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Al-Tifashi, A.I.Y., 1998, Arab roots of gemology: Ahmad ibn Yusuf al Tifashi's Best Thoughts on the Best of Stones. Foreward by Eric Burton. Translated by Samar Najm Abul Huda. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., 274 p., $45

Albrecht, H., Arnold, W., and Schmid, P., eds., 1998, Beiträge zur Geschichte von Bergbau, Geologie und Denkmalschutz: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Otfried Wagenbreth, Technische Universität Bergakademie, Freiberg, 190 p.

Andrade, A.A.S., 1998, A Mineralogia de Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750-1817) nas "Prelecções Filosóficas" de Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira (1769-1846): Boletim do Centro Estudos de Histtoria e Filosofia da Ciencia e da Ciencia e da Tecnica, Universidade de Aveiro, v. 2, p. 26-28.

Andrade, A.A.S., 1998, A Descoberta do Tempo Geologico; Boletim do Centro Estudos de Histtoria e Filosofia da Ciencia e da Ciencia e da Tecnica, Universidade de Aveiro, v. 2, p. 3-10.

Ansell, M.R., 1998, Oil baron of the southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the development of the petroleum industry in California and Mexico. (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise). Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, 302 p., $60.

Archbold, N.W., 1998, History of geological and palaeontological studies on the Permian glacially derived sequences of the Bacchus marsh district, Victoria, Australia: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, v. 110, p. 31-43.

Archer, J.B. and Davies, G.L.H., 2000, Inspiration from Nature and some plays by John O'Keefe (1747-1833): Archives of Natural History, v. 27, no. 1, p. 123-135.

Arteaga, J.A.R., 1999, El primer registro filmico de un sismo en Venezuela: Boletin de Historia de las Geosciences en Venezuela, no. 68, p. 27-33.

Aveni, Anthony, 1999, Astronomy in the Mexican Codex Borgia: Archaeoastronomy, v. 24, p. 1-20.

Banks, M.R., Changing visions of our Mountain, in I. Terry and K. Evans, eds., Hobart's History: the first two hundred years, professional historians' association, Hobart, Hobart, p. 7-18.

Barbour, S., 1998, Nineteenth Canadian geotechnical colloquium: the soil-water characteristic curve: a historical perspective: Canadian Geotechnical Journal, v. 35.5, 873 +.

Bassett, M.G., 1995, Charles Darwin in Wales. The Darwin Project, National Museum of Wales, unpaginated.

Beckman, Olof, 1999, Remarkable observations on a Graham magnetic needle in London and Uppsala in the 18th century: Bulletin of Science Instr. Soc., v. 61, p. 15-17.

Behrendt, J.C., 1998, Innocents on the ice; a memoir of Antarctic exploration, 1957. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 428 p., $29.95.

Besse, Jean-Marc, 1998, La géographie selon Kant: L'espace du cosmopolitisme: Corpus, v. 34, no. 109-129.

Bidner, Th., 1998, Zur Geschichte der erdwissenschaftlichen Erforschung Tirols: Veröffentilichen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum Innsbruck, v. 78, p. 15-36.

Binzel, R.P., 2000, Asteroids Come of Age: Science, v. 289, p. 2065.

Black, Jeremy, 1998, Maps and politics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 188 p., $35.

Black, Jeremy, 1997, Maps and history: constructing images of the past. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn./London, 267 p., $35.

Boon, J.D. and Albritton, J., 1936, Meteorite craters and their possible relationship to "cryptovolcanic structures": Field and Laboratory, v. 5, p. 53-64.

Boylan, Patrick, 2000, William Buckland's cave explorations, in William Smith Millennium Meeting: Celebrating the age of the earth, June 28/29, 2000. Geological Society of London, co-sponsored by Geological Society of America: History of Geology Group Newsletter, February, no. 11, p. 6-7.

Branagan, D.F., 1998, The 21st meeting of INHIGEO: Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 1998: Episodes, v. 21, p. 265.

Branagan, D.F., 1998, The pole and the Australian Permian: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, v. 110, p. 1-30.

Branagan, D.F., Streams of Fire, Burning mountains, pumice and volcanic activity at no very remote period, volcanism in the Australasian region: the search for understanding: to 1860 in Nicoletta Morello, ed., Volcanoes and History, Birgati, Genova, p. 21-45.

Branagan, D.F., 1998, Geological Periodization, in G.A. Good, ed., Sciences of the Earth: an encyclopedia of events, people, and phenomena, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London, v. 1, p. 306-314.

