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Origins and Evolution of Gymnosperms
Plant canopies: their growth, form, and function
Kew index for 1988, compiled by F.A.Davies & K.M. Lloyd. Oxford: Clarendon
Taschenworter buck der botanischen Pflanzennamen filr Gartner
Wild Flowers of Majorca, Minorca and Ibiza: with keys to the flora of the Balearic Islands by Elspeth Beckett
An Atlas of Seaweeds of Northumberland and Durham     

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Survival and Dormancy of Microorganisms
Crete: Checklist of Vascular Plants
Iter Maroccanum anno 1985 ieiunii tempore perfectum
Collins Guide to the Wild Flowers of East Africa
Integrated Control of Cereal Mildews: Monitoring the Pathogen
Ecology and Productivity of an African Wetland System: The Kafue Flats of Zambia
Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium
Florula vascular de la muntanya dels Mollons (La Pobla de Claramunt, Anoia )
Plant Hormones and Their Role in Plant Growth and Development
Vegetation between Land and Sea: Structure and Processes
Flora analitica de la provincia de Valencia     

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Guide to Inshore Marine Life, by David Erwin and Bernard Picton
Red Sea Explorers, by Peter Vine and Hagen Schmid
The Natural History of the Primates, by J. R. & P. H. Napier
Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 20, edited by P. D. Evans & V. B. Wigglesworth     

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Plant Science An introduction to World Crops, by J. Janick. R. W. Schery, F. W. Woods & V. W. Ruttan. W. H. Freeman
Life of the Vertebrates, by J. Z. Young, F.R.S
The Mammals of North America, by E. Raymond Hall. John Wiley
The Giant Panda, edited by Zhu Jing & Li Yangwen
Modern Ethology; The Science of Animal Behaviour, by S. A. Barnett
Environmental Physiology of Fishes, edited by M. A. Ali
British Planarians, Synopsis of the British Fauna No. 19, by I. R. Ball & T. B. Reynoldson
Development and Specialization of Skeletal Muscle, edited by D. F. Goldspink
Human Navigation and the Sixth Sense, by R. R. Baker
Mosses of Eastern North America, by H. A. Crum & L. E. Anderson     

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The Flora of Aldabra and Neighbouring Islands, by F. R. Fosberg & S. A. Renvoize
Developments in Deep-Sea Biology, by N. B. Marshall
Epidemiology and Plant Disease Management, by Jan C. Zadoks & Richard D. Schein.
Vanishing Birds: their Natural History and Conservation, by Tim Halliday; with a foreword by Bruce Campbell
Advances in Ephemeroptera Biology, edited by John F. Flanagan & K. Eric Marshall
The Origin of Major Invertebrate Groups, edited by M. R. House
Mammals, their Latin Names Explained, by A. E. Gotch
The Illustrated Herbal, by Wilfrid Blunt & Sandra Raphael
The Herb and Spice Book, by Sarah Garland. Weidenfeld & Nicolson     

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New Plant Sources for Drugs and Food from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium , by Siri von Reis and Frank J. Lipp, Jr.
Botany: Plant Biology and its Relation to Human Afairs , by Jean H. Langenheim & Kenneth V. Thimann.
How to Know Western Australian WildJEowers, Part IV , (2nd edition) by B. J. Grieve & W. E. Blackall.
Thonner's Analytical Key to the Families of Flowering Plants , by R. Geesink, A. J. M. Leeuwenberg, C. E. Ridsdale & J. F. Feldkamp.
Insects of an Amazon Forest , by N. D. Penny and J. R. Arias.
Ordering the World: A History of Classzfying Man , by David Knight.     

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Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy , by Arne Naess (translated and edited by David Rothenberg).
Restoration Ecology: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research , edited by W. R. Jordan, M. E. Gilpin and J. D. Aber.
Plankton Ecology: Succession in Plankton Communities , edited by Ulrich Sommer.
Biological Control of Pests, Pathogens and Weeds: Development and Prospects , edited by R. K. S. Wood and M.J. Way.
Large Scale Cell Culture Technology , edited by Bjorn K. Lydersen.
The Story of Silk , by J. Feltwell.
Ecological Experiments: Purpose, Design and Execution , by N. G. Hairston.N 0 5
Molecular Genetics and Comparative Evolution , by J. Langridge.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A World Like Our Own—Man and Nature in Madagascar, by Alison Jolly. Vertebrate Limb Regeneration, by H. Wallace. Statistical Methods in Biology, by N. T.J. Bailey Conservation and Evolution, by O. H. Frankel & M. E. Soule Evolution in Age-structured Populations by B. Charlesworth Essential Biology, by Herbert T. Hendrickson Flora Suzakiensis, edited by Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process, by N. Eldredge & J. Cracraft Excursion Flora of the British Isles, by A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin & E. F. Warburg Whales, by W. N. Bonner Les Chevaux, Fossiles et Actuels, by V. Eisenmann Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance, by David S. Brown Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, by Lynn Margulis Vegetation Dynamics, by J. Miles     

