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M. Bubick and M. A. Kaminski, Editors, 2004. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera.

Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 8, 485 p. + x pp., ISBN: 83-912385-4-7, Price: £49, order from Micropaleontology Project, 256 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10001 [tel. 1-212-481-2997] or direct from Special Publications Editor (email: m.Kaminski@ucl.ac.uk). The Grzybowski Foundation, c/o Geological Museum, Jagiellonian University, ul. Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Krakow, Poland.

Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 and Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Wright-Riemann Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ 08854

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The study of agglutinated benthic foraminifera continues to thrive as this latest contribution from the Grzybowski Foundation testifies. The proceedings of the latest Workshop in Prague (2001) represent a distillation of the 43 lectures (23 of which dealt with the Cretaceous and 9 with the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous) presented in the newly refurbished conference center of the Charles University at the medieval Carolinum complex.

The diversity of topics and sheer size (465 pages!) of this volume preclude a detailed analysis of the papers in this volume. Inasmuch as the papers are presented in alphabetic order rather than being grouped by topic I shall select several of the main themes and present highlights from results of several papers which caught my interest and may serve to induce you to order a copy of this most useful volume.

Certainly the highlight of this volume is the new classification systems of the agglutinated foraminifera presented by Mike Kaminski (p. 237–255) and Valeria Mikhalevich (p. 317–349). That these two complementary papers are separated by over 60 pages is support/justification enough for the suggestion that papers should have been grouped thematically. Kaminski follows a more classical approach in essentially . . . [Full Text of this Article]