the Department of Geology from 1968 to 1977 and also built up an extensive personal library. He regularly worked 14 hours a day or more. Awards Wollaston Fund, Geological Society. 1956. Founder's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for Arctic exploration and research 1968. Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London. 1976. Polar medal – Arctic to 1977 for geological exploration of Spitzbergen. 1979. Collections and Archives Some 60,000 specimens of rocks, fossils and core samples collected during the Cambridge Svalbard period are now in the care of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. These include igneous and metamorphic rocks as well as structural, geochemical, geophysical and subsurface samples. Fossils were also collected during the expeditions along with the rock not only for taxonomy but for their environmental significance and tectonic importance. The records of the Cambridge Svalbard Exploration Collection (ref. CSEC) are also at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The collection contains accounting records, administration files, expedition notes, and equipment records which all relate to work undertaken in Svalbard from 1949 until 1992. Much of this material includes far more information than has been previously published about the expeditions or the work undertaken. Most of the expedition records are organized on the twinlock filing system – and include administrative papers, logs of each party, bulletins, accounts, as well as specimen, station, negative, and photograph catalogues, and copies of field notes. Individual field notebooks include diary entries, observations, details of specimens, and sketches. These were written and maintained by each individual and later amalgamated by Brian after each expedition (and its subsequent research) was completed. The collection also includes glass plate photographs, miscellaneous tapes, photograph albums, offprints of articles, maps and plans, index cards & notes (specimen catalogues), curation reports (1990s), and some objects. There are also a series of records (reports) of the Norsk-Cambridge Svalbard Expeditions (NCSE) and Cambridge Archive Shelf Programme (CASP). A collection-level description is available on the Archives Hub References External links Geological Society of London. Obituaries. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Harland (Walter) Brian 1917-2003, Geologist, by Peter Friend The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences 1917 births 2003 deaths 20th-century British geologists British conscientious objectors Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge People from Scarborough, North Yorkshire People educated at Bootham School People of the Scott Polar Research Institute Lyell Medal winners