September 1974

  • Editorial
  • From the Chairman
  • Inaugural meeting of the Geological Curators' Group 17th May 1974
  • Collections & Collectors: 1. Lichfield Museums
  • How not to store type specimens
  • Locating and identifying collections of palaeontological material
  • Lost & Found
  • Mutual aid
  • A system of colour coding
  • Fossil reproductions

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December 1974

  • Brief descriptions for making observations and collections and for composing a travelling register of all sorts of fossils.
  • Dr. John Woodward, F.R.S. F.R.C.P. (1685-1728)
  • Editorial
  • Geological Museum Meeting
  • Palaeontological type specimens
  • Type specimens in the Palaeontological Collection of Sheffield City Museums
  • Collections & Collectors: 1. Lichfield Museums (pre 1850) postscript
  • Collections & Collectors: 2. Northampton Central Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 3. Yorkshire Museums
  • Information gathering
  • Geological collections at U.C.W. Aberystwyth
  • Lost & Found
  • A system of colour coding pt.2
  • Pneumatic hand tools
  • Movie continents
  • Correspondence
  • Exchange service
  • Other societies: the association for the promotion of an institution of professional geologists

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April 1975

  • Group seminar on accessioning procedures: 13th December 1974
  • Collections & Collectors: 4. The Bath Geological Collections
  • Collections & Collectors: 5. Henry Clifton Sorby - Sheffield Geologist Extraordinary
  • Collections & Collectors: 6 The Plymouth City Museum Mineral Collections
  • Workshop on Geological Cataloguing: G.C.G. meeting at the Sedgwick Museum of Geology, Cambridge, 20th-21st March 1975
  • The good old days before the computer
  • Instructions for the use of Mineral Specimen and Geology specimen Record Cards
  • Comments on IRGMA Workshop
  • Some thoughts on 'Machine Cataloguing'
  • Lost & Found
  • Collections & Collectors: 2. Northampton Central Museum: 7. Thomas Jesson
  • Collections & Collectors: 2. Northampton Central Museum: 8. Rev. A.W. Griesbach
  • Collections & Collectors: 3. [Additional] Notes on some Yorkshire Museum collectors: 1. John Phillips
  • Collections & Collectors: 3. [Additional] Notes on some Yorkshire Museum collectors: 2. Henry Heuland (1778-1856)
  • Collections & Collectors: 3. [Additional] Notes on some Yorkshire Museum collectors: 4. William Bean II
  • Geological collections at U.C.W. Aberystwyth
  • Notices
  • Information required & Information gained

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September 1975

  • An old complaint
  • Collections & Collectors: 7. Some biographic and bibliographical notes on J.W. Ewles (?1850-?1890)
  • Collections & Collectors: 8. An historical account of the palaeontological collections formed by R.W. Hooley (1865-1923)
  • Type, figured and cited material in the palaeontological collections of the City Museum, Peterborough
  • Catalogues of British fossil vertebrate collections
  • The routine preparation of polished mineral specimens
  • Warning on solvents
  • Alginate dental impression compound - a comparative assessment of a cheap moulding material with potential applications in palaeontology

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December 1975

  • Report of meeting on geological site documentation. Sheffield, 18th/19th September. 1975
  • The Nature Conservancy Council's viewpoint and experiences
  • Protection and administration of important geological sites
  • Geological site recording in Derbyshire - an industrial bonus
  • The role of a County Museum Service in geological site recording
  • Geological site recording at Bristol Museum
  • Geological field facilities: educational needs
  • A national scheme for the documentation of geological sites
  • Collections & Collectors: 9. Alexander Sharpe Alexander and his collection
  • A national collection put into hospital
  • A wild goose chase
  • Mutual aid
  • The use of Benzene in laboratories
  • Comment on Alginate Impression Compound

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April 1976

  • Collections & Collectors: 10. Merseyside County Museums
  • Two horror stories of the eighteenth century
  • Report of meeting on palaeontological curating, Oslo, June 4th 1975
  • Palaeontological collections in Norway
  • Lost & Found
  • Computer-based collection documentation using INFOL 2
  • Irish type specimens and Davidson's monograph

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September 1976

  • Report on meeting at Birmingham - March 1976
  • Committee news
  • Collections & Collectors: 11. Bolton Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 12. Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
  • Lost & Found: 13. David Christopher Davies
  • Lost & Found: 15. Charles Croft
  • A G.R.P. cast and mount of the Tertiary mammal Arsinoitherium

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December 1976

  • Report of meeting on mineral collections in small museums, York - September 1976
  • Committee news
  • Collections & Collectors: 13. Derby Museums & Art Gallery
  • The William Pengelly Cave Studies Centre, Buckfastleigh, Devon
  • Some thoughts on minerals
  • Sir Humphrey Davy's sentiments on the state of the British Museum (early 1829)
  • Lost & Found

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April 1977

  • A short view of the Fossil Bodies native [i.e. minerals] and extraneous [fossils] of the Island of Sheppey by Edward Jacob
  • Geological Curators' Group third annual general meeting
  • Meeting at Liverpool February 1977
  • Committee notes to March 1977
  • Data security in scientific objects
  • Copperice at Brownsea (or pyrite collecting c.1700)
  • An account of an uncommon phenomenon in Dorsetshire (or pyrite studies in 1751)
  • Lost & Found
  • Collections & Collectors: 11. Bolton Museum
  • Pyrite and conservation part 1: historical aspects
  • Problems with resin at Bolton

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September 1977

  • Committee notes March - July 1977
  • National plan for Museums
  • Collections & Collectors: 3. Yorkshire Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 4. The Bath Geological Collections
  • Collections & Collectors: 12. Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 13. Derby Museums & Art Gallery
  • An opportunity lost?
  • Lost & Found
  • Pyrite and Conservation: part 2

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September 1977

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