke on 'The geological background’. This was published as Bibliog. 114, 1978. Letter re arrangements, enclosing booklet of programme and abstracts; ms notes. Twenty-fourth Inter-University Geological Congress on Fuels from the Past - the Search for Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas, Durham, 3-6 January. Kent spoke on ‘Oil exploration in the Middle East’. Annotated booklet of programmeand abstracts; poster; ms notes. Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the Evolution of Passive Continental Margins in the Light of Deep Drilling Results, October. Kent helped organise the meeting and spoke on ‘Vertical tectonics associated with rifting and spreading’. This was published as Bibliog. 130, 1980. Letter of thanks only. Not otherwise documented. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Conference on Facts and Principles of World Oil Occurrence, Calgary, Alberta, 26-28 June. Kent spoke on 'The North Sea - Evolution of a major oil and gas play’. This waspublished as Bibliog. 128, 1980. H.89 Correspondence re arrangements and publication of Kent's contribution; programme. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 231 Visits and conferences ‘Second draft' of Kent's contribution, 19pp typescript with ms correction; ms draft of introductory remarks; mslists of ?slides. Comments on ?earlier draft; miscellaneous background information. H.90 H.91 1979 H.92-H.94 International Union of Geological Sciences Conference on Geodynamics Problems- Outlook to the 1980s, Zurich, 5-6 February. Kent spoke on ‘Evolution of Mesozoic and Cenozoic continental margins’. H.92 H.93 H.94 H.95 H.96-H.101 Correspondence re arrangements; programmeand background information. Ms notes for Kent's contribution. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘International Union of Geological Sciences "Geodynamics problems..." ''. Used for ms notes on proceedings. Yorkshire Geological Society Symposium entitled Progress Report on Fossil Fuels - Exploration and Exploitation, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 February. Kent chaired the session on Oil. Brief correspondencere arrangements. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists International Workshop on the Geological John's, Newfoundland, 17-22 June. Borderlands, Atlantic North History of the St Kent gave the keynote address on 'The history of the northeast Atlantic margin in a world setting’. This was published as Bibliog. 131, 1981. The workshop was described by Kent in a note to the Royal Society as ‘the first stage in implementation of a Canadian proposal for international cooperationin collaboration of a Geological Atlas of the North Atlantic’. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 232 Visits and conferences H.96 H.97 H.98 H.99-H.101 Correspondence re arrangements, including Kent's note on the Workshop for the Royal Society, April 1979, andlist of participants. Kent's contribution, 9pp typescript + references; ms notes. Correspondencere publication of Kent's contribution. ‘Atlantic inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Outline maps St Johns’. Contents of Kent's envelope so H.102 European Association of Organic Geochemists Ninth International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Newcastle upon Tyne,17-20 September. Kent gave the opening address. Letter re arrangements; programme; ms notes for Kent's address; brief correspondencearising. H.103, H.104 Fourth Meeting of the Geological Societies of the British Isles, Sheffield, 19- 23 September. H.103 Interim programme. H.104 H.105 Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page '...1979 1) Sheffield Geological Societies meeting'. Used for ms notes on proceedings, and also notes on 'Cambridge Workshop Jan. 1983' (not otherwise documented). Joint Meeting on Onshore Exploration and Production in the United Kingdom, London, 30 October. Kent spoke on 'The origin and development of onshore exploration in the United Kingdom’. Programme; list of slides; brief correspondencearising. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 233 Visits and conferences H.106 Leicester University Geology Department Colloquium on the Deep Geology of the East Midlands and Surrounding Areas, 7 November. Invitation and programme; ms notes on proceedings. 1980 H.107, H.108 Twenty-seventh January. Inter-University Geological Congress, Sheffield, 9-12 Kent spoke on ‘Economicrisks in the searchforoil’. H.107 Correspondence re arrangements; ms and typescript notes on economicsof oil prospecting. H.108 Annotated booklet of programmeand abstracts. H.109 De la Beche Club Symposium on Evaporites, Imperial College London, 1 February. Kent spoke on ‘Emergentsalt plugs of the Persian Gulf region’. correspondence Brief proceedings. re arrangements; programme; ms notes on H.110 Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the Origin and Evolution of the Earth's Continental Crust, London, 21-22 February. Programme; ms ‘Comment on paperby A.M. Ziegler’ by Kent. H.111, H.112 Conference on Petroleum Geology of the Continental Shelf of North-West Europe, London, 4-6 March. Kent gave the summing-up address and wrote the introduction to the Conference proceedings. For notes on proceedings see B.212. Notlisted in Bibliog. This was a sequel to the 1974 Conference on Petroleum and the Continental Shelf of North West Europe (H.73-H.76). P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 234 Visits and conferences H.111 H.112 Circular; correspondence re arrangements; annotated booklet of programme and abstracts. Correspondence re publication of proceedings; draft of Kent's introduction, 5pp typescript; ms notes. H.113 Twenty-sixth International Geological Congress,Paris,July. Kent spoke on 'The structural framework and history of subsidence of the North Sea basin’. Kent was Royal Society representative at the meeting of the Council of the Congress. This was published as Bibliog. 126, 1980. Correspondence re arrangements; programmefor colloquium on Geologyin Europe at which Kent spoke; papers and msnotes of meeting of Council. H.114 Leicester University Saturday School on the Hidden Depths of the East Midlands, 29 November. Kent gave the summing-up address. Invitation; programme; msnotes. 1981 H.115 Royal Society of Arts Lecture on ‘Modern seismic exploration for oil and — gas’. Kent was Chairman. Invitation; Royal Society of Arts lecture programme. H.116-H.119 Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the Evolution of Sedimentary Basins, London, 3-4 June. Kent helped organise the meeting with M.H.P. Bott, D.P. McKenzie and C.A. Williams, and chaired the opening session. He also wrote an introduction to the published proceedings (Bibliog. 132, 1982). H.116, H.117 Correspondence with fellow-organisers re arrangements, and with possible participants. 2 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 235 Visits and conferences H.119 1982 H.120 List of possible participants; ms notes re arrangements; annotated H.118 programme; abstracts. Ms andtypescript drafts and proof of Kent's introduction; correspondence re publication. Birmingham University Geology Department Centenary celebration and lectures, 8-9 January. Kent spoke on'L.J. Wills and deep geology’. Correspondence re arrangements; programme; draft of Kent's contribution, 8pp typescript. H.121 De la Beche Club Symposium on Oil: Onshore Exploration in Imperial College London, 12 February. Britain’, Kent spoke on ‘Exploration history in the East Midlands’. Correspondence contribution and of G.J. Candy's lecture on the West Midlands. programme; summary of re arrangements; Kent's H.122 Geological Society Petroleum Geochemistry Group Discussion Meeting on Origin of Fossil Fuels: Biogenic vs Non-biogenic, London, 7 October. This meeting was held to discuss the claims of T. Gold regarding the origin of fuel hydrocarbons(see also F.124). Kent spoke on ‘Investigation of deep source gas’. Brief correspondencere arrangements; programme. Invitation for 1982 H.123 EZ 82 Zechstein Workshop. