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Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar, Officer Reports
Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar, Officer Reports
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Harrison, W., 1955, The Board of Agriculture 1793-1822, University of London, Unpubl. M.A. Thesis.
Thompson, Susan J., A Chronology of Geological Thinking from Antiquity to 1899, 1988, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J. and London.
Gerald M. Friedman, Department of Geology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 11210, and Northeastern Science Foundation, Inc., affiliated with Brooklyn College, 15 Third Street, P.O. Box 746, Troy, NY 12181-0746.
Biernan, K.-R., 1987, Alexander von Humboldt, Aus meinem Leben: Autobiographische Bekänntnisse, Leipzig, Urania Verlag, 228 p.
Brown, Catherine L., Wheeler, James O., 1989, A bibliography of geographic thought, (Bibliographies and indexes in geology, 1), x + 520 p., indexes, New York: Greenwood Press.
Brown, Philip C., 1989, Never the twain shall meet: European land survey techniques in Tokugawa Japan: Chin. Sci., v. 9, p. 53-79.
Buchanan, Rex C., 1989, "To bring together, correlate, and preserve"-A history of the Kansas Geological Survey, 1864-1989 (Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, 227), 96 p., illus., notes, index, Lawrence: Kansas Geological Survey.
Burchfield, Joe D., 1975, 1990, Lord Kelvin and the age of the Earth, xviii + 260 p., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, $15.95.
Burkhardt, F., and Smith, S., eds., 1989, The correspondence of Charles Darwin (Volume 4 1847-1850), xxxvi + 711 p., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, £32.50.
Burton, J. M. C., 1989, The history of the British Meteorological Office to 1905, Ph.D. Thesis, Open Univ. (U.K.).
Carozzi, Albert V., and Newman, John K., 1990, Dialogic irony: an unusual manuscript of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure on mountain building: De Montium Origine (1774): Arch. Sci. Genève, v. 43, p. 235-263.
Cunningham, Frank, 1990, James David Forbes: pioneer Scottish glaciologist: Scottish Academic Press, 329 p., £27.50.
Dean, D. R., 1990, A bicentenary retrospective on Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852): Journal of Geological Education, v. 38, p. 434-445.
Ellenburger, François, 1989, Étude du terme révolution, Docum. Hist. Vocab. Sci., v. 9, p. 69-90.
Fierro, Alfred, 1983, La Société de Géographie, 1821-1946 (Hautes études mediévales et modernes, 52), 343 p., bibl., index, Genève: Droz.
Gale, A. S., and Cleevely, R. J., 1989, Arthur Rowe and the zones of the White Chalk of the English coast: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 100, p. 419-431.
Gibbard, P. L., 1989, The geomorphology of a part of the Middle Thames forty years on: a reappraisal of the work of F. Kenneth Hare: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 100, p. 481-503.
Gould, Stephen J., 1990, Everlasting legends: Natur. Hist., v. 99, n. 6, p. 12-17.
Gray, Murray, 1990, 150 years of British Quaternary research: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 101, p. 169-170.
Grosvenor, Gilbert M., 1988, A hundred years of the National Geographic Society: Geogr. J., v. 154, p. 87-92.
Hallam, A., 1989, W.D. Lang's research on the Lias of Dorset: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 100, p. 451-455.
Halstead, B., 1989, The "course of evolution" by Frank Rhodes: an appraisal: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 100, p. 521-528.
Harper, J. A., 1990, John F. Carll, Pennsylvania's prophet of the oil fields: Pennsylvania Geology, v. 21, n. 5, p. 8-12.
Headland, R. K., 1989, Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events (Studies in Polar research), viii + 730 p., bibl., index, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Herries Davies, G. L., Orme, Antony R., 1989, Two centuries of earth science, 1650-1850, Papers presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 3 November 1984, ix + 92 p., illus., bibl., Los Angeles: Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California.
Holland, C. H., 1989, Trueman's epibole: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 100, p. 457-460.
Huffman, George G., 1990, History of the School of Geology and Geophysics (at University of Oklahoma), Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Foundation.
Hugget, Richard, 1989, Cataclysms and earth history: the development of Diluvialism, Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 220 p.
Hugget, Richard, 1990, Catastrophism: Systems of earth history, viii + 246 p., illus., bibl., index, London: Arnold.
