Book Reviews, Announcements, Interesting Publications, Calendar

Atherton, M. P., 1993, Volume 150 celebration paper: Granite magmatism: Journal of the Geol. Soc., London, v. 150, p. 1009-1023.

Bagnold, R. A., 1991, Libyan sands travel in a dead world (originally published in 1935). Michael Haag Ltd., Box 369, London NW3 4ER, UK, $11.95.

Baker, V. R., 1992, Uncertainty and tolerance in science and decision making: Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, v. 9, p. 253-258.

Benítez, Miguel, 1992, La première edition du Telliamed: Trans. Int. Congr. Enlightenment, v. 8, p. 1750-1753.

Berderman, Sanford H., 1992, The Royal Geographical Society, E. G. Ravenstein, and a map of eastern equatorial Africa-1877-1883: Imago Mundi, v. 42, p. 106-119.

Bener, Robert A., 1988, Robert Minard Garrels, August 24, 1916-March 8, 1988: Biogr. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., v. 61, p. 195-212.

Bevan, A., 1993, Meteorites and mammon: Mineralogical Society Bull., v. 98, p. 3-7.

Biermann, Kurt-R, 1993, "Ein Preusse weiss, was er von Bayerns König zu erwarten hat": Maximilian II. von Bayern und sein Ratgeber Alexander von Humboldt: Kult. Tech., v. 1, p. 35-37.

Black, Jeremy, 1992, Maps and charts: The historical atlas: A perspective from 1992: Stor. Storiogr., v. 21, p. 91-114.

Bork, K., 1994, Cracking rocks and defending democracy. The life and times of Kirtley Fletcher Mather. Pacific Division of the Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 340 p. $26.95.

Bowen, Robert, 1993, Universal ice: Science and ideology in the Nazi state. Belhaven Press, London, 189 p.

Boylan, P. J., 1992, Save the world's historic oil and gas sites: Geology Today, v. 8, p. 51-52.

Branagan, D. F., Gibbons, G. S., & Williams, K. L., editors, 1991, Geological mapping of two southern continents: I. The geological mapping of Australia; II. The geology of Antarctica, The first and second Edgeworth David Day Symposium, presented by the Edgeworth David Society, University of Sydney Printing Services, Univ. of Sydney, 144 p. $16.00 (incl. postage).

Branagan, D. F., & Williams, K. L., 1991, Looking to the Pacific for geological answers: Fourth Edgeworth David Day Symposium, presented by the Edgeworth David Society. University of Sydney Printing Services, Univ. of Sydney, 130 p.

Branagan, D., 1992, Richard Owen, Thomas Mitchell and Australian science, a commemorative symposium: Journal and Proceedings, Royal Society of New South Wales, v. 125, p. 93-94.

Branagan, D. F., 1993, Samuel Stuchburg: A natural history voyage to the Pacific, 1825-27 and its consequences: Archives of Natural History, v. 20, p. 69-91.

Bryden, D. J., 1993, Magnetic inclinatory needles: Approved by the Royal Society? Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. Lond., v. 47, p. 17-31.

Bunch, Keith R., 1992, "Stable equilibrium is death": Henry Adams, Sir Charles Lyell, and the paradox of progress: New Engl. Quart., v. 65, p. 631-647.

Burkhardt, F., & Smith, S., editors, 1992, The correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 7: 1858-9. Cambridge University Press, 706 p., $59.95.

Burkhardt, F., Porter, D., Browne, J., & Richmond, M., editors, 1993, The correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8: 1860. Cambridge University Press, 706 p., $59.95.

Burkhardt, F., & Burkhardt, A. S., 1993, A calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882. Cambridge University Press, 740 p., $150.00.

Butcher, N. E., 1993, Sheffield and Reading-John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Phoebe Walder (1899-1992): Geologists Assoc. Circular, No. 898, p. 23.

