The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
provided needed moral support. I am equally indebted to
Professor Barry Commoner, of Washington University, who
not only read the manuscript to suggest improvements of
content and style, but also helped me in the preparation of
special articles for publication in the technical journals. Mr.
Norman A. Jacobs, editor of the Yale Scientific Magazine,
published
the first of these articles.
During the last year I have received enormous assistance
from Mr. Ivan T. Sanderson, who, as a biologist, has read the
manuscript with a critical eye for misuse of technical vocabulary
and for weaknesses in I
presentation. have received invaluable
help from Professor J. C. Brice, of Washington
University, who has criticized the whole manuscript from a
geological standpoint. I am deeply indebted to my aunt, Mrs.
Norman Hapgood, for the first complete translation from the
Russian of the report of the Imperial Academy of Sciences
on the stomach contents of the Beresovka Mammoth, to Mrs.
Use Politzer for the translation from the German of Ein-
stein's letter of May 3, 1953, and to Mrs. Maely Dufty for
assistance with the translation of his Foreword into English.
To many personal friends, in addition to those mentioned, I
owe thanks for encouragement and for suggestions that often
turned out to have major importance. I am indebted to John
Langley Howard for his assistance with the illustration of
this book, to Mr. Coburn Gilman, my editor, for his innum-
erable constructive suggestions and his understanding spirit,
to Mr. Stanley Abrons for his painstaking work in preparing
the Glossary, and to Mr. Walter Breen for preparing the Index.
In the final typing of the manuscript Miss Eileen Sullivan
has had to encounter and survive difficulties and frustrations
that only she and I can have an idea of. I am very gateful for
her help.
Grateful thanks are extended to all publishers and individ-
uals who have consented to the use of selections or illustra-
tions, and in particular to the following:
Columbia University Press, for quotations from George Gay-