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INTRODUCTION TO 



PLANT GEOGRAPHY 



and Some Related Sciences 



by 

 NICHOLAS POLUNIN 



M.S. (Yale), M.A., D.Phil., D.Sc. (Oxon.) 



Visiting Professor, University of Geneva; lately 

 Professor of Plant Ecology and Taxonomy, Head 

 of the Department of Botany, and Director of 

 the University Herbarium, etc., Faculty of Science, 

 Baghdad, Iraq. Formerly Fielding Curator and 

 Keeper of the University Herbaria, University 

 Demonstrator and Lecturer in Botany, and Senior 

 Research Felloxv of New College, Oxford; 

 Macdonald Professor of Botany, McGill Univer- 

 sity; Research Associate, etc., of Harvard and 

 Yale Universities. 



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