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Allègre, Claude, The Behavior of the Earth: Continental and Seafloor Mobility (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), 272 p.

Baker, Victor R., Paleohydrology and Sedimentology of Lake Missoula Flooding in Eastern Washington, Geological Society of America Special Paper 144, 1973, 79 p.

Baker, Victor R., The Spokane Flood controversy and the martian outflow channels, Science, 1978, 202:1249-1256.

Baker, V. R., Joseph Thomas Pardee and the Spokane Flood Controversy, GAS Today, 1995, 5(9):169-173.

Baker, Victor R., The pragmatic roots of American Quaternary geology and geomorphology, Geomorphology, 1996, 16:197-215.

Baker, Victor R., Catastrophism and uniformitarianism: Logical roots and current relevance in geology, in Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, eds. D. J. Blundell and A. C. Scott (London: The Geological Society Special Publication 143, 1998), 171-182.

Baker, Victor R., Geosemiosis, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1999, 111:633-645.

Baker, Victor R., and C. R. Twidale, The reenchantment of geomorphology, Geomorphology, 1991, 4:73-100.

Barnes, B., D. Bloor, and J. Henry, Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Bretz, J Harlen, The Channeled Scabland of the Columbia Plateau, Journal of Geology, 1923, 31:617-649.

Bretz, J Harlen, The Spokane Flood Beyond the Columbia Plateau, Journal of Geology, 1925, 33:97-115, 236-259.

Bretz, J Harlen, Channeled Scabland and the Spokane Flood, Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, 1927, 17:200-211.

Bretz, J Harlen, Alternative hypotheses for Channeled Scabland, Journal of Geology, 1928, 36:193-223, 312-341.

Bretz, J Harlen, Lake Missoula and the Spokane Flood, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1930, 41:92-93.

Bretz, J Harlen, H. T. U. Smith, and George E. Neff, Channeled Scabland of Washington: New data and interpretations, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1956, 67:957-1049.

Cowan, D. S., M. T. Brandon, and J. I. Garver, Geologic tests of hypotheses for large coastwise displacements—A critique illustrated by the Baja British Columbia controversy, American Journal of Science, 1997, 297:117-173.

Davis, William Morris, The value of outrageous geological hypotheses, Science, 1926, 63:463-468.

Dusek, Val, Geodesy and the earth sciences in the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, in Two Hundred Years of Geology in America, ed. C. J. Schneer (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1979), 265-275.

Du Toit, Alexander L., Our Wandering Continents (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1937).

Flint, Richard Foster, Origin of the Cheney-Palouse scabland tract, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1938, 49:461-524.

Frankel, Henry, The continental drift debate, in Resolution of Scientific Controversies: Theoretical Perspectives on Closure, eds. A. Caplan and H. T. Engleheart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 312-373.

Fuller, Steve, Science (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997), 159 p.

Giere, R., Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).

Gilbert, Grove Karl, The inculcation of scientific method by example, American Journal of Science, 1886, 31:284-299.

Gilluly, J., A. C. Waters, and A. O. Woodford, Principles of geology (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1959), 534 p.

Glen, William, The Road to Jaramillo (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982), 459 p.

Gould, S. J., The Panda's Thumb (New York: Norton, 1980).

Griggs, David T., A theory of mountain building, American Journal of Science, 1939, 273:611-650.

Gross, Paul R., and Norman Leavitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).

Haack, Susan, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 223 p.

Head, James W., III, Formation of mountain belts on Venus: Evidence for large-scale convergence, underthrusting, and crustal imbrication in Freyja Montes, Ishtar Terra, Geology, 1990, 18:99-102.

Head, James W., III, and L. S. Crumpler, Evidence for divergent plate-boundary characteristics and crustal spreading on Venus, Science, 1987, 238:1380-1385.

Hobbs, W. H., Discovery in eastern Washington of a new lobe of the Pleistocene continental glacier, Science, 1943, 98:227-230.