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Aspects of Tropical Mycology, Eds S. Isaac, J. C. Frankland, R. Wading & A. J. S. Whalley
The Tapetum. Cytology, Function, Biochemistry and Evolution, M. Hesse, E. Pacini and M. Willemse
Tropical Alpine Environments. Plant Form and Function, eds P. W. Rundel, A. P. Smith and F. C. Meinzer
A Revision of Tabemaemontana (part two). The New World Species. A. J. M. Leeuwenberg     

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The Voyage of Charles Darwin: His Autobiographical writings, selected and arranged by Christopher Railing.
Penguin Nature Guides: Fungi of Northern Europe, Vols I & II, by S. Nilsson &; O. Persson; illustrated by B. Mossberg
Penguin Nature Guides: Plant Communities, by Anned Biilow-Olsen, illustrated by Susanne Larsen; translated from the Danish by Joan Tate; edited and adapted by Francis Rose.
Penguin Nature Guides: Fishes of the British and Northern European Seas, by J. Moller Christensen; illustrated by Bente Nystrom; translated from the Danish by Gwynne Vevers; edited and adapted by Gwynne Vevers and Philip Orkin.
Birds of Wood, Park and Garden, text and illustrations by Lars Jonsson; translated from the Swedish by Roger Tanner
Birds of Sea and Coast, text and illustrations by Lars Jonsson; translated from the Swedish by Roger Tanner     

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Evolution and the Fossil Record, edited by K. C. Allen and D. E. G. Briggs
Mass Extinctions: Processes and Evolution, edited by Stephen K. Donovan
A Functional Biology of Clonal Animals, by Roger N. Hughes. "Functional Biology' Series, edited by Peter Calow
Charles Darwin in Australia, by F. W. and J. M. Nicholas     

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Die Milben des Süsswassers (Hydrachnellae und Halacaridae [part.], Acari) Teil 1: Bibliographie, Teil 2: Katalog , by Kurt O. Viets.
A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons , edited by Annie Gautier-Hion, F. Bourlière, J.-P. Gautier and J. Kingdon.
Neurobiology of the Cardiorespiratory System , edited by E. W. Taylor.
The Dragonflies of Europe , by R. R. Askew.
Studying Fossil Horses , by V. Eisenmann, M. T. Alberdi, C. de Giuli & U. Staesche. Collected papers after the 'New York International Hipparion Conference. 1981' Volume I: Methodology , edited by M. Woodburne & P. Sondaar. E. J. Brill.
The Hymenoptera , edited by Ian Gauld & Barry Bolton.
A Study of Blackbirds , by David Snow
Temperature Biology of Animals , by Andrew R. Cossins and Ken Bowler.
Honey Identification , by Rex Sawyer.
Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology , by R. N. Owen-Smith.     

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The Royal Horticultural Society, Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers, edited by C. Brickell
The lichenicolous fungi of Greenland, by Vagn Alstrup & David L. Hawksworth.
Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes, edited by F. A. Skinner, R. M. Boddey and I. Fendrik
The embryology of angiosperms: a classified bibliography (1965–1985), by C. R. Nagendram & M. S. Dinesh
Algae and Human Affairs, edited by Carole A. Lembi & J. Robert Waaland
Biology of Seagrasses, edited by A. W. D. Larkum, A. J. McComb & S. A. Shepherd
Modern methods in orchid conservation. The role of physiology, ecology and management, by H. W. Pritchard
Frank Kingdon-Ward, the Last of the Great Plant Hunters, by Charles Lyte
Plant names of medieval England, by Tony Hunt
Natural Product Medicine, by Ara H. Der Marderosian and Lawrence E. Liberti
All About Angiosperms, by A. D. J. Meeuse. CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke Bibiothek, Den Haag
Flowering Plants of the Seychelles (An Annotated Check List of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms with Line Drawings), by S. A. Robertson
The Herbarium Handbook, edited by Leonard Forman & Diane Bridson
Trees of Nigeria, by R. W. J. Keay
This is a revised edition of Nigerian Trees by R. W. J. Keay, C. F. A. Onochie & D. P. Stanfield
A New Herball by William Turner, edited by George T. L. Chapman and Marilyn Tweddle
Flora i Vegetació del Montsec (Pre-Pirineus Catalans) by Àngel M. Romo i Díez
Plants vasculars del quadrat UTM 31TCG46: Abella de la Conca, by Angel M. Romo i Díez
Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia, by K. Klinka, V. J. Krajina, A. Ceska and A. M. Scagel
Plankton–A Microscopic World, by G. M. Hallegraeff
Plant Polyphenols–Vegetable Tannins Revisited, by E. Haslam     

