Patterns in the Balance of Nature and Related Problems in Quantitative Ecology.

vii, 324 pp 126 text figures. Original cloth. Spine sunned. Small stain on front cover. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Quoting from Vincent Wiggleworth's Biographical Memoir of Williams in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 28, November, 1982, pp. 666-684: "In 1964 he published 'Patterns in the balance of nature' which is a detailed review and discussion of all the fields of quantitative biology with which he had been occupied throughout his research career--in short, on mathematical synecology. It is a remarkable book in which are foreshadowed very many of the arguments which are being advanced at the present time in studies of multispecies populations, island biogeography and the effects of competition on evolutionary generic relationships--often without acknowledgement" (p. 677). Theoretical Experimental Biology, An International Series of Monographs, Volume 3.