Hubbert, M. King, Critique of the principle of uniformity, in Uniformity and Simplicity, ed. C. C. Albritton (Boulder: Geological Society of America Special Paper 89, 1967), 3-33.

Isacks, Bryan, John Oliver, and Lynn R. Sykes, Seismology and the new global tectonics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1968, 73:5855-5899.

James, William, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), 309 p.

Kaula, William M., Venus: A contrast in evolution to Earth, Science, 1990, 247:1191-1196.

King, Lester C., Necessity for continental drift, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1953, 37:2163-2177.

Kitts, David B., The Structure of Geology (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1977), 180 p.

Koertge, Noretta, A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 322 p.

Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), 210 p.

Kumazawa, Mineo, and Shigenori Maruyama, Whole Earth tectonics, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 1994, 100:81-102.

Laudan, Larry, The recent revolution in geology and Kuhn's theory of scientific change, in Paradigms and Revolutions, ed. G. Gutting (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980), 284-296.

Laudan, Rachel, Tensions in the concept of geology: natural history or natural philosophy? Earth Sciences History, 1982, 1:7-13.

LeGrand, Homer E., Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 313 p.

Leopold, Luna B., M. Gordon Wolman, and John P. Miller, Fluvial Processes in Geomorpholgy (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1963), 522 p.

Liszka, J. J., General Introduction to the Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 151 p.

Maruyama, Shigenori, Plume tectonics, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 1994, 100:24-49.

Maruyama, Shigenori, Mineo Kumazawa, and Shin-Ichi Kawakami, Towards a new paradigm on the Earth's dynamics, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 1994, 100:1-3.

McKenzie, Dan P., and R. L. Parker, The north Pacific: An example of tectonics on a sphere, Nature, 1967, 216:1276-1280.

Morgan, W. J., Plate motions and deep mantle convection, Geological Society of America Memoir 132, 1972, 7-22.

Mounce, H. O., The Two Pragmatisms: From Peirce to Rorty (London: Routledge, 1997), 245 p.

Newton, Roger G., The Truth of Science; Physical Theories and Reality (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 260 p.

Oreskes, Naomi, The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 420 p.

Oreskes, Naomi, K. Shrader-Freschette, and K. Berlitz, Verification, validation and confirmation of numerical models in the earth sciences, Science, 1994, 263:611-646.

Peirce, C. S., How to make our ideas clear, Popular Science Monthly, 1878, 13:286-302.

Peirce, Charles S., Deduction, induction and hypothesis, Popular Science Monthly, 1878, 13:470-482.

Peirce, Charles S., Reasoning and the Logic of Things, ed. K. Ketner (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 297 p.

Phillips, R. J., R. E. Grim, and M. C. Malin, Hotspot evolution and the global tectonics of Venus, Science, 1991, 252:651-658.

Phillips, Roger J., and Vicki L. Hansen, Tectonic and magmatic evolution of Venus, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1994, 22:597-654.

Popper, Karl R., The Logic of Scientific Discovery (London: Routledge, 1959), 480 p.

Schumm, S. A., To Interpret the Earth: Ten Ways to be Wrong (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 133 p.

Snider-Pellegrini, Antonio, La Création et ses Mystères dévoilés (Paris: Franck et Dentu, 1858).

Stein, Daniel, Continental rift, American Scientist, 1999, 87:467-468.

Taylor, Frank B., Bearing of the Tertiary mountain belt on the origin of the Earth's plan, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1910, 21:179-226.

Vine, Frederick J., and Drummond Matthews, Magnet anomalies over oceanic ridges, Nature, 1963, 199:947-949.

Wegener, Alfred, The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1929; reprinted. New York: Dover, 1966), 246 p.

Whewell, William, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History, 2 vols. (London: Cass, 1840).

Wilson, J. Tuzo, Revolution in earth science, Geotimes, December 1968, 10-16.

Wood, Robert Muir, The Dark Side of the Earth (London: Allen and Lenwin, 1985), 246 p.

