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Wildcliff Library & Equipment List
Dedicated to plant and wildlife conservation in South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom


Category Subcategory Title Author/s
Archeology Archeology Archaeology in Southern Africa H.C. Woodhouse
Astronomy Astronomy Guide to the Night Sky David Levy
Biology Parasitology Parasitology M.E. Viney and A.F. Read (editors)
Botany Alien Species Problem Plants of South Africa Clive Bromilow
Botany Bulbs Kirstenbosch Gardening Series: Grow Agapanthus Graham Duncan
Botany Bulbs Kirstenbosch Gardening Series: Grow Clivias Graham Duncan
Botany Bulbs Kirstenbosch Gardening Series: Grow Nerines Graham Duncan
Botany Carnivorous Plants First Field Guide to Parasitic and Carnivorous Plants of Southern Africa John Manning
Botany Cycads Cycads of South Africa Cynthia Giddy
Botany Cycads Grow Cycads Donaldson, John
Botany Ecology Caring for Natural Rangelands Ken Coetzee
Botany Fungus First Field Guide to Mushrooms of Southern Africa Margo Branch
Botany Fynbos Cape Floral Kingdom, The Colin Paterson-Jones
Botany Fynbos Cape Floral Region, Protected Areas Fiona McIntosh with Cape Nature
Botany Fynbos Cape Plants:  A Conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa (2 copies)
Peter Goldblatt and John Manning
Botany Fynbos Discovering Indigenous Forests at Kirstenbosch Sally Argent
Botany Fynbos Eco Guide Fynbos (2 copies)
Colin Paterson-Jones, John Manning
Botany Fynbos Field Guide to Fynbos John Manning
Botany Fynbos First Field Guide to Fynbos of Southern Africa John Manning
Botany Fynbos Fynbos, South Africa's Unique Floral Kingdom Richard Cowling, Dave Richardson
Botany
Fynbos
Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Kristo Pienaar
Botany Fynbos Grow Fynbos Plants Neville Brown, Graham Duncan
Botany Fynbos Grow Proteas; a guide to the propagation and cultivation of some South African protaceae Brown, Neville
Botany Fynbos Kirstenbosch Gardening Series: Grow Restios Brown, Jamieson, Botha
Botany Fynbos Levyns' Guide to the Plant Genera of the Southwestern Cape, The Terry H. Trinder-Smith
Botany Fynbos Proteas: A Field Guide to the Proteas of Southern Africa Tony Rebelo
Botany Fynbos Restios of the Fynbos Els Dorrat Haaksma, H Peter Linder
Botany Fynbos Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland A. Barrie Low and Tony Rebelo
Botany Fynbos Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, The Ladislav Mucina, Michael C Rutherford
Botany
Grasses
Guide to Grasses of Southern Africa
Frits van Oudtshoorn
Botany
Medicinal
Edible Wild Plants of Sub-Saharan Africa
C.R.Peters, E.M. O'Brien & R.B. Drummond
Botany
Medicinal
People's Plants
Ben-Erik van Wyk and Nigel Gericke
Botany
Medicinal
Uit Die VeldApteek
Betsie Rood
Botany Succulents First Field Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa John Manning
Botany Succulents Kirstenbosch Gardening Series: Grow Succulents Ian B. Oliver
Botany Succulents Succulents of South Africa: A Guide to the Regional Diversity Ernst van Jaarsveld, Ben-Erik van Wyk and Gideon Smith
Botany
Trees
Discovering Indigenous Forests of Kirstenbosch

Botany Trees Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa Braam Van Wyk and Piet Van Wyk
Botany Trees How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa Braam Van Wyk and Piet Van Wyk
Botany Trees Making the Most of Indigenous Trees Fanie and Julye-Ann Venter
Botany
Trees
Sappi Tree Spotting

Culture/Travel Biography Bushlife of a Game Warden Nick Steele
Culture/Travel Memoir Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide Peter Allison
Culture/Travel Memoir Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, The Kobie Kruger
Culture/Travel Travel Beautiful Garden Route; A Traveler's Photographic Souvenir Annlerie van Rooyen, editor
Culture/Travel Travel Garden Route and Little Karoo:  Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea, The Leon Nell
Culture/Travel Travel Garden Route Guide Jacana Publishers
Culture/Travel Travel Globetrotter Travel Guide: South Africa Peter Joyce
Culture/Travel Travel Let's Go: South Africa Kyle D Hawkins
Culture/Travel Travel Overland through Southern Africa Willie & Sandra Olivier
Earth Sciences
Geology
Field Guide To Rocks & Minerals Of Southern Africa (on order)
Bruce Cairncross
Earth Sciences
Geology Geological Journeys Nick Norman and Gavin Whitfield
Earth Sciences
Hydrology
Rivers of the Gouritz Management Area 2007