Camerini, Jane, R., 1993, Evolution, biogeography, and maps: An early history of Wallace's Line: Isis, v. 84, p. 700-727.

Campbell, C. J., 1991, The golden century of oil 1950-2050-the depletion of a resource. Kluwer Academic, £64 (UK).

Carozzi, A. V., & Newman, J. K., 1993, A manuscript of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure on the origin of coal; Oratio de Lithantrace (1770): Science, Business, and Environmental Politics: Archs Sci. Genève, v. 46, p. 1-36.

Champlin, P., 1994, Gentleman geologist of the gilded age. University of Alabama Press, 288 p., $49.95.

Cleevely, R. J., & Chapman, S. D., 1992, The accumulation and disposal of Gideon Mantell's fossil collections and their role in the history of British palaeontology: Arch. Natur. Hist., v. 19, p. 307-364.

Colbert, Edwin H., 1992, William Diller Matthew, palaeontologist: The splendid drama observed. Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 27 p., $45.00.

Coleman, R. G., 1993, Historical aspects of geologic studies in the Red Sea basin, p. 3-10. In: Coleman, R. G., Geologic evolution of the Red Sea. Oxford University Press, New York, 186 p.

Cooper, John A., 1992, The life and works of George Bax Holmes (1803-1887) of Horsham, Sussex: A Quaker vertebrate fossil collector: Arch. Natur. Hist., v. 19, p. 379-400.

Cremo, Michael A., & Thompson, Richard L., 1993, The hidden history of the human race: Forbidden archeology. Bhaktivedanta Institute, San Diego, 914 p., $39.95.

Cwyner, L. C., Bennett, K. D., & MacDonald, G. M., 1993, James Cunnigham Ritchie: Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, v. 79, p. 1-5.

Danzer, Gerald A., 1991, Images of the earth on three early Italian woodcuts: Candidates for the earliest printed maps in the west. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, occasional publication 5. Newberry Library, Chicago, 35 p.

Dean, D. R., 1992, James Hutton and the history of geology. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 303 p.

Donovan, Desmond, 1993, Let's get it right about de la Beche: Geologists Assoc. Circular, No. 898, p. 26.

Doyle, Peter, 1993, The lessons of Crystal Palace: Geology Today, v. 9, p. 107-109.

Doyle, P., & Robinson, E., 1993, The Victorian "geological illustrations" of Crystal Park Palace: Proc. Geol. Assoc., v. 104, p. 181-194.

Effland, Anne B. W., & Effland, William R., 1992, Soil geomorphology studies in the U.S. Soil Survey program: Agr. Hist., v. 66, p. 189-212.

Emery, K. O., Dietz, R. S., & Kuhn, G. G., 1993, Influence of Francis Parker Shepard on marine geology: Mar. Geol. v. 115, p. 153-156.

Espinosa, A., Ingeominas, 75 años, 1916-1991: Una historia de investigación aplicada al desarrollo de Colombia: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 47, p. 46-50.

Fernlund, Kevin J., 1993, William Henry Holmes: Explorer of the Americas from the Yellowstone to the Yucatan, 1872-1895: Diss. Abstr. Int., v. 54, p. 290.

Ferreira, Martin Portugal V., 1989, Um professor de mineralogia e arte de minas e político liberal do século XIX: Roque Fernandes Thomaz: Rev. Univ. Coimbra, v. 35, p. 255-269.

Finch, David, 1993, Turner Valley tales and truths: CSPG Reservoir, v. 20, p. 1-2.

Fleming, James R., 1992, T. C. Chamberlin and H2O climate feedbacks: A voice from the past: EOS, v. 73, p. 505, 509.

Flemming, B. W., & Reineck, H.-E., 1993, Sektion Meeresgeologie I, 175 Jahre Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, Jubiläumsband II, p. 247-250.

Franco, Loredana, 1993, The old globes in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy): Nuncius, v. 8, p. 169-195.

