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The Wiltshire
Natural History Magazine

Volume 75 1980

The Wiltshire Archzological and Natural History Society

The Wiltshire Archaeological and
Natural History Society

The Society was founded in 1853. Its activities include:

the promotion of archaeological and historical work and the study of all branches
of natural history within the county;

the safeguarding and conservation of the antiquities and the flora and fauna of
the region;

the issue of a Magazine and other publications;

excursions to places of archaeological and historical interest;

and the maintenance of a Museum and Library.

Enquiries about membership should be made to the Secretary of the Society,
41 Long Street, Devizes.

Natural History Section

The object of this Section is to promote the study of all branches of natural history
in the County by:

encouraging field observations,

maintaining records,

arranging field and other meetings,

and by putting observers in touch with each other.

Particulars of the Section from the Honorary Treasurer.
The subscription rates for membership of the Section are as follows:
Single £3 Family £4

Natural history observations should be sent to the County Recorders:

Plants: Mrs J. Swanborough, ‘Amberley’, Pew Hill, Chippenham.

Amphibians and Reptiles: Mrs M. Browne, Latimer Lodge, West Kington, Chippen-
ham.

Lepidoptera: J.N. d’Arcy Esq., 18 Westbury Road, Edington, Westbury.

Birds: G.L. Webber Esq., 66 Southbrook Extension, Swindon.

Mammals: Mrs M. Browne, Latimer Lodge,West Kington, Chippenham.

Records for all other groups should be sent to The Biological Records Centre,
c/o The Museum, 41 Long Street, Devizes, Wiltshire.

Officers of the Natural History Section 1980-81

Chairman: Patrick J. Dillon, Wayside, Wantage Road, Great Shefford, Newbury,
Berkshire RG16 7DF.

Hon. Secretary: Mrs E. Stephens, 95 Leigh Park Road, Bradford-on-Avon.

Hon. Treasurer: A. Edwins Esq., 69 Countess Road, Amesbury, Salisbury.

Hon. Editor: Mrs M. Browne, Latimer Lodge, West Kington, Chippenham SN14 7JJ.

Hon. Bulletin Editor: Miss Y. Greasley, Upper Flat, 46 Drynham Road, Trowbridge.

Hon. Programme Secretary: Mrs D. Herrod-Taylor, c/o The Museum, 41 Long Street,

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Volume 75 1980

CONTENTS

A Catalogue of the Natural History Library of the Wiltshire
Archaeological & Natural History Society Part I. Printed
Works compiled by Patrick J. Dillon and Philippa Noad 2

Wiltshire Plant Notes (40) compiled by Joan Swanborough 20

Entomological Report 1979 compiled by John d’Arcy 22
Wiltshire Bird Report 1978 compiled by E.T. Smith 31
Mammal Report 1979 compiled by Marion Browne 34
Chairman’s Report 41
Appreciations 42

Editorial note: the Weather Report for 1979 has been held over.

A Catalogue of
The Natural History Library of the
Wiltshire Archeological & Natural
History Society

Part i Printed Works

compiled by
Patrick J. Dillon and Philippa Noad'

Introduction

The Society was founded in 1853 to “foster interest in and to explore the archaeology, antiquities,
history, local history and natural history of Wiltshire ... .”. Implicit in this aim was the collection of
appropriate documentary material and, according to C.W. Pugh in his Centenary History of the
Society (Devizes, 1953), one of the earliest acts of Council was to establish a sub-committee which
was given power to draw up rules for the use of a Library and to spend up to £5 a year on the purchase
of additional books.

There was a steady accumulation of books as the Society grew in membership and in 1874 the
Long Street building was acquired and with it the opportunity of establishing a library and reading
room. At this point, Council recognised that it would be necessary to draw up a detailed listing of all
the books held by the Society, but it was not until 1894 that the first catalogue (compiled by Bell
and Goddard) was published. Regular supplements to this catalogue appeared until it was eventually
superseded by a large folio typewritten volume into which accessions were entered in manuscript. In
1932 this was replaced by a standard card index system.

It is clear from the 1894 catalogue that, in its early years, the Library was built up mainly from
volumes presented by members. A notable example is Macgillivray’s Natural History of Deeside and
Braemar, privately printed in 1855 for Queen Victoria, a copy of which was presented by H.R.H.
Prince ‘Albert to G. Poulett Scrope, who subsequently passed it on to the Library. Unfortunately,
several of the natural history books recorded in 1894 are no longer present in the Library, among
them a set of some thirty volumes, dating from the 1870s, dealing with various aspects of the flora
and fauna of North America. In all probability these were disposed of early this century when interest
in natural history within the Society was at a low ebb. Indeed, it is fair to say that growth in the
natural history content of the Library has largely reflected the interest and enthusiasm for the subject
shown by leading figures in the Society. There have been some extremely lean times, with years
passing between the acquisition of one book and the next, but these have been followed by great
upsurges in interest, often stimulated by the energies of a single prominent member.

Such a member was Canon E.H. Goddard who became Secretary and Editor to the Society in
1892 and Librarian in 1909, a post he held until 1942. For much of this period he ran the Society
virtually singlehanded and his achievements in the Library were of immense proportions. Apart from
co-editing the first catalogue, he indexed press cuttings (over 30,000 of them), hand bound numerous
papers and documents and, in 1920, published a Wiltshire Bibliography which is still a standard work.

Goddard’s interest in natural history, as reflected in the notebooks which he kept on an occasional
basis at the time*, developed during his college days and reached a peak early in his career in the
Church. As he became more involved in the Society his energies were diverted towards local history
and archaeology. Nevertheless, he still had an extremely important role to play, for in the early

1 The compilers of the catalogue would like to thank the following for help and advice with the
preparation of material and correction of the text: Pamela Colman, Joan Friend, Yvette Greazley,
Joan Norton and Sue Pettit.

2 See Dillon, P.J. (1977). “E.H. Goddard’s Natural History Notes, 1873-1887”. Wiltshire Natural
History Magazine, Vol. 72, pp. 3-9.

decades of the century interest in natural history in general was waning and, but for Goddard’s
constant stream of natural history notes in the Magazine, interest within the Society might well
have declined beyond the point of recovery. In this way he was well poised to persuade the Library
Committee to make new purchases of natural history material when the revival of interest came in
the 1930s. He also built up his own zoological library, from which he donated many items to the
Society in 1935. The present sections on Mollusca and Arthropoda are made up largely of Goddard
volumes.

Goddard’s death, in 1947, coincided with the formation of the Natural History Section of the
Society, a development of undoubted value to the natural history movement within the Society and
within the county as a whole, but one which was to have its own unforeseen influence on the fortunes
of the Library. As the Section extended its influence as a Field Club, and eventually as a publisher
of its own natural history material, responsibility for the subject was gradually withdrawn from the
Society’s headquarters in Devizes. As a result, interest in the natural history volumes in the Library
fell away and many of them were withdrawn and placed in storage in an attic room where they were
to remain until 1978. é

In 1956, R.E. Sandell became Honorary Librarian of the Society. Apart from being a local
historian of some repute, he also maintained a keen interest in natural history in general and botany
in particular’ . He was thus able to ensure that natural history was not completely neglected within
the Library administration and, from an early date, he recognized the potential value of a separate
natural history library. But the opportunity of establishing one did not come until just before his death
in 1978 when an automatic alarm system was installed in Long Street and the caretaker’s flat became
available for extensions to the Library and offices. The natural history books were brought out of
storage and, with Dick Sandell’s botanical volumes, they formed the nucleus of the present collection
in Upper Room 2. ~ :

The Natural History Library has thus become a monument to two of the Society’s most energetic
Librarians. In recent years it has been extended by donations of good runs of journals, notably from
Mr Arnold Smith and Mrs Seccombe Hett.

Although the library is not primarily of specialist local interest, many of the standard works on
Wiltshire are to be found. For the geologist there is Barron’s Geology of Wiltshire (1976) and a
number of H.M.S.O. publications dealing with local formations. The copy of Arkell’s The Jurassic
System in Great Britain (1933), presented to the Society by the author, deals with outcrops in the
west of the county.

Those with an interest in ornithology will find in A.C. Smith’s Birds of Wiltshire (1887) a
wealth of information. As well as a systematic account of the birds of Wiltshire it contains chapters
on the biology of birds and two papers putting the case for conservation of rooks and small birds,
which were much persecuted at the time. This book has been updated by three successive handlists:
Hony’s Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire (1915), Peirson’s Wiltshire Birds (1959) and Webber’s Supple-
ment to Wiltshire Birds (1968). Two other handlists by Hony, dealing with vertebrate groups, are
in the library: The Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes of Wiltshire (1916) and The Mammals of Wiltshire
(1916); both are now of historical interest only and will shortly be superseded by new publications.

Entomological books of local interest include an interleaved copy of de Worms’ Macrolepidoptera
of Wiltshire (1962) and A Handbook of British Lepidoptera (1895), an early standard work by
E. Meyrick, a Wiltshireman.

For the local botanist there are many volumes deserving special attention; several of the standard
handbooks are annotated for local interest and there is a series of Wiltshire floras. One of the most
interesting is Smith’s Flora Sarisburiensis (1817); a note by Canon E.H. Goddard (Circa 1905)
says that he has never heard of another copy, but it is listed in a recent bibliography (Freeman,
1980) and a copy is held in the library of the Linnean Society of London. There are two Preston
floras, The Flora of Marlborough (1863) and The Flowering Plants of Wilts (1888); the former was
updated in 1919 by Smith-Pearse’s Handlist of the Flowering Plants of the District and additions to
the latter were published in the Journal of Botany. For all Preston’s extensive writings on the local
flora there are numerous discrepancies in his records and it is to Grose’s Flora of Wiltshire (1957)
and its Supplement (1975) that the modern student looks; the interleaved copy of the Flora in the

1 See also the Appreciation in Vol. 74 of the Wiltshire Natural History Magazine and in the
Reprint of the Flora of Wiltshire (both 1979).

Library has numerous annotations by R.E. Sandell. Finally, for those with an interest in herbaria,
the two Wedgwood Catalogues will be of particular value. Allen Wedgwood was born on Campden
Hill, London, in 1893. He was at Marlborough College from 1906 to 1911 and then went to Cambridge
to read Agriculture. He began his botanical collection at Marlborough in 1907 and thenceforth spent
all his holidays looking for plants. His Herbarium of 1,836 specimens is now in Marlborough College.

The Catalogue

The first part of the catalogue, presented here, lists books, pamphlets and individual offprints
and papers. (A second part, dealing with serial publications and manuscripts, is in preparation.) The
items are listed alphabetically, according to author, in the following sections:

Topography and Regional Natural History
Geology and Palaeontology
Zoology:

Vertebrates

Molluscs

Arthropods
Botany:

General Works

Cryptogams

Floras

Trees, Shrubs and Forestry.

Each item is presented in standard bibliographical format: Author; title; place of publication;
publisher; date of publication and edition; illustrations; paging; volume size.

This is followed by a short description of the contents and, to be of maximum value to the
researcher, details of any annotations, inscriptions etc. A note on the condition of the volume, where
appropriate, is added. Bibliographical detail not available from the work itself has been obtained from
Freeman’s British Natural History Books, 1495-1900: A Handlist (Dawson, 1980) and Kerrich,
Hawkesworth and Sims’ Key Works to the Fauna and Flora of the British Isles and Northwestern
Europe (Academic Press, 1978).

It is the Society’s policy that volumes should not be withdrawn from the Library and there are
no loan facilities. Requests to consult volumes on the premises should be made in the normal manner
through the Librarian.

Topography & Regional Natural History

GREENWOOD, G. Rain and Rivers. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857.
With maps. iv-viii, 2-195 pp. 8vo.
Notes on formation of river valleys, denudation etc. Critically annotated. Decorated cover.
Worn.
HARVEY, L.A. & St. LEGER-GORDON, D. Dartmoor. London: Collins, 1953. With colour plates
and maps. v-xiv, 1-273pp. 8%" x 54”.
The geology, climate, water supply, prehistoric civilisations, historical background,
inhabitants and customs. New Naturalist series. Original paper dust-jacket. Good condition.
HOLLAND, S. Badgeworth Nature Reserve. The Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation,
1967. 2nd ed. 1-19pp. cr8vo.
Information pamphlet about the site of the Adder’s-tongue spearwort (Ranunculus
ophioglossifolius). Slightly discoloured.
MACAN, T.T. & WORTHINGTON, E.B. Life in Lakes and Rivers. London: Collins, 1951. With
diagrams, colour plates and maps. v-xvi. 2-272pp. 8%" x 5%".
Chapters on different kinds of lakes, productivity, food chains, stock, crops, animals,
plants etc. New Naturalist series. Good condition.

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MacGILLIVRAY, W. The Natural History of Deeside and Braemar. London: for private circulation,
1855. With colour map. iv-xx, 2-507pp. 8vo.
Notes on the geology and lists of plants, insects, molluscs, fish, birds, mammals etc. With
inscription “This work printed by command of the Queen is presented to Mr. Poulett
Scrope by H.R.H. Prince Albert”. Decorated cover. Spine worn.
MORRIS, Sir Daniel. A Natural History of Bournemouth and District. Bournemouth: The Natural
Science Society, 1914. With plates and maps. iii—xiv, 1-399pp. 7” x 5”.
Topography, geology, climate, flora, fauna, archaeology, municipal government etc.
Slightly worn.
NICHOLSON, E.M. Britain’s Nature Reserves. London: Country Life Ltd., 1957. 1st ed. With plates
and a map. 7-175pp. 84%" x 54”.
On the functions of nature reserves and the Nature Conservancy. Book-plate of R. E.
Sandell. Original paper dust-jacket. Good condition.
NORTH, F.J., CAMPBELL, B. & SCOTT, R. Snowdonia, the National Park of North Wales. London:
Collins, 1949. With diagrams, plates and maps. v-xviii, 4469pp. 84%" x 54".
The geology, natural history and historical background of the mountains and valleys.
Original paper dust-jacket. Good condition.
SALISBURY, Sir Edward. Downs and Dunes. London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1952. With diagrams,
plates and distribution maps. vi-xiii, 2-328pp. roy8vo.
An explanation of the factors which determine the composition of the flora. Paper cover.
Very good condition. '
WOOLDRIDGE, S.W. & GOLDRING, F. The Weald. London: Collins, 1953. With diagrams, colour
plates and maps. v-x, 1-276pp. 84" x 54".
The role of the Weald in the growth and development of natural science (for example,
Gilbert White’s parish of Selbome lies in this region). Original paper dust-jacket. Slightly
worn.

Geology and Palaeontology

ANDREWS, W.R. The Making of the South Downs. Vol. 2, Part VIII of “Transactions of the East-

bourne Natural History Society”. Eastbourne: Farncombe & Co., 1893-1894. 420-432pp. 8vo.
On the geological processes which formed the downland. Paper cover. Worn.

ARKELL, W.J. The Corallian Rocks of Oxford, Berkshire and North Wiltshire. London: The Royal
Society of London, 1927. With diagrams, plates and maps. 67-180pp.

The stratigraphy, geology and palaeontology. Reproduced from the “Philosophical
Transactions” of the Royal Society of London, series B, vol. 216, pp. 67-181. Presented
to the Library by the author in 1927, bound in 1928. Signed by Canon E. H. Goddard.
Marbled paper on cover.

ARKELL, W.J. The Jurassic System in Great Britain. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1933. With
diagrams, plates and maps. vi-xii, 2-681 pp. 9%" x 64”.

A general description. Presented to the Library by the author, with a letter to Canon
E. H. Goddard. Good condition.

ARKELL, W.J. The Geology of the Country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth.
London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1947. With diagrams, plates and colour map. iii-xii,
2-386pp. 9%" x 6”.

The stratigraphy, geology and palaeontology. An explanation of Sheets 341, 342, 343
and small portions of Sheets 327, 328 and 329 of The Geological Survey of Great Britain.

BARRON, RJ. The Geology of Wiltshire. Bradford-on-Avon: The Moonraker Press, 1976. Ist ed.
With diagrams, plates and maps. 5-176pp. 8" x 7”.

A practical outline of the geology with a list of principal exposures. Signed by the author.
Original dust-jacket. Good condition.

BELL, Prof. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part IT. London:
The Palaeontographical Society, 1862. With 11 plates. vi, 1-40pp. 11” x 8%".

The crustacea of the gault and greensand with descriptions and engravings of several
Wiltshire species. With two letters from the author to Mr Cunnington. Cardboard cover.
Worn.

BENNETT, E. A Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wilts. Warminster: J.L. Vardy,
1831. With 18 plates. iv, 2-Opp. 11" x 8%”.

Wiltshire fossils, with corrections in manuscript by the author. With the inscription
“W. B. Conybeare from the author’”’. Worn.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). British Caenozoic Fossils. (Tertiary and Quaternary).
London: The Trustees of The British Museum, 1959. Colour map as frontispiece. iii-vi, 1-30pp.
8%" x 5%".

A guide to the identification and distribution of fossils. Paper cover. Slightly worn.

BROWNE, H. The Geology of Scripture. Frome: W.P. Penny, 1832. Illustrated. vi, 2-216pp.
8vo.

“The Geology of Scripture, illustrating the operation of the deluge, and the effects of
which it was productive; with a consideration of scripture history, in reference to Stone-
henge and Abury in Wiltshire and to the caves of Elephanta and Salsette and the wonders
of flora in Hindoostan.” Extensively foxed. Carboard cover. Worn.