Branagan, D.F., Geologists and the Australian National Parks System, in E. Hamilton-Smith, ed., Celebrating the parks: proceedings of the first Australian Symposium on parks history, Rethink Consulting Pty Ltd, Carton South, Victoria, p. 205-222.

Branagan, D.F., 1998, An overview of the engineering geology of the botany basin, in G.H. McNally and J. Jankowski, eds., Environmental Geology of the Botany Basin, Environemental, Engineering and Hydrogeological Specialist Group, Geological Society of Australia Inc. collected case studies in engineering geology, fourth series, Sydney, p. 1-23.

Branagan, D.F., 1998, The St. Peters Brick-pits: Their geology, operation and reclamation, and the adjacent Quaternary shoreline in G.H. McNally and J. Jankowski, eds., Environmental geology of the botany basin, environmental, engineering and hydrogeology specialist group, Geological Society of Australia Inc. Collected case studies in engineering geology, fourth series, Sydney, p. 93-110.

Branagan, D.F., 1998, Then look no coldly on science: Joseph Campbell, M.A., Journeyman Cleric: Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, v. 131, p. 19-36.

Brice, W.R., 1999, The world of petroleum before the Drake Well in 1859: West Texas Geological Society Bulletin, v. 39, no. 1, p. 3-9.

Brinkman, P.D., 2000, Establishing vertebrate paleontology at Chicago's Field Columbian Museum, 1893-1898: Archives of Natural History, v. 27, no. 1, p. 81-114.

Brosche, Peter, Dick, W.R., Schwarz, Oliver, and Wielen, Roland, eds., 1998, The message of the angles: astrometry from 1798 to 1998. (Acta Historica Astronomiae, v. 3) (Proceedings of the International Spring Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Gotha, May 11-15, 1998). Verlag Harri Deutsch, Thun/Frankfurt am Main, 276 p., DM38.

Brotton, Jerry, 1998, Trading territories: mapping the early modern world. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 208 p., $35.

Brown, B.T., 1999, Volcanoes unbound?: the reception of French geological research by the Irish mineralogist, Richard Kirwan, 1783-1794 in The culture of the book: essays from two hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop. Melbourne. Biographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, p. 245-260.

Bruce, R.C. and Rayment, G.E., 1998, A century of soil analysis in Queensland: Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, v. 29, p. 1418-1419.

Brückner, Martin, 1999, Lessons in geography: Maps, spellers, and other grammars of nationalism in the early Republic: Amer. Quart., v. 51, p. 311-343.

Brush, S.G., 1996, Transmuted past: the age of the earth and the evolution of the elements from Lyell to Patterson. (History of Modern Planetary Physics, v. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, 134 p., $44.95.

Brush, S.G., 1996, Nebulous earth: the origin of the solar system and the core of the earth from Laplace to Jeffreys. (History of Modern Planetary Physics, v. 1). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, 312 p., $54.95.

Brush, S.G., 1996, Fruitful encounters: the origins of the solar system and of the moon from Chamberlain to Apollo. (History of Modern Planetary Physics, v. 3), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, 354 p., $54.95.

Bucheit, A.K., Hargrove, U.S., and Donovan, R.N., 1998, Hutton, thy theory is D … MD nonscence: The Compass. Journal of Earth Sciences of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, v. 74, no. 2, p. 36-46.

Buffon, G.D., 1998, Des époques de la nature. Intoduction et notes de Gabriel Gohau. Diderot, Paris, 305 p.

Burchard, Ulrich, 1998, History of the development of the crystallographic goniometer: The Mineralogical Record, v. 28, p. 517-583.

Burden, P.D., 1996, The mapping of North America: a list of printed maps, 1511-1670. Forward by Tony Campbell. Raleigh Publishers, Richmansworth, Hertfordshire, 568 p., $195.

Burkhardt, Fredrick, Porter, D.M., Harvey, Joy, and Topham, J.R., eds., 1997, Charles Darwin. The correspondence of Charles Darwin, v. 10, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, 936 p., $69.95.

Butcher, N.E., 1997, James Hutton's House at ST. John's Hill, Edinburgh: Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, v. 4 (new series), p. 107-112.

Büttner, Manfred, 1997, Samuel Reyher (1635-1714): Begründer der Stadtgeographie, p. 7-13 in Manfred Bütner (ed.) Geisteshaltung und Stadtgestaltung. Lang, Frankfurt am Main.