Jackson, P. Wyse, 1989, On rocks and bicycles: a bibliography of Grenville Arthur James Cole (1859-1924), fifth director of the Geological Survey of Ireland: Geological Survey of Ireland Bulletin, v. 4, p. 151-163.
Jarzembowski, E. A., 1989, A century of fossil insects: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 100, p. 433-449.
Keynes, R. D., 1988, Charles Darwin's Beagle diary, xxx + 464 p., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, £35, $59.50.
King, Hadden, 1989, The rocks speak: Essays in geology-some personal responses by a willing listener, Victoria, Australia: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 308 p., $78.00.
Koeman, C., 1988, Miscellanea cartographica: Contributions to the history of cartography, xi + 390 p., illus., notes, index, Utrecht: HES Publishers.
Levallois, Jean Jacques, 1988, Mésurer la terre: 300 ans de géodésie françhise de la toise du Châtelet au satellite, Avec la collaboration de Claude Boucher et al., 389 p., illus., Paris: Presses de l'École National des Ponts et Chaussées.
Lima-de-Faria, J., ed., 1990, Historical atlas of crystallography, with the collaboration of Martin J. Buerger, Jenny P. Glusker, Helen D. Megaw, Paul B. Moore, Marjorie Senechal, and William A. Wooster, x + 158 p., illus., notes, bibl., index, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic for the International Union of Crystallography.
Livingstone, D. H., 1987, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the culture of American science (History of American Science and Technology Series), xiv + 397 p., Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press.
Louis, Pierre, 1989, Geo- et les siens, Docum. Hist. Vocab. Sci., v. 9, p. 13-14.
Lyell, Charles (with a new introduction by Martin J. S. Rudwick), 1990, Principles of Geology, 574 p., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, hardcover-$39.95, softcover-$17.95.
Macarthur, C. W. P., 1990, Dr. Jean-François Berger of Geneva (1799-1833): from the travelling fund to the Wollaston Medal: Archives of Natural History, v. 17, p. 97-119.
Manning, T. G., 1988, U.S. Coastal Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office. A 19th-century rivalry in science and politics (History of American Science and Technology Series), xiv + 202 p., Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, $21.95.
Menning, Manfred, 1990, A synopsis of numerical time scale 1917-1986: Episodes, v. 12, p. 3-5.
Merriam, D. F., 1990, In the footsteps of R.C. Moore: an eastern Kansas Field Conference for Sigma Gamma Epsilon: The Compass, The Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, v. 67, p. 193-212.
Messeri, Peter, 1988, Age differences in the reception of new scientific theories: The case of plate tectonics theory, Soc. Stud. Sci., v. 18, p. 91-112.
Miller, Randall F., and Buhay, Diane N., 1990, Life and letters of George Frederick Matthew: Geologist and palaeontologist (Publications in Natural Science No. 8), vii + 89 p., Saint John, New Brunswick: New Brunswick Museum Publications, $3.00.
Mooney, James E., 1988, Maps, globes, atlases, and geographies through the year 1800: The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith cartographic collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine, foreword by Kenneth Nebenzahl, introduction by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, xx + 145 p., illus., index, Freeport, Maine, Privately printed.
Müller, D. W., McKenzie, J. A., and Weisser, H., 1991, Controversies in modern geology, London: Academic Press, 448 p.
Norton, Mary, 1990, The discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia: Geotimes, v. 35, p. 16-19.
Oldroyd, David R., 1990, The Highlands controversy. Constructing geological knowledge through fieldwork in nineteenth-century Britain, 528 p., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, hardcover-$65.00, softcover-$29.95.
Pemberton, S. G., and Frey, R. W., 1990, Darwin on worms: the advent of experimental neoichnology: Ichnos, v. 1, p. 65-71.
Picard, M. D., 1989, Harry Hammond Hess and the theory of seafloor spreading: Journal of Geological Education, v. 37, p. 346-349.
Pinno, Mario, 1988, La teoria dei climi: Una falsa dottrina che non muta da Ippocrate a Hegel (Memorie della Societá Geografica Ilaliana, 41), 395 p., notes, Roma: Societá Geografica Italiana.
Preece, R. C., 1990, Alfred Santer Kennard (1870-1948): his contribution to malacology, Quaternary research and the Geologist's Association: Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, v. 101, p. 239-258.