CASTELL, C.P. et al. British Mesozoic Fossils. London: The Trustees of The British Museum, 1962.
Illustrated. Colour map as frontispiece. iii-v, 2-205pp. 8%" x 54%".

Geological distribution, with drawings of all the British Mesozoic fossils. Paper cover. Worn.

CHATWIN, C.P. British Regional Geology. The Hampshire Basin and Adjoining Areas. London:
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1948. 2nd ed. With diagrams, plates and maps. ii-iv, 2-99pp.
94" x6".

The formations in the Jurassic, Cretaceous, Eocene and Oligocene systems of the region.

CHATWIN, C.P. The Hampshire Basin and Adjoining Areas. (British Regional Geology). London:
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1948. 2nd ed. With diagrams, plates and maps. ii-iv, 2-99pp.

The stratigraphy, geology, palaeontology and rock types of the region. Paper cover.
Slightly worn.

CHARLESWORTH, J.K. The Geology of Ireland. London: Oliver & Boyd, 1953. 1st ed. With
plates and maps. viii-xvi, 1-276pp. 8%” x 5%”.

The evolution of physical features of the Irish landscape. With two bookplates of R. E.
Sandell. Good condition.

DEWEY, H. South West England. (British Regional Geology). London: Her Majesty’s Stationery

Office, 1948. 2nd ed. With diagrams, plates and maps. iii-vi, 2-71pp. 9%" x 6”.
The stratigraphy, geology and rock types of the region. Paper cover. Worn.

FLETCHER, L. An Introduction to the Study of Rocks. London: The Trustees of the British
Museum (National History), 1909. 4th ed. Illustrated. viii, 2-155pp. 8%" x 54”.

A guide to the characteristics, relationships and significance of rocks; a companion to the
Introduction to the Study of Meteorites (1881). Cardboard cover. Good condition.

FLETT, Sir John Smith. The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. London:
His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1937. 1st ed. With plates. 3-280pp. 9%” x 6”.

Centenary manual of The Geological Survey of Great Britain (formed in 1835). Good
condition.

HENNAH, Rev. R. A Succinct Account of the Lime Rocks of Plymouth. Plymouth: W. Curtis. With
10 plates. iv-vii, ii-iv, 2-69pp. cr4to.

From papers read before The Geological Society on the stratigraphy, geology, fossils
and economic significance of the rocks. Cardboard cover. Worn.

HIMUS, G.W. & SWEETING, G.S. The Elements of Field Geology. London: University Tutorial
Press Ltd., 1955. 2nd ed. With diagrams, graphs and maps. v-viii, 1-270pp. 8%" x 5%”.

A field guide for students. With bookplate of R. E. Sandell. Original paper dust-jacket.
Good condition.

JUKES, J. Beete. The Student’s Manual of Geology. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1862. 2nd ~
ed. Illustrated. vi-xix, 4-764pp. cr8vo.

A comprehensive study of lithology, petrology, palaeontology and formation of the
earth’s crust. Extensive foxing. Cover worn and almost detached.

JUKES-BROWNE, A.J. The Geology of the Country South and East of Devizes. London: His Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1905. Illustrated. iii-vi, 2-61pp. 9%" x 6”.

An interpretation of Sheet 282 of The Geological Survey of Great Britain. Bound, with
paper cover. Good condition.
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LING, A.W., PRICE, W.T. & McLEES, L.D.C. An Agricultural and Soil Survey of the Bromham
District of Wiltshire. Wiltshire: University of Bristol and Wiltshire County Council, 1938. With
plates and a colour map. i-xii, 1-28pp; xiii-xv. 84" x 54".

A study of the soils of Bromham and their utilisation. Paper cover. Stained and worn.

LOWRY, J.W. Tabular View of Characteristic British Fossils Stratigraphically Arranged. cr4to.

4 pull-out pages with cover. Stained and worn.

LYELL, Sir Charles. Elements of Geology. London: John Murray, 1865. 6th ed. With woodcuts.
vi-xvi, 2-794pp. 8vo.

The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monu-
ments. Decorated cover. Wom.

LYELL, Sir Charles. Principles of Geology. London: John Murray, 1867. 10th ed. With maps. 2
volumes. Vol. I. iv-xvi, 2-671 pp. 8vo.; Vol. II. vi-xvi, 2-649pp. 8vo.

The recent changes of the earth and its inhabitants in relation to geology. Decorated
covers. Vol. I. cover almost detached. Both volumes very worn.

MORRIS, J. A Catalogue of British Fossils. London: published by the author, 1854. 2nd ed. iv-vii,
2-372pp. 8%" x 54".

The genera, species, geological distribution and localities of British fossils. Decorated
cover. Slightly wom.

OAKLEY, K.P. & MUIR-WOOD, H.M. The Succession of Life Through Geological Time. London:
The Trustees of the British Museum, 1948. With diagrams and map. Colour frontispiece. v-vii,
1-92pp. 8%" x 54%".

A guide to the evolution and development of plant and animal life on earth. Paper cover,
detached and worn.

PAGE, D. Handbook of Geological Terms and Geology. London: William Blackwood and Sons,
1859. 12-415pp. cr8vo.

The “hard words and forbidding technicalities” in simple language. Decorated cover.
Back cover warped. Wom.

PRINGLE, J. & GEORGE, T.N. South Wales. (British Regional Geology). London: Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1948. 2nd ed. With diagrams, plates and maps. ii-vi, 1-101pp. 9%” x 6”.

The stratigraphy, geology, palaeontology, rock types and fossils of the region. Paper
cover. Slightly wom.

POULETT SCROPE, G. Considerations on Volcanoes. London: W. Phillips, 1825. Illustrated. Colour
frontispiece. iv-xxi, 4-270pp. 8vo.

“... Volcanoes, the probable causes of their phenomena, the laws which determine
their march, the disposition of their products and their connexion with the present state
and past history of the globe, leading to the establishment of a new theory of the earth”’.
Cardboard cover. Very wom.

RAMSAY, Prof. A.C. A Geological Map of England and Wales. London: Edward Stanford, 1866.
With colour map.

Folded map, signed by Professor Ramsay, in cardboard pouch. Worn.

RAMSAY, Prof. A.C. & AVELINE, W.T. Geology of Parts of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. London:
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1858. Illustrated. 6-46pp. 944" x 6”.

Memoirs of The Geological Survey of Great Britain and of The Museum of Practical
Geology. Lists of fossils by Robert Etheridge. Paper cover, detached. Worn.

RICHARDSON, L. The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office,
1929. With plates and maps. iii-vi, 2-162pp, vii-xi. 9%" x 6”.

An interpretation of Sheet 217 of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; notes on the
geology and rock types. Slightly worn.

RICHARDSON, L., ARKELL, W.J. & DINES, H.G. Geology of the Country around Witney.
London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1946. With diagrams and plates. iii-v, 2-15Opp., vii-xi.
94" x6".

An interpretation of Sheet 236 of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; notes on soils,
agriculture, drainage, drift deposits etc. Cover slightly worn.

RICHARDSON, L. & HANLEY, J.A. The Country around Cirencester. London: His Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1933. With diagrams, plates and maps. iii-v, 2-119pp. 9%" x 6”.

An interpretation of Sheet 235 of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; notes on the

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stratigraphy, geology and rock types. Hard cover. Good condition.

SHERLOCK, R.L. London and Thames Valley. (British Regional Geology). London: Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1947. 2nd ed. With diagrams, plates and maps. iii-iv, 2-69pp.

The stratigraphy, geology, rock types and economy of the region. Paper cover. Slightly
worn.

SWINNERTON, HH. Fossils. London: Collins, 1960. Illustrated. Colour frontispiece. v-xiv, 5-274pp.
8%" x 5%".

A picture, from fossils, of prehistoric life. New Naturalist series. Original dust-jacket.
Good condition.

WELCH, F.B., CROOKALL, R. & KELLAWAY, G.A. Bristol and Gloucester District. (British
Regional Geology). London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1948. 2nd ed. With diagrams, plates
and maps. ii-iv, 2-91pp.

The stratigraphy, geology and rock types of the region. Paper cover. Slightly worn.

WHITAKER, W. & EDMUNDS, F.H. The Water Supply of Wiltshire. London: His Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1925. With plates and maps. iii-v, 2-133pp.; vii-xi. 944" x 6”

From The Geological Survey of England and Wales; underground water sources in relation
to geological structure; analyses of well and spring waters. Slightly worn.

WHITE, H.J. Osborne. The Geology of the Country around Marlborough. London: His Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1925. With diagrams, plates and maps. iii-v, 2-112pp.

An interpretation of Sheet 266 of The Geological Survey of Great Britain; notes on the
stratigraphy, geology, palaeontology and rock types. Paper cover. Worn.

WHITEHURST, J. An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth. London: John
Whitehurst & W. Bent, 1778. ii, 2-195pp.

Various propositions about the formation of the earth “deduced from facts and the laws
of Nature”. Leather binding. Decorated cover. Worn.

WILMORE, A. A First Book of Geology. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1923. With diagrams,
plates and maps. vi, 2-141 pp. sm8vo.

An introduction to encourage the student “to take up the subject seriously”. Good
condition.

WOOD, S. Hampshire Fossils. London: William Wood, 1829. With 9 plates. 6-16pp. 11" x 84%".

On Gustavus Brander’s collection, lodged in the British Museum in 1776. Cardboard
cover. Poor condition.

Zoology — Vertebrates

BEWICK, T. A History of British Birds. Newcastle: Thomas Bewick, 1821. Early ed. 2 volumes.
Illustrated with Bewick’s wood engravings. Vol. I. iv-xi, 45-330pp. (Supplement Part I: 4-SOpp.);
Vol. II. iv-xxii, 20-360pp. (Supplement Part II: 4-49pp.). Both 84""x 5".

Vol. I. deals with land birds, Vol. II with water birds. Half leather bindings with marbled
paper and decorated spines. Both spines worn.

COWARD, T.A. The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.,
1920-26. 3 volumes. With colour plates. Vol. I. vi-vii, 2-376pp.; Vol. II. vi-vii, 2-376pp.; Vol. III.
vii-ix, 1-308pp. All 6” x 4%”.

Identification, habitat, diet, behaviour, eggs etc. Annotated for Wiltshire. Vol. I. deals
with families Corvidae to Sulidae, Vol. II. with families Anatidae to Tetraonidae, Vol. III.
with migration and rare visitors. All volumes in good condition.

HOLLOM, P.A. (ed.) The Popular Handbook of British Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.,
1955. 2nd ed. With colour plates. vii-xxiv, 1-428pp. 8%" x 5%".

An edited version of the five volume Handbook of British Birds with detailed descriptions
and illustrations of birds and their eggs. Paper dust-jacket. Good condition.

HONY, G.B. The Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes of Wiltshire. Reprinted from The Wiltshire
Archaeological & Natural History Magazine, Vol. xxxix, 1916. pp. 258-262. cr4to.

A local handlist based on the British Museum’s Guide to the British Vertebrates. Paper
cover.

HONY, G.B. Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire. Reprinted from British Birds, Vol. vii, 1915. pp. 281-
290. cr4to.

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A handlist updating Smith’s Birds of Wiltshire.

HONY, G.B. The Mammals of Wiltshire. Reprinted from The Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural
History Magazine, Vol. xxxix, 1915. pp. 15-21. cr4to.

A handlist based on the British Museum’s Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe.
Paper cover.

JOHNS, Rev. C.A. ed. ALEXANDER, W.B. British Birds in their Haunts. London: Routledge & Kegan

Paul Ltd., 1948. 25th ed. With drawings and colour plates, v-xv, 1-282pp. 8%" x 54%".
Identification, habitat, eggs etc. Decorated cover. Slightly worn.

JOY, N.H. How to know British Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1946. With colour plates.
5-136pp. 7” x 4%".

Identification by shape, action, habits, song etc. Original paper dust-jacket. Good
condition.

KIRKMAN, F.B. & JOURDAIN, F.C.R. British Birds. London: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1935.
With colour plates. iv-xvi, 1-179pp. cr4to.

Identification, habitat, nest, eggs, food, song, range etc. Very comprehensive. Eggs
shown in colour. Decorated cover. Slightly worn.

MATTHEWS, Dr. L.H. British Mammals. London: Collins, 1952. 1st ed. With colour plates. v-xi,
1-410pp.8%" x 54".

Descriptions and illustrations of all the British mammals. New Naturalist series. Good
condition.

MORRIS, Rev. F.O. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. London: Groombridge
& Sons, 1864. Ist ed. 3 volumes. With colour plates. Vol. I. iv, 2-156pp.; Vol. II. iv, 2-148pp.;
Vol. III. iv, 2-140pp. All roy8vo.

Presented to the Library by Canon E.H. Goddard. Finely decorated covers. Good con-
dition. Pages slightly foxed.

PALMER, E.M. & BALLANCE, D.K. The Birds of Somerset. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Ltd., 1968. 1st ed. Illustrated. viii-x, 1-204pp. 84%" x 5%”.

An analysis of “the great volume of published and unpublished records in this century”.
With the inscription “Presented to the Wiltshire Natural History Society by the North
Wilts Ornithological Group August 1968”. Original paper dust-jacket. Good con-
dition.

PEIRSON, L.G. Wiltshire Birds. Devizes: Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archaeological
and Natural History Society, 1959. With a Supplement by G.L. WEBBER, 1968. 1-43pp. and
1-8pp. cr4to.

A handlist updating Smith’s Birds of Wiltshire.

PHILLIPS, E. The Birds of Breconshire. London: West, Newman & Co., 1882. With frontispiece.
vi-viii, 2-45pp. 84" x 54”.

A list of birds of the region. Reprinted in book form from The Zoologist for private
circulation. With inscription by the author, donating the book to the Wiltshire Archae-
ological Society.

SALTER, J.H. Bird Life Throughout the Year. London: The Swarthmore Press Ltd., 1924. With
colour plates. 5-256pp. 8%" x 5%”.

The influence of the seasons on the behaviour of British birds.

SMITH, Rev. A.C. The Birds of Wiltshire. London: R.H. Porter, 1887. v-xxv, 1-588pp. 8vo.
Chapters on classification, structure, migration, nesting etc.; with “a plea for the rooks”
and “a plea for small birds”. Good condition.

SWAYSLAND, W. Familiar Wild Birds. Vols. III-IV. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1901. With colour
plates. Vol. III. viii, 2-160pp.; Vol. IV. viii, 2-144pp. Supplement on Eggs and Egg Collecting.
145-176pp. cr8vo.

Behaviour and appearance of familiar British birds. Mustrations by Archibald Thorburn.
Half leather binding. Worn. Inside front cover stained.

THORBURN, A. British Birds. London: Longman’s Green & Co., 1925. 2nd ed. 4 volumes. With
colour plates. Vol. I. v-xii, 2-176pp.; Vol. II. v-ix, 1-129pp.; Vol. III. v-x, 1-167pp.; Vol. IV.
v-x, 1-154pp. All8%" x 5%".

Plumage, behaviour, habitats, nesting, eggs etc. All volumes worn.
WESTELL, W.P. Let’s Watch the Birds. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1946. With drawings

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and colour frontispiece. vii-xiii, 15-256pp. 8". x 5”.
Chapters on nests, eggs, flight etc. and bird watching in various habitats. Paper dust-
jacket. Good condition.

YARRELL, W. A History of British Birds. London: John van Voorst, 1871-1885. 4th ed. 4 volumes.
Illustrated. Vol. I. vi-xii, 2-646pp.; Vol. II. vi-xvi, 2-494pp.; Vol. III. vi-xvi, 2-684pp.; Vol. IV.
vi-viii, 2-53 1pp. All 8%" x 54%”.

Identification, behaviour, breeding, eggs, food etc. Half leather binding with marbled
paper. Very good condition.

YOUNG, E. Hilton. (1st Baron Kennet of the Dene). A Bird in the Bush. Country Life Ltd., 1936.
Ist ed. With diagrams. Colour frontispiece by Peter Scott. 1-146pp. cr4to.

A popular account of British birds. Presented to the Library by the author. with a letter
to Canon E.H. Goddard. Good condition.

Zoology — Molluscs

FORBES, Prof. E. & HANLEY, S.A History of British Mollusca and their Shells. London: John van
Voorst, 1853. 4 volumes. Illustrated. Vol. I. xii-lxxx, 2-486pp.; Vol. II. vii, 8-257pp.; Vol. III.
vi-x, 2-61 6pp.; Vol. IV. iv-vi, 2-301 pp. ro8vo.

Vol. I. deals with the Tunicata and the families of Lamellibranchiata to Cyprinidae;
Vol. II. with the remaining families of bivalves, the Pteropoda and Gastropoda to [anthir-
idae; Vol. III. with the families of Gastropoda from Neritidae to Elysiadae; Vol. IV. with
the Pulmonifera and the Cephalopoda. A standard work. Presented to the Library by
Canon E.H. Goddard. Good condition.

JEFFREYS, J.G. British Conchology. Vol. I. Land and Freshwater Shells. London: John van Voorst,
1862. With colour frontispiece. vi-cxiv, 2-341 pp. cr8vo.

Presented to the Library by Canon E.H. Goddard in 1935. With inscription “Martyn
Roberts from the author”. Pages uncut. Spine worn.

MANSELL-PLEYDELL, J.C. The Mollusca of Dorsetshire. Dorchester: 1898. ii-xxxii, 2-110pp.
8%" x 5%".

On the marine, estuarine, freshwater and land molluscs and brachiopods. Presented to
the Library by Canon E.H. Goddard.

