New books added to the Library collection
Please find below a list of this week’s recently arrived additions to the Library collection. These books are now on display in the Main Reading Room, Botany Reading Room (for all Botany titles) and Tring (for all Ornithology titles). Please let us know if you'd like to make an appointment to read any of them.
Anthropology / Palaeontology
The second jurassic dinosaur rush : museums and paleontology in America at the turn of the twentieth century / Paul D. Brinkman.
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Geoecology in the Tropics : with a database on micromorphology and geomorphology / Hanna Bremer.
Stuttgart : Gebrüder Borntraeger, 2010.
Botany
Brazilian flora : Arecaceae (Palms) / Harri Lorenzi ... [et al.].
Nova Odessa, Brazil : Instituto Plantarum, 2010.
Guia de samambaias e licófitas da REBIO Uatumã, Amazônia Central = Guide to the ferns and lycophytes of REBIO Uatumã, Central Amazonia / Gabriela Zuquim ... [et al.].
Manaus : Áttema Design Editorial, 2008.
Inventarios botánicos del área de Bella Vista, Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia : una base para la conservación / Luzmila Arroyo P. y Steven P. Churchill, editores.
Santa Cruz, Bolivia : Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado ; St. Louis, Mo. : Missouri Botanical Garden, 2009.
Mousses et hépatiques de Païolive (Ardèche et Gard, France) / Vincent Hugonnot ; avec la collaboration de: Jeannette Chavoutier, Luc Olivier, Thierry Vergne.
Jarnac : Siège social de la SBCO, 2010.
Libro rojo de plantas de Colombia 6. Orquídeas, primera parte / Eduardo Calderón Sáenz
Bogotá Inst. de Investigaciones de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt [u.a.] 2007.
A monograph on some British Desmids : Order Zygnematales, Suborder Zygnemoidiineae, Family Zygnemataceae, Subfamily Mesotaenioideae (Saccoderm Desmids) and Suborder Closteriineae, Family Peniaceae and Family Closteriaceae / by Alan J. Brook and David B. Williamson ; edited by James H. Price and Nicholas J. Evans.
London : Ray Society, 2010.
Entomology
Phylogeny and generic classification of Tachyusini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) / Grzegorz Pasnik
Kraków : Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animalsof the Polish Academy of Science, 2010
Aphodiinae of Australia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) : iconography / Zdzislawa T. Stebnicka
Kraków : Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2009
A world catalogue of Chironomidae (Diptera). Part 1, Buchonomyiinae, Chilenomyiinae, Podonominae, Aphroteniinae, Tanypodinae, Usambaromyiinae, Diamesinae, Prodiamesinae and Telmatogetoninae / Compiled by Patrick Ashe and James P. O'Connor
Dublin : Irish Biogeographical Society ; National Museum of Ireland, 2009
Hoverflies of Northwest Europe : identification keys to the Syrphidae / M. P. van Veen
Utrecht : KNNV Publishing, 2010
The moths of the Bristol region / Ray Barnett ... [et al.]
[Bristol] : Bristol Regional Environment Record Centre, 2008
Gelechiid moths of the subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae) of the world / M. G. Ponomarenko
Vladivostok : Dalnauka, 2009
General
Klimaendringer i norsk arktis : konsekvenser for livet i nord / [forfatter: Ellen Øseth].
Tromsø : Norsk polarinstitutt, 2010.
Climate and weather / John Kington.
London : Collins, 2010.
The natural history of Sherkin Island, West Cork : an introduction / John Akeroyd ; [photography by Robbie Murphy].
Sherkin Island : Sherkin Island Marine Station, 2009.
Aleppo observed : Ottoman Syria through the eyes of two Scottish doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell / by Maurits H. van den Boogert.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
The ecology of tropical East Asia / Richard T. Corlett.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
William Bartram, the search for nature's design : selected art, letters, & unpublished writings / edited by Thomas Hallock & Nancy E. Hoffmann ; Joel T. Fry, associate editor.
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2010.
Darwin's disciple : George John Romanes : a life in letters / [edited] by Joel S. Schwartz
Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, 2010.
Ornithology (Tring)
Auftreten und Herkunft der Wasservögel am Sempachersee : Überblick über fast 70 000 Beringungen am Sempachersee und 6000 Rückmeldungen aus Eurasien und Afrika / Josef Hofer, Pius Korner-Nievergelt und Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt.
[Rüschlikon, Switzerland] : Ala, 2010.
Bird migration and global change / George W. Cox.
Washington, DC : Island Press, c2010.
Birds of Himalaya & Kashmir / by Douglas Dewar.
Delhi, India : Asiatic Pub. House, 2006.
Kingfisher / David Chandler, Ian Llewellyn.
London : New Holland, 2010.
The nesting season : cuckoos, cuckolds, and the invention of monogamy / Bernd Heinrich.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Zoology
A critical companion to zoosemiotics : people, paths, ideas / Dario Martinelli.
Dordrecht : Springer, 2010.
Estudio de la biología y ecología del camarón de río en Río San Juan (<Macrobrachium carcinus>) / Jordi Pascual Sala.
Managua : Gobierno de Nicaragua, Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales, 2005.
Estudio técnico científico del róbalo en Río San Juan y el Gran Lago de Nicaragua / Juan José Camacho, Velkiss Gadea E.
[Managua] : Gobierno de Nicaragua, Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales, 2005.
Abundancia relativa de los peces en la costa oriental del Lago de Nicaragua / Aldo Hernández Portocarrero ; Francisco Saborido Rey, consultor.
Managua : Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales : Instituto Nicaragüense de Pesca, 2008.
New Zealand freshwater fishes : an historical and ecological biogeography / R. M. McDowall.
Dordrecht : Springer, 2010.
The mind of the chimpanzee : ecological and experimental perspectives / [edited by] Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Stephen R. Ross, & Tetsuro Matsuzawa.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Los manatíes del Río San Juan y los canales de Tortuguero : ecología y conservación / Ignacio Jiménez Pérez ; [ilustraciones, Carlos Espinoza].
[Managua] : Gobierno de la República de Nicaragua, Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales, 2003.
Handbook on Indian freshwater molluscs / Ramakrishna, Anirudha Dey.
Kolkata : AICOPTAX--Mollusca, Zoological Survey of India, 2007.
Natural History Museum animal records / Mark Carwardine
London : Natural History Museum, 2010.