Note: Front Cover -- Developments and Interactions of the Precambrian Atmosphere, Lithosphere and Biosphere -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Oxygen and ozone in the early Earth's atmosphere -- Chapter 2. Photochemistry of methane in the Earth's early atmosphere -- Chapter 3. Proterozoic aeolian quartz arenites from the Hornby Bay Group, Northwest Territories, Canada: implications for Precambrian aeolian processes -- Chapter 4. Precambrian atmospheric oxygen and banded iron formations: a delayed ocean model -- Chapter 5. Tectonic systems and the deposition of iron-formation -- Chapter 6. Archaean chemical weathering at three localities on the Canadian Shield -- Chapter 7. Pedogenetic and diagenetic fabrics in the Upper Proterozoic Sarnyéré formation -- Chapter 8. Rare earth elements in the early Archaean Isua iron-formation, West Greenland -- Chapter 9. Primitive Earth environments: organic syntheses and the origin and early evolution of life -- Chapter 10. Natural nuclear reactors and ionizing radiation in the Precambrian -- Chapter 11. Evolutionary connections of biological kingdoms based on protein and nucleic acid sequence evidence -- Chapter 12. Evolution of photoautotrophy and early atmospheric oxygen levels -- Chapter 13. Further sulphur and carbon isotope studies of late Archaean iron-formations of the Canadian shield and the rise of sulfate reducing bacteria -- Chapter 14. Filamentous fossil bacteria from the Archaean of Western Australia -- Chapter 15. Pseudo-oolites in rocks of the Ulundi Formation, lower part of the Archaen Fig Tree Group (South Africa) -- Chapter 16. Sedimentary geology and stromatolites of the Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Glacier National Park, Montana -- Chapter 17. The emergence of Metazoa in the early history of life. , Chapter 18. Distinctive microbial structures and the pre-Phanerozoic fossil record -- Chapter 19. Fine structure of the stratified microbial community at Laguna Figueroa, Baja California, Mexico.I, Methods of in situ study of the laminated sediments -- Chapter 20. Stromatolites -the challenge of a term in space and time -- Chapter 21. Stratiform copper deposits and interactions with co-existing atmospheres,hydrospheres, biospheres and lithospheres -- Chapter 22. Origin and distribution of gold in the Huronian Supergroup, Canada -The case for Witwatersrand-type paleoplacers.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Splitting the infinitive -- Broken English -- NPL haiku -- Federalese -- Readability ratings -- A note on the game of refereeing -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tactics for the Game -- 2.1 Tactics for the Author -- 2.2 Tactics for the Referee -- 3. Conculsion -- Preparing scientific papers -- Commandments for the writer of a dissertation -- Prepartion of the Dissertion -- Selection of Opponents -- The Defence of the Dissertation -- Royalties: The Quatorze connection -- Perish, but publish! -- Clarification -- How to win arguments -- The Techniques of Argumentation -- The circular path -- The break-in or yeabut -- The crescendo -- The stutter -- The use of invective -- The syllogism -- The acceptance of a scientific idea -- On the reading of scientific papers -- Audience enemies numbers I to VI -- The use of small dogs in physics teaching -- Teaching -- Teacher evaluation -- Proclamation -- Free thinking -- A revised PhD comprehensive -- Syllabus for a detective story written by a physics professor -- Challenging experiments -- Images -- Mission statements -- The rank order on campus -- Budget -- The university hierarchy-who's on top? -- View from the bottom -- On the problem of innovation -- The Dreistein case -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton's Nobel Award (1947) -- Hypothesis -- Finagle's laws -- First Law -- Second Law -- Third Law -- Fourth Law -- The Law of the Too Solid Goof -- Advice To Experimenters -- Descent of man -- Literacy in an age of technology -- How to live with the Philistines -- The Wife -- Other Scientists -- Humanists -- Officialdom -- A Philistine asks for equal time -- In Some Respects, Pragmatic -- We Wire the Lamps -- Physicists Need Philistines -- Brain drain -- Pan's pipes -- Seventeenth-century recognition of resonance. , Demon theory of friction -- Natural-science viva, c 1890 -- Physics instructor -- Influential textbooks : The Feynman lectures on physics -- A lecture to a lady on Thornson's reflecting galvanometer -- European atom -- Error bars -- The British high energy physics community -- All Power to Particles -- The future European harmonic pendulum -- Report of a working party appointed by The Arts Research Council -- The Future European Programme -- Finance and Manpower -- High Intensity Machine in Britain -- Summary and Conclusion -- The fluttering. spiralling flight of cyclotron evolution -- E O Lawrence, driver -- Ten commandments of electrical safety -- hv -- Tea-tirne with Rutherford -- Pauli in Heaven -- Physikalisches Lied -- Tracking the elusive quark -- Spin-orbit coupling -- Reference frames -- Space -- The Einstein and the Eddington -- Einstein's philosophy of science -- Relativity -- R W Wood-improviser -- The 40-ft Spectrograph -- Schuster's library -- Captain DeKhotinsky -- My anecdotage: Apocryphal tales -- The diabolical heating scheme of J C Maxwell -- Proof by induction -- Stauffer's law of the entropy of change -- International Court of Scientific Nomenclature Rival claims of scientists: Celsius vs McKie -- Before the Lord President of the International Court -- mμ-an spticist's lament -- The King who kept his 0 °C -- Name for unit radian frequency -- On the mathematics of committees, boards and panels -- The "legal' value of π -- Science in double dactyls -- Hymne to Hymen -- Resolution of the paradox -- A philosophical puppet play -- Saving time: a commentary -- Could the earth run backward? -- Twixt earth and sky with matter-horns -- Astronomical funding -- O, telescope! -- Planetoid for sale -- Celsius-the astronomer -- The satellite question -- Astronomical abberation -- Creation of the Universe: a modest proposal. , Request for supplement to UCF Grant #000-00-00000-001 'Creation of the Universe' -- Background -- Progress to Date -- Supplement -- Prospective Budget -- Salaries -- Monitoring Equipment and Misc. -- Creation -- stressing the astronauts -- On the spot? -- Cocking a Snootnik at Sputnik -- Still in the galaxy -- Astronomers discover ethyl alcohol in interstellar space-News item -- A damsel in distress -- The Surpris'd Lady -- Chemical history is shaped by a maker of wine bottles -- To err is human . . . -- A chemical hoax -- On the substitution Rule and the Theory of Types -- References -- Professionalism-to the end -- The purist -- The ant -- Fellowshipmanship -- A concise manual on how to be a specialist without studying -- The Approach to General Practitioners -- Mannerization I -- The Presentation of the Diagnosis -- Fellowshipmanship and the specialist -- Mannerzation II -- General Rules -- Outline of evolution as dimly recalled from college education -- Struthiomimus -- The dinosaur -- R W Wood -- The dry-rot of our academic biology -- Name dropping -- Pollution -- Modelling the cat falling -- References -- The speed of the deer fly -- References -- Designer genes: a new look in fish genetics -- Curve fitting -- Competitive interactions between neotropical pollinators and Africanized honev bees -- Biorhythm: imitation of science -- On being blinded with science -- Being a ruthless enquiry into scientific methods, complete with 29 genuine references and a learned footnote -- References -- That thing will never work -- Errors and myopia -- Extracts from Modern Geography c1740 -- Section IV-Containing some amazing geographical paradoxes -- Continental drip -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Acknowledgments.

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