MONTAGU, G. Testacea Britannica. Parts I & II. Romsey: J.S. Hollis, 1803. Illustrated. i-xxxvii,
1-606pp. 10%" x 8%".

The “Natural History of British Shells, marine, land and freshwater, including the most
minute, systematically arranged”’. Presented to the Library by Mr C.W. Heginbotham
in 1947. Half leather binding in bad condition.

WEBB, WF. Foreign Land and Freshwater Shells. Florida, U.S.A., 1948. 1st ed. Illustrated. 8-183 pp.
9” x6".

On the shells of all countries except the United States of America and Canada. Original
paper dust-jacket. Good condition.

WEBB, W.F. Handbook for Sheil Collectors. Florida, U.S.A. 1948. 8th ed. Illustrated. 1-236pp.
9” x6".

On marine species foreign to the United States of America. Original paper dust-jacket.
Good condition.

WOOD, W. Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells. London: W. Wood, 1828. 2nd ed. With
colour plates. iv-xxii, 2-212pp. 8vo.

British and foreign shells listed according to the Linnaean system, with Latin and English
names and locations. Binding in poor condition.

WOOD, W. Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus. London: W. Wood, 1828. With colour plates.
iv, 2-59pp. 8vo.

A supplement to the Catalogue of Shells. Worn.

WOODWARD, S.P. A Manual of the Mollusca. London: John Weale, 1951-1856. Ilustrated. ii-xvi,
4-486pp. 7" x 4”.

On fossil and recent shells. Cover and spine missing. Very worn.

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Zoology — Arthropods

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). British Immigrant Butterflies and Moths. London:

The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1935. With 5 colour plates. Unpaged.
cr8vo.

Details of migration behaviour. Paper-covered pamphlet. Worn.

de WORMS, Baron Charles, G.M. The Macrolepidoptera of Wiltshire. Wiltshire: The Wiltshire Archae

ological & Natural History Society, 1962. Ist ed. Illustrated. Map of Wiltshire showing the Watsonian
vice-counties as frontispiece. vi-xv, 1-177pp. 8%" x 5%”.

Systematic list with status and distribution of the species. Paper cover worn.
de WORMS, Baron Charles, G.M. The Macrolepidoptera of Wiltshire. Wiltshire: The Wiltshire Archae

ological & Natural History Society, 1962. 1st ed. Illustrated. Map of Wiltshire showing the Watsonian
vice-counties as frontispiece. vi-xv, 1-177pp. 8%" x 5%”.

Interleaved. Paper cover with taped spine. Slightly worn.
FORD, E.B. Butterflies. London: Collins, 1945. Ist ed. With diagrams, colour plates and distri
bution maps. v-xiv, 1-368pp. 8%" x 5%”.
The evolution and biology of British butterflies and the recent history of collecting.
New Naturalist series. Good condition.

FORD, E.B. Moths. London: Collins, 1955. With diagrams, colour plates and maps. vi-xix, 1-266pp
84" x54".

On genetics, physiology, larvae, evolution, protective devices etc. New Naturalist series.
Good condition.

HUDD, AE. A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the Bristol District. Bristol, 1884. 149-174, 383-
407, 2-40pp. cr8vo.
Reprinted from “The Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society”, Vol. II to Vol.
IV. With the inscription “Presented to the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History
Society by the author October 1888”. Good condition.

KIRBY, W.F. European Butterflies and Moths. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882. With
61 colour plates. iv-xvi, i-lvi, 1-427pp. imp8vo.

Based on Berge’s Schmetterlingsbuch. Half leather binding with marbled paper inside
cover. Page edges marbled. Worn.

MARSDEN-JONES, E.M. A Study of the Life Cycle of Adieria kollari hartig, the Marble or Devon-
shire Gall. London: The Royal Entomological Society, 1953. Illustrated. 195-221 pp. cr4to.
A description of the alternating generations. Paper cover. Worn.
MEYRICK, E. A Handbook of British Lepidoptera. London: Macmillan & Co., 1895. Illustrated.
vi, 2-843 pp. cr8vo.

On identification and structural distinctions. With a letter from the author to Canon
E.H. Goddard. Fair condition. Spine faded.

NEWMAN, E. Ax Iilustrated Natural History of British Moths. London: W. Tweedie, 1869. Illustrated.
iv-viii, 4-486pp. roy8vo.
Descriptions, life-size illustrations, locations and dates of appearance of moths and
larvae. Half leather binding with marbled paper. Bought for the Library by Canon E.H.
Goddard in 1935. Slightly worn.
PECKHAM, G.W. & PECKHAM, E.G. On the Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps. Wisconsin,
U.S.A.: Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey. With colour plates. iv, 4-245pp. roy8vo.
An introduction to the subject, with chapters on sense of direction and stinging habit.
SANDARS, E. A Butterfly Book for the Pocket. London: Humphrey Milford, 1939. With colour
plates and distribution maps. 7-332pp. 5%" x 4%”.

A guide for the collector, with descriptions of the structural characteristics of the genera.
Slightly worn.

SHUCKARD, WE. British Bees. London: Lovell, Reeve & Co., 1866. With 16 colour plates. viii-
xvi, 2-37 1pp. cr8vo.

“An introduction to the study of the natural history and economy of the bees indigenous

to the British Isles”. Presented to the Library by Canon E.H. Goddard in 1935. Decorated
cover, good condition. Worn spine.

SPRY, W. ed. SHUCKARD, WE. The British Coleoptera Delineated. London: W. Crofts, 1840.

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With 86 plates. Illustrated supplement. iv-vii, 2-72pp. 8%" x 5%".
Descriptions, illustrations and locations of all the British beetles. Bought for the Library
by Canon E.H. Goddard in 1935. Decorated cover. Good condition.
STAINTON, H.T. A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths. London: John van Voorst, 1857.
2 volumes. Illustrated. Vol. I. iv-xii, 2-338pp.; Vol. II. viii-xi, 2-480pp. Both 74” x 44".
Vol. I. deals with the butterflies and “stout-bodied” moths; Vol. II. with the “slender-
bodied” and small moths. Presented to the Library by Canon E. H. Goddard. With a
letter by the author in Vol. I. Decorated covers. Good condition. Spines faded.
WILKINSON, S.J. The British Tortrices. London: John van Voorst, 1859. With 4 plates. iv-vii,
2-328pp. 8vo.
Detailed descriptions of the larval, pupal and adult stages, with locations. Decorated
cover. Good condition.

Botany — General Works

ADLER, H. Translated by STRATON, C. A Biological Study of Oak Galls and Gall Flies. Oxford:
The Clarendon Press, 1894. With colour plates. vi-xliii, 2-198pp. cr8vo.
A description of the alternating generations. Cover slightly discoloured, otherwise good
condition.
BALFOUR, J.H. Class Book of Botany. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871. 3rd ed. Illustrated.
viii-xxii, 2-1118pp. 8vo.
An introduction to the study of classification, structure, functions and distribution of
plants. Half leather binding. pp. 1059-1069 loose. Cover worn.
BERKELEY, C.J.A. Practical Plant Anatomy and Elementary Course for Students. London: Uni-
versity of London, 1943. Illustrated. 5-112pp. cr8vo.
Guide to the study of botany and microscope use, with suggested experiments. Cover
stained. Some foxing inside covers.
BLUNT, W. The Art of Botanical Illustration. London: Collins, 1950. With illustrations including
colour plates. vii-xxxi, 1-304pp. 8%" x 54".
Botanical illustration through the ages, from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Bewick,
including ‘“‘The Book of the Hours”. New Naturalist series. Good condition.
BROWN, R. The Miscellaneous Botanical Works of Robert Brown. London: Robert Hardwicke for
The Ray Society, 1866. 2 volumes. Vol. I. viii, 4-61 6pp.; Vol. II. vi-viii, 6-786pp. 8vo.
Vol. I. deals with geographico-botanical, structural and physiological memoirs; Vol. II.
with systematic memoirs and contributions to systematic works. Good condition.
DANDY, J.E. List of British Vascular Plants. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1958. v-xvi,
1-176pp. 8vo.
Numbered catalogue of British vascular plants. Good condition.
EARLE, J. English Plant Names from Xth to XVth Century. London: Henry Frowde, 1880. vi-cxii,
2-122pp. 6” x 3%".
A history of plant names. Good condition.
FIELD, M., DURDEN, J.V. & SMITH, F.P. See How They Grow. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,
1952. 1st ed. With plates. viii-x, 12-169pp. 7” x 44".
The lives of plants as seen through the medium of the film. From the library of R.E.
Sandell. Paperback. Worn, especially the spine.
GRIGSON, G. A Dictionary of English Plant Names (and Some Products of Plants). London: Allen
Lane, 1974. Illustrated. vii-xii, 1-237pp. 8vo.
A glossary with explanations of Latin and English names and the uses of plants. Very
good condition.
HAYWARD. Hayward’s Botanist’s Pocket-Book. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1945. 19th ed. vi-xlv,
4-3 10pp. sm8vo.
Tabular classification of plants with descriptions, colours, flowering times, locations
etc. Annotated by R.E. Sandell. Front cover and spine almost detached.
HAYWARD. Botanist’s Pocket Book. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1948. 19th ed. vi-xlv, 4-310pp.
sm8vo.

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The chief characteristics of British plants, various names, habitats, times of flowering
etc. Annotated by R.E. Sandell. Stained pages. Cover almost detached. Poor condition.

HEATH, F.G. The Fern Paradise. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1908. 8th ed. Illustrated.
7-428pp. i-xx. 8vo.

A plea for the culture of ferns. Cover in poor condition.

HESLOP-HARRISON, J. New Concepts in Flowering Plant Taxonomy. London: William Heinemann
Ltd., 1953. Ist ed. Illustrated. v-viii, 1-135pp. cr8vo.

Account of the impact of experimental and other studies on orthodox plant taxonomy.
Spine missing.
HUTCHINSON, J. Key to the Families of Flowering Plants of the World. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1967. Illustrated. 1-117pp. roy8vo.
Aid to the identification of flowering plants. Good condition.
HUXLEY, A. Plant and Planet. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1978. 2nd ed. 5-463pp. 7” x 444".
How to understand plants and live with them in harmony. Paperback. Good condition.

LOUSLEY, J.E. (ed.) Species Studies in the British Flora. London: Botanical Society of the British
Isles, 1955. Mlustrated. 7-187pp. 8vo.

Various papers on the “species concept”. Good condition.

LOUSLEY, J.E. (ed.) Progress in the Study of the British Flora. London: Botanical Society of the
British Isles, 1957. Illustrated. 7-127pp. 8vo.

A review of methods of study. Good condition.

MacLEOD, A.M. & COBLEY, LS. (ed.) Contemporary Botanical Thought. London: Oliver &
Boyd, 1961. Ist ed. Illustrated. v-ix, 1-197pp. 8vo.

Chapters on morphology, taxonomy, genetics, evolution, ecology, mycology, physiology
and plant cell structure. Good condition.

MARSDEN-JONES, E.M. & TURRILL, W.B. British Knapweeds. London: The Ray Society, 1954.
Illustrated. Colour frontispiece. v-xiii, 2-201pp. 8%” x 54%".

Taxonomy, reproduction etc., and various experiments. Paper dust-jacket. Good con-
dition.

MARSDEN-JONES, E.M. & TURRILL, W.B. The Bladder Campions (Silene maritima and Silene
vulgaris). London: The Ray Society, 1957. Illustrated. Colour frontispiece. v-ix, 2-378pp. 8%" x
Sie.

A detailed account of the bladder campions in Britain and elsewhere. Bookplate of R. E.
Sandell. Paper dust-jacket. Good condition.

MASTERS, M.T. Vegetable Teratology. London: Robert Hardwicke for The Ray Society, 1869.
Illustrated. viii-xxxviii, 1-534pp. 8vo.

An account of the principal deviations. Page edges foxed. Good condition.

PRIOR, R.C.A. The Popular Names of British Plants. London: William & Norgate, 1870. 2nd ed.
vili-xxvii, 1-290pp. cr8vo.

On the origins and meanings of names. Decorated cover. Good condition.

PRIOR, R.C.A. On the Popular Names of British Plants being an Explanation of the Origin and
Meaning of the Names of our most Commonly Cultivated Species. London: Frederic Northgate,

1879. 3rd ed. viii-xxvii, 1-294pp. cr8vo.

Glossary of common plant names and their origins. Some foxing on page edges. Good
condition.

SACHS, J. Text-book of Botany. (Translated and annotated). London: Macmillan & Co. for The
Oxford University Press, 1875. Illustrated. x-xii, 2-858pp. roy8vo.

On morphology and physiology. Worn.

SIMPSON, N.D. A Bibliographical Index of the British Flora. Privately published, 1960. Limited
edition of 750 copies. v-xix, 1-429pp. 114" x 8%”.

“Including floras, herbals, periodicals, societies and references relating to the identification,
distribution and occurrence of phanerogams, vascular cryptogams and charophytes in the
British Isles”. Good condition.

STYAN, K.E. The Uses and Wonders of Plant Hairs. London: Bembrose & Sons Ltd. With 11 plates.
2-65 pp. sm8vo.

The protective, defensive and assistive functions of plant hairs. Cloth covered. Slightly
worn.

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TANSLEY, A.G. The British Isles and their Vegetation. Cambridge: Syndics of the University
Press, 1949. 2nd ed. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Vol. I. (Parts I-IV) vi-xxxviii, 4-484pp.; Vol. II.
(Parts V-IX) vi-xxviii, 488-933pp. cr4to.

On the formation of various habitats and their flora. Bookplate of R. E. Sandell. Good
condition.

YOUNG, A. A Retrospect of Flowers. London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. 5-176pp. 8" x 5".

The author’s recollections of plants. From the library of R. E. Sandell. Good condition.

ZIMMER, G.F. A Popular Dictionary of Botanical Names and Terms with their English Equivalents.
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 2nd ed. v-vi, 1-122pp. cr8vo.

A glossary of botanical names with English translations. Good condition.

Botany — Cryptogams

BERKELEY, M.J. Handbook of British Mosses. London: Lovell, Reeve & Co., 1863. Full-page
illustrations. viii-xxxvi, 2-324pp.
Details of all known species. Plates hand water-coloured, except one. Half leather binding
worn, otherwise good condition.
COOKE, M.-C. Introduction to the Study of Fungi. Their Organography, Classification and Distri-
bution. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1895. Illustrated. vi-x, 1-36pp. 8vo.
Page tops attached. Spine stained. Good condition.
HOFMEISTER, W. The Higher Cryptogamia. London: Robert Hardwicke for The Ray Society,
1862. Illustrated. vi-xvii. 1-SO6pp. 8vo.
The germination, development and fructification of the higher cryptogams and the
fructification of conifers. Page edges foxed. Good condition.
HURST, C.P. East Wiltshire Mosses, Hepatics and Lichens. Reprinted from The Wiltshire Archae-
ological and Natural History Magazine , Vol. XLI (1920). p. 40.8%" x 5%".
A species list with locations. Pamphlet, rather discoloured.
RAMSBOTTOM, J. Poisonous Fungi. London: Penguin, 1945. With colour plates. 1-1l6pp. cr8vo.
Descriptions of species. Good condition.
RAMSBOTTOM, J. A Handbook of the Larger British Fungi. London: Trustees of the British Museum,
1951. 5th ed. Illustrated. iv, 2-222pp. 8vo.
Descriptions of the species and their habitats. Good condition.
RAMSBOTTOM, J. Mushrooms and Toadstools. London: Collins, 1953. With 84 colour and 58 black
and white plates. vi-xiv, 1-306pp. 8vo.
Descriptions and biology of fungi. Good condition.
TRIPP, F.E. British Mosses. London: George Bell & Sons, 1888. 2nd ed. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Vol.
I. iv-xxvii, 2-130pp.; Vol. II. 2-171 pp. roy8vo.
Descriptions, habitats, structure and uses. Presented to the Library by Canon E.H.
Goddard. Decorated covers. Good condition.
WATSON, E.V. British Mosses and Liverworts. Cambridge: Syndics of the Cambridge University
Press, 1955. Illustrated. viii-xvi, 1-419pp. 8%" x 5%”.
Descriptions and identification keys for most species. Field key in pouch inside back
cover. Good condition.

