Publications

Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 1 Edited by E. Soepadmo and KM Wong. Kuala Lumpur: Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Sabah Forestry Dept and Sarawak Forestry Dept, 1995. 513pp ISBN 983-9592-404. Hardcover £30.

Covers 31 families with a total of 306 species of trees from 99 genera contributed by 19 authors. The book provides identification keys and illustrations for all the families treated. Nearly 100 illustrations are provided, one representative species being illustrated per genus. Some interesting introductory chapters on the phytogeography and plant collecting history of the region.

"The quality of production is outstanding, the standard of taxonomic treatments excellent, the drawings wonderful" Bulletin of the Singapore Botanical Garden, 1997

Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 2. Edited by E. Soepadmo, KM Wong and LG Saw. Kuala Lumpur: Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Sabah Forestry Dept and Sarawak Forestry Dept, 1996. 443pp ISBN 983-9592-564. Hardcover £30.

This second volume in a projected series of 8 includes accounts of 23 families including large families such as the Anacardiaceae and Sapindaceae. Dichotomous keys are provided to species level and 332 species are described together with illustrations of representatives of species for each genus.

Manual of Malayan Silviculture for Inland Forest. Second edition, 1995 (issued 1997), Vol 1, Parts I to III, chapt 1-8, vol II, part III, chapt 9-15. By John Wyatt-Smith with a contribution by W. P. Panton. Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, 52109, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hardcover, Volume 1 ISBN 983-9592-378 £25 Volume 2 ISBN 983 9592 386 £25.

This volume is an amended, edited and typologically much improved reprint of the first edition in 1963. The addition of comprehensive indices on authors, species names and subjects considerably facilitate the use of the manual as a source book. References up to 1962 are given at the end of each chapter. Despite the alterations, the book remains an authentic account of the state of the art of tropical silviculture in 1962.

"It is an indispensible and reliable information source for anybodly who teaches, discusses or disputes rainforestry, not only in South East Asia". Professor E. Bruenig, International Standards in Tropical Forestry, 1998.

Forestry and Forest Products Research: Proceedings of the Third Conference 3-4,1995, FRIM, Kepong. Volume 2 Editors, AR Malik, AR Nik, A Mohamed, LS See AWH Hoy, KK Choon, 1996 Soft cover ISBN 983-9592-580, pp302 £19.

Twenty six papers are presented together with an introduction from the Director General of the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) which in recent years has played a pivotal role in research on the management of tropical forest resources in South East Asia. Many of the papers present new information on the management of tropical forest resources and there are contributers from Japan, Brazil the USA and New Zealand as well as contributors from all parts of Malaysia. This is a valuable account of several active research areas of  interest to anyone engaged in tropical forestry.

Forestry and Forest Products Research: Proceedings of the Third Conference 3-4,1995, FRIM, Kepong. Volume 1 Editors, N Hussein,PS Bacon and KK Choon. 1996 Soft cover ISBN 983-9592-629, pp109 £12.

The first volume of proceeding covers 13 papers which arose from funding under the five year programme "sustainable management of bioresources in south east asia" which was financed jointly by the Malaysian Government and the United Kingdom Department for International Development. Topics covered include biodiversity inventory techniques, phytochemical prospecting and propagation methods for tropical tree species.

Mather RA and JMS Moss (1998). The use of geographical information systems and image processing techniques for the analysis of aerial photographs and vegetation survey data in African dry-woodland research. OFI Occasional paper 51. £18 

For all the above items please return payment by cheque to:

Dr. Philip Bacon
Green College
University of Oxford
Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6HG
UK

All cheques should be made payable to The Tree Flora Trust