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NATIONAL CATALOGUING UNIT FOR THE ARCHIVES OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENTISTS Supplementary catalogue of the papers and correspondenceof Lawrence Rickard Wager FRS (1904 - 1965) NCUACScatalogue no. 113/12/02 by Jeannine Alton and Peter Harper L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 Title: Compiled by: Jeannine Alton and Peter Harper Description level: Fonds Date of material: 1946-1963 Supplementary catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Lawrence Rickard Wager FRS (1904-1965), geologist NCUACScatalogue no. 113/12/02 © 2002 National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath Oxford University Museum of Natural History Extent of material: ca 30 items Reference code: GB 462 OUMNH Wager papers Depositedin: L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 The workof the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are madepossible by the support of the following societies and organisations: The Biochemical Society The British Computer Society TheBritish Crystallographic Association Rolls Royce ple The Royal Society Girton College, Cambridge TheInstitute of Physics The RAFHistorical Society The Royal Astronomical Society The Geological Society of London The Royal Academy of Engineering The Wellcome Trust The Royal Society of Chemistry St John's College Cambridge Trinity College Cambridge L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 NOT ALL THE MATERIALIN THIS COLLECTION MAY YET BE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: THE LIBRARIAN PARKS ROAD OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OXFORD OX1 3PW L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.134-A.143 SECTION E UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E.74-E.85 SECTION G LECTURES AND MEETINGS SECTION H PUBLICATIONS G.90, G.91 H.110 SECTION K REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS_ K.32-K.35 SECTION L CORRESPONDENCE L.95-L.99 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 GENERALINTRODUCTION PROVENANCE The papers were received from the Royal Society of London in March 2002. DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION The catalogue is a supplement to that compiled in 1999 (NCUACScatalogue no.84/5/99). The material is arranged in sections and numberedto follow the sequenceof the previous catalogue and should be usedin conjunction with it. The material, which is almost entirely correspondence, is presented in the order shownin thelist of contents. It covers the period 1951-1963. Section A, Biographical and personal, includesinvitations relating to academic, committee and public service, as well as little personal correspondence. Section K, References and recommendations, contains refereeing by Wager of papers for publication, and also some personal and academic references. Section L, Correspondence, is mainly shorter items on research and publications, requests for information and thelike. Thereis also an index of correspondents. Sections G, Lectures and meetings, and H, Publications, are very scanty. Section E, University of Oxford, is by far the major part of the supplement. It all relates to the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, and includes substantial files of correspondence from geologists and colleagues wishingto visit or work there, or to recruit from its students. OXFORD 2002 Jeannine Alton L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.134-A.143 A.134-A.139 CAREER AND APPOINTMENTS 1952-1961 Invitations to accept appointments, serve on public bodies,all declined by Wager. Chair of Geology, University of Adelaide, Australia. Civil Competition. Service Commission, Administrative Group Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR. Selection Committee for Geology, University of Karachi. A.140-A.143 PERSONAL University Grants Committee Assessor. Social and personalinvitations declined. Membership, New York Academyof Sciences. 1951-1961 Includes School Association, oil companies, academic institutions and laboratories. Replies to letters of congratulation sent by Wager. A.142, A.143 Shorter personal correspondence. Arctic Club, Leeds Grammar 1951-1962 1953-1962 1954, 1956 L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 Biographical and personal L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 SECTION E UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E.74-E.85 The material all relates to the Department of Geology and Mineralogy. E.74-E.76 on the correspondence General the Department, books and equipment, teaching methods and organisation, requests to usefacilities or services of of the possible analysed, identified or exchanged, theses. collaborative specimens Department, received, research