I intend to place here several out of print, old and difficult to obtain books and papers. I start with Tawney's 1873 paper on the Gasteropods of Dundry Hill, Avon. These documents have been scanned in via a Mustek A3:USB scanner and OCR'd via ABBYY Finereader 5.
- A PDF Copy . of Tawney 1873, Proc. Bristol Naturalists, Vol. 1 pp. 9-59, Gasteropods from Dundry Hill in Bristol Museum, 11.6 Mb in size with high rez pictures of the plates, or here a 512Kb version for web use. Updated 27/6/04, typos corrected.
- A PDF Copy . of Plate 42 of Palaeontologia Universalis, that is a description by Buckman (1904) of Sowerby's type of Sonnnia sowerbyi. The forerunner of Yorkshire Type Ammonites, to eventually become Type Ammonites.
- Strübin, K. 1903, Eine Harpocerasart aus dem unteren Dogger. Abhandl. Schweiz. Palaoeont. Gesselschaft, 30, p. 1-5 & 1 Plate. a 707kb PDF file.
- Simpson. 1843, being a 620Kb PDF , an OCR-ed version of the famous, but rare small volume, describing the ammonites from the Yorkshire Lias. I have enlarged the text to fit A4 page size, although keeping the existing pagination. This volume is of considerable historic value as very few were published and it's early age and obscurity makes it an important reference for Jurassic ammonite taxonomy. The specimens cited in it, are still in the Whitby Museum, of which Simpson was an early curator. It was to first figure these important specimens that S.S. Buckman started to publish Yorkshire Type Ammonites in 1909!
- A long term project, that is to publish the revisionary material for Type Ammonites, prepared by John Callomon, Desmond Donovan, Michael Howarth and Hugh Torrens, the latter being the main mover behind the project. It was intended as an extra volume for the reprint of TA produced by Verlag Von Cramer in 1976 and was advertised in these published volumes, as forthcoming. Unfortunately the decision was taken not to publish it and the unfinished manuscript has gathered dust for years. Hugh Torrens subsequently presented it to the Arkell Library in Oxford. Thanks to the generosity of the Curator of the Museum Professor Jim Kennedy, who paid for the photocopying and the assistance of the Librarian, Stella Brecknell, I now have a complete Xerox copy of the majority of this material.
The results of my labours can be seen here!
