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Gays/Justice by Richard Mohr.
Death:Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria , edited by Richard M. Zaner.
The Contraceptive Ethos:Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities Edited by S.F. Spicker, W.B. Bondeson, H.T. Englehardt, Jr., Dordrecht, Holland:D. Reidel.
Made to Order:The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress Edited by Patricial Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.
Reproductive Technologies:Gender, Motherhood and Medicine Edited by Michele Stanworth.
For the Patient's Good:The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma.
'The Physician as Captain of the Ship:A Critical Reappraisal', Philosophy and Medicine , vol. 29. Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Larry R. Churchill, and Alan W. Cross.     

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ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF EUROPEAN HARE POPULATIONS Edited by Zygmund Pielowski & Zdzislaw Pucek. Polish Hunting Association, Warsaw, 1976.
THE BIOLOGY OF MARSUPIALS Edited by Bernard Stonehouse & Desmond Gilmore
AFRICAN UNGULATES: a comparative review of their ethology and behavioural ecology By Walter Leuthold.
ECOLOGY OF RED DEER By Brian Mitchell, Brian W. Staines & David Welch. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WHALE by L. Harrison Matthews.
THE MAMMALS OF THE PALEARCTIC REGION: a taxonomic review by G. B. Corbet. British Museum
DEVELOPMENT IN MAMMALS Volume 3. Edited by Martin H. Johnson.
RECENT ADVANCES IN PRIMATOLOGY edited by D. J. Chivers and others
Volume 1 -Behaviour ; edited by D. J. Chivers & J. Herbert: Pp 980, 19.20. Volume 2 -Conservation ; edited by D. J. Chivers
Volume 3 - Evolution ; edited by D. J. Olivers & K. A. Joysey
SEX DETERMINATION AND SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN MAMMALS by Alfred Glucksmann
HANDBUCH DER SAUGETIERE EUROPAS. Band 1: Nagetiere 1. Edited by Jochen Niethammer and Franz Krapp.
MAMMALS - THEIR LATIN NAMES EXPLAINED by A. F. Gotch.
EVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES OF THE MAMMALIAN MIDDLE EAR By Gerald Fleischer. Springer-Verlag     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Woody Iridaceae. Peter Goldblatt
Plants and their Names. A concise Dictionary. Roger Hyam & Richard Pankhurst
Orchids, Plants of Extremes, Contrasts and Superlatives. Karlheinz Senghas. 182 pp., over 540 photographs almost all in colour.
Lycaste Species. The Essential Guide. Henry F. Oakeley
Field guide to the Palms of the Americas. Andrew Henderson, Gloria Galeano & Rodrigo Bernal
Encyclopaedia of Alpines. Edited by Kenneth Beckett. Two vols., A—K; L—Z
The English Garden: Meditation and Memorial. David R. Coffin
The Flora of Madeira. Edited by J.R. Press & M.J. Short, assisted by N.J. Turland     

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The Customs and Religion of the Ch'iang. David Crockett Graham.
Magic and Religion: Their Psychological Nature, Origin, and Function. George B. Vetter.
The Comparative Study of Religions. Joachim Wach. Edited with an Introduction by Joseph M. Kitagawa.     

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BATS–A NATURAL HISTORY . By J. E. Hill & J. D. Smith.
PRIMATE BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY . By Hilary O. Box. Chapman & Hall
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PRIMATES . By. J. R. & P. H. Napier.
IN THE SHADOW OF EXTINCTION: A QUATERNARY ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF THE LAKE, FISSURES AND SMALLER CAVES AT CRESWELL CRAGS S.S.S.I . By R. D. S. Jenkinson & D. D. Gilbertson.
THE MAMMALS OF THE PALAEARCTIC REGION: A TAXONOMIC REVIEW . Supplement. By G. B. Corbet
HUMAN EVOLUTION: AN ILLUSTRATED INTRODUCTION . By Roger Lewin.
EXCAVATIONS AT GRIMES GRAVES, NORFOLK, 1972–1976 FASCICULE 1. NEOLITHIC ANTLER PICKS… A BIOMETRICAL ANALYSIS . By Juliet Clutton-Brock.
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN MAMMALS . By T. B. Poole.
THE MAMMALS OF ZANZIBAR AND PEMBA ISLANDS . By R. H. W. Pakenham. Published by the author
ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND THE EVIDENCE . Edited by D. R. Strong, D. Simberloff, L. G Abele & A. B. Thistle.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE PALEOBIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF CETACEA . By G. A. Mchedlidze.
THE OXFORD GUIDE TO MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA . By J. Mary Taylor.
WILDLIFE RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT . S. K. Eltringham. John Wiley & Sons
THE BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF MOUNTAIN UNGULATES . Edited by Sandro Lovari. Croom Helm
REPRODUCTION IN SHEEP . Edited by D. R. Lindsay & D. T. Pearce.
COMMUNICATION IN THE CHIROPTERA . By M. Brock Fenton.
FLYING SQUIRRELS: GLIDERS IN THE DARK . By Nancy Wells-Gosling.
MAMMALS OF THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, AND MARYLAND . By Wm. David Webster, James F. Parnell & Walter C. Biggs, Jr.
NATURALISED MAMMALS OF THE WORLD . By Sir Christopher Lever.     