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Plant Breeding Systems, by A. J. Richards.
Wood Anatomy and Identification of Trees and Shrubs from Israel and Adjacent Regions, by Abraham Fahn, Ella Werker and Pieter Baas.
Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, edited by Samuel Sprunger.
The Science of Allelopathy, edited by Alan R. Putnam and Chung-Shih Tang.
Genera Graminum: Grasses of the World, by W. D. Clayton and S. A. Renvoize.     

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The Nigerian Field: Index to volumes 1–50 (1931–1985).
Fruits of South-east Asia, by Jacqueline Piper.
Grain Legumes–Evolution and Genetic Resources, by J. Smartt.
Plant Population Genetics, Breeding, and Genetic Resources, edited by A. H. D. Brown, M. T. Clegg, A. L. Kahler and B. S. Weir.
Evolution, Systematics and Fossil History of the Hamamelidae.
The Systematics Association Special Volumes 40 A&B.
Plant pheno-morphological studies in Mediterranean type ecosystems, edited by Gideon Orshan.
Molecular and Genetic Aspects of Nitrate Assimilation, edited by J. L. Wray & J. R. Kinghorn
Species dispersal in agricultural habitats, edited by R. G. H. Bunce & D. C. Howard.
Flora Iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares, Vol. 2: Platanaceae–Plumbaginaceae (partim), edited by S. Castroviejo, M. Lainz, G. Lopez Gonzalez et al.     

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The Mature and Origin of the Biological World, by E. J. Ambrose
An unusual newly discovered Archosauer from the Upper Triassic of Virginia USA, by R.E. Weems
The Biology of Nectaries, edited by B. Bentley and T. Elias
Animal Taxonomy, by H. E. Goto
Diets for Birds in Captivity by K. C. Lint & A. M. Lint
Lizards of Western Australia I. Skinks, by G. M. Storr, L. A. Smith & R. E. Johnstone
Advances in Legume Systematics, edited by R. M. Polhill & P. H. Raven
Tuberous, Cormous and Bulbous Plants, by J. S. Pate and K. W. Dixon
Evolution and the Theory of Games, by John Maynard Smith
Sound and Hearing, by Martin E. Rosenberg
Differential Equations and Applications in Ecology, Epidemics and Population Problems, edited by S. N. Busenberg & K. L. Cooke
Plant Pathology and Plant Pathogens, (2nd Edition), by Colin Dickinson & John Lucas
A Complete Guide to British Butterflies, by Margaret Brooks & Charles Knight     

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Patterns of Injury and Illness in Great Apes, by N. C. Lovell
Moths of Australia, by I. F. B. Common
The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their History and Meaning, by A. Maitland Emmet
Plant-Animal Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions, edited by P. W. Price, T. M. Lewinsohn, G. W. Fernandes and W. W. Benson
Searching Behaviour: The behavioural ecology of finding resources, by William J. Bell     

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Insects-Plants. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Insect—Plant Relationships, Pau, France, 1986, edited by V. Labeyrie, G. Fabres & D. Lachaise. Dordrecht: W. Junk, 1987
In vitro Culture of Higher Plants , by R. L. M. Pierik     

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Evolution and Extinction. Proceedings of a Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the Linnean Society held on 9 and 10 November 1989 , organized and edited by W. G. Chaloner and A. Hallam.
On Stress, Disease and Evolution. A Unifying Theory , by Graham W. Boyd.
The Use of Plant Genetic Resources , edited by A. H. D. Brown, O. H. Frankel, D. R. Marshall and J. T. Williams.