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Announcements, Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Notes on Contributors, HESS Officers, Forthcoming Articles
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Buick, T. L., The mystery of the Moa, New Zealand's avian giant (New Plymouth, New Zealand: Avery, 1931), xvi + 357 p.
Cooper, J. A., George Bax Holmes (1803-1887) and his relationship with Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen, Modern Geology, 1993, 18:183-208.
Curwen, E. C., The journal of Gideon Mantell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940), 315 p.
Norman, D. B., Gideon Mantell's "Mantel-Piece": the earliest well-preserved ornithischian dinosaur, Modern Geology, 1993, 18:225-246.
Spokes, S., Gideon Algernon Mantell; surgeon and geologist (London: Bale, 1927), xv + 263 p.
Torrens, H. S., 1995, Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme: ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’, British Journal for the History of Science, 1995, 28:257-284.
Torrens, H. S. and J. A. Cooper, 1988, George Fleming Richardson (1796-1848), The Geological Curator, 1988, 41:249-268.
Alberts, Bruce, "Science and creationism, a new view from the National Academy of Sciences", GSA Today, 1999, 9:(7)3.
Anonymous, "History: John Macculloch, 1773-1835", Geology Today, 1999, 15:(1)10.
Anonymous, "One hundred years of astronomy in America", Physics Today, 1999, 52:(5)31-37.
Anonymous, "A guide to the ocean drilling program: celebrating 30 years of ocean exploration: 1968-1998", Joides Journal (Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling), 1998-99, Winter:72.
Anonymous, "History of working group investigation (subcommission on Ordovician stratigraphy)", Ordovician News, 1999, (16)83-89.
Arms, Myron, Riddle of the ice: a scientific adventure into the Arctic. (Anchor Books, Bantam Doubleday Publishing Group, NY, 1998), 267p., $22.95 hardback.
Baker, V. R., "Presidential address: geosemiosis", Geological Society of America, 1999, 111:(5)633-645.
Barr, William, "Searching for Franklin from Australia: William Parker Snow's initiative of 1853", Polar Record, 1997, 33:(185)145-150.
Behrendt, J. C., Innocents on the ice: a memoir of Antarctic exploration, 1957. (U.P. of Colorado, Niwot, CO, 1998), 428p., $29.95 hard cover, ISBN: 0-87081-493-1.
Boss, Alan, Looking for earths: the race to find new solar systems. (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., year), 240p., $27.95.
Bradshaw, M. T., Foster, C. B., Fellows, M. E., and Rowland, D. C., "Australia's search for petroleum: patterns of discovery", Oil & Gas Journal, 1999, 97:(23)37-44.
Bragg, Melvyn, On giants' shoulders: great scientists and their discoveries—from Archimedes to DNA. (John Wiley and Sons, 1999), 384p., $22.95.
Brown. A. C., Oil, god, and gold: the story of Aramco and the Saudi kings. (Houghton Mifflin, 222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116-3764, year?), 420p., $30.
Brown, Andrew, The Darwin wars: how stupid genes became selfish gods. (Simon & Schuster, London, 1999), 255p., £12.99, ISBN: 0-684-85144-X.
Carruthers, M. W., "Hutton's unconformity", Natural History, 1999, 108:(5)86-87.
Czegka, Wolfgang, "Der Einfluß geochemischer Untersuchungsmethoden auf die Entwicklung der frühen Meteoritenkunde (1799-1803)", 177-206, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Daszkiewicz, Piotr, "The letters of Sir Joseph Banks in the manuscript collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris", Archives of Natural History, 1999, 26:(2)269-272.
Dott, Jr., R. H, and Jordan, W. M., "Doctor Koch's horrendous hydrarchos", Geotimes, 1999, 44:(3)20-24.
Doyle, P., Geology of the western front 1914-1918 Geologists Association Field Guide No. 61. (The Geologists Association, 1999), 79p., £12, ISBN: 0-900717-59-9.
Dykes, William, "Carlotta Maury: Paleontology Pioneer", The Fossil Times—A publication of the American Museum of Natural History, 1999, winter:1-3.
Eberhardt, N., From the big bang to the human predicament: outline of an ultimate evolutionary synthesis. (Pentland Press, Raleigh, NC, 1998), 303p., $31.95 hard cover, ISBN: 1-57197-101-7.
