March 2008

Editorial

• If you've got it flaunt it - Ted Nield thinks Fellows should be out and proud about their postnominal
• Who needs lithostratigraphy?   - Peter Gutteridge suspects that lithostrat is a waste of time

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• An Aye for the ladies - a letter newly come to light illuminates the goings-on at a Special General meeting in 1889

Geonews

• Back to bedrock - BGS is poised to publish successors to the famous "Ten Mile" maps of the UK, and new Stratigraphical Charts, write Alan Smith and Colin Waters

Society at Large

• CGeol, CSci and now CEnv? - David Shilston asks for your vote on whether the GSL should join the Society for the Environment as a member body

Reviews

• Reviews by Rebecca Exley, Sarah Boulton and Chris Carlon

Opinion

• Small may be beautiful, but is it sustainable?  Melinda Kenneway asks - will the new world of information delivery need learned society publishers?

Feature

• Coaled Comfort - David Straha thinks coal has a Hubbert's Peak all its own
• Golden Rum: understanding the forbidden isle - Kathryn Goodenough and Dougal Jerram report on a Bicentenary field excursion to a classic locality

Letters 

Crossword

Sticks & Stones

By DUGZ.