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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar, Miscellanea, Annual Index
Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar, Miscellanea, Annual Index
Page Range: 159 – 171
Grinnell, J., Dixon, J., & Linsdale, J.M., 1930, Vertebrate natural history of a section of northern California through the Lassen Peak region: Univ. Calif. Publ. Zoology, v. 35, 594 p.
Amberger, Gad, Carozzi, Albert V., Charollais, Jean, Decrouez, Danielle, Ruchat, Claude and Zaninetti, Louisette, 1988, Histoire géologique du Salève d'Horace-Bénédict de Saussure à nos jours: Archs. Sci. Genève, v. 41, p. 1-42.
Appel, T., 1987, The Cuvier-Geoffroy debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin. Oxford University Press, 305 p. £29.50.
Baker, V.R., 1988, Geological fluvial morphology: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 100, p. 1157 - 1167. The history of the American fluvial geomorphology over the past century as viewed as one of conflict and crises.
Barrett, P.H., Gautrey, P.J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney, eds., 1987, Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836 - 1844, Geology, transmutations, of species, metaphysical enquiries: British Museum (Natural History), London, and Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 747 p. $75.
Beggs, S.S., 1988, Centennial activities offer unique events: Geotimes, v. 33, p. 10 - 11.
Berkeley, Edmund and Berkeley, D.S., 1988, George William Featherstonhaugh the First U.S. Government geologist. Univ. of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 357 p.
Bunt, E.A., 1977, highlights of engineering research in South Africa, p. 427 - 453, in Brown, A.C., ed., A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa. A collection of essays published on the occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa. 516 p. Includes some mining geology.
Cain, J.A., 1988, Creationism and mammal origins: Jour. Geol. Education, v. 36, p. 94 - 105.
Cassidy, G.J., 1988, George Frederic Matthew: Invertebrate Paleontologist: Geoscience Canada, v. 15, p. 157 - 163.
Cluver, M.A. and Barry, T.H., 1977, Advances in South African Vertebrate Paleontology, p. 318 - 338, in Brown, A.C., ed., A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa. A collection of essays published on the occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa. 516 p.
Craig, G.Y. and Dudich, Endre, 1988, International commission on the history of geological sciences: Episodes, v. 11, p. 3 - 4.
Darragh, T.A., 1987, The Geological Survey of Victoria under Alfred Selwyn, 1852 - 1868: Historical Records of Australian Science, v. 7, p. 1 - 25.
Destombes, M., 1987, Contributions sélectionées à l'histoire de la cartographie et des instruments scientifiques. Selected contributions to the history of cartography and scientific instruments, in Schilder, P.C.J. van der Krogt en S.W.G. de Clercq, eds. 592 p.
D'Urville, D., 1988, Two voyages to the South Seas (1830 - 1840), Rosenman, Helen, translator and ed. Two volumes. Melbourne University Press. $75.
Ellenberger, F., 1988, Histoire de la géologie: Technique et Documentation, Dept. Edition et Diffusion, Lavoisier, Paris, France, 360 p., 165 F.
Ellison, S.P., Jones, J.J. and Owen, Mirva, editors, 1987, The flavor of Ed Owen - a geologist looks back, 142 p. Order from Earth Enterprises, P.O. Box 627, Austin, TX 78767. $11.
Engel, C.G., 1987, Rocks in my head. New York, Vantage Press, Inc. 203 p. $10.95.
Ganis, G.R., 1988, Iron-mining store scrip in Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geology, v. 19, p. 2-5.
Gill, M.A.V. and Knell, S.J., 1988, Collection, Collectors and museums of note. No. 54, Tunbridge Wells Museum: Geology and George Abbot (1844 - 1925): The Geol. Curator, v. 5, p. 3 - 16.
Gladish, L.E., 1988, GSA first officers elected at Cornell: Geotimes, v. 33, p. 17 - 19.
Gohau, Gabriel, 1987, Histoire de la géologie. Paris, Editions la Découverte, 259 p.
Gould, S.J., 1987, Essays about books and ideas: W.W. Norton, 255 p. (1987). $18.95.
Gould, S.J., 1988, The verdict on creationism: New York Teacher, v. 29, No. 15, p. 8.
Groot, J.J., 1988, the Delaware Geological Survey: The formative years 1951 - 1969: Delaware Geol. Survey Spec. Publ. No. 17, 28 p.
Guilbert, J.M., 1988, 100 years of economic geology: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 100, p. 811 - 817.
Haughton, S.H., 1977, South African Geology, p. 339 - 357, in Brown, A.C., ed., A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa. A collection of essays published on the occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa. 516 p.
