Dear Carola,

It's an interesting subject. See the link below, an article published in the journal my be of some help to you.

Best regards,

Shadrach

http://link.springer.com/journal/126/49/8/page/1

Thank you, Shadrach, for the references. 

My intention is to offer data from the scientific heritage of Prof. António de Barros Machado to those who would like to take up this subject as I am retired and have no conditions to continue. It would be a net loss for Science if this work would be forgotten. Most entomologist I know have not enough geology and geochemistry knowledge to give the subject a chance, and geologist might find termites too soft to build rocks …  There is a web site at the Mario Soares Foundation referring parts of A.B.M.s work (Dossier 3). I'll join publication references, if wanted.

Best regards,

Carola

http://www.fmsoares.pt/aeb/dossiers/dossier03/dossier03.htm

is the reference of the presentation of the author of the research, in Portuguese

I salute your dedication to the work, certainly the legacy which has been  left by late Prof. Dr. Antonio de Barros Machado should be maintained. If it losts it will be a great loss to entomologists about evolutionary significance of termites. In future certainly it will provide new directions to the experts in the field of geology and geochemistry and entomology.

Dear Ravi Kant Upadhyay,

thank you very much for your reforming and encouraging comment! It is a pity that life is limited and some very promising subjects of research risk to be forgotten. I dispose of the list of about 2000 paper references Barros Machado had consulted, collected in his library  and discussed in his 15 international conferences , together with his own findings, updated up to 2003, year when he passed away. With time I'll put them into online formate to share them with whoever will be interested to follow up this research. Thanks again for your comment.

Dear Carola, I think the "all on-line strategy" is probably the best way for you to preserve this information. You'll need to think carefully about getting a long-lived and reliable server for it, though. 

Thank you, Hugh, 

You're right. I'll have to explore this option, now that I have time. A. Barros Machado kept all his very well archived results and findings along the former techniques far away from electronics and it was a huge work to enter this universe "manually", with lots of obstacles from the surrounding "environment". In the end, the family sold the apartment of their uncle and threw away precious information supports. My University had refused to offer any space, the Mario Soares Foundation was essentially interested in his political cv, and several scientist friends doubted his techniques (happily he gave me in the end the non published material and methods detailed description.) The year I passed with his legacy has deeply convinced me of the consistence of his assumptions. It's only since February 2014 that I discovered ResearchGate (thanks to one of my former PhD students) and the amazing possibility of this form of dialogue and interaction. As you noticed immediately, in times, we were very marginal here to many developments in other places. But: as long as we live, it's never too late to share ideas, doubts and answers.

Dear Carola, I’m a PhD student at University of Minho, Portugal, and I’m studying the relation between termites (Macrotermes and Cubitermes) and geology, specially pegmatites. I would like to talk to you about this subject because I have much interest in those studies.

Cara Célia, dou-lhe os parabéns pelo interesse neste assunto e estarei pronta de a encontrar para falarmos longamente desta temática, mas encontro-me nesta fase num episódio ligado ao IPO em Lisboa, na perspectiva de uma intervenção cirúrgica, o que me leva a lhe pedir de esperar até o fim desta temporada. Asim que saberei mais datas e sobretudo quando estarei livre, contacto consigo. Agradeço que me envia os seus contactos ao meu mail [email protected] ou [email protected] (menos consultado).