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 1983 H.124 Visits and conferences 236 Visit to Australia, 2-24 March. Letter and telex re arrangements; itinerary; ms notes. H.125, H.126 Geological Society Petroleum Geochemistry and Marine Studies Groups meeting on Marine Petroleum Source Rocks, London, 17-18 May. Kent chaired the first session and wrote the Preface to the published proceedings (Bibliog. 143, 1986). H.125 Brief correspondence re arrangements; annotated programme. H.126 Booklet of abstracts; typescript drafts of Kent's opening remarks as Chairman and proof of Preface.. H.127-H.129 Geologists' Association Field Excursion to Kenya, 13 August-4 September. H.127 Correspondence re arrangements; itinerary. H.128 Excursion handbook with geological information on Kenya. H.129 Correspondencearising; memorabilia. H.130 Eleventh World Petroleum Congress, London, 28 August - 1 September. Kent did not attend but gave advice onthe itinerary of geologicalfield trips and wrote an introduction on the general geology of the UK for the field trip handbooks. Correspondence; typescript draft of Kent's introduction. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 237 Visits and conferences H.131-H.139 Greenwich Forum Conferenceon Britain and the Sea: Future Dependence- Future Opportunities, Greenwich, London, 14-16 September. Kent spoke on 'The sea's non-living resources - present and future’(listed in programmeas‘Minerals from the maritime environment). H.131 Correspondencere arrangements; list of participants; programme. H.132 H.133 Draft of Kent's contribution, 22pp typescript with ms corrections. Figures for preceding; ms and typescript additions to Kent's contribution. H.134-H.136 Copies of main papers. 3 folders. H.137-H.139 Copies of background papers. 3 folders. H.140 Yorkshire Geological Society Symposium on Oil, Durham, 10 November. Kent spoke on ‘Exploration for oil on land in the UK 1918-1964’. Brief correspondence re arrangements; programme; summary of Kent's contribution; mslist of slides. Invitations for 1983 H.141 North European Margin Symposium, Trondheim, Norway, 9-11 May. Open University Symposium on Understanding the Earth, 5-6 October. International Symposium onthe structure and dynamicsof transition zones, Sochi, USSR, 7-14 December. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 238 Visits and conferences 1984 H.142 H.143 Oceanology International Conference and Exhibition, Brighton, Sussex, 6-9 March. Brief correspondence; programmeforfirst two days. Geological Exploration, London, 16 May. Society Petroleum Group Conference on On-shore UK Kent spoke on 'UK on-shore exploration - historical review’. published as Bibliog. 139, 1985. This was Invitation; draft of Kent's contribution, 9pp typescript + list of figures; programme. H.144 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Conference on Fossil Fuels of Europe, Geneva, 15-18 July. Correspondencere arrangements; programme; ms notes. H.145, H.146 Open University Geological Society Conference on the Resourceful Earth, Cardiff, 6-8 July. Kent spoke on ‘Iran: oil and mountains’. This was published as Bibliog. 138, 1984. Correspondence re arrangements; programmeand abstracts; miscellaneous information. Ms notesfor Kent's contribution; draft of Kent's contribution, 7pp typescript + bibliography andlists of plates andfigures; brief correspondencearising. H.145 H.146 H.147 Eleventh BP Environmental Forum, Ferndown, Dorset, 24-25 July. Brief correspondence re arrangements; programmeand guestlist; ms notes on proceedings. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 239 Visits and conferences H.148-H.151 Conference on Landward Oil and Gas, London, 28-29 November. Kent spoke on 'A history and review of UK onshore exploration 1935-1984’. H.148 H.149 Correspondence re arrangements; programme; list of participants. Draft of Kent's contribution, 7pp typescript; ms list of slides; illustrative material. H.150 Backgroundinformation for Kent's lecture. H.151 Correspondencearising; transcript of discussions at the conference. 1985 H.152, H.153 Dunham-Durham Reunion, Durham, 14-17 September. This was a symposium to commemorate the seventy-fifth birthday of Sir Kingsley Dunham, Professor of Geology at Durham University 1950-66. H.152 Circulars; list of participants; handbook of programmeandabstracts. H.153 Group photographof participants (with key). H.154-H.156 British Association Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 26-30 August. Kent spoke to Section C (Geology) on 'Thefuture of offshore oil exploration’. H.154 H.155 Correspondence re arrangements. Draft of Kent's contribution, 10pp typescript. H.156 Papersby others. P.E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 240 Visits and conferences H.157 H.158 Sixth Joint Meeting of the Geological Societies of the British Birmingham, 19-20 September. Isles, Programme; conference news-sheet. Institution of Geologists East Midlands Regional Group meeting, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, 31 October. Kent spokeon 'Oil exploration in the UK’. Invitation, annotated 'Accd' by Kent; list of slides. Invitations for 1986 and 1987 H.159 British Sedimentological Research Group meeting on Controls of Upper Carboniferous Sedimentation - North East Europe, Keele, Staffordshire, 12- 13 April 1986. British Association Annual Meeting, Bristol, 1-5 September 1986. Third Conference on Petroleum Geology of North West Europe, London, 26- 29 October 1986. Twelfth World Petroleum Congress, Houston, Texas, 26 April - 1 May 1987. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 241 SECTION J SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE J.1-J.79 J.1-J.33 GENERAL SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE Correspondencewith individuals. information of particular biographical, historical or scientific interest. In alphabetical order with an indication of J.34-J.65 SHORTER SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE In chronological order. J.66-J.79 REFERENCES AND APPOINTMENTS P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 242 Scientific correspondence GENERALSCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE J J.2 J.3 J.4 J.5 J.6 J.7 J.8 Allen, P. Arkell, W.J. Bassett, S.L. 1952-84 1936-49 1981 Bassett was an Australian student of archaeology researching the hominid fossils of the Kanam and Kanjera sites. She corresponded with Kent about the East African Archaeological Expedition of 1934-35. British Museum (Natural History) 1936-75 Re geological specimens donated to the museum. Butler, J.B. 1967 Chiefly re geological samples. Clarke, W.J. 1967-71 Kent sent geological samples to Clarke of BP Research Centre, Sunbury, Middlesex, for identification and analysis. Chapman, R.E. Davidson, L. 1982-86, nd 1936, 1938 Davidson was a member of staff of the Geologgy Departmentof the British Kent sent him samples of belemnites from his Museum (Natural History). survey workfor identification. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 243 Scientific correspondence JQ Dickson, J.A.D. 1967, 1969 Re Lincolnshire limestone. J.10 Dinham, C.H. 1937-38, 1946 Dinham was a memberof staff of the Geological Survey and Museum. Kent sent him records of bore-holes and samples from his survey workin England. J.11 Earland-Bennett, P.M. 1968-70 Chiefly re Inferior Oolite ammonite found at Empingham. J.12, J.13 Falcon, N.L. 1941-83 J.12 J.13 J.14 1941, 1955, 1958-59. Includes accountof visit to Colorado by Kent, 1955 but principally carbons of correspondence between Falcon and Kent (in Canada). 