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BCC LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Compiled by Jack Nadin
July/Aug 1992
Surveys | Newsletters | Magazines
HARDBACKS
"Cave Explorers" Jim Eyre 1981SURVEYS
ABYSS EMILIO COMICI Julian Alps ItalyNEWSLETTERS AND OTHER CLUB JOURNALS.
A Report on Survival Nov 1967MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS
Descent | Cave Science | BCRA Transactions | BCRA Bulletin | Cave Research Group | Cave Diving
CAVES AND CAVING
A complete set of "Caves & Caving" from No 1 Aug 1978 to the present with the following
exceptions:
No 2 Nov 1978 (2 copies)
No 10 Nov 1980 (2 copies)
No 13 Aug 1981 (missing)
No 19 Feb 1983 (missing)
No 27 Feb 1985 (2 copies)
No 35 Spring 1987 (missing)
No 40 Summer 1988 (missing)
No 43 Summer 1989 (missing)
No 47 Spring 1990 (2 copies)
No 49 Autumn 1990 (2 copies)
No 51 Spring 1991 (2 copies)
DESCENT MAGAZINE
A complete set of "Descent" from No 4 May 1969 to the present with the following
exceptions:
No 1 (missing)
No 2 (missing)
No 3 (missing)
No 5 (missing)
No 6 (missing)
No 7 (missing)
No 8 (missing)
No 9 (missing)
No 11 Mar/Apr 1970 (missing)
No 46 Jul/Aug 1980 (missing)
No 47 Sept/Oct 1981 (missing)
No 74 Jan/Feb 1987 (missing)
No 75 Apr/Mar 1987 (missing)
No 77 Aug/Sept 1987 (2 copies)
No 80 Feb/Mar 1988 (2 copies)
No 82 Jun/July 1988 (missing)
No 83 Aug/Sept 1988 (3 copies)
No 87 Apr/May 1987 (missing)
No 88 Jun/July 1989 (missing)
No 90 Oct/Nov 1989 (missing)
No 92 Feb/Mar 1990 (missing)
No 93 Apr/May 1990 (2 copies)
No 95 Aug/Sept 1990 (2 copies)
No 96 Oct/Nov 1990 (missing)
No 97 Dec/Jan 1990/91 (missing)
No 99 Apr/May 1991 (2 copies)
No 101 Aug/Sept 1991 (20 copies)
No 102 Oct/Nov 1991 (2 copies)
CAVE SCIENCE.
Vol 9 No 1 Feb 1982 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: North Yorkshire Windypits, Percolation Water Microflora, Tropical Karst Terrain,
Malayan Cave Seepages, Soil air Sampling.
Vol 9 No 2 June 1982
CONTENTS: Green Cave Mulu.
Vol 9 No 3 Sept 1982 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Black deposits in Welsh caves, Mendip-pressure on cave and karst, Hydrogeology at
North Minns Swallows, Scaling Poles, Conception of danger, World Troglopedetini.
Vol 9 No 4 Dec 1982.
CONTENTS: Techniques and Equipment.
Vol 10 No 1 Mar 1983 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Pilkingtons Cavern, S.R.T. Rescue, Alkalinity, Cave Invertebrates, Corroded
Ladders, Lesser Garth Caves, Cave Conservation.
Vol 10 No 2 June 1983
CONTENTS: Gunung Sewu Java, Scallops in Norway, Peak Speleothem Dates.
Vol 10 No 3 Oct 1983 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Kvavvlihola, Norway, Iron Age in Matienzo, Rock tempertures in Altamira, Sandy
Hole Portland.
Vol 10 No 4 Dec 1983
CONTENTS: Denudation in the Burry catchment, Gower. Sampling at a Karst Spring, Leason,
Gower. Computer Program for Cave Surveying. Rocky Mountain Expedition. Caves of Leck Fell.
Vol 11 No 1 Mar 1984 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Bahamas Blue Holes 1981-82.
