Bulletin of the National Speological Society

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 18, December 1956

  Roger W. Brucker

  Contents: Foreword -- The Hell Hole in the Muota Valley -- New Caving Equipment and Techniques -- The Leather Man and His Caves -- The St. Michaels Caves, Gibraltar -- Blind Fishes Found in Cave Pools and Streams -- Prospecting for Caves -- Discovery at the Fontana Chistaina -- Eagle Lake Lava Cakes -- A Cave Description from the Middle of the 17th Century -- Seven Principles of Effective Expedition Organization -- After-Glow of Cave Calcite -- Underground Man -- Speleological Societies Outside the United States -- Who's Who in Bulletin Eighteen

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 17, December 1955

  Roger W. Brucker

  Contents: Foreword -- Caverns of St. Tomas -- Saltpetre Mining Tools Used in Caves -- Magnetic Cave : The Wonderful Hoax -- Caverns and Related Features of Michigan -- A Proposed Classification of Physical Features Found in Caves -- Radio Transmission in Caves -- Recent Explorations in Floyd Collins' Crystal Cave -- Who's Who in Bulletin Seventeen

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 16, December 1954

  Jerome M. Ludlow

  Contents: Preface -- Frontispiece -- Ice Caves of the United States -- Pleistocene Ecology of Cumberland Bone Cave -- Caves and Karst of the U.S.S.R. -- Caves of Indiana -- Origin and Development of Caverns in the Beech Creek Limestone in Indiana -- Origin and Development of Sea Caves -- Supplemental Report on the Mineralogy of River Cave -- Regional Development of Limestone Caves in Middle Tennessee -- The Speleo-Barometer -- List of Grottoes and Regional Orgnizations -- Who's Who in Bulletin Sixteen

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 15, December 1953

  Jerome M. Ludlow

  Contents: Preface -- Frontispiece -- Geology of Pennsylvania Caves -- Bone Caves in Pennsylvania -- Animals that Live in Pennsylvania Caves -- Cave Insects -- History and Legends of Central Pennsylvania Caves -- Kooken: Pennsylvania's Toughest Cave -- Deluge Underground -- Limestone Mines -- Commercial Caves of Pennsylvania -- Descriptions of Pennsylvania's Undeveloped Caves -- Index to Cave Descriptions -- Selected Bibliography -- Who's Who in Bulletin Fifteen -- List of Maps -- Contributors to Cave Descriptions -- Acknowledgments

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 14, September 1952

  Jerome M. Ludlow

  Contents: Preface -- Frontispiece -- A Survey of Bat Banding in North America, 1932-1951 -- The Guacharo Cave -- The Orca Goes Underground -- The Occurrence of Quartz Stalactites in the Rock Creek District of Douglas County, Oregon -- List of Grottoes -- The Origin of the Palettes, Lehman Caves National Monument, Baker, Nevada -- The Caves of Malta -- The Kuh-I-Shuh Caves -- Lava Caves of Central Oregon -- Hydrologic and Atmospheric Studies in Schofer Cave -- General Notes -- Who's Who in Bulletin Fourteen

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 13, December 1951

  Jerome M. Ludlow

  Contents: Preface -- Frontispiece -- Techniques for Dating Cave Deposits -- Southwestern Caves as Books of History -- Caves and Rockshelters in Southwestern Asia -- Cave Exploration on Jebel Baradost, Iraq -- An Engineer Inspects the Rigging -- Origin and Development of "Positive" Water Catchment Basins, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico -- Wyandotte Cavern -- Mechanics of Cavern Breakdown -- Idyll of the Ennessbee -- The Cave Salamanders of California -- Report on the Mineralogy of New River Cave -- Report on the Titus Canyon Expedition -- Cave in Rock -- Who's Who in Bulletin Thirteen

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 12, November 1950

  Jerome M. Ludlow

  Contents: Preface -- Frontispiece -- Ozark Cave Life -- Cavern Dwelling Salamanders of the Ozark Plateau -- The Invertebrate Fauna of Ozark Caves -- Bones in the Brewery -- Sex Ratios in Hibernating Bats -- Spelunking in a Pyramid -- Cavern Hymn of the Earth Planet -- Ice Caves -- List of Grottoes -- Calcite Bubbles: A New Cave Formation? -- Gordon L. Curry -- The Survey of Schoolhouse Cave -- Cave Mapping 00 The Formation and Mineraology of Stalactites and Stalagmites -- Clyde A. Malott -- Explorations in Ball's Cavern, Schoharie County, N.Y. 1831-1949 -- Exploring an Underground River -- Who's Who in Bulletin Twelve