Butterfield, Herbert, The Whig Interpretation of History (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931, repr. 1959).

Dewey, John, Reconstruction in Philosophy (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920).

Dewey, John, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action (New York: Minton, Balch, 1929).

Doel, Ronald E., Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Research 1920-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Merton, Robert, The Normative Structure of Science, in The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942), 267-278.

Newman, Robert, American Intransigence: The Rejection of Continental Drift in the Great Debates of the 1920s, Earth Sciences History, 1995, 14:62-83.

Oreskes, Naomi, The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Oreskes, Naomi, Why Predict? Historical Perspectives on Prediction in the Earth Sciences, in Prediction: Science, Decision-making, and the Future of Nature, eds. D. Sarewitz, R. A. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000), 23-40.

Oreskes, Naomi, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, and Kenneth Belitz, Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences, Science, 1994, 263:641-646.

Servos, John W., Mathematics and the Physical Sciences in America: 1880-1930, Isis, 1986, 77:611-629.

Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).

Wright, Frederick E., The Surface Features of the Moon, Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1935, 169-182.

Wright, Frederick E., The Surface of the Moon, in Cooperation in Research (Washington D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938), 59-74.

Alvarez, Walter, T. Rex and the Crator of Doom, (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1997), 185p., $24 hardcover, ISBN 0-691-01630-5.

Ambartsumian, R. V., ed., A Life in Astrophyics: Selected Papers of Viktor A. Ambartsumian. (New York, Allerton Press, 1998), 279p., $47.50 hardcover, ISBN: 0-89864-082-2.

Anderson, D.L., A Theory of the Earth: Hutton and Humpty Dumpty and Holmes, in Craig, G.Y. & Hull, J.H., eds., James Hutton—Present and Future, Special Publications, (London, Geological Society, 1999), 150:13-35.

Anton, James W., John Wesley Powell. Boise State University Western Writers Series, no. 114, (Boise, Idaho, Boise State University Press, 1994), 55p.

Bak, Per, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality, (New York, Springer-Verlag, 1996), 212p.

Bateman, Richard, "Adventures in the Oilpatch", Houston Geological Society Bulletin, 1998, 41:(3)39.

Beates, Susan, "Working Together For the History of Oil", Oilfield Barker, 1998, VI:(4)5.

Berner, Robert A. & Maasch, Kirk A., "Chemical Weathering and Controls on Atmospheric O2 and CO2 Fundamental Principles Were Enunciated by J.J. Ebelmen in 1845", Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1996, 60:(9)1633-1637.

Bhathal, Ragbir S., Australian Astronomers. Achievements at the Frontiers of Astronomy. (Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1996), $15.33 paperback, ISBN: 0-642-10666-5.

Bianchini, Francesco, Observations Concerning the Planet Venus. Translation of This Historic Document From 1728 by Sally Beaumont, Assisted by Peter Fay, (Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1996), 172p., $98 hardcover, ISBN: 3-540-19980-2.

Boon, Jan, "A Look at Canada's Provincial and Territorial Geological Surveys", Geoscience Canada, 1998, 25:(4)145-170.

Braunsdorf, Neil, "Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Play: 50 Years From Concept of Reality", Reservoir, 1999, 26:(3)8-9.

Brooke, John, "Science and Religion: Lessons From History?", Science, 1998, 282:(5396)1985-1986.

Brown, Andrew, The Darwin Wars: How Stupid Genes Became Selfish Gods. (Simon & Schuster, 1999), 241p., £12.99.

Cernajsek, Tillfried & Seidl, Johannes, "Auf den Spuren von Geologinnen und Geologen", in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich" Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:10.

Church, Michael, "Think Globally, Learn Locally: Broadening Perspectives of the Earth", Geoscience Canada, 1998, 25:(4)171-182.

