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Volume 41 (1999) [Download PDF: 10.5 MB]

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Cover Illustration 
Drainer's Dyke, Wicken Fen NNR
National Trust Photographic Library / Joe Cornish

Contents of Volume 41 (1999)

  • Editorial (Philip Oswald) 2
  • C.C. Babington, Cambridge botany and the taxonomy of British flowering plants (D.E. Allen) 2
  • Distribution of birds across different habitats at Castor Hanglands National Nature Reserve (Susan Gough) 11
  • Vision Park Pool, Histon, and its remarkable phytoplankton (J. Hilary Belcher & Erica M.F. Swale) 21
  • Obituaries:
    - Robert Payne (1915-1998) (Max Walters) 30
    - Peter Prince (1948-1998) (Martin Walters) 31
    - David Coombe (1927-1999) (Philip Oswald) 31
  • Map of Wicken Fen NNR 32
  • The Godwin Plots at Wicken Fen: a 55-year record of the effects of mowing on fen vegetation (L.E. Friday, P.J. Grubb & †D.E. Coombe) 33
  • Wicken Fen- 100 years either side of the Millennium (Adrian Colston & Laurie Friday) 46
  • The effects of field elevation on the establishment of 'plug' plants introduced onto former arable land at Baker's Fen, Wicken Fen NNR (D.R. Barratt, J.0. Mountford, K.J. Walker, E.A. Warman & T.H. Sparks) 58
  • The Wicken Fen fires of 1903 and 1904 (C.D. Preston) 65
  • Experimental studies on Fen Dandelion Taraxacum palustre in Little Breed Fen, Wicken Fen NNR
    (Kevin Walker, Philip Oswald, David Barratt & Owen Mountford) 70
  • The woods 30 years on: where have the Primroses gone? (Oliver Rackham) 73
  • Kingfisher's Bridge revisited (autumn 1996 to autumn 1998) (Stephen P. Tomkins) 88
  • Orthopteroid records (Adrian Colston) 96
  • Botanical recording:
    - Whatever happened to the C.F.G.? (Jane Bulleid) 98
    - U3A visits to Coploe Pit, lckleton (Bridget Smith) 99
  • Vascular plant records (G. Crompton & C.D. Preston) 100
  • Bryophyte records (C.D. Preston & H.L.K. Whitehouse) 102
  • Weather notes for Cambridgeshire 1998 (J. W. Clarke) 103


 

 
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