Pollen Analysis Circular

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The final cover of the Pollen Analysis Circular.
The final cover of the Pollen Analysis Circular.

The first issue of the Pollen Analysis Circular was dated May 5, 1943 and published by Paul B. Sears, a professor in the Department of Botany at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio[1]. The circular was maintained from 1943 - 1948 by Paul Sears and from 1948 - 1952 by Leonard R. Wilson.

The Pollen Analysis Circular was a response to increased handicaps to travel during the late stages of World War II[2]. Since palynology was a well established trans-Atlantic field by the time World War II broke out, workers in the United States, Britain and Germany in particular, had difficulty maintaining contact with one another. The Pollen Analysis Circular allowed researchers in the United States to maintain contact with one another and maintain publication lists that had, until then, been published by Gunnar Erdtman as "Literature on Pollen Statistics and Related Topics." [1]

It was in the pages of the Pollen Analysis Circular that the field of pollen analysis was given the modern name of palynology based on correspondence through issues 6, 7 and 8 between H.A. Hyde and D.A. Williams[3] who are credited with coming up with the name palynology, along with contributions by Ernst Antevs[4], Paul B. Sears[5], A. Orville Dahl[6] and L. R. Wilson[7].

In January of 1945 the Pollen Analysis Circular was renamed the Pollen and Spore Circular and publication continued until 1954, at which point it appears that the Circular was incorporated into the Micropaleontologist, published by the American Museum of Natural History. The last issue of the Pollen and Spore Circular (#18) was edited by Calvin J. Heusser and included abstracts from the First Palynology Conference (Feb. 25, 1953), held at Yale University as well as correspondence from researchers working as far afield as Düsseldorf Germany, Lucknow India and Indianapolis, Indiana[8].

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  1. ^ a b Sears, P.B. (1943). "Foreword". Pollen Analysis Circular: 1. 
  2. ^ Davis, Owen (July 2004). Palynology in North America. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
  3. ^ Hyde, H.A.; D.A. Williams (1944). "The Right Word.". Pollen Analysis Circular 8: 6. 
  4. ^ Antevs, E. (1944). "The Right Word.". Pollen Analysis Circular 6: 2. 
  5. ^ Sears, P. B. (1944). "The Right Word.". Pollen Analysis Circular 6: 3. 
  6. ^ Dahl, A. O. (1944). "The Right Word.". Pollen Analysis Circular 7: 1. 
  7. ^ Wilson, L. R. (1944). "The Right Word.". Pollen Analysis Circular 7: 2. 
  8. ^ Heusser, C.J. (1954). "Pollen and Spore Circular". Pollen and Spore Circular 18: 1. 

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