Bedfordshire Naturalist 2010

The Society's journal, The Bedfordshire Naturalist 2010, published in two parts, has recently been distributed to members.

Part 1 covers species groups other than birds. Part 2 covers only birds.

Non-members may purchase copies from Mary Sheridan or at a BNHS or Bird Club meeting.

The New Flora of Bedfordshire

The new county flora for Bedfordshire has now been published! Copies are available for just £42.50

To read more about this exciting publication please click HERE.

Peter Geoffrey Taylor (1926-2011)

Peter Taylor was a founding member of the BNHS, serving as Recorder for Vascular Cryptogams and Bryophytes from 1947 to 1952.

He worked in Kew from 1948 until his retirement in 1986, in charge of the orchid section from 1972 to 1984. He published many papers including his great monograph on the bladderworts, The Genus Utricularia: A Taxonomic Monograph (1986) which runs to 736 pages.

An obituary can be read here

Bernard Verdcourt (1925-2011)

Bernard Verdcourt was one of the founding members of the BNHS in 1946, aged just 21. He immediately took a position on Council and the responsibilities of County Recorder for the varied groups of Mollusca, Hemiptera, Emphemeroptera and Neuroptera only vacating the latter in 2003.

His contributions to the society are chronicled in Bedfordshire Naturalist from its first edition in 1946 right into the 21st century.

An obituary written by his Kew colleagues can be read here

Easy Fundraising

There is a new and easy way to add to the BNHS coffers:
Purchase through EasyFundraising and the BNHS gets up to 15% of the purchase price.
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Find out more HERE...

Large Red Damselfly Survey

Please contribute to the recording of Large Red Damselfly this season.

A map will be frequently updated to show progress as records are received.

A map showing all 21st century records is already online.

You can submit records of this species and all other dragonflies and damselflies online HERE or you can contact the dragonfly recorders directly HERE

2011 AGM Reports

If you missed the 2011 AGM, or would like to revisit presentations, the reports that were made electronically are now available online HERE.

1946-1998 Journals Online!

Copies of all Bedfordshire Naturalists for the period 1946 to 1998 are now available here online as searchable PDFs!

53 years worth of Bedfordshire wildlife history are available at the click of a mouse.

An amazing resource for education and research...!

BNHS Records on the NBN Gateway

Did you know that the BNHS in partnership with the BRMC has put over 520,000 species records onto the NBN Gateway, and that you can interrogate them via the NBN Gateway's website?

In order to quickly obtain distribution maps for all 4300 species in these BNHS datasets, we now have a simple interface on this website that allows any of the maps to be obtained live from the Gateway with just a few clicks of a mouse, the first click being HERE.

Nearly all gone...

Most copies of Steve Cham's book about the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Bedfordshire have now been distributed but a few are still available, at only £5 + P&P (originally £25).

To obtain your copy contact Peter Glenister

Copies are also available on most weekdays from the Wildlife Trust office in Priory Country Park Visitor Centre. Call 01234 364213 to reserve a copy and to check when someone will be there.