Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Stanley Keith Runcorn FRS (1922-1995) VOLUME III Section H: Visits and conferences Section J: Correspondence Index of correspondents by Timothy E. Powell and Caroline Thibeaud NCUACS catalogue no. 104/3/02 S.K. Runcorn 215 NCUACS 104/3/02 SECTION H VISITS AND CONFERENCES H.1-H.897 From the 1950s to his death, Runcorn made a very great number of visits abroad, mainly to the USA but also to the continent of Europe and a few to Australia, Asia etc. It is sometimes difficult to keep an exact track of his whereabouts given his peripatetic lifestyle and it is not always clear whether planned visits did indeed always take place. Although his visits to the United States generally were in connection with specific conferences or meetings - he was a regular attender at Lunar and Planetary Science conferences in Houston, Texas and American Geophysical Union meetings, for example - he very often also took the opportunity to visit colleagues and deliver lectures at other research centres and there may be voluminous correspondence relating to such more informal visits. There is also material relating to meetings within the UK. There is good documentation of Runcorn's attendance at Royal Astronomical Socjety and Royal Society discussion meetings, and of his work promoting, organising and contributing to NATO Advanced Study Institutes held at Newcastle. Not all of Runcorn's visits are recorded, even in this very large section. Many meetings in connection with the international and European geophysics and planetary science organisations with which he was associated are documented in section G, Societies and organisations. S.K. Runcorn 216 NCUACS 104/3/02 Visits and conferences H.1, H.2 Visit to the USA and Mexico, 1 June - 25 September 1956 Runcorn visited colleagues at many universities and research institutions on the west coast and in the south west of the United States. In Mexico he attended the International Geological Congress where he delivered a lecture titled 'Geological aspects of rock magnetism.' Correspondence mainly between Runcorn and his secretary re current and future arrangements in the USA and in the UK, 1956. H.3, H.4 Visit to the USA, 10 December 1956 - January 1957 Runcorn visited the University of Texas in Austin where he gave ten lectures on geomagnetism as Visiting Professor of Physics. At Pennsylvania State University he lectured to the Mineral Industries Colloquium. He also visited colleagues in California. H.3 Correspondence re arrangements, HA Chapter outline of the 'Earth magnetism' lecture. H.5 International Geophysical Year event, 28-30 June 1957 Information only. H.6 Visit to the USA and Canada, June - September 1957 Runcorn visited the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona and attended the 11th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Toronto. Correspondence re arrangements, research, publication and students. H.7 Visit to the USA, July - September 1958 Runcorn visited colleagues in Pennsylvania, the Museum of Northern Arizona, the La Habra Laboratory of the California Research Corporation, Bellaire, Texas, and the Ohio Oil Company, Littleton, Colorado. Correspondence re arrangements and scientific matters (mainly rock collection). S.K. Runcorn 217 NCUACS 104/3/02 Visits and conferences H.8 Visit to the USA, June - September 1959 Runcorn visited colleagues in many universities and research institutions in the South West, California, Texas and Pennsylvania and Canada. He gave a talk at the Humble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, Texas. Correspondence re arrangements and rock shipping to the UK. H.9 Visit to the USA, 15-20 April 1960 Runcorn visited the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and lectured on 'Rock magnetism, polar wandering and continental drift'. He also attended the Society of Economic Palaeontologists and Mineralogists 34th Annual meeting at Atlantic City, at which he spoke on 'Inferences from palaeomagnetic data'. He visited colleagues at many other universities and research institutions in the US. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, H.10 Visit to Sierra Leone, 11-20 May 1960 Runcorn visited Fourah Bay College. Correspondence re expenses, 1960. H.11, H.12 Visit to the USA, August - September 1960 Runcorn visited colleagues at many universities and research institutions in Oklahoma, New Jersey, the south west and Utah. H.11 Correspondence re arrangements and shipping of rock samples to the UK. H.12 Rock shipping receipt and travel expenses invoices. S.K. Runcorn 218 NCUACS 104/3/02 Visits and conferences H.13, H.14 Visit to the USA, June - October 1961 Runcorn was a temporary researcher at the California Institute of Technology. He gave a lecture at the University of California on continental drift and visited colleagues at other universities and research institutions in the south west and Ohio. Correspondence re arrangements, research and rock collection. H.1S, H.16 Visit to the USA and Canada, December 1961 - January 1962 Runcorn visited the University of British Columbia, Canada and universities and research institutions in the US. He gave talks at the First Western National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union titled 'Convection theory of continental drift' and 'Palaeomagnetic measurement in the USA'. He also lectured on palaeomagnetism at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Correspondence re arrangements. 