3 Recent Messages 1-------- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:18:30 +0930 From: "Nigel Cooper" <[log in to unmask]> 18-21 MARCH. Conference. John Ray and his Successors: the clergyman as biologist Braintree, Essex, UK Organised by the John Ray Trust, the Institute of Biology's History Committee, and the Society for the History of Natural History. Keynote speakers: John Brooke "Wise men nowadays think otherwise", Michael Reiss "On being a biologist and a cleric", plus others including profs Paul Foster, Chris Smith, Sandy Baker, David Knight, Mark Seaward, Edward Larson, Peter Bowler. Registration before Jan1 is £90 (f/t students £30), accommodation etc extra. Bookings and details from Janet Turner, John Ray Trust, Town Hall Centre, BRAINTREE, Essex, CM7 3YG. Tel (+44) 1376-557776; Fax -344345. The Rev Nigel Cooper, Rector of Rivenhall 40 Church Road, Rivenhall, WITHAM, Essex CM8 3PQ Tel: (+44) 1376 511161 [log in to unmask] 2----------- Subject: Crash Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:00:28 +0100 From: [log in to unmask] (Paolo Palladino) I am working with a group here in the Institute for Cultural Research on the notion of the 'crash'. I think there is something interesting to say on the subject from the perspective of ecological modelling about the normalisation of the unexpected etc... Does anyone have any thoughts then about, and references to, the historical origins of the term 'crash' to describe the sudden collapse of a population? Paolo Paolo Palladino Department of History Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YG UNITED KINGDOM W (01524) 592 793 H (01524) 847 489 [log in to unmask] 3----------- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:42:44 -0500 From: Laura Janecek <[log in to unmask]> Laura Janecek, Recording Secretary, ASM [log in to unmask] (803) 725-8213 Special Publications of the American Society of Mammalogists: Seventy-five Years of Mammalogy (1919-1994) Elmer C. Birney and Jerry R. Choate, Editors 1994 433 pages hardbound $50.00 Twenty-one chapters prepared by 41 contributors review the history of the world's largest and oldest scientific society devoted to the study of mammals (the American Society of Mammalogists), as well as the development of the major subdisciplines of mammalogy. This volume serves not only as an interesting history of the development of an important scientific society, but as a timely review of major research in the field of mammalogy. To order, please send your name, address, and check or money order, payable to "American Society of Mammalogists" in U.S. currency, to: Dr. H. Duane Smith, Secretary-Treasurer, c/o Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 USA. If you wish to charge your order to Mastercard or VISA, a $2.00 handling fee will be added. Please supply your account number and card expiration date. All orders must be prepaid. Postage will be paid by ASM. For a list of other ASM publications, please contact Dr. Smith or visit the ASM website: http://wkuweb1.wku.edu/~asm/ -- Christian C. Young Assistant Professor Department of History, Science, and Culture Mt. Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon 97373 Summer phone: (503) 245-6913 (H) [log in to unmask]