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We had a very pleasant Boucot conference in Nanjing on 30th, last September for his 80 birthday. There were 4 foreigners came from USA Norman Savage, Australia John Talent and Ruth Mawson, and Germany B.-D. Erdtmann with more than 50 Chinese participants Beijing, Nanjing, and some others. Eleven lectures were given in the meeting. His collaborations and contributions in China during the last 25 years have been greatly apprciated. It was suggested to organize a Boucot Volume which was intended to be published in a newly designed journal, namely "PALAEOWORLD".
Agenda of A.J. Boucot Conference
Morning
First Session Chair - John Talent
8:35-8:40 - addressing of the Director of NIGPAS, Sha Jingeng
8:40-9:20 - Arthur Boucot: Background extinction rate is a sampling artifact
9:20-10:00 - Rong Jiayu & Chen Xu: Contributions and Collaboration of Prof. Arthur Boucot in China: Recollection and Review
10:00-10:20----------Tea Break----------
Second Session Chair - Jin Yugan
10:20-10:50 - Norman Savage USA & Asporn Sardsud Thailand: Late Devonian Conodonts at the Frasnian -Famennian Boundary in western Thailand
10:50-11:20 - Sun Yuanlin: Early Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from Muhua, Guizhou---New message to the post-Devonian recovery and radiation of brachiopods
11:20-11:50 - Chen Xiuqin & J. Tazawa: Middle Devonian Eifelian brachiopods from the southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan
11:50-2:00----------Lunch Break----------
下午Afternoon
Third Session Chair - N.M. Savage
2:00-2:30 - Jin Yugan: Early Cambrian Articulate brachiopods with unusual attachments
2:30-3:00 - Peng Shanchi & L.E. Babcock: Unusual species of Schmalenseeia Trilobita, Cambrian showing fused Tagmata
3:00-3:30 - Zhu Maoyan: First Colonization of Deep-water Environments by Metazoans: Evidence from Lowermost Cambrian Black Shales of South China
3:30-4:00 - Shen Shuzhong: Permian faunas of limestone blocks in the Indus-Zangbo Suture Zone in southern Tibet and implications of palaeobiogeography and palaeogeography
4:00-4:10----------Tea Break----------
Fourth session Chair - B.-D. Erdtmann
4:10-4:40 - Chen Xu, Rong Jiayu et al.: Consistency of the faunal replacement and environmental change through Ordovician and Silurian transition in South China
4:40-5:20 - John Talent Australia: Barbarismo! V.J. Gupta's career in academic fraud
5:20-5:30 - Chen Xu: Closing words
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