Hi all,

If you are intrested in paleontology, one of the best reference books
in the past 20 years is now available free online. For more
information, please see the email from Tim Palmer below.

Best Regards,
Cary R. Easterday

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
ceaste2[AT]uic.edu
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Palaeobiology, A Synthesis, edited by DEG Briggs and PR Crowther, was
one of the great palaeontological publishing successes of the last 20
years. Originally produced in 1990 as a joint venture between the
Palaeontological Association and Blackwell Scientific Publications,
its encyclopaedic form made it an ideal and widely-used teaching
reference across the world.

The hard copy has been out of print for some years, and Blackwell's
more recent 'Paleobiology' (by the same editors) does not cover
exactly the same ground. Therefore The Palaeontological Association
and Blackwells have arranged for the original 1990 text to be freely
downloadable, chapter by chapter, to any interested person. Multiple
copies may be taken, so this remains an ideal teaching resource.

Links from the Palaeontological Association website at www.palass.org
will soon be set up. In the meanwhile, the text can be accessed
through the Blackwell website at www.blackwellpublishing.com, or
direct through www.earth-pages.com.

Tim Palmer
Executive Officer, The Palaeontological Association