December 2008

Editorial

• Surveys' wondrous cross - Surveys must change to survive, but how fast, and how far?  Ted Nield draws attention to the BGS Forward Strategy, now out for consultation, and to the forthcoming issue's coverage.
• The wizard's warning - Don Braben has a vision...

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan: Christmas Cheer - or the gourmet geologist
• Smithsonian founder honoured
• Glossop Award 2008

Geonews

• News in Brief - Joe McCall ponders volcanism on Mercury and the deep terrestrial biosphere.

Society at Large

• Shell London Lectures
• Sponsor a book! - how you can help preserve some of the greatest books in our library
• Society Research Funds - how to apply

Reviews

• Four book reviews by Trevor Ford, Mike Leeder, Ian Lancaster and Sarah Day

Opinion

• Clearer skies for China - Adler de Wind reports on how China is working with BGS scientists to capture the carbon it currently pumps into the air.

Features

• A saw for a jaw - Hugh Torrens on the tortured history of the Society's Mary Anning Ichthyosaur skull - now lovingly restored and back on permanent public display.
• Trilobite Park - RIchard Fortey opens a new visitor attraction...

Letters

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