Earth Sciences History Group (A Specialist Group of the Geological Society of Australia Inc.) Email Bulletin No. 60 10 May 2022
Hidden histories revealed in scientific revision of paleontological collections (INHIGEO session at IPC6 Our 2018 Tom Vallance Medal recipient, Dr Susan Turner has been co-opted along with Kathleen Histon, and Toshihiro Yamada to convene an INHIGEO-sponsored session at the International Palaeontological Congress in Thailand 7–11 November 2022. The congress website is https://ipc6.msu.ac.th. The theme of the session is given above and a description of it is as follows: Research in palaeontology in relation to scientific revision of palaeontological collections often leads us to work on historical documents and publications in order to reconstruct their stories. Many hours can be spent in museum collections, archives, libraries and online tracing original publications, the development of theories or techniques in palaeontology, disputes and discussion of taxonomic classification, biographies and correspondence between scientists, notes on specimens within collection boxes or museum records regarding their revision, transfer or loss. This documentation forms a fundamental part of a palaeontologist’s research and is often contained within a short paragraph on Previous Studies or under remarks on systematic descriptions within monographs and scientific papers as after all the main objective is to resolve the taxonomic issues and complete the systematic studies. In this IUGS International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO) sponsored session we would like to provide a space for this research to be presented and highlight the interaction between history and palaeontology. Contributions on the aspects outlined above are welcomed. Publication of papers from this INHIGEO session is planned as a Special Issue in the peer-reviewed journal Earth Science History. Please submit abstracts before 16 June 2022 via IPC6’s registration system or send by email to Generalchair_ipc6@msu.ac.th The IPC6 centre working along with scientific committee will collate abstracts centrally, review and provisionally accept them and then send them as batches to convenors for their final approval. IPC6 centre will issue acceptance letter to the author after the final approval. Deadline for registration payment 15 June 2022
INHIGEO Circular The latest INHIGEO Circular can be accessed on the INHIGEO webpage at https://inhigeo.com/circular.pdf Of interest is a link to a paper by ESHG member Wolf Mayer in INHIGEO’s Anniversaries Series for the IUGS Website and E Bulletin on William Keene who died 150 years ago. William Keene (1798–1872): Geologist, Engineer and Collector, in France and New South Wales Born in Bath, Somerset, in 1798, the young William Keene moved to London where he discovered an interest in geology and in engineering. A career in mining and civil engineering, led to his move to Bordeaux in 1838. However, instability brought about by the revolution in France in 1848, prompted him to return to England. He was already 54 years old when he left England with his family, in 1852, to settle in the colony of New South Wales where he made major contributions to the discovery, mapping and mining of coal deposits in the Hunter Valley region of New
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