Paleonet: [EXTERN] Re: Okamura Fossil Laboratory

Sat Oct 14 18:51:34 UTC 2023

Dear Thomas Hegna

I would love to get pdf's of these! I dealt with Eozoon and later with Randolph Kirkpatrik and found it astonishing how senior researcher can adhere to such theories even if they were proven to be wrong. But these cases were obviously not as extreme as these of Okamura. I stumbled upon his case in the book edited by Marc Abrahams which appeared in German as "Der Einfluss von Erdnussbutter auf die Erdrotation" (The influence of peanut buttor on earth's rotation), splendid book! Okamura's work is not available in Switzerland, so please make me happy and send me these.

With best wishes, Walter

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Von: Paleonet <paleonet-bounces+walter.etter=bs.ch at paleonet.org> Im Auftrag von Thomas Hegna
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2023 16:29
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Betreff: [EXTERN] Re: Paleonet: Okamura Fossil Laboratory

All,
   I digitized them (email me if you are morbidly curious). I am aware of three 'Original Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory (No. 13-15)' and one book by Okamura on the minicreatures. The reports are about half English and half Japanese. The book is all Japanese.
  With the help of google translate, I did some digging on him awhile back. It seems like this was a hobby for him-he was a dentist or medical doctor of some sort. He even presented at Japanese paleontological meetings, evidently. The rumor is that during one of his talks, an older paleontologist became so agitated that he succumbed to high blood pressure. Can anyone confirm this?
Best,
Tom

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From: Paleonet <paleonet-bounces+thegna=hotmail.com at paleonet.org<mailto:paleonet-bounces+thegna=hotmail.com at paleonet.org>> on behalf of Robert Lemanis <rlemanis at gmail.com<mailto:rlemanis at gmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: Paleonet: Okamura Fossil Laboratory

Does anyone know if these volumes were ever digitized/ are available online anywhere?

Cheers
On 10/12/2023 3:33 PM, John Laurie wrote:
Lars,
They are good to read ... once.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 at 00:01, Lars Holmer <lars.holmer at pal.uu.se<mailto:lars.holmer at pal.uu.se>> wrote:
Stefan Bengtson had a set as I recall
I can probably live without ;)

Sent from my Galaxy

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From: Thomas Richard Holtz <tholtz at umd.edu<mailto:tholtz at umd.edu>>
Date: 12/10/2023 14:53 (GMT+01:00)
To: PaleoNet <paleonet at paleonet.org<mailto:paleonet at paleonet.org>>
Subject: Re: Paleonet: Okamura Fossil Laboratory

Yes, the Smithsonian has a set, too.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 8:02 AM John Laurie <john.r.laurie at gmail.com<mailto:john.r.laurie at gmail.com>> wrote:
The Original Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory were sent, unsolicited, to the Geoscience Australia library many years ago and were catalogued and put on the shelves with all the thousands of books and journals on geoscience and related topics. They are large format, glossy productions and must have cost a considerable amount to produce. I gather they were sent, similarly unsolicited, to many libraries and educational institutions around the world. They are, um, unusual.
https://blotreport.com/2023/04/29/the-okamura-fossil-laboratory/

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