Cook, G.C., "George Busk FRS (1807-1886), Nineteenth-Century Polymath: Surgeon, Parasitologist, Zoologist, and Palaeontologist: Journal of Medical Biography, 1999, 197:(5)88-101.

Craig, James R. & Rimstidt, J. Donald, "Gold Production History of the United States", Ore Geology Reviews, 1998, 13:(6)407-464.

Croswell, Ken, Planet Quest. The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems. (New York, Free Press, 1997), 324p., $25 hardcover, ISBN: 0-684-83252-6.

Dalziel, I.W.D., Vestiges of a Beginning and the Prospect of an End, in Craig, G.Y. & Hull, J.H., eds., James Hutton—Present and Future. (Geological Society, London. Special Publications, 1999), 750:119-155.

Davis, W., One River: Science, Adventure and Hallucinogenics in the Amazon Basin. (Simon and Schuster, 1997).

Deacon, Margaret, Scientists and the Sea 1650-1900. A Study of Marine Science. 2nd edition, (Brookfield, VT, Ashgate, 1997, 459p., $84.95 hardcover, ISBN: 1-85928-352-7.

Dean, Dennis R., Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999), ISBN 0-521-42048-2.

Dean, Dennis R., Gideon Algernon Mantell: a Bibliography With Supplementary Essays. (Delmar, NY, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1998), 279p., $75, ISBN: 0-8201-1519-3.

Diacu, Florin & Holmes, Philip, Celestial Encounters. The Origins of Chaos and Stability. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996), 233p., $24.95 hardcover, ISBN: 0-691-02743-9.

Dodson, Peter, "Dodson on Dinosaurs: Paleontology at Yale—Past, Present, Future", American Paleontologist, 1999, 7:(1)5-8.

Dott, Jr., R.H., Closing Remarks for the Hutton Bicentenary, Edinburgh, in Craig, G.Y. & Hull, J.H., eds., James Hutton—Present and Future. (Geological Society, London. Special Publications, 1999), 150:169-173.

Dudich, Endre, "Die Beziehungen der k.k. Geologischen Reichsanstalt Wien und der ungarischen Geologie zwischen 1869 und 1918", in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:10.

Eisler, William, The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis From the Middle Ages to Captain Cook. (Cambridge/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995), 180p., $65.

Fairbridge, Rhodes W., "Eolianites and Eustasy: Early Concepts on Darwin's Voyage of HMS Beagle", Carbonates and Evaporites, 1995, 10:(1)92-101.

Filkin, David, Stephen Hawking's universe. The cosmos explained. Basic Books, (New York, Harper Collins, 1997), 288p., $30 hardcover, ISBN: 0-465-08199-1.

Fisher, Ron, "Lewis and Clark: Naturalist—Explorers", National Geographic, 1998, Octoher:(4)77-93.

Fleming, James Rodger, Historical Essays on Meteorology, 1919-1995. The Diamond Anniversary History Volume of the American Meteorological Society. (Boston, American Meteorological Society, 1996), $60 hardcover, ISBN: 1-878220-17-9.

Flis, Linda, "Oil Patch Memories: Literary Views", The Outcrop, 1998, 47:(9)10.

Flügel, Helmut, "'Das Paläozoikum' von Franz Heritsch—eine ‘verlorene Handschrift’", in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:11.

Flügel, Helmut W., "Paleontology Now—Betrachtungen zur Position der Paläontologie heute", Mitt. Abt. Geol. und Paläont. Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1996, 54:61-68.

Fowler-Billings, Katharine, "Stepping-Stones: The Reminiscences of a Woman Geologist in the Twentieth Century," Transactions, The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996, 53:224p.

Fox, Robert & Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science, (1997), 304p., $49.95, ISBN: 0-691-01185-0.

Franz, Inge, "Franz von Baader als Montanwissenschaftler und seine Beziehungen zu Österreich", in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:11.

Friedman, G.M., "The Arid Peritidal Complex of Abu Dhabi: A Historical Perspective: Carbonates and Evaporites, 1995, 10:(1)2-7.

