Reference
Z916/2/3
Title
Bound volume of nos 16 - 26
Date free text
1961-1971
Production date
From: 1961 To: 1971
Scope and Content
No 16 includes:
• The Chiltern Research Committee[Chairman, Mr R S R FITTER Bedfordshire Natural History Society and Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Naturalists’ Trust representatives were: B B WEST, Willington and K WEST, Bedford]
• Bedford School Natural History Society - Report for 1961[President, M J MARRIOTT, secretary, J N DYMOND and M JOIL representative of the committee. Christmas term, Secretary became President, G C ANDERSON, Secretary; P J WILKINSON, O J MARLOW and N CRADDOCK, succeeded to the committee]
No 17 includes:
• Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Naturalists’ Trust - Felmersham Gravel Pits[article on the pits which were formed before the 1939-1945 war and subsequently became water-filled to form shallow lakes for water fowl etc, with small sketch map]
• Bedford School Natural History Society - Report for 1962
With summer programme for 1962.
No 18 includes:
• A Bird’s-Nesting Jubilee[report on Jannion STEELE-ELLIOTT, naturalist and his friend Ronald Bruce CAMPBELL(father to the author of the article, Bruce CAMPBELL)includes details of Ronald Bruce CAMPBELL’s diary c1903 detailing species of birds etc.
• Bedford School Natural History Society [gives details of activities]
• Observations on a pair of blue tits breeding in Bedford in 1962
Contains notice regarding problems in producing the Journal - insufficient material to continue producing the journal as at present
No 19 includes:
• Common terns at Wyboston(1963-1964)
• Mollusca at Flitwick Moor[report on the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Irelands meeting at Flitwick Moor]
• Southill revisited[an attempt to equal the birds-nesting feat of J STEELE ELLIOTT and Ronald CAMBELL at Southill in 1903]
No 21 includes:
With foreword by the Council reporting that a decision had been taken that it was unable to publish the Journal to the same scientific standards as produced in earlier years and their decision to produce a quarterly journal for a trial period
Contains reports on Annual General Meeting, statement of accounts, Society’s recorders, proceedings, reports of recorders, notices and winter programme for October 1966. Cover designs on quarterly journals by Robert GILLMOR
• Botany in a town[mentions St Paul’s Square]
No 22 includes:
Includes Annual General Meeting, statement of accounts, proceedings, reports of recorders, announcements and obituary of Miss Gwendolen Helen DAY[died 20th June 1967]
Includes typed invitation for the 21st Anniversary Dinner on 13th December 1957.
No 23 includes:
• Charles ABBOT’s Flora Selecta[refers to Abbot’s work and his books that were on long term loan at Luton Museum and Art Gallery]
• The BTO Ornithological atlas[the British Trust for Ornithology ‘s project in Bedfordshire]
• Food for barn owls in Bedfordshire
• The mollusca of the Luton area[includes a list of species and where found]
No 24 includes:
• Putnoe Wood[article on the history of Putnoe Wood and Farm. The demolition of Putnoe Farm in 1968 ended a period of over nine hundred years during which the site had been occupied by a succession of farms]
• Obituary of James M McC FISHER[1912-1970]
No 25 includes:
Hardwick Spinney, 1970 and Putnoe Wood, 1970
Botanical sites revisited
No 26 includes:
Changes in the Bee and Wasp Fauna during the past 25 years
Twenty-five years of river change
Rainfall at Cardington a century ago and today
Birds in Bedfordshire 25 years in retrospect.
Mammals in Bedfordshire 1946-1971
Amended rules of the society.
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