Henry Osmaston: Publications

 

   1950       ‘Photogrammetry without funds’, Empire Forestry Review 29, 361-362.
   1951       ‘Termites and their uses for food’, Uganda Journal 15, 80-82.
   1953       ‘Kalinzu Forest fruit bats’, Journal of the East African Natural History Society 22, 74-75.
   1954       ‘Vegetation of the Queen Elizabeth National Park’ (With I.R. Dale).
                  National Park Handbook. 20 pp.
   1956       ‘Determination of age/girth and similar relationships in tropical forestry’.
                  Empire Forestry Review 35, 193-97.
   1957       ‘A freshwater woodborer’, Empire Forestry Review 36, 120-21.
   1958a     ‘Sustained yield — our snare and delusion?’, Empire Forestry Review 37, 120-21.
   1958b     ‘Pollen analysis in [he study of the climate and vegetation of Ruwenzori
                  and its neighbourhood’. B.Sc thesis. Oxford University.
   1958c     ‘A tour of South African forests’, Uganda Forest Department Technical Note 10/58.
   1959a     ‘Two inselbergs near Acholi-Karamoja border’.
Uganda Journal 23, 183-84.
   1959b     ‘Distant views of Ruwenzori and Elgon’, Uganda Journal 23, 196.
   1959c     Kibale and
Itwara Forests. Working plans. Entebbe: Uganda Forest Depart­ment, l26p.
   1960a    
Bugoma Forest. Working plan. Entebbe: Uganda Forest Department, 84p.
   1960b    
Kalinzu Forest. Working plan. Entebbe: Uganda Forest Department, 69p.
   1960c     Notes in Palynology in Africa, sixth report. Edited by van Zinderen Bakker, Bloemfontein.
   1961a     Mensuration problems in softwood plantation sample plots and research plots,
                 
Uganda Forest Department, iSp.
   1961b     ‘Notes on the Ruwenzori glaciers’, Uganda Journal 25, 99-104.
   1962a     Notes in Palynology in Africa, seventh report. Edited by van Zinderen Bakker, Bloemfontein.
   1962b     ‘The natural forests’. In
Uganda forests. Uganda Forest Department
                  (published for British Commonwealth Forestry Conference, 1962).
   1962c     ‘The vegetation of the National Parks’, Uganda National Parks Handbook.
  
1963       Plantation sample plots. Uganda Forest Department Technical Note 112/63.
   1964a     ‘Amiel and Rwot’, Alpine Journal 63 (309), 228-32.

   1964b     The vegetation of Uganda and its bearing on land use. With I. Langdale Brown
                  & J.G. Wilson. Uganda Government/Pyre & Spottiswode, lS9p.
   1965a     ‘The past and present climate and vegetation of Ruwenzori and its
                  neighbourhood’. ID. Phil thesis. Oxford University.
    l965b     ‘Ensa za Kateboha: ancient earthworks and waterholes at Karwata, Bun­-
                  yoro, Uganda Journal 29, no. 2, 222-24.
    l965c     ‘Pollen and seed dispersal in Chlorophora excelsa and other Moraceae, and
                  in Parkia filicoidea (Mimosaceae) with special reference to the role of the
                  fruit-bat, Lidolon helvum’. Commonwealth Forestry Review 44, 96-103.
   1966       ‘Pollen analysis in the study of the past vegetation and climate of Ruwen­-
                  zori and its neighbourhood’, Palaeoecology of Africa 1,48-50.
   1967a     ‘Plant fossils in volcanic tuffs near the Ruwenzori’, Palaeoecology of Africa 2, 25-26.
   1967b     ‘The sequence of glaciations in the Ruwenzori and their correlation with
                  glaciations of other mountains in East Africa and Ethiopia’, Palaeoecology of Africa 2, 26-28.
   1968       ‘Uganda’. In Conservation of vegetation in Africa south of the Sahara, 148-51.
                  Edited by I. & 0. Hedberg. Acta Fhytogeographica Suecica 54.
   1969       ‘The Ruwenzori land system’. In Land systems of Uganda, 160-70. Edited by
                  CD. Ollier et al. M.E.X.E. Report 959.
   1970       ‘Small catchment studies’, Area 4, 63-64.
   1972       Guide to the Ruwenzori: the Mountains of the Moon. By Henry Osmaston and
                  D. Pasteur. Mountain Club of Uganda. 200pp.
   1975a     ‘Models for the estimation of firnlines of present and Pleistocene glaciers
                  In Processes in physical and human geography: Bristol essays, 218-45. Edited
                  by RE. Peel, M. Chisholm & P. Haggett. London: Heinemann.
   1975b     ‘New interglacial site at Sugworth’. With P.W. Shotton et al. Nature 257 (5226), 477-79.
   1975c     ‘Report on the development potential of the Suam Gorge, N. Kenya’. East
                  African Railways and Harbours (mimeo).
   1977       ‘An instrument for measuring soil movements’. With B.L. Finlayson.
                  Technical Bulletin 19. British Geomorphology Research Group, 32p.
   1978a     The Quaternary of Mallorca. With K. Crabtree, 1~ Cuerda & J. Rose. Quater­-
                  nary Research Association. pp. vi, 114.
   1978b     El Torrente de Pareys, Mallorca (The inside story - HAO). Privately circulated.
   1980a     ‘Patterns in trees, rivers and rocks in the Mulu Park, Sarawak’, Geographical Journal 146, 33-50.
   1980b     ‘Cromerian interglacial deposits at Sugworth, near Oxford’. With E.W.
                  Shotton et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 1034, 55-86.
   1982       ‘Geomorphology of the Gunung Mulu National Park’. With MM.
                  Sweeting. Sarawak Museum Journal 51, 75-93.

