Reviews

ANONYMUS. 1990. World Plant Conservation Bibliography. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 645 pp. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 0-947643-24-9. Price £ 15.00 (plus postage and packing: UK 15%, overseas surface 17.5%). Available from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, U.K. or World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219C Huntingdon Road, Cambridge C83 ODL, U.K. This volume includes over 10,000 citations to literature published during the last ten years about plant conservation at all levels, local, national, and international. Its scope ranges from highly specified papers on individual threatened plant species to more general papers tackling conservation strategy, policy, and law. Reference citations are grouped into three sections: General, Regional, and Country. Within each section references are arranged in alphabetical order of author and each entry is numbered. For a full list of countries and states, and commonly used synonyms, there is a Geographical Index. At the end of the book also indexes to Plant names and Families are included.