Edney, M. H., Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 1997), 458p., $35.
Erskine, A. B. and Kjaer, K. G., "The Arctic ship Fox", Polar Record, 1997, 33:(185)123-132.
Fernie, J. D., "The American Kepler", American Scientist, 1999, 87:398-401.
Flügel, H. W., Helmuth Zapfe. (Sonderdruck aus dem Almanach der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 147. Jahrgang (1996/7), 1998), 425-434.
Freestone, Ian, "The mineralogy and chemistry of early British procelain (sic)", Mineralogical Society Bulletin, 1999, (123)3-7.
Friedman, G. M., "Sedimentology and stratigraphy in the 1950s to mid-1980s: the story of a personal perspective", Episodes, 1998, 21:(3)172-177.
Fritscher, Bernhard, ‘"Von Feuer- und Wasser-mineralien’. Zur Rolle der Geologie und Mineralogie in der Naturphilosophie Lorenz Okens", Terra Nostra, 1998, V88-V89.
Fritscher, Bernhard, "The fabrication of rocks: the Geophysical laboratory and the production of modernity in mineralogy and geochemistry", 375-398, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Gibbard, Philip and Vita-Finzi, Claudio, "Richard Hey: gentleman geologist", Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 1999, 110:83-92.
Gilbert, Alain and Sammartino, Yves, "Historique de la speleologie au Perou (1802-1989)", Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolanade Espeleologia, 1998, 32:44-48.
Gingerich, Owen, ed., Oxford portraits in science: Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Sigmund Freud, and Marie Curie. The Science Teacher, 8-volume set. (Oxford University Press, year?), $96.60.
Gould, S. J., "A division of worms: the use and disuse of Lamarck", Natural History, 1999, volume: 18-22, 76-81.
Gould, S. J., "Bacon, brought home", Natural History, 1999, 108:(5)28-33, 72-78.
Gould, S. J., Beyond Galileo: rocks of ages: science and religion in the fullness of life. (Ballantine, 1998), 240p., $18.95.
Gould, S. J., Leonardo's mountain of clams and the diet of worms: essays on natural history. (Harmony Books (Crown Publishers), NY, 1998), 422p., $25 hardcover, ISBN: 0-609-60141-5.
Gould, S. J., "The great physiologist of Heidelberg", Natural History, 1999, 108:(6)26-29, 62-70.
Griffith, E. G., "Recollections of a geologist's first job, continued", The Outcrop, 1999, 48:(2)8.
Guntau, Martin, "Zur Entstehung der Geochemie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin", 327-360, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Hamilton, B. M., "Matthew Foster Heddle and Patrick Dudgeon of Cargen: two men out of their time", 237-258, in Fritscher, Bernhard, Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Henderson, Fergus, "Practical knowledge in Romantic ordering of nature: Werner's geognostical method, Humboldt's "Pasgraphie", Novalis's "Instrumental-sprache", and the encyclopaedism of the individual, 131-146, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissen-schaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Hestmark, Geir, ‘"Chemistry before everything’: Theodor Kjerulf and the origin of the Norwegian school of geochemistry", 219-224, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Hetzer, Hans, "Das ehemalige Zentrale Geologische Institut in Berlin", Nachrichten Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, 1999, 69:40-50.
Hochleitner, Rupert, "Paul Groth and the development of mineralogical collections", 259-268, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissen-schaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Howarth, R. J., "Graphical methods in mineralogy and igneous petrology (1800-1935)", 281-308. in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissen-schaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Hubmann, Bernhard, "Die Erdwissenschaftlichen Lehrkanzeln der Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz zur Zeit des Constantin von Ettingshausen", Mitt. Geol. und Paläont. Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1997, 55:151-176.
Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical snapshots: 50 years and counting", Reservoir: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1999, 26:(6)32.
Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical snapshots: John Campbell Sproule", Reservoir: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1999, 26:(4)34.
Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical snapshots: John Benwell Webb (1901-1975)", Reservoir: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1999, 26:(7)25.
Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical snapshots: Maxwell Waite Ball", Reservoir: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1999, 26:(3)40.
Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical snapshots: Richard Bedford Bennett", Reservoir: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1998, 25:(9)36.
Kerr, Aubrey, "Historical snapshots: Sidney Clarke Ells (1878-1971)", Reservoir: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1999, 26:(1)40.