Vol 11 No 2 July 1984 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Yorkshire Stalagmite Dates. Castleton Water Tracing. Invertebrates from Niah Great
Cave. Altamira Tempetures. Fiji Caves.
Vol 11 No 3 Nov 1984
CONTENTS: Caves of Gunung Sewu, Java. Hypothermia in Cavers. Flooding and Survival. Accident
First Aid. Expedition Medical Equipment. Unconformities in Cave Sediments.
Vol 11 No 4 Dec 1984 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Karst Geomorphology in South China. Cave Explorations around Tresviso.
Speleogenesis in the Picos de Europa. Palaeokarst in Great Britain.
Vol 12 No 1 Mar 1985 (3 copies)
CONTENTS: Amorphous speleothems. Speleology in the U.S.S.R. B.C.R.A. Symposium abstracts.
The earliest Cave Photography.
Vol 12 No 2 June 1985 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Bocock Peak Karst Canada. Biology of New Guinea Caves. Java Expedition 1984.
Controls on micro-karren in Transvaal.
Vol 12 No 3 Sept 1985. (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Jabal Akhdar caves Oman. Expedition cave biology. Blue holes of Eastern Grand
Bahama. Blue Holes geology and hydrology. Biology of a Blue Hole.
Vol 12 No 4 Dec 1985 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Norways longest and deepest caves. Wallingford bone caves Jamaica. Mousterian
chronology. B.C.R.A. Symposium abstracts. Ankarana caves ecology Madagascar. Phereatic conduit
morphology and hydraulics.
Vol 13 No 1 Apr 1986 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Blue Holes of South Andros Bahamas. Hydrology and speleogenesis of Andros. Biota
of marine Blue Holes. Visitors and carbon dioxide in Altamira Cave. Indonesia expedition -
Irian Jaya and Sumba.
Vol 13 No 2 Aug 1986
CONTENTS: Dushan karst geomorphology Guizhou. B.C.R.A. Symposium abstracts. Caves and Blue
Holes of Cat Island. Cave biology of Cat Island.
Vol 13 No 3 Dec 1986 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Karst geomorphology of Western Guizhou. Caves and Limestone of Tonga. Evolution
of the Castleton cave systems.
Vol 14 No 1 Apr 1987 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Sediments and palynology in Marble Arch Cave. Sump Rescue Symposium. Caves of
Jordhulefjell, Norway.
Vol 14 No 3 Dec 1987
CONTENTS: M 2 Cave, Picos de Europa, Spain. B.C.R.A. Symposium abstracts. Ankarana Caves,
Madagascar. Caves of Glomdal, Norway. Leptospirosis among British Cavers.
Vol 15 No 1 Apr 1986
CONTENTS: Sediments Paleomagnetism at Llangattwg. Natural Tunnel, Virginia. Tufas and
Travertines from Yorkshire. Pigments in Cave Organisms. Survey Reductions by least squares.
Vol 15 No 2 Aug 1988
CONTENTS: Sea-level Caves Berry Head, Devon. Caves of Chiapas. Mexico. Argonite in Daren
Cilau.
Vol 15 No 3 Dec 1988
CONTENTS: Cave Studies in Norway. Early Cave Photography in Wales.
Vol 16 No 1 Apr 1989
CONTENTS: Cave dating in Creswell Craggs. Littoral karst bowl-karren in Norway. Non-Limestone
caves in Norway. Bone caves of Anguilla.
Vol 16 No 2 Aug 1989
CONTENTS: Tufa -the whole dam story, Tower karst cave sediments from China, Mulu expedition,
1988, Karst windows in Thailand.
Vol 16 No 3 Dec 1989
CONTENTS: Cave archaeology symposium. B.C.R.A. symposium abstracts, Quaternary evolution of
the South Pennines, Caves of Irian Java.
Vol 17 No 1 Apr 1990
CONTENTS: Speleogenesis in South Wales, Geomorphic evolution of Ingleborough, Geology of San
Salvador caves, Bahamas, Tertiary caves in Norway, Caves of Irian Jaya.
