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AN important monograph has been drawn up recently by Dr. T. F. Chipp, entitled the “Gold Coast Forests: a study in Synecology” (Oxford Forest Memoirs, No. 7, 1927). In the introduction it is pointed out that no purely ecological study of the Gold Coast forests has been recorded, and that such a study has been impossible so long as the component units forming the structure of this mass of tropical vegetation have remained undetermined and uninvestigated. Considerable progress has been made in the floristic study of this forest area, as evidenced in the gradual expansion of the enumeration of the flora in the successive volumes of the “Flora of Tropical Africa,” a work commenced in 1868 and only now approaching completion. A similar advance has also been made in the study of the plant distribution, and Engler's comprehensive survey in “Die Vegetation der Erde” (1908-10) is passing out of date.
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The Gold Coast Forests. Nature 121, 301–302 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121301a0
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