Friedman, G. M., Sanders, J. E., & Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., 1992, Principles of sedimentary deposits: Stratigraphy and sedimentology. Macmillan, New York, 717 p. [This book presents a historical background of key concepts in the study of sedimentary deposits.]

Friedman, G. M., 1993, History of uranium discoveries in eastern Canada, a personal account. Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-206.

Fritscher, Bernhard, 1992, Kant und Werner: Zum Problem einer Geschichte der Natur und zum Verhältnis von Philosophie und Geologie um 1800: Kant Stud., v. 83, p. 417-435.

Fritscher, Bernhard, 1993, Vulkane und Hochöfen: Zur Rolle metallurgischer Erfahrungen bei der Entwicklung der experimentellen Petrologie: Technikgeschichte, v. 60, p. 27-43.

Furr, T. W., 1993, The Oklahoma board on geographic names: A historical sketch. Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 53, p. 44-50.

Gamboa, P., & Mederos, A., 1992, Breve bibliograpfia del profesor Jose Royo y Gomez: Boletin de Historia de las Geociencias en Venezuela, v. 46, p. 11-18.

Gams, I., 1993, Origin of the term "Karst" and the transformation of the Classical Karst (kras): Environmental Geology, v. 21, p. 110-114.

Gardiner, B. G., 1993, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen and the Red Lions: Archives of Natural History, v. 20, p. 349-372.

Garbowska, Jadwiga, 1992, Poglady Krzysztofa Kluka na surowce koplane. (Krzysztof Kluk on fossils): Kwart. Hist. Nauk. Tech., v. 37, p. 97-109.

Garcia de Cuevas, G., 1992, Fuentes para el estudio de los alemanes en Venezuela, siglo XVI: Encuentros, v. 6, p. 3-6.

Geschwind, C.-H., 1993, Becoming interested in experiments: American igneous petrologists and the geophysical laboratory, 1905-1960: Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-256.

Gould, Stephen Jay, 1990, In touch with Walcott: Natural History, v. 7, p. 10-19.

Gould, Stephen Jay, 1993, The fungal forgery. Natural History, v. 102, p. 12-21.

Grases, J., 1993, Empleo de la escala de intensidades de Mercalli para la evaluación de sismos pasados: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 48, p. 7-17.

Grases, J., 1993, Ingeniería sísmica, una nueva disciplina: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 48, p. 18-20.

Guthorn, Peter J., 1991, America's last independent hydrographer. Imago Mundi, v. 41, p. 72-80.

Günzel, Hermann, 1991, Alfred Wegener und sein meteorologisches Tagebuch der Grönland Expedition, 1906-1908. Schriften der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Marburg, 101 p.

Hacqubard, P. A., 1993, Alexander Rankin Cameron, renowned Canadian coal petrologist: Int. Journ. Coal Geol., v. 24, p. 1-5.

Hamm, Ernst P., 1993, Bureaucratic Statistik or actualism? K. E. A. von Hoff's History and the history of geology: Hist. Sci., v. 31, p. 151-176.

Hamm, Ernst P., 1993, Goethe on granite: Diss. Abstr. Int., v. 53, p. 2957.

Hankins, James, 1992, Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance. In: Rodney G. Dennis (editor), The marks in the field: Essays on the uses of manuscripts. The Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., p. 119-127.

Harley, J.B., & Woodward, David, editors, 1992, The history of v. cartography 2, Book 1: Cartography in the traditional Islamic and South Asian societies. University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 579 p., $125.

Harper, J.A., Exploration strategies and blind luck - The historical search for gas in the Lower Devonian Oriskany Sandstone in Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, p. Boston A-206.

Hauner, Ulrich, 1992, Fossilien des Regensburger Raumes in Naturalien Kabinetten des 18. Jahrhunderts: Acta Albertina Ratisbon, v. 48, p. 67-106.

Hawthorne, Frank C., 1993, Minerals, mineralogy and mineralogists: Past, present and future: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 31, p. 253-296.