Vol 17 No 2 Aug 1990
CONTENTS: Caves of Guangxi, China.
Vol 17 No 3 Dec 1990
CONTENTS: Triassic palaeokarst in Britain, Water tracing in Picos de Europa, Caves of South
Nordland, Norway. Cave archaeology in Belize, Phytokarst in Ireland.
Vol l8 No 2 Aug 1991
CONTENTS: Symposium on radon in caves, Maze Caves in Northern Territory, Australia, Karsts
of the Napal Himalayas, Karsts of Anamas Daglari, Turkey, Artificial anchors in caves.
Vol l8 No 3 Dec 1991
CONTENTS Studies of Rats Nest, Canada. New survey of Raggejavri-Raigi, Norway. Caves of New
Providence, Bahamas. Xu Xiake, China Traveller. Forum.
THREE EARLY EDITIONS OF CAVE SCIENCE B.S.A.
No 2 Sept 1947
CONTENTS: The discovery of Lancaster Hole, News from France, Gentle art of underground
surveying, Blue John, Snow in Eldon Hole, Questions without answers, Longwood Swallet, Oxford
Hole, Elementary Mineralogy (cont) Reconstruction of Lead Smelt Mills, Note on collecting
cave Fauna, Notes on bats of Buckfastleigh Caves, Simply Underground Survey, Cave Rescue,
Conquest of Meregill.
Vol 4 No 26 Jan and Apr 1956
CONTENTS: Le Grotte De Docteur a Huccorgne, The caves of the Solieres Valley at Ben-Ahin,
Cave Diving Group (Derbyshire Section) Douk Ghyll Scar H.I.R. Some note on the principal cave
areas in Tasmania. Brief bibliography on Tasmanian Caves, Explorations in County Clare,
Acetylene Cap Lamps.
Vol 5 No 34 Oct 1963
CONTENTS: The Pridhamsleigh Caverns, Discussion on 'The Age of Caves by Solution' Gaping
Ghyll -An Addition to Hensler's Passage. British Speleological Expedition 1963, Scar Top Cave,
British Speleological Reconnaissance Expedition to Austria.
OLD NEWSLETTERS FROM CAVE SCIENCE? Dated 1947 to 1950 set of eight.
1. The Caverns of Mossdale Scar Wharfedale Yorkshire 'The first phase
of Exploration' by R.D. Leakey. Volume 1 June 1947. (2 copies)
2. Simpsons Pot Kingsdale by A. Gemmell Volume 1 Number 2 Sept 1947.
3. Quaking Pot Ingleborough Yorkshire by 'Yorkie' Volume 1 number 4 Apr 1948.
4. Lancaster Hole Casterton Fell Westmorland, by E. Simpson Volume 1
number 6 Sept 1948.
5. The Cavern Ireby Fell, volume 2 number 8? June 1949.
6. Meregill Holes Ingleborough Yorkshire by 'Yorkie' Autumn 1949. Lost
Johns Cave Leck Fell Lancashire by E. Simpson Spring 1950.
7. Oxford Hole Ease Gill Westmorland by F. Atkinson B.Sc. Volume 11
Oct 1950?
BRITISH CAVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (B.C.R.A.) Transactions.
Vol 1 No 1 Jan 1974
CONTENTS: Early History of Speleology, Genesis of Lava Tube Caves, Ogof
Hesp Alyn, Hydrology of Lapland, Induction Loops and Cave Surveying, Limestones of the
Settle-lngleton Area.
Vol 1 No 2 Apr 1974
CONTENTS: Hydrology in Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, Oxidation Studies in Ogof
Ffynnon Ddu, Caves of Strydpoort Mountains, Transvaal, Solution in East Mendip, Caves of Skye,
Avenc de la Punta, Majorca.
