Botanical Bibliographies. A guide to bibliographic materials applicable to Botany. Minneapolis 1970. Reprint Koenigstein 1974. 804 p. gr8vo. Cloth. (ISBN 3-87429-076-X).

Good second hand copy.-The reprinted edition is now out of print too.Efficient searching for botanical data by means of bibliographictechniques requires a knowledge of the scope of many bibliographicsources. The present bibliographic guide provides information tofacilitate the selection of information sources to be used in specificcases. It is a monumental compilation of botanical bibliographies andbibliographic literature, designed so that the researcher may focusquickly and easily on botanical bibliographies. The guide is divided in65 sections, sections 1 to 7 giving more general information (e.g.library classification, general bibliographies, science bibliographies,etc.), while sections 8 to 65 present categories of problems faced bybotanists (e.g. bibliographic keys for dictionary literature onbotanical history, keys for plant geography literature, keys to algalliterature, etc.). This guide is equally important for the singleresearcher preparing a botanical manuscript as for the institute anduniversity library, or the plant industry library.