Hawthorne, Frank C., 1993, Minerals, mineralogy and mineralogists: Past, present and future; addendum: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 31, p. 772.

Hoppe, G., 1992, Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) und Berlin: Der Aufschluss, v. 43, p. 257-266.

Hsu, Kuang-Tai, 1993, Nicolaus Steno and sources: The legacy of the medical and chemical traditions in his early geological writings. Diss. Abstr. Int., v. 53, p. 4452.

Hufbauer, K., 1991, Exploring the sun: Solar science since Galileo, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore/London, 370 p.

Hutchinson, T. P., Version 2 (History and Archaeology) of essentials of statistical methods. Rumsby Scientific Publishing, 152 p.

Jacob, Christian, 1992, L'empire des cartes: Approche théorique de la cartographie à travers l'histoire. Michel Albin, Paris, 537 p.

Kaharl, V. A., 1991, Water baby - The story of Alvin. Oxford University Press, 356 p., $21.95.

Karrow, Robert W., Jr., 1993, Mapmakers of the sixteenth century and their maps: Biobibliographies of the cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570. Based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum. xxx + 846 pp. Speculum Orbis Press, Chicago. (Published for the Newberry library.) $110.

Kidd, Robert, B., 1994, Twenty-three years of British participation in scientific ocean drilling: Geoscientist, v. 4, p. 9-13.

Krause, David, J., 1992, The making of a mining district: Keweenaw native copper, 1500-1870. (Great Lakes Books), Detroit, Mich., Wayne State University Press, 297 p., $19.95.

Kristsky, Gene, 1992, Darwin's Archaeopteryx prophecy: Arch. Natur. Hist. v. 19, p. 407-410.

Laporte, L. F., 1993, Paper-trail of G. G. Simpson as scientist-soldier (poster). Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-37.

Landa, E. R., 1993, Charles Thomas Jackson, Physician/Chemist/Geologist: A life of conflict and controversy. Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-256.

La Sota, K. A., & Jones, J. R., 1992, Seventy-five years of earth science educators at the University of Pittsburgh. Compass of Sigma, Gamma, Epsilon, v. 69, p. 233.

Levere, T. H., 1993, Science and the Canadian Arctic. A century of exploration 1818-1918. Cambridge University Press, 438 p., $64.95.

Livermore, Lin, 1991, Running line-recollections of surveyors. U.S. Dept. Interior. Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D.C., 66 p.

Livingstone, David, N., 1992, The geographical tradition: Episodes in the history of a contested enterprise. Blackwell, Oxford, 434 p.

Major, John S., 1993, Heaven and earth in early Han thought: Chapters three, four, and five of the Huainanzi. State University of New York Press, 388 p.

Martyn, Katherine, 1993, J. B. Tyrrell: Explorer and adventurer: The Geological Survey years, 1881-1898. An exhibition in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. University of Toronto, Toronto, 72 p.

Mason, Brian, 1992, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt. Father of modern geochemistry: Geochemical Soc. Spec. Publ. 4, Trinity Univ., San Antonio, Texas, 189 p.

Mathé, G., 1993, Ernst Kalkowsky (1851-1938), Geologe, Hochschullehrer und Museumsdirektor: Beiträge zur Biographie sächsischer Geowissenschafter: Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums für Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden, v. 39, p. 7-20.

Mathew, William M., editor, 1992, Agriculture, geology, and society in Antebellum South Carolina: The private diary of Edmund Ruffin, 1843, University of Georgia Press, 368 p., $50.00.

Matkin, Joseph, 1992, At sea with the scientifics: The Challenger letters of Joseph Matkin. Philip F. Rehbock, editor, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 415 p.

McColloch, G. H., Jr., 1993, Development of the New River smokeless coalfield of southern West Virginia: Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-207.

Middleton, Gerald V., 1988, The wit to distinguish or the role of physics in geology: Geoscience Canada, v. 15, p. 209-211.