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Book Reviews in this Article:
Ethics and Biotechnology , edited by Anthony Dyson and John Harris. Routledge
Human In Vitro Fertilisation- A Case Study in the Regulation of Medical Innovation by Jennifer Gunning and Veronica English.
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification , edited by John Z. Sadfer, Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael A. Schwartz
Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies , by John A. Robertson.
Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics , edited by Paul F. Camenisch.
Moral Matters: Ethical Issues in Medicine and the Life Sciences , by Arthur Caplan.
Wo lfgang Wagner(ed.). Arzneimittel und Verantwortung. Grundlagen und Methoden der Pharmaethik prugs and Responsibility — The Foundations and Methods of pharmaethics].
GenEthics. Technological Intervetion in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem by Kurt Bayertz.
The Virtue in Medical Ethics , by Edmund D. Pellegrho and David C. Thomasma     

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Lower Upper Cretaceous Plant Microfossils from Minnesota . By R ichard L. P ierce .
Rubber: Botany, Production and Utilization . By L oren G. P olhamus .
Manipulations de Botanique . By L. G enèves .
Chromosome Numbers of Central and Northwest European Plant Species . Opera Botanica (Botaniska Notiser supplement) Vol. 5. By A. and D. L öve .
Synthesis of Molecular and Cellular Structure . Edited by D orothea R udnick .
Contemporary Botanical Thought . Edited by A. M. M acleod and L. S. C obley .
Flora of New Zealand . Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons. By H. H. A llan .
A Review of Nitrogen in the Tropics with Particular Reference to Pastures— A Symposium . Bulletin No. 46 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Pastures and Field Crops. Edited by a Committee of the Division of Tropical Pastures, C.S.I.R.O., Australia.
Control Mechanisms in Cellular Processes . The Seventh Annual Symposium publication of the Society of General Physiologists. Edited by D avid M. B onner .
Recent Advances in Botany . From lectures and symposia presented to the IX International Botanical Congress, Montreal 1959. Vols. I and II.
Encyclopaedia of Plant Physiology . Edited by W. R uhland . Vol. XVI. External factors Affecting Growth and Development. Sub-editor: G. Melchers.
Advances in Genetics . Vol. X. Edited by E. W. C aspari and J. M. T hoday .
Soil Micro-organisms and Higher Plants . By N. A. K rasilnikov . Translated by Y. Halperin.
An Introduction to the Cytogenetics of Polvploids . By G. W. P. D awson .
Plant Pathology: An Advanced Treatise . Vol. III: The Diseased Population, Epidemics and Control. Edited by J. G. H orsfall and A. E. D imond .     

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Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia . By F. W hite , assisted by A. A ngus .
Tools of Biological Research . Edited by H edley J. B. A tkins .
Eigenschaften und Wirkungen der Gibberelline . Symposium der Oberhessischen Gesell-schaft für Nature- und Heilkunde, Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung zu Gieszen vom I bis 3 Dezember, 1960. Edited by R. K napp .
Regeneration . Edited by D orothea R udnick .
Marsilea . By K. M. G upta .
Diseases of Sorghum, Sudan Grass and Broom Corn. By S. A. J. T arr .
Proceedings of the IX International Botanical Congress. Vol. 3. Plenary Sessions; Nomenclature .
Mutations and Polyploidy in Plant Breeding . By A rne H agberg and E rik Å kerberg .
Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants . By H. S. M c K ee .     