Kragh, Helge, Cosmology and controversy: the historical development of two theories of the universe. (Princeton University Press, 1999), $19.95 paper, ISBN: 0-691-00546-X.
Krebs, R. E., The history and use of our earth's chemical elements: a reference guide. (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1998), 346p., $39.95.
Krüger, Peter, "Geochemie und globale Probleme der Menschheit: zum fünfzigsten Todestag V.I. Vernadskijs und zum Erscheinen der deutschen Ausgabe seiner ‘Geochemie in ausgewählten Kapiteln’ vor 65 Jahren", 399-424, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Kühne, Andreas, "Stereometrische Darstellungen in der Renaissance vor dem Hintergrund der Vorgeschichte der Kristallographie", 65-80, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Lang, H. D., "150 Jahre Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft—ein geschichtlicher Überblick", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 1999, 150:1-26.
Larsen, S. T., "A very brief history of GEOREF", Geoscience Information Society Newsletter, 1998, (175)14-15.
Lewis, M. W. and Wigen, K. E., The myth of continents: a critique of metageography. (University of California Press, 1997), 383p., $55 cloth, ISBN: 20742-4.
Lima-de-Faria, José, "Past, present, and future of the classification of minerals", 17-28, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Loveland, P. J., Wood, I. G., and Weir, A. H., "Clay mineralogy at Rothamsted: 1934-1988", Clay Minerals, 1999, 34:165-183.
MacEwan, D. M. C., "The origin of the clay minerals group", Clay Minerals, 1999, 34:3-5.
Marché, II, J. D., "Restoring a ‘Public standard’ to accuracy: authority, social class, and utility in the American almanac controversy, 1814-1818", Journal of the Early Republic, 1998, 18:(4)693-710.
Mayer, Anna-K., "Note on the Fritz Müller Charles Darwin correspondence", Archives of Natural History, 1999, 26:(2)293-295.
McCluskey, S. C., Astronomies and cultures in early medieval Europe. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998), 236p., $54.95.
Mims III, F. M., "Essays on science and society: amateur science-strong tradition, bright future", Science, 1999, 284:(5411)55-56.
Monmonier, Mark, Air apparent: how meteorologists learned to map, predict, and dramatize weather. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999), $27.50.
Morello, Nicoletta, "Mineralogical classifications in sixteenth century Italy", 53-64, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Newcomb, Sally, "Laboratory variables in late eighteenth century geology", 81-100, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Nobis, H. M., "Der Ursprung der Steine: zur Beziehung zwischen Alchemie und Mineralogie im Mittelalter", 29-52, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Oldroyd, D. R., Thinking about the Earth: a history of ideas in geology. (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1996), $45 cloth.
Oreskes, Naomi, The rejection of continental drift: theory and method in American earth science. (Oxford University Press, 1999), 368p., $29.95 paper.
Osborne, Roger, The floating egg. Episodes in the making of geology, (Jonathan Cape, London, 1998), 372p., CAN$95, ISBN: 0-224-05028-1.
Oszvald, Tamás and Hámor, Tamás, "Slopes and cellars—national programmes in Hungary", European Geologist, 1999, (8)7-9.
Panek, Richard, "Venusian testimony", Natural History, 1999, 108:(5)68-69.
Pees, S. T., "Oilscape", Oilfield Barker, 1999, VII:(2)4.
Pennock, R. T., Tower of Babel: the evidence against the new creationism. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999), $35.
Prewitt, C. T., The geophysical laboratory: looking back and looking forward. (Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook, 1997-98), p. 75-81.
Ratclife, Eric, Capabilities of the alchemical mind. (Four Quarters Press, 1999), £4, ISBN: 0-9535113-0-8.
Ruggles, C. L. N., Astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. (Yale University Press, 1999), 288p., $65.
Sarjeant, W. A. S., "History of the study of dinosaurs", Modern Geology, Special issue—Halstead Memorial Volume Part II, 1993, 18:(2)157-286.
Sarjeant, W. A. S., "The decline of the Latin name: can it be halted?", Geoscientist, 1999, 9:(5)4-7.
Schimkat, Peter, "Gümbel on Bischof, or: two different ways of losing out", 225-236, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Schmidt, Peter, "Benedict Franz Johann Hermann: Geologe, Mineraloge, und Montanist, Verleger und Freimaurer", 101-106, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Scholz, Christopher, Fieldwork: a geologist's memoir of the Kalahari. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997), 190p., $24.95.
