BOOKS ON FOSSILS AND COLLECTING: Converse, H.H., Jr., 1984 (2nd printing revised by R. McCarty, 1989), Handbook of Paleo-Preparation Techniques, Florida Paleontological Society, Inc., Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida Cvancara, A.M., 1985, A Field Manual for the Amateur Geologist, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Cvancara, A.M., 1990, Sleuthing Fossils: the Art of Investigating Past Life, Wiley Science Editions, NY Dixon, D., 1992, The Practical Geologist, Simon & Schuster / Fireside, NY Goldring, W., 1950, 2nd ed., Handbook of Paleontology for Beginners and Amateurs: Part I, The Fossils, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY Goldring, R., 1991, Fossils in the Field, Information Potential and Analysis, Longman Scientific and Technical Lichter, G., 1986, engl. trans. 1993, Fossil Collector's Handbook, Sterling, New York MacFall, R.P., 1963, Collecting Rocks, Minerals, Gems and Fossils, Hawthorn, NY MacFall, R.P. and Wollin, J.C., 1983, rev'd. ed., Fossils for Amateurs, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY Matthews, W.H., III, 1960, Texas Fossils: an Amateur Collector's Handbook, guidebook no. 2, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX Mayr, H., 1985, A Guide to Fossils, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ Moody, R., 1986, Macmillan Field Guide to Fossils, Macmillan Murray, M., 1967, Hunting for Fossils, Macmillan, NY Parker, S., 1990, The Practical Paleontologist, Simon and Schuster, NY Pellant, C. and Phillips, R., 1990, Rocks, Minerals and Fossils of the World, Little Brown, Boston Thomas, M.C., 1968, Fossil Vertebrates: Beach and Bank Collecting for Amateurs, Florida Paleontological Society, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida Thompson, I., 1982, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils, Alfred A. Knopf, NY Walker, C. and Ward, D., 1992, Fossils(Eyewitness Handbook), Dorling Kindersley, inc., NY West, R.M., 1991, State Regulation of Geological, Paleontological and Archaeological Collecting, American Museum of Natural History, NY
MAPS AND GEOLOGIC LITERATURE: American Association of Petroleum Geologists(AAPG) P.O. Box 797 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101 Geological Society of America P.O. Box 1719 Boulder, Colorado 80302 (800) 472-1988, (303) 447-2020 U.S. Geological Survey Map Distribution Federal Center, Box 25286 Denver, Colorado 80225 (303) 236-7477 U.S. Geological Survey Books and Open File Reports Section Federal Center, Box 25425 Denver, Colorado 80225 (303) 236-7476
EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS: Many of these items or their equivalents can be found in your local hardware store or a good military surplus dealer. If you are lucky enough to have a good rock shop or lapidary supply dealer in your area try them for many of the items. The following two commercial suppliers have many of the items listed above:
Carolina Biological Supply Company 2700 York Road Burlington, NC 27215 (800) 334-5551
Forestry Suppliers, Inc. PO Box 8397 Jackson, MS 39284-8397 (800) 752-8460