1964, 1966, 1981, 1983. geophysical research sent to Kent by Falcon, 7 December 1966 Includes description of UK marine geolgical and Ford, T.D. 1969, 1972 Includes correspondence re Widmerpool Gulf, 1969. J.15 Fox, A.F. 1977-78, 1983 Material 1983 re obituary of Fox for BP Explorer magazine. J.16 Hemingway,J.E. 1949-73 Includes draft of paper on 'Ironstones' by Hemingway, probably sent to Kent for commentin 1973. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Scientific correspondence J.17 Ivimey Cook,H.C. J.18, J.19 Kamen-Kaye, M. 244 1964-72 1973-85 J.18 J.19 1973-77. Correspondence 1974-75 chiefly re Kamen-Kaye's mapping of the geological structure of East Africa and the adjacent seas. 1978-85. Includes Kamen-Kaye's 'working map of exploration geology in the Mozambique-Madagascarbasin' sent to Kent 8 February 1980 with request for data. J.20 King, L. 1979-80 Reconstruction of Gondwanaland. J.21 Muir-Wood, H.M. 1936-39, 1952 Muir-Wood was a memberof staff of the Geological Survey and Museum. Kent sent her samples from his survey workforidentification. J.22 Pakenham, R.H.W. 1977, 1981 Re ‘isolation of the vertebrates on off-shore islands [of East Africa] related to geological processes’. Pakenham hadservedin the civil service in Zanzibar 1929-56. J.23 Rawson, P.F. 1967-85 Correspondence 1985 re preservation of geological site at Nettleton Hill, Lincolnshire. J.24 J.25 Rayner, D.H. 1958-81 Rickwood,F. K. 1958, 1973 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 245 Scientific correspondence J.26 Roberts, K.H. 1958-59 Correspondence between Roberts and Kent (in Canada), principally re latest developments and results of drilling in UK. J.27 Sahay,B. 1985 Re papersfor publication. J.28 Senior, J.R. 1968-80 Correspondence 1969 chiefly re ammonites found in Inferior Oolite; that 1976-77 re Cephalopod Newsletter. J.29 Shotton, F.W. 1952, 1968 Correspondence 1968 re Clipsham ammonite. J.30 Strong, M.W. 1966 Letter re formula for estimating crustal shortening, enclosing 1947 ‘Table for estimating crustal contraction due to folding of strata’ complied by Strong. J.31 Swinnerton, H.H. 1934-66 Includes letter of 17 February 1946 from Swinnerton re possibility of Kent applying for Chair in Geology at Nottingham University (see A.135); correspondence 1963-64 chiefly re research on Gryphaea; and 2pp typescript draft of obituary of Swinnerton by Kent. J.32 J.33 Sylvester-Bradley, P.C. Wills, L.J. 1958-73 1958-79 Includes correspondence 1969 re Palaeozoic floor of southern Britain. P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 246 Scientific correspondence SHORTER SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE J.34 1932-36 J.35 1937-40 J.36 1941-49 J.37 1950-55 J.50 1973 August-December J.51 1974 J.52 1975 J.53 1976 J.38 1958 February-June J.54 1977 J.39 1958 July-December J.55 1978 January-June J.40 1959 J.41 1962-64 J.42 1965-67 J.43 1968 J.44 1969 J.45 1970 J.46 1971 January-June J.47 1971 July-December J.48 1972 J.56 1978 August-December J.57 1979 J.58 1980 January-May J.59 1980 July-December J.60 1981 J.61 1982 J.62 1983 J.63 1984 J.64 1985 J.49 1973 January-July J.65 1986, 1987, nd P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 247 Scientific correspondence REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS J.66-J.71 Examining J.72-J.77 References J.78, J.79 Honours and awards Examining References Honours and awards J.66 1965 J.69 1971, 1973 J.67 1966, 1967 J.70 1977 J.68 1968, 1969 J.71 1981-83 J.72 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972 J.75 1980-82 J.73 1973-78 J.76 1983, 1984 J.74 1978, 1979 J.77 1984-86 Correspondence at J.78 is re the Sedgwick Prize of Cambridge University. This was awarded every three years for an essay on a selected geological topic. J.78 1966-67, 1969-70 J.79 1976, 1979, 1983 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 248 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS ABBOT,A.J. ABERDEEN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ABU DHABI PETROLEUM COMPANYLIMITED ADAM HILGER LIMITED ADAMS, C.G. ADAMS, Terence David ADCOCK, Cecil Milton ADDISON, J. ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE RESEARCH COUNCILS AGER, DerekVictor AITKEN, William G. AITKENHEAD, N. ALBERTA SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS ALCOCK, Leslie ALLEN, John Robert Laurence ALLEN, Percival B.342 D.129 D.78 D.81 B.56, B.57, F.94 B.465 B.158, J.41 B.298, B.301 C.5, E.25, E.28, E.29, E.31, E.32, E.34, E.35, F.191, F.192 A.157, B.10, E.30, F.89, F.91, F.96, F.98, F.102, F.112, F.140, H.116, H.159, J.53, J.57, J.68 A.96, A.235, D.116 B.125 H.55 E.30 J.52 A.139, A.152, A.157, A.169, A.180, A.231, B.29, B.342, D.91, E.30, E.32, E.35, E.37, F.76, F.132, F.174, F.334, F.350, F.353, F.355, J.1, J.67, J.68 ALVES, Wilfrid J.61 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS A.148, A.167, A.176, A.180, F.1- F.5, H.12, H.13, H.31, H.70, H.85, H.144, J.55 AMIRI-GARROUSSI, K. AMOCO EUROPE INC. ANDERSON, William B.281, J.61 F.71, F.216 J.35 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 249 Index of correspondents ANDREWS, Peter THE ANGLING FOUNDATION A.85 E.25 ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL COMPANY LIMITED A.130, A.131, A.134, A.135 ARAMCO OVERSEAS COMPANY J.60 ARCHER, Alan Arthur A.157, F.62, H.131 ARKELL, William Joscelyn B.86, B.93, B.152-B.154, B.254, J.2 ARMOUR, A.R. ARMSTEAD, H.ChristopherH. ARMSTRONG, George ARMSTRONG, Sir William ARTHUR, Erik J.L. E.25 E.32, J.57 F.421, H.69, J.49 E.16 G.13, J.65 ARTHUR HOLMES SOCIETY (DURHAM UNIVERSITY) D.110, F.6 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF AN INSTITUTION OF PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGISTS ATHOLL, George lain Murray, 10th Duke of ATTENBOROUGH, Sir David (Frederick) AUDEN, Harold A. AUDLEY-CHARLES, Michael Geoffrey BAILEY, M.L. BAKER, F. Tom BAKER, Peter E. BALKWILL, Hugh BALL, H.W. BALL, Sue BARBER, Cecil Thomas F.166 E.24 F.198 J.38 A.180, B.112, C.66, C.67, E.27, E.29, E.176, F.82, F.88, F.89, F.92, F.93, F.95-F.110, F.132, F.175, F.345, J.66, J.73, J.76 J.43 A.136, A.157, B.93, F.425, J.31, J.34, J.37, J.41, J.43 A.180, J.56, J.57, J.63 J.58 A.85, J.40, J.46 H.145, H.146 J.57 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 250 Index of correspondents BARNARD, Peter David Weiste BARR, K.W. BARRON, Eric J. BARSS, David L. BASSETT,Michael G. BASSETT,Sue L. BATE, RaymondH. BATES, C.P. BATES, Leslie Fleetwood BATES, St John BATHURST,Robin Gilbert Charles BATSFORD, Sir Brian (Caldwell Cook) BATTERS, R.J. BAXTER, Raymond Frederic B.342 E.182, H.96 J.57 H.96, J.49 J.64 J.3 J.39 D.61 A.139, A.157 H.33, H.34 B.167 E.31 J.31, J.35 A.231 BEAMENT,Sir James William Longman C.7, E.26, E.37, E.57, E.62 BECK, Rudi H. BECKETT, J. Angus BELL, G.T.