   1984       ‘The remote sensing of geologic linear features using Landsat: matching
                  analytical approaches to practical applications’. With M. Stefouli. Satellite
                  remote sensing, review and preview,
227-36. Proceedings of the tenth annual
                  conference of the Remote Sensing Society.
   1985       ‘The productivity of the agricultural and pastoral systems in Zangskar
                  (NW. Himalaya)’. In Ladakh Himalaya Oriental. Ethnologie, Ecologie, 75-89.
                  Edited by Patrick Kaplanian & Claude Dendaletche. Acta Biologica
                  Montana 5. Pau: Centre Pyrénéen de Biologie et Anthropologie des Montagnes.
   1986a     ‘The Siachen and Terong Glaciers: East Karakoram’. Himalayan Journal 42,
                  87-96. Reprinted in: Venables, S. 1986, Painted mountains, 218-26. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
   1986b     ‘Crop failures on the Winchester Manors 1232-1349 AD: some comments’.
                  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 10, 495-500.
   1986c     ‘Professor Ronald Peel’ (obituary). Geophemera.
  
1986d     ‘Chinese, English students working together’, Beijing Review 27 October 1986, p. 15.
   1986e     ‘The analysis of linear geologic features on Landsat images of Crete’. With
                  M. Stefouli. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 39, 546-51.
   1986f      ‘Rural disaster and agricultural drought monitoring [by remote sensing in
                  Zimbabwe]’. Rome: FAQ. Report ZIM/84/035.
   1987a     ‘Chinese summer’, Bristol University Newsletter 17 (14), 9,11.
   1987b     ‘Tales of the unexpected in China’, Brycgstowe 3-4.
   1988a     ‘On the trail of yaks and yeti’, Bristol University Newsletter 18, No. 9, 6-7.
   1988b     ‘Problems in the use of remotely sensed geologic linear features for the
                  location of groundwater abstraction sites’. With PA. Waters & P.L. Smart.
                  Proceedings of the 20th Internutional Symposium on Remote Sensing of the
                  Environment,
vol. 3, 1015-1024. Nairobi.
   1988c     ‘Sun, snow and science on Xixabangma’, Alpine Journal 93, 71-76.
   1989a     ‘The Osmaston family, foresters and imperial servants’. Commonwealth
                  Forestry Review
68, 1: 77-87.
   1989b     ‘Glaciers and equilibrium line altitudes on Rwenzori and Kilimanjaro’. In
                  Quaternary and Environmental Research on East African Mountains, 7-104.
                  Edited by W.C. Mahaney. Amsterdam: Balkema.
   1989c     ‘Three pairs of boots’, Himalayan Journal 45, 114-16.
   1989d     ‘Problems of the quaternary geomorphology of the Xixabangma region in
                  south Tibet and Nepal’. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. Suppl. Ed. 76, 147-80.
   1990a     ‘How to change horses in midstream without getting too wet’, Worcester
                  College Record 1990,
39-44.
   1990b     ‘Agriculture in Ladakh: building a coherent policy’. In The Future of Agri­-
                  culture in Ladakh,
4-10. Leh: The Ladakh Project & Ladakh Ecological Development Group.