Cain, Joe, 2000, For the ‘Promotion’ and ‘Integration’ of varioius fields: first years of Evolution, 1947-1949: Archives of Natural History, v. 27, no. 2, p. 231-259.

Carozzi, A.V., Crettaz, Bernard, and Ripoll, David, eds., 1998, Les Plis du Temps: Mythe, Science et H.-B. de Saussure, Musée d'Ethnographie, Geneva, 367 p., 29 Swiss francs.

Carozzi, A.V., 1998, Études de géologie structurale alpine au XVIIIe siècle: La méthodologie de Horace-B énédict de Saussure, p. 27-45 in Les Alpes et la science, v. 3, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Suisse.

Caudill, Edward, 1997, Darwinian myths: the legends and misuses of theory. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 184 p., $35.

Cernajsek, T., 1996, Die Bedeutung der biblio-thekarischen Behandlung von besondern Dokumenten fuer die Geschichte der Entwicklung der geologischen Karten und Kartierung in Österreich bis 1918 am Beispiel der Kartensammlung der Bibliothek der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, in Cernajsek, T., Jontes, L., and Schmidt, P., eds., Das kulturelle Erbe geowissenschaftlicher und montanwissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken (International Symposium, 1993), Freiberg, Saxony, Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, v. 35, p. 57-60.

Christianson, Gale, 1999/2000, From bene-volence to menace: an historian's biography of global warming: The Columbia Earth Institute: Earth Matters, winter.

Cleevely, R.L. and Chapman, S.D., 2000, The two states of Mantell's Illustrations of the geology of Sussex…: 1827 and c. 1829: Archives of Natural History, v. 27, no. 1, p. 23-50.

Conley, Tom, 1996, The self-made map: carto-graphic writing in early modern France. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 378 p, $34.95.

Consolmagno, Brother Guy, 2000, Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist. McGraw-Hill, 256 p., $24.95.

Corbett, D.W., 1998, Douglas Mawson: The geologist as explorer: Records of the South Australian Museum, v. 30, p. 107-136.

Coronelli Vincenzo, 1998, e I'mago mundi. A cura di Donatino Domini e Marca Milanesi. Illustrazioni a cura di Claudia Guiliani (Interventi classensi, v. 18), 167 p.

Craig, G.Y. and Hill, J.H., eds., 1999, James Hutton—Present and Future, The Geological Society, London.

Craig, G.Y. and Hill, J.H., eds., 1999, James Hutton—present and future. The Geological Society, London, Special Publication No. 150, $98.

Curtis, G.R., 1999, "Recollections from the oil patch": The Outcrop, v. 48, no. 9, p. 12, 18.

Daber, R., 1998, 150 Jahre Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft: Warum erst 1848?: Terra Nostra: Schriften der Alfred Wegener-Stiftung, v. 3, p. 26-27.

Dahl, P.F., 1999, Heavy water and the wartime race for nuclear energy. Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, England/Philadelphia, 399 p., $60.

Dal Paz, G.V., 1997, Alpine Geology aand historical evolution of the Orogenic concept: Memoire della Accademia della Scienze di Torino, v. 21, p. 49-83.

Damkaer, D.M., 2000, Determination and enthusiasm: Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854-1926). his Plankton studies and other things oceanographical: Archives of Natural History, v. 27, no. 2, p.209-229.

Daniels, Stephen, 1999, Humphry Repton: Landscape gardening and the geography of Georgian England. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, Conn, 317 p.

Davidson, Keay, 1999, Carl Sagan: A Life. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York/ Chichester/ Weinheim/ Brisbane/Singapore/Toronto, 540 p.

Davis, S.N., 1999, Humboldt, Arago, and the temperature of ground water: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 7, p. 501-503.

Davis, S.N. and Davis, A.G., 1997, Saratoga Springs and early hydrogeochemistry in the United States: Ground Water, v. 35, no. 2, p. 347-356.

Day, P., ed., 1998, The search for extraterrestrial life: essays on science and technology. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 167 p., $35.

Diacu, Florin and Holmes, Philip, 1997, Celestial encounters: the origins of chaos and stability. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, ISBN: 0-691-00545-1, $14.95.

Dick, W.R. and Hamel, Jürgen, eds., 1998, Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte. (Acta Historica Astronomiae, v. 1), Harri Deutsch, Thun/Frankfurt am Main, 184 p., DM 28.

Dinosaur Imagery, 2000, The Science of Lost Worlds and Jurassic Art. The Lanzendorf Collection. Academic Press, San Diego, 176 p., ISBN 0-12-436590-6, $49.95.