(‘Peter’) BELL, R.R. BENNISON, Allan P. BENTHAM, A. BERMINGHAM, John BEST, Edward W. BEVERTON, Raymond John Heaphy BEXON, Roger BICKMORE,David P. A.157, B.298, B.342 A.139, J.44 A.58 D.78 J.50 A.74 J.58, J.62 A.148, A.152, A.154, A.157, F.4, G.12, H.33, H.35, H.55, H.81, J.49 A.157, A.180, E.1, E.3, E.6, E.7, E.23, E.25, E.29, E.32, E.57, F.58, F.62, J.75 A.148, A.157, J.52 F.384, J.60, J.62 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 BINNIE, Geoffrey Morse BIRCH, Rex Leslie BIRKS, J. BISHOP, Walter William BLACK,John N. BLACK, W.W. BLACKETT, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron BLOOMSTEIN, Rex BLUNDELL, Derek John BONDI, Sir Hermann Index of correspondents 251 F.286 D.104 A.147, A.157, A.219, G.14, G.15, G.17, G.18, H.82 A.85, A.157, E.31, F.74, J.50, J.54, J.73 E.27, E.35 J.67, J.72 H.32 A.122 E.146, J.62 C.39, C.64, E.62, E.139, E.143, E.182, F.146, F.147, F.210 BOSTROM, Robert Christian E.35 BOSWELL, Percy George Hamnall BOTT, Martin Harold Phillips BOULT, WADE & TENNANT BOULTER, M.C. BOWEN, J.M. BOWERMAN, JamesN. BOWES, Donald Ralph BOWETT,D.K. BOWMAN, J.S. BOYLE, Edward Charles Gurney, Baron BPB INDUSTRIES LIMITED BRADSHAW, Anthony David BRADSHAW,Martin BRENNAND, T.P. A.53, A.58, A.60-A.62, A.64, A.76, A.77, A.130, B.93 E.31, H.116, H.117, J.51 G.195-G.199 J.46, J.47 H.76 H.62 D.128 F.41 A.219, J.50 J.73 J.43, J.44 A.219 B.57, J.62 F.106 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 252 Index of correspondents BRIGHTON, Albert George B.57, J.41 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE A.157, E.31, F.7, F.8, H.18, H.67, H.68, H.154, H.159 BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION A.122, A.228, D.134, F.329 BRITISH GAS CORPORATION A.157, F.114 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY(formerly INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES) E.193-E.196, F.76, F.147-F.161, F.327 BRITISH GEOTECHNICAL SURVEY D.117 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURALHISTORY) BRITISH NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION BRITISH PETROLEUM A.58, A.85, B.8, B.54, B.55, B.93, B.281, F.209, J.4 F.114, F.199, G.30, G.31, G.40, G.41 See also B.212 F.114, F.115, F.208-F.210, F.330, F.403, G.1-G.20, G.22, G.228- G.230, G.248-G.250, H.147, H.148 BRITISH RAIL G.200 BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD BRITOIL PLC BRONNIMAN, Paul BROOKE, Peter Leonard BROOKS, Jim BROOKS, John R.V. BROWN, Sir (George) Malcolm B.112, B.135, F.28, F.272, F.321, F.425, J.46, J.49 E.25 G.228 E.25 F.151, F.152, F.154 D.43, F.124-F.126, H.122, H.125 B.186, G.51 A.165, A.180, D.56, E.24, F.145, F.147-F.149, F.151, J.62 BROWN, JamesP. B.327 BRUNSTROM, R. Geoffrey W. A.180, F.3, F.73, J.39, J.40, J.47 BULLARD, Sir Edward Crisp BULLERWELL, William A.139, A.152, E.12 A.139, A.157, A.164, A.219, F.127, F.130, J.47 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 253 Index of correspondents BULMAN, Oliver Meredith Boone BUREK,P.J. BURGEN, Sir Arnold (Stanley Vincent) BURK, Crighton A. BURMAHOIL TRADING COMPANY BURMAN, S.D. BURWOOD, Ralph BUTCHER, Norman Edward BUTLER, John B. A.61-A.63, A.65, A.136, A.139, A.152, A.157, F.420 F.243 F.349, F.350 B.342, B.343, D.40, H.82, J.49, J.50 J.62 J.63 J.74 J.63 J.5 BUTTERFIELD, Sir (William) John (Hughes) A.157, E.27, E.30, E.33 BUZZALINI, A.D. BYRD, W.D. CAAN, Albert J. CALLOMON, John H. F.3 H.76 D.119, H.64 F.355, J.44, J.45 CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS F.9, H.81, H.89, H.96, H.98 CANN, Johnson Robin CARISBROOKE CASTLE MUSEUM CARTER, Peter John CASEY, Raymond CASTLE LIME COMPANYLIMITED CASTON, Vivian Nicholas Donne CATER, M.C. C.23, C.67, E.127 J.34 B.342, B.465 B.112, B.148, D.19, D.54, F.351, F.419, J.41, J.47, J.48 A.53 F.72 F.350 CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD F.327, J.60 CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION CHALONER, William Gilbert G.194 B.138 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 254 Index of correspondents CHAMBERLAIN, C. Kent CHAMPION, Colin R. CHANDLER, T.J. CHANNON, (Henry) Paul (Guinness) CHAPMAN, Richard E. B.37 B.163, G.20 E.31, E.33 A.236 A.158, A.180, A.234, A.236, H.124, J.7 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CHARLTON THERMOSYSTEMS LIMITED F.199 G.191-G.226 CHARNOCK, Henry E.25, E.31, F.58, F.59 CHARTER CONSOLIDATED LIMITED CHRISTOPHERSON, Sir Derman (Guy) CLAPHAM, A.F. CLARKE, Anthony Michael John Kent CLARKE, Kenneth CLARKE, Richard CLARKE, W.J. CLEMENTS, RoyG. CLIFT, S.G. CLIPSHAM QUARRY COMPANY CLOTWORTHY, John H. COCKS,Leonard Robert Morrison COFFIN, Millard F. COLE, Sonia COLLEN, J.D. J.53 A.143 E.26, J.50 B.494, B.495, F.130, H.117, J.49, J.51 A.235-A.237, A.241 G.19, J.62, J.63 B.57, B.449, C.117, C.118, G.51, J.6 J.60 B.28 B.77 C.6 B.57 F.248, F.251 A.85 J.59 COLLETT,Michael Gerald B.184, J.42, J.44, J.64 COMMITTEE OF HEADS OF POLYTECHNIC AND F.177 COLLEGE GEOLOGY DEPARTMENTS P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 255 Index of correspondents COMMITTEE OF VICE-CHANCELLORS AND PRINCIPALS E.35 COMMONWEALTH AGRICULTURAL BUREAUX F.203, F.204, F.206, F.209, F.217 CONNOLLY,Major M. COOK, Sir Alan Hugh COOPE, Brian M. COPE, Frederick Wolverson CORLISS, John O. CORON, M.S. CORPS, Edward Victor CORTAZZI, Sir (Henry Arthur) Hugh COTTRELL, Sir Alan (Howard) COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC POLICY COVENEY, P.J. COX,A. Glyn COX, Beris M. COX, Christopher Barry COX,Sir (Ernest) Gordon COX,Leslie Reginald A.61 E.33, E.35 G.229 A.164, A.219, G.19, J.38, J.49, J.57, J.62 F.198 E.24 H.37 F.213 A.158, A.172, D.61, E.23, E.24, F.209 F.10-F.21 E.31 G.16, G.17 B.111, D.55, J.50, J.52 F.91 J.50 B.8, B.9, B.29, B.55 COX, Percy Thomas(‘Peter’) A.144, A.147, A.158, B.152, B.458 CRANBROOK,Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook A.180, F.199, F.203, F.204, F.206- F.208, F.210, F.212, F.213, F.215 CRANDALL, K.H. CRICKMAY, C.H. CRIPPS, David W. CRISP, Dennis John CROSSMAN, Patrick Danvers CUMBERLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY F.5 J.39, J.40 J.63 A.236, E.23, E.170 F.139 D.130 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 CUMMINS, William Arthur CURL,S.J. CURRALL,Arnold E. CURRY,Dennis CURTIS, Charles David Index of correspondents 256 F.27, F.29 E.179, E.182 A.219, F.420, F.427 J.42 F.347, H.125 DAINTON, Frederick Sydney, Baron A.148, A.152, A.158, A.231, E.6, E.27, E.30, E.34, E.35, F.10, F.14 DALYELL, Tam DANIEL, Dusan DAVID DAVIES MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DAVIDSON, Leslie DAVIES, J.C.A. DAVIS, G. Rex DAWSON, John Barry DE BOER, Gwyneth S. DEER, William Alexander DE LA BECHE CLUB DELAIR, J.B. DELANY,F. DENNISON, V.D. DENTON, Sir Eric (James) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DEPARTMENTOF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH F.147 H.32, H.34 F.22, F.23 J.8 A.136 F.154 D.132 F.419 E.29, F.73 H.109, H.121 B.11 J.49 J.37 A.181, E.29, F.313, F.314, F.316- F.318 E.24, E.26, E.27, E.29, E.31, E.32, E.34, E.35, F.382, J.49 C.74, E.26, E.28-E.30, E.34, E.35, G.51, J.57 A.53, A.129 DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY E.24, E.30, E.31 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 257 Index of correspondents DERBYSHIRE SILICA FIREBRICK COMPANY B.137, B.138 DEWEY,John Frederick B.342, F.150, H.144, J.62, J.65 DE WIT, Martin DICKSON, J.A.D. DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY J.58 B.115, J.9 D.77 DILLEY, Frank C. DINELEY, David Lawrence DINGLE, Richard V. DINHAM, C.H. DIXEY, Sir Frank DIXIE, R. John M. DIXON, Colin James DOBSON, Rev. James Oran DOBSON, Maxwell Richard DOLL,Sir (William) Richard (Shaboe) DOLLAR, A.T. John DONOVAN, Desmond Thomas DOUGLAS, A.G. DOUGLAS, J.A. DOWNIE, Charles B.178, B.179, J.42, J.43, J.51 H.120 J.54 B.69, B.77, B.86, B.93, J.10 A.139, A.152, A.158, B.377, F.351, J.37, J.38, J.68 B.116, D.54, F.425, J.46, J.50 F.154, F.178 A.74, A.78, A.134 E.176 A.232 J.41 A.139, A.219, A.237, B.11, B.194, E.27, E.28, F.73, F.160, J.43 H.102 B.260, B.269, B.278 H.107 DRAKE, Sir (Arthur) Eric (Courtenay) A.154, A.158, E.32 DREW,Sir Arthur (Charles Walter) DREW, Robert DRIVER, A.V. DUCHROW, Harald DUDEK, Arnost F.212 E.32 J.49 J.59, J.60 H.35, H.37 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 258 Index of correspondents DUDLEY,Harold E. DUFFIN, Chris DUNCAN, lan G. DUNHAM, Sir Kingsley (Charles) B.93 B.32, J.51 J.59 A.139, A.144, A.152, A.158, A.164, A.173, A.181, A.219, B.501, B.502, D.25, D.85, D.95, D.96, E.7, E.23- E.25, E.27, E.29-E.35, E.37, F.71, F.72, F.145, F.352, G.230, G.232, G.247, G.250, H.35, H.69, J.44, J.57, J.62 See also H.152, H.153 DUNNETT, G.M. E.33, E.34 DUNNING, Frederick Weir F.132, F.353, H.117, H.119 DUNNINGTON, Harold Vincent DYK, Robert