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Suffer and Survive: Gas Attacks, Miners’ Canaries, Spacesuits and the Bends: The Extreme Life of Dr. J.S. Haldane

good reading, at various levels. All the characters written about in the book contributed to the growth and understanding of geology to differing extents. Some were merely fact recording ‘machines’, while others were concerned with understanding and developing concepts, aspects of which have been developed by many of the authors. There are a few errors of fact, e.g. the Archaeocyatha are not corals, although their relation to this group was certainly discussed. These fossils were also known from South Australia in the 1870s. There are some typographical errors and occasional infelicities, mainly in the texts of those authors for whom English is a second language. This is noticed in the inappropriate use or non-use, as the case requires, of the indefinite ‘a’ and definite ‘the’ articles. As an after-thought it is a pity that the remarkable mining geologist New Zealander, Malcolm McLaren, does not get a mention. Not too many have gone by foot, horse, elephant, mule, camel, tonga (!), sledge, canoe, and bicycle, to mention just a few. This book will be of interest to a wide readership, and would be a good, perhaps ‘off-beat’ introduction to the world of geology as it developed. Geological Society members will benefit by a reduced price; others might want it through their local libraries.