December 1977

  • Committee notes July - December 1977
  • The function of local natural history collections
  • Hints for rendering the British Museum more useful.
  • Car provided
  • Collections & Collectors: 14. The Manchester Museum
  • Lost & Found
  • Curatorial licence
  • Laboratory hot plates
  • Removal of polyester resin

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April 1978

  • Acquisition policy
  • 4th Annual General Meeting 1977
  • Committee notes Dec 1977 - Feb 1978
  • Collections & Collectors: 4. The Bath Geological collections - The importance of certain vertebrate fossils collected by Charles Moore : an attempt at scientific perspective
  • Collections & Collectors: 15. The Tempest Anderson collection of photographs At Yorkshire Museum.
  • Lost & Found
  • Research in progress on geological collections in museums
  • The manufacture of cheap single-hole slides and picking board for micropalaeontology
  • Notices

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September 1978

  • Internal conventions used with the IRGMA geology and mineral specimen cards in the documentation of the geology collections of Tyne and Wear County Council Museums.
  • Colloquium on curating in palaeontology - a personal view
  • Committee notes March - July 1978
  • Collections & Collectors: 16. The J.G. Cumming collection of fossils from the carboniferous limestone in the Isle of Man
  • Collections & Collectors: 17. Oak Hill Park Museum, Accrington
  • Collections & Collectors: 18. Blackburn Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 7. John William Elwes
  • Collections & Collectors: 19. Philpot Collection
  • Collections & Collectors: 20. The Sherbourne School Museum
  • Comments on some type and figured brachiopods and bivalves in the Yorkshire Museum.
  • Lost & Found
  • Jurassic Marine Crocodiles
  • Beeby Thompson 1848-1931
  • The history of the geology department of the Yorkshire Museum
  • Fibre optics and foot operated microscope control equipment to assist in the preparation of fossils

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January 1979

  • 5th Annual General Meeting 1978
  • Collections & Collectors: 3. Yorkshire Museum; Charlesworth Catalogues.
  • Collections & Collectors: 21. Queen's College Museum, Galway.
  • Collections & Collectors: 22. John Thomas Wattison
  • Collections & Collectors: 23. Saint Helens Museum.
  • Lingulla parella Phillips. Type material in the Yorkshire Museum: a reply
  • Lost & Found
  • An open letter on exhibition in Natural History Museums 9 November 1978

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April 1979

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  • An experience from the other side
  • Committee notes September 1978 - April 1979
  • International conference on the history of museums and collections in natural history 3-6 April 1979
  • Museum services to natural sciences in Scotland
  • Collections & Collectors: 16. The Manx Museum Shells from "the Manxland drift"
  • Collections & Collectors: 24 Rawtenstall Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 4. The Bath Geological collections: The Moore collection of Upper Liassic crocodiles: a history
  • Lost & Found:
  • Physical conservation of fossils in existing collections
  • Irish cultural news
  • Rock Bands
  • County Museums officer
  • Croyden Natural History and Scientific Society Museum
  • German Fashion
  • The "Great Debate"

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September 1979

  • A very scientific meeting
  • Conference report: geological conservation
  • Collections & Collectors: 25. Birmingham University Geological Museum
  • Collections & Collectors: 26. William King 1808-1886
  • Collections & Collectors: 27. Smart Lethieullier (1701-1760)
  • Detection at the Sedgwick: an illustration of the importance of data retention
  • A new gallery at the Hancock Museum
  • Lost & Found
  • Donations to the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History Society 1835-1884
  • A comparison of the Famulus and Gos packages for handling museum data.
  • Material available and notices
  • Ethics and objects
  • The rape of the fish beds
  • Dudley geological collection

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December 1979

  • Sixth annual general meeting
  • Committee notes May - December 1979
  • Collections & Collectors: 4. The Bath geological collections: an illustration by Charles Moore
  • Collections & Collectors: 28. Colonel Birch (c.1768-1829)
  • Collections & Collectors: 29. Bradford City geological collections
  • Collections & Collectors: 30. Eli Cauldwell
  • The Pengelly Diaries
  • 1829 list of geological collections
  • Rock Bands
  • Lost & Found
  • Where is it now?
  • Some new approaches to microvertebrate collecting and processing
  • Computer controlled data bank system at the Hancock Museum
  • Notes and news
  • Books on dinosaurs
  • 3c or not 3c? - a plea for better communication

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May 1980

  • Collections & Collectors: 31. The Reverend George Crabbe (1754-1832)
  • Collections & Collectors: 32. Towneley Hall Museum, Burnley
  • Collections & Collectors: 33. James M'Donnel. M.D. (1754-1832)
  • Discovery of working drawings for the Sopwith models of 1841 at the Hancock Museum.
  • A collections research unit for the Midlands region
  • Presentation at the Hunterian
  • Where is it now?
  • Lost & Found
  • British naturalists: a panel for enquiries
  • Fossils from Lyme
  • The burnt dope technique and other intertidal ploys from America
  • Computer controlled data bank system at the Hancock Museum (examples of SPIRES)
  • Site Documentation

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Supplement: Type figured and cited fossils in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery: Plantae

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October 1980

  • Editorial
  • Brian Page
  • The GCG and its finances
  • Committee notes
  • National scheme for Geological Site Documentation - report for 1978/9
  • The worst curated geological object?
  • Collections & Collectors: 28. Colonel Birch (c.1768-1829)
  • Collections & Collectors: 34. T.R. Fry: an annotated list of material in the City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery collected by T.R. Fry
  • Collections & Collectors: 35. White Watson (1760-1835)
  • Collections & Collectors: 36. John Dunn (1865-1937) Northumbrian Fossil Collector
  • Collections & Collectors: 37. Ferdinand Schalch (1848-1918)
  • Collections & Collectors: 38. North Devon Athenaeum - Barnstaple
  • Sopwith's fault models
  • Fossil Forgeries: constructed cephalopods at the British Museum
  • Fossil Forgeries: 'complete' Belemnite animals from the Posidonia shales of Holzmaden
  • Fossils Forgeries: the smallest 'improved' ammonite?
  • Lost & Found
  • Kimeridge Clay Pliosaur Skull
  • Monitoring relative humidity at the Hancock Museum
  • The use of a computer based curatorial system in the Dept. of Palaeontology B.M. (N.H.)
  • Geology and Conservation
  • Notes and news

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August 1990

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