EAGAR, Richard Michael Cardwell EAMES, Frank Evelyn EAMES, T.D. EARDLEY, Wendell A. EARLAND-BENNETT,P.M. EARP, John Rowland EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS B.281 See also J.60 A.148, A.181, E.35, H.76 F.312, J.64 B.10, B.269, J.49 H.76, J.52 B.298 J.28, J.42-J.44 E.25 D.81 EAST MIDLANDS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY A.158, A.181, F.24-F.30 EASTWOOD, T. EATON, GL. EBY, J. Brian EDEN, Robert Arthur J.35 F.72 H.32, H.35 B.138 EDMONDS, James Marmaduke A.231, J.49-J.51 EDMONTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY EDWARD ARNOLD(PUBLISHERS)LIMITED H.55 D.61 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 259 Index of correspondents EDWARDS, Kenneth C. A.158, A.219, B.138, B.496, J.54 EDWARDS, Sir Sam (Samuel Frederick) A.236, E.27-E.29, E.32 EGLINTON, Geoffrey ELDER, Samuel ELLER, Mark G. ELLIOTT, Graham F. ELLIOTT, Richard Ernest F.347, F.348, H.125 A.148, A.158, B.230 J.59 B.342 F.26, F.27, F.93, F.105, F.109, J.55 ENERGLYN, William Davis Evans, Baron A.158 EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTS H.102 EUROPEAN GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION EVANS, Anthony Meredith EVANS, William David EWING, R.C. EWING, ThomasE. EXPLORATION ADVISORY GROUP EZRA, Derek J., Baron FALCON, Norman Leslie E.31 E.189, E.190 B.342 A.136, A.139, J.38, J.39 J.59 J.61 B.291-B.339 J.50 A.138, A.139, A.147, A.148, A.159, A.181, A.192, A.219, A.233, A.236, B.29, B.48, B.51, B.147, B.148, B.341, B.343, D.13, D.43, D.75, D.76, D.104, E.7, F.71, F.334, F.351, F.353, H.32, J.12, J.13, J.66 See also F.5, F.164 FANNIN, Nigel G.T. FASBENDER, James R. D.72 B.342 FEARNSIDES, William George A.139, J.37, J.40 FEILDEN, Geoffrey Bertram Robert A.152, A.159, F.355, H.69 FERGUSON, John E.87, J.61 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 FERRIER, Ronald W. FIELD, R.A. FIRMAN, Ronald John FISH, Sir Hugh FITCH, A.A. FITCH, Frank John Index of correspondents 260 A.148, A.159, A.181, E.25, G.13, J.51 J.51 A.179, B.91 A.181, F.152, F.156, F.173 F.336 B.48 FLEMING, Sir Charles (Alexander) A.159, F.211, F.213, J.62 FLOWERS, Brian Hilton, Baron FORD, Sir Hugh FORD, Trevor David A.159, F.148, J.56 F.346, F.354 B.125, F.27, F.255, F.257-F.259, F.262, F.263, H.114, J.14 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTHOFFICE FORMAN EXPLORATION COMPANY F.31-F.67 G.51, G.62 FORREST, John Samuel FOSTER & ASSOCIATES FOTHERGILL, Colin Arnold FOWDEN, Leslie FOWLE, R.A. FOX, Anthony Francis FOX, F. Glenn FRANCIS, Edward Howel FRANCIS, Tim FRANKL, E.J. FREBOLD, Hans FRENCH, W.J. FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION A.159, E.32, E.34, H.69 G.29 A.139, A.152, A.159, F.335 F.347 G.31, G.32, G.38, G.77 A.148, A.159, A.181, J.15, J.57 J.62 A.159, B.117, B.174, B.176, D.54, D.55, D.58, D.64, E.24, E.25, E.27, E.34, F.76, F.114, F.156, F.426, J.50 J.63 J.61 J.39 J.63 E.29 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 261 Index of correspondents FRIARY CONGREGATIONAL(later UNITED REFORMED) CHURCH FRIENDS OF SADLERS WELLS THEATRE FUCHS, Sir Vivian (Ernest) FUNNELL, Brian Michael A.159, A.179, A.239-A.241 A.252 A.59, A.61 J.58 GALLOIS, RamuesWilliam D.55, J.56, J.64, J.71 GAMES, P.M. GANSSER, A. GAS COUNCIL GASS, lan Graham GAUNT, Geoffrey Douglas GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BULGARIA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREATBRITAIN A.60 B.279 F.117, J.45, J.46 A.234, F.174, F.329, F.330, J.59 B.176 A.61-A.63, D.25, D.82 A.181, F.69 A.166, A.181 D.116, D.128 A.65, A.136, A.159, A.170, A.178, A.179, A.181, A.204, B.102, D.19, D.43, D.62, D.83, D.115, E.23, E.25, E.27, E.34, F.70-F.137, F.159, F.169, F.175, H.36, H.66, H.122, H.125, H.143, J.62, J.66 See INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION D.3, F.138-F.143, H.129, J.66 GEORGE, Thomas Neville GETTY,T.A. GIBBON, A.T. GILL, William Daniel GILLESPIE, J (‘lan’) A.152, A.159, A.204, B.10, F.70, F.129, F.351, J.37, J.38, J.45 J.52, J.53 B.309, B.343 A.139, J.60 B.298, B.342 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 262 Index of correspondents GLAESSNER, Martin F. GLASS, GeorgeP. GLENNIE, Ken W. GLOVER, Ronald Stanley GOLD, Thomas GOLLESSTANEH, A. GORHAM, FrankD., Jr GOULD, Howard R. GOWER, L.C.B. (‘Jim’) GOWING, Geoffrey S. GRAHAM & TROTMANLIMITED GRANT,Patrick T. GRANT,Paul GRAY, David Alfred GRAY, Sir John (Archibald Browne) GREENSMITH, John Trevor GRIFFITHS, Donald Harrison GUERIN-VILLEAUBRIEL, G. GULF EASTERN COMPANY GUSSOW,William C. GUTHRIE CORPORATIONLIMITED HALLAM, Anthony HALVORSEN, Odd HAMILTON, Douglas J.42 H.69 F.337 J.61, J.62 J.64, J.77 See also E.179-E.188 B.343 J.58 F.241 J.74 A.159, F.420, F.421, F.423 D.83 A.171 B.288 D.25, F.158 A.220, E.24, E.34 A.159, E.32 A.174, D.63, H.120 G.31 B.458, B.461 B.279, B.343, J.41, J.65 G.265 J.41 F.198 B.37 HANCOCK, John Michael(‘Jake’) HARKER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY F.85, F.87, J.63 F.144 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 263 Index of correspondents HARLAND, Walter Brian HARRIS, Arthur HARRIS, Thomas John HARRISON, J.M. HARRISON, John Vernon HARRISON, Ronald Keith HART, Edward HART, Malcolm Barrie HARWOOD, Gill HASSON, R.C. HAWKINGS, T.J. HAWKINS,Alfred Brian HAWKINS, Herbert Leader HAWORTH, Richard T. HAY,R. HAY,William W. HEDBURG,, Hollis Dow HEMINGWAY, John E. A.150, A.159, B.304, D.25, D.82, D.115, £.175, F.72, F.81, F.89- F.94, F.103, F.229, H.35, H.37, J.37, J.63, J.66, J.69, J.75 B.77 D.78 J.55 J.42 See also J.49 D.64 J.60 E.176 H.123 B.279, B.309 H.89 H.86 B.55 D.83, F.76, F.148 J.50 C.4, C.34, J.61 A.235, A.236, B.279, B.281, B.291, B.298, B.301, B.304, B.309, B.310, B.314, B.342-B.344, F.5, F.69, H.82, J.59 A.220, B.8, B.29, B.33, B.54, B.102, B.167, B.502, D.54, J.16 HEMN, Mahmod J.63 HENDERSON, Sir William (MacGregor) A.159, F.199, F.201, F.207 HIDE, Raymond HILL, Melvin J. HILLS, Edwin Sherbon E.28 H.69 J.79 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 264 Index of correspondents HINTON, Christopher, Baron A.144, A.150, A.159 HITCHEN, Charles Stansfield A.64 HITCHON, Brian HOBLEY,C.W. HOBSON, George Douglas HODGKIN, Sir Alan (Lloyd) HOLDGATE, Martin Wyatt HOLIDAY, Alan HOLLAND, Charles Hepworth HOLLIDAY, Douglas W. HOLLINGWORTH, S.E. HOLSER, William T. A.159, J.38, J.39, J.65 A.63, A.64 H.112 A.159, E.28-E.30, E.36, F.206 B.496 J.65 F.110 D.93, E.34, J.67 A.136, A.137 B.465, J.54, J.58, J.62 HOME OIL OF CANADALIMITED D.104 HOPWOOD, Arthur Tindell HOUNSLOW,Mark HOUSE, Michael Robert HOWARTH, Michael Kingsley HOWITT, Frank HUBBARD, Julia Anne Elizabeth Bruce HUDSON, John D. HUDSON, Robert George Spencer HUGHES, Norman Francis HUNT, John Anthony HUNTINGDON, Algernon Thomas HURCOMB, Cyril William, 1st Baron HUTCHISON, Sir (William) Kenneth A.58-A.61, A.63, A.65, A.81, B.93 B.32 A.159, A.165, E.25, E.29, J.70 B.11, B.57, D.54, J.48 B.125, F.3, J.41 F.351, J.65 A.181, J.56 B.254 C.10, F.80, F.81 A.159, B.388 E.184, E.185 F.186 H.69 HUTCHISON, William W. F.229, F.231, F.236, F.237 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 265 Index of correspondents HUXLEY, Sir Andrew (Fielding) IANOVICI, V. ILLING, Leslie Vincent F.206, F.218 A.232 A.148, A.159, A.167, H.111, H.112 IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF KNIGHTS BACHELOR A.163 INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (later BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY) INSTITUE OF PETROLEUM B.32, B.110, B.117, B.174, B.176, B.501-B.503, D.54-D.56, E.23- E.29, E.34, E.35, F.145, F.146, J.42, J.50, J.52, J.54 See also E.65-E.90 B.278, E.30, F.2, F.162-F.165, F.176, F.177, H.21, H.31, H.32 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS E.25, E.29 INSTITUTION OF GEOLOGISTS A.182, D.75, D.76, F.154, F.159, F.166-F.183, H.158 INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE F.175 J.62 INTERNATIONAL TRUST FOR ZOOLOGICAL A.252, F.184-F.228 NOMENCLATURE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES F.199, F.209, F.210, F.212, F.215 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES F.229-F.241, H.37, H.92 INTER-UNION COMMISSION ON GEODYNAMICS F.242-F.245 ION, Daniel Clark A.159, D.86, F.76, F.132, F.133, F.162, F.164, F.172, H.112, H.130 See also D.75, D.76, F.170 IRAN SOCIETY A.182, F.246, F.247 IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ISLE OF WIGHT NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY IVIMEY COOK, Hugh Christopher E.35 J.34 B.57, B.174, D.31, E.30, F.94, F.95, F.97, F.99, F.101, F.106, J.17, J.47 JACKSON, M.P.A. J.59 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 266 Index of correspondents JAMES,Eric John Francis, Baron JAMES, A.V. JAMES, John Herbert JAMIESON, W. JEANS, Christopher Vincent F.421 B.10, J.51 J.43, J.44 J.50 B.174, F.102-F.105, F.424, J.44, J.53-J.55 JEFFERS, John Norman Richard A.220, E.25, E.27 JEFFREYS, Sir Harold JENKIN, Charles Patrick Fleeming, Baron JENKINS, David A.L. JENKINS, D. JENKINS, Norman F.355 A.235 A.179, D.78 E.26 E.31 JOHNSON, George Anthony Lobjoit A.220, H.21, J.74 JOHNSON, Michael Raymond Walter JOHNSON, W.M. JOHN WILEY & SONS LIMITED JONES,Ernest John Wallace JONES, E.T. JONES, Frederick George William B.28 J.36 D.64 J.60-J.62 J.37 F.188-F.196, F.198, F.201-F.206, F.209-F.215, F.217-F.221, F.223 JOSEPH, Keith Sinjohn, Baron C.74 JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY B.281, D.45, D.83 JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY JOYSEY, Kenneth Alan KAMEN-KAYE, Maurice KANES, W.H. KANTOROWICZ, John D.83 E.176 B.281, B.343, C.118, J.18, J.19 J.56, J.61 J.58 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 KAY, Marshall KAYE, Peter Index of correspondents 267 A.159, F.4 D.54 KEARTON, Christopher Frank, Baron G.30, G.31, J.73 KEENLYSIDE, W.A.H. KEITH, Arthur KELK, Brian KELLAWAY, Geoffrey A. KELLING, Gilbert KELLY, Simon R.A. KENDREW, Sir John (Cowdery) KENNA, Raymond John Boyd KENNEDY,William Quarrier KENNY, André J.46 A.64 C.12, C.13, F.152, F.154, F.158, F.161, F.173 D.54, J.35, J.36, J.41, J.44, J.50 B.281, F.175, F.176 J.58 A.159, F.201 B.86 J.50 A.120 KENT (née WOODWARD), Annie Kate A.67-A.71, A.73-A.78 KENT, Audrey KENT, Edward Louis KENT(later Cooper), (Elizabeth) Helen KENT(later Booth), Judith Ann KENT(née SCOTT), Lorna Ogilvie KENT (née HOOD), Margaret Betty KERR, J. William A.67-A.71, A.73 A.67-A.71, A.73-A.78 A.193, A.213-A.218, A.219, A.224, B.14 See also A.156 A.193, A.195, A.213-A.218, A.219, A.224, A.240, A.241 See also A.225 A.180-A.186, A.223, A.224, A.234, D.78 A.135, A.190, A.212-A.218 See also A.219-A.222 H.96, H.98, H.116 KETTON PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANYLIMITED B.53 KHADEM, N. B.342, B.343 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 268 Index of correspondents KHAN, MohammedAftab KHOLIEF, Mahmoud M. KING, Lester KING, R.J. KING, William Bernard Robinson KNILL, John Lawrence KNIPE, Colin V. KNOWLES, Sir Francis KORNBERG, Sir Hans (Leo) KOWALSKI, Wlodzimierz R. KUGLER, Hans G. KURTI, Nicholas KUWAIT OIL COMPANYLIMITED LAFFERTY, Vera LAMBERT,Richard St. John LAMMING, Phillip D. A.182, A.220, F.256-F.259, F.261- F.264, F.355, H.104, J.56, J.63, J.69, J.73, J.75-J.77 H.117 J.20 F.259,J.46, J.47 A.138 A.182, E.30, J.75 D.75, F.169, F.170, F.174 E.28, E.29 E.36, F.259 J.63 A.159, F.3, J.48 A.159, F.354 B.461-B.463 F.231, F.232, F.236, F.237, F.241 H.55 A.160, J.43 LAMONT-DOHERTY GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY F.248-F.252 LANCASTER-JONES, Peter Frank Farnham A.220, E.30 LARMINIE, Ferdinand Geoffrey A.147, A.152, A.160, J.62 LAUGHTON, Sir Anthony (Seymour) E.6, E.14, E.25, F.62, J.63, J.64 LAW, James LAWS, Richard Maitland LAWSON, James Dixon LEAKE, Bernard Elgey LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett F.70 A.234, E.31, E.32, E.34, E.35, J.53, J.60 F.81 D.128, E.29, E.30, F.114, J.63 A.53, A.58, A.60, A.64, A.65, A.76, A.81 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 269 Index of correspondents LE BAS, Michael John LEEDS GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION LEES, George Martin LEGGETT, Jeremy K. LEHNER, E. (‘Max’) LEHNER, Peter B.343, F.262, F.263 D.39, D.124, E.24 A.109, A.130, A.131, A.134, A.135, B.2, B.55, B.147, B.155, B.230, B.234, H.3, J.36, J.65 C.74 B.278 C.118, J.49, J.53 LEICESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY F.253, F.258 LEICESTERSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LEICESTER UNIVERSITY LEICESTER UNIVERSITY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY LEONARD, Michael William LERCHE, lan F.254 F.255-F.264 B.278 D.117 D.78 LIGHTHILL, Sir (Michael) James A.144, A.160, E.1, F.353, J.76, J.77 LINCOLN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE B.56, B.93 LINCOLN CITY AND COUNTY MUSEUM B.86 LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION LINCOLNSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION A.136, A.160, B.93, B.113, D.20, D.31, F.256-F.274,J.31 A.160, E.35, F.275-F.278 LINSTEAD, Sir Hugh (Nicholas) E.29 LINTON, R.E. LIVINGSTONE, D.A. LLEWELLYN, P.G. A.160, A.231, H.127, J.22, J.48, J.51, J.54, J.63 E.25, E.27 B.123, F.258, J.44 LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY COMPANY B.93, J.34 LONDON & SCOTTISH MARINE OIL COMPANYLIMITED A.179, A.180, F.114, F.206, F.207, G.21-G.226 LONDONUNIVERSITY J.66-J.68, J.71 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 270 Index of correspondents LORD, Alan Richard LOVE, Leonard Gregory LOWRIE,Allen LUDFORD, Albert LUMSDEN, George Innes LUTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LUTTIG, G. J.44 B.138 J.59 D.118 A.182 A.250 F.103 LYELL CLUB (KING'S COLLEGE LONDON) D.132, H.70 McBEATH, Donald Murray A.233, H.64 McCONNELL, Richard Bradford A.231, H.21, J.49, J.55, J.58 McCRONE RESEARCH ASSOCIATESLIMITED McCULLOCH, J.S.G. MACFADYEN, W.A. MACFARLANE, Sir (David)Neil McGUGAN, Alan MacINNES, Donald G. McKENZIE, A.E.E. McKENZIE, Dan Peter MACLACHLAN, D.I.L. McLAREN, Digby Johns McNAUGHTON, DuncanA. McQUILLAN, Alan D. McQUILLAN, Harry McQUILLIN, Robert MACROBERT TRUSTS MADDOCK, Sir leuan J.56 E.25 J.37 E.62 F.99 A.58, A.59, A.62, A.64, A.81, A.120 J.34 H.119 F.3 F.152, F.154, F.354, H.55, H.116, J.47, J.63, J.64 F.3 J.71 B.343, E.23, J.49, J.51 B.215, D.72, E.187 F.209, F.212 E.24, E.30, E.31 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 271 Index of correspondents MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MANN, F.H. MANNING, Peter Inglett D.123 B.340 F.90, F.93 MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED E.28, F.313-F.318 KINGDOM MARK TWAIN JOURNAL A.232 MARSHALL, Walter Charles, Baron E.23, E.32, E.34, E.35, H.69 MARTILL, David M. MARTIN, Alan John MASKA,Miroslav MASON, Sir (Basil) John MATHER, John Drummond MATTHEWS, Drummond Hoyle MATTHEWS, S.C. MAUBERGE, P.L. MAXWELL,(lan) Robert MAYALL, Michael MAYER, Tony MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL B.32 A.147, A.160, F.146, G.18, G.19, H.117 H.21 F.150, J.61 E.132A,J.63 A.233 J.59 J.40 D.92 B.37, J.54 J.77 E.24, E.34 MEDMENHAM CLUB A.149, A.152, A.182, A.242-A.244 MELVILLE, Richard Valentine A.160, A.182, B.39, B.55, B.154, B.155, E.12, E.14, F.187-F.196, F.198-F.213, F.215-F.224, J.42, J.43, J.60 See also F.355 MENSFORTH, Sir Eric MERRISON, Sir Alec (Alexander Walter) A.145 A.169 MEYER, HansH. A.140, A.149, B.327, F.3, H.76 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 272 Index of correspondents MEYERHOFF,Arthur A. MEYERHOFF,Diana MILLER, Julian MILLS, David Audley Corbett MINERAL PLANNING MINISTRY OF POWER MINWORTHLIMITED A.148, A.182, F.3, F.4, H.112,J.62, J.65 F.5 A.103, A.149, A.220, A.231, A.238, H.64 