This volume contains the invited papers at the 1985 British Combinatorial Conference presented by several distinguished mathematicians.

Preface; 1. Combinatorics and Ramanujan's 'lost' notebook G. E. Andrews; 2. Irregularities of distribution and combinatorics J. Beck; 3. Adaptive algorithms for communications H. J. Beker; 4. Random flows: network flows and electrical flows through random media G. R. Grimmett; 5. On greedy algorithms that succeed A. J. Hoffman; 6. {0,1*} distance problems in combinatorics J. H. van Lint; 7. Detachments of graphs and generalised Euler trails C. St J. A. Nash-Williams; 8. Graph minors - a survey N. Robertson and P. D. Seymour; Index of names.