September 2010

Charon and the community - Ted Nield on why a few professional ferrymen are not enough to get the public across the unreadable sloughs of academic writing
BRE 365 - it's the pits: Matt Williams thinks regulations are imposing a needlessly sloppy approach to soakaway testing in the UK

Distant Thunder - Nina Morgan on the rarely-seen friendly side of Richard Owen
Obituaries - In this month's print issue - Geoffrey Robert John Browning 1944-2010 & John Hannes Callomon 1928-2010
Carousel (print issue only)

"Hot blobs" cause planetary pulse. Sarah Day reports on the 2010 Presidential Address from Dr Bryan Lovell
Global warming link to fishery collapse in Lake Tanganyika - Sam Shead reports.
Fungus explodes impact theory - ugly facts get in way of the impact theory for the Younger Dryas, reports Sarah Day

First reptiles make tracks! Howard Falcon-Lang, using funds provided for fieldwork by the Society, on the trails of ancient reptiles in Canada.
Cover story - The right to be preserved: News feature by Sarah Day on the Oxford Museum of Natural History's 150th birthday, and some remarkable fossils at an exhibition there.

Nominations for Society Awards and Honorary Fellows invited
Dates of future OGM and Council meetings (Print only)
Don't be a pirate! Fellows are reminded not to divulge their passwords to anyone. (Print only)
Fellows encouraged to renew online by Direct Debit (Print only)
Library review - Nic Bilham with news of a "Town Hall" meeting on October 8 (Print only)
Ifs and no buts - Angharad Hills reports that GSL Journal Impact Factrors are on the rise (Print only)
Open House! - Sheila Meredith on the Burlington House Open Day, Saturday 18 September
British Science Festival 2010 - Sarah Day reports on forthcoming geological activities at Aston University (Print only)
Rare book of the month - Michael McKimm discusses an early example of the bound reprint memorial collection.