F.145, F.423 H.151 F.2, J.44 G.227-G.245 MITCHELL, George Hoole A.160, B.167, F.421 MITCHELL BEAZELEY PUBLISHERS LIMITED D.84-D.88 MITCHESON, J.C. MONRO, Stuart K. MOODY,Richard T.J. MOORBATH, Stephen Erwin MOORE, Leslie Rowsell MORBEY, S.J. MORELL, Virginia MORGAN, Dean A.O. MOSTAGHIAN, Ali MOTTRAM, Brian H. MOULTON, AlexanderEric MOUNT,TrevorJ. MUIR, Marjorie Doig E.3 J.62 H.127, H.129 D.81 A.160, A.220, D.110, E.26, E.27, F.425 J.45 A.87, A.182 H.70, J.55 B.320 B.159 A.182 B.343 J.45, J.53 MUIR-WOOD, Helen Marguerite B.9, B.53-B.57, B.93, B.154, J.21 MULLALY,H. Stephen MUNOZ,Robert R. E.32 A.120, A.149, A.160, A.231-A.233, F.1 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 273 Index of correspondents MURRELL,Stanley Arthur Frank E.29, E.136, E.175 NABEG, Ali I. NAIRN, Alan Eben Mackenzie NAPIER, Elizabeth NASU, Noriyuki NATIONAL ADVISORY BODY FOR PUBLIC SECTOR HIGHER EDUCATION NATIONAL COAL BOARD B.324 D.66, J.61 B.168 C.39 J.64 B.136, B.496, J.50 NATIONAL STONE CENTRE J.64 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM NATURE C.39, C.64, C.76, E.1-E.196, F.155, F.156 See BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) A.63, B.279, B.470, D.89, E.25, E.28, E.30, E.35 NATURE CONSERVANCY(COUNCIL) B.11, F.319-F.323, J.57, J.64 NEALE, John William NEAVE, Airey Middleton Sheffield NESBIT, Roy Conyers NEVES, Roger NICHOLSON, Sir Robin (Buchanan) NICOLAYSEN, Louis O. NIEUWENHUIS, H.K. A.140, A.183, B.174, F.355, F.419, F.422, F.427, J.60 E.34 D.74 E.25, E.26 F.150 J.57 J.36 NOBLE, Sir (Thomas Alexander) Fraser A.153, A.160, A.171, J.53 NOLAN, ThomasB. NORTH, F.K. NORTH NOTTS. MINING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NORTHWOOD, David H.32 A.140, F.76 D.122 D.119 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 274 Index of correspondents NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL A.233-A.235 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE A.183, F.324-F.328 CONSERVATION NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY NUFFIELD FOUNDATION OAKLEY, Kenneth P. OASTLER, Robert O'BRIEN, C.A.E. (‘Tim’) O'BRIEN, Peter Noel Somerville OGILVIE, William Paul O'HALLORAN, Dick O'HARA,Michael John OIL AND GAS JOURNAL D.116 F.192 A.85, A.120 J.63 A.160, J.49 B.325 D.104 B.408 J.76 H.50 OLD WEST BRIDGFORDIANS ASSOCIATION A.246-A.248 OPDYKE, Neil D. OPEN EARTH OPEN UNIVERSITY ORBELL,Gerald ORR, David OSBORNE, Noel OWEN, H.G. OWEN, Archdeacon W.E. OWENS, Bernard OXBURGH, Ernest Ronald OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OYAWOYE, M.O. PAKENHAM, R. Hercules W. F.249 D.90 F.329, F.330, J.70 J.46 G.19, J.63 B.408 E.30, E.34, J.51, J.62 A.57, A.59, A.60, A.65 H.70 B.343, F.353 D.91 H.37 J.22 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 275 Index of correspondents PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PAPUA AND NEW GUINEASCIENTIFIC SOCIETY PARROTT,Sir Cecil (Cuthbert) PARSONS, Colin F. PARSONS, E. PATON, Sir (Thomas) Angus(Lyell) PATTINSON, J.M. PEARSON, David A.B. PEARSON, S.G.B. PEDDER, Alan Edwin Hardy PENN, lan E. PENNELL, Montague Mattinson F.331 F.332 H.35 A.85, J.53, J.54 A.65 E.35 A.136, A.141, A.160 F.94, F.95, J.43 F.71 J.72 J.64 A.160, A.164, F.3, F.74, G.2, G.14, H.69, J.51 See also D.67-D.71 PENNY, Lewis Frederick A.183, A.221, F.70, F.420, F.421 PERGAMONPRESSLIMITED PERRIN, Robert M.S. PERUTZ, Max Ferdinand PESL, Vaclav D.92 J.50 E.33 H.32 PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SOCIETY OF F.91, F.175, F.333-F.340, H.31 GREATBRITAIN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SOCIETY OF LIBYA PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SOCIETY OF NEW YORK PETTIJOHN, Francis John PILE, Sir William (Dennis) PILLINGER, Colin T. PINFOLD, Ernest S. PITCHER, Wallace Spencer D.107 H.64 E.35 A.160, A.221, E.23 J.61 A.136, J.38 A.160, A.221, F.73, F.75, F.100, F.127, J.33, J.75 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 276 Index of correspondents PLAYER, Ronald Allen PLENUM PUBLISHING COMPANY J.72 D.66 PONSFORD, David Ronald Arthur E.26, J.46, J.47 PORTER, George, Baron PORTER, Jack W. PORTER, Jim H. PORTURAS, F. POWELL, David F. POWYS-LYBBE, Ursula PRENTICE, John Edward PRENTICE, Reginald Ernest PRINGLE, John PRUETT,Frank D. PUGH, Sir William (John) QUENNELL, A.M. RADFORTH, Norman W. RALEIGH, Barry RAMASWAMY, G. RAMSBOTTOM, William Hubert Craven A.237, E.31, E.32, E.35, F.342, F.392, F.402-F.404 H.116, H.117 H.50 J.61 H.117 A.244 A.160, E.30, F.27, F.355 E.31 B.93 B.314, J.54 A.136, A.141, A.152, J.38 J.41, J.58 J.39, J.40 A.183, F.250-F.252 J.62 F.82 RANGER OIL (CANADA) LIMITED A.179, G.34, G.43, G.44 RASTALL, Robert Heron RAWSON, Peter Franklin RAWSTRON, Eric Mitchell RAYMOND, L.R. J.36 A.183, D.42, D.54, D.62, D.93, E.29, F.83, F.110, F.425, H.18, J.23, J.76 B.138 B.29, B.168 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 RAYNER, Dorothy H. RAZANI, A. REA, W.John READ,William Alfred REED, William REES, AnthonyI. REEVES, Rev.Joseph Wilfred REID, William Kenneth RICHARDSON, F.D.S. RICHARDSON, L. RICHARDSON, W. Alfred RICHARDSON, W. Norman B. RICKWOOD, Frank K. RIDD, Michael F. RIDE, W.David L. RIO TINTO ZINC CORPORATION ROBERTS, Ken H. ROBIN, Gordon de Quetteville ROBINSON, David N. Index of correspondents 277 A.141, A.160, A.183, B.10, B.167, D.38, D.104, D.105, F.423, F.424, F.426, J.24 E.25 F.114 E.102, £.115, E.131 C.5 E.12 J.49 A.160, F.10 B.35, B.93, B.230, B.234, B.269, J.38 B.53, B.54, B.57, D.13, D.24 A.130 A.173 A.147, A.160, G.16, G.17, G.22, J.25 A.147, F.94, J.76 F.198, F.211-F.215, F.222, F.223 F.176, F.177 A.141, H.62, J.26 E.24, E.25 A.183, B.113, D.26, D.31, D.54, E.24, E.27, F.269-F.274, F.277, F.278, J.23 ROBINSON, Pamela Lamplugh A.160, F.95, F.97, F.98 ROCHESTER, Foster Charles Lowry Lamb, 2nd Baron ROEBUCK, A. ROLFE, W.D. lan J.74 A.230 D.128 Index of correspondents 278 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 ROOKE, Sir Denis Eric ROOP, Michael R. ROWNTREE, Sir Norman (Andrew Forster) ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND ROYAL AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION A.141, A.160, H.69, J.42, J.46, J.47 H.55 E.33 A.252 G.266 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY A.64, A.160, D.7 ROYAL INSTITUTION ROYAL SOCIETY A.183, F.341-F.344, F.392, F.393, F.402-F.404 A.183, A.236, A.237, B.500, C.75, C.76, D.71, E.23-E.25, E.27, E.29- E.31, F.176, F.188-F.196, F.206, F.207, F.211-F.213, F.215, F.218, F.345-F.389, H.32, H.33, H.35- H.37, H.69, H.88, H.96, H.113, H.116, H.117, H.119 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS E.34, F.390, H.115 RUNCORN, Stanley Keith RUSHCLIFFE BOROUGH COUNCIL RUSHCLIFFE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION RUSSELL, MichaelJ. SABINE, Peter Aubrey SAGA PETROLEUM COMPANY SAHAY, Bhagwan SAIDI, A.M. SALAuJ, Josef SANDFORD, R.W. SANFORD, Robert M. SAPUNOV, Ivor SAVAGE, Robert Joseph Gay E.28, F.347 A.232-A.235 A.251 J.57, J.63 A.141, A.149, A.161, A.164, D.64, E.25, E.26, E.29, F.145, F.146, F.350, H.35, H.37, J.62 G.36 J.27 H.117 H.32, H.33 C.117, 0.118 J.49 B.112, F.140 J.37 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 279 Index of correspondents SAYER, Ann SCHIMANSKY,Louis F. SCHMIDT, Ruth A.M. SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL SCOTPET LIMITED SEAWARD, Mark Richard David SEIBOLD, Eugen SELLEY, Richard Curtis SENIOR, John R. J.48 A.120, A.135 H.36 E.35 G.27, G.28 F.266, F.267 F.229, F.231, F.237, J.62, J.63, J.65 J.70 J.28 SERPELL,Sir David Radford E.34, E.35, G.200 SETUDEHNIA,A. SEYFERT,Carl SEYMOUR, MichaelD. SHELL UK SHILLITO, C.J.B. SHIPMAN, RossL. SHOTTON, Frederick William SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE SIMON, LouisJ. SIMPSON, E.S.W. SKEET, Sir Trevor (Herbert Harry) SKEMPTON, Alec Westley SLATER, JamesA. SLEDGER, C.W.A. B.343 