Vol 1 No 3 Sept 1974
CONTENTS: South Wales Interstratal Karst, Histoplasmosis, Calcreted
Drip- pit Formations, Hydrology in Venezuela.
Vol 1 No 4 Dec 1974
CONTENTS: Rope in S.R.T. Caving, Lead-acid cap lamps, Resistivity over
Caves, History of Yorkshire Karst Studies, Index to Volume 1.
Vol 2 No 1 Apr 1975
CONTENTS: Caves of Stoney Middleton, Sotsback Cave Sweden, Saturation
index and K/Na ratios.
Vol 2 No 2 Aug 1975
CONTENTS: Hypothermia, Cave Rescue, Medical aspects of Cave Diving,
Foul Air, Hazards of Explosives, Circadian Rhythms, Medical Care on Expeditions.
Vol 2 No 3 Oct 1975
CONTENTS: Fauna and Flora in Ingleborough Cavern, Humidity and
Heteromurus nitidus, Oxidation studies in Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, Bradwell Dale and Caves,
Mineralization in an Australian Cave.
Vol 2 No 4 Dec 1975
CONTENTS: Survey traverse closure, Cave location by resistivity,
Hypothermia detection, Phreatic Network Caves.
Vol 3 No 1 Apr 1976
CONTENTS: Dendritic marks in Caves, Electron microscope studies in
sediment, Conductimetry in Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, Karabiners, Moorfurlong Mine Derbyshire.
Vol 3 No 2 July 1976
CONTENTS: Ethiopian discoveries, Optical brighteners, N. Yorkshire
Windypits, Excavations in Raven Scar Cave, Bolt Belays, Resistivity over Stoke Plane,
Pleistocene Man in Wales.
Vol 3 No 3 4 Dec 1976
CONTENTS: The British New Guinea Speleological Expedition of 1975.
Vol 4 No 1 2 Mar 1977
CONTENTS: Dan Yr Ogof.
Vol 4 No 3 Aug 1977 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: White Scar Cave, Solution and Gas concentration, Carlswark
Cavern Survey, S.R.T. Jug Holes, Stratigraphy of Ogof Ffynnon Ddu.
Vol 4 No 4 Dec 1977
CONTENTS: CO2 in Caves, The Conductance Method, Birds from Gower Caves,
Taurus Mountain Caves, Lava Caves in Tenerife, Index to Volumes 3 & 4.
Vol 5 No 1 Mar 1978
CONTENTS: Astraka Karst, Cave art and lighting, K/NA Ratios,
Farnham Cave, Karst research in China, Calcite solubility, Pitch Rigging and S.R.T.
Vol 5 No 2 June 1978
CONTENTS: Chillagoe Karst, Surveying instrument calibration, Uraniun
Series dating, Metals in cave sediments, Network Models.
Vol 5 No 3 Sept 1978
CONTENTS: Saturation Index, Survey programming, Cave minerals, Location
device, Peri-glacial vadose effect, Hypogean Fauna.
Vol 5 No 4 Dec 1978
CONTENTS: Malayan Karst, Fossil Human Tooth, Limestone Solution,
Histoplasmosis.
Vol 6 No 1 Apr 1979
CONTENTS: I.S.C. 1977, Solutional Erosion, Brightgate Caves, Lichenometry,
Rope Lengths, Polished Limestone, Palaeolithic Art, Yorkshire Hydrology.
Vol 6 No 2 Aug 1979
CONTENTS: Iran 1977, Jackson-Bay Caves Jamaica, Sediments from Agen
Allwedd, Powys.
Vol 6 No 4 Dec 1979
CONTENTS: Otter Hole, Derbyshire Sough Hydrogeology.
Vol 7 No 1 Mar 1980 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Russett Well Flood Pulse, Palaeokarst in Anglesey, Solution
Erosion Formula, M.U.S.S. Expedition to Austria.
Vol 7 No 2 June 1980
CONTENTS; Siri,jordgrotten, Cave dwelling moths, Three Counties System.
