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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Supplements

• Collector & Dealer Labels: No. 12 - Rev. Dr. John Anderson 1796 - 1864
• Collector & Dealer Labels: No. 13 - Ramsay Heatley Traquair 1840 - 1912

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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