Botany — Floras

ADAMS, J. A Student’s Mlustrated Irish Flora. Ashford: L. Reeve & Co. Ltd., 1931. Illustrated.
v-viii, 1-343. cr8vo.
A guide to indigenous plants and their distribution. Decorated cover. Good condition.
ANON. The London Catalogue of British Plants. London: George Bell & Sons, 1908. 10th ed. 2-48 pp.
8vo.
Plant list, annotated for Wiltshire by LJ. Tremayne. Limp cloth cover with hand writing.
Worn.
BENTHAM, G. Handbook of the British Flora. London: Lovell, Reeve & Co., 1865. 2 volumes.
Illustrated. Vol. I. vi-lxxiv, 2-503pp; Vol. II. 506-1076pp. 8vo.
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Outline of Botany and descriptions of flowering plants and ferns. Covers partially detached.
worn.
BENTHAM, C. Handbook of the British Flora. London: Lovell, Reeve & Co., 1887. 5th ed. iv-Ixxx,
2-584pp. sm8vo.
Descriptions of flowering plants and ferns. Decorated cover. Spine damaged.
BONNER, G. British Flora. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1925. Illustrated. ii-xxxiv, 2-315pp.
7” x44".
Identification keys and illustrated synoptical tables. Annotated working copy.
BUTCHER, R.W. & STRUDWICK, F.E. Further Illustrations of British Plants. Ashford: L. Reeve &
Co., 1946. 1st ed. Illustrated. iv, 1-476pp. cr8vo.
A companion, with Fitch’s [llustrations, to Bentham’s Handbook of the British Flora.
Decorated cover. Good condition.
BUTCHER, R.W. A New Illustrated British Flora. London: Leonard Hill Ltd., 1961. 2 volumes.
Illustrated. Vol. I. 1-101pp.; Vol. II. 1-1080pp. 8vo.
Illustrations, descriptions, sizes, habitats etc. Bookplate of R.E. Sandell. Plastic cover.
Good condition.
CLAPHAM, A.R. (ed. ) Flora of Derbyshire. Derby: County Borough of Derby Museum & Art Gallery,
1969. Illustrated. Colour frontispiece. v-viii, 1-382pp. 8%’ x 5”.
With papers on the geology, geomorphology, climate and vegetation. Decorated spine.
Good condition.
CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G. & WARBURG, E.F. Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge: Syndics
of the University Press, 1962. 2nd ed. Illustrated. x-xlviii, 2-1269pp. 8%" x 5%”.
Descriptions, classification, habitats etc. Bookplate of R.E. Sandell. Cover worn, almost
detached.
CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G. & WARBURG, E.F. Excursion Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge:
Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1959. viii-xxxii, 2-579pp. cr8vo.
Descriptions and habitats of species common in lowland regions. Covered.
DONY, J.G. Flora of Bedfordshire. Luton: The Corporation of Luton Museum & Art Gallery, 1953.
Ist ed. With plates and maps. 7-532pp. 8%" x 5%".
A study of plant distribution and botanical history, and an analysis of the county flora.
Good condition.
DONY, J.G. Flora of Hertfordshire. Hitchin: Hitchin Urban District Council, 1967. Illustrated.
Colour frontispiece. 56 maps. 11-112pp.9%" x 7”.
The wild plants of the county and adjacent areas within Watsonian vice-county 20. Good
condition.
DRUCE, G.C. The Flora of Oxfordshire. Oxford: Parker & Co., 1886. iv-lii, 2-45 lpp. cr8vo.
Topography and history of the flowering plants and ferns of the region. Slightly worn.
DRUCE, G.C. The Comital Flora of the British Isles. Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1932. vi-xxxii,
2-407pp. 8vo.
Distribution, habitats, synonyms etc. Colour map of botanical vice-counties in pack inside
back cover. Good condition.
FITCH, W.H., & SMITH, W.G. Illustrations of the British Flora. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1880. Iilus-
trated. 1-328pp. cr8vo.
Wood engravings, with dissections of plants. A companion to Bentham’s Handbook of the
British Flora. Decorated cover. Good condition.
FLOWER, T.B. Flora Thanatensis. Ramsgate: W.A. Hunt, 1847. vi, 2-83pp. sm8vo.
A catalogue of indigenous plants. Donated to the Library by the author, with an inscrip-
tion. Decorated cover. Page edges foxed. Good condition.
GILMOUR, J. & WALTERS, M. Wild Flowers. London: Collins, 1954. With colour plates and draw-
ings. v-xiv, 1-242pp. 8%” x 6”.
Descriptions of all the British habitats and their floras. New Naturalist series. Paper
dustjacket. Good condition.
GOODMAN, G.T. Plant Life in Gower. Swansea: The Gower Society, c. 1962. With maps and dis-
tribution maps. 2-40pp. 8%" x 5%”.
Plant distribution in Gower, Oxwich and the Bishopston Valley. Card covered pamphlet.
Slightly worn.
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GORDON, W.J. Manual of British Grasses. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd.,
undated. Illustrated in colour. v-xii, 2-180pp. cr8vo.
Guide to grasses, their seeds, customary names etc. Cover worn.
GROSE, J.D. The Flora of Wiltshire. Devizes: The Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archaeo-
logical & Natural History Society, 1957. With plates and maps. i-iv, 2-824pp. 8%" x 5%”.
Descriptions, habitats, locations etc. Interleaved. With many manuscript additions by
R.E. Sandell.
HAZELL, A.B. et al. South African Wild Flowers. Cape Town: Dennis Edwards & Co.,c. 1916. With
colour plates. 6-5 1lpp. 44%" x 3”.
Drawings of plants with descriptive verses and botanical notes. Suede-covered booklet.
Decorated cover. Good condition.
HEPBURN, I. Flowers of the Coast. London: Collins, 1952. With colour plates, drawings and maps.
v-xiv, 1-236pp. 8%" x 6”.
The floras of salt marsh, dunes, cliffs, shingle etc. New Naturalist series. Good condition.
HOWITT, R.C.L. & HOWITT, B.M. A Flora of Nottinghamshire. Published privately, 1936. Map of
the botanical vice-county. vi, 2-252pp. 8” x 54”.
The county flora with locations. Good condition.
HULME, F.E. Familiar Wild Flowers. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1877. 3 volumes. With
colour plates. Vol. I. vi-xvi, 1-160pp.; Vol. II. iv-xv, 2-160pp.; Vol. III. iv-xv, 2-156pp. cr8vo.
A popular account of British wild flowers. Published 1877-1885 in five volumes, of
which three are in the Library. Half-bound. Worn, especially spines.
HUMPHREYS, J. A Survey of the Flora of East Worcestershire. Birmingham: The Birmingham
Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1917. 2-26pp. 8%" x 5%".
Cardboard covered pamphlet. Cover discoloured. Some foxing.
JERMY, A.C. & TUTIN, T.G. British Sedges. London: The Botanical Society of the British Isles,
1968. Illustrated. 2-199pp. 7" x 5”.
A handbook. Soft cover. Slightly worn.
JOHNS, C.A. Flowers of the Field. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 16th ed. With colour
plates. v-xx, 2-278pp. 8vo.
An introduction to botany. Decorated cover. Good condition.
JOHNSON, C. The Ferns of Great Britain. London: John E. Sowerby, 1855. With colour plates.
2-87pp. 8vo.
Classification and descriptions. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby. Half-bound. Some foxing.
Worn.
KEBLE MARTIN, W. The Concise British Flora in Colour. London: George Rainbird, 1965. Ist ed.
With colour plates. 7-231 pp. cr4to.
An illustrated flora. Decorated cover. Good condition.
KENT, D.H. & LOUSLEY, J.E. A Hand List of the Plants of the London Area. Published in seven
parts as supplements to the London Naturalist, 1951-1957.8%" x 5%".
Paper covers. Worn.
LEES, E. The Botany of Worcestershire. Worcester: The Worcester Naturalists’ Club, 1867. Illustrated.
Colour maps as frontispiece. ii-xci, 2-147pp.;3-48pp. 84" x 54".
The distribution of indigenous and naturalised plants. Decorated cover. Slightly worn.
LINTON, E.F. Flora of Bournemouth including the Isle of Purbeck. Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears,
c. 1900. vii-viii, 1-290pp. cr8vo.
The flora of the region within twelve miles of the centre of Bournemouth. Outer page
edges foxed. Cover worn.
LOUSLEY, J.E. Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone. London: Collins, 1950. With colour plates.
vii-xvii, 2-254pp. 814" x 6”.
New Naturalist series. Good condition.
LOUSLEY, J.E. (ed.) The Study of the Distribution of British Plants. Arbroath: The Botanical
Society of the British Isles, 1951. Illustrated. 8-128pp. 8vo.
Papers on plant distribution. Paper cover. Wom.
LOWE, E.J. A Natural History of British Grasses. London: Groombridge & Sons, 1862. Illustrated.
2-245 pp. roy8vo.
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Descriptions, flowering times etc. Donated to the Library by Canon E.H. Goddard.
Some pages uncut. Decorated cover. Fair condition.

MANSEL-PLEYDELL, J.C. Flora of Dorsetshire. London: Whittaker & Co., 1874. One colour map.
ii, 2-320pp.8" x 5”.

A catalogue of plants with notes on geology and physical geography. Half-bound leather
and marbled paper. Worn.

MILNE-REDHEAD, E. (ed.) The Conservation of the British Flora. London: The Botanical Society
of the British Isles, 1963. 7-90pp. 8vo.

Papers on plant conservation. Bookplate of R.E. Sandell. Cover slightly marked. Good
condition.

MURRAY, R.P. The Flora of Somerset. Taunton: The Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural
History Society, 1896. Illustrations and map. iv-lxi, 8-437pp.

A plant list with locations of the rarer species. Bookplate of R.E. Sandell and a letter
from the author to “Lord Bishop”. Decorated cover. Good condition.

NEWMAN, E. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. Vol. II. London: John van Voorst,
1850. Illustrated. vi-xvi, 746-1120pp. 8vo.

Accounts of the botany of various counties and habitats, and some plant anomalies. Half-
bound. Decorated spine. Cover in poor condition.

NEWTON, L. Plant Distribution in the Aberystwyth District including Plynlimon and Cader Idris.
Aberystwyth: The Cambrian News, undated. With maps. 11-SOpp. 8%" x 5%”.

On various habitats and features of the region. Decorated cover.

O’BRIEN, C. & PARKINSON, C. Wild Flowers of the Undercliff, Isle of Wight. London: L. Reeve
& Co., 1881. With colour plates. vi, 2-143pp.7” x 5”.

A traveller’s guide to the flora. Spine worn, otherwise good condition.

PETCH, C.P. & SWANN, E.L. West Norfolk Plants Today. 1962. Illustrated. v-xiii, 2-89pp. 8%” x
Sar.

Supplement to the Proceedings of The Botanical Society of the British Isles. Pamphlet.
Slightly worn.

PRAEGER, R.L. A Tourist’s Flora of the West of Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co. Ltd., 1909.
With plates and maps. vi-xii, 2-243pp. 7” x 4%".

The botany and topography of the region and systematic list of plants. Plastic cover.
Worn.

PRATT, A. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain. London: Frederick
Warne & Co., 1891. 4 volumes. Illustrated in colour. Vol. I. vi-xii, 2-256pp.; Vol. II, vi-xii, 2-
247pp.; Vol. II. vi-xi, 2-25 1 pp.; Vol. IV. vi-x, 2-140pp. roy8vo.

Descriptions, habitats, uses etc. Decorated covers. Good condition.

PRESTON, T.A. The Flora of Marlborough. London: John van Voorst, 1863. Map as frontispiece.
iv-xxiii, 2-129pp. 74" x 44%".

A plant list with notes on geology and birds. Decorated cover. Some foxing and discolour-
ation.

PRESTON, T.A. The Flora of Marlborough. London: John van Voorst, 1870. 2nd ed. iv-viii, 2-
342pp. 8" x 5”.

Descriptions, habitats and flowering dates. Not many copies printed. Half-bound. Worn.

PRESTON, T.A. The Flowering Plants of Wilts. Devizes: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural
History Society, 1888. Illustrated. Colour map as frontispiece. vi-lxix, 1-436pp. 8vo.

A plant list with locations. Decorated cover. Some foxing. Slightly worn.

RAVEN, J. & WALTERS, M. Mountain Flowers. London: Collins, 1956. With colour plates and
distribution maps. v-xv, 2-240pp. 8%” x 5%".

Descriptions and floras of various mountain habitats such as Snowdonia, the Cairngorms
etc. New Naturalist series. Paper dust-jacket. Good condition.

REES, F.W. A List of Pembrokeshire Plants. Tenby: The Tenby Museum and the West Wales Field
Society, 1950. 8-53pp. 8%" x 5%".

A plant list with locations. Paper and card covered leaflet.

RIDDELSDELL, H.J., HEDLEY, G.W. & PRICE, W.R. Flora of Gloucestershire. Cheltenham: The
Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, 1948. With maps and colour frontispiece. vii-clxxxii, 2-667pp.
84" x 5%".

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Including phanerogams, vascular cryptogams and charophytes. Maps in pouch inside back
cover. Bookplate of R.E. Sandell. Note “From His Grace the Duke of Beaufort K.G.”.
Front cover almost detached.

ROLES, S.J. Flora of the British Isles. Illustrations (I). Cambridge: Syndics of the Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1957. v-vi, 2-143pp. 11" x 8%”.

Pteridophyta to Papilionaceae; illustrations for the Flora by Clapham, Tutin & Warburg.
Bookplate of R.E. Sandell. Paper dust-jacket. Good condition.

ROSS-CRAIG, S. Drawings of British Plants. London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1948, in 27 parts. Illus-
trated. 8vo.

Paper covers, some with worn spines. Some illustrations slightly foxed.

SALISBURY, Sir Edward. Weeds and Aliens. London: Collins, 1961. With diagrams, plates and maps.
Colour photograph as frontispiece. 9-384pp. 8%" x 6”.

The weeds of various habitats and means of control. New Naturalist series. Plastic dust-
jacket. Good condition.

SCHULZE, M. Die Orchidaceen. Berlin: Hugo Bermihler Verlag, 1894. With diagrams and colour
plates. 1-17pp. 9%” x 6%”.

The orchids of Germany, German Austria and Switzerland. Only the orchid list paged.
Bookplate of David B. Pickering. Cover worn and detached.

SENN, G. Alpenflora. Flora der Westalpen. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitatsbuchandlung,
c. 1907. Illustrated. vi-xxxvi, 1-144pp. sm8vo.

Descriptions of the alpine flora and habitats. Annotated. Some specimens enclosed. Good
condition.

SKENE, M.A Flower Book for the Pocket. London: Humphrey Milford, 1941. 4th ed. Illustrated in
colour. 6-380pp. 6” x 4”.

Identification keys and descriptions. Good condition.

SMITH, G.E. A Catalogue of Rare or Remarkable Phaenogamous Plants Collected in South
Kent. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1829. With colour plates, 2-76pp.
SKS

Descriptive notes and observations. 5 water-colour plates and extra drawing on detached
sheet. Interleaved. Annotated. Leather bound. Cover and spine decorated. Spine worn,
otherwise good condition.
SMITH, H. Flora Sarisburiensis. London: Wilkie, 1817. With colour plates. Unpaged. 9%" x 6”.
A repository of English botany, general and medical. Pages uncut. One page missing.
Index page hand written. Illustrations hand water-coloured.

SMITH-PEARSE, T.N.H. Hand-list of Flowering Plants of the District. 1919. 2- -32pp. 8%" x 5%".
A revised handlist of the Marlborough district, based on Preston’s Flora of Marlborough.
Paper covered pamphlet. Some foxing.

STEARN, L.F. (ed.) Supplement to the Flora of Wiltshire. Devizes: The Natural History Section of
the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1975. With maps, distribution maps and
photograph of Donald Grose. xvi, 4-150pp. 9%" x 7%".

A supplement to Grose’s Flora of Wiltshire. Paper dust-jacket. Good condition.

STEWART, S.A. & CORRY, T.H. A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Belfast: The Belfast Natural-

ists’ Field Club, 1888. vi-xxxiii, 2-331 pp. 7" x 5”.
Descriptions and habitats. Decorated cover. Good condition.

SUMMERHAYES, V.S. Wild Orchids of Britain. London: Collins, 1951. With colour plates, maps and
distribution maps. v-xvii, 2-366pp. 8%” x 5%".

The orchids and their place in the flora. New Naturalist series. Good condition.

TAHOURDIN, C.B. Native Orchids of Britain. Croydon: H. Grubb Ltd.,c. 1945. Hlustrated. vii-xiv,
3-114pp. 8%" x 5%".

Descriptions of all the species and some hybrids and abnormal forms. Good condition.

TOWNSEND, F. Flora of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight. Ashford: L. Reeve & Co. Ltd.,

1904. New ed. With a map and colour frontispiece. vi-xxxviii, 2-657pp. 8%" x 5%".
A list of the flowering plants and ferns of the Southampton area, with locations. Exten-
sive foxing. Spine worn, otherwise good condition.

TURNER, D. The Botanist’s Guide Through England and Wales. London: Phillips & Fardon, 1805.
2 volumes. ii-xvi, 2-804pp. cr8vo.

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Plant lists of English and Welsh counties, with locations. Page edges discoloured. Covers
very worm. Spines missing.
TURRILL, W.B. British Plant Life. London: Collins, 1948. With colour plates and maps. vii-xvii,
2-315pp.8%" x 6”.
Adaptation, natural selection, variation etc. Good condition.
WALTON, C.L. A Contribution to the Flora of the St. David’s Peninsula. Haverfordwest: The West
Wales Field Society, 1951. 2-28pp.8%”" x 5%".
Bae plant list. Paper-covered pamphlet. Bookplate of R.E. Sandell. Discoloured. Slight-
y worn.
WATSON, H.C. Topographical Botany. London: Bernard Cuaritch, 1883. 2nd ed. With distribution
map. x-xlvii, 2-612pp. 8vo.
Personal records of plant distribution in England, Wales and Scotland. Cover almost de-
tached.
WEBB, D.A. An Irish Flora. Dundalk: W. Tempest, 1953. 2nd ed. Illustrated. vii-xxx, 2-250pp. cr8vo.
Identification guide. Annotated. Plastic cover. Foxed.
WEDGWOOD, M.L. A Catalogue of the Plants in the Wedgwood Herbarium at Marlborough College .
Arbroath: T. Buncle, 1945. v-viii, 2-238pp. 8%" x 5%".
A plant list with dates and locations. Bookplate of the author’s son, Alan Wedgwood.
Spine faded. Good condition.
WEDGEWOOD, M.L. Catalogue of the Wedgewood Herbarium. London: The Arden Press, 1920.
With one plate. 7-54pp. 8%” x 5%”.
A catalogue of the Wedgewood Herbarium at Marlborough College. With an inscription by
the author to Emery Walker, bookplate of the author’s son, Alan Wedgwood, and two
pages of vellum with plant names and drawings. Red leather covers, decorated. Spine worn.
WHITE, J.W. (ed.) Flora of the Bristol Coal-Field. Bristol: James Fawn & Son, 1881.8" x 5".
A plant list with locations. Half-bound leather and marbled paper. Spine worn. Covers
loose.
WHITE, J.W. The Flora of Bristol. Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd., 1912. With one map. vi-viii.
Sia, X58".
The flowering plants and ferns of the district. Decorated cover. Spine almost detached.
Worn.
WHITEHEAD, L.E. Plants of Herefordshire. Hereford: Herefordshire Botanical Society, 1976. With
maps. v-xxvii, 1-87pp.
A handlist. Cardboard cover. Good condition.

