Authors: C.L. Camp, R.H. Nichols, B. Brajnikov, E. Fulton, and J.A. Bacskai
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The closing date of the present volume (1968) marks the fortieth anniversary of this bibliography issued in five-year periods and covering the World literature. Previous numbers have appeared as: GSA Special Papers nos. 27 and 42 and as GSA Memoirs 37, 57, 84, 92, and 117. The O.P. Hay and A.S. Romer bibliographies provide nearly complete references for all the years before 1928. Our early volumes are now out-of-print. Our bibliographies are more comprehensive than mere reference lists. They provide access to information such as new names, new discoveries, faunal lists, and other pertinent material, by means of index headings. The indexes have been largely constructed from our own abstracts of the original articles as prepared on cards filed under the authors' names. The indexes refer to citations in the Author Catalogue. The Systematic Synopsis of Classification finally brings into order the proposals for changes and additions to the classification of the Chordata. An attempt has been made to discover and index all new scientific names. There are limits to the powers of detection. If an author casually proposes a novelty without so indicating, the name can easily escape us. At the beginning we list the new periodicals with abbreviations and those with names changed since previous periods. The indexes provide the kind of information that would be conveyed by abstracts. It may be that the index form is handier than the usual abstract form entered in an Author Catalogue. We believe that the index form is preferable for future use, more direct and concise and easier to consult. This point may be argued.
Published: 6/19/1972
ISBN Number: 0-8137-1134-7
Pages: 1119
Product Category: Memoirs