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, Ohiocite journal | last = Sears | first = P.B. | title = Foreword | journal = Pollen Analysis Circular | year = 1943 | pages = 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 [cite web | last = Davis | first = Owen | title = Palynology in North America | date = July 2004 | url = http://geo.arizona.edu/palynology/palynam.html | accessdate = 2007-08-20 ] . 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."

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 [cite journal | last=Hyde | first=H.A. | coauthors=D.A. Williams | title=The Right Word. | journal=Pollen Analysis Circular | volume=8 | pages = 6 | date=1944 | url=http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/riteword.html] who are credited with coming up with the name palynology, along with contributions by Ernst Antevs [cite journal | last=Antevs | first=E. | title=The Right Word. | journal=Pollen Analysis Circular | volume=6 | pages = 2 | date=1944 | url=http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/riteword.html] , Paul B. Sears [cite journal | last=Sears | first=P. B. | title=The Right Word. | journal=Pollen Analysis Circular | volume=6 | pages = 3 | date=1944 | url=http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/riteword.html] , A. Orville Dahl [cite journal | last=Dahl | first=A. O. | title=The Right Word. | journal=Pollen Analysis Circular | volume=7 | pages = 1 | date=1944 | url=http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/riteword.html] and L. R. Wilson [cite journal | last=Wilson | first=L. R. | title=The Right Word. | journal=Pollen Analysis Circular | volume=7 | pages = 2 | date=1944 | url=http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/riteword.html] .

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 [cite journal | last=Heusser | first=C.J. | title=Pollen and Spore Circular | journal=Pollen and Spore Circular | volume=18 | pages = 1 | date=1954 | url=http://www.nau.edu/envsci/faculty/ScottAnderson/docs/PollenAnalysisCircular18.pdf] .

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*http://www.nau.edu/envsci/faculty/ScottAnderson/pollen_and_spore_circulars.htm