Invertebrates Arachnids First Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Southern Africa Tracey Hawthorne
Invertebrates Arachnids Scorpions of Southern Africa Jonathan Leeming
Invertebrates Arachnids Southern African Spiders: An Identification Guide Martin R. Filmer
Invertebrates Arthropods Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa (2 copies)
Steve Woodhall
Invertebrates Arthropods Field Guide to the Damselflies of South Africa, A Warwick and Michele Tarboton
Invertebrates Arthropods Guides to Freshwater Invertebrates of Southern Africa (10 volumes) J.A. Day, I. J. de Moor, and A. E. Louw, eds
Invertebrates
Arthropods
Remarkable Insects of South Africa
Lambert Smith
Invertebrates Arthropods Southern African Insects and their World Alan Weaving
Invertebrates
Arthropods
Soul of the White Ant Eugene Marais
Invertebrates
Arthropods
What's That Butterfly?
Steve Woodhall
Vertebrates
Amphibians
Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa
Alan Channing
Vertebrates Amphibians Frogs and Frogging in Southern Africa Vincent Carruthers
Vertebrates Amphibians South African Frogs: A Complete Guide N.I.Passmore and V.C. Carruthers
Vertebrates Avifauna Attracting Birds to your Garden, in southern Africa Roy Trendler, Lex Hes
Vertebrates Avifauna Birds of Southern Africa Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton
Vertebrates
Avifauna
Birds: The Inside Story
Rael and Lelene Loon
Vertebrates
Avifauna
Roberts Birds of South Africa IV Edition
G.R. McLachlan and  R. Liversidge
Vertebrates Avifauna Roberts Birds of South Africa VII Edition PAR Hockey, WRJ Dean and PG Ryan
Vertebrates Avifauna Vultures and Farmers Duncan Butchart
Vertebrates
Avifauna
What's That Bird?
Kenneth Newman
Vertebrates Mammals Baboon Metaphysics Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth
Vertebrates
Mammals
Chimpanzee Politics
Frans de Waal
Vertebrates Mammals Beat About the Bush: Mammals Trevor Carnaby
Vertebrates Mammals Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa Chris and Tilde Stuart
Vertebrates Mammals First Field Guide to Animal Tracks of Southern Africa Louis Liebenberg
Vertebrates Mammals How Monkeys see the World Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth
Vertebrates Mammals Mammal Checklist of Southern Africa
Vertebrates Mammals National Botanical Gardens: havens of biodiversity; supplement to Veld and Flora Dec 2007 Willis, Christopher
Vertebrates Mammals Peacemaking Among Primates Frans de Waal
Vertebrates Mammals Primate's Memoir, A Robert M. Sapolsky
Vertebrates
Mammals
Signs of the Wild

Vertebrates Mammals Smither's Mammals of Southern Africa, a field guide. Peter Apps
Vertebrates
Mammals
Tracks and Signs

Vertebrates
Mammals
Story of the African Dog, The
Johan Gallant
Vertebrates Mammals Wildlife of Southern Africa, The Vincent Carruthers
Vertebrates
Mammals
Wild Ways: Field Guide to Behaviour of Southern African Mammals
Peter Apps
Vertebrates Reptiles Chameleons of Southern Africa Krystal Tolley & Marius Burger
Vertebrates Reptiles Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa, A Johan Marais
Vertebrates Reptiles Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa Bill Branch
Vertebrates Reptiles Guide to the Reptiles of Southern Africa, A Graham Alexander and Johan Marais
Vertebrates Reptiles Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity Eric R. Pianka
Vertebrates Reptiles Remarkable Reptiles of South Africa Niels Jacobsen
Vertebrates
Reptiles
Reptiles and Amphibians of Southern Africa
Warren Schmidt
Vertebrates
Reptiles
Snakes and Snake Bites
Johan Marais



Equipment List
(Indicative Inventory of Research Equipment at Wildcliff)

Item

Quantity

Condition

Notes

Leeds Stereoscopic Microscope

1

good


Glass plate

1

good

For microscope

Exacto knife and blades

1

excellent

 

Tweezers

2

excellent

 

Mounting pins

30

excellent

 

Sewing needles

18

excellent

 

Magnifier 10x

2

excellent

 

Pocket magnifier 10x

1

excellent

 

Large magnifying glass

1

good

 

Garmin GPS mapper

1

excellent

 

Walkie Talkies

4

good


Compass

1

excellent

 

hp iPAQ Cybertracker 

1

good


Small specimen containers

23

used

 

Data CDs

6

new

 

Binoculars

1 pair

good


First-aid kits

3

good


Rain gauge

1

new

 

Thermometer

1

new


Sherman animal traps
10
fair

Tomahawk animal trap
1
fair

Baboon trap
1
new

Dell laptop computer
1
good

HP 5500 Printer/scanner/ copier/fax

1

good

 

Monolux microscope 1
fair
10x & 40x magnification
Snonrex Electronic Scale 1
new
Max weight 3 kg, readability 0.2 g
Office Zone A4 Laminator
1
new

Brother P-touch Label maker
1
new

Toshiba computer projector
1
new




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