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Ecology and Distribution of Diatoms from Boreal Forest Lakes in Wood Buffalo National Park, Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada: Special Publications No. 22

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Katrina A. Moser (au); John P. Smol (au); Glen M. MacDonald (au)
Diatoms were identified from the surface sediments of 35 small to intermediate-sized boreal forest lakes in Wood Buffalo Nat. Park, located on the border of Alberta & the NW Terr., Canada. A total of 276 diatom taxa were recorded; of these, 112 taxa, belonging to 29 genera, are illustrated. Detailed taxonomic descriptions & ecological info. are provided for 62 of these taxa. Striking differences in diatom assemblages were observed between the lakes sampled, which included 3 types: Shield lakes, situated in the granites & granitic gneisses of the Canadian Shield; sinkhole lakes, located in Palaeozoic-aged limestones & gypsums; & muskeg lakes, found in poorly drained areas characterized by Palaeozoic-aged calcareous shales. Illustrations.

Frank J. Myers Rotifera Collection at The Academy of Natural Sciences: The Whole Collection in Digital Images

Frank J. Myers Rotifera Collection at The Academy of Natural Sciences: The Whole Collection in Digital Images: Special Publications No. 20

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Christian D. Jersabek (au); Hendrik Segers (au); Brian J. Dingmann (au); Howard L. Taylor (in)
The diversity & bizarre beauty of the Rotifera, a little known group of predominantly freshwater animals, is revealed by high resolution digital images in greater detail than ever before. This illustrated catalog extends the expertise of Frank J. Myers, the foremost rotiferologist of his generation, by taking advantage of the technological advances of today’s generation. More than 700 species are included, providing complete coverage of the world’s most comprehensive rotifer collection on microslides. Includes an introduction to Frank J. Myers by Howard L. Taylor.

Lewis & Clark Herbarium: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Digital Imagery Study Set

Lewis and Clark Herbarium: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Digital Imagery Study Set: Special Publications No. 19

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Earle E. Spamer (au); Richard M. Mccourt (au)
The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 is one of the great stories of exploration in America. Few of the scientific specimens collected by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark survive, except for hundreds of pressed plants in The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Digital images in this CD-ROM show each plant in more detail than ever before. Browse through the collection, plant by plant. Read the labels written by Lewis in the field between 1804 & 1806. Refer to facsimile reprints of the original records & colored engravings of Lewis’s gatherings as published in the first comprehensive catalogue of American plants by Frederick Pursh in 1813. Read facsimile reprints of important 19th century publications about the plants. Scientific descriptions & historical comments by Lewis & Clark scholars bring the herbarium completely up to date for the first time in a century. Comprehensive indexes provide guides to places & dates of collection, common names, hundreds of scientific names, & digital illustrations. Includes new information about the Lewis & Clark Herbarium & its history. Images, texts, & indexes are hyperlinked for ease of use.

Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines: Second Supplement 1970-1973

Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines: Second Supplement 19701973: Special Publications No. 11

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Horace G. Richards (au)
This work is the Second Supplement to the Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines pub. by the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1965 (Special Pub. 6), which covered the years 1945 through 1964 & contained about 2400 abstracts. The First Supplement, pub. by the Academy in 1970, covered the years 1965 through 1969 (Special Pub. 10) & contained slightly more than 1800 abstracts. This supplement covers the years 1970 through 1973 & contains about 2100 abstracts. A few pre-1970 abstracts are included, mainly of articles pub. in 1969 which reached the Academy too late for pub. in the 1970 vol. There are also some earlier abstracts, mainly from areas not thoroughly covered in the previous vols.

Zoogeography in the Caribbean: The 1975 Leidy Medal Symposium

Zoogeography in the Caribbean: The 1975 Leidy Medal Symposium: Special Publications No. No. 13

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Frank B. Gill (ed) (in)
The papers in this vol. all deal with animals that have centers of endemism & diversity in the Greater Antilles. Contents: The Origins of the West Indian Butterfly Fauna, by F. Martin Brown; Some Aspects of the Herpetogeography of the West Indies, by Albert Schwartz; Zoogeography of Antillean Bats, by Robert J. Baker & Hugh H. Genoways; A Paleontological Perspective of West Indian Birds & Mammals, by Storrs L. Olson; & Derivations & Continental Affinities of Antillean Birds, by James Bond. Illus.

Mineralogy of Pennsylvania 1922-1965: Supplementing & Updating Gordon’s “The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania (1922)”

Mineralogy of Pennsylvania 19221965: Supplementing and Updating Gordon’s “The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania (1922)”: Special Publications No. 9

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Arthur Montgomery (au)
In 1922 Samuel G. Gordon’s “The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania” was published as Special Pub. No. 1 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, & was later reprinted twice. Discussions begain in 1962 to update Gordon’s work. The editing of the material incorporated in this vol. utilizes & brings up-to-date only the more significant data bearing on mineral discoveries, occurrences & origin, & covers the period of pub. of a one-page column, “Pennsylvania Minerals,” in the Keystone Newsletter, monthly journal of the Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania from Nov. 1962 through Dec. 1965. Contents: (I) Introduction: Aims, & Contents; (II) Revised List of Pennsylvania Minerals; (III) Descriptive Mineralogy of Newly Recorded Species; (IV) New Data on Earlier Recorded Minerals: Minerals of Historical Interest; Minerals of Geochemical Interest; & Zeolites & Related Secondary Minerals; & (V) Index of Pennsylvania Minerals & Mineral Localities. Illus.

Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope

Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope: Special Publications No. 17

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Jane Pierce Davidson (au)
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), the grandson of wealthy Philadelphia merchant Thomas Pim Cope, grew up to be a keenly intellectual, energetic, & argumentative naturalist. He was among the last of the great school of late 19th century naturalists who studied almost everything, excelling in the study of reptiles, amphibians, & fish, fossil & modern alike. Cope soared to international prominence among natural scientists. His personal life has heretofore been eclipsed by his monumental achievements in science. Here, Jane Pierce Davidson has critically looked into Cope the man more than any other previous biographer. He loved his wife & daughter, but his amorosity wandered, & hearsay about the cricumstances of his death shadowed him through the 20th century. Cope was acclaimed by international scholarly societies for his scientific work, yet lost most of his fortune in bad mining ventures & remained a complex, fierce-minded man. Relying mostly on primary references, including many heretofore unpublished, Davidson, an admirer of Edward Cope, shows him to have been a very human, personable, self-assured, & brilliant man.

Diatoms of Low-Alkalinity Lakes in the Northeastern United States

Diatoms of LowAlkalinity Lakes in the Northeastern United States: Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila., Special Publications No. 18

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Keith E. Camburn (au); Donald F. Charles (au)
Diatoms, in addition to being important components of aquatic ecosystems, are valuable ecological indicators. In lakes, diatoms accrue in sediments over time, providing a lasting record of response to changing environmental conditions. Data from analysis of this record can be used to address a variety of environmental issues, including lake acidification, eutrophication & climate change. Successful use of diatoms to assess ecological conditions requires that taxa be identified correctly & that their ecological characteristics be known. This pub. aims to provide information to help meet both objectives. It contains photomicrographs & ecological data for diatom taxa found in sediment samples collected from 116 lakes in the Adirondack Park, northern N.Y. Because many of these diatom taxa are relatively widespread, however, the taxonomic & ecological information is applicable to low-alkalinity lakes throughout the NE U.S. & SE Canada. This pub. documents the taxonomy used by diatomists in the PIRLA project (Paleoecological Investigation of Recent Lake Acidification), & also provides taxonomic guidance & ecological data for future studies of low-alkalinity lakes. 37 plates.

Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines (1945-1964)

Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines (19451964): Special Publications No. 6

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Horace G. Richards (au); Rhodes W. Fairbridge (au)
This bibliography was first suggested at a meeting of the Commission on Shorelines at the sixth congress of the International Assoc. for Quaternary Reserarch (INQUA) held in Warsaw, Poland, in Sept. 1961. Funds for its preparation & pub. were provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF: Grant GN 163), & work started during the summer of 1963. The present work lists some 2400 articles. While the bibliography was intended to cover a 20-year period from 1945 to 1964, there are undoubtedly conspicuous gaps for the year 1964 because not all pertinent pubs. were available by the time that the vol. went to press, early in 1965.

Gabb’s California Cretaceous & Tertiary Type Lamellibranchs

Gabb’s California Cretaceous and Tertiary Type Lamellibranchs: Special Publications No. 3

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Ralph B. Stewart (au)
Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgments; Sources of Material; Cretaceous; Eogene (Subalpinian); Neogene (Sublpenninian); Composition of Tertiary Fauna; Classification of the Lamellibranchia; Nomenclature; List of New Generic & Subgeneric Names; Corrections for the Gastropods; & List of Authors Cited by Date of Publication. B&W Plates.