Table of Contents, Letter from the President, Treasurer, Secretary, Editor's Introduction

Peat bogs as geological archives: Lennart Von Post et al., and the development of quantitative pollen analysis during World War I

Spending some time in the field. Fieldwork in the Portugese Geological Survey during the twentieth century

A summary of 19^th and early 20^th Century researchers of glacial Lake Agassiz, North America: from Noah's Flood to Upham's bathtub and beyond

A priori and a posteriori geological mapping. The geological maps of the world by Ami Boué (1843) and Jules Marcou (1861)—the Australasian aspects

The journey from elite society to government geologist: Henry de la Beche's (1796-1855) powerful impact on the importance of observation within an emerging professional science

Administering science: the paper form of scientific practice and geological fieldwork

British pioneers of the geology of Gibraltar, Part 3: E. B. Bailey and Royal Engineers 1943 to 1953

Maurice Ewing, Frank Press, and the long-period seismographs at Lamont and Caltech

Shiyan Tao and the history of indigenous meteorology in China

The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes (by Conevery Bolton Valencius); Dewitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York (by David Spanagel); On the Strata of the Earth: A Translation (by Stephen M. Rowland and Slava Korolev)

Notes on Contributors