Dobos, Irma, Dudich, Endre, and Széky-Fux, Vilma, 1998, ‘150 Years of the Hungarian Geological Society. Part II’: Acta Geologia Hungarica, v. 41, p. 151-170.

Dobrovolskii, G.V., 1998, History of Science—Achievements and prospects of research studies and student training at the Faculty of Soil Science, Moscow State University: Eurasian Soil Science, v. 31, no. 12, 1388 p.

Dodick, J. and Orion, N., 2000, The Revolution of "deep time" and its implications for geology in the scientific and educational domains (abstract). Israel Geological Society, Annual Meeting, p. 32.

Dostrovsky, I., 2000, Mineral exploration in the Negev in the late 1940's -early 1950's (abstract): Israel Geological Society, Annual Meeting, p. 34.

Dott Jr., R.H., 1999, The Wisconsin School of geology: early intellectual exports: Wisconsin Academy Review, summer, p. 29-34.

Dott Jr., R.H., 1998, What is unique about geological reasoning?: GSA Today, October, p. 15-18.

Dott Jr., R.H. and Jordan, W.M., 1999, Doctor Koch's Horrendous Hydrarchos: Geotimes, v. 44, no. 3, p. 20-24.

Dudich, Endre, 1998, Milestones of the 150-year history of the Hungarian Geological Society: Földtani Kö zlöny, v. 128, p. 31-46.

Edney, M.H., 1997, Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843. University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 458 p., $35.

Edson, Evelyn, 1999, Mapping time and space: how medieval mapmakers viewed their world. (The British Library Studies in Map History, v. 1), The British Library, London, 210 p., £29.95.

Elder, J., 1998, Reading the mountains of home. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass)/London, 253 p., ISBN 0-674-74888-3, £15.50.

Eldredge, Niles, 2000, The triumph of evolution: and the failure of creationism. W.H. Freeman and Company/Peter N. Nevramont, New York, $24.95.

Evdokimova, T.I. and Vasil'Evskaya, V.D., 1998, On the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Soil Science, Moscow State University: Eurasian Soil Science, v. 31.12, not paginated.

Exton, B.J., 2000, Exploring geology on the world-wide web—history of geoscience: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 48, p. 96-97.

Fabian, A.C., ed., 1998, Evolution: society, science, and the universe. (Darwin College Lectures). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 180 p., $22.95.

Feller, Christian, 1997, La matiere organique des sols: Aspects historique et etat des conception actuelles: C.R. Acad. Agric. France, v. 83.6, p. 85-131, with Discussion & Eng. Summary.

Ferguson, Kitty, 1999, Measuring the universe: our historic quest to chart the horizons of space and time. Walker and Company, New York, 342 p., $27.

Fernie, J.D., 2000, Eclipse vicissitudes: Thomas Edison and the chickens: American Scientist, v. 88, no. 2, p. 120-123.

Ferreira, M.R.P.V., 1998, 200 Anos de Mineralogia e Arte de Minas: Desde a Faculdade de Filosofia (1772) até à Faculdade de Ciê ncias (1972), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universitdade de Combra, 188 p.

Fettweis, G.B., 1997, Darlegungen zur ersten international organisierten wissensschaftlichen Gesellschaft der Erde (1786-1791) anläß lich der zweiten Auflage der Schrift "Über Ignaz von Born und die Societät der Bergbaukunde": Res montanarum, v. 16, p. 43-47.

Fettweis, G.B., 1998, Gedanken zum Begriff der Bergbauwissenschaften in Beiträge zur Geschichte von Bergbau, Geologie und Denkmalschutz: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Otfried Wagenbreth, TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, p. 36-43.

Finocchiaro, M.A., 1997, Galileo Galilei. Galileo on the world systems: a new abridged translation and guide. University of California Press, Los Angeles, 425 p., $55.

Fleming, J.R., 1998, Historical perspectives on climate changee. Oxford University Press, New York, 194 p.

Flessa, K.W., 2000, Learning from the dead: Science, v. 288, no. 5473, p. 1971-1972.

Foster, J.B. and Magdoff, Fred, 1998, Liebig, Marx, and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: relevance for today's agriculture: Monthly review, v. 50.3, p. 32-45.

Fouque, Ferdinand, 1998, Santorini and its Eruptions (Foundations of Natural History). Translated by Alexander R. McBirney. Originally published 1879. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore/London, 495 p.