Middleton, Gerald V., 1993, A short history of clastic sedimentology. In: Clastic Tidal Sedimentology, D. G. Smith, G. E. Reinson, B. A. Zaitlin & R. A. Rahmani, editors. Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 16, p. ix-xv.

Mignolo, Walter D., 1992, Putting the Americas on the map: Geography and the colonization of space: Colon. Latin Amer. Rev., v. 1, p. 25-63.

Miller, E. Willard, 1992, The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 402 p.

Mohr, Paul, 1992, A continental rift centenary (letter to editor): Geology, v. 20, p. 94-95.

Moore, Ellen J., 1983, Wendell Phillips Woodring, June 13, 1891-January 29, 1983: Biogr. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., v. 61, p. 499-515.

Mora, M. C., 1992, R. M. Stainforth: Su contribucion a la estratigrafia en Venezuela: Boletin de Historia de las Geociencias en Venezuela, v. 46, p. 1-10.

Moraes, Antonio Carlos Robert, 1991, Notas sobre indentidade nacional e intitucionalização da geografia no Brazil: Quipu, v. 8, p. 349-360.

Mylne, R., 1993, Map of the geology and contours of London and its environs (first published in 1856). London Topographical Soc., republication, 4 colour sheets and 6 b/w text pages all 46 x 59 cm in a card folder. £20.00 (+ p.&p.). Send orders to: London Topographical Society, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2 4QH, England.

Nebeker, Frederik, 1991, Astronomy and the geophysical tradition in the United States in the 19th century: A guide to the manuscript sources in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, American Philosophical Society Publication 16, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 114 p.

Ordaz, J., 1987-88, Datos para la historia de la Petrologia en España en el siglo XIX: Rev. Inv. Geol., v. 44/45, p. 17-29.

Osterbrock, D. E., Gwinn, J. A., & Broashear, R. S., 1993, Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe: Scientific American, v. 269, p. 84-89.

Owen, Tim, & Pilbeam, Elaine, 1992, Ordnance Survey: Map makers to Britain since 1791. Ordnance Survey, Southampton, HMSO, London, 196 p.

Palme de Osechas, C., 1993, Destrucción de la Iglesia de San Alejo y de la Capilla de la Asunción en Boconó por el terremoto en 1801: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 48, p. 21-22.

Palme de Osechas, C., 1993, Reevaluación del terremoto de Trujillo del 29-09-1886: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 48, p. 23-28.

Palme de Osechas, C., 1993, Los terremotos de los anõs 1674, 1775 y 1886 en Trujillo: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 48, p. 29-44.

Pardo, Georges, 1988, Hollis Dow Hedberg, May 29, 1903-August 14, 1988: Biogr. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., v. 61, p. 215-244.

Parvo, Arvi, 1992, Down under - mineral heritage in Australasia (an illustrated history of mining and metallurgy in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea). Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Monograph 18, Victoria, Australia, 310 p.

Prescher, Hans, 1993, Carl Walther Fischer (1897-1979), Mineraloge, Museumsmann, Schuldirektor, Wissenschaftshistoriker, Beiträge zur Biographie sächsischer Geowissenschafter: Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums für Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden, v. 39, p. 21-54.

Purcell, R. W., & Gould, S. J., 1992, Finders, keepers. Eight collectors. Hutchinson Radius, London, U.K., 157 p.

Feineck, H.-E., & Flemming, B. W., 1993, Abteilung für Meeresforschung, 175 Jahre Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Jubiläumsband II, p. 245-246.

Robertson, E. C., editor, 1993, Centennial History of the Geological Society of Washington, 1893-1993, The Geological Society of Washington, % Mineralogical Society of America, 1130 17th St., NW, Suite 330, Washington D.C. 20036.

Robinson, Arthur H., 1992, It was the map-makers who really discovered America: Cartographica, v. 29, p. 31-36.

