Issue 1 for 1984

  • The Next Ten Years
  • 10th Annual General Meeting of The Geological Curators' Group at Warwickshire Museum
  • Lost & Found
  • Collectors & Collections
  • "Hippocephaloides of Dr Plot" Or How One Thing Leads To Another
  • The 'Computerised' Sedgwick Museum
  • Notes and News

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April 1985

  • Editorial
  • Problems in the Curation of Fossil Marine Reptiles
  • Poets Corner
  • Collectors & Collections: 46. The Fossil Collection of Dr John Lee (1783-1866) of Hartwell
  • 11th Annual General Meeting
  • The National Scheme for Geological Site Documentation: Annual Report for 1984
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Calling all Geological Technicians!
  • Notes and News

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July 1985

  • Editorial: Geology at the N.C.C
  • Collectors & Collections
  • Preparation Techniques for Material From The Posidonienschiefer (Lias Epsilon, Upper Liassic) of Germany
  • Lost Fossil Amphibian of Bear Island
  • New Developments at Bath Geology Museum
  • Poet's Corner
  • Lost & Found
  • Notes and News
  • Launching 'Guidelines for the Curation of Geological Materials'
  • The Erudite Geologist

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October 1985

  • Editorial
  • The 'Thumbs Up' Campaign
  • Quarrying and Fossil Collecting in the Posidonienschiefer (Upper Liassic) around Holzmaden, Germany
  • A Computer-Generated List of Collectors, Donors and Vendors of Specimens in the Sedgwick Museum
  • Making latex peels of soils and soft sediments
  • Now and Then: new series about geological sites of note
  • The end of a geological era at Bristol
  • Geological conservation and the Nature Conservancy Council
  • The national scheme for geological site documentation
  • Lost & Found
  • Notes and News

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February 1986

  • Editorial
  • George Fleming Richardson (1796-1848) - man of letters, lecturer and geological curator
  • The protection of fossils - comments on the Holzmaden model
  • The protection of fossils as cultural monuments in West Germany
  • Collectors & Collections: 49. Samuel Carrington (1798-1870)
  • Mineral collection needs good home
  • Ron Pickford - curator extraordinary
  • Didi - a model with a difference
  • Fossils on the move
  • Lost & Found
  • Notes and News

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July 1986

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  • Editorial
  • The Lyme Regis (Philpot) Museum: The History, Problems And Prospects Of A Small Museum And Its Geological Collection
  • Mary Anning Specimens In The Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
  • Fossil Collecting And Conservation In West Dorset: A Personal View
  • The Geological Collections Of Somerset County Museum, Taunton: Their Importance And Future
  • Treasures of the Earth at the Geological Museum
  • Now and Then No. 2: Coplow Quarry, Clitheroe, Lancashire
  • Conference Report: The Conservation of Geological Material British Museum (Natural History) 23-24 January 1986
  • Lost & Found
  • 'Thumbs Up' Campaign: Progress Report
  • CING : Collections Information Network - Geology
  • Mr Wood's Fossils Come To Life
  • Salvage In Museums
  • Barstow Mineral Collection Saved!
  • 12th Annual General Meeting

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February 1987

  • Safety Considerations for the Geological Conservator
  • Environmental Considerations
  • Conservation Documentation
  • A strategy to safeguard the geological collections of the smaller museum
  • Some adhesives and consolidants used in conservation
  • An introduction to the use of silanes in stone conservation
  • A view of ethical conservation and mineral specimen falsification
  • Special problems in the conservation of palaeobotanical material
  • Approaches to the preparation and development of calcareous fossils from calcareous matrices
  • The treatment of decaying pyritiferous fossil material using ethanolamine thioglycollate
  • The acid technique in vertebrate palaeontology: a review
  • The conservation of sub-fossil bone
  • Archaeological conservation: Some useful applications for geology

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June 1987

  • Towards a common strategy for geological documentation: the M.D.A. view
  • Documentation after "The Guidelines"
  • Old labels are old hat!?
  • Where are what B.G.S. specimens?
  • The fossil collection of C.B. Salter from Cliff Quarry, Compton Martin, Mendip Hills
  • Geological collecting and a geological career: Daniel Jones (1836-1918) with notes on other midlands collections from the Jones archive
  • Mr Wood’s fossils - a travelling exhibition
  • Thumbs up campaign
  • Lost & Found
  • CING - Collections Information Network : Geology
  • Notes and News

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November 1987

  • Editorial
  • Palaeobotany in Museums
  • Michael Eagar; a one man institution
  • Kent's Cavern material in Bolton Museum and some related excavations data
  • Collectors & Collections
  • The West Midlands Area Museum Service and geological conservation
  • Lost & Found
  • CING 1
  • Notes and News

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