Fowler, Brenda, 2000, Iceman: uncovering the life and times of a prehistoric man found in an Alpine Glacier. Random House, New York, $25.

Friedman, G.M., 2000, Why another journal?: Oil-Industry History, v. 1, p. 1.

Friedman, G.M. and Poissant, S.A., 2000, Petroleum geology in the United States: Oil-Industry History, v. 1, p. 98-109.

Fritscher, B., 1998, The Fabrication of rocks: the geophysical laboratory and the production of modernity in mineralogy and geochemistry, in B. Fritscher and F. Henderson, eds, Toward a history of mineralogy, petrology, and chemistry: proceedings of the symposium on the history of mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry, 8./9.3.1996, Algorismus: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften, v. 23, p. 357-379.

Fritscher, B., 1998, Paul Groth, Mineraloge: Aspekte einer Wissenschaftlerkarriere im Deutschen Kaiserreich: Südhoffs Archiv, v. 82, p. 30-51.

Fritscher, B., 1998, Ein ‘physiches System’ der Erde: Zur Bedeutung der Geognosie A.G. Werners für die Entwicklung einer chemischen Geologie, in H. Albrecht, W. Arnold, and P. Schmidt, eds., Beitraege zur Geoschichte von Bergbau, Geologie und Denkmalschutz: Festschrift zum 70. Geburstag von Otfried Wagenbreth, Freiberg, p. 54-58.

Fritscher, Bernard and Henderson, Fergus, eds., 1998, Toward a history of mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry. (Algoismus: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften, v. 23). (Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Munich, March 8-9, 1996), Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich, 424 p.

Fry, Iris, 2000, The emergence of life on earth: a historical and scientific overview. Rutgers, 256 p., $24.

Fuller, John, 2000, The prehistory of geological field work, in William Smith Millennium Meeting: Celebrating the age of the earth, June 28/29, 2000, Geological Society of London, co-sponsored by Geological Society of America: History of Geology Group Newsletter, February, no. 11, p. 3-4.

Gee, Henry, 1999, In search of deep time: beyond the fossil record to a new history of life. Free Press, New York, $26.

Gennadiyev, A.N. and Olson, K.R., 1998, Pedological cooperation between Russia and the USA, Past to Present: Soil Science Society of America Journal, v, 62.5, p. 1153-1161.

Gingerich, Owen, 1999, The Copernican quinquecentennial and its predecessors: historical insights and national agendas: Osiris, v. 14, p. 37-60.

Gohau, Gabriel, ed., 1997, De la géologie à son histoire: Ouvrage édité en hommage à François Ellenberger. Preface by Helmut Hölder. (Mémoires de la Section des Sciences, v. 13). 224 p., Fr 300.

Goldstein, B.R., 1999, Astronomy in the medieval Spanish Jewish community, p. 225-241 in Lodi Nauta, Arjo Vanderjagt, eds., Between demonstration and imagination: Essays … presented to John D. North. Brill, Leiden.

Conçalves, P.W., 1998, James Hutton e a origem dos granitos: Terra em Revista, v. 4, p. 94-96.

Gould, S.T., 1999, The Pre-Adamile in a Nutshell: Natural History, v. 108, p. 24-27, 72-77.

Gould, S.J., 2000, The narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm: Natural History, v. 109, no. 6, p. 24-37.

Gould, S.J., 1999, The evolution of life on earth: Scientific American, December, p. 27-33.

Gould, S.J., 1998, Writing in the margins: famed as the greatest of chemists, Lavoisier made seminal contributions to geology that have gone unheralded: Natural History, v. 11/98, p. 16-20.

Gould, S.J., 1999, Take another Look: Science, v. 286, p. 899.

Gould, S.J., 1998, The allure of equal halves: The Sciences, v. 38, no. 6, p. 33.

Gould, S.J., 2000, Abscheulich! (Atrocious!): Haeckel's distortions did not help Darwin: Natural History, v. 109, no. 2, p. 42-49.

Gould, S.J., 1999, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. Library of Contempory Thought (Ballantine), New York, 250 p., ISBN 0-345-43009-3, $18.95.

Gould, S.J., 2000, What does the dreaded "E" word mean anyway?: A reverie for the opening of the new Hayden Planetarium: Natural History, v. 109, no. 1, p. 28-44.

Gould, S.J., 2000, Jim Bowie's letter and Bill Buckner's legs: Natural History, v. 109, no. 4, p. 26-40.

Griffith, E.G., 2000, Recollections from the oil patch: winter well-sitting in Northern Montana: The Outcrop, v. 49, no. 1, p. 6-7.