Robinson, Eric, 1993, Gerald Friedman, fifty not out….; Geologists Assoc. Circular, No. 898, p. 10.

Robinson, Eric, 1993, Mantell restored: Geologists' Association Circular, No. 902, p. 26.

Roed, M. A., 1993, Geologging the past. John Hobson and the bullion pit: Geology, v. 22, p. 59-62.

Rogers, Katherine, 1991, The Sternberg fossil hunters-a dynosaur dynasty. Missoula, Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Co., 288 p., $12.00.

Rolfe, Ian, 1993, A torch for Bev: Geologists Assoc. Circular, No. 898, p. 21.

Romm, J. S., 1992, The edges of the earth in ancient thought: geography, exploration and fiction. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 228 p.

Rose, Gillian, & Driver, Felix, editors, 1992, Nature and science: Essays in the history of geographical knowledge. Historical geography research series, 28. Historical Geography Research Group, 79 p.

Rose, E. P. F., & Rosenbaum, M. S., 1993, British military geologists: Through the second world war to the end of the cold war: Proceedings of the Geologists' Assoc., v. 104, p. 95-108.

Rudwick, Martin J. S., 1992, Scenes from deep time: Early pictorial representations of the prehistoric world. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 280 p.

Rupke, N. A., 1993, Richard Owen's vertebrate archetype: Isis, v. 84, p. 231-251.

Russell, J. B., 1991, Inventing the flat earth: Columbus and modern historians. Praeger Publishers, New York/Westport, Conn., 117 p., $16.95.

Sabine, P. A., 1991, Geologists at war-a forensic investigation in the field of wartime diplomacy: Proc. Geol. Assoc. London, v. 84, p. 139-143.

Savage, L. E., 1993, Time charts of historical cartography: I. Antiquity: Dept. of Geology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 11210. (Charts only).

Savage, R. J. G., 1993, Volume 150 celebration paper: Vertebrate fissure fauna with special reference to Bristol Channel mesozoic faunas: Journal of the Geol. Soc., London, v. 150, p. 1025-1034.

Sawyer, J. S., 1992, Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe, 16 November, 1904-28 May 1991: Biogr. Mem. Fellows Roy. Soc., v. 38, p. 347-358.

Schaaly, S., & Ziegler, W., 1992, Messel. An insight into the history of life and the earth. Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K. 322 p.

Schaer, J.-P., 1991, Emile Argand 1879-1940. Life and portrait of an inspired geologist: Eclogae Geolgicae Helvetiae, v. 84, p. 661-670.

Schefbeck, Günther, 1991, Die österreichischungarischen Tiefsee-Expeditionen, 1890-1898. Weishaupt, Graz, 292 p.

Schmidt, Peter, Das Alexander-von-Humboldt-Kolloquuium vom November. 1991-Eine Nachlese, Aus: Zeitschrift für Freunde und Förderer der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 2, 1. p. 26-30.

Schmidt, Peter, 1992/93, Erstes internationales Symposium über das kulturelle Erbe geo- und montanwissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken an der Tu Bergakademie Freiberg. Aus: Zeitschrift für Freunde und Förderer der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 2, 1. p. 31-32.

Schmidt, Peter, 1994, Zum Briefwechsel Alexander von Humboldt-Ferdinand Reich unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Begriffe "Gelehrtennachlaß" und "Geophysikgeschichte". Aus: Beiträge zur Alexander-von-Humboldt Forschung.-Berlin 18, p. 257-269.

Schneiders, B. R., 1993, Finding future mines via the records of past exploration: The role of Ontario's assessment file database: Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-206.

Schröder, Wilfried, & Wiederkehr, Karl Heinrich, 1992, Georg von Neumayer (1826-1909) und die internationale Entwicklung der Geophysik. I. Teil: Meteologie. II. Teil. Erdmagnetismus: Gesnerus, v. 49, p. 45-62.

