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Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Calendar of Events, Notices, Table of Contents
Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Calendar of Events, Notices, Table of Contents
Page Range: 81 – 90
Acloque, Paul, 1983, Les marées et le mouvement de la Terre. Rev. Hist. Sci., V. 36, pp. 265-283.
Aramco World Magazine, V. 35, No. 3, 1984, Aramco: A Celebration. Aramco, A Corporation, 340 Shoreham Building, 15th and H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. 72 pp.
Bates, Charles C., Gaskell, Thomas F. and Rice, Robert B., 1982, Geophysics in the affairs of man: A personalized history of exploration geophysics and its allied sciences of seismology and oceanography. Pergammon, Oxford, xx + 40 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Berdoulay, Vincent, 1982, La métaphore organiciste; Contribution à l'etude du langage des géographes. Ann. Geogr., V. 91, pp. 573-586.
Bialas, Volker, 1982, Erdgestalt, Kosmologie und Weltanschauung: Die Geschichte der Geodäsi als Teil der Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit. (Vermessungswesen bei Konrad Wittwer, 9.) Wittwer, Stuttgart, vi + 365 pp., illus., notes, index.
Brekke, Asgeir and Egeland, Alv., 1983, The northern light: From mythology to space research. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Ix + 170 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Brush, Stephen G., 1982, Chemical history of the earth's core. Eos, V. 47, pp. 1185-1186, 1188.
Brush, Stephen G., 1982, Finding the age of the Earth: By physics of by faith? J. Geol. Educ., V. 30, pp. 34-58.
Carozzi, Albert V., La géologie en Suisse des débuts jusqu à 1882: Digression sur l'histoire de la géologie suisse depuis Konrad Gesner (1565) jusqu à Heinrich Wettstein (1880). Eclogae Geol. Helv., V. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-32.
Dedmond, Emmett, 1984, Challenge and Response: A Modern History of Standard Oil Company (Indiana). The Mobium Press, P.O. Box 1198, Glenview, IL 60025. $15.75.
Fleming, Charles Alexander, 1983, The Influence of Early German Naturalists and Explorers in New Zealand. ??
Goodstein, Judith, 1983, Archiving early seismological records at the California Institute of Technology. Earthquake Inform. Bull., V. 15, pp. 177-184.
Grewe, Klaus, 1984, Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Vermessungswesen. Biblography of the history of surveying. (Schriftenreihe des Förderkreises Vermessungstechnisches Museum, 6.) Wittwer, Stuttgart, xv + 336 pp.
Groeben, Christiane, 1984, History: The Naples Zoological Station and Woods Hole. Oceanus, V. 27, No. 1, pp. 60-69.
Ham, Elizabeth, A., 1983, A History of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, 1908 - 1983. Special Publication 83-2, Oklahoma Geological Survey, The University of Oklahoma, 830 Van Vleet Oval, Room 163, Norman, OK 73019. 60 pp.
Hazen, Margaret H. and Hazen, Robert M., 1985, Wealth Inexhaustible: A History of America's Mineral Resources. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. 457 pp. $45.00 (hardcopy)
Hewson, J. B., 1983, A history of the practice of navigation. Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, Second edition, Viii + 295 pp., illus., index.
Kobold, Fritz, 1982, Enstehung und Entiwicklung des Institutes für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie, 1855-1974. (Mitteilungen des Institutes, 32.) Institut fur Geodasie und Photogrammetrie, Zürich, 40 pp., illus., bibl.
Koeman, IR. C., 1983, Geschiedenis van de kartografie van Nederland: Zes eeuwen landen zeekaartewn en stadsplattegronden. Canaletto, Alphen aan den Rijn, 278 pp., illus., maps, index.
Mclachlan, Dan and Glusker, Jenny, 1983, Crystallography in North America. American Crystallographic Association, New York, x + 479 pp., illus, notes, index.
Mills, Eric L., 1983, Problems of deep-sea biology: An historical perspective. Pp. 1-79 in G. T. Rowe (ed.) The Sea, V. 8, Deep-sea biology, New York: Wiley.
Noma, Eliot J., 1983, Centroid scaling of citation data: Charting the history of a scientific specialty, plate tectonics. Diss. Abstr. Int., V. 43, pp. 3145-A.
Perry, T. M., 1982, The discovery of Australia: The charts and maps of the navigators and explorers. Hamilton, London, 159 pp., illus., maps, index.
Pinsel, Marc I., 1982, 150 years of service on the seas: A pictoral history of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office from 1830 to 1980. Foreword by Henry C. Beck. Washington, D.C., Oceanographic Office, Dept. of the Navy, V. 1, 1830-1946, ix + 233 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Robinson, D. R., 1982, Geomagnetic observatories in the British Isles. Vistas Astron., V. 26, pp. 347-367.
Simpson, G. G., 1984, Discoveries of the Lost World. An account of some of those who brought back to life South American mammals long buried in the abyss of time. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 223 pp. $25.00.
Sládeček, Vladimír and Lellák, Jan, 1982, Vyvoj orientace limnologie v Ceskoslovensku. (On the history of limnology in Czechoslovakia.) Dějiny Věd Tech., V. 15, pp. 77-87.
Taylor, K. L., 1984, Early Geoscience Mapping, 1700-1830. Geoscience Information Society, Proc., V. 15, pp. 15-49.
Van Allen, James, A., Origins of magnetospheric physics. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 144 pp., illus., bibl.
Yochelson, Ellis L., 1985, The National Museum of Natural History: 75 Years in the New National Museum. Published on the Occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the Natural History Building, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 21 pp.