Náttúrufræðingurinn - 2001, Qupperneq 39

greinar fundnar í skrám Royal Society ættu
að gefa vísbendingu um að margt er enn
ókannað í þessari sögu og tengslum hennar
við þróun raunvísinda í hinum stóra heimi.
Ritstjóm Náttúrufræðingsins eru þakkaðar
góðar ábendingar.
■ HEIMILDIR
Atkinson, G.C. 1989. Journal of an Expedition
to the Faroe and Westman Islands and Iceland
1833 (A.V. Seaton ritstýrir og ritar inngang).
The Bewick-Beaufort Press, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, 187 bls. I formála er m.a. fjallað
um leiðangur W. Proctors til íslands 1837.
Einnig er af honum sagt í grein Proctors í
tímaritinu Naturalist 3, 1838, 410-412, sem
ogíEdinburghJ.Nat. Sci. 2, 1839, 19-20 ogí
Ann. Nat. Hist. III (Proc. Linnæan Soc.),
1839, 259-260.
Guðmundur Eggertsson 2000. Kviknun lífs.
Náttúrufræðingurinn 69. 167-176.
Haraldur Sigurðsson 1991. Island í skiifum
erlendra manna um þjóðlíf og náttúru landsins.
Ritaskrá. Landsbókasafn Islands, 163 bls.
Schwarzbach, M. 1983. Deutsche Island-
forscher im 19. Jahrhundert - Begegnungen in
der Gegenwart. Jökull 33. 25-32.
■ SUMMARY
THE ROYAL SOCIETYCATALOGUES
1800-1914 AND SC/ENTIF/C RESEARCH
IN ÍCELAND
The “Catalogue of Scientific Papers”, published
by the Royal Society in 19 large volumes, is
described briefly. It lists basic bibliographic data
on approx. 384,000 articles on mathematics and
natural sciences, which appeared in European
and North American periodicals in 1800-1900.
This important publication was continued and
expanded in the series “International Catalogue
of Scientific Literature” covering 1901-1914.
Examples are given of how these catalogues can
be used to locate and follow up writings by
foreign scientists, relevant to the history of
natural science research in Iceland. As it turns
out, many interesting works are not listed in the
main Icelandic bibliography of such papers
(Haraldur Sigurðsson 1991) or in computerized
bibliographic indexes. Some of these may have
directly or indirectly prompted additional
research elsewhere, even witli wide-ranging
consequences.
PÓSTFANG HÖFUNDAR/AöTHOR 's ÁDDRESS
Leó Kristjánsson
leo@raunvis.hi.is
Raunvísindastofnun Háskólans
Jarðeðlisfræðistofa, Haga v/Hofsvallagötu
107 Reykjavík
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