Fritscher, Bernhard, "Mineralogie und Wiener Kultur, 1866-1914: Zu Leben und Werk Gustav Tschermaks", in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:12.

Genuth, Sara Schechner, Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology. (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1997), 384p., $49.50, ISBN: 0-691-01150-8.

Gillispie, Charles Coulston, Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: a Life in Exact Science, (Princeton University Press, 1997), 304p., $49.95, ISBN: 0-691-01185-0.

Gillmor, C. Stewart & Speiter, John R., eds., Discovery of the Magnetosphere. History of Geophysics, v. 7. (Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, 1997), $55 hardcover, ISBN: 0-87590-288x.

A Good. Gregory, ed., Sciences of the Earth. An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena. 2 vols. (Hamden, CT, Garland Publishing, 1998), 700p., $150 hardcover, ISBN: 0-8153-0062-X.

Gould, Stephen Jay, "Branching Through a Wormhole. Lamark's Ladder Collapses", Natural History, 1999, 108:(2)24-27, 84-89.

Gould, Stephen Jay, "Above All, Do No Harm", Natural History, 1998, 107:(8)16-24, 78-82.

Gould, Stephen Jay, "Capturing the Center. Lavoisier's Geology Triumphs", Natural History, 1998/99, 107:(10)14-25.

Griffith, Eileen, "Recollections of a Geologist's Wife in Venezuela From 1946-1949", The Outcrop, 1999, 47:(13)18-19.

Griffith, Earl G., "Recollections of a Geologist's First Job: Venezuela From 1946-1949", The Outcrop, 1998, 47:(12)1, 12-13.

Griggs, Gary B., "The Protection of California's Coast: Past, Present, and Future", Shore & Beach, 1999, 67:(1)18-28.

Gross, Martin, "Bergbaugeschichte und Stratigraphie der Braunkohlen von Paldau (Südoststeiermark, Obermiozän/Unterpannonium)," in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:15.

Gross, Martin, "Die ‘phytopaläontologische’ Sammlung Franz Unger am Landesmuseum Joanneum" in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:15.

Haditsch, Johann Georg, "Ein Besuch auf dem evangelischen Friedhof Graz—St. Peter: Totengedenken an einige Bergleute und Erdwissenschaftler," in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:16.

Hanken, James, "Beauty Beyond Belief. The Art of Ernst Haeckel Transcends His Controversial Scientific Ideas: Natural History, 1998/99, 107:(10)56-59.

Hansch, W., "Friedrich August von Alberli—the founder of the Triassic system," Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, 1998, B:(5)69-70.

Haubold, Hartmut & Hellmund, Meinolf, "The Geiseltalmuseum of the Institute of Geological Sciences, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg," Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, 1998, B:(6)11-18.

Haynes Raymond, Roslynn Haynes, Malin, David, & McGee, Richard, eds., Explorers of the Southern Sky: a History of Australian Astronomy. (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996), 527p., $95 hardcover, ISBN: 0-521-35575-9.

Hentschel, Klaus, The Einstein Tower. An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1997), 226p., $45 hardcover, ISBN: 0-08047-2824-0.

Hefmann, Thomas, 1999, "Otto Ampferer—eine Spurensuche. In Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich", Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:17.

Hogan, Craig, The Little Book of the Big Bang: a Cosmic Primer. (New York, Copernicus (Springer-Verlag), 1998), 181p., $20 hardcover, ISBN: 0-387-98385-6.

Hubmann, Bernhard, Kleiner Leitfaden zur Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Graz. (Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 1999), 41p.

Hubmann, Bernhard, "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich—Präambel zum Symposium am 22. Februar 1999 in Graz," in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:8-9.

Hubmann, Thomas, "Dünnschliffherstellung in Österreich-Ungarn vor 1865," "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:18.

Hubmann, Bernhard and Hubmann, Klaus, "Der Csakan, ein Musikinstrument des Biedermeiers mit Affinitäten zum Berghäckel" in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," in "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:19.

