Includes bibliographies.

Pleistocene history of the British Flora, by R. G. West.--The history of the Ericaceae in Ireland during the Quaternary Epoch, by G. F. Mitchell and W. A. Watts.--Land/sea level changes in Scotland, by J. J. Donner.--Vegetation history in the north-west of England: a regional synthesis, b30888y W. Pennington.--The influence of Mesolithic and Neolithic man on British vegetation: a discussion, by A. G. Smith.--Post-Neolithic disturbance of British vegetation, by J. Turner.--Direction and rate in some British Post-glacial hydroseres, by D. Walker.--The ecological history of Blelham Bog National Nature Reserve, by F. Oldfield.--Maximum summer temperature in relation to the modern and Quaternary distributions of certain arctic-montane species in the British Isles, by A. P. Conolly and E. Dahl.--The Cambridge pollen reference collection, by R. Andrew.--The study of plant macrofossils in British Quaternary deposits, by C. A. Dic