Recent Books Relevant to Paleontologists

Author(s): Roger J. Cuffey

Source: Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 49, No. 3 (May, 1975), pp. 571-573
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 BOOK REVIEWS 571

RECENT BOOKS RELEVANT TO PALEONTOLOGISTS

Books concerning geographically restricted

The number of books potentially relevant
fossil suites are particularly numerous. Be-
to paleontologists has continued to increase
cause of
rapidly, and our resources do not permit re-the frequency with which certain
viewing all such works. However, someareas-southern
not Florida, Great Lakes, Colo-
reviewed can be called to our readers' at- rado Plateau, and California coast-are
tention by the following comments. visited, several are noteworthy:
Two new journals bear watching for ar-
LAND FROM THE SEA-THE GEOLOGIC STORY
ticles of interest to paleontologists:
OF SOUTH FLORIDA, by John Edward Hoff-
EVOLUTIONARY THEORY-AN INTERNATIONAL meister, 1974: University of Miami Press,
JOURNAL OF FACT AND INTERPRETATION, Coral Gables, 143 p., 75 text-fig. Price
edited by Isidore Nabi and Leigh Van Valen:
$7.95.
University of Chicago, Chicago; v. 1, no. 1,
July 1973. Annual subscription $10.00. A SYMPOSIUM OF RECENT SOUTH FLORIDA
FORAMINIFERA, edited by James I. Jones and
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH OF THE U. S. GEO- Wayne D. Bock, 1971: Miami Geological
LOGICAL SURVEY, edited by a managing edi-Society, Memoir 1, 245 p. Price $7.00.
tor: U. S. Geological Survey and U. S.
Government Printing Office, Washington;MOLLUSCAN DISTRIBUTION IN FLORIDA BAY,
v. 1, no. 1, January-February, 1973. An- by W. Jack Turney and Bob F. Perkins,
nual subscription $8.50. 1972: University of Miami Comparative
Sedimentology Laboratory, Sedimenta 3, 37
p., 12 tables, 19 text-fig. Price $3.50.
Several books will aid systematists' work.
These include a translation of a comprehensive KEY TO THE QUATERNARY POLLEN AND SPORES
bryozoan treatise, a graphic summary of ani- OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION, by John H.
mal phylogenies, and bibliographies for mod- McAndrews, Albert A. Berti, and Geoffrey
ern vertebrates and fossil gymnosperms: Norris, 1973: Royal Ontario Museum (To-
FUNDAMENTALS OF PALEONTOLOGY, VOL [sic] ronto), Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publi-
7, BRYOZOA, (OSNOVY PALEONTOLOGII, TOM cations, 61 p., 21 text-fig. Price $2.50.
7, MSHANKI), by G. G. Astrova et al. RED ROCK COUNTRY-THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY
(transl. T. G. Sarycheva), 1972: Indian OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU, by Donald L.
National Scientific Documentation Centre,
Baars, 1972: Doubleday/Natural History
New Delhi, viii + 233 p., illus. Order from Press, New York, 264 p., illus. Price $9.95.
National Technical Information Service, U.
S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, INVESTIGATIONS IN THE TRIASSIC CHINLE
Virginia 22151. FORMATION, edited by Carol S. Breed and
A PHYLOGENETIC TREE OF THE ANIMAL KING- William J. Breed, 1972: Museum of North-
DOM (INCLUDING ORDERS AND HIGHER CATE-
ern Arizona (Flagstaff), Bulletin 47, viii
+ 103 p., illus. Price $5.00.
GORIES), (dual text, English and French),
by Jarmila Kukalovi-Peck, 1973: National
THE GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE
Museum of Natural Sciences (Ottawa), MARINE PLIOCENE OF SAN DIEGO, CALI-
Publications in Zoology, no. 8, 78 p., illus.
FORNIA, (PALEONTOLOGY: PELECYPODA), by
Price $5.75. Leo George Hertlein and U. S. Grant IV,
GUIDE TO THE TAXONOMIC LITERATURE OF 1972: San Diego Society of Natural His-
tory, Memoir 2 (Part 2B), p. 135-411, text-
VERTEBRATES, by Richard E. Blackwelder,
1972: Iowa State University Press, Ames, fig. 7-13, pl. 27-57.
xviii + 259 p. Price $8.50.
FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS; II, PLANTAE; PARS 79- Many textbooks have appeared, for various
85, GYMNOSPERMAE (GINGOPHYTA ET CONIF- levels of sophistication and areas of coverage.
ERAE), I-VII, by W. J. Jongmans and S. J. Advanced students (and practising profes-
Dijkstra, 1971-1974: Dr. W. Junk, 's-Graven- sionals) interested in application of numerical
hage, p. 1-810 (Abies-Pseudolarixylon). techniques to either systematics or paleoecology
Price Dutch Glds. 39-70 per part. can examine two books:

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 572 BOOK REVIEWS

MATHEMATICAL TAXONOMY,
EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN SEDIMENTOLOGY, editedby N
dine and Robin Sibson,
by Robert N. Ginsburg, 1973: 1971:
Johns Hopkins W
York, xviii +286 p.,
University Press,illus.
Baltimore, ix + Price
191 p.,
illus. Price $10.00.
INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE
OGY, by R. A. Reyment, 1971: Elsevier, DEPOSITIONAL SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS-
Amsterdam, xiii + 226 p., illus. Price $19.00. WITH REFERENCE TO TERRIGENOUS CLAS-
TICS, by Hans-Erich Reineck and Indra Bir
Singh, 1973: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, xvi
Intermediate-level students can peruse sev- + 439 p., 23 tables, 579 text-fig. Price $44.30.
eral books on general paleontology (including
one in Spanish), stratigraphic invertebrate RECENT SEDIMENTARY CARBONATES; PART 1,
paleontology, primate and human paleontology, MARINE CARBONATES, by John D. Milliman,
and the related areas of sedimentology (both 1974: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, xv + 375 p.,
detrital and carbonate) and evolutionary bi- 80 tables, 94 text-fig. Price $25.50.
ology:
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, by Stanley N. Salthe,
THE ELEMENTS OF PALAEONTOLOGY, by Rhona 1972: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New
M. Black, 1970: Cambridge University Press, York, viii + 437 p., illus. Price $11.50.
London, 339 p., illus. Price $13.50 (cloth),
$4.95 (paper). EVOLUTION, by Charlotte J. Avers, 1974:
Harper and Row, New York, x + 321 p.,
FOSSILS AND THE LIFE OF THE PAST, by Erich illus. Price $5.95.
Thenius (transl. Barbara M. Crook), 1973:
Springer-Verlag, New York, x + 194 p.,
89 text-fig. Price $5.90. The needs of beginning students in his-
torical geology have been considered in the
PALEONTOLOGIA, TOMO 1-PARTE GENERAL E publication of several books. Three are full-
INVERTEBRADOS, 2nd ed., by Bermudo Melkn-sized general texts, one is a summary for
dez, 1970: Paraninfo, Madrid, 714 p., 450 North America, another is an anthology of
text-fig. Price 650 Pts. reprinted papers, and two are laboratory man-
uals:
BRITISH PALAEOZOIC FOSSILS, 3rd ed., 1969:
British Museum (Natural History), Lon- ESSENTIALS OF EARTH HISTORY-AN INTRO-
don, Publication 624, vii + 208 p., illus. DUCTION TO HISTORICAL GEOLOGY, 3rd ed.,
Price ?0.65. by William Lee Stokes, 1973: Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, xii + 532 p., illus. Price
BRITISH MESOZOIC FOSSILS, 4th ed., 1972: Brit- $12.95.
ish Museum (Natural History), London,
Publication 703, vi + 208 p., illus. Price HISTORICAL GEOLOGY-THE SCIENCE OF A DY-
?0.65. NAMIC EARTH, by Leigh W. Mintz, 1972:
Merrill, Columbus, x + 785 p., illus. Price
BRITISH CAENOZOIC FOSSILS, 4th ed., 1971: $12.95.
British Museum (Natural History), London,
Publication 540, x + 132 p., illus. Price THE EARTH AND ITS HISTORY, by Richard
?0.40. Foster Flint, 1973: Norton, New York, xii
+ 407 p., illus. Price $9.95.
PRIMATE EVOLUTION-AN INTRODUCTION TO
MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE, by Elwyn L. HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA, by
Simons, 1972: Macmillan, New York, xii + Morris S. Petersen, J. Keith Rigby, and
322 p., 112 text-fig. Price $5.95. Lehi F. Hintze, [1973?]: Brown, Dubuque,
vii + 193 p., illus. Price $2.95.
THE ASCENT OF MAN-AN INTRODUCTION TO
HUMAN EVOLUTION, by David Pilbeam,ADVENTURES
1972: IN EARTH HISTORY, edited by
Preston Cloud, 1970: Freeman, San Fran-
Macmillan, New York, viii + 207 p., 95 text-
fig. Price $3.25. cisco, xv + 992 p., illus. Price $8.95.

HOMINID FOSSILS---AN ILLUSTRATED KEY, by

ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH TIME-A LABORA-
T. W. Phenice, 1972: Brown, Dubuque, xx
TORY MANUAL IN THE INTERPRETATION OF

+ 163 p., 116 text-fig. Price $2.95. ANCIENT SEDIMENTS AND ORGANISMS, by

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 BOOK REVIEWS 573

Robert L. Anstey THE BONE and

HUNTERS, Terry L.
by Url Lanham, 1973: C
Burgess, Minneapolis, vi + 136 p., illus. Columbia University Press, New York, xi
Price $4.95. + 285 p., illus. Price $12.95.
HISTORICAL GEOLOGY-INTERPRETATIONS AND DR [Sic] ROBERT BROOM, F. R. S., PALEON-
APPLICATIONS, by Jon M. Poort, 1973: Burg- TOLOGIST AND PHYSICIAN/1866-1951-A BI-
ess, Minneapolis, vi + 122 p., illus. Price OGRAPHY, APPRECIATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY,
$4.50. by G. H. Findlay, 1972: Balkema, Cape
Town, xviii + 157 p., illus. Price R7.50.
Finally, while contemplation of fossils them-
selves forms the bulk of paleontologists' activ- ROGER J. CUFFEY, Book-Review Editor
ity, considerable spice has been added to our Department of Geosciences
field by the antics of various paleontologists. Pennsylvania State University
Some of these are detailed entertainingly in University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
two books: August 1, 1974

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