Schubert, C., 1993, Contribuciones de Wilhelm Sievers y A. Jahn a la glaciologia venezolana: Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 48, p. 63-66.

Schwarzenbach, F. H., 1992, Towards new horizons: John Haller, 1927-1984. Verlag der Fachvereine und Schweizerische Stiftung für Alpine Forschungen, Zürich, Switzerland, 128 p., $59.00.

Seibold, Ilse, 1992, Der Weg zur Biogeologie: Johannes Walther (1860-1937), ein Forscherleben im Wandel der deutchen Universität. Springer, 196 p.

Seilbold, Ilse, & Seibold, E., 1993, Neues aus dem Geologenarchiv (1992), Vier Deutsche in der Frühzeit der Geowissenschaften in Japan: Geol. Rundsch. v. 82, p. 601-603.

Sellwood, B. W., 1993, Volume 150 celebration paper: Structure and origin of limestones: Jour. Geol. Soc., London, v. 150, p. 801-809. [This paper relates to H. C. Sorby's (1826-1908) presidential address of 1897.]

Sheperd, Robert, 1993, How Hannibal conquered geology: Geology Today, v. 9, p. 102-106.

Shorthand, M., editor. 1993, Science and nature: Essays in the history of the environmental sciences, (BSHS monographs, 8), British Society for the History of Science, 291 p., $19.00.

Siems, P. L., 1993, Schmidt-an early German mining geologist: Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-256.

Skwara, T., 1992, Old bones and serpent stones, A guide to interpreted fossil localities in Canada and the United States. Volume 2: Western sites. Blackburg, Virginia, McDoneld and Woodward Publishing Company, 301 p., $14.95.

Slotten, Hugh Richard, 1993, The dilemmas of science in the United States: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey: Isis, v. 84, p. 26-49.

Smith, J. C., compiler, 1993, Georges Cuvier. An annotated bibliography of his published works. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Inst., Press, 251 p., $48.00.

Soder, P., 1993, Otto Renz (1906-1922): Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de las Geosciencias, v. 47, p. 42-45.

Sonntag, Otto, 1990, The correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Horace-Bénédict de Sausure (Studia Hallerina, 3). Hans Huber, publishers, Bern/Stuttgart, 507 p.

Stein, Julie K., & Linse, Angela R., editors, 1993, Effects of scale on archaeological and geoscientific perspectives. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 283, 91 p.

Stephenson, Richard W., 1993, "A plan whol[l]y new." Pierre Charles L'Enfant's plan of the city of Washington. Geography and maps division, Library of Congress, Washington, 85 p.

Stride, A. H., 1992, The first geological use of side-scan sonar. Geology Today, v. 8, p. 146-150.

Summerhayes, C. P., 1992, Exploring the deep-sea floor in the 1990's and beyond: Geology Today, v. 8, p. 128-136.

Sweeney, D., 1993, Why Mohole was No Hole: American Heritage of Invention and Technology, v. 9, p. 55-63. [History of the plans to drill the Mohorovicic discontinuity.]

Taylor, E. F., 1993, Early exploration for hydrocarbons in the North American Arctic. Geol. Soc. Am. 1993 Annual Meeting, Boston, p. A-207.

Taylor, M. A., & Torrens, H. S., 1992, The local geologist 8: The local geological historian: Geology Today, v. 8, p. 102-107.

Tobias, Phillip V., 1994, Piltdown unmasked: New York Academy of Sciences, v. 34, p. 38-42.

Torrens, Hugh, 1994, 300 years of oil: Mirrored by developments in the west midlands. British Association Lectures, Geol. Soc., London, p. 4-8.

Toynton, Bob, 1993, The local geologist II: Sheffield's chert and flint research group: Geology Today, v. 9, p. 109-113.

Tresise, G., 1993, Triassic footprints from Lymm Quarry, Cheshire in the collections of Warrington Museum: Archives of Natural History, v. 20, p. 307-332.

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