December 2019

• The end of an editorial era!

Collectors, Collections and the geology of South West Britain

• Cuvier and Brongiart's map of Paris and Conybeare and De la Beche's map of Bath
• Francis Basset, and his mineral specimens
• Charles Moore and Late Triassic Vertebrates
• Mr Sander's Map of Bristol

Making the most a move

• Compactor Storage for fossil marine reptiles
• A tale of heavy fossils
• One very long slow move

Other articles in this issue

• 44th and 45th AGM reports
• Presentation of the A.G. Brighton Medal to Monica Price

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June 2020

• An unusual papier-mâché replica of a fossil (?) from the Free Church of Scotland College collection by Michael A. Taylor and Lyall I. Anderson
• Large reptiles, localised solutions: investigating alternative delivery systems for the treatment of oversized pyritic specimens by Lucia Petrera, Lu Allington-Jones, and Kieran Miles
• Source of Roman stone for Aquae Sulis (Bath, England): field evidence, facies, pXRF chem-data and a cautionary tale of contamination by Maurice Tucker, Mark Brisbane, Derek Pitman and Owen Kearn
• Preparing detailed morphological features of fossil brittle stars (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) for scanning electron microscopy using a combination of mechanical preparation techniques by Mark R. Graham and Timothy A. M. Ewin
• The benefits of regional collection-based undergraduate projects: an example from Nottingham by Adam S. Smith, Frederick J. Owen, E. Catherine Strickson, Joanne R. E. Horne and Zoé C. Wiggins
• The Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections – TxVP by James C. Sagebiel
• BOOK REVIEW by Stephen K. Donovan

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December 2020

• Treasures in Tins
• The Arroyo del Vizcaíno collection
• The preparator Richard Hall (b. 1839)
• Historical collections in museums
• The palaeontological collection at Folkestone Museum
• The long walk from the Carboniferous
• Obituary: Matthew Alastair Parkes

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June 2021

• Rocking the boat: geological collections and social change
• Conservation and photogrammetry of subfossil Quaternary walrus
• The importance of correct mineral identification for correct storage
• Mechanical and chemical preparation techniques applied to Frasnian Cephalopods from Lompret (Belgium)
• A brief history of natural history museums in the Ottoman Empire
• Digitising the historical archives of the Conservation Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

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March 2022

• 21st Century Rex
• Preserving the Nieuwdonk collection
• Megamammal collections from the Pampean Region (Argentina)
• The Louis De Pauw Award
• Global connections in the collection of John Woodward
• Book review

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December 2022

Special Ethics Edition guest edited by Jeff Liston

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  Geological Curator 11(7)

• Publication pressure threatens the integrity of palaeontological research Nussaïbah B. Raja and Emma M. Dunne
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  Publication pressure threatens the integrity of palaeontological research
• "Missionary lizards" - Palaeontological exhibits and the creationist agenda Glenn W. Storrs
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  "Missionary lizards" - Palaeontological exhibits and the creationist agenda
• Creative compliance, neutralization techniques, and palaeontological ethics Donna Yates
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• The politics of palaeontology: the creation, reduction, and restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments P. David Polly
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  The politics of palaeontology: the creation, reduction, and restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments
• Upholding research ethics and reproducibility standards in paleontology research publications: Perspectives from PLOS ONE Nicola Stead and Renee V. Hoch
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• A MAP to manage palaeontology Scott E. Foss
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  A MAP to manage palaeontology
• Ubirajara: The dilemma of the Brazilian fossil curator Caiubi Emanuel Souza Kuhn, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Fábio Augusto Gomes Vieira Reis, André Luis Spisila, Marjorie Csekö Nolasco, and Abdelmajid Hach Hach
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  Ubirajara: The dilemma of the Brazilian fossil curator
• RETRACTED: Crying Ubirajara: Bad faith actors & weaponising outrage in post-Trump palaeontology Jeff J. Liston
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December 2023

This print edition will be distributed early in 2024, but our membership has early online access to all the papers featured. These are linked below. 