Hedberg, H.D., 1988, The 1740 description by Daniel Tilas of stratigraphy and petroleum occurrence at Osmundsberg in the Siljan region of central Sweden: The Tilas Translation: American Assoc. Petroleum Geol., Catalog 553.
Hoyt, W.G., 1987, Coon Mountain controversies: meteor crater and the development of impact theory. Forward by Eugene M Shoemaker. Tuscon, University of Arizona, 442 p. $40.
Hunt, C.B., 1988, Geology of the Henry Mountains, Utah, as recorded in the notebooks of G.K. Gilbert, 1875 - 76. Geol. Soc. America Memoir 167, 299 p. $52.50.
Lafuente, Antonio and Estrella, Eduardo, 1988, Scientific enterprise, academic adventure and drawing-room culture in the Geodesic Mission to Quito; p. 13 - 31, in Saldaña, J.J., ed., Cross Cultural Diffusion of Science: Latin America, Soc. Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencas y la Technologia, Cuadernos de Quipu 2 Mexico, D.F., 133 p.
Livingstone, D.M., 1987, Nat Southgate Shaler and the culture of American science. Univ. of Alabama Press, 395 p. $32. 95.
McCarry, Charles, 1988, Three men who made the magazine: National Geographic, v. 174, p. 287 - 316.
Morrell, J.B., 1988, The early Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society: a reconsideration: Annals of Science, v. 45, p. 153 - 167.
Multhauf, R.P. and Good, Gregory, 1987, A brief history of geomagnetism and a Catalog of the collection of the National Museum of American History. Smithsonian studies in History and Technology, 48. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 87 p.
Norton, Mary, 1988, Well Done Well # 7: Aramco World, v. 39, p. 6 - 13. Discovery in March 1938 of the Jurassic Arab zone oil reservoir in Arabia.
Pettijohn, F.J., 1988, A century of geology 1885 - 1985 at the Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Gateway Press, Inc. 316 p.
Schröder, Wilfried, ed., Historical events and people in Geosciences. M. Berne, Frankfurt, New York, 220 p.
Smath, M.L. 1988, Kentucky Survey's history and challenges: Geotimes, v. 33, No. 10, p. 23-25.
Smith, M.L., 1988, Pacific visions. California scientists and the environment. New Haven, Ct., Yale University Press, 243 p. $26.50.
Smith, P.J., 1988, Early mining in South Australia: Geology Today, v., 4, p. 30 - 34.
Society for the History of Natural History, 1988, From Linnaeus to Darwin: Commentaries on the history of biology and geology: Soc. for the History of Natural History, Spec. Publ. No. 3, 217 p., $25.
Stafford, R.A., 1988, Roderick Murchison and the structure of Africa: a geological prediction and its consequences for British Expansion: Annals of Science, v. 45, p. 1 - 40.
Tasch, Paul, 1987, Influence of Lyell's Principals on Darwin's evolutionary concepts: The Compass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, v. 65, p. 2 - 11.
Turner, Susan, 1988, Charles Moore's fossil fish from Queensland: the Geol. Curator, v. 5, p. 20 - 22.
Wahl, F.M., 1988, GSA celebrates past and looks to future: Geotimes, v. 33, p. 12 - 14. Wall, B.H., 1988, Growth in a changing environment.
The Hibbert Group, CN-06150, Trenton, New Jersey, 08650. $12. History of the Exxon Corporation 1950 - 1975.
Walliser, O.H. and Alberti, Liselotte, 1987, Die Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie in Göttingen (the history of geology and paleontology at the University of Göttingen): Nachrichten der Universität Gottingen, Georgia Augusta, p. 73 - 76.
Willey, R.R., 1987, The Tuscan meteorites. Their history from frontier Arizona to the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C., 48 p. $8.45 (paper).
Yochelson, E.L., 1988, The Bulletin of the Geological Society of America and Charles Doolittle Walcott: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 100, p. 3 - 11.
Zartman, R E., 1988, Three decades of geochronologic studies in the New England Appalachians: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 100, p. 1168 - 1180.
Pickett, T.E., 1988, James C. Booth - the papers of a nineteenth-century chemist-geologist: Collections, University of Delaware Library Associates, v. 3, p. 20 - 35.
Pollard, D.D. and Aydin, Atilla, 1988, Progress in understanding jointing over the past century: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 100, 1181 - 1204.
Preston, D.J., 1986, An excursion into the American Museum of Natural History. St. Martin's Press, 244 p. $18.95 cloth, $4.50 paper.
Saldañna, J.J., ed., Cross Cultural Diffusion of Science: Latin America, Soc. Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencas y la Technologia, Cuadernos de Quipu 2, Mexico, D.F., 133 p.