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The Oxford Dictionary Of Natural History
From the Foreword by David Attenborough 'Here, for each of many thousands of scientific terms, are those few words of definition that will enable you, whether scientist, naturalist, or both, to understand the word and the sentence in which it is embedded. The entries have been assembled and defined by over fifty experts from a dozen different disciplines. I know of no other compilation that is so up-to-date and so comprehensive. Maybe, in some laboratory or library somewhere, there sits some scientific polymath who, alone and unaided, knows the meaning of each and every one of these words. I am not he. I am delighted and relieved have at last a volume at my elbow that will illuminate my way through the fascinating literature of natural history, no matter where it may lead me.'
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