Schütt, Hans-Werner, "Die Entdeckung des Isomorphismus und ihre Folgen in der französischen mineralogischen Forschung", 207-218, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Seibold, Eugen and Seibold, Ilse, "Die Gründungsmitglieder der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft", Terra Nostra, 1998, VI-X.
Seibold, Eugen and Thiede, Jörn, Die Geschichte der Ozeane nach Tiefseebohrungen: Wissenschaftlich-technologischer Erfolg und Herausforderung an der Jahrhundertwende, no. 2. (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 1997), 62p.
Stanier, Peter, Mines of Cornwall and Devon an historic photographic record. (Twelveheads Press, 1998), 108p., £15 hardcover, ISBN: 0-906294-401.
Tepper, J. H., "Connecting geology, history, and the classics through a course in geomythology", Journal of Geoscience Education, 1999, 47:221-226.
Terry, S. P., "The Healdton Field, Oklahoma—history of development", Oklahoma Geology Notes, 1999, 59:(1)4-17.
Tokaryk, T. T., "One of the last of the early giants", Geology Today, 1998, 14:(6)226-228.
Torrens, H. S., "Geology in peace time: an English visit to study German mineralogy and geology (and visit Goethe, Werner, and Raumer) in 1816", 147-176, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Treise, Geoffrey and Sarjeant, W. A. S., The tracks of Triassic vertebrates: fossil evidence from northwest England. (The Stationary Office, Publications Centre, PO Box 246, London SW8 5DT, England, 1997), 216p., £65 hardback, ISBN: 0-11-290502-1.
Türkmenoglu, A. G., "Short historical note: the Turkish national committee on clay sciences", Newsletter of the European Clay Groups Association, 1998, 2:(April)32.
Underwood, J. R. and Guth, P. L., eds., Military geology in war and peace, GSA reviews in engineering, vol. XII. (Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., 1998), 245p., $76, ISBN: 0-8137-4113-0.
Urbani, Franco, "El conde Adolfo Mestiatis (1860-1935)", Boletin de Historia de las Geociencias en Venezuela, 1996, (57)67-74.
Urbani, Franco, "Historia espeleologica venezolana. parte 8: Gaspar Marcano (1850-1910), Vicente Marcano (1848-1891), exploraciones del ing. Juan de dios monserrate en 1894", Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolanade Espeleologia, 1997, 31:37-52.
Urbani, Franco, "Historia espeleologica venezolana. part 9: Francisco de Paula Alamo (1866-1943) la comision Eduardo Röhl a la cueva del guarcharo", Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolanade Espeleologia, 1998, 32:49-60.
Urbani, Franco, "Vida y obra de los iniciadores de la espeleologia en venezuela parte 7. siglos XVI al XVIII", Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolanade Espeleologia, 1996, 30:38-55.
Vaccari, Ezio, "Mineralogy and mining in Italy between eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the extent of Wernerian influences from Turin to Naples", 107-130, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
van Veen, F. R., Willem van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1873-1943), een biografie. (Delftse Universitaire Pers, 1998), 98p., ISBN: 90-407-1220-4.
von Philipsborn, Henning, "Early interconnections between geochemistry, atmospheric electricity, radioactivity, and the heat and age of the earth", 361-374, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Wiesheu, Robert and Hein, U. F., "The history of fluid inclusion studies", 309-326, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Wilson, L. G., Lyell in America. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1998), 444p., $45 hard cover, ISBN: 0-8018-5797-X.
Wilson, Robert, Astronomy through the ages: the story of the human attempt to understand the universe. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997), 302p., $29.95.
Willey, R. R., The Tuscan meteorites: their history from frontier Arizona to the Smithsonian. (University of Arizona Press, Tuscan, 1997), 48p., $10.95 paper.
Wolff, S. L., "Woldemar Voigt (1850-1919) und seine Untersuchungen der Kristalle", 269-280, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.
Wyse Jackson, P. N., "The Wollaston Medal: Fitton's found", Geology Today, 1999, 15:(1)11-12.
Yushkin, N. P., "Origin and evolution of fundamental mineralogical ideas", 1-16, in Fritscher, Bernhard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., Toward a History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geo-chemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996. (Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, Germany, 1998), 424p.