Kevin Karney wrote:

 Dennis,

 Your nearest port of call would be the
 geology department at the Sedgwick museum
 in Cambridge...

Many readers will find this a little puzzling
given that Dennis lives but a stone's throw
from The Cockburn Geological Museum at the
University of Edinburgh whereas Cambridge is
over 300 miles further away.

The clue lies in the sign-off...

 Kevoin

The superfluous "o" indicates that he was
using a stereographic projection and, by
assumption, Edinburgh was the pole of the
projection.

Frank


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