2 folders. H.17-H.2S Visit to the USA, April- September 1962 Runcorn went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California as a Visiting Scientist. He attended the American Geophysical Union Meeting in Washington D.C. (25-27 April), gave a talk at MIT and at the Woods Hole Conference on Nuclear Geophysics. He also visited colleagues at other universities and research institutions in the south west, Texas, California and on the east coast. H.17-H.23 Correspondence and papers re arrangements, scientific research and publications, students and university placements, November 1961 ­ February 1963. 7 folders. H.19 includes a typescript of Runcorn's paper 'Convection and thermal histories of the Earth and Moon' delivered at the Woods Hole conference. H.20 includes a typescript of Runcorn's paper 'Convection currents in the Earth's Mantle'. S.K. Runcorn 219 NCUACS 104/3/02 Visits and conferences H.24, H.2S Miscellaneous material. Includes Runcorn's draft correspondence (which has been crossed out) addressed to his (?) secretary, list of those attending National Science Foundation Conference on Lunar Exploration and copy of Runcorn's paper from Nature, 'Convection in the Moon'. 2 folders. H.26 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Palaeoclimates, King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, 7-12 January 1963 Provisional programme and typescript of Runcorn and A.E Nairn's collaborative paper entitled 'Palaeoclimates'. H.27, H.28 Visit to Australia and the USA, April - June 1963 Runcorn visited the Australian National University in Canberra, and the Universities of Melbourne, Monash and Perth. Lectures included The theory of the Earth's magnetic field' to the Physical Society in Brisbane and 'Possible mechanisms for continental drift' to the Geological Society of Australia in Canberra. En route to Australia he attended the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington D.C. 17-18 April. Correspondence re arrangements, Also includes a draft programme of the trip. June 1962-May 1963. 2 folders H.29, H.30 American Geophysical Union meeting, Washington D.C., April 1963 and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 16-20 June 1963 Runcorn gave lectures at the AGU Meeting on 'Convection currents and continental drift' and 'Convection and the thermal histories of the inner Planets', and at the AIAA meeting on 'The interior of the Moon'. H.29 Correspondence re arrangements. H.30 Programme of the AIAA meeting and abstract of Runcorn's paper 'The interior of the Moon'. S.K. Runcorn 220 NCUACS 104/3/02 Visits and conferences H.31, H.32 Visit to the USA, August - September 1963 Runcorn returned to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to resume research on the lunar convection hypothesis. He also attended a conference on Artificial Satellites at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (12-16 August 1963) and possibly the Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics at 8erkeley California (21-24 August 1963). He may also have attended a meeting in September at the University of Pittsburgh. H.31 Correspondence re arrangements, H.32 Conference programmes and a typescript of paper by Runcorn 'The interrelation of paleomagnetism and paleoclimatology'. H.33, H.34 Scientific Conference of the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 24-28 September 1963 Runcorn visited colleagues and gave a paper on palaeomagnetism. H.33 Correspondence re arrangements, H.34 Programme. H.35 3rd Western National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boulder, Colorado, 26-28 December 1963 Runcorn gave a lecture titled 'Satellite Gravity Observations and Convection in the Mantle'. Correspondence and programme, typescript of Chi.V. Wang's paper 'On the distribution of surface heat flows and the second order variations in the Earth's gravity field'. H.36 Visit to the USA, 19-24 January 1964 Runcorn visited colleagues in Pennsylvania and California and gave lectures. Correspondence re arrangements. S.K. Runcorn 221 NCUACS 104/3/02 Visits and conferences H.37-H.42 NATO Advanced Studies Institute on Procedures in Palaeomagnetism, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1-10 April 1964. Runcorn was one of the organisers of the meeting. Following the conference he was involved in the publication of the proceedings, titled Methods of Palaeomagnetism. H.37-HAO Correspondence re arrangements, November 1964 - April 1970. 4 folders HA1 Provisional programme, list of participants, etc. HA2 Agreement for publication of Methods in Palaeomagnetism, chapter outlines, review of the book. H.43 American Geophysical Union Meeting, Washington D.C., 20 April-11 May 1964 In addition to attending this conference, Runcorn also visited colleagues at various universities and research institutions in Colorado, Texas and California.