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2011 is the 150th anniversary of the YNU and to celebrate, we are offering all new members a special rate of £15 membership during 2011.

You will receive: ^ The Naturalist journal (published three times a year)

^ The Bird Report 2009

^ Butterflies and Moths Report 2010

Members also receive free invitations to all field visits and meetings, including several with a botanical theme.

To join: Download the membership form from www.ynu.org.uk or telephone 01904 641631 and leave a message for Hannah Droop.

The South Yorkshire Plant Atlas Pre-publication price for orders received before 30 June 2011

£35 (plus £5 P&P)unless collected from Geoffrey Wilmore

From 1 July 2011

£47 (plus £7.50 P&P) unless collected

The Story of South Yorkshire Botany £12 (plus £1.50 P&P)

Please send a cheque payable to:The Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union

Post to:YNU Book Sales, John Newbould, 3 Brookmead Close, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth DT3 6RS

For overseas orders please email: John_newbould@btinternet.com

Botany in YorkshireThe Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union is proud to publish the new South Yorkshire Plant Atlas. The region is an important meeting point between southern lowland and northern montane flora, which provides exciting study opportunities for botanists. The ever-changing flora of Yorkshire has been well documented in this new book.

Thanks to everyone who contributed information but especially the editors Geoffrey Wilmore, Jeff Lunn and John Rodwell who have given generously of their time.

THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE

PLANT ATLASEdited by G.T.D. Wilmore, J. Lunn & J.S. Rodwell

Published by the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union and Yorkshire & the Humber Ecological Data Trust.

A4 Hardcover |2011| Over 400 pages | Colour | ISBN: 978-0-9565378-0-5

PRICE £47 (plus £7.50 P&P) unless collected

This is the first fully documented Flora for the former South Yorkshire Metropolitan County, containing the Districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. The area ranges from the Pennine moorland plateau in the west, through the central Coal Measure woodland and mixed agricultural/industrial belt, to the varied Magnesian Limestone country and the famous lowland peat habitats of Thorne and Hatfield Moors in the east, the altitude ranging from 2000 feet on the Pennine tops, down to sea level east of Doncaster.

Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this major work details over 2000 vascular plant species, with 1 km square distribution maps for around 1000 taxa, and contains upwards of 200,000 individual records collected since 2001.

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There is comprehensive treatment of the climate, vegetation and soils; a chapter on botanical history since 1597; a guided tour of botanical ‘hotspots’; a section on alien and introduced plants; a complete guide to the geology of the area, and a section on plant conservation.

This publication will be an essential reference for everyone interested in the natural history of the region: academic, professional ecologist/land manager and amateur botanist/wildlife enthusiast. It provides a baseline against which human impact and environmental change across a dynamic and varied landscape can be assessed in the future.

The South Yorkshire Plant Atlas and the accompanying

Story of South Yorkshire Botany

Join the YNUin their 150th year

Union

Yorkshire

Union

Yorkshire Download a form from www.ynu.org.uk and return to Hannah Droop at membership@ynu.org.uk or contact the address below.

YNU Membership Secretary, C/O NEYEDC, St Williams College, 5 College Street, York.Telephone: 01904 641631

This book tells the story of botany in South Yorkshire from the 16th to the late 20th century and complements the recently published South Yorkshire Plant Atlas in providing additional and more detailed accounts of botanists, their lives and their work than was possible to include in the Plant Atlas, together with many illustrations of people, manuscripts, printed sources and herbarium sheets, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of the area’s botanical literature. The work also includes the first ever transcription of the “Flora Sheffieldiensis” of Jonathan Salt. This seminal work was compiled around 1800 and is of fundamental importance to the history of botany not only in Yorkshire, but also in Derbyshire, and was quoted extensively by F.A. Lees in his Flora of West Yorkshire. It is the earliest surviving comprehensive account of the flora, including the mosses, fungi, algae and lichens, of Sheffield and the surrounding area.

This book will appeal not only to those who botanise in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, but also to those who wish to study the changes in the flora of these counties over the last 200 years and to those who have an interest in the history of natural history.

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The Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union is one of the country’s longest established wildlife organisations, celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2011

YNU ^Helps members identify and record all wild species found in Yorkshire, including plants, animals, birds, insects and fungi ^Shares knowledge with new members through organising site visits, surveys and running training sessions and talks^ Promotes and encourages the conservation and study of Yorkshire’s species and geological features

The benefits of joining^ Free copies of The Naturalist - three times a year^ Free annual copies of the Yorkshire Bird Report and the Butterflies and Moths Report ^ Opportunities to use and improve survey techniques at outdoor/indoor training events^ The opportunity to inform wildlife conservation^ Special offers on books produced by members^ The evidence, and records of wildlife we collect, is vital for protecting wildlife now and in the future

To help us celebrate our 150th anniversary, new members can join the YNU for just £15 in 2011

How to join the YNU

The Story of

South Yorkshire Botanyincluding the first transcription of Jonathan Salt’s Flora Sheffieldiensis

by Graeme L. D. Coles

A5 Softcover | 2011 | Over 120 pages | B&W

PRICE £12 (plus £1.50 P&P)