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This brief obituary notice marked the sudden passing of Guy Stewart Callendar. Letters of condolence from Callendar’s scientific correspondents arrived within a fortnight. The Glaciological Society conveyed its official sentiments.
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West Sussex County Times (9 October 1964), p. 24, column 1. See also Certified Copy of an Entry of Death, Guy Stewart Callendar, 3 October 1964, General Register Office, England. Document ordered through Family Records Centre, London.
CP 8, Folder 1, R.C. Thrush to Phyllis, 21 October 1964.
CP 8, Folder 1, Gilbert Plass to Phyllis, 9 November 1964.
CP 8, Folder 1, Gordon Manley to Phyllis, 18 October 1964.
CP 8, Folder 1, Derik Schove to Phyllis, 12 October 1964.
CP 8, Folder 5, Red Notebook.
CP 1, Callendar_n.d._charts_oceanCO2
CP 1, Calledar_n.d._ms_CO2spectrum.
CP 8, Folder 1, W. Thompson to Anne, 12 December 1964. Thompson, a former colleague of Callendar, offered £15 15s for a calculator, set of mechanical drawing in-struments, micrometer caliper, vernier gauge, try and miter square with spirit level, and a small brass microscope. The complete list of instruments is in CP 8, Folder 5, Red Notebook, 13.
CP 8, Folder 1, Royal Society to Anne, 6 January 1965 and 11 January 1965.
CP 8, Folder 1, Anne to Schove, 11 December 1964.
”Bibliography” [of the writings of D. J. Schove], 2 p. typescript, 1985, copy in Wellcome Institute Library, London.
Machta (1919–2001) supported ongoing efforts, begun during the IGY, to mea-sure background carbon dioxide concentrations and developed NOAAs Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change network which monitors the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere; EOS (30 October 2001): 515.
CP 8, Folder 1, Lester Machta to P. Goldsmith, 30 March 1979; P. Goldsmith to Anne, 25 April and 8 May 1979.
CP 2, Notebook 1939-40-T1, Observations on the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Manuscript Notebook, dated “1939-40”, 136 p. CP 2 (with notebook). Dave Keeling to James Fleming, 9 February 2005. Keeling writes, “I also recall with plea-sure a visit to Justin Schove who found the notebook for me in a cardboard box of items in London.” See also Eric From and Charles D. Keeling, “Reassessment of late 19th century atmospheric carbon dioxide variations in the air of western Europe and the British Isles based on an unpublished analysis of contemporary air masses by G. S. Callendar,” Tellus, 38B (1986): 87–105.
CP 8, Folder 1, Schove to Anne, 29 January 1984.
CP 8, Folder 1, Anne to Schove, 5 February 1984.
CP 8, Folder 1, Schove to Archivist, 24 April 1984; C. Rawlins to Anne, 4 No-vember 1986; with reply 8 November 1986; Mary Dobson to Anne, 7 January 1987; Eric Harris to Anne, 2 February 1987; Harris to Anne, 27 February 1989.
CP 8, Folder 1, Tom Wigley to Anne, 3 March 1989.
CP 8, Folder 1, Phil Jones to James Fleming, 26 March 2002
The Papers of Guy Stewart Callendar, Digital Edition on DVD, edited, compiled, arranged, indexed, and scanned by James Rodger Fleming and Jason Thomas Fleming (Boston: American Meteorological Society, 2007). Considerable effort has been made to ensure that the organization of the eight boxes of Callendar Papers in the CRU Library match the digital files. Fleming was granted permission to quote, cite, reproduce, and otherwise use and disseminate the information and images from this collection by both the CRU (CP 8, Folder 1, Phil Jones to James Fleming, 14 March 2003) and Callendar’s daughter (CP 8, Folder 1, Bridget to James Fleming, 1 May 2003).
A. G. Gaydon, “Sir Alfred Egerton’s Scientific Work,” in Sir Alfred Egerton, F.R.S. 1886–1959, 198.
Taylor, Experiment in Co-operative Research, 92.
Gordon Manley, “Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Climatic Change,” Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 70 (1944): 197–219.
Harry Wexler, “Recent Progress in the Investigation of the Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere,” Symposium on Progress in Meteorological Research, 30th Anniversary Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, St. Louis, MO, January 4–6,1950, manuscript notes in Library of Congress, Harry Wexler Papers, Box 16, Folder Speeches and Lectures, 1950. Wexler returned to this theme in 1952: “The Radiation Balance of the Earth as a Factor in Climatic Change,” Symposium on Climatic Change, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, May 9–10, 1952. See idem. Folder Speeches and Lectures, 1952.
CP 8, Folder 1, Schove to Bridget, 6 December 1974.
CP 8, Folder 1, Ferren Maclntyre to Callendar, 5 July 1977.
Wigley, T. M. L., P. D. Jones, and P. M. Kelly, “Warm World Scenarios and the Detection of Climatic Change Induced by Radiatively Active Gases,” in SCOPE 29—The Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change, and Ecosystem, no date, but ca. 1985, http://www.icsu.scope.org/downloadpubs/scope29/chaptero6.html (21 April 2004); see also Jones, P.D., T. M. L. Wigley, and P. M. Kelly, “Variations in surface air temperature: Part 1, Northern Hemisphere 1881–1980” Mon. Wea. Rev., 110 (1982): 59-70.
CP 2, Notebook 1939-40-T1, Dave Keeling to James Fleming, 9 February 2005.
M. D. Handel and J. S. Risbey, “An Annotated Bibliography on the Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change,” Climatic Change, 21 (1992): 97–255.
Spencer Weart, “The Discovery of Global Warming,” http://www.physicist.org/history/climate/co2.htm (7 February 2006). This is based on Weart, “From the Nuclear Frying Pan into the Global Fire,” Bull. Atom. Sci, (June 1992): 19-27, which claims that Callendar’s work was obscure and no one really cared, and Weart, “Global Warming, Cold War, and the Evolution of Research Plans,” Hist. Stud. Phys. Sci., 27 (1997): 319-56, which emphasizes Callendar’s obscurity and amateur status.
Peter Brimblecombe and Ian Langford, “Guy Stewart Callendar and the Increase in Global Carbon Dioxide,” Air and Waste Management Association (1995): 95-WA74A.02.
Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change; CP 8, Folder 1, Bridget to James Fleming, 17 December 2002. Being “chuffed” is being generally happy with life, “English to American Dictionary,” http://english2american.com/dicti0nary/ c.html#chuffed (11 March 2006).
Bowen, Thin Ice, 96.
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