April 1981

  • Seventh Annual General Meeting
  • Geological Curators' Group: Constitution
  • MDA/GCG Mineralogical Terminology Meeting
  • Documentation Of Geological Material - Towards A Common Standard.
  • Lost & Found
  • Request For Information On Handwriting Registers
  • Collections and Collectors of note: 39 The Sedgwick Museum Cambridge
  • Merely Rubbish? The Fate Of The Cuming Museum Geological Collection.
  • The Crabbe Collection Rehabilitated
  • ICOM Adopts Cardiff Colloquium Recommendations
  • Proposal for a World Directory of Palaeontological Collections
  • Continuing controversy at the British Museum (Natural History)
  • Geological locality grading in site documentation
  • Building and decorative stones in museum collections

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November 1981

  • Lost and not yet found!
  • GCG/MDA workshop on geology documentation
  • An introduction to the new information series on old geological collection labels
  • Edward Charlesworth & the British Natural History Society
  • S. G. Perceval, a crusader for museums
  • Some notes on the dispersal of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland collections
  • What a Calamite! A cautionary tale of documentation
  • Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
  • Ernest Westlake (1855-1922), Geologist & Prehistorian with a synopsis of the contents of his field notebooks
  • The national scheme for geological site documentation annual report 1980
  • Coal balls from Rowley Tip
  • Lost & Found
  • A simple method of preparing borehole cores for research & display
  • The Fossil Elephant

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June 1982

  • Editorial
  • Towards 'guidelines for curation of geological materials'
  • Some thoughts on methods for classifying and cataloguing hand-writing collections
  • Edward Charlesworth & the British Natural History Society
  • The Bideford Museum geological collection of Inkerman Rogers (1866-1959)
  • The fossil vertebrata in the Department of Geology at Southampton University
  • British fossils at the Queensland Museum
  • Ammonites in architecture
  • Lost & Found
  • Report of the fourth meeting of Fenscore. The Federation for Natural Sciences Collection Research.
  • A note on the United Kingdom institute for conservation

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November 1982

  • Editorial
  • Minutes of the 8th annual general meeting of the Geological Curators Group
  • Report of meeting: vertebrate palaeontology. History of collecting & curation
  • Report on the fifth meeting of Fenscore
  • Recommendations for the preservation of research collections
  • Hazards in the curation and display of mineral & rock specimens with especial emphasis on radioactivity
  • The public exhibition of uranium minerals: a novel technique
  • From matchbox to computer or the computerization of the Philip Cambridge collection at the Sedgwick Museum
  • Lost & Found
  • Town museums with special reference to Rochester & Chatham

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Issue 3 for 1982

  • Minutes of the 9th annual general meeting of the Geological Curators' Group
  • Curatorial training course in natural sciences
  • Geological site educational summary form
  • Geological conservation review unit geological sites of historical interest
  • Oatlands park grotto and its ammonite fossils
  • How Lost and Found works
  • Lost & Found
  • Notes & News

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Issue 1 for 1983

  • Editorial
  • The Bearsden project or quarrying for fossils on a housing estate
  • Flint Jack - a memoir
  • A fossil fish forged by Flint Jack
  • The conservation of sub-fossil bird bone
  • Notes & News
  • Stratigraphical recording - two practical procedures

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Issue 2 for 1983

  • Editorial
  • Catalogue of type, figured & cited fossils in Kingston Upon Hull City Museums
  • Lost & Found
  • Collectors & Collections
  • Model reptiles in the Warwickshire Museum or Rhynchosaurus rhides again (whilst Dasyceps dozes!)
  • Ethanolamine thioglycollate as a chemical agent for the neutralization & removal of oxidised pyrite
  • Minutes in a phone box!

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Issue 3 for 1983

  • Editorial
  • Collectors & Collections
  • A note on the Birkbeck College palaeontological collections
  • Abingdon Museum fossil material transferred to Oxford University Museum
  • British fossil footprints in the collections of some principal British museums
  • GCG-BCG joint statement on the government's proposals for the arts following abolition of the GLC & the Metropolitan County Councils
  • National Stone Centre launched
  • Marine reptiles from the Upper Lias of the Yorkshire coast

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