"A Plan for Reforming the Geologic Time Scale"

File — Box: 68, Folder: 11

Identifier: III

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series consists of articles, speeches, manuscripts, and study guides that Stokes wrote, as well as his general research files and bibliographic reference system. The drafts to Stokes' articles, speeches, poems, reports, or papers are located in boxes 65-70, while his full length manuscript drafts, many of which remain unpublished, are in boxes 71-82. There are several manuscripts with similar themes (and even duplicate chapters), as many of these are actually revisions of the same manuscript. All of his writings are arranged in alphabetical order by the title of the document. The research is divided into three groups of material. court documents that deal with scientific or religious cases (boxes 83-88), research on various subjects (boxes 89-98), and Stokes' bibliographic reference system (box 99). The court documents are not complete. In many of the cases, Stokes was only interested in a specific citation of a previous case. In addition, his handwritten notes on these documents seem to identify the individuals involved in each case, but further inspection will show that, at times, these notes only identify the individuals involved in the citation in which Stokes was interested. These court documents are in chronological order by case number. The subject research files are in alphabetical order by topic. These topics are in the original groupings assigned to them by Stokes, including academic freedom, biology, carbon dating, dinosaurs, erosion, fossils, geology, the Ice Age, meteorology, mineral resources, oceanography, outer space, religion, the Soviet Union and its dissolution, stratigraphy, and transcontinental drift theory. However, many of the notes in his research are unidentified typescripts, and could be early drafts of his books and articles. The bibliographic reference system is also in Stokes' original order.

Dates

1844-1996

Conditions Governing Access

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