August 2008

Editor's note: Print Edition - August

Editorial

• Not ours to see - Ted Nield has a feeling that when governments talk about "selectivity" it's nothing to do with "excellence" but everything to do with - er -  "money"
• Beginnings - Michael Welland remembers a book that Stamped him for life

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan - Never on a Sunday
• Honorary Fellows - who are they?  And how can you nominate someone to join them?

Geonews

• New Online! News In Brief - Joe McCall reviews a month in research - from the Martian lander Phoenix, to Hickman Crater, Western Australia, Amphibious Pachyderms and Gooseberries who go it alone.

Society at Large

• Hasta la Victoria Siempre!  Dawne Riddle reports from President's Day on the unveiling of a plaque to mark a revolutionary period in the Society's recent history.
• Saudi Arabia degrees accredited -  Bill Gaskarth, Peter Styles and John Powell on an overseas venture for the Society's degree course accreditation scheme
• Shell London lectures

Reviews

•  Three books of the month, reviewed by Robin Cocks, Jim Griffiths and Mike Bowman

Opinion

• Reservoirs to the Rescue - In the final instalment of The Proof in the Puddingstone, Bryan Lovell reveals that the proof of the puddingstone is in the heating...

Feature

• Breaking the Time Barrier - Prof. Clive Gamble decribes the moment that Man first entered the geological timescale.

Letters

Crossword
Sticks & Stones
By DUGZ.