Grout, Andrew, 1990, Geology and India, 1775-1805: an episode in colonial science: South Asia Res., v. 10, p. 1-18.

Guntau, M., 1998, Zu einigen Vorstellungen über die Natur der Erde in Rahmen physikotheolo-gischer Konzepte des 18. Jahrhunderts, in H. Albrecht, W. Arnold, and P. Schmidt, eds., Beitraege zur Geoschichte von Bergbau, Geologie und Denkmalschutz: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Otfried Wagenbreth, Freiberg, p. 59-63.

Guntau, M., 1998, Georgius Agricula und der Geist seiner Zeit, in 2. Rundbrief Agricola, ed. Forschungcentrum Chemnitz (AFC), Chemnitz, p. 3-12.

Guntau, M., 1998, Zur Gruendung staatlicher Geological Surveys und Geologischer Dienste im 19. Jahrhundert: Zeitschrift fuer geologische Wissenschaften, v. 26, p. 257-264.

Haeckel, Ernst, 1998, Kunstformen der Natur. Edited by Olaf Breidbach and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt. Foreward by Richard P. Hartmann. Prestel Verlag. Munich/NY, 140 p.

Haile, Neville, 2000, G.A.F. Molengraaff (1860-1942): pioneer field geologist in Indonesia and South Africa, in William Smith Millennium Meeting: Celebrating the age of the earth, June 28/ 29, 2000, Geological Society of London, co-sponsored by Geological Society of America: History of Geology Group Newsletter, February, no. 11, p. 10-13.

Haughton, S.H., 1969, Geological History of Southern Africa. Geological Society of South Africa.

Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta and Krüger, Gundole, 1998, James Cook: Gifts and treasures from the south seas: the Cook/Forster collection, Göttingen, Pnestel, Munich, 351 p.

Heise, B.W., 1999, Visions of the world: geography and maps during the Baroque Age, 1550-1750: Diss. Abstr. Int., v. 59, p. 2677-A (Dissertation at Cornell University, 1998. Advisor: David Sabean. Univ. Microfilms order no. 98-38794, 464 p.).

Herbst, K.-D., 1999, Astronomie um 1700: Kommentierte Edition des Briefes von Gottfried Kirch an Olaus Romer vom 25. Oktober 1703 (Acta Historica Astronomie, v. 4). Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt, 143 p., DM 24.

Hernschier, Wolfgang, 1997, "Ich wollte, ich wäre ein guter Schuhflicker…": Das unglückliche Leben des bayerischen Astronomen Johann Nepomuck Fischer (1749-1805): Eine doku-mentarische Biographie. GNT-Verlag, Bassum, 78 p., DM25.

Herries Davies, G.L., 2000, John Christopher Thackray 1948-1999: Archives of Natural History, v. 27, no. 1, p. 1-8.

Hewett, D.F., Knopf, Adolf, and Calkins, F.C., 1998, The USGS in the Early 1900s: Reminiscences of D. Foster Hewett. Adolph Knopf, and Frank C. Calkins: Open-File Report 97-267-C, US. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, CD-rom, ISBN 060789831-3, For sale by: USGS Information Services, Box 25286, Building 810, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA, (303) 202-4200.

Hofbauer, G., 1998, Methodlogische Reflexion im Wandel der Geowissenschaften: Terra Nostra, v. 3, p. 137-138.

Hofmann, Th., 1998, Von der Geognosie zur Plattentektonik: Die Entdeckung der Alpen und die Geschichte der Geologie: Alpenvereingsjahrbuch, Innsbruck, v. 122, p. 117-123.

Hongzhen, Wang, Branagan, O.Z., and Xulian, Wang, eds., 1998, Comparative planetology, geological education, history of geology: proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing, China, 4-14 August, 1996, v. 26, VSP, Utrecht and Tokyo, 1997: INHIGEO Newsletter, no. 30, p. 29-32.

Hoquet, Thierry, 1998, La théorie des climats dans l'Histoire naturelle de Buffon: Corpus, v. 34, p. 59-90.

Hoskin, Michael, ed., 1997, The Cambridge illustrated history of astronomy. (Cambridge Illustrated Histories). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, 392 p., $39.95.

Hoskin, Michael, ed., 1999, The Cambridge concise history of astronomy. Based on the Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, 362 p.

Howse, Derek, 1998, Britian's board of longitude: the finances, 1714-1828: Mariner's Mirror, v. 84, p. 400-417.

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