Rabbitt, M. C., and Nelson, C. M., 1990, The King Survey: Houston Geol. Society Bulletin, v. 32, p. 31, 44-46.
Radhakrishna, B., 1990, Inaction on a Himalayan scandal: Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v. 35, n. 6, p. 555-558. (Vol. 35, n. 6 of this journal contains several papers in the discussion and reply section, p. 649-664, related to a possible paleontological fraud).
Ringholz, R. C., 1991, Uranium frenzy-boom and bust on the Colorado Plateau: University of New Mexico Press. 320 p. Softcover, $14.95. (originally published in 1989 hardback edition by W.W. Norton, New York, 310 p.)
Rodgers, K. A., and Cantrell, C., 1989, Alfred Edmund Finckh (1866-1961), leader of the 1898 Coral Reef Boring Expedition to Funafuti: Historical Records of Australian Science, v. 7, p. 393-404.
Sapolsky, Harvey M., 1990, Science and the Navy: The history of the Office of Naval Research, xv + 142 p., notes, index, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Schleucher, K., 1988, Alexander von Humboldt (Preussische Köpfe), Berlin, Stapp Verlag, 167 p.
Secord, J. A., 1989, Behind the veil: Robert Chambers and Vestiges, in Moore, J. R., ed., History, Humanity and Evolution, Cambridge University Press.
Segala, Marco, 1990, La Favola Della Terra Mobile. La controversia sulla teoria della deriva dei continenti, 340 p., Bologna: Societá editrice il Mulino.
Silverman, S. M., 1989, Joseph Henry and John Henry Lefroy. A common 19th century vision of auroral research: EOS, v. 70, no. 15, p. 227-240.
Sinkankas, J., 1991, Early American gemology (biogr. notes on Lewis Feuchtwanger, 1807-1876, and his Treatise on Gems), Lapidary Journal, v. 44, 10, p. 45-54.
Smith, C., and Wise, M. N., 1989, Energy and empire. A biographical study of Lord Kelvin, New York: Cambridge University Press, 866 p., $89.50.
Spamer, E. E., Bogan, A. E., and Torrens, H. S., 1989, Recovery of the Ethelred Benett Collection of fossils mostly from Jurassic-Cretaceous strata of Wiltshire, England, analysis of the taxonomic nomenclature of Benett (1831), and notes and figures of type specimens contained in the collection: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v. 141, p. 115-180.
Spencer, Frank, 1990, Piltdown. A Scientific Forgery, 272 p., New York: Natural History Museum Publications/Oxford University Press.
Spencer, Frank, 1990, The Piltdown Papers. The Correspondence and other documents related to the Piltdown forgery, 282 p., New York: Natural History Museum Publications/Oxford University Press.
Stafford, Robert A., 1990, Scientist of Empire. Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism, 293 p., New York: Cambridge University Press, $39.60.
Steward, John A., 1990, Drifting continents and colliding paradigms: Perspectives on the geoscience revolution, xiii + 285 p., illus., notes, bibl., index, Indiana University Press.
Stout (Seller), D. L., 1989, Alfred Oswald Woodford, a California centennial celebration: Journal of Geological Education, v. 37, p. 359-364.
Tinkler, Keith J., ed., 1989, History of geomorphology, from Hutton to Hack (The Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology: International series, 19), xvii + 344 p., notes, index, Boston: Unwin Hyman.
Torrens, H.S., 1990, A Wiltshire pioneer in geology and his legacy - Henry Shorto III (1778-1864), cutler and fossil collector of Salisbury: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, v. 83, p. 170-189.
Tucker, Paul, 1990, The Cuban Connection: Houston Geel. Society Bulletin, v. 32, p. 22-23.
Welser, W. A., 1989, The field naturalist. John Macoun, the Geological Survey and natural science, x + 253 p., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, £21.
Wilding, Richard, 1989, Charles Darwin's geologist's field guide: Geology Today, v. 5, p. 166-169.
Willis, Delta, 1989, The hominid gang: Behind the scenes in the search for human origins, Introduction by Stephen J. Gould, xii + 352 p., illus., notes, index, New York: Viking.
Yearley, Steven, 1990, Researching the Precambrian biosphere: Constructing knowledge and shaping the organization of scientific work: Soc. Stud. Sci., v. 20, p. 313-332.