RE: paleonet Optocentrism alert: 'Fossils of the Chalk' published today

["Smith, Jim" <j.smith@xxxxxx>]

Perhaps the only opportunity they will have to broaden their horizons by
narrowing their field of view?

Jim Smith
Department of Geology
University College, Cork
Cork
Ireland
e-mail: j.smith@ucc.ie

-----Original Message-----
From: John Van Couvering [mailto:vanc@amnh.org]
Sent: 22 August 2002 20:08
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet Optocentrism alert: 'Fossils of the Chalk'
published today


...Hopefully if they 
buy the book & check page one they will realize their good fortune, and 
their horizons will widen.

John Van Couvering

At 04:05 PM 8/22/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>The 'mention' starts on page one and carries on until about halfway down
>page three.  We shall be happy to mark it in orange day-glo highlighter in
>the copy that Dr Van Couvering is doubtless at this very moment ordering
>from us...
>
>best wishes!
>
>Tim Palmer
>
>At 09:51 22/08/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Interesting that a volume on Fossils of the Chalk should blandly overlook
> >the coccoliths, of which the Chalk is essentially composed.  Surely a
> >mention, a few images.. ?  Maurice Black so soon forgotten?  We only
> >considered fossils visible to the human eye, you explain.  Optocentric
> >bias, I calls it.
> >
> >John Van Couvering
> >nothing to do of course with Editor, Micropaleontology Press
> >
> >At 11:10 AM 8/22/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >>The Palaeontological Association's latest volume in the 'Field Guides to
> >>Fossils' series is a revised and enlarged edition of the 'Fossils of the
> >>Chalk.  There are separate chapters on: sponges, corals, serpulids,
> >>bryozoans, brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, ammonites, nautiloids,
> >>arthropods, echinoderms, fishes, and reptiles.
> >>
> >>Full reference details are:
> >>
> >>Fossils of the Chalk; 2nd ed., revised and enlarged.  Edited by AB Smith
> >>and DJ Batten.  374 pp; 66 pls; 33 text-figs.  ISBN 0-901702-78-1; ISSN
> >>0962-5321.  Published by The Palaeontological Association; price £14.00,
> >>$28.00, EUR28.00.  Available from <palass@palass.org> and:
> >>
> >>Tim Palmer
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Dr Tim Palmer C.Geol., F.G.S.
> >>Executive Officer, The Palaeontological Association
> >>I.G.E.S., University of Wales
> >>Aberystwyth SY23 3DB
> >>Wales, U.K.
> >>
> >>Phone/Answerphone: +44 (0) 1970 627107
> >>Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622659
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> >>E-mail: palass@palass.org
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> >
> >
> >
> >
>Dr Tim Palmer C.Geol., F.G.S.
>Executive Officer, The Palaeontological Association
>I.G.E.S., University of Wales
>Aberystwyth SY23 3DB
>Wales, U.K.
>
>Phone/Answerphone: +44 (0) 1970 627107
>Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622659
>Secretary: +44 (0) 1970 622643
>E-mail: palass@palass.org
>Web: www.palass.org