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 11, November 1949

  Jerome M. Ludlow

  Contents: Preface -- Frontispiece -- Origin of Caves -- Hydrologic Investigation of Caves -- Speleology in Southeastern Alaska -- The Formation of Saltpetre in Caves -- George A. White -- Saltpeter Mining in American Caves -- List of Grottoes -- Cave Sicknesses -- If You Find a Banded Bat -- Some Unusual Formations in Skyline Caverns, Virginia -- Features of Cave Breakdown -- A Report on Some Fluorescein Tests at Starnes' Cave -- Safety Procedures in Speleological Exploration -- The Cave Rescue Organisation of Yorkshire, England -- The Origin of the Markings in Pig Hole -- A Picture Story of Schoolhouse Cave -- Mineralogical Data in Speleological Work -- A Preliminary Study of Cave Ecology -- Caves in Eastern Canada -- A Stormwater Cavern in the Lost River Region of Orange County, Indiana -- Speleological Abstracts -- Who's Who

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 10, April 1948

  Charles E. Mohr

  Contents: Why Texas? -- The Devil's Sinkhole -- Unique Animals Inhabit Subterranean Texas -- A Celebrated Cave Exploration -- Trailing Texas Troglodytes -- Commercial Caves of Texas -- Caves of Central Texas -- Prospects for Finding Great Caves -- Well-Drilling Reveals Debris-Filled Cave -- Celestite Deposit -- West Texas Caves and Shelters -- More Notes on Val Verde County -- Why are Cave Remains Important? -- Hueco Mountain Caves -- Picture-Writing of Texas Indians -- Man-Made Cave of Mystery -- Texas Bat Caves Served in Three Wars -- Falcons Prey on Ney Cave Bats -- Large Bat Colonies Attract Predators -- Bat Blitz -- Texas Cave Bats -- What about Vampire Bats? -- How Fast Do Bats Fly? -- Tracing an Underground Stream -- Blind Fish from Artesian Wells -- Cave-Hunting in the Big Bend -- Proposed: A Seminole Canyon Park -- Ectoparasites and Other Arthropods -- Phosgene in the Dark? Inspiration -- A Texas Snake Den -- Speleological Abstracts -- Grotto Reports -- Index to Bulletin Ten -- Who's Who in Texas Speleology

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 9, September 1947

  Don Bloch

  Contents: "Down Through Chasms and Gulfs Profound" -- Cave Maps and Mapping -- Geophysics and Its Application to Speleology -- Notes on Photography as Applied to Speleology -- An Unusual Phenomenon

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 8, July 1946

  Don Bloch

  Contents: Notes on Undeveloped Caves of Virginia -- Caves of the Sewanee Area -- Cave Formations in the Sewanee Area -- Portfolio of Carlsbad Cavern Photography -- Caves of the British Isles

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 7, December 1945

  Don Bloch

  Contents: From the Cave Notebooks -- Technique of Cavern Photography -- Composite Observations on Cave Life -- Cacahuamilpa Cave of Mexico

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 6, July 1944

  Don Bloch

  Contents: A Glossary of Speleology -- The Netherland of Night -- Adventures at Diamond Cave, KY. -- The Paleontological Exploration of Caves

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 5, October 1943

  Don Bloch

  Contents: Caves in World History -- The Gem of Caves -- Cave Fauna -- Catalog of the Society Library

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 4, September 1942

  Don Bloch

  Contents: Special Articles -- Special Trips -- Cave Fauna -- President's Comments -- Log of the Society -- Commercial Caves

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 3, January 1942

  Don Bloch

  Contents: Special Articles -- Special Trips -- Cave Fauna -- Report of Symposium -- President's Comments -- Commercial Caves -- Log of the Society -- Letters

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 2, May 1941

  Don Bloch

  Contents: Society Embelm -- Advanced Cave Safety -- Trapping for Cave Beetles -- Marlinton Trip -- Block in Interview -- Sixth Sense of Togo -- The Use of Color Photography in Caves -- Interesting Items from the Correspondence -- Files -- News from New England -- Lake Lure Cave Trip -- Rumbling Bald Mountain Caves -- Dead Dog Cave -- Berryville-Charlestown Road Cave -- Baldwin Caves -- Allen's Cave -- Horseshoe Cave -- Trip to Hell-Hole and School House Caves -- Whiting's Neck Cave -- John's Cave -- Arkansas' Unsung Wonder -- Trip to Peacock Cave -- Long Eared Bats -- Bat Counting -- Equipment -- Cave Log -- Systematic List of the Fauna Collected from Caves -- Pamphlets Received for Library -- Bibliography -- Map of Dead Dog Cave -- Map of John Brown's Cave

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  Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, Volume 1, June 1940

  Don Bloch

  Contents: Frontspiece -- Article giving a brief synposis of the history of the organization from its beginning - and its objectives -- List of officers and members for the first year -- Articles available on caves -- Brief summary of the activities of the Society - trips and accomplishments -- Detailed reports on individual caves -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography