From london@sunsite.unc.eduFri May 10 12:13:03 1996 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 12:01:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: BEN # 135 (fwd) PLANT COLLECTING FOR THE AMATEUR Brayshaw, T.C. 1996. Plant collecting for the amateur. Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria. 44 p. ISBN 0-7718-9439-2 [soft cover] Price CND 8.95. In this third edition of Chris Brayshaw's popular manual (first published in 1973) Chris updated the text and added a new chap- ter on insect pests in herbaria and their control. The book also lists the main herbarium resources in British Columbia and Canada and gives number of references useful for identi- fication of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens. The British Columbia Ministry of Forests (which made a financial contribution to Chris Brayshaw's publication) simultaneously published their own "Techniques and procedures for collecting, preserving, processing and storing botanical specimens" (B.C. Ministry of Forests, Working Paper 18/1996, 39 p. - no charge). This publication has a similar scope and contents as the "Plant collecting for the amateur," but the useful information is overshadowed by some grave mistakes and blunders, especially in the "Glossary of terms" and reference citations. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions, subscriptions, etc.: aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca BEN is archived on gopher freenet.victoria.bc.ca. The URL is: gopher://freenet.victoria.bc.ca:70/11/environment/Botany/ben Also archived at http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ ________________________________________________________________