Botany — Trees, Shrubs and Forestry

EDLIN, H.L. Trees, Woods and Man. London: Collins, 1956. With line drawings, photographs and
colour plates. v-xv, 2-272pp.
Studies of trees and their environment, man’s influence on forests etc. Bookplate of R.E.
Sandell. Paper dust-jacket. Good condition.
POLLARD, E., HOOPER, M.D. & MOORE, N.W. Hedges. London: Collins, 1974. 1st ed. With dia-
grams, plates and maps. 22-256pp. 8%” x 5%".
The history of hedges, their flora and fauna etc. New Naturalist series. Bookplate of R.E.
Sandell. Dust-jacket and plastic cover. Good condition.
RACKHAM, O. Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1976.
With diagrams, maps and distribution maps. 11-204pp. 8%" x 5%”.
The development of woodland and woodmanship from 8000 B.C., the nature and distrib-
ution of trees, medieval management, modern forestry and a plan for conservation. Paper
dust-jacket. Very good condition.
STEP, E. Wayside and Woodland Trees. London: Frederick Warne & Co., c. 1910. Illustrated.
6-182pp. 6" x 44".
A pocket guide to British trees. Cover slightly damaged, other wise good condition.
STONE, H. The Timbers of Commerce and their Identification: London: William Rider & Son, 1918.
with 186 photo-micrographs. v-xl, 1-311 pp. 8%" x 54”.
Descriptions and distinguishing features of timbers. Spine slightly worn.

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Wiltshire Plant Notes (40)*

compiled by
Joan Swanborough

(All records for 1979 unless otherwise stated).

Thalictrum minus ssp. minus L. Lesser Meadow Rue. 3. Garden weed. Coffin Close & Westrop
Farmhouse, Highworth GE,
Mahonia aquifolium (Purch) Nutt. Oregan Grape. 8. Boyton MT.
Papaver atlanticum (Ball) Coss. 7. Salisbury MT.
Brassica nigra (L.) Koch. Black Mustard. 1. Ladydown Barn. 8. Imber JS (1977).
Erucastrum gallicum (Willd.) O.E. Schultz. Hairy Rocket. 1. Lavington Down BG.
Diplotaxis muralis (L.) D.C. Stinkweed. 1. Bradford-on-Avon DG.
Lepidium perfoliatum L.7. Salisbury. FDR det. EJC (1976).
Arabis hirsuta (L.) Scop. Hairy Cress. 8. Imber CFS.
Sisymbrium altissimum L. Tall Rocket. 7. Salisbury FDR det. EJC (1976).
Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz. Gold of Pleasure FDR det. EJC (1976).
Polygala serpyllifolia Hose. Heath Milkwort. 1. Vagg’s Hill DG.
Silene noctiflora L. Night-flowering Catchfly. 8. Parsonage Farm EC. 7. The Butts, Salisbury MT.
Saponaria officinalis L. Soapwort. 1. Ladywell Down JS (1977).
Cerastium arvense L. Field Mouse-ear Chickweed. 1. Thirteen Hundred Down JSB.
Geranium sanguineum L. Bloody Cranesbill. 9. Netherhampton FDR, MT.
Geranium pusillum L. Small-flowered Cranesbill. 5. Cholderton FDR, MT.
Acer platanoides L. Norway Maple. 7. Woodford Valley FDR, MT.
Buxus sempervirens L. 2. Box. 10. Bodenham FDR, MT.
Laburnum anagyroides L. Laburnum. 5. Hound Wood Winterslow FDR, MT.
Genista tinctoria L. Dyer’s Greenweed. 8. Grant’s Farm JS (1977).
Melilotus officinalis (L.) Pall. Melilot. 8. Norton Down BG.
Trifolium medium L. Zig-zag Clover. 7. The Butts, Salisbury FDR, MT.
Trifolium micranthum Niv. Slender Trefoil. 2. Lawn Chippenham JS.
Robinia pseudoacacia L. False Acacia. 10. Farley FDR, MT.
Lathyrus tuberosus L. Earth-nut Pea. 8. Church Hill (Market Lavington) TK, PM.
Saxifraga hypnoides L. Dovedale Moss. 2. Kingsdown BNHS.
Philadelphus coranarius L. Mock Orange. 10. Between Wilton and Broad Chalke FDR, MT.
Daphne mezereon L. Daphne. 3. Roughmoor NM.
Daphne laureola L. Spurge Laurel. 10. Between Wilton and Broad Chalke FDR, MT.
Epilobium roseum Schreb. Pale Willow-herb. 7. The Butts, Salisbury FDR, MT.
Epilobium tetragonum L. Square-stemmed Willow-herb. 8. Warden’s Down AG.
Petroselinum segetum (L.) Koch. Corn Caraway. 7. Great Durnford FDR, MT.
Angelica archangelica L. Culinary Angelica. 7. Salisbury FDR, MT.
Heracleum mantagazzianum Somm. & Levier. Giant Hogweed. 2. Somerford Common FDR, MT.
Aristolochia clematitis L. Birthwort. 10. North Canonry Gardens, Salisbury FDR, MT.
Euphorbia lathyrus L. Caper Spurge. 2. Bradford-on-Avon DG.
Euphorbia cyparissias L. Cypress Spurge. 9. Netherhampton FDR, MT.
Polygonum amphibium L. Amphibious Bistort. 8. Rough Down BG.
* The Wiltshire Plant Notes presented in Vol. 74 (1979) were incorrectly numbered (30). This
should have read (39). Ed.

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Polygonum minus Huds. Least Water-pepper. 10. Streamside Britford FDR, MT.

Juglans regia L. Walnut. 2. Box BNHS. 10. Bodenham FDR, MT.

Salix babylonica L. Weeping Willow. 7. Salisbury FDR, MT.

Vinca major L. Greater Pariwinkle. 2. Kingsdown BNHS.

Centaurium puchellum (Sw.) Druce. Slender Centaury. 8. Warden’s Down AG.

Polemonium caeruleum L. Jacob’s Ladder. 1. Waste ground Trowbridge Trading Estate EMC.

Amsinckia intermedia Fisch et May. 7. Salisbury FDR det. EJC (1976).

Plagiobothrys scouleri (Hook et al) I.M. Johnst. 7. Salisbury FDR det. EJC (1976).

Pulmonaria officinalis L. Lungwort. 2. Kingsdown BNHS. 10. Broad Chalke FDR, MT.

Echium vulgare L. Viper’s Buglos. 3. Brookfield near Highworth GE. 8. Norton Down BG, Winkland
Down JSB, Warden’s Down AG.

Hyoscymus niger L. Henbane. 2. Waste ground Foghamshire AM, JS.

Datura stramonium L. Thorn-apple. 1. Maiden Bradley CHB.

Verbascum phlomoides L. Orange Mullein. 1. Bradford-on-Avon DG.

Verbascum biattaria L. Moth Mullein. 2. In crazy paving Biddestone MS.

Veronica polita Fries. Grey Speedwell. 2. Box BNHS.

Veronica filiformis Sm. Slender Speedwell. 2. Box, becoming invasive BNHS.

Calamintha ascendens Jord. Common Calamint. 1. Mancombe Bottom LRB.

Melissa officinalis L. Balm. 1. Vagg’s Hill DG.

Campanula rapunculoides L. Creeping Bellflower. 2. Kingsdown BNHS.

Galium x pomeranicum Retz. 8. Warden’s Down AG.

Valerianella rimosa Bast. Broad-fruited Cornsalad. 10. Odstock FDR, MT.

Seneco viscosus L. Sticky Groundsel. 2. Box BNHS.

Inula helenium L. Elecampine. 1. Nr. Fulling Bridge Farm AG.

Aster lanceolatus Willd. Michaelmas Daisy. 1. Waste ground Westbury Station RP.

Onopordon acanthium L. Cotton Thistle. 8. Casual on disturbed ground Wylye FDR, MT.

Picris hieracoides L. Hawkweed Ox-tongue. 1. West Lavington Down BG.

Lactuca serriola L. Prickly Lettuce. 1. Vagg’s Hill DG.

Hieracium vulgatum Fr. 5. Dean Hill FDR, MT.

Hieracium maculatum Sm. 10. Standlynch FDR, MT.

Hieracium lachenalii C.C, Geml. 5. Whiteparish FDR, MT.

Hieracium caicaricola (F J. Hanb.) Roffey 2. Derelict railway sidings Shockerwick DG det. CAA.

Pilosella brunneocroceum (Hieracium brunneocroceum) Pugsl. Fox & Cubs. 2. Kingsdown BNHS.
3. Highworth GE.

Alisma plantago-aquatica L. Water-Plantain. 8. nr. Imber JS (1978), Rough Down BG.

Ruscus aculeatus L. Butcher’s Broom. 3. nr. Hannington Hall GE.

Ornithogalum nutans L. Drooping Star of Bethlehem. 3. Inglesham Churchyard GE.

Narcissus pseudonarcissus L. Wild Daffodil. 2. For many years nr. Column Mill (Castle Combe) DI.

Narcissus majalis Curt. Pheasant’s Eye. 2. Wooded bank nr. Giddeahall JS.

Carex pseudocyperus L. Hop Sedge. 10. Alderbury FDR, MT.

Catapodium rigidum (L.) C.E. Hubbard. Hard Poa. 8. Warden’s Down AG.

Poa bulbosa L. var. vivipara. Bulbous Poa. 7. Roadside Salisbury FDR det. EJC (1976).

Poa angustifolia L. 10. Verge Whiteparish FDR, MT.

Hordeum jubatum L. Fox-tail Barley. 2. Stanton AG, JS.

Avena fatua L. Wild Oat. 1. Thirteen Hundred Down JSB.

Deschampsia caespitosa (L.) Beauv. Tufted Hair Grass. 8. Imber Clump BG.

Contributors

C.A. Andrews, J. & S. Baker, L. & R. Balfe, C.H. Beake, Box Natural History Society, E.J. Clement,
Mrs E.M. Curtis, G. Eastwood, Miss B. Gillam, D. Green, A. Grenfell, Mrs M. Hooper, Miss D. Ings,
T. Kame, A. Matthews, N. McCarter, P. Merritt, R. Payne, Mrs F.D. Richards, Mrs C.F. Stone, Mrs J.
Swanborough, Mrs M. Syne, Mrs M. Thomas.

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Entomological Report 1979

compiled by
John d’Arcy

Introduction

This has been a year of mixed results, similar in many ways to 1978, with a number of surprising and
noteworthy records and one or two alarming omissions. The number of different species noted,
especially amongst the moths, has been encouraging, although some recorders have reported seeing
fewer of each species.

The Clouded Yellow was seen in small numbers for the first time since 1976 and the arrival of
the Painted Lady and some of the autumnal migratory moths such as the Pearly Underwing and the
White-speck suggest that this was not a bad year for migrants although nothing to compare with
the exceptional moth migration in the autumn of 1978. The absence of any sighting of the White-
letter Hairstreak, an elm feeder, is depressing, although it is easily overlooked.

It is interesting to note from the localities visited for butterflies how crucial a part the remaining
woodlands in Wiltshire play in the survival of many species. Nearly half the species mentioned are
widely scattered across the county’s woods, but could decrease in number as deciduous woodlands
diminish. Picket Wood in Heywood has been closely watched during the last few years and 35 species
of butterflies have been recorded there since 1974, including in that year the Silver-studded Blue,
generally an inhabitant of open heathland and a surprising discovery in the wood.

A new sighting for the county is that of the Angle-barred Pug, seen at Whaddon near Salisbury,
where the Barred Chestnut first seen last year was again recorded. The Scarce Prominent, normally
confined to oak woods in south Wiltshire, is an exceptional insect at Wroughton; the Blair’s Shoulder
Knot, whose larvae feed on Cupressus macrocarpa, first spotted on the Isle of Wight in 1951, seems to
become more widespread every year.

A further selection from the huge families of the micro-lepidoptera has been added to this list,
and for these sightings and for the painstaking and informative lists of records I am most grateful to
all the recorders.

Baron de Worms, one of the leading British entomologists of recent years and the editor of the
Wiltshire Macrolepidoptera, died in October 1979. All who study the larger moths in this county are
greatly indebted to him and his work; an appreciation will appear elsewhere.

A Selection of Entomological Records 1979

Thymelicus lineola Ochs. Essex Skipper
Picket Wood 14.07 MF
Blackmoor Copse 21.07 MF
Westbury White Horse 28.07 MF
Bratton 26.07 RT
Etchilhampton 24.07 FM
Imber 25 .08 EGS
Leptidea sinapis Linn. Wood White
Colony introduced 1973
N. Wiltshire, now flourishing DB

22

Colias croceus Geoffr.
Oare Hill
Tilshead Camp, one var. helice
Upavon

Thecla betulae Linn.
Somerford Common, ova.

Thecla quercus Linn.
Blackmoor Copse
Picket Wood, 50 specimens one evening
Red Lodge Wood
Chisbury Wood

Plebejus arus Linn.
Picket Wood, an unusual location

Aricia agestis D. & S.
Barbury Castle
Liddington Castle
Morgan’s Hiil
Picket Wood
Leipzig Plantation, Devizes
Imber -
Bratton

Lysandra coridon Poda
Cotley, colony much reduced
Knap Hill
Tilshead
Whaddon
Imber
Bratton

Lysandra bellargus Rott.
Imber
Bratton

Cupido minimus Fuess.
Knap Hill
Imber, common
Nr. Devizes library
Picket Wood
Bratton

Celastrina argiolus Linn.
Devizes
Bradford-on-Avon
West Kington
Morgan’s Hill
Picket Wood
West Ashton
Imber

Hamearis lucina Linn.
Picket Wood
Morgan’s Hill
Somerford Common
Bratton
Imber

23

Clouded Yellow
19.08
01.09
04.08

Brown Hairstreak
25.02

Purple Hairstreak
21.07
25.07
22.07, 01.08
22.07

Silver-studded Blue
31.07

Brown Argus
18.06
20.06
10.06
28.06
02.06
17.06
17.06

Chalk Hill Blue
08

26.07, 15.09
27.07
08
26.08
19.08

Adonis Blue
24.06
09.06, 20.06

Small Blue
10.06
10.06—19.08
26.07
05.08
09.06

Holly Blue
14.05—28.08
29.07
01.06
10.06
19.05
21.08
08 .08—15 .09

Duke of Burgundy Fritillary

09.06
10.06
09.06
09.06
07.06

Ladoga camilla Linn.
Picket Wood
Blackmoor Copse
Red Lodge Wood
Somerford Common
Collingbourne Woods
Bentley Wood, numerous
Savernake
Clanger Wood

Apatura iris Linn.
Blackmoor Copse, a good year
Savernake

Cynthia cardui Linn.
Knap Hill
Whaddon
Upavon
Imber
Steeple Ashton
Kingston Deverill

Polygonia c-album Linn.
Red Lodge Wood
Cricklade
Picket Wood
Blackmoor Copse
Webbs Wood
Stratford-sub-Castle
Somerford Common
Poulshot
Clanger Wood

Boloria selene D. & S.