Vol 7 No 3 Sept 1980
CONTENTS: Geomorphology in Gulung Mulu Caves, Biology of Mulu Caves,
Liverpool Jamaica Expedition. Thermal Air Currents in a Cave.
Vol 7 No 4 Dec 1980
CONTENTS: Cave Fauna in Venezuela, Scaling Poles, Anglesey Palaeokarst
discussion, Solution erosion formula discussion, Cheddar conduit pulse wave experiment.
Vol 8 No 1 Mar 1981
CONTENTS: Venezuela Expedition Report, In situ chemical analyses of karst
water, Calcium Concentrations in Cave Streams. South Africa Karst areas.
Vol 8 No 2 June 1981 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Matienzo.
Vol 8 No 3 Sept 1981 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Hawaiian Lava Tube Caves, Oxygen re-breather equipment, Geochemistry
of Ground waters in Derbyshire, Swedish Tunnel Caves, Chemistry of diffused flow seepages,
Palaeomagnetism of Agen Allwedd Sediments.
Vol 8 No 4 Dec 1981 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: Castleton Water Tracing, Limestone Pavements, Exploration Medicine,
Radiation in Transvaal Caves.
B.C.R.A. BULLETIN
No 2Nov 1973
CONTENTS: Association News, Magic Roundabout Series Lancaster Hole, Caves and Karst in
South East France, Cefn Cave Denbighshire, Glasscnock Cave Ross-shire.
No 3 Feb 1974
CONTENTS: H.H. Davis in the Ingleton Caves in 1838, Proceedings of the 1974 Symposium.
No 5 Aug 1974
CONTENTS Proceedings, Castleguard Cave Canada: (see page 7 for longest and deepest caves
in Britain)
No 6 Nov 1974 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: News, Quaking Pot extension, Cueva del Viento: (see page 17 for longest and deepest
caves in Britain)
No 7 Feb 1975
CONTENTS: News, Fatal accident in Gaping Gill, The caves of the Apuan Alps
Italy: (see page 12 for longest and deepest caves in Britain)
No 8 May 1975
CONTENTS: News, News of the Great Explorations of 1974, Eastern Nepal: Caves
and Cave Potential.
No 9 Aug 1975
CONTENTS: News, Norway's deepest and longest caves, Proceedings.
No
CONTENTS: News, Emilio Comici Pothole Italy, Major Explorations in 1975.
No 12 May 1976
CONTENTS: News, Wookey Hole, Barbondale, Otter Hole, Guatemala,
Porcellaneous Band, Ingleborough cave, Great Caves of the world.
No 13 Aug 1976 (2 copies)
CONTENTS: News, Porcellanous Band, Skye, Discoveries, Rope failure,
Conservation, Cave Dives. The Japanese Caving Scene, A new cave at Svartisen Norway,
The Human Factor in a prussiking accident.
No 14 Nov 1976
CONTENTS: News, Diving in Yorkshire, Discoveries in Yorkshire,
Hydrological grooves, Equipment failures. Swildons North West Stream Passage, etc.
No 15 Feb 1977
CONTENTS: Ingleborough Cave Hull Pot, Venezualan Caves, Spanish
Expeditions, Activities in the Forest of Dean.
No 16 May 1977
CONTENTS: Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Conservation, Norway Expedition, Caves in the
Himalaya.
No 17 Aug 1977
CONTENTS: Cliffe Force Cave, Gaping Gill, The Darnbrook System, Well Head
Resurgence Derbyshire.
No 18 Nov 1977
CONTENTS: Ogof Craig-y-Ffynnon, Chalk Caves, The Shock strength of ropes
for S.R.T.
No19 Feb 1978
CONTENTS: Oxlow Caverns, Giants Hole, Carleswark Cavern, Peak Cavern,
Mines of the Peak District, Otter Hole, White Scar Cave, Yorkshire Bolt Registry Equipment
S.R.T. Diving a new British Record?