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Fenland: Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future. By S ir H arry G odwin
Current Topics in Plant Pathology. Edited by Z. K irály .
Water Deficits and Plant Growth. Volume 5. Water and Plant Disease. Edited by T. T. K ozlowski .
Heat Balance of the Plant Cover. By Y u L. R auner.
Ecophysiology of Tropical Crops. Edited by P. de T. A lvim and T. T. K ozlowski .
Essays in Plant Taxonomy. Edited by (the late) H. E. S treet .
Coniferen im westlkhen malayischen Archipel. By N. S tein .
Morphologie, Anatomie und Systematik der Höheren Pflanzen. Morphology, Anatomy and Systematic of Higher Plants. Edited by Y. S ell , F. W eberling and H. L orenzen .     

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Salt Marshes and Salt Deserts of the World . By V. J. C hapman . Edited by N. P olunin .
The Measurement of Grassland Productivity . Proceedings of the University of Nottingham Sixth Easter School in Agricultural Science. Edited by Professor J. D. I vins
Intermediary Metabolism in Plants . By D. D. D avies .
Nomenclature of Plants . A Text for the Application by the Case Method of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. By H arold S t . J ohn .
Biological Clocks . Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.
A Taxonomic Revision of the Humiriaceae . By J. C uatrecasas .
Models and Analogues in Biology . Fourteenth Symposium of the Society for Experimental Biology.
Encyclopaedia of Plant Physiology. Vol. XI, Parts 1 and 2. Edited by W. R uhland .
Protoplasmatologia. Handbuch der Protoplasmaforschung , Vol. II, C8d. Permeabilitäts-theorien . By V. W artiovaara and R. C ollander .
Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie . Edited by W. R uhland . Volume V: The Assimilation of Carbon Dioxide.
Die Pflanzenwelt der Tschechoslovakei . Ergebnisse der 12. internationalen pflanzengeo-graphischen Excursion (IPE) durch die Tschechoslovakei, 1958. Edited by W erner L üdi .
Macromolecular Complexes . Edited by M. V. E dds , J r .
Trace Elements in Plants . By W. S tiles .     

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Botanical Histochemistry: Principles and Practice . By W illiam A. J ensen .
The Biology of Cilia and Flagella . By M. A. S leigh .
Dünnschicht-Chromatographie . Edited by E gon S tahl .
Plant Embryology. A Symposium .
The Morphology of Pteridophytes . By K. R. S porne .
Introductory Mycology . By C. J. A lexopoulos .
Residue Reviews , Vol. 1. Edited by F. A. G unther .
Energy Exchange in the Biosphere . By D avid M. G ates .
Pathology of Trees and Shrubs with Special Reference to Britain . By T. R. P eace .
Modern Methods of Plant Analysis . Vol. V. Edited by H. F. L inskens and M. V. T racey .
The Growth of Plants . By G. E. F ogg .
An Introduction to Plant Physiology . By W. O. J ames .
Die Physiologische Uhr. Zeitmessung in Organismen mit ungefähr Tagesperiodischen Schwingungen . By E. B ünning .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Atlas of the British Flora . Edited by F. H. P erring and S. M. W althrs .
Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology . Vol. XIV: Growth and Growth Substances. Edited by W. R uhland .
Drawings of British Plants . Part XVII: Compositae (3). By S tella R oss -C raig .
Apical Meristems . By F. A. L. C lowes . Botanical Monographs, vol. 2. Edited by W. O. J ames .
Cellular Regulatory Mechanisms . Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
Proceedings of the Summer School of Botany held June 2–15, 1960, at Darjeeling . Edited by P. M aheshwari , B. M. J ohri and I. K. V asil .
Exotic Forest Trees in the British Commonwealth . By R. J. S treets . Edited by Sir H arry C hampion .
A Flora of the Alaskan Arctic Slope . By I. L. W iggins and J. H. T homas
Grundzüge der Pflanzenanatomie . By B. H uber .
Taschenbuch der Botanik . By H. M iehe . Revised by W. M evius .
A Conspectus of Aphids as Vectors of Plant Viruses . By J. S. K ennedy , M. F. D ay and V. F. E astop .
Crop Adaptation and Distribution . By C arroll P. W ilsie .
Flora of Cultivated Plants of the U.S.S.R. Vol. XIII: Perennial Leguminous Plants: Medicago, Melilotus and Trigonella. Edited by E. N. S inskaya . Translated by N. L andau .
Der Federsee . Edited by W. Z immermann .
Carbohydrate Resources within the Perennial Plant . By C. A. P riestley .
Flora of the British Isles . By A. R. C lapham , T. G. T utin and E. F. W arburg .
Mineral Salts Absorption in Plants . By J. F. S utcliffe .
The Development of British Heathlands and their Soils . By G. W. D imbleby .
Annual Review of Plant Physiology , vol. 13. Edited by L. M achlis and W. R. B riggs .     

