July 2008

Editorial

• Contingency - but no plan.  Ted Nield admits he has something for which to thanks the Iron lady
• 1st Class Confusion?  Mike Simmons thinks university degrees are in a right old mess

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan
• Society whistleblower retires
• Antarctic bay named for UK geophysicist
• Thomson celebrated
• St Aubyn collection needs your help

Geonews

• Turkish delight - creationist sentenced to prison for corruption
• Code of the Scots - a new fossil collecting code comes into force north of the border

Society at Large

• Shell London lectures

Reviews

• Book reviews by Ted Nield and Steve Rowlatt

Opinion

• The Proof in the Puddingstone - second slice: The Pudding. Bryan Lovell looks back over a life in sandstones and oil and ponders the significance of events at 55Ma

Feature

• Fersman in the Kola Peninsula.  Geoff Glasby concludes his trilogy on the giants of 20th Century geochemistry

Letters

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Sticks & Stones
By DUGZ.