• Sorting a sticky ​​situation: Engaging students in sorting and identifying microfossils from La Brea Tar Pits Christine M. Mazzello, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Aisling B. Farrell, Nathaniel S. Fox, Stephany Potze, Cornelia A. Clarke, Gary T. Takeuchi, Molly Porter, Emily Lindsey
  
  Sorting a sticky situation: Engaging students in sorting and identifying microfossils from La Brea Tar Pits
• Archives in lockdown: The curious case of the BGS ‘Wilson Collection’ Graham Tulloch, Beverly P. Bergman, Philip Stone, and Michael Togher
  Archives in lockdown: The curious case of the BGS ‘Wilson Collection’
     
• Collection security: low-cost measures for mineral collections Erika B Anderson  
  Collection security: low-cost measures for mineral collections
     
• Shackleton and Bruce: disentangling Antarctic geological collections at National Museums Scotland Philip Stone, Rachel Walcott and Peder Aspen
  Shackleton and Bruce: disentangling Antarctic geological collections at National Museums Scotland
• Hiding in plain sight: the unexpected discovery of a historically interesting dinosaur egg in a mineralogy collection Robin F. Hansen and Paul M. Barrett 
  Hiding in plain sight: the unexpected discovery of a historically interesting dinosaur egg in a mineralogy collection
     
• Still potentially deadly after all these years: how to safely handle and display radioactive dinosaurs and other fossils Nigel R. Larkin and Jana Horak
  Still potentially deadly after all these years: how to safely handle and display radioactive dinosaurs and other fossils

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Summer 2024

This print edition will be distributed later in 2024, but our membership has early online access to all the papers featured. These are linked below. 

• Illuminating an uncatalogued micropalaeontological collection at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham J. D. Dixon, Alexandra Z. Meek, Jon Clatworthy and Kirsty M. Edgar
  
  Illuminating an uncatalogued micropalaeontological collection at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham
• In search of lost time: Recovering missing stratigraphical data from fossil marine reptile specimens using micropalaeontological analyses Nigel R. Larkin, Dean R. Lomax, Ian Boomer and Phil Copestake
  
  In search of lost time: Recovering missing stratigraphical data from fossil marine reptile specimens using micropalaeontological analyses
• Using the methyl cellulose poultice method to remove plaster and burlap - A case study on Triceratops bone Kieran Miles
  
  Using the methyl cellulose poultice method to remove plaster and burlap - A case study on Triceratops bone
• Trilobite thin section analysis clarifies matrix separation properties Maximo Alfonso Rojo, Atle Jorstad Qviller, Nélia Castro and Øyvind Hammers
  
  Trilobite thin section analysis clarifies matrix separation properties 
  
  
• The Dinosaur on your Doorstep: raising awareness of Hastings’ dinosaur heritage Phil Hadland
  
  The Dinosaur on your Doorstep: raising awareness of Hastings’ dinosaur heritage
• Book review Ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Britain
  
  Book review: Ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Britain

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December 2024

This print edition will be distributed early 2025, but our membership has early online access to all the papers featured. These are linked below. 

• GCG after 50 years – History, Views and Recollections Cindy Howells
  
  GCG after 50 years – History, Views and Recollections
• GCG Overseas Study Tours 1997-2004 John Nudds
  
  GCG Overseas Study Tours 1997-2004
• Putting museum mineral collections to work: 45 years of practical experience Roy E. Starkey
  
  Putting museum mineral collections to work: 45 years of practical experience
• Unearthing treasures: The past, present, and future of a local authority museum geological collection Philip Hadland
  
  Unearthing treasures: The past, present, and future of a local authority museum geological collection
• Donation and acquisition of fossils: how to valorise them Cinzia Ragni
  
  Donation and acquisition of fossils: how to valorise them
• Good things come in small packages: how to curate a micromount collection Nadine W. Gabriel
  
  Good things come in small packages: how to curate a micromount collection
• Asbestos in the Cambridge geological collections: past, present, and future R.G.W. Seidel, D.S. Pemberton and M.B. Holness
  
  Asbestos in the Cambridge geological collections: past, present, and future
• Byne’s decay on the d’Orbigny’s foraminifera collection at the MNHN, Paris: from the collection assessment to the reproduction of damage by artificial ageing Véronique Rouchon, Clara Hairie, Annachiara Bartolini and Marie-Béatrice Forel
  
  Byne’s decay on the d’Orbigny’s foraminifera collection at the MNHN, Paris: from the collection assessment to the reproduction of damage by artificial ageing

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