In the early 1990s, visionary leaders at the American Geriatrics Society and The John A. Hartford Foundation recognized that the marked and growing shortage of geriatrics healthcare professionals would lead to a U.S. healthcare system ill prepared to provide optimal care for the ever-increasing number of older Americans. Led by the late Dennis W. Jahnigen, MD, they set forth a plan to address this shortage by collaborating with surgical and related medical specialists to create a series of programs to foster the highest quality care of older adults. Their unique programmatic vision was that every physician, not just geriatricians, would have basic knowledge and skills in geriatric care, because geriatricians cannot and should not meet the need alone.

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Several other books have been produced on this topic in the last few years, but this present volume is not only broad in its scope but written with a clear and authoritative style. Numerous photographs illustrate the text giving the non-specialist reader an idea of the appearance of many of the obscure plants mentioned. Detailed bibliographies and a good index complete a work of reference which should be on the shelf of every library in every school and college. John A. Burton Ecology and nature conservation in London. Ecology Handbook No. 1 Greater London Council, 1984, £1-26 including postage and packing. A guide to habitat creation. Ecology Handbook No. 2 Chris Baines and Jane Smart Greater London Council, 1984, £1-76 including postage and packing.

Although this may be of considerable value to museum taxonomists, it is unlikely to be of significant use to most conservation-orientated herpetologists. This is a great pity, since it would have been relatively simple to improve the book by giving some useful information on distribution. As it is, distribution is given by country-and a simple 'Brazil' or 'USA' is not much help. The product of a word-processed listing, there are useful synonymies and cross-referencing by country, which are a slight compensation for lack of distributional detail. At £44, perhaps an expensive luxury. John A. Burton