"Qualitative observations on recent Foraminifera tests with emphasis on the Eastern Pacific" is the impossibly long title of a four-volume mastodon work, signed Irene McCulloch. She compiled it with the help of the heroic captain G. Allan Hancock onboard the Velero IV. For several years, this science vessel was cruising the world's oceans searching for valuable specimens of forams. However, it seems that not everything is well on the foram front, since McCulloch complains about "lack of space, lack of a budget and lack of all kinds of assistance". But she did manage to fill four extensive hardcover books with information, didn't she? Incidentally, I really hope that Amazon's third party seller carries all 4 volumes in one set, since you're going to need them all, if at all interested in foraminiferans. The black-and-white photographic plates are in volume IV, and I suppose the list of research "stations" (the exact places in the ocean where the forams were collected) is also in that volume, since I couldn't find it in volume I.
Buyer, beware!
The rest of us honestly don't know what to say...
No comments:
Post a Comment