These reference works are available in 334 Conradi Building for use by members of the FSU Department of Biological Science.
Grammar and Style Manuals
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- The CBE Style Manual
- Strunk and White's Elements of Style
- The CBE's Scientific Writing for Graduate Students
- Day's How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- Hunter's Writing for Fishery Journals (more widely useful than the title would imply)
- Warriner's English Grammar and Composition
- C. K. Cook's Line by Line
- Mansion's French Reference Grammar (in English)
- A Latin grammar (in English)
Reference Books and Field Guides
- American Men and Women of Science (1982)
- Sigma Xi Membership Directory (1998)
- Webster's New International Dictionary (unabridged) (2nd ed.)
- Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
- The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary
- The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
- Borror's Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
- A Latin-English, English-Latin dictionary
- A French-English, English-French dictionary
- Le Nouveau Petit Larousse (concise encyclopedia, in French)
- Le Petit Robert (dictionary, in French)
- The NSF Gazetteer of the Antarctic
- Webster's New Geographical Dictionary
- Rand McNally's Road Atlas of North America
- The 1991 Serial Sources for the BIOSIS Previews Database
- Radford, Ahles, and Bell's Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas
- Kurz and Godfrey's Trees of Northern Florida
- Robbins et al.'s Birds of North America
- Peterson et al.'s Birds of Europe (in French, multilingual common names)
- Schilling et al.'s Mammals of Europe (in French, multilingual common names)
- Bauchot and Pras's Guide to Marine Fishes of Europe (in French, multilingual common names)
- Dierl and Ring's Guide to Insects (in French)
- Stiling's Florida's Butterflies and Other Insects
(Sorry so many of the field guides are in French; I will happily furnish translations of relevant passages.)