Picket Wood
Red Lodge Wood
Somerford Common

Boloria euphrosyne Linn.
Somerford Common

Argynnis adippe D. & S.
Great Ridge Wood, scarce
Red Lodge Wood

Argynnis aglaja Linn.
Westbury White Horse
Picket Wood
Knap Hill
Heddington
Great Ridge Wood, much reduced
Imber

Argynnis paphia Linn.
Picket Wood
Red Lodge Wood
Savernake
Collingbourne Woods

White Admiral
14.07, 04.08
21.07
14.07, 01.08
17207
15.07
DOF
03.08
12.07

Purple Emperor
21.07

08 .08

Painted Lady
15.09
19.08
20.08
07.09
13.07
29.08

The Comma
01.08
05.08
14.04
21.07
14.07
26.07
05.09
10.09
12.07

Small Pearl-bordered
Fritillary

09.06

01.07

23.06

Pearl-bordered Fritillary
09.06

High Brown Fritillary
05.08
01.08

Dark Green Fritillary
28.07

09.07, 15.08

Silver Washed Fritillary
14.07
14.07, 01.08
05.08
15.07

Great Ridge Wood, var. valezina plentiful

Chickengrove Bottom
Imber

Eurodryas aurinia Rott.
Picket Wood
Alton Barnes
Somerford Common
Imber

Eriogaster crataegi Linn.
Wroughton

Lasiocampa quercus Linn.
Whaddon
Somerford Common
Cholderton

Gastropacha quercifolia Linn.
Whaddon
Silbury Hill, larvae
Cholderton

Saturnia pavonia Linn.
Imber, pupa case

Scopula immutata Linn.
Landford

Idaea fuscovenosa Goeze
Landford

Idaea trigeminata Haw.
Whaddon

Rhodometra sacraria Linn.
Steeple Ashton, a rare migrant

Orthonama vittata Borkh
Edington

Mesoleuca albicillata Hb.
Whaddon

Chloroclysta siterata Hufn.
Steeple Ashton

Thera firmata Hb.
Whaddon

Hydriomena ruberata Freyer
Whaddon, very rare

Rheumaptera undulata Linn.
Steeple Ashton
Longleat
Trowbridge
Whaddon

Euphyia biangulata Haw.
Steeple Ashton

Eupithecia pulchellata Steph.
Steeple Ashton

25

07
29:07
08.07

Marsh Fritillary
17.06
10.06
23.06
22.06

Pale Eggar
11.09

Oak Eggar
2A OF:
17.07
28.07

The Lappet
14.07
31.05
17.07

The Emperor
22.04

Lesser Cream Wave
27.06

Dwarf Cream Wave
03.07

Treble Brown Spot
30.06

The Vestal
30.08

Oblique Carpet
08 .06

Beautiful Carpet
21.07

Red-green Carpet
27.09

Pine Carpet
13.10

Ruddy Highflyer
30.06

Scallop Shell
27.07
24.07

28 .07
01.07

Cloaked Carpet
03.08

Foxglove Pug
05 .07

EGS

JN@’A

AG

EGS

AG

AG

EGS
EGS
BWW
AG

EGS

EGS

Eupithecia irriguata Hb.
Whaddon

Eupithecia venosata Fabr.
Imber
Bratton

Eupithecia intricata Zett.
Whaddon
Steeple Ashton

Eupithecia absinthiata Cl.
Whaddon
Trowbridge

Eupithecia expallidata Doubl.

Imber

Eupithecia denotata Hb.
Whaddon
Steeple Ashton

Eupithecia succenturiata Linn.

Imber
Whaddon

Eupithecia innotata Hufn.

Whaddon, new Wiltshire record
Trichopteryx polycommata D. & S.

Whaddon
Somerford Common

Pterapherapteryx sexalata Retz.

Whaddon

Acasis viretata Hb.
Edington
Whaddon
Cholderton

Semiothisa notata Linn.
Whaddon

Semiothisa alternaria Hb.
Whaddon

Angerona prunaria Linn.
Imber
Whiteparish Woods

Acherontia atropos Linn.
Westwood, larvae

Hyloicus pinastri Linn.
Cholderton

Mimas tiliae Linn.
Whaddon
Box
Cholderton

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Marbled Pug
12.05

Netted Pug
10.06
19.08

Edinburgh Pug
30.06
14.05

Wormwood Pug
31.08
31105

Bleached Pug
16.06

Campanula Pug
04.08
04.07

Bordered Pug
14.07
14.07

Angle-barred Pug
11.08

Barred Tooth-striped
30.03
14.04

Small Seraphim
27.06

Yellow-barred Brindle
04.06
01.09
18.08

Peacock Moth
01.06

Sharp-angled Peacock
30.06

Orange Moth
05.07
15.07

Death’s-head Hawk-moth
10.10

Pine Hawk-moth
28.07

Lime Hawk-moth
08 .06
20.06
30.06

AG

EGS
JN@’A

AG
EGS

AG
EGS

EGS

EGS

EGS

Macroglossum stellatarum Linn.
Trowbridge

Odontosia carmelita Esp.
Wroughton, rare, except S. Wiltshire

Leucoma salicis Linn.
Steeple Ashton

Lymantria monacha Linn.
Whaddon

Thumatha senex Hb.
Whaddon

Eilema complana Linn.
Whaddon
Wroughton

Rhyacia simulans Hufn.
Wroughton

Noctua orbona Hufn.
Whaddon

Spaelotis ravida D. & S.
Wroughton
Cholderton

Peridroma saucia Hb.
Whaddon
Heddington
Cholderton
Diarsia dahlii Hb.
Whaddon, second record in same locality

Kestia castanea Esp.
Whaddon

Kestia agathina Dup.
Landford

Naenia typica Linn.
Whaddon

Anarta myrtilli Linn.
Imber

Polia bombycina Hufn.
Cholderton

Hadena confusa Hufn.
Imber

Orthosia opima Hb.
Wroughton
Edington

Mythimna pudorina D. & S.
Steeple Ashton

Mythimna unipuncta Haw.
Cholderton, a rare migrant

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Humming-bird Hawk-moth

19.08 BWW
Scarce Prominent

16.05 DB
White Satin Moth

04.07 EGS
Black Arches

30.08 AG
Round-wimged Muslin

14.07 AG
Scarce Footman

14.07 AG

11.08 DB
Dotted Rustic

15.07 DB
Lunar Yellow Underwing

06.09 AG
Stout Dart

30.08 DB

12.07 HE
Pearly Underwing

06.09 AG

14.10 JIN@VA

20.10 HE
Barred Chestnut

22.08 AG
Neglected Rustic

06.09 AG
Heath Rustic

04.08 AG
The Gothic

21.07 AG
Beautiful Yellow Underwing

10.06 RT
Pale Shining Brown

17.07 HE
Marbled Coronet

14.07 EGS
Northern Drab

30.05 DB

16.05 INVA
Striped Wainscot

15.06 EGS
White-speck

19.10 HE

Aporophyla lutulenta D. & S.

Edington

Lithophane semibrunnea Haw.

Cholderton

Lithophane socia Hufn.
Wroughton

Lithophane ornitopus Hufn.

Whaddon
Heddington
Cholderton

Lithophane leautieri Boisd.
Whaddon
Steeple Ashton
Cholderton, 4

Moma alpium Osb.
Whiteparish Woods

Acronicta alni Linn.
Steeple Ashton

Craniophora ligustri D. & S.
Steeple Ashton
Cholderton
Whaddon

Ipimorpha subtusa D. & S.
Edington

Enargia ypsillon D. & S.
Wroughton

Cosmia affinis Linn.
Cholderton

Apamea sublustris Esp.
Whaddon
Edington
Imber

Apamea scolopacina Esp.
Longleat

Apamea ophiogramma Esp.
Edington
Whaddon, larvae

Nonagria typhae Thunb.
Whaddon
Steeple Ashton
Wroughton

Rhizedra lutosa Hb.
Heddington
Cholderton

Hoplodrina ambigua D. & S.

Whaddon

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Deep brown Dart
26.09

Tawny Pinion
28.10

Pale Pinion
11.04

Grey Shoulder-knot
13.04, 21.11
16.10
28.10

Blair’s Shoulder-knot
13.10
21.10
10.10—28.10

Scarce Merveille du Jour

15.07

Alder Moth
21.06

The Coronet
16.06
18.07
09.06

The Olive
12.08

Dingy Shears
15.07

Lesser-spotted Pinion
18.08

Reddish Light Arches
23:07
03.08
02.06

Slender Brindle
28.07

Double Lobed
12.08
21.04

Bulrush Wainscot
20.09
09.10
25.08

Large Wainscot
14.10
20.10
Vime’s Rustic
27.06

INVA

JN@’A
EGS

EGS

JN@A
AG

AG
EGS
DB

JN@A
HE

AG

Schrankia taenialis Hb.
Whiteparish Woods

Zygaena lonicerae Schev.

Red Lodge Wood

Grapholita caecana Schlag.
Knap Hill

Only recorded Pewsey Vale, Bourne Valley

& E. Kent

Galleria mellonella L.
Wroughton

Agriphila culmellus L.
Eysey

Catoptria falsellus Schiff.
Eysey

Nymphula nympheata L.
Red Lodge Wood

Udea olivalis Schiff.
Steeple Ashton

Perinephela coronata Hufn.

Steeple Ashton

Aglossa pinguinalis L.
Steeple Ashton

Phycita roborella Schiff.
Steeple Ashton

Aphomia sociella L.
Steeple Ashton

Cochylis flaviciliana Westw.

Easton Royal

Syndemis musculana Hubn.

Picket Wood

Acleris variegana Schiff.
Steeple Ashton

Dichrorampha simpliciana Haw.

Picket Wood

Laspeyresia servillana Dup.
Picket Wood

Lathronympha strigana F.
Picket Wood

Eucosmomorpha albersana Hubn.

Picket.Wood

Coleophora frischella L.
Imber

Aucylis diminutana Haw.
Picket Wood

White-line Snout
15.07

Narrow-bordered Five
Spot Burnet
08.07

Kentish Piercer
10.06

Honeycomb
29.07

Straw-coloured Grass-veneer

HE

DB

DB

DB

24.07 DB
Chequered Grass-veneer

25.07 DB
Brown China-mark

01.07 DB
Olive Brindled Pearl

21.06 EGS
Garden Elder Pearl

21.06 EGS
Large Stable Tabby

21.06 EGS
Dotted Knot-horm

04.06 EGS
Green-shaded Honey

21.06 EGS
Yellow-fringed Couch

12.08 JN@’A
Afternoon Twist

09.06 EGS
Common Rough-winged Button

07.05 EGS
Purple-black Drill

09.06 EGS
Serville’s Piercer

09.06 EGS
Yellow Striped-edge Piercer

09.06 EGS
Rheede’s Larger Piercer

09.06 EGS
Frisch’s Case

02.07 EGS
Festooned Roller

09.06 EGS

Phtheochroa rugosana Hubn.

Rough-winged Couch

Steeple Ashton 09.06 EGS
Chrysoclista bimaculella Haw. Orange-blotched Cosmet

Imber 15.06 EGS
Hofmannophila pseudospretella Staint. Large Common Tubic

Steeple Ashton 03.03 EGS
Agonopterix pallorella Zell. Pale Knapweed Flat-body

Steeple Ashton 13.04 EGS
Agonopterix alstroemeriana Clerck. Alstroemer’s Flat-body

Steeple Ashton 31.03 EGS
Anthophila fabriciana L. Fabricius’s Nettle-rap

Picket Wood 09.06 EGS
Monopis rusticella Hubn. Dark-brindled Clothes

Heywood 09.06 EGS
Elachista argentella Clerck Swan-feather Dwarf

Imber 30.06 EGS
Contributors

D. Brotheridge, Mrs M. Browne, J.N. d’Arcy, H. Edmunds, M. Fuller, A. Gange, R. Griffiths, Miss B.
Gillam, Mr & Mrs R. Kersley, Major General C.G. Lipscomb, F. Mead, J. Pile, S.J. Rawlings, Salisbury
& District Natural History Society, E.G. Smith, R. Turner, Miss J.M.Ward,G.L. Webber, B.W. Weddell.

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Wiltshire Bird Report 1978

compiled by
E.T. Smith

Introduction

These notes summarise the report published in the 1979 edition of Hobby, the magazine of the
Wiltshire Ornithological Society, to which readers should refer for further details.

A new species order has been adopted for the systematic list, following the example of major
ornithological societies; the positions in the list of certain families have been changed and species
numbers have been omitted.

Many species were recorded which do not appear in this report, either because there has been
no apparent change in their status or, in some cases, because descriptive evidence was not sufficient.

Coate Water at Swindon continues to be of considerable interest. Notable species seen were
the Black-throated Diver at the end of February, a Night Heron and two Spoonbills in April, a Little
Gull in May, and a Scaup and a Red-necked Grebe in December.

Abbreviations

CWP, Cotswold Water Park; GP, gravel pit; KAC, Kennet & Avon Canal; SP, sand pit; SF, sewage
farm; NNR, National Nature Reserve; R., River; 6, male; °, female; juv., juvenile.

A Selection of Ornithological Records 1978

Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica. One Coate Water 01-02.02.

Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena. One Coate Water 17-24.12.

Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis. One CWP 23.04.

Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis. One Boscombe Down airfield 30.01; one Coate Water 28.06.

Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo. 5 Britford spring; 5 singles Coate Water spring & autumn; 7 in flight
Wylye 16.04; 7 singles CWP late 04; singles Wilton, Lyneham & Braydon Pond.

Bittern Botaurus stellaris. One §. Wraxall 12.

Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax. One Coate Water 20.04.

Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia. 2 Coate Water 28.04; one CWP 09.07.

Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus. 15 over Charlton 28.01; one Coate Water 26.12.

Mute Swan C. olor. Surveyed 04-05; 130 territorial pairs noted, of which 102 were breeding; most
(about one third of total) on Salisbury Avon, R. Wylye & R. Nadder.

White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons. Small flocks Steeple Ashton 13.01 & 31.12.

Greylag Goose A. anser. 21 CWP; one Wilton 09; one Chilton Foliat 10.

Shelduck Tadorna tadorna. Coate Water, Charlton, Calne SP & CWP.

Pintail Anas acuta. Pair Salisbury Avon 25.04; single Corsham Lake 12.

Garganey A. querquedula. One Lacock GP 12.07.

Ring-necked duck Aythya collaris. One Corsham Lake 11-17.01, 20-22.01 & 26.02; one CWP 16.04.

Scaup A. marila. 2 Coate Water 11.

Smew Mergus albellus. One Liden Lagoon (Swindon) 28 .02-03.03.

Goosander M. merganser. Corsham Lake & Coate Water 01; Coate Water 12.

Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis. One CWP 12.03; one Coate Water 03.05 ; 2 Corsham Lake 01-17.06,
one 18.01-02.02 & throughout 07.

Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus. 3 Swindon 03.09.

Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus. One over reed bed nr. Pewsey 02.05; one nr. Boyton 21.05.

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Hen Harrier C. cyaneus. Imber, Grovely, Rushall Down 01-04; Shrewton Folly 15.08; Westdown
Ranges, Pewsey Down NNR, Haxton Down, Imber 10-12.

Merlin Falco columbarius. Up to 04 Imber & Westdown Rangers, Shrewton, Ford; Imber, Wylye,
Purton, Seagry 10-12.

Hobby F. subbuteo. First Ramsbury 29.04; last Wylye 18.10; also breeding.

Peregrine F. peregrinus. One Larkhill Ranges 07.01; one nr. Bratton 18.11; one CWP 16.12.

Quail Cotumix coturnix. Many Downland 05-08.

Water Rail Rallus aquaticus. Many records 01-04 & 08 onwards.

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus. One Bullen Hill (Steeple Ashton) 03.04.

Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus. First 18.03 S. Wiltshire; at least 4 pairs bred; last 14.09.

Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius. Present at breeding site N. Wiltshire 02.04-21.05, sites
flooded 21.05; Shalbourne 29.04; Calne SP 09-14.09.

Ringed Plover C. hiaticula. Singles Chippenham 09.04, Swindon SF 03.05, CWP 06.05, Calne SP
24.07, Imber 02-09.

Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria. Many 01-03 & 10-12.

Little Stint Calidris minuta. 3 Swindon SF 06-07.09 & 09-10.09.

Temminck’s Stint C. temminckii. One Calne SP 09-11.09.

Dunlin C. alpina. One Coate Water 11.03; 6 CWP 12.03.

Ruff Philomachus pugnax . 3 Steeple Ashton 23.05; one Coate Water 06.09.

Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus. One Imber, 2 Swindon SF 01.01;.one Christian Malford 05.02;
5 nr. Steeple Langford GP 11-12.02; one CWP 18.03; one Long Dean 02.04.

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa. 2 Odstock 12.03; one Ashton Keynes 29.04; one Coate Water
19-20.08 & 31.08.

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus. 7 Wilton 23.04; 12 Imber 14.05; 3 Steeple Ashton 31.07; one Shal-
bourne 22.07.

Curlew NV. arquata. Breeding nr. Somerford Common; pairs Blunsdon, Patney, Lydeway, Upper
Thames Valley.

Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus. One Liden Lagoon 02.09, 04.09 & 10-13.09; one Swindon
SF 03-07.09.

Redshank 7. totanus. Breeding CWP, Coate Water, R. Wylye nr. Bathampton House; probably breeding
Charlton, Britford, Odstock, Compton Chamberlayne, Laverstock, Patney, Littlecote.

Greenshank 7. nebularia. Imber & Shockerwick 04; CWP 05, 08 & 09; Swindon SF & Coate Water
08; Liden Lagoon 09; Calne SP 08-09.

Green Sandpiper T. ochropus. Winter R. Wylye, Britford, CWP; up to 21 Swindon SF 08.

Wood Sandpiper T. glareola. Singles Swindon SF & CWP 13.08.

Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos. One CWP 18.03; Liden Lagoon 17.04; Steeple Langford 19.09.

Little Gull Larus minutus. One Coate Water 01.05.

Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis. 2 Liden Lagoon 05.09.

Common Tern S. hirundo. One Liden Lagoon 24.04; Coate Water 05, 07 & 08; CWP 03.05; Lacock
GP 14.06.

Arctic Tern S. paradisea. 7 Coate Water 01.05, 3 06.05.

Black Tern Chlidonias niger. One Calne SP 31.07; 26 Coate Water 19.08; 26 CWP 20.08.

Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur. First Colerne 20.04; last Chiseldon 30.09.

Cuckoo Cuculus canorus. First S. Wraxall 17.04; last Castle Combe 10.09.

Barn Own Tyto alba. 09.77-03.79 survey of winter populations showed that north of the KAC
there were few birds except along the R. Kennet valley. There were few sightings west
of the Bristol Avon, none from a large area around Swindon. There were several records from
Salisbury Plain but the highest density in the county was along the valleys of the Salisbury Avon
and its tributaries. 9 Nests were located.