running interest, projects of 1951-1962 1951-1955 Includesletters on the death of R.C. Spiller 1955-1958 Includes Wager's Department, to appear in Oxford Times. for an notes article about the 1952-1961 1959-1962 Recruitment and careers See also NCUACS 84/5/99, E.9. Arrangementsfor visits and interviews by oil companies, surveyors, universities, Colonial Service etc. repeatedvisits. Requests and arrangements to visit or work in the Department, by overseas and UK colleagues some on Arrangements for Department or elsewherein Oxford. lectures given by visitors 1951-1963 E.79-E.85 1951-1961 Lectures Visitors to the L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 University of Oxford Includes somescientific information on research topics, letters of thanks etc. Visits from book publishers are also included. See also NCUACS 84/5/99, E.8, L.94. 1951-1952 1953-1954 1955-1956 1957-1958 1959-1960 1962-1963 L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 SECTION G LECTURES AND MEETINGS Invitations to lecture, declined or deferred 1946, n.d. See also NCUACS84/5/99, G.89. Invitations to conferences and symposia, declined 1955-1962 L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 SECTION H PUBLICATIONS Invitations to write booksor articles, take part in television programmes, declined 1954-1960 See also NCUACS 84/5/99, H.99. L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 SECTION K REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS K.32-K.35 Comments on papers for publication, sent to Wager for comment 1954-1959 From Royal Society of Edinburgh, Nature, London, 1959. 1954, 1956 and K.33-K.35 Shorter referencesfor individuals and colleagues, visiting lecturers, grants and fellowships 1951-1961 1951-1955. 1957-1959. 1960-1961.. L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 SECTION L CORRESPONDENCE L.95-L.99 L.95-L.98 Shorter scientific correspondence. L.95 A.-E. Includes correspondence 1956 on the bequest to the Department of books and fossils under the will of W.J. Arkell. See NCUACS 102/1/02 (Catalogue of the papers and correspondenceof William Joscelyn Arkell), A.4, F.2. V.-W. Includes correspondence 1950-1952 on the Barker Index of Crystals. 1951-1963 Shorter correspondence on books and articles received, requests for information sent or received See also NCUACS84/5/99, L.92, L.93. L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS 113/12/02 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS ALLEN, Percival BARTH, Tom Frederick Weybye BARTHOLOME, Paul BAYZAND,Charles John BIRKENMAJER, K BLEANEY,Brebis BOWEN, Edmund John BOWLER, Christopher M.L. BRADLEY,Peter Colley Sylvester BROCH, Olaf Anton A.142 E79 A.142, E.84 E.74 E.84 E.76 E.80 E.81, E.82, K.34 E376 E.79 BROMEHEAD, Cyril Edward Nowill BROWN, Harrison A.142 E.83 E.80 A.142 See Lindemann COOPER, L.H.N. COTTON, C.A. CROMBIE,Alistair C. CHERWELL,1st Viscount E.76 E.79 E.78 DAVIDSON, Charles Findlay BULMAN, Oliver Meredith Boone BROTHERS, RaymondNicholas L.95 FAIRBRIDGE, Rhodes W. DOUGLAS, JamesArchibald DREVER, Harald Irving A.142 E.74 L.95 A.142 DUMMETT, Tony ELLSMORE, C.W. Index of correspondents L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 FEATHER, Norman FLETT, Martin T. FORD, Edmund Brisco FROST,Richard A. GILBERT, Edmund William GLUEKAUF, Eugen GRANT, Maurice Harold GRANTHAM, D.R. HALLIMOND, Arthur Francis HARLAND,Walter Brian HAWKES, Charles Francis Christopher K.32 E.76 E75 E.82 E.78 L.96 L.96 L.96 E.80, L.97 E.82, E.84 L.97 LACY, E.D. LOBJOIT, W.M. LOVERING, J.F. E.83, E.85 A.143 E.85 L.97 A.141 Es E.85 HAWKES, Leonard MANLEY,Gordon KENNEDY, William Quarrier LONSDALE, Kathleen, Dame LINDEMANN, Frederick Alexander, 1st Viscount A.136 MURRAY,Keith Anderson Hope, Baron MAWSON, Sir Douglas E.78 A.134 E.80 MOORE, Leslie Rowsell MYERS, J. NEWTH, D.R. A.139 Oy, L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 OAKLEY, Kenneth Page ODELL, Noel Ewart OFTEDAL, Ivar PHILLIPS, Frank Coles PORTER, Mary W. PUGH, William John QUODLING, F.M. RANDS,Claud Norris RICHEY, James Ernest ROBSON, Geoffrey Robert Index of correspondents E.84 E.83 E.84 See E.74 E.81, L.98 A.141 E.81 E.80 K.32 E.79, £82 RUTHERFORD, William RUTTEN, Martin G. K.32 B5/5)c./3 SOPER, J.R.P. SAHAMA,Th. G. SEAGER, A.F. SMITH, Joseph Victor E.74 E.80 A.141 A.143 E.78 SIMPSON, David Hope SMITH, Walter Campbell SIMON, Sir Francis Eugen E.74 STEWART,Sir Frederick Henry THORARINSSON, Sigurdur TYRRELL, George Walter TILLEY, Cecil Edgar L.97 E.81 E.78 A.141 A.143, E.79, E.82 STOTT,Richard W. E.74, E.81, E.84 L.R. Wager (Supplement) NCUACS113/12/02 Index of correspondents VICKERS, A.Eric J. WELLS,Maurice Kingsley WHITAKER, John H. McD. WHITE, E.G. WHITE,F.B. Howard WHITTARD,Walter Frederick (‘Whit’) WHITTEN, E.H. Timothy WINCHELL, Horace WOOD, Alan