J.64 F.337 G.230, G.249 J.35 H.125 A.136, A.141, A.152, A.161, A.174, A.231, B.57, B.137-B.139, F.88, F.90, F.91, F.104, F.108, F.110, F.351, J.29 See also F.74, J.33 A.249 H.64 C.117, C.118, J.49 D.96 E.27 F.200, F.201 B.37, J.41, J.42 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 280 Index of correspondents SMITH, Alec James SMITH, Denys Barker SMITH, E. Gordon SMITH, Sir (James) Eric SMITH, Jeremy David Douglas SMITH, Walter Campbell E.26, F.74, F.75, F.175, H.131, J.38 E.192, F.82, F.107, F.425 B.174, D.55, D.56, F.100 E.28, E.29 F.224, F.346 A.58-A.60, A.62, A.64, A.136 SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON E.35 SOUTHWOOD, Sir (Thomas) Richard (Edmund) SPAGHT, E. Monroe SPATH, Leonard Frank SPEERS, G.C. SPENCER, Anthony Mansell SQUIRES, S.H. STACEY, AndrewP. STANTON, R.L. STANTON IRONWORKS COMPANYLIMITED STEEL, Sir David (Edward Charles) A.235, F.209,F.216, F.217 A.108, A.149, A.161 B.9, B.53, B.56,J.34, J.35 J.44 B.109, J.59, J.64 A73 D.112 J.79 B.53 A.141, A.144, A.149, A.161, A.183, A.230, G.17 STEPHEN, Jim H. G.191, G.194-G.196 STEWART,Sir Frederick (Henry) STOCKES, K.R. STOCKLIN, Jovan STOCKWELL, G.G. STONELEY, Robert STOREY, M.W. STOW, Dorrik Andrew Vincent A.141, A.152, A.164, E.16, E.25, E.31, E.32, £.34, E.35 A.77 B.281, B.342, B.343, D.45 A.149, A.161, J.60 A.147, A.161, A.183, A.235, B.161, F.71, H.117, H.130, J.60, J.65 B.281 C.63, E.169, E.175 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 STRACHAN, Isles STRAND, J.A. STRAW,Allan STRIDE, Arthur Harold Barton STRONG, M.W. STRONTIAN MINERALSLIMITED STUBBLEFIELD, Sir (Cyril) James STUBBS, G.M. SUGDEN, Theodore Morris SUPKO, PeterR. SUTHERLAND, Diana S. SUTTON, John SWARTZ,Frank M. SWINNERTON, Henry Hurd SWINNERTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY) SYKES, J.H. SYKES, Stuart Vernon(‘Bill’) SYLVESTER-BRADLEY, Peter Colley Index of correspondents 281 A.174, D.63 B.461 B.57, F.266, F.271, F.419, J.46 F.72, J.53 J.30 G.246-G.264 A.161, B.36, B.270, B.342, E.35, F.334, F.351, J.35, J.36, J.38, J.62 B.288 H.119 C.117 D.64 E.33, F.242 A.135 A.61, A.74, A.130, A.134, A.195, B.9, B.10, B.56, B.93, J.31 D.24, D.131 B.32, E.26, F.26, J.45, J.46, J.65 B.309, B.314, B.343, B.344, H.50, J.50 B.30, B.38, B.342, B.496, D.24, D.33, F.255-F.260, F.262, F.263, F.351, J.32, J.72, J.73 See also F.264 SYLVESTER-BRADLEY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY D.131 (LEICESTER UNIVERSITY) TABORIN, Jean TAITT, Alfred Harold J.50 A.109, A.131, A.141, B.9, B.24, B.93, B.152, J.35, J.65 TAITT, E.A. J.48 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 282 Index of correspondents TALBOT,Chris J. TALWANI, Manik TARLING, Donald H. TAYLOR, Frank Mervyn TAYLOR, John C.M. TAYLOR, James Haward TAYLOR, Vern L. TCHOUMATCHENCO, Platon TEALE, Sir Edmund Oswald B.281, B.288, J.49, J.71 F.248, F.249 D.41, E.28, H.57, J.50, J.63 B.11, F.24-F.27, F.29, F.30, F.85, F.94, F.105, F.110, J.43, J.62, J.64, J.73 H.112 B.55 B.310, B.314 J.49 A.60, A.65, A.81, B.93 THATCHER, Margaret Hilda, Baroness A.161, A.164, E.16, E.25, F.152 THOMAS, Alwyne Nicholson THOMAS, David I. THOMAS, F.C. THOMAS, H. Dighton THOMAS, Richard THOMPSON, David Barnard THOMPSON, Sir Harold (Warris) THURRELL, Reginald C. THE TIMES TINSLEY, ThomasWilliam TOKARSKI, A. TORRENS, Hugh S. TOTTENHAM-SMITH, R. Norman TREVOR, Jack Carrick TREWAVAS, Ethelwynn A.161, A.184, B.266, B.269, B.309, B.359, B.461, G.14, J.40, J.41, J.49 See also A.144-A.149 E.27 B.340 B.29, B.56, B.164, J.35 J.63 E.26, J.50, J.51 H.33 J.65 C.74, D.94-D.97, E.25, E.31, F.148, H.32 E.33 J.51 A.231, J.53 J.41 A.130 A.61, A.63 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 TRICENTROL PLC TRIMBLE, GeorgeE. Index of correspondents F.212 B.309 283 TRUEMAN, Sir Arthur (Elijah) A.136, B.8, B.93, J.34 TRUMPY,Daniel Rudolf TWINN, PeterF.G. TYRRELL,Henry John Valentine ULSTER MUSEUM UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION (UNESCO) UNITED STEEL COMPANIESLIMITED J.58 C.25 F.344 F.391 E.23 B.86 VALLIER, TracyL. VAN DER LINDEN, Willem J.M. VARKER, William John VASS, Dionyz VERNON, Kenneth VERSEY, Henry Cherry VINCENT, Ewart Albert (‘David’) VINE, Frederick John WADE, D. WAGER, Lawrence Rickard WALCOTT, R.1. WALKER III, Edward B. WALLACE, A.J. WALLACE, Peigi WALLS,Robin WALMSLEY, Peter James C.117, C.118, J.50 J.55 J.50 H.32, H.34 J.50 D.39, E.29, F.421, J.42 A.141, A.184, B.343 A.233 B.314 B.341 E.31, E.35, F.245 E.25, H.69, J.49 F.71 E.131, J.60 A.184, B.279 A.161, A.184, A.221, F.73, G.228, J.50, J.51, J.60, J.75 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 284 Index of correspondents WALSH, John D. WALSH, PeterT. WALTERS,Sir Peter (Ingram) WALTERS, R. WALTERS, Stuart Max WANSBROUGH-JONES, Sir Owen (Haddon) WARMAN, Harry Robert WARREN, Peter Tolman WARRINGTON, Geoffrey G.266, H.127, J.49 B.139, J.45-J.47 A.235 B.395, J.42 E.29 E.29, E.35 B.278, B.291, B.340-B.344, B.501, B.502, E.32, F.3, J.50 See also A.144-A.149 A.178, A.183, B.501 D.39, E.192, F.91, F.93, F.99, F.107-F.111, J.44, J.49 WARWICK, Gordon Thomas B.137 WATT COMMITTEE ON ENERGYLIMITED F.392-F.410 WAYLAND, Edward James WEBB, John Stuart WEGMANN, Rudi WELLCOME TRUST WELLS, Maurice Kingsley WEST,Richard Gilbert WESTBROOK, Graham K. WESTOLL, ThomasStanley WESTON, Irene WHITAKER, John H.McD. WHITE, Errol Ivor WHITE, E.J. WHITE, Stanhope(‘Sam’) WHITMARSH, Robert B. A.57, A.58, A.65, A.78, A.81 A.221, D.54, E.29, E.32, E.35 B.320, B.327 F.192, F.206 A.184, F.143 A.221, J.47 B.174 A.136, A.141, E.35, F.74, F.128 E.34 B.342, F.263, F.352 B.8, J.4 B.254, B.266, B.269 A.58, A.141 H.66 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 WHITTAKER, Alf WHITTAKER, John WHITTAKER, R.G. WHITTARD,Walter Frederick WHITTEN, E.H.T. WHITTINGTON, Harry Blackmore WHITWORTH, Thomas WICKLUND, Jim WIGAN AND DISTRICT GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY WILLIAMS, Sir Alwyn WILLIAMS, Carol A. WILLIAMS, David WILLIAMS, E.C. WILLIAMS, J.C. WILLIAMS, J.J. WILLIAMS, Lou WILLIAMS, Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain WILLS, Leonard Johnston WILSON, Hugh WILSON, H.H. WILSON, John Tuzo WILSON, Richard M.S. Index of correspondents 285 A.184, D.73, J.64 J.37 F.140 A.53 B.342 A.184, D.127, E.30, F.218, F.352, F.355, H.36, J.78 J.37 J.62 D.122 A.152, A.234, E.33, E.35, F.154, F.351, J.64 H.116, H.117, H.119 A.141, F.128 E.25, E.26, E.29 J.36 H.76 A.64 E.37 A.135, A.136, A.141, A.149, A.161, B.138, F.73, F.74, F.93, H.76, J.33 See also A.231, D.77, F.352 J.58 J.49 F.242-F.244 G.231 WILSON, Richard Christopher Lane E.24, E.30, E.32, F.329, H.70 WILSON, Vernon A.136, B.9, B.43, B.69, F.419, J.36, J.41, J.44 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 286 Index of correspondents WINDLE, T.M.F. WOLFSON FOUNDATION WOOD, GeorgeVincent WOOD,John E.R. WOODHEAD, Michael P. WOODLAND, Austin William WOODLAND TRUST WOOLLEY, A.R. WORF,Hans WORLD CULTURAL COUNCIL WORLDOIL WORSSAM, Bernard Charles WORTHINGTON, Edgar Barton WORTLEY, H.A.S. WRIGHT, Anthony David WRIGHT,C.W. WRIGHT,John E. J.53 A.234 C.5, D.129 A.161, B.143 J.47 B.112, B.176, D.104, E.34, E.35, E.93, F.26, F.103, F.145, H.111, H.112, J.43, J.44, J.46, J.54 A.252 B.310, J.50 B.343 F.411-F.417 D.93 J.60 A.61 A.133 J.59 B.342, F.196 D.58, E.37, F.40, F.41, F.58, F.59, J.53, J.61 WYNNE-EDWARDS, Vero Copner F.119, F.201 YOCHELSON, Ellis L. YORKE, Courtenay YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY YORKSHIRE MUSEUM YOUELL,Ronald Frederick YULE, A.B. F.203, F.213, F.215-F.217, F.221 B.138, B.139 A.141, A.161, A.165, A.184, B.35, B.167, D.31, D.93, D.104, D.105, E.35, F.418-F.427, H.95, H.140, J.58 F.349, J.45 B.29 A.236 P. E. Kent NCUACS43/5/93 ZEHNDER, John O. ZIEGLER, Peter A. ZIMAN, John Michael ZUNDEL,J. Index of correspondents 287 A.161, A.237, H.62, J.62 J.58 E.26 B.314