This is a personal account of the human side of Everett C Olson's distinguished career as a palaeobiologist. Origins and the combination of events that led to a formal education at the University of Chicago, the selection of a career, and an interest in the Permian are reviewed. Then Olson vividly describes two decades of field work in Texas, emphasising the people, places and events that he and his co-workers encountered there at mid-century. The second half of the book is devoted to Olson's pioneering efforts in establishing and strengthening ties between palaeontologists of the US and USSR during the Cold War years and especially his deepening friendship with Professor Ivan A Efremov. Olson and Efremov, two scientists from different cultures, wrestled with opposing philosophies but shared common interests and emotions. This book will certainly be of interest to the many people who have known Dr Olson as colleague, mentor, and friend. For the general reader, the book provides insights into the career of a distinguished contemporary scientist and represents an important chapter in the 20th century history of palaeontology, earth science, and international scientific relations.

It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field.--Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones.--Roy S. Porter, History of Science

In growing numbers, archeologists are specializing in the analysis of excavated animal bones as clues to the environment and behavior of ancient peoples. This pathbreaking work provides a detailed discussion of the outstanding issues and methods of bone studies that will interest zooarcheologists as well as paleontologists who focus on reconstructing ecologies from bones. Because large samples of bones from archeological sites require tedious and time-consuming analysis, the authors also offer a set of computer programs that will greatly simplify the bone specialist's job.
After setting forth the interpretive framework that governs their use of numbers in faunal analysis, Richard G. Klein and Kathryn Cruz-Uribe survey various measures of taxonomic abundance, review methods for estimating the sex and age composition of a fossil species sample, and then give examples to show how these measures and sex/age profiles can provide useful information about the past. In the second part of their book, the authors present the computer programs used to calculate and analyze each numerical measure or count discussed in the earlier chapters. These elegant and original programs, written in BASIC, can easily be used by anyone with a microcomputer or with access to large mainframe computers.

1. DIE SCHOPFUNG SCHRIFfLICHER ANAPHORENFORMULARE AM AUSGANG DER ANTllill Es wird haufig betont, wie peinlich genau die Romer in ihrem Gotterkult auf die prazise Wiedergabe von Gebetsformeln achteten. Urn versehentliche Abweichungen und die hiervon befUrchteten schlimmen Folgen zu vermei- den, trugen sie die Gebete nicht auswendig vor, sondem verlasen sie in der 2 Regel aus Zeremonialbiichem. Auch die jiidische Tempelliturgie war in eine feste Form gefaBt, die wohl kaum Gelegenheit zur freien Gestaltung bot. 3 Sollte sie doch die unverriickbare kosmische Ordnung symbolisieren. Hingegen herrschte beim offentlichen Gebet im Gottesdienst der Urchri- sten groBte Freiheit nicht nur im Wortlaut,4 sondem auch in der Gesamtdis- position. Welch breiter Raum anfanglich der Eingebung des Augenblicks auch in Form von Glossolalie und von Offenbarungen sowie ihrer jeweiligen Auslegung, die man als Werk des Heiligtm Geistes betrachtete,5 gewahrt wurde, zeigen die von Paulus aufgestellten Grundregeln, die den Ablauf der Eucharistiefeier in der korinthischen Gemeinde zu ordnen suchten, indem die Teilnehmer u.a. dazu angehalten wurden, wenigstens einzeln hintereinander zu reden (1 Cor. 14,26-31). Auch im zweiten und dritten lahrhundert wurde das gottesdienstliche Ge- 6 bet oft aus der Eingebung des Augenblicks heraus improvisiert. Soweit iiberhaupt einmal, wie in einem Abschnitt der wohl schon zu Beginn des 2. 2 Vgl. G. Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Romer = HdbAW 5, 4 (2Munchen 1912) 397f mit Anm. 7 und 9; K. Latte, Romische Religionsgeschichte = HdbA W 5, 4 (Munchen 1960) 392; F.J. DOlger, Antike und Christentum 2 (1930) 242f.

From his stunning discovery of "Tyrannosaurus rex "one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873OCo1963), spending most of it searching for fossilsOCoand sometimes oilOCoin every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, BrownOCowho lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladiesOCO manOCobecame as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. "Barnum Brown "brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on BrownOCOs field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travelsOCofrom his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of BrownOCOs extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter.

Paleopalynology, second edition, provides profusely illustrated treatment of fossil palynomorphs, including spores, pollen, dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs, chitinozoans, scolecodonts, and various microscopic fungal and algal dispersal bodies. The book serves both as a student text and general reference work. Palynomorphs yield information about age, geological and biological environment, climate during deposition, and other significant factors about the enclosing rocks. Extant spores and pollen are treated first, preparing the student for more difficult work with fossil sporomorphs and other kinds of palynomorphs. Recognizing that palynomorphs occur together in rocks because of chemical robustness and stratigraphic distribution, not biological relationship, the central sections are organized stratigraphically.