Review

• Review: A Manual of Practical Laboratory and Field Techniques in Palaeobiology

  Owen R. Green, Kluwer Academic Publishers £85 / €125, ISBN 0-412-58980-X Micropalaeontologists should not be put off by the title of this 538-page manual. In…

• Review: MICROFOSSILS AND OCEANIC ENVIRONMENTS

  Alicia Moguilevsky & Robin Whatley (eds.). University of Wales, Aberystwyth Press. ISBN 0 903 878 74 7. 1996, 434 pp., £25.00. [ * Copies can…

• Review: THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE WITH RICHARD DAWKINS

  PC/MAC CD- ROM. Notting Hill.1996. £29.95. At the beginning of this CD, Richard Dawkins appears in his ‘study’, a 19th century curio collection filled with…

• Review: STUDIES ON EARLY LAND PLANT SPORES FROM BRITAIN

  Edited by C. J. Cleal. Special Papers in Palaeontology no. 55, £45. ISBN 0-901702-59-5. ISSN 0038-6804. Members of the Palaeontological Association can purchase a single…

• Review: DEEP-SEA BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA FROM CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY STRATA IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC – TAXONOMY AND PALEOECOLOGY

  Widmark, J. G. V., 1997, Fossils & Strata, 43, 94pp Oslo; $29.00; ISBN 82-00-37667-2 ISSN 0300-9491. This monograph presents the results of a taxonomical study…

• Review: IDENTIFYING MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON

  Tomas, C.R. (ed.) Academic Press 1997. £57. 858pp. ISBN 0-12-693018-X (Pbk). This weighty tome is a paperback version of the combined hardbacks Marine Phytoplankton: a…

• Review: CAMBRIAN BRADORIID AND PHOSPHATOCOPID ARTHROPODS OF NORTH AMERICA

  Siveter, D. J. and Williams, M. 1997. Special Paper in Palaeontology 57. The Palaeontological Association, London. ISBN 0-901-702-61-7. £ 30. This monograph is part of…

• Review: FOSSILS: THE STORY OF LIFE

  Sue Rigby 1997, British Geological Survey (Earthwise), 64 pp. ISBN 0-852722-84-2. £6.50. There’s no way I can be negative about a booklet that includes the…

• Review: RAUZER-CHERNOUSOVA MEMORIAL VOLUME

  Edited by V.M. Podobina et al., 1997; Izdat. GEOS, Moscow; ISBN 5-89118-017-0. Dagmara Maximilianovna Rauzer-Chernousova was born in Moscow in May, 1895. On the occasion of…

• Review: LOWER CRETACEOUS DEEP-WATER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA OF THE INDIAN OCEAN

  A.E.L. Holborn & M.A. Kaminski, The Grzybowski Foundation, Special Publication No.4, 1997, 172pp. This book is a synthesis of Anne Holborn’s Ph.D work and Mike…

• Review: PALEONTOLOGICAL EVENTS: STRATIGRAPHIC, ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS

  Brett, C. E. and Baird, G. C. (Eds) 1997. Columbia University Press, New York, 604 pages. £52.00. On reading the contents section, the question that…

• Review: THE EARLY EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA

  M.K. Boudagher-Fadel, F.T Banner and J.E. Whittaker (1997): 269pp; £69.00 (£55.20 to BMS members through publishers only); ISBN 0-412-75820-2. There can be little doubt that…

• Review: TAXONOMY AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF LATE NEOGENE BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA FROM THE CARIBBEAN SEA AND EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN

  Bornmalm, L. Fossils and Strata, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, Norway, No. 41, 96pp., 1997. ISBN 82-00-37666-4. USD 29.00. This monograph describes the benthic foraminifera (>125…

• Review: VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY

  Benton, M.J. 1997: (Second Edition). Chapman & Hall. 452 pp. £24.99. ISBN 0-412-73810-4 (Pbk). For many more reasons than that all fossils degrade to dust,…

• Review: T. REX AND THE CRATER OF DOOM

  Walter Alvarez 1997, Princeton University Press, pp. xii + 185, hardback, ISBN 0-691-01630-5. £18.95. This book is a concise popular account of the story of…