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Doris and Arthur Holmes on the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland.
They spent every summer doing field work in Ireland, and it was
there that Doris developed her ideas on 'granitisation'.
have been victimized - with tendency to convert them into glorified clerks
or, more politely expressed, administrators. That nevertheless you con-
tinue to turn out fundamental results in research is a fact that keeps me
ever in mind of your great power as a leader in the New Geology!
In similar vein, Nier and Holmes frequently apologised to
each other, Nier often not replying to Holmes for up to a
year.
Arthur's health had never been very good since Mozambique,
and undoubtedly it was not improved by the winter of 1947, one
of the severest on record. The snow was so deep that people
walked along the tops of the hedges in areas where it could not
be cleared. Then temperatures plummeted to minus 16 degrees
centigrade and the country stayed frozen until March. Most
foodstu¬s were still being rationed in the aftermath of the war;
there was a transport strike and life became very strenuous as it
became almost impossible to get around. To cap it all the
rationing of coal was increased, so keeping warm was di~cult
