Volume 50 (2008) [Download PDF: 3.5 MB]

Contents of Volume 50 (2008)

• Changes in wildlife and their habitats in Cambridgeshire 1940 - 2008: a personal account (Norman W Moore) 3
• The Early Days of Monk's Wood 1961 - 1963 (Norman W. Moore) 6
• 100 Years of Cambridge Meteorological Records (Lizzy Carroll, Tim Sparks & Tim Upson) 10
• The Aquatic plants of the River Cam and its riparian commons, Cambridge, 1660-1999 (C.D. Preston) 18
• Contributions towards a new algal flora of Cambridgeshire (Vice-county 29), III. Phylum Chlorophyta, class Chlorococcales (first part) (Hilary Belcher, Eric George & Erica Swale) 37
• Exploring Eversden Wood (Louise Bacon and Vince Lea) 44
• The Carnivorous slug Testacella in Cambridgeshire (Fred Naggs, Dinarzarde Raheem & Prem Budha) 48
• The Biodiversity Benefits of Cambourne (Rob Mungovan) 51
• Greater Water-parsnip (Sium latifolium) at the Ouse Washes, Cambridgeshire and West Norfolk: a large population and its ecology (C. James Cadbury) 59
• The Hoverflies (Syrphidae) of Fowlmere Nature Reserve (Peter Herkenrath) 67
• A Sturgeon in the undergrowth (Paul T. Harding & Neil Kenny) 73
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Otter Survey 2007 (Ruth Hawksley) 74
• A New British Plume Moth (Emmelina argoteles) discovered at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire: How you can help to determine its British distribution? (Zoë Ringwood, Alan Roscoe & Jeff Higgott) 79
• Phenological Changes in Cambridgeshire (Gemma Hannant & Tim Sparks) 85
• The Rise and rise of the harlequin ladybird in Cambridgeshire (Peter Brown, Helen Roy & Michael Majerus) 91
• Grantchester Meadows: A report on the CNHS Survey project for 2006 (Jonathan Shanklin) 92
• Coldham's Common: A report on the CNHS Survey project for 2007 (Jonathan Shanklin & Steve Hartley) 96
• A Bumpy Start: the founding of Nature in Cambridgeshire from the point of view of the council minutes of Cambridge Natural History Society (Toby Carter) 106
• The Conversazione of the Cambridge Natural History Society (Henry T. Tribe) 108
• The Cambridge Natural History Society One Century Ago (Henry T. Tribe) 113
• The Cambridge Natural History Society Year 2007-8 (Toby Carter) 116
• REGULAR FEATURES
• Vascular Plant Records (Alan Leslie) 117
• Bryophyte Records (C.D. Preston & M.O.Hill) 124
• Invertebrate Records (Louise Bacon) 129
• OBITUARIES
• Margaret Stanier (1919 - 2007) by Peter J. Grubb 132
• Philip Gibbens Hall (1918 - 2007) by Philip Oswald 134
• BOOK REVIEWS
• Chapters in the life of Robert Marsham (1708-1797) (2008) by Tim Sparks & John Lines (review by Jane Bulleid) 136
  
• Nature of God's Acre: a wildlife survey of Cambridge's churchyards (2006) by CPBRC (review by Chris Preston) 137
  
• A History of Ornithology (2007) by Peter Bircham (review by Duncan Poyser) 138
• WEATHER NOTES from Cambridge university Botanical Garden 2007 (John Kapor) 140
• INDEX to Nature in Cambridgeshire, Nos. 1 - 50 (Toby Carter) 141