Long-eared Owl Asio otus. One breeding record; one road casuality nr. Malmesbury 12.04.

Short-eared Owl A. flammeus. Imber, Yarnbury Castle 02-05; Imber, Milk Hill, Wylye, Shrewton,
Fyfield Down, Larkhill, Haxton Down 10-12.

Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus. Grovely Wood 30.04; Fyfield Down NNR 02.10.

Swift Apus apus. First Salisbury & Steeple Langford 23.04; last Highworth 11.10.

Hoopoe Upupa epops. Singles Imber 07.05, Wexcombe 11.05; East Grafton later; Stockton 18.05.

Wryneck Jynx torquilla. One in garden Turleigh 29.07.

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Woodlark Lullula arborea. One Britford 06.05.

Sand Martin Riparia riparia. First Britford 12.03; last Coate Water 01.10.

Swallow Hirundo rustica. First Burbage & Steeple Langford 01.04; last Swindon 28.10.

House Martin Delichon urbica. First Coate Water & Hampton 20.04; last Wilton 30.10.

Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis. Widely reported Hound Wood 23.04 onwards.

Rock Pipit A. spinoletta spinoletta. Britford, Fovant, CWP 01-04.

Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava. First Liden Lagoon 18.04; last Lyneham 17.09.

Dipper Cinclus cinclus. Nests found By Brooke, R. Frome & Fonthill.

Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos. First Picket Wood 23.04; last 20.08. 69 singing males at 14 sites.

Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros. 6 in full song Swindon railway works 18.07; one Ogbourne
St. George 19.08; one Imber 14-15.10; one Neston 18.11.

Redstart P. phoenicurus. First Imber 23.04; last Imber 17.09; breeding Imber & Castle Combe.

Whinchat Saxicola rubetra. First Bratton 23.04; last Wylye 09.11. Breeding Imber, Westdown &
Larkhill Ranges, Bulford, Rushall & nr. Aldbourne.

Stonechat S. torquata. Widespread. Breeding Imber, Grovely Wood, Sidbury Hill, Westdown Ranges.

Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe. First Yarnbury Castle 23.03; last Wylye 30.10.

Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus. Singles ¢ South Down Farm (Imber) 09.04; Winterslow 20-22.04;
3 Netheravon airfield 09.09.

Fieldfare T. pilaris. Last Sunnyhill Farm (Pewsey) 09.05; first a flock Marston Meysey 29.08.

Redwing 7. iliacus. Last Old Totterdown 21.05; first Steeple Ashton 24.09.

Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia. First 21.04; last Grants Farm (Imber) 17.09.

Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus. First Shalbourne 15.04; last Swindon SF 03.09. Numer-
ous breeding records.

Marsh Warbler A. palustris. 2 singles singing 06.

Reed Warbler A. scirpaceus. First & last Coate Water 23.04 & 02.10. Numerous breeding records.

Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca. First Trowbridge 24.04; last Coate Water 21.09.

Whitethroat S. communis. First Imber & Winterslow 23.04; last Swindon 24.09.

Garden Warbler S. borin. First Chippenham 22.04; last Coate Water 05.09.

Blackcap S. atricapilla. Quite widely recorded summer & winter.

Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix. First Liden Lagoon 21.04; singing during breeding season
Corsham Park, Southleigh Wood, Longleat, Langley Wood, Franchises Wood, Semley Common.

Chiffchaff P. collybita. Wylye 07.01; Ashton Keynes 12.02; last Swindon 22.10.

Willow Warbler P. trochilus. First Steeple Ashton & Westbury 02.04; last Swindon 24.09.

Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus. Singles Quidhampton 23.04, Imber 04.05, S. Wraxall 20.12; one found
dead Wylye 21.12.

Spotted Flycatcher Muscipapa striata. First Ludgershall 03.05 ; last Queens Park (Swindon) 02.10.

Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca. Singles 2? Coulston 22-27.04, Kingston Deverill 29.04, Beacon
Hill 04.05; d Devizes 08.05.

Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus. 2 6, one 2 Corsham Lake 13-15.10.

Willow Tit Parus montanus. At many sites 01-08.

Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio. 3 Swindon late 05.

Great Grey Shrike L. excubitor. One Fyfield Down NNR 23.10.

Brambling Fringilla montifringilla. 200 nr. Winterslow 01-02; 20 Figsbury Ring 20.04; 2 6 Coate
Water 21.10. Numbers low overall.

Siskin Carduelis spinus. Several flocks 01-03. Numbers much lower than in recent years.

Redpoll C. flammea. Somerford Common in breeding season. Winter records fewer than in 1977.

Crossbill Loxia curvirostra. 3 Longleat 07.01; small flock Roundway 09.09.

Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes. One Wilton 09.04; pair with juv. Marston Meysey 04.08.

Snow Bunting Plec trophenax nivalis. 6 Bathampton Farm (Wylye) 27.12.

Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus. West Winterslow recorded regularly.

Acknowledgements

This Report is compiled from records which have appeared in Hobby, the magazine of the Wiltshire
Ornithological Society. We would like to thank all contributors. Ed.

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Mammal Report 1979

compiled by
Marion Browne

Introduction

More than 800 records of thirty different mammal species were received for the year 1979; they have
been plotted on the species distribution maps of Wiltshire and data will be filed for storage in the
County Biological Records Centre at Devizes Museum.

A selection of 1979 mammal records is presented in the following pages; they are chosen to
illustrate mammal distribution in the county, to chart mammal activity during the year, to indicate
the variety of field signs which provide acceptable evidence of mammal presence, and to document
some of the interesting mammal behaviour which has been observed.

The number of records received for each species is noted. Annually, many more records are
received for some species than for others; often, particularly in the case of small or elusive animals,
there is genuine difficulty in observing them; equally often, obvious signs of their presence can be
overlooked. By far the greatest number of records received each year are of the hedgehog (Erinaceus
europaeus) whose presence is easy to observe because it is so often killed on roads, yet the mole
(Talpa europaea), which is equally common and equally easy to record from the unmistakable spoil
heaps which it leaves, is often ignored; as a result, the activity and distribution of the mole in Wiltshire
is not as well documented as it might be.

Mammals and the Law

The Council of Europe Convention of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats was signed in September
1979 and awaits ratification. It is intended to conserve the native flora and fauna and their natural
habitats. It is expected to provide close seasons and other protective measures for certain mammals,
to control methods of catching and killing mammals, and to give strict protection to all or most
British bat species.

Little is known about the distribution of bats in Wiltshire. Twelve species of bats have been
recorded in the county but only two, the common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) and the pipi-
strelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) are known to be widely distributed and only one, the greater horseshoe
bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum), is already protected by law.

If anyone knows the location of a bat roost, please will they try to make a rough estimate of
numbers in the colony; if the roost is inaccessible, the best time to make a count is when the bats
emerge for the evening flight. Ideally an annual count should be made in order to establish whether
the colony is thriving or declining. If there is any difficulty in identifying the bats, please contact
the recorder for mammals Mrs Marion Browne, tel: Castle Combe 782 222. Any bats found dead
should be sent to her at Latimer Lodge, West Kington, Chippenham SN14 7JJ, in a small tin please,
not in a plastic bag.

Mammals and the Weather

The year 1979 started very cold with much snow during the first three months; this was followed
by a long cold spring. July was the warmest driest month in a summer that was generally unsettled.

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September was fine and a mild autumn gave way to rainfall in December that was above average for
the month. These trends are reflected in the hedgehog road casualty figures in Table I which shows,
in particular, peak activity in the two fine months July and September.

Hedgehogs accumulate subcutaneous and other fat which allows them to survive hibernation
through most of the winter months, though some animals rouse in mild spells and emerge temporarily
from hibernation to feed. Road casualty figures are therefore low throughout the winter and continue
low if there is a late cold spring as in 1979.

Most litters are born in late spring or late summer and the young hedgehogs start to leave the
nest during their fourth week of life, perhaps waiting for a spell of warm weather. Further, temper-
ature is one of the factors which govern the onset of hibernation and may also affect other aspects
of hedgehog biology such as breeding, with consequent variation from year to year in the times of
appearance of young hedgehogs. Juveniles would be inexperienced and particularly vulnerable when
they first become independent and it seems likely that peak road casualties are mainly juvenile
animals. Not all contributors mention whether road casualties are adult or juvenile but my own
observations in the vicinity of West Kington show that in 1979 eight of the ten road casualties noted
in July and September were juveniles and that, taking into account all the 1979 road casualties in
the West Kington area, the ratio of juveniles to adults killed was 2:1.

Special Survey
The Distribution and Abundance of the Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris)

Recent reports, in Wiltshire and nationally, indicate that there has been a decline in numbers of the
Water vole (Anvicola terrestris). Various factors have been suggested which might contribute to such
a decline; these include the clearance of bank vegetation, increased rate of water flow due to drainage
operations, pollution, the drying out of some waterways during the drought years 1975/76 and
increasing predation by the American mink (Mustela vison).

Before it can be decided whether there has in fact been a decline, or whether there is an
apparent decline due to a shortage of records, a comprehensive survey must be made. Members can
make a valuable contribution by looking for Water voles and sending as many records as possible to
the Recorder for Mammals: Mrs M. Browne, Latimer Lodge, West Kington, Chippenham, Wiltshire
SN14 7JJ.

Acceptable evidence, in addition to live sightings and voles found dead, includes small piles of
chopped grasses and other discarded food material on the bank, middens and skulls from owl castings.
Field signs such as footprints and burrows require additional supportive evidence as they may be
confused with those of the Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).

A Water Vole Survey recording sheet is enclosed with this magazine and it will be very helpful
if members will give as much information as possible concerning the waterway, the banks, the vegetation,
the behaviour of Water voles and the presence of other animals, birds and fishes.

Abbreviations
BO, barn owl; juv., juvenile; KAC, Kennet & Avon Canal; km., kilometre; nr., near; R., River; d,
male; 9°, female.

A Selection of Mammal Records 1979

Order Insectivora — insectivores
Family Erinacidae

Erinaceus europaeus Hedgehog
142 records from 21 10 km. squares

Live: on road Shoe 02 CSH; treated for sheep tick infestation W. Kington 03 MB; on road Devizes

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& Winterbourne Bassett 05 RFF, Pewsey Wharf 05 KN; on drive Aldbourne 06 PNN; drinking at
bird bath Bradford-on-Avon 07 ES; Froxfield 07 JJ; 2 + juvs. in garden Nettleton 07 PT; rescued
from cattle grid Corsham 08 JCR; on road Downton 08 KGF; in garden Chippenham 08-09 ARB;
in garden Clench PAW; taking milk from saucer Marlborough autumn JBM; Bratton on & off
throughout year JNd’A; running along beech hedge Bowerhill Lodge Farm 11 ES.
TABLE I. ROAD CASUALTIES
February March April May June July August September October November December
1 2 3. n3il2 14 33 13 35 4 6 4
MB, BG, EH, KN, PNN, ES, RT, JMW, LDW
Family Talpidae

Talpa europaea Mole
45 records from 14 10 km. squares

Live: emerging from hole Yielding Copse 11.05 PNN.

Dead: in garden Southcott 14.05 KN, Avebury Trusloe EH; on road Erlestoke 02.07 RT; killed by
dog Aldbourne 19.07 PNN.

Signs: spoil recorded in 13 10 km. squares by ECA, MB, KN, JAS, LDW, PAW.

Family Soricidae

Sorex araneus Common shrew
18 records from 12 10 km. squares

Live: Bristow Bridge 08 PNN; Littleworth PAW.

Dead: 9 in milk bottles Wormwood Farm 02 MB; in Longworth trap Fyfield 03 MB;5 in mouse trap
Neston JCR; 9 in BO pellets Tottenham 04 CW; killed by cat Calne 05 ECD, Avebury Trusloe 06
EH; killed by fox W. Kington 07 MB; Avoncliff 07, Melksham 09 ES; Southcott 08 KN.

Sorex minutus Pygmy shrew
5 records from 4 10 km. squares

Dead: in Longworth trap W. Overton 02 DP; in BO pellet Tottenham 03 CW;killed by cat S. Wraxall
05 JMW, Avebury Trusloe 09 EH, Littleworth PAW.

Order Chiroptera — bats
Family Rhinolophidae

Rhinolophus ferrumequinum Greater horseshoe bat

Live: 51 in 3 winter roosts W. Wiltshire 01 MB, RDR.

Rhinolophus hipposideros Lesser horseshoe bat

Live: 2 in winter roost W. Wiltshire 01 MB, RDR; 2 nr. Chippenham 03 PAS.
Family Vespertilionidae

Myotis daubentoni Water bat

Live: Bradford-on-Avon SY.

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Pipistrellus pipistrellus Pipistrelle
12 records from 9 10 km. squares

Live: Ludgershall 02 JAS; under pew Oare church 05 SG; behind notice board on flint wall Froxfield
06 JJ; Nettleton Green 06, W. Kington 07 MB; Gospel Oak 09 KW; Bradford-on-Avon SY.
Dead: caught by cat Avebury Trusloe 06 EH; 6 Aldbourne 08 PNN; Trowbridge 08 RGCG.

Plecotus auritus Long-eared bat

Live: roost in attic Devizes 09 PJB.
Dead: caught by cat S. Wraxall 05 JMW, Melksham 06 ES.

Order Lagomorpha - lagomorphs
Family Leporidae

Lepus capensis Brown hare
94 records from 17 10 km. squares

Live: 16 in snow Southcott 01 KN; E. Tytherton 02 MB; 4 Popplechurch 03 RN; nr. Bradford-on-
Avon 01-05 ES; in middle of wood West Woods 05 PNN; juv. Maddington Down 06 KGF; 18 nr.
Kingston Deverill 04-07, 5 Imber Ranges 05-08 RT; 9 Calne 04-09 ARB; 17 nr. Avebury 04-10,
7 nr. Knoll Down 04-12 EH; Clench Common PAW; Froxfield JJ; Mildenhall JBM.

Dead: 2 very emaciated on consecutive days W. Kington 06 MB; on road Frying Pan Farm 11 ES.

Signs: tracks in snow S. Wraxall 01 JMW, Southcott 01 KN, Codford 02 KGF; form & droppings
Fyfield Down 03 MB; hind foot Sugar Hill 08, skeleton Burderop Down 10 PNN.

Oryctolagus cuniculus Rabbit
92 records from 22 10 km. squares

Live: eating leeks Southcott 02 KN; nr. badger sett W. Kington 03, one black Kington Wick 03 MB;

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nr. Gopher Wood 04 EH; adults + juvs. Devizes 05 RFF; 20 nr. Kingston Deverill 04-07 ES;
“charmed” by weasel Wishford 09 GAH; nr. Heddington 03-10, nr. Melksham 04-11, Coulston
Hill 10 ES; nr. Aldbourne 04-10 PNN; Chippenham ARB; Eastridge 12 LDW; juvs. all months
Codford KGF.

Dead: killed by cat Avebury Trusloe 04 EH; Conock 04, Sherston 06, Buryhill 06 MB; killed by fox
Imber 06 RT; 2 Barford St. Martin 07 KGF; killed by stoat Imber 12 RT.

Signs: tracks in snow S. Wraxall 01 JMW, Southcott 01 KN; droppings Fyfield Down 03 MB.

Order Rodentia — rodents
Family Sciuridae

Sciurus carolinensis Grey squirrel
61 records from 19 10 km. squares

Live: 2 Lockeridge Dene 01 EH; Collingbourne Woods 01 JAS; 3 Devizes 06 RFF;chased up telegraph
pole by cat Salisbury summer JBM; Burderop Down PNN, Savernake area 09 PNN, RN; 2 Shire-
hill, 2 Staples Hill 09 ES; Pinkney 10 MB; 21 nr. Bradford-on-Avon 01-12 ES; Ramsbury 12 LDW;
Codford St. Mary 12 KGF; Clench PAW.

Dead: 30 on gibbet Whiteshard Bottom 04 PNN; on road: 2 Pewsey Hill 03-06 KN, 2 Gatcombe Hill
06-07 MB, 1 Cheverell, 1 Erlestoke 09 RT.

Signs: opened nuts Wroughton 03, drey Tockenham Wick autumn MB.

Family Cricetidae

Clethrionomys glareolus Bank vole
8 records from 6 10 km. squares

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Live: crossing path Calne 04 ARB; 14 trapped Red Lodge 06 MB, MEC; crossing road Lan Hill 07 MB.

Dead: killed by cat W. Kington 03 MB; one in BO pellet Tottenham 04 CW; Lower Herdswick 06,
killed by mower Dean Bottom 08 PNN.

Signs: opened nuts Slittems Wood 01 EJL.

Microtus agrestis Field vole
13 records from 7 10 km. squares

Live: 6 juv. in nest Burderop Down 07 PNN.

Dead: in milk bottle Wormwood Farm 02 MB; 7 in mouse trap Neston 01-03, 4 11-12 JCR; 2 killed
by cat Calne 03 ECD; 14 in BO pellets Tottenham 03-04 CW; killed by dog Southcott 07 KN;
one Rockley 08 PNN; 3 Avebury Trusloe 07-10 EH; one Codford KGF.

Arvicola terrestris Water vole
7 records from 5 10 km. squares

Live: 3 Hurley 04 KN; one + 2 juv. Southcott 06 KN; numerous KAC Bristow Bridge 08 PNN; 2
feeding nr. Horton Bridge 09 BG; swimming KAC New Mill PAW; Rood Ashton 12 ES.
Dead: killed by stoat Eysey 03 PA.

