In the view that currently none of the universities in Hong Kong hosts a vertebrate paleontology department, nor specifically dedicate a VP library, The Sham Library is initiated as an on-going project to counter this shortcoming. Volume one (primum) catalogs professional books and special papers (e.g. symposia volumes), while volume two (secundum) catalogs individual peer-reviewed scientific bulletins, memoirs, novitiates, original papers and reviews. It is hoped that advanced college undergraduates and research staff would find these materials reasonably accessible (confer the labor of applying for inter-library loans!). The blog author may be contacted for enquiry and reproduction of specific contents (where legally possible). It is appreciated that potential users read the following notes:
(1) At present only volume one is available on this blog, while volume two will tentatively be uploaded in 2009.
(2) As directed by personal interest, the majority of The Sham Library contents will be on ornithodiran paleontology (Dinosauria + Pterosauria). Additional contents include materials on basal tetrapods, marine 'reptiles', mesozoic mammals and paleo-anthropology.
(3) Books directed at the general audience will not be cataloged.
(4) Books available from the HKU library may not be cataloged.
(5) Publications prior to Gauthier (1986) will not be cataloged.
(6) Publications prior to Holtz (1994) regarding the composition of Carnosauria and Coelurosauria should be read with extreme care.
(7) Individual or series-wide comments on books and special papers may be available from the blog author as a rough guide of their contents and/or usefulness.
(8) The majority of contents in volume two will be from international (confer local) journals published after circa 1998.
It is hoped that The Sham Library will develop into a useful resource, especially for the under-privileged student. Vivat scientia!
References
Gauthier J (1986). Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds. In Padian K (ed) The origin of birds and the evolution of flight. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 8:1-55. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
Holtz TR Jr. (1994). The phylogenetic position of the Tyrannosauridae: implications for theropod systematics. Journal of Paleontology 68:1100-1117.
© Leo W Sham, MMVIII
(1) At present only volume one is available on this blog, while volume two will tentatively be uploaded in 2009.
(2) As directed by personal interest, the majority of The Sham Library contents will be on ornithodiran paleontology (Dinosauria + Pterosauria). Additional contents include materials on basal tetrapods, marine 'reptiles', mesozoic mammals and paleo-anthropology.
(3) Books directed at the general audience will not be cataloged.
(4) Books available from the HKU library may not be cataloged.
(5) Publications prior to Gauthier (1986) will not be cataloged.
(6) Publications prior to Holtz (1994) regarding the composition of Carnosauria and Coelurosauria should be read with extreme care.
(7) Individual or series-wide comments on books and special papers may be available from the blog author as a rough guide of their contents and/or usefulness.
(8) The majority of contents in volume two will be from international (confer local) journals published after circa 1998.
It is hoped that The Sham Library will develop into a useful resource, especially for the under-privileged student. Vivat scientia!
References
Gauthier J (1986). Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds. In Padian K (ed) The origin of birds and the evolution of flight. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 8:1-55. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
Holtz TR Jr. (1994). The phylogenetic position of the Tyrannosauridae: implications for theropod systematics. Journal of Paleontology 68:1100-1117.
© Leo W Sham, MMVIII
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