No 20 May 1978
CONTENTS: Lamb Leer, Haytime Hole, Old Ing Cave, Keld Head, Weil's
disease in a Mendip cave. The largest Chamber in the world?
CAVE RESEARCH GROUP
Transactions
Vol 3 No 2 Dec 1954
CONTENTS: The Origins and Development of Cave Systems in Limestone: Cave
Photography: The History and Folklore of British caves: Treak Cliff Cavern Derbyshire.
Vol 5 No 1 Dec 1957
CONTENTS: Notes on the Caves of Jamaica: Jug Holes and the Nature of the
Matlock Mines: Some thoughts on Larshullet and Lapphullet Caves: Some problems of solution
in Caves under Vadose conditions.
Vol 6 No 1 Dec 1961
CONTENTS: Underground water, geology, and water divining: Recent
excavations at the Torbryan caves: Jogoslavia some of its caves and scenery.
Vol 6 No 2 Dec 1963
CONTENTS: The Tunnel, a cave in the Napier Range W.Australia: Hazards of
using explosives: Goyden Pot, drainage system Nidderdale: Some simple techniques and
apparatus for collecting and preserving animals from cave habitats.
Vol 7 No 1 Dec 1964
CONTENTS: Intermittent Springs: Caves of the Isle of Portland: Study in
Calcite Solution at 10 degrees C.: The Speleology of the Massif de Ger.
Vol 9 No 2 Mar 1967
Vol 13 No 1 Apr 1971
Vol 13 No 2 June 1971
Vol 13 No 3 Sept 1971
Vol 13 No 4 Nov 1971
Vol 14 No 1 Jan 1972
Vol 14 No 2 Mar 1972
Vol 14 No 3 July 1972
Vol 14 No 4 Nov 1972
Vol 15 No 2 June 1973
Vol 15 No 3 Sep 1973
Vol 15 No 4 June 1974 (for 1973)
Miscellaneous publications
No 1 1965, British Hypogean Fauna.
No 12 Feb 1963, Pen Park Hole Bristol.
No 8 1958, The Bacterial and Botanical Flora of caves In South
Wales.
No 6 The Ogof ffynnon Ddu System.
Newsletters
No 47 Nov/Dec 1953 through to No 127 Oct 1971.
(72 Copies with gaps).
Biological Supplement
Fauna as from caves as recorded in the C.R.G.
Fauna Records Part one (1938-39) Dec 1955 through to Part eight 1960-62. (nine
documents)
Publication No 13 July 1965
The Mendip Cave Bibliography and Survey Catalogue
Occasional Publications
No 1 to No 8 1962 No 3 missing 7 copies.
CAVE DIVING GROUP
Newsletters new series
Apr 1982 No 63 through to Jan 1988 Number 86: 18 copies.
Sump Index
Annotated Five Year Cumulative Index to cave dives for the years
1969 to 1973: 1974 DERBYSHIRE: 1977 SOMERSET: 1979 NORWAY:
1980 DERBYSHIRE.
Technical Review No 3
Line Laying and Following 1981.
MINE EXPLORATION AND MINING HISTORY
Cumbrian Amenity Trust (C.A.T) Newsletter No 26 Apr 1990
C.A.T Newsletter No 27 Sept 1990
C.A.T Newsletter No 28 Dec 1990 (2 copies)
C.A.T Newsletter No 29 Apr 1991
C.A.T Newsletter No 30 July 1991
C.A.T Newsletter No 31Nov 1991
C.A.T Newsletter No 32 May 1991 (2 copies)
Coniston Copper Mines Rediscovered Part II
Coniston Copper Mines (Paddy End Workings)
The Greenhow Lead Mining Field(A Historical Survey)
Magpie Mine (near Bakewell and its Tragedy (Nellie Kirkham)
The Black Marble Mines of Ashford-In-The-Water
The Sir Francis Level Swaledale (History and Plans)
The Mine Explorer (Journal of the C.A.T.)
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