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Advances in Plant Nutrition, Vol. 2. Edited by B ernard T inker and A ndré L äuchli .
Molecular Biology and Crop Improvement. By R. B. A ustin with R. B. F lavell , I. E. H enson and H. J. B. L owe .
Crop Productivity – Research Imperatives Revisited (International Conference held at Boyne Highlands Inn, 1–318 October 1985 and Airlie House, 11–13 December, 1985). Edited by M artin G ibbs and C arla C arlson
Haploids of Higher Plants in Vitro. Edited by H. Hu and H.-Y. Y ang
Die Blüte. Eine Einführung in Struktur und Funktion, Ökologie und Evolution der Blüten. By D ieter H ess .
Mechanisms of Resistance to Plant Diseases. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, Volume 17. Edited by R. S. S. F raser .
British Fungus Flora, Volume 4, Pluteaceae: Pluteus and Volvariella. By P. D. O rton .
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, New Series, Volume 2. Edited by H. F. L insjens and J. F. J ackson .
Immunology in Plant Science. Edited by T revor L. W ang .     

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Atlas of Mapped Distributions of Dominance and Modern Pollen Percentages for Important Tree Taxa of Eastern North America . By P. A. D elcourt , H. R. D elcourt and T. W ebb III.
New Manual of Bryology. Volume 1. Edited by R. M. S chuster .
The Ecology and Physiology of the Fungal Mycelium. Edited by D. H. J ennings and A. D. M. R ayner .
Isotopes and Radiation in Agricultural Sciences. Edited by M. E. L'A nnunziata and J. O. L egg .
The Physiology of Flowering Plants : their growth and development . Third edition. By H. E. S treet and H. Ö pik .
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments. By J. J. L owe and M. J. C. W alker .
European Mires. Edited by P. M oore .
Compartments in Algal Cells and Their Interaction. (Proceedings in Life Sciences Series.) Edited by W. W iessner , D. G. R obinson and R. C. S tarr .
Chloroplast Metabolism. By B arry H alliwell .
Flooding and Plant Growth. Ed. by T. T. K ozlowski .
Mode of Action of Antifungal Agents. Ed. by A. P. J. T rinci and J. F. R yley .
Disease Resistance in Plants. By J. E. V anderplank .     

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Nature's Second Kingdom. By F. D elaporte . Translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology , New Series, Volume 10. Hormonal regulation of development II. The functions of hormones from the level of the cell to the whole plant. Edited by T. K. S cott .
Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants , Volume 1. Laboratory procedures and their applications. Edited by I. K. V asil .
Databases in Systematics. Edited by R. A llkin and F. A. B isby .
Plant Chemosystematics. By J. B. H arborne and B. L. T urner .
Current Concepts in Plant Taxonomy. Edited by V. H. H eywood and D. M. M oore .
Introduction to Principles of Plant Taxonomy. By V. V. S ivarajan .
Our Green and Living World: The Wisdom to Save It. By E. S. A yensu , V. H. H eywood , G.L. L ucas and R. A. D efillips .
Lipids in Plants and Microbes. By J. L. H arwood and N. J. R ussell .
The Role of Terrestrial Vegetation in the Global Carbon Cycle: Measurement by Remote Sensing. Edited by G. M. W oodwell .
Chromosomes Today , Volume 8. Edited by M. D. B ennett , A. G ropp and U. W olf .     