   1990c     ‘Applications of remote sensing to groundwater hydrology’, Remote
                  Sensing Reviews
4 (2), 223-64. With P. Waters, D. Greenbaum & P. Smart.
   1990d     ‘Prospects for operational remote sensing of surface water’. With B.
                  Hockey & I. Richards. Remote Sensing Reviews 4, (2), 265-84.
   1990e     ‘Gordon Osmaston & Tenzing (Brigadier G.H. Osmaston MC. & Tenzing
                  Norkhay Sherpa G.M.)’. The Himalayan Journal 48 (1990-91), 17-28.
   1990f      ‘The Kashmir problem’. Geographical Magazine 6, 6 (June 1990), 1; 17-21.
    I990g     ‘Environmental Determinism and Economic Possibilism in Ladakh’. In
                  Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Gegenwartige Forschungen in Nordwest Indien,
                 
141-50. Edited by Gudrun Meier & Lydia Icke-Schwalbe. Dresden: Staat­
                  liches Museum fur Völkerkunde.
   1990h     Ladakh Studies 3. Edited by Henry Osmaston.
   1990i      A portrait of three villages in China. Brathay exploration group, 29p.
   1991       Ladakh Studies 4. Edited by Henry Osmaston.
   1992       Ladakh Studies 5. Edited by Henry Osmaston.
   1993       Ladakh Studies 6. Edited by Henry Osmaston.
   1994a     Himalayan Buddhist villages: environment, resources, society and religious life
                  in Zangskar, Ladakh.
Edited by John H. Crook and Henry Osmaston.
                  Bristol: University of Bristol, pp. xxx, 866, 80 plates.

                   Contributions by HAO include:

‘The geology, geomorphology and quaternary history of Zangskar’. In HBV:1-36

‘Human adaptation to environment in Zangskar’. By HAO, Janet Frazer and Stamati Crook.

In HBV: 37-110.

‘The Tibetan calendar and astrology in the regulation of Zangskari agriculture’. By HAO & Tashi Rabgyas. In HBV, pp. 111-20. ‘Weights and measures used in Ladakh’. By HAO and Tashi Rabgias. In HBV: 121-38.

‘The farming system’. In HBV: 139-98.

‘Animal husbandry’. By HAO & Rod Fisher, Janet Frazer & Tony Wilkin­son. In HBV: 199-248.

‘Sha-de: meagre subsistence or Garden of Eden?’ By HAO & John H. Crook. In HBV: 249-84.

‘Technical English-Zangskari vocabularies: agriculture and pastoralism’. In HBV: 854-64.

   1994b     Ladakh Studies 7. Edited by Henry Osmaston.
   1994c     ‘Farming the slopes’. In The illustrated library of the earth: mountains, pp.
                  120-29. With J.D. Ives. Edited by J.D. Ives. Emaus (USA): Rodale Press.
   1995a     Recent research on Ladakh 4 & 5. Proceedings of the fourth and fifth inter­-
                  national colloquia on Ladakh.
Edited by Henry Osmaston & Philip Denwood.
                  London: School of Oriental and African Studies; Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

    I995b     ‘Farming, nutrition and health in Ladakh, Tibet and lowland China. A
                  review’, In Osmaston & Denwood (1995), 127-56.
   1996a     Recent research on Ladakh 6. Proceedings of the sixth international colloquium
                  on Ladakh.
Edited by Henry Osmaston & Nawang Tsering. Bristol: Bristol
                  University Press; Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
   1996b     Ladakh Studies 8. Edited by Henry Osmaston.
   1998a     ‘Agriculture in the main Lhasa valley’, in Development, society and environ­-
                  ment in Tibet.
Edited by Graham F. Clarke. Proceedings of the 7th Seminar
                  of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Graz 1995. vol, 5. Pp.
                  121-52. General Editor: Ernst Steinkellner. Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichis-
                  chen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
   1998b     Contributions to G.E. Clarke ‘Socio-Economic Change and the Environ­-
                  ment in a Pastoral Area of Lhasa Municipality’. In Clarke (1998), 97-119.
   1998c     The Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda: exploration, environment and
                  biology; conservation, management and community relations.
Edited by H. Os­-
                  maston, J. Tukahirwa, C. Basalirwa & J. Nyakaana. Proceedings of the
                  Rwenzori Conference, Department of Geography, Makerere University.
   1998d     ‘Exploration, science and conservation on the Rwenzori, Mountains of the
                  Moon’. In Osmaston, Tukahirwa, Basalirwa & Nyakaana (1998), 13-30.
    l998e     ‘Glaciations, landscape and ecology’. In Osmaston, Basalirwa & Nyakaana (1998), 49-65.
   1998f      ‘Snapshots of Uganda 1996-98’. Pub. H.A. Osmaston, 13p., 6 pl., 2 figs.
                  Partly reprinted as ‘Decades old memories and a Uganda after 33 years’,
                  The Pearl (Uganda Airlines in-flight magazine) 8, No. 2, pp. 1, 20-22.

 …TO BE COMPLETED……………….

 

Other Osmaston Works Cited

 

Osmaston, Anna. 1991. Uganda before Amin. Our family life in Uganda 1949-1963. Pub. H.A. Osmaston.

Osmaston, Bertram B. (1925). ‘The birds of Ladakh’. Ibis 1, pp. 663-718.

Osmaston, Bertram B. (1936). ‘Birds nesting in the Dras and Suru valleys; Notes on the birds of Kashmir’. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31: 186-196, 975-999,