Natural History Museum (London, England)

J. R. Press

John C. Thackray

Taking the reader on a whirlwind journey through the history of the Natural History Museum, this volume covers the people, the influences and the discoveries. It chronicles the most important milestones in the development of the Museum.

Nature's Treasurehouse

The Natural History Museum

Sandra Knapp

Paul House

Indalesio Sánchez

Edgardo Benitez

Mayangna panan basni

Lance Chilton

N. J. Turland

Nicholas J. Turland

Robert Ralph

"Crete, Karpathos and the nearby Islands in the South Aegean region have a rich and varied flora with approximately 1750 species, including a significant proportion of endemics. This checklist is the first work to provide, in a single volume, detailed information on all these vascular plants. In addition, and also for the first time, most of the taxa ae mapped."--Publisher description.

Annotated Checklist & Atlas

Flora of the Cretan Area

M. J. Short

Flora of Madeira is the first book to describe fully all of the vascular plants of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands. It covers over 1360 species of native and naturalized plants, many of them little known. A high proportion of taxa, some 16%, are endemic to the islands themselves or are restricted to Macaronesia (the collective name for the archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Salvages, Canaries and Cape Verdes). Isolated from other land-masses, the Madeiran islands are botanically rich and diverse, and the rugged and beautiful landscape embraces a broad range of habitats. Madeira also contains the most extensive remaining areas of laurisilva, the evergreen forest which is the last representative of the ancient Tethyan forests of S. Europe and N. Africa. The remote Salvage Islands have a smaller but equally interesting flora. Flora provides descriptions and keys for taxa at all levels, as well as information on habitats, distributions and flowering times. Local names are also cited. Fifty-seven plates of original drawings illustrate 212 of the Madeiran and Macaronesian endemic taxa, some of them depicted for the first time. Introductory chapters describe the geography of the islands, the main vegetation types and the extensive measures being implemented to conserve this unique flora. Flora of Madeira is the only fully comprehensive publication on the wild flora of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands, for use as both a reference work and a field guide. This book is a digital reprint of ISBN 0-11-310017-5 (1994).

Flora of Madeira

With specially commissioned photographs showing every single panel and full of intriguing plant histories, this book is a fascinating insight into one of London's best kept secrets.

Botanical Ceiling Panels of the Natural History Museum

The Gilded Canopy

J. R. Press

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