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Plasticity in Plants. Edited by D. H. J ennings and A. J. T rewavas .
Chemistry of Plant Protection, Volume 1. Sterol Biosynthesis Inhibitors and Anti-Feeding Compounds. Edited by G. H aug and H. H offmann .
Proceedings of a Workshop on Biology and Control of Orobanche. Edited by S. J. T er B org .
Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, Vol. 1, Trees I. Edited by Y. P. S. B ajaj
Handbook of Phycological Methods, Volume 4. Ecological Field Methods; Macroalgae. Edited by M. S. L ittler and D. S. L ittler
Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes. No. 21 in a series Developments in Plant and Soil Science. Edited by F. A. S kinner and P. V omala .
English Names of Wild Flowers. By J. G. D ony , S. L. J ury and F. H. P erring .     

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Review in this article:
Protoplasmatologia—Handbuch der Protoplasmaforschung . Band II, CI. The Viscosity of Protoplasm. By L. V. H eilbrunn .
Trace Element Problems in Nature . A Symposium in the Botany Department, University of Cape Town. Edited by D r . K. H. S chütte .
Cell, Organism and Milieu. (Seventeenth Growth Symposium). Edited by D orothea R udnick .
Subcellular Particles . Edited by T. H ayashi .
Plant Growth Substances . By L. J. A udus .
Uredineana. Receuil d': études systematiques et biologiques sur les Urédinées du Globe . Tome 5. By A. L. G uyot .
A Textbook of General Physiology . By H. D avson .
Protoplasmatologia . Vol. Ill AI. Le Chondriome de la Cellule Végétale: Morphologie du Chondriome; by P. D angeard .
Analytical Cytology . Edited by R obert C. M ellors .
Blakeslee: The Genus Datura . By A. G. A very , S. S atina and J. R ietsema .
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Past and Present . By W. B. T urrill .
Drawings of British Plants . Part XIII. Umbelliferae (2), Araliaceae, Cornaceae. By S tella R oss -C raig .
Physiology of Fungi. By V incent W. C ochrane .
Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . Vol. II. Musci. Fasc. III. By E lsa N yholm .
An Outline of General Plant Geography . By W. S zafer .
Protoplasmatologia. Handbuch der Protoplasmaforschung . Ed. L. V. Heilbrunn and F. Weber. Vol. VIII; 9a. Polaritút und Inäquale Teilung des pflanzlichen Protoplasten . By Erwin Bünning, Tübingen.     

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Die Geschichte der Moore des Sihltales bei Einsiedeln. W erner L üdi .
Starch and its Derivatives. J. A. R adley .
Elementary Microtechnique. Second Edition, by H. A. P eacock .
The Grasslands of the Falkland Islands. W illiam D avies .
Plant and Animal Communities. Edited by T heodor J ust .
The New Systematics. Edited by J ulian H uxley .
The Course of Evolution by Differentiation of Divergent Mutation rather than by Selection. J. C. W illis .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Respiratory Metabolism in Plants . By H arry B eevers .
Plant Pathology: an Advanced Treatise . Volume 2: The Pathogen. Edited by J. G. H orsfall and A. E. D imond .
Flammenphotometrie . By R. H errmann and C. T. J. A lkemade .
Soil Conditions and Plant Growth . By S ir E. J ohn R ussell .
Bacterial Plant Pathogens . By C. S tapp . Translated by A. S choenfeld .
Die Pflanzliche Zellwand . By A. F rey -W yssling
Maps of Distribution of Norwegian Vascular Plants . Edited by K nut F aegri , O lav G jaerevoll , J ohannes L id , R olf N ordhagen . Volume I. Coast Plants by K nut F aegri .
Les forêts acidophiles du Jura. Materiaux pour le levé géobotanique de la Suisse , Fascicule 38. By J. L. R ichard .
A Symposium on Light and Life . Edited by W illiam D. M celroy and B entley G lass .
Woody Plants of Ghana . By F. R. I rvine .     

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Book Reviwed in this article:
An Ecological Atlas of Grassland Plants. BY J. P hilip G rime and P hilip S. L loyd .
A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants in India. By H. S antapau and A. N. H enry , assisted by B. R oy and P. B asu .
Phytooceonologia: Journal of the International Society for Vegetation Science. Edited by H. E llenberg and seven others.
Progress in Botany (Fortschritte der Botanik), Volume 36. Edited by H. E llenberg , K. E sser , H. M erxmüller , E. S chnepf and H. Z iegler .
Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Edited by P. H. D avis , assisted by D. F. C hamberlain and V. A. M athews .