Hubmann, Ursula and Hubbman, Bernhard, "Zur Genealogie der Familie Peters," in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," in "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:20.

Hughes, Nigel, Lane, Gary, & Lipps, Jere, "Restoration of David Dale Owen's Geological Laboratory at New Harmony as a Tribute to Early US Paleontologists: PRISCUM, 1998, 8:(2)15.

Humboldt, Alexander von, Cosmos: a Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, v. 1, Translated by E.G. Otte, Introduction by Nicolaas A. Rupke, (Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 375p., $15.95 paperback, ISBN: 0-8018-5502-0.

Humboldt, Alexander von, Cosmos: a Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, v. 1, Translated by E.G. Otte, Introduction by Nicolaas A. Rupke, (Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 367p., $15.95 paperback, ISBN: 0-8018-5503-9.

Hurst, A. & Colter, V.S., "A History of Events in the Exploration For the Wytch Farm Oilfield, Southern England: Petroleum Geoscience, 1998, 4:377-379.

Keillar, Ian & Smith, John S., eds., George Gordon; Man of Science. (University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Centre for Scottish Studies, 1995), 183p.

Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical Snapshots: William Carruthers Gussow," Reservoir, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1998, 25:(11)34.

Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical Snapshots: John Andrew Allan (1884-1955)," Reservoir, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1998, 26:(2)34.

Klemun, Marianna, "Anfänge einer organisierten Verbreitung von Mineralien: Sigmund von Zois (1747-1819)," in "Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften in Österreich," in "Zeitschrift des Montanhistorischen Vereines für Österreich, 1999, 20:22.

Kragh, Helge, Cosmology and Controversy: the Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe. (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1999), 488p., $19.95 paperback, ISBN: 0-691-00546-X.

Kranz, Kai Torsten, Nationalismus und internationale Zusammenarbeit in den Naturwissenschaften— Die deutsch-französischen Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Revolution und Restauration, 1789-1832. (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997), 352p., 124DM paperback, ISBN: 3-515-07079-6.

Kupfer, Donald H., "Colorado's Early Oil Happenings: Alexander M. Cassiday—Father of Colorado's Oil Industry," The Outcrop, 1998, 47:(11)6-7.

Kupfer, Donald H., "Colorado's Early Oil Happenings—The Macon Well: The Oil Search Expands Southward," The Outcrop, 1999, 48:(3)6-7.

Kupfer, Donald H., "Colorado's Early Oil Happenings: One Mistress and Two Masters; The Oil Spring Claim Leads a Dual Life," The Outcrop, 1999, 47:(13)18-19.

Lamb, Simon & Sington, David, Earth Story: The Shaping of Our World. (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1998), 240p., $29.95, ISBN: 0-691-00229-0.

Larson, Edward J., Summer for the Gods. The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, (New York, Basic Books, 1997), $25 cloth.

Lyell, C., Principles of Geology. (New York, Penguin Books, 1997 [1830-33]), 472p., $15.95 paperback, ISBN: 0-14-043528-X.

C Lyons Paul, Morey, Elsie Darrah, & Wagner, Robert H., eds., Historical Perspective of Early Twentieth Century Carboniferous Palaeobotany in North America, (Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, 1995), 404p., $105 hardcover.

Madders, Kevin, A New Force at a New Frontier. Europe's Development in the Space Field in the Light of Its Main Actors, Policies, Law, and Activities From Its Beginnings Up to the Present. (New York, Cambridge Unversity Press, 1997), 604p., $150 hardcover, ISBN: 0-521-57096-4.

Marshall, Peter, Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth. (New York and London, Sharpe, 1996), 513p.

Marvin, U.B., Impacts From Space: the Implications for Uniformitarian Geology, in Craig, G.Y. & Hull, J.H., eds., James Hutton—Present and Future, (London, Geological Society, Special Publications, 1999), 150:89-117.

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