Family Muridae

Apodemus sylvaticus Wood mouse
15 records from 10 10 km. squares

Live: 7 in traps Fyfield 03 MB, DP, 4 Red Lodge 06 MB, BJWH, Boreham Wood 09 BJWH, 4 Melksham
04-11 ES; escaped from cat S. Wraxall 04 JMW; in garden frame Southcott 09 KN; in wren’s nest
in nest box Roundway 10 BG; Lodge Lower Barn 12 RN.

Dead: 11 in BO pellets Tottenham 03-04 CW; 3 Codford 03-04 KGF; 7 in mouse trap Neston 01-12
JCR.

Signs: opened nuts Fyfield Down 03 MB.

Apodemus flavicollis Yellow-necked mouse
Live: 6 in trap Red Lodge 06 MB, RH.

Micromys minutus Harvest mouse

Nests: 4 (one green, 3 old) in Agropyron repens Roundway 10 BG.

Mus musculus House mouse
3 records from 3 10 km. squares

Live: in house porch Ludgershall 02 JAS; in house Marlborough autumn JBM.
Dead: trapped in house Littleworth PAW.

Rattus norvegicus Common rat (Brown rat)
30 records from 14 10 km. squares

Live: in stream Rood Ashton 04, in KAC feeder streams Sells Green 04, swimming in R. Avon nr.
Whaddon 06 ES; in rubbish tip New Totterdown 08 PNN; Devizes 09 PJB; Burderop Down 10
PNN.

Dead: on road Hartham Park 03, Corston 06, nr. Burderop Wood 06, Farleaze Farm 08 MB; Edington
09 ES; 3 nr. Aldbourne 09-10 PNN;juvs. in attic Marlborough 12 JBM.

Signs: tracks in snow Southcott 01 KN.

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Family Gliridae
Muscardinus avellanarius Dormouse
Live: in grass nest at base of tree High Wood 05 SL.

Order Carnivora — carnivores
Family Canidae

Vulpes vulpes Fox
71 records from 23 10 km. squares

Live: on frozen KAC nr. Ladydown Farm 01 ES; mating Poulshot 02 NH; cubs Norton 02 JB; with
prey Box 02 ES; 2 with prey Gastard 02 CSH; Littlecott 04 ECD; with prey Lambert’s Marsh 05
SY; Edington 05 JNd’A; Swindon 06 RN; taking pheasant to cubs Kingston Deverill 07 ES; Burderop
Down 09 PNN; chased by lurcher W. Kington 09 SHBB; Great Ridge 11 JBM; Neston 11 JCR;
Calne 12 ARB; 9 (one with rabbit) Imber 04-12 RT; Savernake CS.

Dead: on road Morgans Hill 01 ARB, Tisbury 07 KGF, Springhill 09 JJ; 9 Burderop Down 06 PNN.

Signs: tracks in snow Murhill 01 MB; scats Hens Wood 04 PNN; scent White Lodge 06 MB.

Family Mustelidae

Mustela erminea Stoat
16 records from 10 10 km. squares

Live: found by dog under metal sheet Southcott 01 KN; killing water vole Eysey 03 PA; Monkton
House 03, Edington 06 ES; dragging dead rabbit Aldbourne 07 PNN; 2 on road Oare 07 KN;
Froxfield JJ; 2 Picket Wood 08 RT; hunting Stockton Down 11 BG; killing rabbit Imber 12 RT.

Dead: ? Round Hill 07 PNN; 2 on road Pewsey Hill 07 KN.

Mustela nivalis Weasel
28 records from 15 10 km. squares

Live: Westbury Ponds 02, Woolley Green 03 ES; chased by crow Lanhill Farm 06 JS; with prey
Aldbourne 06 PNN; juv. 6 Stanton 07 CG; 4 juv. crossing road Luckington 08 MB; 3 crossing
toad Beckhampton 08 KGF; “charming” rabbit Wishford 09 GAH; Windmill Hill 10 EH; crossing
road Calne 11 ARB; Clench PAW; Froxfield JJ.

Dead: killed by cat W. Kington 08 ZC, Calne 10 ARB; 2 on gibbet Aldbourne 09 PNN; on gibbet
Laggus Farm 11 ARB; skull in rabbit run Burderop Down 09 PNN.

Mustela vison Mink
3 records from 3 10 km. squares

Live: at roadside Figheldean 04 BDC; on river bank Rey Mill 05 ES; Monkton House 07 ES.

Meles meles Badger
51 records from 17 10 km. squares

Live: foraging Edington 02 RT; on road W. Kington 03 MB; 3 Goatacre 04-05 ECD; on road Brimslade
07 PAW; 6 Imber Ranges 06-08 RT; 2 Wick Down 09 PNN; 4 Sugar Hill 09 RN.

Dead: on road Edington 03 JNd’A, Sherston 06 MB, Farleigh Wick 08 JMW, 2 St. Joan a Gore 07
RFF.

Signs: tracks in snow Collingbourne Forest 01 JAS; dung pits Fyfield Down 03 MB; skull nr. sett
West Woods 05 PNN; bedding outside sett South Down 12 KGF.

Setts: Tockenham ECA; E. Kennett PNN; Conk well EJL; Upton Scudamore & Imber Ranges BG.

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Order Artiodactyla — even-toed ungulates
Family Cervidae

Cervus elaphus Red deer
Live: Brimslade PAW.

Dama dama Fallow deer
8 records from 3 10 km. squares

Live: 4 West Woods 04 EH; 8 Hens Wood 04-06 PNN; Savernake 07 BG; 2 Bowood 10-11 ARB.

Capreolus capreolus Roe deer
69 records from 15 10 km. squares

Live: 2 West Woods 01 EH; 2 9 Hill Bottom 01 TDH; Naish Hill 03 ES; 24 6 32 9 Imber Ranges
SPTARDC;5 nr. Aldbourne 04-05 PNN; 2 Vaggs Hill 06 ES; mating Court Hill 08 BG; Tockenham
10, Codford 11, 2 Penstones Wood 11 BG; 9 nr. Kingston Deverill 04-12 KGF, ES; crossing road
Tilshead Down 11 KGF; Brimslade PAW; resident in woods Roundway BG; 3 High Clear 12 RN.

Signs: slots Fyfield 02 MB, N. Wraxall 04 GH, Picket Wood 08 RT; cast antlers West Woods PNN.

Muntiacus reevesi Chinese muntjac
5 records from 3 10 km. squares

Live: Pigsty Copse 06 JCR; 2 Spye 10, 2 Bowood 10 ARB; Clench Common PAW.

Contributors

Mr & Mrs P. Adams, J.N. d’Arcy, Major E.C. Ashton, Countess June Badeni, A.R. Baker, A.R. Beazer,
Mr & Mrs P.J. Beazer, Mrs M. Browne, S.H.B. Browne, Mrs Z. Chivers, Miss M.E. Compton, E.C.
Deadman, R.F. File, Miss K.G. Forbes, Mrs S. Gibbon, Miss B. Gillam, Mrs C. Goodfellow, R.G.C.
Green, T.D. Harrison, B.J.W. Heath, Mrs C. Seccombe Hett, Mrs N. Hooke, G.A. Howe, Miss G.
Huggins, R. Hunt, Mrs E. Hunter, Mrs J. Jordan, S. Lane, Miss E.J. Lenton, Mr & Mrs J.B. Muns,
P.N. Newton, R. Newton, Mrs K. Nicol, D. Painter, R.D. Ransome, J.C. Rolls, Salisbury Plain Train-
ing Area Roe Deer Census, John Sellar, P.A. Smith, C. Spray, E. Stephens, J.A. Stevenson, Mrs P.
Turnbull, R. Turner, L.D. Walker, C. Ward, Miss J.M. Ward, Mrs P.A. Ward, K. Wills, Miss S. Yerrington.

Editorial note: the Report on Reptiles and Amphibians has been held over. A set of Provisional
Distribution Maps was published and circulated in 1980 and the publication on The Reptiles and
Amphibians of Wiltshire is now in the final stages of production. Records can still be added to the
Distribution Maps, please continue to send as many records as possible to the Recorder, Mrs M.
Browne.

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Chairman’s Report

by
Patrick J. Dillon

A varied programme of events took place during the year. The ten field meetings, catering for a
wide variety of interests and situated in all regions of the county, were generally well attended; the
coach trips to Chew Lake and Slimbridge were particularly successful. The three indoor meetings at
the Museum were, however, poorly attended and it seems necessary to review the provision of winter
lectures in view of the high cost of travelling and members’ reluctance to venture out in bad weather.

The publication of definitive works on the natural history of the county has always been an
important function of the Section and I am pleased to report that the reprint of Grose’s Flora is now
available; hopefully this will result in renewed interest in the Supplement to the Flora since we still
have over 600 copies to sell (it remains very good value at £4 per copy). It is pleasing to note that we
have paid off almost all the loans outstanding against publication costs of the Supplement with the
exception of that owing to the estate of the late R.E. Sandell. The entire edition of The Macro-
lepidoptera of Wiltshire has now been sold, the last copies going a few months after the death of the
author, Baron de Worms. The manuscript of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Wiltshire is in the
advanced stages of preparation.

Once again we have produced our Magazine which now has a national reputation as a scientific
production of high quality, reflected by the list of distinguished contributors in recent years. Two
Bulletins, carrying articles of popular interest, have been produced.

Much natural history interest has centred on the office and library (known as Upper Library 2)
at Devizes Museum. The Library itself has grown, there have been several new accessions and runs
of journals and periodicals have been added. The office houses the County Biological Records Centre
(Species Index). This is now run by volunteers but much of the original cataloguing was carried
out by Chris Bindon and Jeanne Rayment who were both employed full time on one-year Job Creation
Scheme projects. We now have Philippa Noad working under the Youth Opportunities Programme;
she will be with us until she goes to University in September and her brief is to produce a compre-
hensive natural history catalogue for the Museum.

The President has put before the Society plans for building extensions which will include
greater provision for natural history. We will thus be able to make better use of our collections and
documentary material and the Museum could become the most important natural history resource
centre in the county. The Natural History Section clearly has a role to play and this seems to be a
fitting time to examine the position of the Section in relation to the Society with a view to centralising
administration in the Museum. Clearly there are constitutional issues involved but it is expected that
some positive proposals will be put to Council in the near future.

There have been several changes on the Section Committee. Resignations have been received
from Mr C.E. Jennings, Mr E. Smith and Mrs J. Rayment and we have had the sad news of the death
of Mr R.S. Barron. Mr Smith was involved in preparations for the reprint of the Flora and Mrs
Rayment worked as Records Assistant at the Biological Records Centre for one year and drew up the
last programme of meetings for the Section. I would like to thank them both for their efforts. I
would also like to record our gratitude to Mr Jennings, the retiring Chairman, who steered the Section
through a difficult period five years ago and did much towards production of the Flora reprint.
Finally, I would like to welcome our new officers and committee members; Miss Yvette Greasley as
Bulletin Editor and Mrs Denise Herrod Taylor as Programme Secretary. We now have three vacancies
on the Committee.

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Appreciations

Baron Charles G.M. de Worms

Baron Charles de Worms, author of The Macrolepidoptera of Wiltshire, died on 10 October 1979,
aged 76.

Professionally an agricultural chemist, he won the Drewitt Prize for Agricultural Chemistry and
in 1934 took a Ph.D. from London University. He worked as a research chemist in the Institute of the
Royal Cancer Hospital and from 1940 to 1944 he worked at the Porton Experimental Station until
illness led to retirement honoured with a Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

His entomological interests were preceded by an interest in ornithology; he took part in three
Pan-African Congresses and, at his death, he was the senior member of the British Ornithologists
Union.

His literary output on entomological subjects was very large but, with the exception of The
Butterflies and Moths of London and its Surroundings, The Macrolepidoptera of Wiltshire and a
chapter in volume 9 of The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, it consisted of articles
and short notes.

His flair for writing up his frequent collecting trips all over the world, interspersed with comments
on the countryside he traversed and with graceful tributes to his hosts and their families, made
fascinating reading in the entomological magazines to which he contributed regularly. His worldwide
circle of friends will regret the passing of a remarkable character whose indefatigable activity and
acute observation brought him an encyclopaedic knowledge of the lepidoptera.

His work on the butterflies and larger moths of Wiltshire, published by the Wiltshire Archae-
ological and Natural History Society in 1962, will remain essential to entomologists for many years.
It is remarkably comprehensive for someone who gathered his information from rather limited
sources and who, while not living in the county, managed with the help of observers to cover such a
large area of Wiltshire.

His collection of moths was bequeathed to the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh and his fine
natural history library to the British Entomological and Natural History Society.

J.N.WA.

Ronald §. Barron

Ronald Barron, author of The Geology of Wiltshire, died on 14 May 1980, aged 80.

Ronald was a claiming member of the Natural History Section for some thirty six years and
for fifteen successive years he arranged and led a series of outdoor meetings designed to show how
Wiltshire’s countryside, its flora and fauna, its villages and their historical growth and buildings, are
all ultimately related to the sequence of rocks over which they have grown. In 1976 he published his
fascinating book The Geology of Wiltshire, a work stimulated by the late Charles Floyd to whom it
is dedicated.

Ron Barron was a benign chairman, a gentle spirit with a subtle sense of humour and an unex-
pected turn for verse. To accompany him on his annual field meetings, studying features of Wiltshire
such as the courses of the Bristol Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal, the vales of Pewsey and

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Wardour, the chalk downs, the chalk streams and their related industries, rock outcrops, quarries
and mines, and landscape features from vantage points, was as spellbinding a trail to follow as that of
the Pied Piper.

His careful preparation of visual aids to demonstrate rock formation or types of houses, and the
choice of routes to illustrate these features, frequently gave rise to exciting treasure hunts in his wake
and to trails which led over many miles of road and lane, drove road and ancient track, and lasted
well into the summer dusk.

His rock hunting and fossil finding was not confined to Great Britain. Summer holidays always
took him and his wife Meg to Switzerland to see her relatives and homeland. She often said that their
Volkswagen rumbled and clattered with his souvenir specimen collection.

Ronald was invited to join the committee of the Natural History Section in 1957 and was its
chairman from 1966 to 1973. He edited the Natural History Magazine from 1975 to 1980, the year
of his death. He will be sadly missed.

C.S.H.

Dr Eric A.R. Ennion

Dr Eric Ennion, naturalist, painter and author, died on 28 February 1981, aged 80.

From childhood he was fascinated by birds and taught himself to draw and paint them, later
becoming an outstanding wildlife artist; his keen observation and knack of catching the essential
quality of a bird are unequalled, his birds are alive and alert and ready to fly off the paper.

After training at St. Mary’s Hospital he practised in Cambridgeshire, but left his medical practise in
1945 to take the wardenship of the first Field Study Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk, where he ran
courses in a wide variety of biology subjects as well as birds and painting. In 1950, wishing to concentrate
more on birds, he started his own bird observatory and Field Research Station on the Northumberland
coast where he remained for ten years, happily painting, ringing birds and running a wide range of
courses.

His association with Wiltshire started in 1961, when he moved to the Mill House at Shalbourne.
Here he painted prolifically and exhibited at galleries all over the country. He started the Society of
Wildlife Artists with Robert Gillmor and wrote and illustrated many books. In 1964 he was invited to
attend a committee meeting of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural
History Society and to stand for election to the Chair; he was obliged to resign from the Chair in
1966 because of ill health, but he continued to serve on the Bird Records Committee until November
1973. He continued to paint until the end of his life and was sketching in Savernake Forest four days
before he died.

Few of us who are now members of the Natural History Section were lucky enough to have met
him, but he will be remembered through his paintings, which we know and love.

M.B.

Ruth G. Barnes

Ruth Barnes died on 13 March 1981, aged 80.

Always a devoted supporter of natural history interests in the county, in 1946 she formed a
committee to draw up proposals for the formation of a separate Natural History Section of the
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society with its own constitution and programme of
events and an independent committee. The annual subscription of the new Section was fixed at seven
shillings and sixpence, and remained so for many years.

In those days the subject of natural history in all its aspects was regarded as a lunatic fringe
pursuit concerned with collecting eggs and butterflies and looking for buttercups and daisies. Never-
theless, the Natural History Section was a success and the following thirty five years were extremely
active; the Section ran a full and varied programme of indoor and outdoor meetings and published
not only magazines and bulletins but also five books on the natural history of Wiltshire, two on plants
and one each on birds, butterflies and geology.

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Ruth Barnes was Hon. Secretary of the Section from 1946 until 1952. She was also the Recorder
for Birds until 1967 and continued after that to act as a consultant. In 1968 she was appointed Hon.
Editor of the Report of the Section and from 1973 to 1974 she was Hon. Editor of The Wiltshire
Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Part A: Natural History.

It is entirely due to Ruth Barnes’ persistent and courageous efforts thirty six years ago, and to
a committee convened and inspired by her and actively supported by her for the rest of her long
life, that we have a thriving Section today; without her inspiration such a privilege would not exist.

C.S.H.

Publications by
The Natural History Section of the
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural
History Society

BARRON, R.S. The Geology of Wiltshire. 1976.
GROSE, Donald. The Flora of Wiltshire. Reprint. 1980.

STEARN, L.F. (ed.) supplement to the Flora of Wiltshire. 1975.

Printed and bound at The Universities Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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